Patents Issued in January 14, 2020
  • Patent number: 10534394
    Abstract: In an example apparatus, a command path receives read commands and provides respective control signals for each read command. The command path is configured to provide initial control signals for an initial read command responsive to a first clock edge of a clock signal of a plurality of multiphase clock signals and to further provide respective control signals for subsequent read commands responsive to receipt of the subsequent mad commands. The example apparatus further includes a read data output circuit configured to receive the control signals from the command path and further receive read data in parallel. The read data output circuit is configured to provide the read data serially responsive to the control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Yoo Lee, Jongtae Kwak, Suryanarayana Tatapudi
  • Patent number: 10534395
    Abstract: An application runs at a first operating frequency if the application is designed for a current version of a system and runs at a second operating frequency if the application is designed for a prior version of the system that operates at a lower frequency than the first operating frequency. The second operating frequency may be higher than the operating frequency of the prior version of the system to account for differences in latency, throughput or other processing characteristics between the two systems. Software readable cycle counters are based on a spoof clock running at the operating frequency of the prior version of the system, rather than the true operating frequency. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventors: Mark Evan Cerny, David Simpson
  • Patent number: 10534396
    Abstract: There is disclosed a synchronous digital circuit having a system clock and for processing a data signal, wherein the digital circuit comprises a data path, a hard macro having a macro input, a logic circuit in the data path upstream of the macro input and having a first part and a second part, the second part being immediately upstream of the macro input, a set-up timing error detector having an input, wherein the input is on the data path between the first part and the second part, and a timing correction unit, wherein the data transit time across the second part is equal to or less than one half of a clock period, and wherein the timing correction unit is configured to correct, in response to the set-up timing error detector detecting a set-up timing error, the detected set-up timing error before the data reaches the macro input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastien Fabrie, Juan Echeverri Escobar, Jose Pineda De Gyvez
  • Patent number: 10534397
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a display panel, a display device and a method for driving the display panel. The display panel includes a substrate and a pixel array disposed on the substrate and comprising M*N pixel units, wherein the M*N pixel units are arranged in a barrel or a pillow-like arrangement, and wherein M and N are positive integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Tieshi Wang, Zhiqiang Xu, Wei Qin, Kuanjun Peng
  • Patent number: 10534398
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: an electrostatic capacitance-type touch panel; an electrically conductive movable part; and an electrical conductor which moves with a movement of the movable part. At least a part of the electrical conductor moves, overlapping the touch panel, as viewed in a plan view observing the touch panel. The movable part and the electrical conductor are electrically continuous to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriaki Hiraide
  • Patent number: 10534399
    Abstract: Provided is a flexible display device. The flexible display device includes a flexible substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of lines, a pad part, an outer pad part, and a plurality of outer lines. The plurality of lines is connected to the plurality of sub-pixels. The pad part is connected to the plurality of lines. The outer pad part is disposed to be spaced from the pad part. The plurality of outer lines is connected to the outer pad part. The flexible substrate is bent in a first bending area where the plurality of lines is disposed, and the flexible substrate is bent in a second bending area where the plurality of outer lines is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SeYong Lee
  • Patent number: 10534400
    Abstract: A foldable electronic device includes an electronic element including a folding line and a cover layer connected to the electronic element through an intermediate layer. The electronic element, the cover layer and the intermediate layer form at least one air gap across the folding line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee, Chin-Lung Ting
  • Patent number: 10534401
    Abstract: A display device or a display system with which a viewer can feel a strong or natural stereoscopic effect in a two-dimensional image and is less likely to be fatigued is provided. The display system includes a display portion, a detection portion, and a control portion. The display portion is flexible. The detection portion is configured to detect the conditions of a viewer's eye to obtain detection information and to supply the detection information to the control portion. The control portion is configured to extract information on the viewer's fatigue from the detection information and to change the curvature of the display portion on the basis of the information on the viewer's fatigue. The central angle of the curved surface of the display portion is preferably greater than or equal to 20° and less than 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 10534402
    Abstract: A display device includes a roller, and a display module wound around the roller or unwound from the roller. The display module includes a display panel, and a plurality of supporters disposed at a rear portion of the display panel while expending in a horizontal direction and supporting the display panel. Each supporter has a height 0.1-0.6 times greater than a radius of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunjoo Kim, Kyeongdong Kim, Seonkyu Kim, Hoyoung Kim, Sungjin Ahn
  • Patent number: 10534403
    Abstract: An enclosure for a portable computing device can include a cover glass affixed to an enclosure without trim pieces disposed between the cover glass and the disclosure. In one embodiment, the enclosure can include an edge profile that can define a relatively large contact pad about the enclosure. The contact pad can distribute impact forces over a relatively large area and thereby protect the cover glass integrity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: John Raff
  • Patent number: 10534404
    Abstract: Implementations of communication devices may include: a housing having a hollow compartment in a waterproof shell. The waterproof shell may be configured to float on a surface of water. The communication device may include a computing system having a memory and a processor within the hollow compartment of the housing. The communication device may include an onboard power unit electrically coupled with the computing system. One or more radios may be coupled with the housing and with the onboard power unit and the computing system. The one or more radios may be configured to act as a gateway by receiving data from one or more watercrafts and transmitting the data to one or more receivers over a radio telecommunication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Onet Global, Inc.
    Inventor: Sampriti Bhattacharyya
  • Patent number: 10534405
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing comprising a first plate, a second plate apart from the first plate while facing the first plate, and a side member which surrounds a space between the first plate and the second plate, a touchscreen display exposed through the first plate, a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed between the touchscreen display and the second plate, a mid-plate disposed between the touchscreen display and the PCB, and extending from the side member, and at least one integrated circuit (IC) mounted on the PCB and relating to power, wherein the mid-plate can include at least one conductive path formed on a surface facing the PCB and electrically connected to the at least one IC, and the at least one conductive path can be formed with the same metallic material as the mid-plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Soo Kim, Kyujin Kwak, Soo-Gyu Lee, Sung-Won Park, Joon Won Chang, Jin-Wan An, Janghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10534406
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods have been disclosed that include example hinges that enable a physical keyboard to be stowed between halves of a closed electronic device with dual screens. An example device includes a first screen having a first end and a second end, a second screen having a first end and a second end, and a hinge assembly to couple the first screen and the second screen. The hinge assembly includes a first hinge pair and a second hinge pair. The first hinge pair and the second hinge pair are to cause the first end of the first screen and the first end of the second screen to be separated a first distance when the device is in a closed position. The second end of the first screen and the second end of the second screen are separated a second distance when the device is in a closed position, the second distance less than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mikko Makinen, Gustavo Fricke
  • Patent number: 10534407
    Abstract: Technologies for a hinge for a dual-screen clamshell computing device include a hinge having a drive shaft and a driven shaft. The drive shaft is fixed to a member such as a secondary display housing of the computing device. The driven shaft is rotatably coupled to another member such as a base housing of the computing device. The hinge includes a one-way needle bearing fixed to the same member as the driven shaft. The driven shaft passes through the one-way needle bearing, which allows free rotation of the driven shaft in one direction and prevents rotation of the driven shaft in the other direction. The hinge includes a coupling joint that selectively couples the drive shaft and the driven shaft. The computing device includes a trigger that is operable to selectively engage and disengage the coupling joint of the hinge. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Samarth Alva, Krishnakumar Varadarajan, Yogesh Channaiah
  • Patent number: 10534408
    Abstract: A laptop computer includes a host, a hinge mechanism, and a display. The host includes a housing, a pivoting base, and a protection cover that pivots on the pivoting base. The hinge mechanism is connected to the host, and includes a first shaft disposed in the housing, and a connection element connected to the first shaft. The display is connected to the hinge mechanism. When the display is rotated about the host, the connection element is rotated following the first shaft and makes the protection cover rotating relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yan-Fong Cheng, Cheng-Nan Ling, Yi-Ta Huang, Pao-Min Huang
  • Patent number: 10534409
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure set forth a system for hot swapping an expansion card. The system includes a fastener mechanism for coupling an expansion card to a motherboard. The system further includes a switch for controlling voltage supply to the expansion card. When the fastener mechanism is in an activated state, the fastener mechanism secures the expansion card to the motherboard and the switch causes voltage to be supplied to the expansion card. When the fastener mechanism is in a partially activated state, the fastener mechanism secures the expansion card to the motherboard and the switch prevents voltage from being supplied to the expansion card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SUPER MICRO COMPUTER, INC.
    Inventor: Dwight Looi
  • Patent number: 10534410
    Abstract: A card assembly includes a card that includes a first edge and an opposing second edge, where the first edge includes an edge connector; and device sockets mounted to the card and operatively coupled to the edge connector, where each of the device sockets defines an end of a respective device bay, where each of the device bays is disposed at an angle of approximately 25 degrees to approximately 75 degrees with respect to the edge connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Omar Ali Ali, Rodrigo Samper, Marc Richard Pamley, Alan Ladd Painter
  • Patent number: 10534411
    Abstract: A hard drive carrier and a method for removing a hard drive carrier from an enclosure are provided herein. In one example, the hard drive carrier includes a platform located in a center position on a front face of the hard drive carrier. The hard drive carrier includes a first pinch point and a second pinch point, where the second pinch point is located opposite of the first pinch point. The hard drive carrier also includes a first tab disposed adjacent to the first pinch point and a second tab, where the second tab is located opposite of the first tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Stephen Spencer, Belgie B McClelland, Earl W Moore
  • Patent number: 10534412
    Abstract: A system to regulate the temperature of a Source Port that includes a Port Controller having a first source power capabilities list stored thereon in a non-transitory digital media, the source capabilities list identifying a plurality of first power delivery capabilities that, based on their power requirements, may be negotiated by the Port Controller, a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the power system and communicates that measured temperature to a comparator. The comparator compares the measured temperature to predefined limit temperatures and when the measured temperature crosses a predefined limit temperature threshold, the first source capabilities list being replaced with a second source capabilities list identifying a plurality of second power capabilities that, based on their power requirements, may be connected to the Source Port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems Corp.
    Inventors: David Perchlik, Reid Adriance
  • Patent number: 10534413
    Abstract: A heat conductor of electronic device 1 includes a heat conductive rubber having elasticity, a heat conductive plate having elasticity so as to be bending deformable, and heat conductive support members, which are disposed between a bottom face of a housing and a CPU in order in a direction from the CPU to the bottom face so as to abut the bottom face and the CPU. The heat conductive support members are configured to abut the heat conductive plate at a plurality of positions separated away from the heat conductive rubber in a surface direction. The heat conductive plate bending-deformed toward the bottom face is supported by the heat conductive rubber and the heat conductive support members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Shiraga
  • Patent number: 10534414
    Abstract: A portable computing system includes a portable computing device consisting essentially of a logical processor, a memory in communication with the logical processor with operating system software, a high speed, secure wireless communication module in communication with the logical processor, an integrated power source suitable to provide all power needs of the portable computing device and an integrated electric power generation mechanism in communication with the integrated power source to recharge the integrated power source. In addition a visual display is provided that has a power supply separate from the integrated power source of the portable computing device and a complementary wireless communication module, the portable visual display in communication with the high speed, secure wireless communication module through the complementary wireless communication module. The portable computing device and the visual display do not share a physical connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shahrokh Daijavad, Alberto Valdes Garcia, Dinesh C Verma, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Kai Schleupen
  • Patent number: 10534415
    Abstract: A controller and a method for power sequencing a computer. The controller may be configured to provide to a south bridge, before the south bridge has completed power management resets, a real time clock signal at a first frequency, and provide to the south bridge, after the south bridge has completed power management resets, a real time clock signal at a second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Debbie A. Walker
  • Patent number: 10534416
    Abstract: A control method for communicating with an external device includes the steps of: when the external device is coupled to a connector, receiving a device existence voltage from the external device; generating a first control signal and a second control signal according to the device existence voltage; coupling a first voltage source or a second voltage source to the connector according to the first control signal, such that a first voltage of the first voltage source or a second voltage of the second voltage source is used as a supply voltage of the external device; and coupling a third voltage source or a fourth voltage source to an output node according to the second control signal, such that a third voltage of the third voltage source or a fourth voltage of the fourth voltage source is used as a tunable output voltage at the output node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: WIWYNN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li-Min Chang, Kai Jie Lai, Chia-Hung Yen, Po Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 10534417
    Abstract: A rack computer system can provide data indicating electrical power consumption by separate sets of the mass storage devices, including separate individual mass storage devices, of the rack computer system. A power sensor can be electrically coupled to a power transmission line for each mass storage device. The power sensor can be coupled to the power transmission line externally to the mass storage device. The power sensor can be an internal power sensor of the mass storage device, where a mass storage device microcontroller transmits internally-generated data to an external power monitoring system. A microcontroller can transmit the data to a baseboard management controller via a side-band connection between the mass storage device and the controller. The data can be transmitted via an in-band connection between a baseboard management controller and an instance of firmware which accesses internally-generated data from mass storage device microcontrollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Felipe Enrique Ortega Gutierrez, Jason Alexander Harland, Roey Rivnay, David Edward Bryan, Christopher Strickland Beall
  • Patent number: 10534418
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes: an arithmetic processing part executing given arithmetic processing; and a capacitor supplying accumulated electric charge when the arithmetic processing part executes arithmetic processing. The arithmetic processing part operates by using the electric charge supplied from the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo Ishii
  • Patent number: 10534419
    Abstract: Independent power control of two or more processing cores. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention pertains to a technique to place at least one processing core in a power state without coordinating with the power state of one or more other processing cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen H. Gunther, Edward A. Burton, Anant Deval, Stephan Jourdan, Robert Greiner, Michael Cornaby
  • Patent number: 10534420
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first processor, a power supplier, and a controller. A power supplier storing electricity provides power to the electronic device. The controller detects remaining electricity quantity of the power supplier and determines whether the current remaining electricity quantity is larger than an electricity-quantity threshold. When the controller determines that the current remaining electricity quantity is not larger than the electricity-quantity threshold, the controller activates a frequency control operation to control an operation frequency of the first processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventor: Chun-Jie Yu
  • Patent number: 10534421
    Abstract: A system provides virtual per-processor timers based on a timer such as a platform timer. To virtualize a timer to be used by each processor independently, a data structure is maintained in memory for the timer. The data structure has an entry for each interrupt to be produced for each processor using the timer, specifying the processor and the due time, with the entries sorted by due time. If the virtualized timer is a platform timer that maintains context during power transitions, a processor can switch to the virtual per-processor timer upon a context-losing power transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Wohlgemuth, Cody Hartwig, Bruce Sherwin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10534422
    Abstract: A drive circuit applicable to a display device includes a first signal path and a second signal path. The first signal path, configured to receive and transmit image data, includes a compression unit configured to perform a compression procedure on the image data to generate compression data; a storage unit configured to store the compression data; and a de-compression unit configured to perform a de-compression procedure on the compression data to recover the image data. The second signal path is configured to transmit the image data to the storage unit so as to bypass the compression unit, and transmit the image data received from the storage unit to a display unit so as to bypass the de-compression unit when the image data is not transmitted by the first signal path. The received image data is passed through the first signal path or the second signal path depending upon its characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Kuei-Chung Chang, Feng-Jung Kuo, Hsi-Chi Ho
  • Patent number: 10534423
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes two storage devices, a semiconductor storage device and a magnetic storage device, and controls which of the storage devices is to provide a swap area corresponding to a power saving mode set in accordance with a user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Umimura
  • Patent number: 10534424
    Abstract: Dynamically switching cores on a heterogeneous multi-core processing system may be performed by executing program code on a first processing core. Power up of a second processing core may be signaled. A first performance metric of the first processing core executing the program code may be collected. When the first performance metric is better than a previously determined core performance metric, power down of the second processing core may be signaled and execution of the program code may be continued on the first processing core. When the first performance metric is not better than the previously determined core performance metric, execution of the program code may be switched from the first processing core to the second processing core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Youfeng Wu, Shiliang Hu, Edson Borin, Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10534425
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a processing method and apparatus for saving power, a mobile terminal, and a cloud server. The method may be applied to a client, and includes: collecting at least one of running information of an application in an operating system of the client, behavior information of the application and scenario information related to the application, to generate client characteristic information; uploading the client characteristic information to a cloud server; receiving a power saving strategy generated by the cloud server with respect to the client characteristic information, and performing a power saving operation on the application according to the power saving strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING KINGSOFT INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kangzong Zhang, Qi Yang, Yousheng Zheng, Yipeng Zou, Jian Tang, Xuelu Yao, Feng Han, Guoqiang Jiao, Nan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10534426
    Abstract: There is provided an interactive system, which includes a remote controller. The remote controller is equipped with a camera to capture an operating frame having a user image and a background image therein; and a processing unit to analyze the operating frame to identify a user image section and a background image section within the operating frame corresponding to the user image and the background image respectively, wherein the processing unit generates a movement information of the remote controller according to intensity distributions of the user image section and the background image section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Shu-Sian Yang, Han-Ping Cheng, Daisuke Kumazaki, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Yukihiro Ukai
  • Patent number: 10534427
    Abstract: An interactive system and method of the present invention provides a customized experience to individual spectators of a live performance. An input device receives a performance parameter selected by a spectator, and physical features of the spectator are scanned into a processor. Real time data collectors are associated with performers in the live performance, wherein the processor receives the performance parameter from the input device and real time performance data from the real time data collectors, and generates an individually customized real time performance based on the performance parameter and the physical features of the spectator as superimposed with the real time performance data, and further provides the customized real time performance to a virtual reality device for real time presentation to the spectator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Inventor: Timothy B. Molyneux
  • Patent number: 10534428
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an orientation information acquisition unit which acquires orientation information of a head portion of a user that observes a display image of a display device; an angle of view switching unit which switches an angle of view of the display image; a rendering process unit which generates the display image based on the orientation information and the angle of view; and a transmission unit which transmits the generated image to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Sakuta, Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 10534429
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for establishing a file transfer connection via wearable devices (e.g., head-mounted wearable devices). A first wearable device generates a gesture-based connection request to connect with a second wearable device. The first wearable device is associated with a first mobile device, and the second wearable device is associated with a second mobile device. The first wearable device sends the gesture-based connection request to a service to authenticate a connection with the second wearable device. The connection is established with the second wearable device in response to receiving an authentication response from the service. The first wearable device directs the first mobile device to transfer a file to the second mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Jun Su, John D. Wilson, Yin Xia
  • Patent number: 10534430
    Abstract: A device for immersive visual representations to a user of virtual scenes, inside a helmet enabling head movements, receives information related to positions of the user's eyes with respect to the helmet, determines visual generation parameters of the virtual scenes in function of that information, and provides those parameters for carrying out the immersive visual representations in the helmet based on those parameters. The device further determines the visual generation parameters so as to spatially adjust continuously the representations of the virtual scenes in function of the positions of the user's eyes. An individual head equipment comprises such a device, a helmet, at least one visual generation apparatus, and one or more sensor(s) providing the positions of the user's eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Siegfried Loeffler, Gael Seydoux
  • Patent number: 10534431
    Abstract: A system including: a first sensor module having an inertial measurement unit and attached to a palm of a hand of a user; a second sensor module having an inertial measurement unit and attached to a first bone of a finger (e.g., a middle or proximal phalange bone) on the palm; and a computing device coupled to the first sensor module and the second sensor module to calculate, based on the orientation of the palm and the orientation of the first bone, orientations of the second bones of the finger (e.g., a distal or proximal phalange bone, a metacarpal bone of the thumb) that have no separately attached inertial measurement unit, according to a predetermined ratio of rotation from a reference orientation along a same axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: FINCH TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Viktor Vladimirovich Erivantcev, Rustam Rafikovich Kulchurin, Alexander Sergeevich Lobanov, Iakov Evgenevich Sergeev, Alexey Ivanovich Kartashov
  • Patent number: 10534432
    Abstract: A control apparatus is connected to a device for detecting a user's hand motion, controls a motion of a virtual character, and decides, in accordance with a detection result of hand motion by the device, whether the detected motion is a first instruction action or a second instruction action. The first instruction action achieves a match between a hand motion of the character and the user's hand motion. The second instruction action instructs an action different from the user's hand motion. When it is decided, as a result of the decision, that the detected user's hand motion is the first instruction action, the control apparatus achieves a match between the character's hand motion and the detected user's hand motion. When it is decided that the detected user's hand motion is the second instruction action, the control apparatus causes the character to perform an action different from the hand motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Okumura, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Norihiro Nagai, Kunihito Sawai, Yuichi Machida
  • Patent number: 10534433
    Abstract: A haptic device is provided that includes a jamming assembly, anchored to the back of a user's hand, having (i) a jamming lever, (ii) an actuator to move the jamming lever from a first position to a second position different from the first position, and (iii) a slidable member configured to move back and forth in response to movement of a first of the user's fingers. The haptic device also includes an elongated element with opposing first and second end portions, where (i) the first end portion is anchored to a predefined portion of the user's first finger, and (ii) the second end portion is attached to an end portion of the slidable member. The jamming lever, when moved to the second position by the actuator, engages with a portion of the slidable member to prevent movement of the member, the elongated element, and the user's finger in a direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Priyanshu Agarwal, Nicholas Colonnese
  • Patent number: 10534434
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for using a blank area in a screen are provided. The electronic device includes a touch screen configured to display content and receive an event for moving the content and a processor configured to move the content to a location or in a direction based on the event, configure a blank area based on the movement of content, and display setting information in the blank area. Further, various embodiments can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nagyeom Yoo, Soojin Park, Hyungjin Park, Bohyun Yu, Hyunchul Choi, Hyosun Choi, Sooji Hwang
  • Patent number: 10534435
    Abstract: A handheld interface device configured to provide an electrostatic friction (ESF) effect is provided. The device comprises a plurality of more than two electrodes, with each electrode being separately disposed at a respective portion of an outer surface of the interface device. Each electrode is covered by or forms a respective portion of the outer surface of the handheld interface device. The device includes a control unit that is configured to determine a contact condition at each electrode of the plurality of electrodes, to select a subset of the plurality of electrodes based on the determined contact condition at each electrode of the plurality of electrodes, and to apply a drive signal for generating electrostatic friction to only one or more electrodes in the selected subset of the plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: IMMERSION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vincent Levesque, Mohammadreza Motamedi
  • Patent number: 10534436
    Abstract: Described herein is a method and a system for providing efficient and complementary natural multi-modal gesture based interaction with a computerized system which displays visual feedback information on a graphical user interface on an interaction surface. The interaction surface is within the frustum of an imaging device comprising a single sensing system. The system uses the single sensing system for detecting both touch gesture interactions with the interaction surface (120) and three-dimensional touch-less gesture interactions in areas or volumes above the interaction surface performed by hands of a user. Both types of interaction are associated contextually with an interaction command controlling the computerized system when the gesture has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Depthsensing Solutions SA/NV
    Inventors: Aliaksandr Kamovich, Julien Thollot, Laurent Guigues
  • Patent number: 10534437
    Abstract: A modular sensing device can generate output via one or more output devices. The modular sensing device can include an inertial measurement unit that generates sensor data corresponding to user gestures performed by a user, a wireless communication module, a mode selector enabling the user to select a mode of the modular sensing device out of a plurality of modes, and one or more output devices configured to generate output based on the user gestures and the selected mode. The selected mode configures the manner in which the modular sensing device generates output via the one or more output devices based on the user gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sphero, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Godby, Paul Berberian
  • Patent number: 10534438
    Abstract: A multimedia entertainment system combines both gestures and voice commands to provide an enhanced control scheme. A user's body position or motion may be recognized as a gesture, and may be used to provide context to recognize user generated sounds, such as speech input. Likewise, speech input may be recognized as a voice command, and may be used to provide context to recognize a body position or motion as a gesture. Weights may be assigned to the inputs to facilitate processing. When a gesture is recognized, a limited set of voice commands associated with the recognized gesture are loaded for use. Further, additional sets of voice commands may be structured in a hierarchical manner such that speaking a voice command from one set of voice commands leads to the system loading a next set of voice commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Klein, Ali M. Vassigh, Jason S. Flaks, Vanessa Larco, Thomas M. Soemo
  • Patent number: 10534439
    Abstract: Techniques for gesture-based device connections are described. For example, a method may comprise receiving video data corresponding to motion of a first computing device, receiving sensor data corresponding to motion of the first computing device, comparing, by a processor, the video data and the sensor data to one or more gesture models, and initiating establishment of a wireless connection between the first computing device and a second computing device if the video data and sensor data correspond to gesture models for the same gesture. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Giuseppe Raffa, Sangita Sharma
  • Patent number: 10534440
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle display device comprising: a display; a gesture sensing unit disposed in the vicinity of the display so as to generate a first sheet beam to be emitted in a first direction and a second sheet beam to be emitted in a second direction different from the first direction, and sensing a three-dimensional gesture of an object through the first and second sheet beams; and a processor for providing a control signal according to the three-dimensional gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngjun Cho, Jinho Youn, Munchae Joung, Sunuk Kim
  • Patent number: 10534441
    Abstract: A virtual control system that includes a control unit, a gesture recognition device, and a hologram generation device. The hologram generation device is configured to generate a hologram in a first volume of space. The gesture recognition device is configured to recognize a proper gesture within the first volume of space. The control unit is configured to send a signal to a component to be controlled when the gesture recognition device recognizes the proper gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: DRIESSEN AEROSPACE GROUP N.V.
    Inventor: Adriaan Eijkelenboom
  • Patent number: 10534442
    Abstract: Provided is a wearable device including: an image sensor configured to sense a gesture image of a user setting a user input region; and a display configured to provide a virtual input interface corresponding to the set user input region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: In-kuk Yun
  • Patent number: 10534443
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating synthetic samples of postures and gestures are provided. In one embodiment, the system may include: a database configured to store at least one sample of a posture or a gesture; a sensing device; and a computer processor configured to: derive values of parameters relating to a specific user and/or environment and generate datasets of gesture and posture samples based on the derived values. In another embodiment, a computer memory may be configured to: obtain at least one gesture or posture of at least one body part; and obtain data sets affecting the appearance of said postures and gestures; and a computer processor configured to generate sets of synthetic samples of said postures and gestures, based on the obtained data sets, wherein the synthetic samples embody virtual variations caused by at least one of the obtained data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Technology (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventor: Matan Protter