Patents by Inventor Martin Ek

Martin Ek 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: 10900705
    Abstract: A method of reducing moisture content of a cooling compartment includes increasing a temperature of the cooling compartment to a minimum temperature level, decreasing the temperature of the cooling compartment to a maximum temperature level, and draining any condensed moisture from the cooling compartment. A system for reducing moisture content of a cooling compartment includes a coil assembly configured to increase a temperature of the cooling compartment to a minimum temperature level and decrease the temperature of the cooling compartment to a maximum temperature level, and a drain for draining any condensed moisture from the cooling compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES AB
    Inventors: Håkan Per Ohlsson, Rip Martin Ek
  • Publication number: 20190285330
    Abstract: A method of reducing moisture content of a cooling compartment includes increasing a temperature of the cooling compartment to a minimum temperature level, decreasing the temperature of the cooling compartment to a maximum temperature level, and draining any condensed moisture from the cooling compartment. A system for reducing moisture content of a cooling compartment includes a coil assembly configured to increase a temperature of the cooling compartment to a minimum temperature level and decrease the temperature of the cooling compartment to a maximum temperature level, and a drain for draining any condensed moisture from the cooling compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES AB
    Inventors: Håkan Per Ohlsson, Rip Martin Ek
  • Patent number: 10073520
    Abstract: A method and system for displaying of a holographic image of an object in a predefined area. A positioning unit is configured for detecting positions of at least one viewer within the predefined area, a sensor is configured for detecting the environmental conditions within the predefined area, a processor is configured for collecting data including detected positions of viewers and detected environmental condition and calculating a location for displaying holographic image based on the collected data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Westenius, Jonas Gustavsson, Linus Mårtensson, Martin Ek, Martin Grip, Ola Thörn, Alce Günter
  • Patent number: 10013947
    Abstract: A computing device includes a display having a striped polarizer, the striped polarizer includes a set of sub-areas having a first polarization interspersed between another set of sub-areas having a second polarization. The sub-areas are arranged to provide an alternating polarization across a dimension of the display. The computing device may be configured to receive information specifying a privacy display mode, select a privacy display mode based upon the received information, receive input display data configured to represent information for display, generate, in response to selecting the privacy display mode, output display data by inverting a first portion of pixels in the input display data which are associated with a first polarization, and not inverting a second portion of pixels in the input display data which are associated with a second polarization, and provide the output display data to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Ek, Alexander Hunt
  • Patent number: 9800864
    Abstract: An apparatus and method generate a three-dimensional image by presenting, using a stereoscopic display, a representation of a scene comprising one or more objects, tracking a gaze of the user to determine a direction of gaze within the scene, determining depths associated with one or more objects in the scene, and determining which of the objects in the scene are inside and which are outside a comfort zone based at least in part on the direction of gaze of the user and the depths associated with the one or more objects in the scene. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying one or more objects proximate the direction of gaze of the user, determining depths associated with the one or more identified objects, determining a range of depths based at least in part on the depths associated with the one or more identified objects, and establishing the comfort zone based at least in part on the range of depths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Pär-Anders Aronsson, Martin Ek
  • Publication number: 20170123490
    Abstract: A method and system for displaying of a holographic image of an object in a predefined area. A positioning unit is configured for detecting positions of at least one viewer within the predefined area, a sensor is configured for detecting the environmental conditions within the predefined area, a processor is configured for collecting data including detected positions of viewers and detected environmental condition and calculating a location for displaying holographic image based on the collected data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Erik WESTENIUS, Jonas GUSTAVSSON, Linus MÅRTENSSON, Martin EK, Martin GRIP, Ola THÖRN, Alce GÜNTER
  • Patent number: 9554229
    Abstract: One or more devices may receive, from a media presentation device worn by a user, sensory data comprising at least information describing orientation of the media presentation device. The one or more devices may also determine an approximate direction of a gaze of the user in a three dimensional audio space based on the information describing the orientation of the media presentation device, identify a sound source at which the user gazes based on the approximate direction of the gaze of the user in the three dimensional audio space, obtain audio data associated with the sound source based on an identity of the identified sound source, determine an action to perform on the audio data associated with the sound source, and perform the determined action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Ek, Per Magnus Landqvist, Par-Anders Aronsson, Ola Thorn, Gert Magnus Jendbro, Par Stenberg
  • Patent number: 9544578
    Abstract: A portable electronic equipment (1) has an autostereoscopic display (11), a sensor device (2), and a controller (6, 7). The autostereoscopic display (11) comprises a display panel and an image directing device. The sensor device (2) is configured to capture distance information indicative of a distance of a user from the autostereoscopic display (11) and a direction in which the user is positioned. The controller (6, 7) is coupled to the autostereoscopic display (11) to control the display panel (12) and the image directing device based on the distance information and/or direction informa-tion. The controller (6, 7) is configured to compute plural images to be output based on the distance information, to control the display panel to output the computed plural images, and to control the image directing device based on the distance information and/or direction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Anders Linge, Martin Ek, Jonas Gustavsson
  • Publication number: 20160351648
    Abstract: A display device comprising an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display; and an electrophoretic display (EPD). The OLED display and the EPD share a common backplane, the common backplane comprising thin-film transistors (TFTs) of the OLED display and TFTs of the EPD thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Martin Ek, Martin Grip, Alexander Hunt
  • Publication number: 20160313490
    Abstract: A device may comprise a housing, wherein the housing comprises one or more recesses; a display panel; a backlight; one or more light sources, wherein within each of the one or more recesses of the housing, one or more of the one or more light sources reside and are configured to emit light into the backlight; and a printed circuit board, wherein each of the one or more of the one or more light sources are connected to the printed circuit board, wherein each of the one or more recesses comprises at least one wall that comprises an electrical attachment area for the one or more of the one or more light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Magnus Steijner, Martin Ek, Alexander Hunt, Martin Grip
  • Publication number: 20160247295
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for backlight compensation processing associated with a display. An exemplary method comprises: receiving data associated with a backlight, the backlight being associated with a display; determining a compensation parameter based on the data; and applying the compensation parameter to the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Jim Rasmusson, Martin Ek
  • Publication number: 20160225337
    Abstract: A computing device includes a display having a striped polarizer, the striped polarizer includes a set of sub-areas having a first polarization interspersed between another set of sub-areas having a second polarization. The sub-areas are arranged to provide an alternating polarization across a dimension of the display. The computing device may be configured to receive information specifying a privacy display mode, select a privacy display mode based upon the received information, receive input display data configured to represent information for display, generate, in response to selecting the privacy display mode, output display data by inverting a first portion of pixels in the input display data which are associated with a first polarization, and not inverting a second portion of pixels in the input display data which are associated with a second polarization, and provide the output display data to a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Martin Ek, Alexander Hunt
  • Publication number: 20160225343
    Abstract: A device includes a color display that includes a plurality of pixels, wherein a particular pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a first set of subpixels configured to emit a first set of colors; and a second set of subpixels configured to emit a second set of colors, wherein the second set of colors is offset from the first set of colors by a wavelength range. The device may further include logic configured to obtain an image; detect activation of a privacy mode; generate an inverse image of the obtained image; display the obtained image using the first set of subpixels; and display the generated inverse image using the second set of subpixels, in response to detecting the activation of the privacy mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Martin Ek, Alexander Hunt
  • Patent number: 9329432
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for increasing the power efficiency of a display. An exemplary system includes a transflective display that is operable in either a transmissive mode or a reflective mode, and an illumination source with one or more distinct peaks in the illumination source's transmission spectrum, wherein light from the illumination source is directed towards the transflective display during the transmissive mode of operation. For the transmissive mode of operation, the transflective display's transmission spectrum is configured to substantially match the illumination source's transmission spectrum such that one or more narrow passbands in the transflective display's transmission spectrum substantially overlap with the one or more distinct peaks in the illumination source's transmission spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Ek, Anders Linge
  • Patent number: 9129442
    Abstract: An apparatus and method generate a three-dimensional image by determining, using a light-field camera, a depth map corresponding to an environment. The depth map represents how light falls in the environment. The method also includes determining a parallax occlusion map of the environment and creating, using the depth map and the parallax occlusion map, a three-dimensional image representing the environment. In some embodiments, the method includes taking a first picture of the environment with a first flash intensity and a second picture of the environment with a greater second flash, determining differences between the first picture of the environment and the second picture of the environment, determining one or more properties of the environment based at least in part on the determined differences and dynamically re-lighting the three-dimensional image using the depth map, the parallax occlusion map, and one or more of the determined properties of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communicaions AB
    Inventors: Pär-Anders Aronsson, Martin Ek, Magnus Jendbro, Magnus Landqvist, Pär Stenberg, Ola Thörn
  • Patent number: 9063359
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of a method and apparatus taught herein provide an electronic display projection assembly that comprises an electronic display configured to display an image, and a transparent glass layer positioned on one side of the electronic display on which the image is displayed. A projection layer is located on a surface of the glass layer. A projecting layer is positioned between the electronic display and the glass layer, and comprises a plurality of microlenses for projecting the displayed image onto the projection layer. The projecting and projection layers may be located on either opposing sides of the transparent glass layer, or on the same side beneath the glass layer. A corresponding method of providing an image from an electronic display is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Mobile Communications AB, Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Martin Ek
  • Patent number: 9057943
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a sound recording arrangement comprising a sound recording arrangement and a method in the sound recording arrangement for amplifying sounds in a primary gaze direction of the user of the sound recording arrangement. The method comprises the actions of recording sounds arriving at a sound recording unit from objects in the field of view of the user, and recording a first set of images of the head and/or the eyes of the user, and determining a primary gaze direction of the user based on the first set of images, and amplifying sounds arriving in the primary gaze direction compared to sounds arriving from other directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Pär Stenberg, Karl Ola Thörn, Magnus Jendbro, Pär-Anders Aronsson, Magnus Landqvist, Martin Ek
  • Publication number: 20150009304
    Abstract: A portable electronic equipment (1) has an autostereoscopic display (11), a sensor device (2), and a controller (6, 7). The autostereoscopic display (11) comprises a display panel and an image directing device. The sensor device (2) is configured to capture distance information indicative of a distance of a user from the autostereoscopic display (11) and a direction in which the user is positioned. The controller (6, 7) is coupled to the autostereoscopic display (11) to control the display panel (12) and the image directing device based on the distance information and/or direction informa-tion. The controller (6, 7) is configured to compute plural images to be output based on the distance information, to control the display panel to output the computed plural images, and to control the image directing device based on the distance information and/or direction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventors: Anders Linge, Martin Ek, Jonas Gustavsson
  • Publication number: 20140293186
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for increasing the power efficiency of a display. An exemplary system includes a transflective display that is operable in either a transmissive mode or a reflective mode, and an illumination source with one or more distinct peaks in the illumination source's transmission spectrum, wherein light from the illumination source is directed towards the transflective display during the transmissive mode of operation. For the transmissive mode of operation, the transflective display's transmission spectrum is configured to substantially match the illumination source's transmission spectrum such that one or more narrow passbands in the transflective display's transmission spectrum substantially overlap with the one or more distinct peaks in the illumination source's transmission spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Ek, Anders Linge
  • Publication number: 20140198016
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for a low-power mode (or low-transmission state) associated with a display. An exemplary system comprises: a first display positioned on top of a second display, the first display at least partially covering the second display; the second display; a processor configured to: determine whether the first display is in low-transmission state or a high-transmission state; in response to determining the first display is in a low-transmission state, enable display of an image on the first display. Additionally, the system also updates an image on the display based on determining a frequency of updating an image on the display in the low-transmission state, and based on determining an amount of data to be updated on the display in the low-transmission state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventors: Alexander Hunt, Martin Ek