Patents Issued in February 20, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200058240
    Abstract: Provided is an outrigger flagpole assembly (10) which comprises a wall-mountable bracket (12), a flagstaff (14) for displaying a flag (20), and a security device or locking formation (14.2) for releasably locking a flag (20) to be displayed to the flagstaff (14) or to the wall-mountable bracket (12). In general, the flagstaff (14) is attached at one end (14.1) thereof to the wall-mountable bracket (12), with a free end (14.2) of the flagstaff (14) extending away from a wall (18) to which the bracket (12) is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Peter Brian TORPY
  • Publication number: 20200058241
    Abstract: A wiring-disconnection detecting circuit includes a low-power voltage supply, a monitoring wiring, and a wiring-disconnection determiner. The low-power voltage supply supplies a low-power voltage to a low-power voltage wiring that extends along a periphery of a display panel in a normal operating mode of the display panel and supplies a test voltage to the low-power voltage wiring in a wiring-disconnection detecting mode of the display panel. The monitoring wiring includes a first end connected to one point of the low-power voltage wiring and a second end at which a feedback voltage corresponding to the test voltage is output in the wiring-disconnection detecting mode. The wiring-disconnection determiner receives the feedback voltage from the second end, measures an RC delay of the feedback voltage, and determines that the low-power voltage wiring is disconnected when the RC delay is larger than a predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Jiho MOON, Dae Youn CHO, Jongwoo PARK, Ju Hee LEE, Youngtae CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200058242
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate having a display region and a peripheral region, first and second sub pixels, first and second gate driving units. The display region includes a first area having first scan lines and first sub pixels and a second area having second scan lines and second sub pixels. A portion of the first sub pixels and a portion of the second sub pixels are respectively electrically connected to the first and second scan line. The first gate driving unit includes a first driving transistor. The second gate driving unit includes a second driving transistor. The number of the first sub pixels driven by the first gate driving unit is less than the number of the second sub pixels driven by the second gate driving unit. The channel width of the first driving transistor is less than the channel width of the second driving transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Hsuan-Chen Liu, Chien-Ting Chan, Chung-Lin Chang
  • Publication number: 20200058243
    Abstract: A decoder of a display apparatus and a decoding method thereof is provided. The decoder comprises a first switching control block configured to select at least two section values from a plurality of gamma gray level values based on predetermined low bits of inputted data, and a second switching control block configured to select section values from the at least two selected section values based on predetermined high bits of the data and output at least two channel values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun Kyu SEONG
  • Publication number: 20200058244
    Abstract: A data transmission method applied in a display, which includes a display panel, is provided. The data transmission method includes the following steps of: providing a host controller and n display drivers, n is a natural number greater than 1; providing a communication link under mobile industry processor interface (MIPI), connecting the host controller to the n display drivers; determining n virtual channel values Vc1-Vcn corresponding to the respective n display drivers; employing the host controller for providing a command with a virtual channel parameter through the communication link under MIPI; when the virtual channel parameter corresponds to an ith virtual channel values Vci, an ith display driver executing corresponding operations in response to the command, while the rest n?1 display drivers ignoring the command, wherein i is a natural number smaller than or equal to n.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Po-Chuan Chang-Chian, Chun-Yi Chou, Wing-Kai Tang, Ching-Chun Lin, Chih-Wei Tang
  • Publication number: 20200058245
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel unit, a display substrate, and a method for manufacturing the display substrate. The pixel unit includes: a first sub-pixel region; a second sub-pixel region located at a periphery of the first sub-pixel region and surrounding the first sub-pixel region; and a third sub-pixel region located at a periphery of the second sub-pixel region and surrounding the second sub-pixel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Xiujuan Cui, Jingjing Li, Guilin Liu, Jian Li, Wenjie Xu
  • Publication number: 20200058246
    Abstract: A display driving method and a display driving device are disclosed. The display driving method includes the steps of: setting an image signal to be inputted, so that when the image signal is driven on a display panel, a first sub-pixel showing a positive polarity is displayed, and other sub-pixels are not displayed; copying the set image signal by the logic board and inputting the set image signal to the display panel; and finally inputting a gate drive signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Dongsheng GUO
  • Publication number: 20200058247
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. An exemplary display panel includes a display area; a non-display area; a plurality of pixels, including a plurality of edge pixels and a plurality of compensation pixels, arranged as an array along a row direction and a column direction and having a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns; and a light shielding layer. At least portions of transmission areas of the edge pixels are disposed in the display area; entire transmission areas of the compensation pixels are disposed in the non-display area; and a distance d between a first compensation pixel in a first pixel row and a second compensation pixel in a second pixel row is smaller than a distance D between a first edge pixel in the first pixel row and a second edge pixel in the second pixel row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Min ZHANG, Xiangjian KONG
  • Publication number: 20200058248
    Abstract: Provided is an an LED electronic bulletin board enabling high-speed image calibration, which is configured to apply brightness calibration data in consideration of brightness characteristics according to a brightness value through determination of whether or not there is a difference in a brightness value of a pixel or a part of an expression portion of the LED electronic bulletin board, which is to be expressed, with respect to image information inputted through a pixel capacitor controller installed between an image input device and a main controller unit (MCU), and then calibrate the image data inputted in real-time to express brightness-calibrated image data on the LED electronic bulletin board so that the image brightness of the electronic bulletin board can be calibrated irrespective of a configuration of an electronic bulletin board expression driving circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KLD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Jae HA, Sung Jun HA
  • Publication number: 20200058249
    Abstract: A degradation compensation device and an organic light emitting display device including the same are provided. The degradation compensation device includes a degradation rate acquisition unit acquiring estimated degradation rates, estimated with respect to a plurality of respective pixels, based on panel usage information, a digital compensation unit performing digital compensation to lower a digital gradation of each pixel, based on a luminance of a pixel having a maximum degradation rate, among the estimated degradation rates, and an analog compensation unit performing analog compensation to increase luminance of the plurality of pixels by changing an analog voltage supplied to a panel, after performing the digital compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Ji Heon OK, Yong Hoon YU, Joo Hyuk YUM, Jae Youl LEE, Byoung Yoon JANG
  • Publication number: 20200058250
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving method, a display panel and a control method thereof. The driving circuit is configured to drive pixel circuits arranged in an array. The driving circuit includes a plurality of driving modules and a plurality of data writing modules. Each of the plurality of driving modules is connected to two adjacent rows of the pixel circuits through a controlling line and is configured to drive the two adjacent rows of the pixel circuits simultaneously. Each of the plurality of data writing modules is connected to a data line and one column of the pixel circuits, respectively, and is configured to write display data of the data line into a pixel circuit of odd row and a pixel circuit of even row in the one column of pixel circuits in a time sharing manner in response to the driving modules driving the pixel circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Tian Dong, Shiming Shi
  • Publication number: 20200058251
    Abstract: A display device and a method of driving the same. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a degradation compensator configured to output compensation data based on age values of the plurality of pixels and an input grayscale value of input image data, a scan driver configured to supply a scan signal to the display panel, and a data driver configured to supply a data signal corresponding to the compensation data to the display panel. The degradation compensator includes a first compensation unit configured to generate a first compensation grayscale value with reference to the input grayscale value and a first age value, and a second compensation unit configured to generate a second compensation grayscale value with reference to the first compensation grayscale value and the first age value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Dong Hak Pyo, Seung Ho Park, Kyoung Ho Lim, Sang Myeon Han
  • Publication number: 20200058252
    Abstract: A display driving circuit is provided. The display driving circuit includes: an input control circuit configured to output an input current in response to a sensing current output from at least one pixel; a sampling circuit configured to output a sampling voltage which is a reference voltage during a reset period, and which is a voltage varying based on the reference voltage and the input current during a signal period; and an accumulating circuit configured to generate an output voltage by accumulating variation values of the sampling voltage, and provide the generated output voltage to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit, wherein the sampling voltage decreases or increases from the reference voltage according to the input current during the signal period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-moon Kim, Seung-hee Kuk, Si-woo Kim, Won-seok Kim, Yeong-shin Jang
  • Publication number: 20200058253
    Abstract: A pixel circuit comprising an organic light emitting diode; a driving transistor including a gate, a source connected to a first node, a drain connected to a second power supply terminal; and a photosensitive circuit connected between a second node and a third node, the second node configured to receive a reference voltage. The driving transistor is configured to, responsive to a gate voltage and a source voltage, control a magnitude of a driving current flowing through the organic light emitting diode. The photosensitive circuit is configured to sense an intensity of light emission of the organic light emitting diode and to set a potential at the third node according to the reference voltage and the intensity that was sensed, the potential that was set being detectable by an external circuit via a sense line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yicheng LIN, Pan XU, Guang YAN, Dongfang YANG
  • Publication number: 20200058254
    Abstract: A pixel driving compensation circuit, a display panel, and a driving method are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes: a scan sub-circuit, a storage sub-circuit, a first reset sub-circuit, a second reset sub-circuit, a control sub-circuit, and a drive sub-circuit. The scan sub-circuit is connected to scan and data signal terminals and a first terminal of the storage sub-circuit. The first reset sub-circuit is connected to a reset signal terminal, and the first terminal of the storage sub-circuit. The second reset sub-circuit is connected to the reset signal terminal, an initial signal terminal, a second terminal of the storage sub-circuit, and the drive sub-circuit. The control sub-circuit is connected to a first power supply voltage terminal, and a control signal terminal. The drive sub-circuit is connected to the second terminal of the storage sub-circuit, and a second power supply voltage terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Xue WANG
  • Publication number: 20200058255
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for displaying an image during an initial driving period. An exemplary display device includes a timing controller configured to reconstruct compensation reference data from a first memory into a plurality of transmission data, sequentially transmit the plurality of transmission data to a second memory, and display an image on the display panel when partial transmission data of the plurality of transmission data are transmitted and stored to the second memory during the initial driving period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: SANG MYEON HAN, SEUNG HO PARK, JAE HOON LEE
  • Publication number: 20200058256
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selective dimming of ambient lighting in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (xR) applications. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the one or more processors, cause the IHS to: identify the presence of a light source in a physical space where a user is wearing a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) during operation of an xR application; and darken a portion of an optical filter within the HMD at a position in the user's field-of-view (FOV) corresponding to the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Philip M. Seibert, Christopher A. Torres
  • Publication number: 20200058257
    Abstract: A current compensation circuit, a virtual reality device and a control method are disclosed. The current compensation circuit includes: a first constant current sub-circuit, configured to generate a driving current of a backlight module; a second constant current sub-circuit, configured to generate a compensation current of the backlight module; a compensation gating sub-circuit, configured to determine whether to select the second constant current sub-circuit to supply power to the backlight module; and a black insertion control signal generation sub-circuit, configured to generate a black insertion control signal, connected with the first constant current sub-circuit and the compensation gating sub-circuit, and configured to control, by the black insertion control signal, the first constant current sub-circuit and the second constant current sub-circuit to simultaneously supply power to or power off the backlight module, so that the black light module realizes a backlight black insertion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Pan, Hao Zhang, Lili Chen, Jian Sun, Yakun Wang, Yuanyuan Du, Jinghua Miao, Yu Lei, Xinjian Liu, Ziqiang Guo, Bin Zhao, Ruifeng Qin, Feng Zi
  • Publication number: 20200058258
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, each pixel column extends in a first direction and each pixel row extends in a second direction crossing the first direction, a first data line extending in the first direction and configured to transfer a data voltage to pixels included in at least two pixel columns, and for each pixel row, a first gate line extending in the second direction and disposed at a first side of the pixel row, and a second gate line extending in the second direction and disposed at a second side of the pixel row, the first and second sides of the pixel row are opposite to each other. In a pair of adjacent pixel columns, pixels, which are connected to the first gate line of their respective pixel row, are arranged in a zigzag arrangement in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: JUNG-WON KIM, DONGWON PARK, JAESUNG BAE, NAM-GON CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200058259
    Abstract: A display device, the driving circuit and the driving method for the same are provided. Wherein, the input module raises a control end voltage signal Qn to a first high electrical level based on the gate scanning signal Gn?2; the raise module raises the signal Qn from the first high electrical level to a second high electrical level based on the clock signal CLKn?2, the clock signal CLKn?1 and the control end voltage signal Qn?1; the output module couples the control end voltage signal Qn from the second high electrical level to a third high electrical level based on the clock signal CLKn and outputs a gate scanning signal Gn based on the signals Qn and CLKn; the feedback module depresses the coupled control end voltage signal Qn; and the control module controls a depression maintain module to maintain the low voltage of the control end voltage signal Qn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: YU-JEN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200058260
    Abstract: A drive circuit, a drive method of the drive circuit and a display device are provided. The drive circuit includes a signal output module, a first level signal output end; and a plurality of switch modules. The signal output module includes N output ends for outputting a gate drive signal step by step to N scan lines. The switch modules each correspond to one of the scan lines. A control end of the i-th switch module is electrically connected with the i?1th scan line. A first connecting end is electrically connected with the corresponding i-th scan line. A second connecting end is electrically connected with the first level signal output end. Wherein, N is a positive integer, and i is a positive integer greater or less or equal to N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: YU-JEN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200058261
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a data line, a gate line crossing the data line, and a sub pixel connected to the data line and the gate line; a gamma data generator configured to output normal gamma data of a normal gamma curve corresponding to image data when a grayscale of the image data is inside a first grayscale range, and to output high gamma data of a high gamma curve or low gamma data of a low gamma curve based on a spatio-temporal pattern when the grayscale of the image data is outside the first grayscale range; and a data driver configured to convert the gamma data outputted from the gamma data generator to a data voltage and to output the data voltage to the data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: BONG-GYUN KANG, Nam-Gon Choi, Dong Hwa Shin, Gi Geun Kim, Jae-Sung Bae
  • Publication number: 20200058262
    Abstract: The disclosed display device may include a display screen having (1) a front surface and (2) a pair of display regions that emit image light from the front surface, the pair of display regions separated from each other by a non-display region in a longitudinal direction of the display screen, each of the pair of display regions including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns, the plurality of pixel rows and the plurality of pixel columns each extending obliquely relative to a peripheral edge of the front surface. The display device may also include a display driver circuit for driving the plurality of pixels of both of the pair of display regions, the display driver circuit disposed apart from the pair of display regions in a lateral direction of the display screen. Various other methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Dong Chen
  • Publication number: 20200058263
    Abstract: A media engine includes modules to retrieve a first graphics object and a second graphics object to be displayed on a screen, and perform asynchronous pixel transfers of the first graphics object and the second graphics object such that the first graphics object and the second graphics object are shown independently in a single frame, and the asynchronous pixel transfers include batching of draw calls based on the similarity of meshes in the first graphics object and the second graphic object to generate a batch of draw calls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick MCKEEVER, Richard FERDINAND, Cornelius SHEA
  • Publication number: 20200058264
    Abstract: A breathing apparatus having a face piece having a heads up display (HUD) component. The breathing apparatus further having at least one external sensor for measuring environmental condition data and at least one internal sensor for measuring internal condition data. A control unit is coupled to the at least one external sensor and the at least one internal sensor, and is configured to process the data and provide the data to the heads up display component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: John Clinton Smith, Davin Lawrence Willetts
  • Publication number: 20200058265
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for converting RGB image signals into RGBW image signals. The method includes converting RGB image signals of pixels of each received image frame into corresponding RGB luminance values respectively, performing a conversion from an RGB luminance value to an RGBW luminance value for each pixel, including performing a first conversion to the RGBW luminance value by determining a first conversion amount based on the corresponding RGB luminance value of the pixel to obtain a first RGBW luminance value of the pixel, performing a second conversion to the RGBW luminance value by determining a second conversion amount based on the first RGBW luminance values of the pixel and its adjacent one or more pixels to obtain a second RGBW luminance value of the pixel, and converting the second RGBW luminance values of the pixels of the image frame into corresponding RGBW image signals respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Min HE, Chun CAO, Wenchao BAO
  • Publication number: 20200058266
    Abstract: A wearable display device and a calibration method for the wearable display device are provided. The wearable display device or its component(s) may exhibit optical throughput dependent on beam angle or beam coordinate at the eyebox. The linear or angular dependencies of throughput may be accounted for when generating an image to be displayed, to lessen or offset these dependencies during operation of the wearable display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yijing Fu, Pasi Saarikko, Hee Yoon Lee, Wanli Chi
  • Publication number: 20200058267
    Abstract: A texture display device includes a display unit in which each pixel includes a condensing type element having light distribution at a first spread angle and a diffusing type element having light distribution at a second spread angle larger than the first spread angle, a pixel signal generation unit that generates a pixel signal based on image data and texture data of an object to be displayed on the display unit, and a control unit that controls light emission intensity of the condensing type element and the diffusing type element based on the pixel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aki TAKAYANAGI, Yoshitomo NAKAMURA, Toshiaki KUBO, Yoko INOUE, Toshiaki FUJINO, Takanori OKUMURA, Naoko IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200058268
    Abstract: A scenario projection system and a controlling method thereof are provided. The scenario projection system includes a display device, a reflective device and a scenario light source. The display device is configured to show an image on the screen area of the display device. The scenario light source disposed on a slide rail is to project a scenario beam to the screen area where the reflective device is disposed within. The reflected scenario beam by the reflective device is to form a characteristic image outside the screen area, wherein there is a linkage relationship between the image and the characteristic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kuan-Yu Tung, Wang-Shuo Kao
  • Publication number: 20200058269
    Abstract: A system may produce a multimedia presentation that includes visual stimuli, auditory stimuli, olfactory stimuli, thermal stimuli and air currents that are perceptible to a human user. All or part of the system may be housed in or affixed to a table or desk. Sensors may monitor physiology or activities of the user and provide feedback regarding the user's response to the presentation. A user may input instructions for the system. Based on these instructions, the system may present a multimedia presentation which tends to produce a target physiological state of the user that is specified in the instructions or which tends to maintain a current physiological state of the user. The system may employ a control space to control the presentation. This control space may have axes that correspond to how a user perceives multimedia presentations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Nan Zhao, Joseph Paradiso, Yoav Reches
  • Publication number: 20200058270
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a bullet screen display method and an electronic device, and relate to the field of multimedia technologies, to resolve a prior-art problem that bullet screen content causes interference to a user, thereby improving user experience. The method includes: determining an object display area based on a target display object in a display image, where the target display object is located in the object display area; determining a bullet screen display area based on the object display area, where the bullet screen display area and the object display area have no intersection; and displaying bullet screen content in the bullet screen display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Rui LI, Ze ZHOU, Xueyan HUANG, Jiali FU
  • Publication number: 20200058271
    Abstract: [Object] It is desirable to provide a technique capable of providing more useful information to a user in a case in which there is a target object group in a real world. [Solution] Provided is a display control device, including: a display control unit configured to be capable of controlling display of information related to a first target object which is a group management target and information for managing a target object group including the first target object, in which the display control unit controls a display parameter of each of the information related to the first target object and the information for managing the target object group in accordance with a distance between a user and a second target object included in the target object group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu KUBOTA, Masakazu YAJIMA, Mari SAITO, Akihiro MUKAI, Chisako KAJIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200058272
    Abstract: A display device includes a body; a roller rotatably installed in the body; a flexible display configured to be wound or unwound from the roller in response to a rotation of the roller; and a controller configured to detect a type of a content to be displayed, and change a screen size of the flexible display according to the detected type of the content by winding or unwinding of the flexible display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hawjun OH, Hyungnam LEE, Taejun KIM, Hyein JUNG, Kunsik LEE
  • Publication number: 20200058273
    Abstract: A method of rendering an object model includes modifying, by a first thread executing on a computer system that is coupled to a display screen, a current object model to generate a new object model that is stored at a first memory address. The method also includes storing, by the first thread, a copy of the new object model at a second memory address. The method further includes updating, by the first thread, a reference to identify the copy of the new object model. The method also includes rendering, by a second thread executing on the computer system, a renderable object model identified by the reference into a buffer that is converted into pixels on the display screen, the first thread being independent of the second thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Nathaniel Philip McCallum, Benjamin Petersen, Jonathan Michael Toppins, Juan Jose Vallejo Orozco, Monis Masood Khan
  • Publication number: 20200058274
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for a capo for a fretted instrument with a plurality of strings. The capo base having been bent into a u-shape, with a barrier of Velcro on the bottom side where the capo contacts on the strings, protecting them, also said Velcro will not let the strings move laterally, out of tune. Having also Velcro on the inside of the rear of the capo to protect the finish on the instruments' side. The capo covers two adjacent frets, pressing the body of the capo to the frets and not to the fretboard, eliminating excessive string sharpness. The capo having a thumbnut on the bottom to tighten the capo down on the strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: David Warren McClary
  • Publication number: 20200058275
    Abstract: A drumstick including a first portion having a tip for striking a percussion instrument and a second portion separate from and mounted to the first portion. The second portion defines a space to house one or more functional components of the drumstick, and the second portion includes a substantially tubular outer wall defining the space therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Jeffrey Matthew Titchener Gunn, Robert Nigel Witten
  • Publication number: 20200058276
    Abstract: A cymbal support includes a support part having a solid inverted bowl-shaped curved part that contacts with the cymbal and a through hole through which a shaft rod penetrates at a central axis. An opening of a through hole at a side of the bent part of the cymbal support is chamfered in a curved shape or straightly, the support part has hardness from 25 to 80 degrees, and is made of one of, or a combination of two or more of leather, cork, felt, silicone resin and rubber sponge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Mizuho MIYAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200058277
    Abstract: An electronic drum-module for connection to electronic-drum pads is provided. The module includes an electronic display, a memory storing audio files for playback when the playback is triggered by a signal received from the pads, and one or more processors coupled to the electronic display and the memory. The processors are configured to play a portion of the one or more audio files when the playback is triggered by the signal received from the pads and to display, on the electronic display, a user interface for an application. The user interface includes a waveform associated with recorded audio. The user interface includes a sample-start marker and a sample-end marker. A portion of the waveform between the sample-start marker and sample-end marker is displayed brighter than a portion not between the sample-start marker and the sample-end marker. Playback of the portion may be initiated by striking a drum-pad zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: inMusic Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Gill, Walter Skorupski
  • Publication number: 20200058278
    Abstract: Processing implemented by computer means of sound data output by at least one sensor and activation of at least one actuator of an acoustically radiating structure. The sensor senses an acoustic signal output by the vibration of the radiating structure. The radiating structure bears at least one actuator controlled by the computer means and is thus involved in the vibration of the radiating structure. In particular, the method comprises the steps of: a) measuring a transfer function of the actuator, radiating structure and sensor assembly, b) controlling activation of the actuator so as to make the radiating structure vibrate, according to a selected setpoint: taking account of the transfer function measured, and taking account of the acoustic signal sensed by the sensor in feedback mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Adrien Mamou-Mami
  • Publication number: 20200058279
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate extendable layered music collaboration. A production environment for production and playback of audiovisual clips is provided for display on a local client device. In response to the local client device or a remote client device associated with the environment, one or more initial audiovisual clips each comprising a segment of music is provided. A request to record one or more additional audiovisual clips is received from the local client device. The additional audiovisual clips are recorded while one or more of the initial audiovisual clips play back in real time, with the recording of the audiovisual clip including synchronization of an audio clip and a video clip. Optionally, the additional audiovisual clips are provided for playback to the local client device or one or more remote client devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: FoJeMa Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Garrison
  • Publication number: 20200058280
    Abstract: A stringed instrument pickup with multiple selectable coils can be utilized in a system to provide a diverse range of sound characteristics from at least one moving string under tension. A first wire can be connected to a first terminal of a first bobbin body prior to the first wire being wound around the first bobbin body a first number of times and then connecting the first wire to a second terminal of the first bobbin body. A second wire may be connected to the second terminal of the first bobbin body before winding the second wire around the first bobbin body a second number of times and then connecting the second wire to a third terminal of the first bobbin body. The first bobbin body is subsequently mounted onto a stringed instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Timothy P. Shaw
  • Publication number: 20200058281
    Abstract: A device for dampening noise and a rock drilling rig. The noise dampening device includes a skin structure and a frame, which are separate elements. The skin structure includes several noise dampening panels, which are mounted to the frame in a removable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Lassi LUOMA, Sampo SIVULA
  • Publication number: 20200058282
    Abstract: A nonwoven sound absorbing material according to the present invention includes a nonwoven laminate formed of a stack of a plurality of sheets of a filament nonwoven fabric having a plurality of drawn filaments arranged and oriented in one direction, and the mode value of the diameter distribution of the plurality of drawn filaments is 1 to 4 ?m. The nonwoven sound absorbing material according to the present invention has improved sound absorption performance in a relatively low frequency band as compared to a conventional one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Ibayashi, Tomoo Hirai, Hiroaki Konishi, Muneyuki Shiina, Ken Endo, Masahiro Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20200058283
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, an apparatus for privacy protection is provided. The apparatus includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion arranged to receive and enclose one or more personal communication devices. The apparatus further includes at least one sound attenuation layer disposed in the second housing portion, the at least one sound attenuation layer absorbs sound. The apparatus also includes a noise generator to provide one or more noise signal streams and audio output device(s), which are at least partially supported by the first housing portion and coupled to the noise generator to receive the one or more noise signal streams. The audio output device(s) are operable to output noise signal based on the one or more noise signal streams and direct the noise signal at the one or more personal communication devices placed adjacent the at least one sound attenuation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Fong, Neric Hsin-wu Fong, Teddy David Thomas, Haydn Bennett Taylor
  • Publication number: 20200058284
    Abstract: Communication apparatus and devices for surgical robotic systems are described. The communication apparatus can include a user console in communication with a communication device having a surgical tool. The communication device can include a microphone to convert a sound input into an acoustic input signal. The communication device can transmit the acoustic input signal to the user console for reproduction as a sound output for a remote operator. The surgical tool can include an endoscope having several microphones mounted on a housing. The surgical tool can be a sterile barrier having a microphone and a drape. The microphone(s) of the surgical tools can face a surrounding environment such that a tableside staff is a source of the sound input that causes the sound output, and a surgeon and the tableside staff can communicate in a noisy environment. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Denise Ann Miller, Joan Savall, Geoffrey Robert Russell
  • Publication number: 20200058285
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for implementing at least a portion of a personal audio device may include an output for providing an output signal to a transducer, wherein the output signal includes a pilot signal, a microphone input for receiving a microphone signal from a microphone indicative of an output of the transducer, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit may be configured to implement a pilot signal control to apply an adjustment to the pilot signal as necessary to maintain the pilot signal at a substantially constant magnitude regardless of proximity of the transducer to a pinna and implement a proximity determination block configured to determine proximity of the transducer to the pinna based on the adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventors: Viral PARIKH, Jon D. HENDRIX, Jeffrey D. ALDERSON, Vitaliy SAPOZHNYKOV, Nafiseh ERFANIAN SAEEDI, Thomas I. HARVEY, Robert LUKE
  • Publication number: 20200058286
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a noise cancellation method comprises updating a first far-end channel filter according to a first variance yielded based on an input signal and a first far-end signal included in the input signal, providing a first output signal obtained by removing a first far-end noise signal from the input signal through the first far-end channel filter, updating a second far-end channel filter according to a second variance yielded based on the first output signal and a second far-end signal included in the input signal, and providing a second output signal obtained by removing a second far-end noise signal from the first output signal through the second far-end channel filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Hyung Min PARK, Byung Joon CHO
  • Publication number: 20200058287
    Abstract: Active noise-cancelling (ANC) headphones in the form of a part of a headset or as in-ear headphones that reduce acoustic adaptation by providing an electrodynamic speaker in a housing with ventilation openings and an acoustically permeable front panel. These components form a module that can be integrated into ANC headphones, permitting its installation in different headphones without customization. The module reacts to a reduction of the impermeability situation in such a manner, that an impedance change of the speaker takes place below 100 Hz. For example, a microphone and electronics with a feedback filter for active noise cancellation can be provided that form a secondary route between speaker and microphone. In a further development, an evaluation unit is provided which detects and evaluates a change in the impedance of the speaker and adapts the feedback loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Bernhard PINTER
  • Publication number: 20200058288
    Abstract: A timbre-selectable human voice playback system and a timbre-selectable human voice playback method thereof are provided. The timbre-selectable human voice playback system includes a speaker, a storage and a processing apparatus. The storage saves a text database. The processing apparatus is connected to the speaker and the storage. The processing apparatus obtains real human voice signals, converts the text of the text database into original synthetic human voice signals with the text-to-speech technology, and transforms the original synthetic voice signals into timbre-specific human voice signals with a timbre transformation model. The timbre-transformation model is trained with the real human voice signals collected from a specific person. Then, the processing apparatus plays the transformed human voice signals with the speaker. Accordingly, a user can listen to his favorite voice timbre and the transformed voice signal carrying selected content anytime and anywhere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Chyi-Yeu Lin, Hung-Yan Gu
  • Publication number: 20200058289
    Abstract: An automatic dubbing method is disclosed. The method comprises: extracting speeches of a voice from an audio portion of a media content (504); obtaining a voice print model for the extracted speeches of the voice (506); processing the extracted speeches by utilizing the voice print model to generate replacement speeches (508); and replacing the extracted speeches of the voice with the generated replacement speeches in the audio portion of the media content (510).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Henry GABRYJELSKI, Jian LUAN, Dapeng Li