Patents by Inventor Edmund PASSON

Edmund PASSON has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11984061
    Abstract: Systems and methods for varying an intensity of pixels of displays are provided. A display subsystem may include a display driver for receiving image frame data and commands from an image or data source, including pixel intensity values for bit planes of an image frame; a parser for receiving the image frame data and the commands, and configured to determine a drive waveform having an pixel drive value and a pixel drive time interval for each bit plane of the image frame data; a display backplane for receiving the drive waveform, the display backplane including a pixel array comprising an array of pixels, each pixel driven by a pixel circuit; and display driver circuitry for driving the pixels in accordance with the drive waveform; and wherein an intensity of the pixel varies for each bit plane according to the pixel drive value and the pixel drive time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Kyles, Nicholas William Melena, Edmund Passon, Joshua T. Wiersma
  • Patent number: 11955053
    Abstract: Systems and methods for varying an intensity of pixels of displays are provided. A display subsystem may include a display driver for receiving image frame data and commands from an image or data source, including pixel intensity values for bit planes of an image frame; a parser for receiving the image frame data and the commands, and configured to determine a drive waveform having an pixel drive value and a pixel drive time interval for each bit plane of the image frame data; a display backplane for receiving the drive waveform, the display backplane including a pixel array comprising an array of pixels, each pixel driven by a pixel circuit; and display driver circuitry for driving the pixels in accordance with the drive waveform; and wherein an intensity of the pixel varies for each bit plane according to the pixel drive value and the pixel drive time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Kyles, Nicholas William Melena, Edmund Passon, Joshua T. Wiersma
  • Publication number: 20230306930
    Abstract: A system for updating an image on a display device is disclosed. The display device includes pixels in a pixel array. The system includes a display subsystem for executing commands and displaying images, the display subsystem also includes a parser for receiving image frame data, and extracting updated image data and commands. A storage device is used for storing the updated image data in an updated cache location according to the commands. A loader is used for reading the commands to identify and fetch the updated image data from the storage device. Display backplane circuitry is used for receiving the updated image data from the loader and for updating pixel driver circuitry for pixels within the updated image data. The examples described are ideal for driving micro-displays such as LCoS micro-LED displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Edmund Passon, Ian Kyles, Aaron Boyce, Glen R. Sands
  • Patent number: 11756512
    Abstract: A system for updating an image on a display device includes pixels in a pixel array. The system includes a display subsystem for executing commands and displaying images, the display subsystem also includes a parser for receiving image frame data, and extracting updated image data and commands. A storage device is used for storing the updated image data in an updated cache location according to the commands. A loader is used for reading the commands to identify and fetch the updated image data from the storage device. Display backplane circuitry is used for receiving the updated image data from the loader and for updating pixel driver circuity for pixels within the updated image data. The examples described are ideal for driving micro-displays such as LCoS micro-LED displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund Passon, Ian Kyles, Aaron Boyce, Glen Sands
  • Publication number: 20230034839
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are provided for updating an image based on a display device. The display device comprising pixels in a pixel array. The system comprising a display subsystem for executing commands and displaying images, said display subsystem comprising a parser for receiving the image frame data, wherein the parser extracts updated image data and the commands; a storage device for storing the updated image data in a updated cache location according to the commands; a loader for reading the commands to identify and fetch the updated image data from the storage device; and display backplane circuitry for receiving the updated image data from the loader and for updating pixel driver circuity for pixels within the updated image data. The embodiments herein are ideal for driving micro-displays such as LCoS micro-LED displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Edmund Passon, Ian Kyles, Aaron Boyce, Glen Sands
  • Publication number: 20230022217
    Abstract: Systems and methods for varying an intensity of pixels of displays are provided. A display subsystem may include a display driver for receiving image frame data and commands from an image or data source, including pixel intensity values for bit planes of an image frame; a parser for receiving the image frame data and the commands, and configured to determine a drive waveform having an pixel drive value and a pixel drive time interval for each bit plane of the image frame data; a display backplane for receiving the drive waveform, the display backplane including a pixel array comprising an array of pixels, each pixel driven by a pixel circuit; and display driver circuitry for driving the pixels in accordance with the drive waveform; and wherein an intensity of the pixel varies for each bit plane according to the pixel drive value and the pixel drive time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ian Kyles, Nicholas William Melena, Edmund Passon, Joshua T. Wiersma
  • Publication number: 20200195895
    Abstract: An imaging system can include a segmented modulator, for example, a spatial light modulator, that is segmented into two or more equally or differently sized regions, and utilized to create a 3D, pseudo 3D, hologram, pseudo hologram, holographic, or pseudo holographic image. A voltage control unit is coupled to the spatial light modulator and controls voltages across each of the regions, wherein the voltage across one of the regions differs from the voltage across another one of the regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Joshua T. WIERSMA, Howard V. GOETZ, Edmund PASSON