Patents Issued in March 12, 2024
  • Patent number: 11928954
    Abstract: Hazard detectors are shown and described. Included are devices, systems, kits, and methods for a hazard detector. A hazard detector may in some embodiments include a housing, a presence detector, a hazard detector and a control system. In some examples, hazard detector systems may include a hazard detector having one or more sensors with the ability to detect a hazard and a system for evaluating the hazard for characteristics prior to signaling an alarm. A hazard detector may include power saving systems for longevity and reliability of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Forge Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Andres, Michael Rabbett, Matthew Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 11928955
    Abstract: A control device includes a controller and a safety disconnect mechanism that is illuminable. The controller couples to a power supply line and a load line. Further, the controller is operable to control a power output on the load line using a power supplied by the power supply line. The safety disconnect mechanism is manipulatable between (i) an engaged state, coinciding with the power supply line being electrically coupled to the load line, and (ii) a disengaged state, coinciding with the power supply line and the load line being electrically decoupled, so that no power output is provided on the load line. A lighting element can be provided with the safety disconnect mechanism, where the lighting element is configured to have at least a first illumination state that is indicative of the safety disconnect mechanism being in the engaged position, and a second illumination state that is indicative of the safety disconnect mechanism being in the disengaged state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BRILLIANT HOME TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Cardanha, Iris Yan
  • Patent number: 11928956
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a vibrating finger device useful in a medical setting includes a device body configured to fit on a finger of a wearer, a vibrating unit, a touch sensitive sensor, and a control module including a computerized processor. The control module includes programming configured to monitor an activation input to the device, determine the monitored activation input to indicate a threshold desired vibration activation input, and activate a vibration cycle within the vibrating unit based upon the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Elizabeth Whitaker
  • Patent number: 11928957
    Abstract: An audio visual haptic signal reconstruction method includes first utilizing a large-scale audio-visual database stored in a central cloud to learn knowledge, and transferring same to an edge node; then combining, by means of the edge node, a received audio-visual signal with knowledge in the central cloud, and fully mining semantic correlation and consistency between modals; and finally fusing the semantic features of the obtained audio and video signals and inputting the semantic features to a haptic generation network, thereby realizing the reconstruction of the haptic signal. The method effectively solves the problems that the number of audio and video signals of a multi-modal dataset is insufficient, and semantic tags cannot be added to all the audio-visual signals in a training dataset by means of manual annotation. Also, the semantic association between heterogeneous data of different modals are better mined, and the heterogeneity gap between modals are eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Xin Wei, Liang Zhou, Yingying Shi, Zhe Zhang, Siqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11928958
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for users localization and guidance of the movements of the users through a building adapted in relation to an event, along paths leading to one or more given target places, with connected objects (T, T?) in communication link with a remote resource server which is a control server (S) accessible by a communication network, comprising the following steps: on the basis of a digital model of the building (BIM, CIM), nodes (N) and edges (A) are computed; a user waiting list is assigned to each passage node; a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of movement toward the target places (“E”, “S”, “W”) is automatically computed with the nodes and the edges (A); the actual location of an event is detected; the actual position of each user located in the building is computed; as a function of the profile of the user, of the user's location in real time in the building causing the inaccessibility of certain nodes of the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), the so-called ‘updated’ Directed Acyclic Gra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Universite Paris Est Creteil val de Marne, Universite Gustave Eiffel
    Inventors: Abderrezak Rachedi, Ahmed Mebarki
  • Patent number: 11928959
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for forming an on-demand stationary vehicular micro cloud. In some embodiments, a method for a connected vehicle includes receiving event data that describes a set of events configured for triggering a creation of the on-demand stationary vehicular micro cloud. The method includes receiving sensor data that describes a roadway environment. The method includes detecting, based at least in part on the sensor data, an occurrence of at least one event included in the set of events. The method includes modifying an operation of a communication unit of the connected vehicle to initiate the creation of the on-demand stationary vehicular micro cloud to address the occurrence of the at least one event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventors: Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Kentaro Oguchi
  • Patent number: 11928960
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for alerting passenger vehicles of approaching emergency vehicles is implemented by an alert management computing device. The method includes receiving an emergency vehicle alert request message from an emergency vehicle transmitter, receiving passenger vehicle location data from a plurality of passenger vehicle user computing devices located in a plurality of passenger vehicles, wherein the passenger vehicle location data includes a present passenger vehicle location and a present passenger vehicle trajectory, identifying an alert zone for the emergency vehicle based on the present emergency vehicle location and the present emergency vehicle trajectory, identifying a vehicle zone for each of the plurality of passenger vehicles, identifying a subset of the passenger vehicles within the alert zone by comparing each vehicle zone to the alert zone, and transmitting a warning to the subset of passenger vehicles via the passenger vehicle user computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Invent F & W, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Walsh, Virginia E. Foster, Ryan McNeely
  • Patent number: 11928961
    Abstract: To reduce the effects of traffic jams, a traffic reduction system identifies road segments having more a threshold amount of traffic. The traffic reduction system also receives an indication of a current location of a client device operating in a vehicle and compares the current location to the locations of the identified road segments to determine whether the vehicle is on or approaching the road segment. If the vehicle is on or approaching the road segment, the traffic reduction system determines a target speed for the vehicle to maintain an equal distance between the vehicle and the vehicle in front of the vehicle and the vehicle and the vehicle behind the vehicle. The traffic reduction system then provides the target speed to the client device for display on a user interface. By maintaining equal distances between vehicles in front of and behind each other, the amount of traffic dissipates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Neil Dhillon, Tanmay Wadhwa
  • Patent number: 11928962
    Abstract: A system for location risk determination and ranking based on vehicle events and/or an accident database includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive accident data and/or event data. The processor is configured to determine a set of incident groups, wherein an incident group of the set of incident groups is associated with a set of accidents of the accident data and/or a set of events of the event data that are grouped by location proximity. The processor is further configured to determine a set of traffic estimations, wherein a traffic estimation of the set of traffic estimations is associated with the incident group of the set of incident groups; and determine a ranking of the set of incident groups based at least in part on the set of accidents, the set of events, and the set of traffic estimations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Cheng, Daniel Witriol
  • Patent number: 11928963
    Abstract: A method includes receiving vehicle data for a plurality of vehicles in a parking facility over time, the vehicle data including a time t1 indicating when each of the vehicles leaves its corresponding parking spot in the parking facility, and a time t2 indicating when each of the plurality of vehicles reaches an exit of the parking facility. An egress time is determined for each of the plurality of vehicles based at least in part on the corresponding times t1 and t2. A timestamp is assigned to each of the egress times, resulting in timestamped egress times. A current egress time of the parking facility is estimated based at least in part on the timestamped egress times. An action recommendation is based at least in part on the current egress time of the parking facility and is outputted for subsequent viewing by the driver of the particular vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Amit B. Kulkarni, Deepthi Sethuraman, Umesh Hosamani
  • Patent number: 11928964
    Abstract: A parking availability predictor system provides a prediction of parking availability that meets a user's specified needs. When the user submits a query for parking availability, he can include desired parking criteria such as location, handicapped status, and desired time to begin parking. The system consults a parking occupancy model which gathers current and historical information about parking occupancy, including parking durations and durations of vacancies between occupancies. The model processes the gathered information into a statistical predictor of parking occupancy and vacancy. The system uses the predictor to predict when parking that meets the user's needs will become available. That prediction, including user-suitable parking locations along with the expected start of their vacancies, is then sent to the user in answer to his query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Nikhil Dama, Laura Frisbie Evans, Christopher Ryan Haberland, Ting Lu, Simon Phillip Stolarczyk, Kristopher Thomas Williams
  • Patent number: 11928965
    Abstract: A vehicle capable of autonomous driving includes a lane detection system. The lane detection system is trained to predict lane lines using training images. The training images are automatically processed by a training module of the lane detection system in order to create ground truth data. The ground truth data is used to train the lane detection system to predict lane lines that are occluded in real-time images of roadways. The lane detection system predicts lane lines of a roadway in a real-time image even though the lane lines maybe indiscernible due to objects on the roadway or due to the position of the lane lines being in the horizon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Phantom AI, Inc.
    Inventor: Youngwook Paul Kwon
  • Patent number: 11928966
    Abstract: A virtual railroad of vehicles is disclosed. In one aspect of the disclosure, a system includes one or more passenger vehicles of a peloton, and a first engine vehicle of the peloton. The first engine vehicle communicatively connected to the one or more passenger vehicles, wherein the first engine vehicle comprises: a processor communicatively connected to a memory and is configured to receive status information of the one or more passenger vehicles, determine, based on the received status information, a set of current values for a set of vehicle attributes for each of the one or more passenger vehicles, and adjust, based on the set of current values for the set of vehicle attributes, a position of a corresponding passenger vehicle of the one or more passenger vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Robert Czinger, John Russell Bucknell, Jinbo Chen, Gregory S. Weaver
  • Patent number: 11928967
    Abstract: A method for deploying of a backup roadside unit (RSU) vehicle to provide on-demand RSU services is described. The method may include determining, by a server, a resource specification to deploy a selected backup RSU vehicle to a requested site. The determining of the resource specification may be performed by the server in response to a scene description received from a requestor. The method also includes sending a dispatch instruction to the selected backup RSU vehicle to deploy the selected backup RSU vehicle to the requested site. In this method, a hardware/software capability of the selected backup RSU vehicle is matched to the resource specification determined by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: BaekGyu Kim, Baik Hoh, Hao Yang, Shalini Keshavamurthy, Kentaro Oguchi, Onur Altintas
  • Patent number: 11928968
    Abstract: A platooning control system is based on active collision avoidance control. The system includes a first platooning control apparatus located in a foremost leading vehicle in a platoon for determining whether it is possible for the leading vehicle to collide when the leading vehicle is fully braked and whether it is possible to avoid collision when it is determined that collision will occur when the leading vehicle is fully braked, calculating a longitudinal deceleration profile and a transverse path of the leading vehicle, and collision with following vehicles that follow the leading vehicle, and transmitting the calculation result to the following vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dong Hyuk Kim
  • Patent number: 11928969
    Abstract: A method of displaying a corridor for an unmanned vehicle using a point cloud. The method includes: displaying the space vector points in a preset 3-dimensional space; and generating and displaying individual corridors, each individual corridor connecting between selected space vector points from among the space vector points. Each of the space vector points includes location information and size information, the individual corridor is displayed by a stereoscopic structure including an internal space in which the unmanned vehicle can fly, and the form of the individual corridor is determined based on the size information of a pair of adjacent space vector points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CLROBUR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tae In Choi, Seong Won Jo
  • Patent number: 11928970
    Abstract: A method of adjusting an operator workload during a travel segment including tracking over a time period, using at least one sensor, one of inputs by an operator indicative of an operator workload or image sensor data or a biometric parameter indicative of an operator stress level during the travel segment. Determining, using a controller that is operatively connected to the at least one sensor, a level of one of the operator workload or operator stress level. The method also includes adjusting, using a controller that is operatively connected to the control computer, the operator workload when the level of one of the operator workload or operator stress level exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Limited
    Inventor: Stefan Alexander Schwindt
  • Patent number: 11928971
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of data sets, where each data set of the plurality of data sets includes multivariate time series data for a respective sample period of a plurality of sample periods. The method also includes, for each data set of the plurality of data sets, determining recurrence data indicative of recurrent states in the data set and determining, based on the recurrence data, determinism values of a determinism metric and laminarity values of a laminarity metric. The method further includes determining that a particular data set of the plurality of data sets includes data representing an anomalous state based on a determinism-laminarity curve representing the particular data set, where the determinism-laminarity curve is based on the determinism values of the particular data set and the laminarity values of the particular data set. The method also includes generating output data indicating the anomalous state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Nigel Stepp, Tsai-Ching Lu, Franz David Betz
  • Patent number: 11928972
    Abstract: A method may include detecting, during a flight of an aircraft system, a conflict with a planned route of the aircraft system, determining one or more alternate routes for the aircraft system to avoid the conflict, wherein each of the one or more alternate routes avoid secondary conflicts with active flight operations, transmitting first data to cause first visual information indicating the conflict and second visual information indicating the one or more alternate routes to be displayed to a user, receiving second data indicating one of the one or more alternate routes being selected by the user, and updating the planned route of the aircraft system to include the alternate route selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Szabolcs A. Borgyos
  • Patent number: 11928973
    Abstract: A flight system includes an aerial vehicle having a sensor and capable of flying unmanned. The flight system estimates a condition of dust in an area of a scheduled destination, on the basis of sensing data obtained by observing, with the sensor, the area from a flight position of the aerial vehicle. Then, the flight system controls the aerial vehicle on the basis of the estimation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Tazume
  • Patent number: 11928974
    Abstract: An unmanned aircraft includes: a sensor that includes at least a microphone that generates sound data; and a processor. The processor determines quality of a target sound using the sound data generated by the microphone, obtains a positional relationship between the unmanned aircraft and a sound source of the target sound using data generated by the sensor, and controls movement of the unmanned aircraft to control a distance between the unmanned aircraft and the sound source of the target sound, in accordance with the quality of the target sound and the positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Stephen William John, Kazunobu Konishi, Katsuhiko Asai, Kazuo Inoue, Shunsuke Kuhara
  • Patent number: 11928975
    Abstract: Methods and systems for servicing distributed generators are provided herein. For example, a system for servicing distributed generators comprises a distributed generator comprising a plurality of components, a controller communicatively connected to the plurality of components, and an unmanned aerial vehicle communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of components or the controller for at least one of transmitting and receiving data relating to the plurality of components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Enphase Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikas Kumar Singh, Saminathan Sangameswaran
  • Patent number: 11928976
    Abstract: A system having components coupled to an aircraft in operation processes sensor-derived data, performs a localization cross-checking procedure, and dynamically generates updated analyses of the position and orientation of the aircraft. Based on the updated analyses, the system can generate instructions for flight control of the aircraft and can update flight control instructions as new data is received and processed. The system functions to reduce the “worst-case” bounds on a localization estimate for the aircraft to a low enough level that is appropriate for completing a flight operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Reliable Robotics Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Sherback, Robert W. Rose, Matthew T. Nehrenz, John P. Couluris
  • Patent number: 11928977
    Abstract: A system for assisting in the landing of an aircraft including a processing unit configured to: during a first phase of a landing runway approach procedure, when the aircraft flies above a predetermined height with respect to a landing runway threshold, determine a bias of position and speed information from an inertia unit of the aircraft, as a function of the merged position and speed information determined as a function of information from a receiver of ILS guidance signals and of information from a signal receiver of a satellite navigation system, then, during a second phase of the approach procedure, when the aircraft flies below the predetermined height, determine so-called adjusted aircraft position and speed information by applying, to information from the inertial unit, a correction corresponding to the bias determined during the first phase of the approach procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Nicolas Marconnet
  • Patent number: 11928978
    Abstract: A method includes receiving geospatial data representative of a plurality of geospatial objects of an airport taxi system, the plurality of geospatial objects including a first geospatial object and a second geospatial object, wherein first geospatial data is representative of the first geospatial object and second geospatial data is representative of the second geospatial object. The method also includes determining a routing relationship between the first geospatial object and the second geospatial object based at least on the first geospatial data and the second geospatial data, wherein the routing relationship indicates that an aircraft using the airport taxi system can pass from the first geospatial object to the second geospatial object. The method also includes generating spatial relationship data describing the routing relationship, wherein generating the spatial relationship data comprises generating data describing nodes or edges of a node-edge network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Albert, David Fundter
  • Patent number: 11928979
    Abstract: A device for avoiding a potential conflict detected in a predetermined trajectory prediction horizon between a first trajectory of a first ship or aircraft and a second trajectory of a second ship or aircraft is disclosed. Each trajectory includes a plurality of segments formed between multiple navigation points. The device includes a determination unit for determining at least one lateral peripheral envelope of the first trajectory, a division unit for dividing the lateral peripheral envelope into a plurality of juxtaposed sections arranged longitudinally the ones after the others and delimited by transition lines marking the change between sections, each transition line cutting, at a first point of intersection, a segment of the first trajectory and, at a second point of intersection, and an edge of the lateral peripheral envelope, a discretisation unit, and a computing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventor: Philippe Reinquin
  • Patent number: 11928980
    Abstract: A heavy-duty interactive (HDi) system may include a heavy-duty vehicle; a work tool installed on the heavy-duty vehicle; a memory that stores a plurality of patterns representing operation events for the heavy-duty vehicle; a first sensor affixed to the heavy-duty vehicle that collects first sensor data as the heavy-duty vehicle is operated; a second sensor affixed to the work tool that collects second sensor data as the work tool is operated; and a controller operatively coupled to the first sensor, the second sensor, and the memory. The controller may be configured to identify a heavy-duty vehicle operation event by comparing at least one of the first sensor data and the second sensor data with the plurality of patterns in the memory, and associate the work tool with the heavy-duty vehicle based on a comparison of the first sensor data and the second sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Brian B. Steketee, David W. Baarman, Mark Strayer, Thad Senti
  • Patent number: 11928981
    Abstract: A seeing device and process that enables a visually impaired user to “see” using touch. It comprises: Sensors/cameras worn approximately at eye level, a microprocessor, and a garment that contains small tactile elements in a matrix that vibrate in a pattern related to the location of objects in front of the user. The cameras take pictures of the area and then map the depth and position of objects. This map is translated onto a person's skin through the garment with tactile elements with each tactile element corresponding to a zone in real space. Some of the tactile elements will trigger sequentially in a snaking pattern with only certain ones activating in a pattern. This will help the person sense where there are objects in his/her path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Fan, Alaa Shamandy, Spandana Chintapalli
  • Patent number: 11928982
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an interaction system, method and device. The interaction system includes an electroencephalogram electrode array that determines a position of a sound source and invoking the electroencephalogram electrode corresponding to the position of the sound source to output a touch signal to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11928983
    Abstract: An artificial eye assembly (100) comprising: —an anterior layer (50) comprising an anterior cavity (52); —a flow constricting (40) layer comprising a first aperture (42), and wherein the first aperture (42) is in fluid communication with the anterior cavity (52); —a shaping layer (30) comprising a second aperture and a shaping structure (32), wherein the shaping structure (32) is located within, partially within, or outside of the second aperture, and wherein the shaping structure comprises (32) one or more webs (33), the webs (33) connecting the structure (32) to the rest of the shaping layer (30), and wherein the second aperture is in fluid communication with the first aperture (42); —a flow resistive layer (20) comprising pores, and wherein pores of the layer are in fluid communication with the second aperture; —a posterior layer (10) comprising a posterior cavity (12), and wherein the posterior cavity (12) is in fluid communication with pores of the flow resistive layer (20); —a fluid inlet (13) located i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Optceutics Limited
    Inventors: Sahar Awwad, Yann Bouremel, Nkiruka Ibeanu, Stephen James Brocchini, Peng Tee Khaw
  • Patent number: 11928984
    Abstract: Techniques described herein provide intelligent context-based testing. One or more implementations receive an image that includes content. In turn, some implementations process the image to extract test information from the content, such as questions, answers, learning material, and so forth. By analyzing the test information, various implementations determine one or more characteristics associated with the test information, and dynamically generate new test information based on the determined one or more characteristics. As one example, some implementations obtain new content by searching for content that includes the one or more characteristics and generate new test information based on the new content and the extracted test information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Thinkster Learning Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Panuganty, Swapna Panuganty, Rajesh Ananth Elayavalli, Srikanth Ryali, Nikhil Ravindra Acharya
  • Patent number: 11928985
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: predicting an exhibited sentiment of a certain user on being presented one or more candidate education segment, wherein the predicting is in dependence on historical sentiment parameter values of one or more user on being exposed to presented educational content, the historical sentiment parameter values being stored in a data repository, wherein the presented education segments comprise digital media content adapted for playing by a digital media player; selecting at least one of the one or more candidate education segment in dependence on a result of the predicting so that a selected at least one of the one or more candidate education resulting from the selecting is personalized for the certain user; and presenting to the certain user the selected at least one of the one or more candidate education segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Geetha Karna, Sreekanth L. Kakaraparthy, Kuntal Dey
  • Patent number: 11928986
    Abstract: Content conversion verification, includes: converting, at a first computer system, an original content file to a target format, generating a converted content file in the target format; generating a checksum for the converted content file; and sending the original content file and the checksum to a second computer system. Key words include content verification and checksum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Takashima, Spencer Stephens
  • Patent number: 11928987
    Abstract: A commodity sales data processing apparatus includes an image processor and a controller. The image processor captures an image including a symbol. The symbol includes discount information relating to a discount on a price of a commodity. The controller acquires commodity information that uniquely specifies the commodity. The controller extracts a region from the image captured by the camera. The region includes the symbol. The controller transmits, to a server, an image of the region extracted by the controller. The controller acquires, from the server, the discount information based on the image transmitted to the server. The controller registers the commodity information acquired by the controller and a discounted price of the commodity based on the discount information acquired by the controller in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahide Kubota
  • Patent number: 11928988
    Abstract: A plurality of display panels having a curved surface are placed in a limited space. Two, or three or more display panels are combined to form one display region having a T-shaped outer edge as one screen, and a driver can curve part of the display panel as appropriate so that the driver can see the screen easily. A first display panel or a second display panel has flexibility and includes a position adjustment function of curving an end portion. That is, by curving part of the display panel, the user can see the display panel easily. The in-car design can also be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Tsukamoto, Daiki Nakamura, Daisuke Furumatsu, Kazuhiko Fujita, Kyoichi Mukao, Junya Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11928989
    Abstract: A rollable display device includes a flexible display panel, a storage unit provided at one end side of the flexible display panel, a support bar provided at the other end side of the flexible display panel, a plurality of glass substrates aligned side by side in a direction intersecting a winding direction of the flexible display panel, and a cover layer formed to cover the glass substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11928990
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display system includes a transparent screen that is capable of switching a light scattering degree, a projector, and a controller that controls interlocking driving of the projector and the screen. The controller drives the screen and controls a light scattering degree of at least part of an area, of the screen, in which the image is projected during a period in which the projector is driven and an image is projected on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Aoki, Kentaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 11928991
    Abstract: A viewing device comprising a controller, a transparent display and a visual shutter. The controller is configured to determine a color of virtual content to be displayed; determine a background color contrasting the virtual content displayed; determine a display area corresponding to where the virtual content is to be displayed; cause the visual shutter to enable a background to the virtual content to be displayed, the background having the contrasting background color thereby providing a contrasting background to the displayed virtual content (DVC); and to cause the transparent display to display virtual content for overlapping at least one visual object (VO) perceivable through the transparent display at least partially onto the background. The visual shutter is configured to enable the background by operating in a mode wherein at least a portion of the visual shutter is blocked to obstruct the VO in the blocked portion of the visual shutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Alexander Hunt
  • Patent number: 11928992
    Abstract: A system for calibrating a display for a vehicle includes a reference calibration system including a reference windscreen and a reference transparent windscreen display (TWD) projector including a reference TWD camera. The reference calibration system also includes a reference camera and a reference controller in electrical communication with the reference TWD projector and the reference camera. The reference controller is programmed to project a reference graphic on the reference windscreen using the reference TWD projector. The reference controller is further programmed to capture a first reference image of the reference graphic using the reference camera. The reference controller is further programmed to calculate at least one reference calibration matrix based at least in part on the first reference image of the reference graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Seder, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss, Manoj Sharma
  • Patent number: 11928993
    Abstract: A display device and a display method therefor. The display device includes: a display panel (10), including a base substrate (101) and a plurality of pixel islands (102) located on the base substrate (101), each of the pixel islands (102) including a plurality of sub-pixels (p) arranged in a first direction (x) and a second direction (y), in the pixel island (102), a row of sub-pixels (p) arranged in the first direction (x) having the same color, and a row of sub-pixels (p) arranged in the second direction (y) having mutually different colors; and a light splitting device (20) located at a display surface side of the display panel (10) and configured to deflect part of light emitted by the display panel (10) to a first region, and deflect the other part of light to a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunmiao Zhou, Kuanjun Peng, Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 11928994
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area disposed near the display area, a plurality of pixels disposed in the display area, a plurality of signal lines disposed on the substrate and connected to the pixels, and a pad portion disposed in the non-display area and including a plurality of pads. The signal lines include a first crack detecting line connected to a first test voltage pad and a first pad at a first node, connected to a second pad at a second node, and extending around the non-display area between the first node and the second node, as well as a first data line including a first end connected to a first transistor connected to the first crack detecting line at the second node, and a second end connected to corresponding pixels from among the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Sae Lee, Ji-Hyun Ka, Won Kyu Kwak, Hwa Young Song, Ki Myeong Eom
  • Patent number: 11928995
    Abstract: A display test apparatus includes a measuring apparatus and a calculating device connected to the measuring apparatus. The measuring apparatus provides a sample pixel value to a first display device including a first display panel, measures a first color coordinate value of an image displayed by the first display panel in response to the sample pixel value. The calculating device generates a first parameter of the first display panel in response to the first color coordinate value, generates a target color coordinate value in response to the sample pixel value, and generates a first mapping table in response to the first color coordinate value, the first parameter and the target color coordinate value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo Hyuk Yum, Deok Soo Park, Byoung-Ju Song
  • Patent number: 11928996
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus, a drive chip, and an electronic device. When determining that a disconnected signal line (DL) exists, a drive chip sends a control signal to a signal line repair module, so that shift output ends (OUT) of a plurality of shift units sequentially output enable signals, and the shift unit corresponding to a connection switch electrically connected to the disconnected signal line (DL) continuously outputs enable signals, so that the connection switch electrically connected to the disconnected signal line (DL) is continuously turned on. The display apparatus may repair a disconnected signal line without being returned to a factory and a manual operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pengming Chen, Jide Liang, Ruiliang Li, Feng Zhang, Jiandong Deng, Muyao Li
  • Patent number: 11928997
    Abstract: An electronic device may comprise a flexible display, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to control the display to: display an execution screen of a first application in a first area of the display in a first position state, expand the display to include the first area and a second area, in response to a switch from the first position state to a second position state, display, in the second area, at least one object representing an executable application based on application attribute information, based on the display being expanded, and display, on the expanded display, the execution screen of the first application together with an execution screen of an application corresponding to the selected object, in response to selection of any one of the at least one object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinkyo Chung, Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11928998
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first partial panel region and a second partial panel region, and a panel driver which drives the display panel. The panel driver determines a first driving frequency for the first partial panel region and a second driving frequency for the second partial panel region. In a case where the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency are different from each other, the panel driver sets a boundary portion including a boundary between the first partial panel region and the second partial panel region, and determines a third driving frequency for the boundary portion to be between the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangan Kwon, Soon-Dong Kim, Taehoon Kim, Hui Nam, Eun Sil Yun, Changnoh Yoon
  • Patent number: 11928999
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device and a method of driving the same, and more specifically, to a display device for preventing a user from recognizing a change in luminance when a frame frequency is changed, and a method of driving the same. A display device of the present disclosure includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel regions, a gate driver configured to sequentially supply light emission control signals to horizontal lines of the display panel, a data driver configured to supply a data signal corrected by a source voltage to the display panel, and a dimming controller configured to control whether to gradually change a frame frequency and gamma correction data according to a duty ratio of the light emission control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Seok Song, Su-Bin Park, Sung-Chang Park, Kyeong-Min Moon
  • Patent number: 11929000
    Abstract: The display system comprising a main control module and a display module is provided. The main control module comprises a display driving circuit and a timing control circuit. The display driving circuit is used to output a display driving signal. The timing control circuit is coupled to the display driving circuit to receive the display driving signal, and convert the display driving signal into a digital signal. The display module comprises a first display panel to an N-th display panel, coupled to the timing control circuit and receiving the digital signal, so as to display corresponding multimedia content according to the digital signal, wherein N is a positive integer greater than 1, and the main control module is independently coupled to the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AUO Display Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng-Kai Hsu, Hung-Min Shih, Yung-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 11929001
    Abstract: A method and a device are provided. The device includes a light-measuring sensor, a display, a memory, and at least one processor operatively connected to the light-measuring sensor, the display, and the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to analyze the frequency of an external light source, obtain an operation period of the display, obtain a ratio of an off period of time of the display on the basis of the operation period, and calculate illuminance by using different algorithms on the basis of the relationship between the frequency of the external light source and the operation period and the ratio of the off period of time of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongah Kim, Kyusung Kim, Jeongho Cho, Heewoong Yoon, Kihyuk Lee, Donghan Lee, Gwangho Choi
  • Patent number: 11929002
    Abstract: A method of calculating a gamma-value for a display panel includes displaying a first color test image having a first target gray-level and then measuring a first luminance-value implemented by at least one first color-pixel included in a jth display-area, displaying a second color test image having the first target gray-level and then measuring a second luminance-value implemented by at least one second color-pixel included in the jth display-area, deriving an estimated driving current flowing in the second color-pixel at the first target gray-level based on RGB gray level-driving current curves, deriving a second target gray-level when the estimated driving current flows in the first color-pixel based on the RGB gray level-driving current curves, and calculating a target gamma-value to be applied to the first color-pixel included in the jth display-area based on the first target gray-level, the second target gray-level, the first luminance-value, and the second luminance-value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongwon Moon, Sungyoon Jo, Naoaki Komiya, Sang-Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 11929003
    Abstract: A display device including: a display panel including first and second display areas; and a panel driver, second reference units in the second display area, each of the second reference units includes n first color light emitting elements and m second color light emitting elements, m is greater than n, the panel driver includes: an image analyzing part determining whether an image displayed in the second display area includes a pattern; and a data processing part rendering n first color image data corresponding to the n first color light emitting elements to generate first color compensation data and rendering m second color image data corresponding to the m second color light emitting elements in first or second rendering operations selected according to whether the image displayed in the second display area includes the first pattern to generate second color compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Jae Lee