Patents Examined by William Lu
  • Patent number: 12681593
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling a mouse using gaze recognition are provided. The method includes measuring a distance between eyes of a user and a gaze recognizer in response to a user gazing at an object displayed on a display, setting a size of a mouse pointer based on at least one of the measured distance and a display resolution, performing calibration based on the set size of the mouse pointer, displaying the mouse pointer created based on the calibration on a display, determining occurrence of gaze recognition-based mouse shaking, and controlling a movement of the mouse pointer based on the gaze recognition-based mouse shaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Hun Kim, Sung Joon Ahn, Kyung Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 12681575
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a non-tactile device including a receiving device configured to receive signals corresponding to a user's brain waves or movements, the brain waves or movements corresponding to a series of directional intentions, the intentions defining at least one line pattern, a processor configured to process the at least one line pattern, each of said at least one line patterns associated with an action of the device, and output a control signal to the non-tactile device related to the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: NAQI LOGIX INC.
    Inventor: David Lee Segal
  • Patent number: 12682815
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof are provided. Each of a plurality of sub-pixel groups in the display device includes a plurality of rows of sub-pixels. A frame buffer is configured to sequentially buffer data signals (including a plurality of sub-data signals corresponding to a plurality of sub-frames) of sub-pixel groups from the first sub-pixel group to the last sub-pixel group (each of the sub-pixel groups includes at least one row of sub-pixels) within one frame. When the frame buffer has completed buffering the data signals of a certain sub-pixel group within a current frame, a source driver is configured to control the sub-pixel group and a preceding sub-pixel group of the sub-pixel group to display an image of a corresponding sub-frame of the current frame, and control a subsequent sub-pixel group of the sub-pixel group to display an image of a corresponding sub-frame of a previous frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mian Zeng
  • Patent number: 12681590
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an electronic device component. A first charging coil and a second charging coil are respectively disposed in a wireless keyboard and a stylus. At least one of the first charging coil and the second charging coil is a circle coil, and the circle coil is disposed around circumference of an accommodating portion or the stylus. The stylus can be charged when the stylus is blindly inserted into the accommodating portion, to resolve a prior-art problem that a user cannot quickly charge the stylus because the charging coils need to be aligned for a plurality of times when the stylus is charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Zhao, Xiaohui Liu, Yangyang Lv
  • Patent number: 12681605
    Abstract: A location sensing method, a location sensing device, and an input terminal apparatus are provided. The method comprises: in an initial stage, using the light intensity of a reflected light received by a receiver as an environment threshold; in a sensing stage, controlling a transmitter to sequentially emit sensing light, and converting the reflected light received by the receiver into an optical path image; denoising the optical path image; when there is an occlusion object in the optical path image, extracting the outline of the occlusion object and calculating at least one parameter of the occlusion object; removing noise points of the outline; calculating position coordinates of the occlusion object in an input sensing region; optimizing a first coordinate by using a first optimizing manner; and a main board determining an advancing depth in a direction perpendicular to the input sensing region, and identifying a touch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Anhui Easpeed Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Chao Fan, Dong-Cheng Han
  • Patent number: 12681573
    Abstract: A device and method for detecting control-point activation conditions from a conductive path and/or an expanded conductive area coming in contact with or being within a threshold distance from at least one of a portion of a glove body or a control surface separate from the glove body. The device may include a conductive path configured to be attached to the glove body and an expanded conductive area conductively coupled to the conductive path and configured to be attached to the glove body. The expanded conductive area may be wider than individual portions of the conductive path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: IRON WILL INNOVATIONS CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Brent Michael Baier, Jesse Katzman-Beimuts, Slade Luchynski
  • Patent number: 12676125
    Abstract: A method for displaying a video stream on a display device with a variable refresh rate function is provided. The method includes: receiving the video stream and decoding the video stream to generate a plurality of decoded video frames; determining a frame ready time for each of the decoded video frames; determining a frame display time for each of the decoded video frames; determining a target refresh rate for the display device based on a frame latency between the frame ready time and the frame display time corresponding to at least one of the decoded video frames; and controlling the display device to display the video stream at the target refresh rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Po-Hsin Luo, Kai-Hsiang Chou
  • Patent number: 12676139
    Abstract: An embodiment includes receiving, via a video camera of a mixed reality headset, a first video frame comprising a first text portion. An embodiment includes narrating the first text portion, the narrating comprising converting, using a trained text-to-speech conversion model, the first text portion to corresponding audio. An embodiment includes detecting, in a second video frame received via the video camera, during the narrating, that the first text portion has been replaced by a second text portion. An embodiment includes adjusting, responsive to the detecting, the narrating, the adjusting comprising ceasing the narrating at a first word in the first text portion and starting the narrating at a second word in the second text portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin Joseph Smith
  • Patent number: 12675168
    Abstract: Systems and methods for radial gesture navigation are provided. In example embodiments, user input data is received from a user device. The user input data indicates a continuous physical user interaction associated with a display screen of the user device. An initial point and a current point are detected from the user input data. A radius distance for a circle that includes the current point and is centered about the initial point is determined. An action is selected from among multiple actions based on the radius distance being within a particular range among successive ranges along a straight line that starts at the initial point and extends through the circle. Each range among the successive ranges corresponds to a particular action among the multiple actions. The selected action is performed in response to detecting a completion of the continuous physical user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ty Blachly, Nathan Boyd, Donald Giovannini, Krish Jayaram, Evan Spiegel, William Wu
  • Patent number: 12670854
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate, a first active layer on a side of the base substrate, and a third conductive layer on a side of the first active layer away from the base substrate. The first active layer includes active portions spaced apart, wherein each active portion includes a sub-active portion and a via-hole connection portion connected to each other, and the sub-active portion is disposed corresponding to a transistor of two or more transistors, and configured to form a channel region of the corresponding transistor. The third conductive layer includes at least one bridge portion, wherein the at least one bridge portion is connected to via-hole connection portions in different active portions through via holes, respectively. A sheet resistance of the third conductive layer is less than a sheet resistance of the via hole connection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Ming Hu, Haijun Qiu, Juntao Chen
  • Patent number: 12663661
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a person, the lens element including two opposite optical faces and a plurality of optical elements each having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye of the person so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye. The method includes: providing a lens blank having at least one unfinished face; and processing the at least one unfinished face to obtain in combination with the opposed optical face a refractive power based on the prescription for the eye of the person and at least a part of the plurality of the optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventor: Eric Gacoin
  • Patent number: 12663870
    Abstract: A human system interface (HSI) for contactlessly controlling a device for a medical procedure is configured to generate a control space, measure a position of a user in the control space, provide a first contactless haptic stimulus in the control space to the user based on the measured position, measure a contactless haptic input from the user in the control space, provide a second haptic stimulus to the user depending on the contactless haptic input, and, based on the contactless haptic input, change a parameter of the HSI and/or provide a parameter to the device connected to the HSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: LEICA INSTRUMENTS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: George Themelis
  • Patent number: 12656602
    Abstract: An optical assembly includes a housing, and an optical filter and an optical compensator disposed within the housing. The optical filter is oriented at a first non-zero angle in a first tilt direction with respect to an optical axis of the optical assembly. The optical compensator is oriented at a second non-zero angle in a second tilt direction with respect to the normal of the optical axis of the optical assembly. The optical filter is configured to pass, to the optical compensator, a portion of an optical beam that impinges on the optical filter along an optical axis of the optical assembly, such that the portion of the optical beam is offset from the optical axis. The optical compensator is configured to cause the portion of the optical beam to propagate out of the optical assembly along the optical axis of the optical assembly (or with a minimized offset).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: VIAVI Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin F. Catching
  • Patent number: 12650734
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to artificial reality (XR) controllers and hand gestures and corresponding representation of the hand gestures in XR space. Users can benefit from being able to use touch interactions while also holding the XR controller. Example implementations allow a user to use controllers for distance interaction and interactions that require controller buttons, but also recognize when the user extends her finger and wants to manually touch things—using touch in conjunction with controllers. Thus, if the user has a controller in her hand and want to touch a UI element, she can also use her finger, where the system identifies the finger not touching the controller (e.g., via capacitance sensors) and that a hand pose is present (e.g., finger extended—from camera) to allow that finger to provide hand input, without the user having to put down the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Emami, Aaron Selig, Ahad Habib Basravi, James Michael-K O'Donnell, Nathaniel Lane, Todd Harris
  • Patent number: 12635908
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wearable device including a wearable body and at least one inductive sensor. The at least one inductive sensor includes an inductive structure wound by a conductive wire. The at least one inductive sensor may be attached to the wearable body at a position corresponding to the joint position of the user, and the inductive structure may generate a varying inductance in response to a deformation at the joint position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjun Deng, Yujia Huang, Yongshuai Yuan, Wenbing Zhou, Fengyun Liao, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 12620369
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display panel are provided, the display substrate includes a first gate driver circuit and a second gate driver circuit that are respectively arranged on a first side and a second side of a display region opposite to each other; the first gate driver circuit includes a plurality of first shift register units arranged in a first direction, each first shift register unit includes a first thin film transistor including a first active layer, the first active layer includes a metal oxide semiconductor material; the second gate driver circuit includes a plurality of second shift register units arranged in the first direction, each second shift register unit includes a second thin film transistor having the same function as the first thin film transistor, and the second thin film transistor includes a second active layer, the second active layer includes a metal oxide semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lizhong Wang, Guangcai Yuan, Ce Ning, Hehe Hu, Nianqi Yao, Xin Xie, Yifang Huang, Liping Lei, Chen Xu
  • Patent number: 12613546
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may encode information regarding actuations of the human interface device in magnetic field distributions emanating from the human interface device. The magnetic field distribution may be sensed to identify user input provided by a user of the human interface device. The user input may be interpreted in the context of different modes of operation of the human interface device. The user input may be used to provide the computer implemented services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Loo Shing Tan, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Chiu-Jung Tsen, Brandon Joel Brocklesby, Hsu-Feng Lee, Thomas Marcus Hinskens
  • Patent number: 12614496
    Abstract: A method for driving a display panel, and a display apparatus. An example of the method includes: receiving display data of an image to be displayed of the current display frame; and according to the display data, controlling a display panel to sequentially load a gate-on signal to gate lines, and to input a voltage into a data line, and when there is an overlap time between gate-on signals loaded to M adjacent gate lines, a pre-charging voltage and a compensation voltage are sequentially charged to a sub-pixel electrically connected to an Mth gate line among the M gate lines within the overlap time, M being an integer and M?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignees: Fuzhou BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiaohong Huang, Zuwei Weng, Bin Weng, Yupeng Huang, Bao Liu
  • Patent number: 12592191
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes: a first transistor; a writing sub-circuit configured to write a voltage of a first data voltage terminal into a first terminal of the first transistor in response to a signal of a first control signal terminal; a first compensation sub-circuit configured to couple a voltage of a second terminal of the first transistor to a control terminal of the first transistor and store a voltage of the control terminal in response to the signal of the first control signal terminal; a second compensation sub-circuit configured to couple a voltage of a second data voltage terminal to the control terminal of the first transistor in response to a signal of a second control signal terminal; and a light-emitting control sub-circuit configured to be controlled to form a current path between first and second voltage terminals in response to a signal of the third control signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhaowei Yu, Rongjian Yan
  • Patent number: 12591307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for determining at least one intent of at least one user. The apparatus (10) includes an eye movement sensing device (19) configured to sense at least one eye movement signal from the user, the eye movement signal being indicative of at least one eye movement of the user, and a head movement sensing device (24) configured to sense at least one head movement signal from the user, the head movement signal being indicative of at least one head movement of the user. The apparatus (10) is configured to determine at least one degree of correlation between the eye movement signal and the head movement signal and to determine at least one intent of the user based on the determined degree of correlation. The invention further relates to a corresponding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: IDUN TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Moritz Thielen, Andrea Luca Fümm, Huy Cao Tri Do, Wadda Benjamin Du Toit, Séverine Gisin