Patents Issued in April 9, 2024
  • Patent number: 11954266
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for interacting with a virtual world, a host, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: determining a hand gesture and accordingly determining an indicator in the virtual world; in response to determining that the hand gesture is a pinch gesture, performing a specific function corresponding to a position indicated by the indicator in the virtual world or a specific object indicated by the indicator in the virtual world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Pei Sun
  • Patent number: 11954267
    Abstract: One example of an internet protocol (IP) keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) device includes a universal serial bus, a display port, a network port, and a processor. The USB port is to be communicatively coupled to a host device. The display port is to be communicatively coupled to the host device. The network port is to be communicatively coupled to a network. The processor is communicatively coupled to the USB port, the display port, and the network port. The processor is to receive, via the display port, a multi-stream transport (MST) DisplayPort signal; demux the MST DisplayPort signal to provide a plurality of individual video streams; and output, via the network port, each individual video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric John Gressman, Douglas A Reynolds, Peter Andrew Seiler, Byron A Alcorn, Gregory Mark Hughes, J. Michael Stahl, Patrick S Anderson, Joseph-Jonathan Salzano
  • Patent number: 11954268
    Abstract: Eyewear configured to identify movements of a remote physical object to provide a 3D painting interactive augmented reality experience. In an example, the eyewear uses the identified movements of the remote physical object as a virtual brush to create a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object on an eyewear display. The eyewear determines positional information of the remote physical object. The eyewear uses the positional information and responsively displays and edits the virtual object as a function of the relative 3D positioning of the remote physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Daniel Moreno
  • Patent number: 11954269
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable a configuration of a head mounted display (HMD) to be simplified. There is provided a generation unit configured to generate: first location data regarding a location of self with respect to a real space; second location data regarding a location of another device with respect to self; and third location data regarding a location of the another device with respect to the real space on the basis of the first location data and the second location data. On the basis of the third location data, image data of an image localized in the real space and to be displayed by the another device is generated. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus that supplies location data representing a location of an HMD to the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nozomu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11954270
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including an inner space, a hole formed through the housing to the internal space, a stylus pen insertable into the internal space through the hole, wherein the stylus pen includes a first wireless communication circuit and a wireless charging receiver circuit, a wireless charging transmitter circuit positioned inside the housing and configured to provide charging to the wireless charging receiver circuit when the stylus pen is inserted into the inner space, a second wireless communication circuit positioned inside the housing, at processor operatively connected to the wireless charging transmitter circuit and the second wireless communication circuit, and at least one memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein when executed, cause the processor to detect whether the stylus pen is inserted into the inner space, and start to provide charging for a first duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byunghoon Kang, Joohoon Lee, Changbyung Park, Jongwu Baek, Hyunsuk Choi
  • Patent number: 11954271
    Abstract: An active stylus and a method performed by the active stylus are provided. The active stylus includes a touch sensor inside. The touch sensor is arranged corresponding to a preset pen-holding region on an outer surface. The touch sensor is insulated from the pen body, when an external operating subject touches the preset pen-holding region and touches a touch panel, an uplink signal transmitted by the touch panel is coupled to the pen body via the external operating subject, as an uplink interference signal. The signal processing unit is for: generating a compensation signal; obtaining a compensated interference signal generated based on the compensation signal and the uplink interference signal; generating an uplink signal to be processed based on the received uplink signal and the compensated interference signal; and obtaining uplink information based on the uplink signal to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Weijen Chang, Chin-Lin Lee
  • Patent number: 11954272
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first display, a touch sensor on a screen of the first display detects a position of an object on the screen and detects approach of a pen within a distance above the screen, a pen input processing acquires a position of the pen on the screen by switching between a first input mode for displaying a movement locus of the pen on the screen based on the position of the pen and a second input mode for making a second display sets to a specific arrangement relation with the first display displays the movement locus of the pen and an input switch processing which switches between the first input mode and the second input mode alternately in accordance with a movement of the pen performed in a non-contact state based on the specific arrangement relation after detection of the pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11954273
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for the management of glucose levels in the body of patient featuring user interface input mechanisms configured to provide haptic feedback to the user are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.
    Inventor: Erwin S. Budiman
  • Patent number: 11954274
    Abstract: A printing device includes a panel unit including: a display panel; a capacitive touch sensor in which a position detection sensor and a cover glass are laminated and which includes a first side and a second side facing each other; a panel circuit board; a flexible wiring board, a display circuit board including a display section, a switch circuit board including a switch, and a panel housing, the capacitive touch sensor in the second attachment state is disposed so that the first side is lower than the second side, the flexible wiring board is curved between the display circuit board and the switch circuit board to couple the capacitive touch sensor and the panel circuit board to each other, and the display circuit board is coupled to the main circuit board via the panel circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Toru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11954275
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. By providing a winding structure with a hollow part on an electrode trace of a touch function layer, a parasitic capacitance between the touch function layer and a cathode layer at a pillar can be reduced. Furthermore, an overall consistency of the parasitic capacitance between the touch function layer and the cathode layer is balanced, noise caused by imbalance of the parasitic capacitance is avoided, and an overall touch report rate and sensitivity are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Ye
  • Patent number: 11954276
    Abstract: A touch panel including an oxide semiconductor film having conductivity is provided. The touch panel includes a transistor, a second insulating film, and a touch sensor. The transistor includes a gate electrode; a gate insulating film; a first oxide semiconductor film; a source electrode and a drain electrode; a first insulating film; and a second oxide semiconductor film. The second insulating film is over the second oxide semiconductor film so that the second oxide semiconductor film is positioned between the first insulating film and the second insulating film. The touch sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode. One of the first and second electrodes includes the second oxide semiconductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hajime Kimura, Masami Jintyou, Yasuharu Hosaka, Naoto Goto, Takahiro Iguchi, Daisuke Kurosaki, Junichi Koezuka
  • Patent number: 11954277
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. In a display region configured to display an image, the display panel includes a base substrate; thin film transistors and display elements on the base substrate; an encapsulating layer encapsulating the display elements; and a touch electrode layer including mesh electrodes on a side of the encapsulating layer away from the base substrate. The encapsulating layer includes at least an organic encapsulating sub-layer having a first thickness in at least a sub-region of the transition region, and a second thickness in the display region, the first thickness being smaller than the second thickness. Mesh electrode lines of the mesh electrodes have a first line width in at least the sub-region of the transition region, and a second line width in the display region, the first line width being greater than the second line width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Mianyang BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Ruan, Lang Min, Guofeng Jia, Peng He, Shichao Ma, Chongxi Wei, Kemeng Tong
  • Patent number: 11954278
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and an electronic device. A functional region and a transition region of the display panel are located between two adjacent touch electrodes, each touch electrode is electrically connected to a first signal transmission line, first signal shielding lines are disposed between the first signal transmission lines of a same touch electrode group and the touch electrodes of an adjacent touch electrode group, and a part of the first signal shielding line is located in the transition region, so as to alleviate a problem of poor touch performance of an existing out-cut screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Fang, Ding Ding
  • Patent number: 11954279
    Abstract: A solid-state switch for an external system includes a cover member, a first solid-state transducer, a second transducer, a microcontroller, a user feedback device, and a switching circuit. The first transducer is mechanically coupled to the cover member and configured to generate first signals in response to a perturbation at the cover member. The second transducer is configured to generate second signals in response to the perturbation. The microcontroller is configured to obtain first data from the first signals, second data from the second signals, and determine user inputs in accordance with at least the first data, the second data, and an operational state of the solid-state switch. The user feedback device is configured to provide feedback to a user of the switch in accordance with a switching behavior of the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: UltraSense Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Jonathan Wright, Hao-Yen Tang, Chien-Te Lee, Mo Maghsoudnia
  • Patent number: 11954282
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to methods and computing devices for determining a distance of an input device from a surface of a computing device. In one example, a method comprises receiving a plurality of input device signals via the input device. A portion of the input device signals are used to determine an effective voltage of the input device. Adjusted input device signals are generated by adjusting another portion of input device signals using the effective voltage of the input device. The method further comprises providing the adjusted input device signals as an input to a distance model, and receiving and outputting the distance of the input device from the surface of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Igor Grebnev, Jonathan Westhues
  • Patent number: 11954283
    Abstract: A sensor array (10) comprising a plurality of touch sensitive pixels, each pixel (12) comprising a capacitive sensing electrode (14) and a reference capacitor (16) connected in series with the capacitive sensing electrode (14) to provide an indicator voltage that is indicative of the proximity of a conductive object to be sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOUCH BIOMETRIX LIMITED
    Inventors: Henricus Derckx, Wilhelmus Van Lier, Michael A Cowin
  • Patent number: 11954284
    Abstract: Provided is a position detection circuit that uses a touch sensor of a capacitance type including sensor electrodes to detect a first position indicated by a first indicator that communicates with the touch sensor to indicate the first position and a second position indicated by a second indicator that indicates the second position without communicating with the touch sensor, the position detection circuit including a first detection circuit that detects a touch of the second indicator to an input surface arranged on the touch sensor, a second detection circuit that detects the first indicator when proximity information indicating a proximity of the first indicator to the touch sensor is equal to or greater than a threshold, and a changing circuit that changes the threshold to a larger value when the first detection circuit detects the touch compared to when the first detection circuit does not detect the touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Nomura
  • Patent number: 11954285
    Abstract: One variation of a method for detecting an input at a touch sensor—including a force-sensitive layer exhibiting variations in local resistance responsive to local variations in applied force on a touch sensor surface and a set of drive and sense electrodes—includes: driving a drive electrode with a drive signal; reading a sense signal from a sense electrode; detecting a alternating-current component and a direct-current component of the sense signal; in response to a magnitude of the direct-current component of the sense signal falling below a threshold magnitude, detecting an input on the touch sensor surface during the scan cycle based on the alternating-current component of the sense signal; and, in response to the magnitude of the direct-current component of the sense signal exceeding the threshold magnitude, detecting the input on the touch sensor surface during the scan cycle based on the direct-current component of the sense signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sensel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, John Aaron Zarraga, Vijay Rajanna, Tomer Moscovich
  • Patent number: 11954286
    Abstract: Techniques are described for low-noise self-capacitor sensing in a capacitive touch panel array integrated with a display panel. Each channel of the array has a self-capacitance (Ci) that changes responsive to presence or absence of a local touch event local. Each channel is read by an analog front-end (AFE) by using a locally noise-suppressed discharge current for a discrete discharge time to discharge Ci to obtain a discharge voltage level that differs with presence or absence of the local touch event, and outputting a voltage output for the channel based on the discharge voltage level by passively mixing at least the discharge voltage level to produce a pair of up-converted channel signals, sampling the pair of up-converted channel signals to obtain a differential voltage sample, and amplifying the differential voltage sample to generate the Vout as indicating absence or presence of the touch event local to the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Yang, Dazhi Wei
  • Patent number: 11954287
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using a multi-branch AC-mode bridge approach with global current rotation for self-capacitor sensing in a capacitive touch panel, such as integrated into a display of a touchscreen electronic device. K channels are coupled with K branches of a multi-branch AC-mode bridge to form K?1 pairs of channels for concurrent differential readout. K nominally identical sinusoidal input currents are generated based on an error signal, which is generated based on comparing a sinusoidal driver signal with feedback from one or more of the K branches. A unit current rotator rotates the K sinusoidal input currents to each of the branches, so that each branch current is formed by a rotating contribution from each of the sinusoidal input currents. Driving each branch with its branch current manifests a respective branch voltage, and differences between the branch voltages can be used to differentially sense pairs of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Yang, Mohamed Elsayed, Dazhi Wei
  • Patent number: 11954288
    Abstract: In some examples, touch data can include noise. Machine learning techniques, such as gated recurrent units and convolutional neural networks can be used to mitigate noise present in touch data. In some examples, a gated recurrent unit stage and a convolutional neural network stage can be arranged in series, such as by providing the output of the gated recurrent unit as input to the convolutional neural network. The gated recurrent unit can remove noise caused by a first component of the electronic device and the convolutional neural network can remove noise caused by a second component of the electronic device, for example. Thus, together, the gated recurrent unit and the convolutional neural network can remove or substantially reduce the noise in the touch data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lichen Wang, Behrooz Shahsavari, Hojjat Seyed Mousavi, Nima Ferdosi, Baboo V. Gowreesunker
  • Patent number: 11954289
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing multimedia data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In an embodiment, a wearable multimedia device projects a virtual interface (VI) on a surface using a laser projector. The VI includes a first user interface element and a second user interface element partially overlapping the first user interface element. The device detects, based on sensor data from at least one of a camera or a depth sensor of the wearable multimedia device, that a user has positioned a finger in proximity with the first user interface element. In response, the device modifies a visual characteristic of at least one of the first user interface element or the second user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Humane, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Luke Kocienda, Imran A. Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11954290
    Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program capable of accurately and simply controlling a movement sensitivity of an index displayed on a finder monitor to a sensitivity desired by a user by using a touch panel installed on a rear monitor. The imaging apparatus (10) has a finder that includes the finder monitor (13), the touch panel (31) that receives a swipe operation for moving the index, and an image processing unit (24). The image processing unit (24) includes a sensitivity setting unit that sets a first sensitivity for coarsely moving the index by the swipe operation or a second sensitivity for finely moving the index by detecting a contact operation to the touch panel in the swipe operation, and a movement control unit that moves the index on the basis of the swipe operation on the touch panel and the sensitivity set by the sensitivity setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Sugihara, Masaru Kobayashi, Kazuki Ishida, Masahiko Miyata
  • Patent number: 11954291
    Abstract: A touch panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. An insulation layer (4) positioned between a substrate (1) and a polarizer (3) is configured to comprise a silicon nitride layer (41) and a barrier layer (42) positioned at one side of the silicon nitride layer (41) away from the substrate (1). The barrier layer (42) can serve as a covering layer that stops an ammonia gas escaped from the silicon nitride layer (41) from moving to the polarizer (3) so as to prevent fading of the polarizer. The insulation layer (4) is configured to comprise two thin layers, namely a silicon nitride layer (41) and a barrier layer (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lingfei Wang, Tianlong Zhao, Dawei Shi
  • Patent number: 11954292
    Abstract: An input device includes a fixed electrode, first and second movable electrodes, a first elastic member having a portion and being configured to deform so as to displace the portion of the first elastic member in accordance with a movement of the first movable electrode, a second elastic member having a portion and being configured to deform so as to displace the portion of the second elastic member in accordance with a movement of the second movable electrode, and a terminal configured to output a signal corresponding to a change in a capacitance between the first and second movable electrodes. The input device is responsible to various manipulations while not preventing a click feeling from being generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Saito, Masaaki Yamabayashi, Kenichi Matsumoto, Ryo Nakae
  • Patent number: 11954293
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a touch panel including a plurality of electrodes and a touch driver. The touch panel includes first electrodes extending in a first direction and second electrodes extending in a second direction and overlapping the first electrodes. The touch driver is configured to drive the touch panel in a normal mode and a biometric information measurement mode. The touch driver is configured to sequentially apply a transmission signal to the first electrodes by shifting the transmission signal at each group of N electrodes (where N is a positive integer) in the normal mode, and to sequentially apply the transmission signal to the first electrodes by shifting the transmission signal at each group of Q electrodes (where Q is a positive integer greater than N) in the biometric information measurement mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soongyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11954294
    Abstract: A touch substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a touch display device and a control method therefor. The touch substrate comprises a base substrate and a touch electrode structure. The touch substrate comprises a bendable region, and a first non-bendable region and a second non-bendable region adjacent to the bendable region. The touch electrode structure comprises a first touch electrode structure located in the first non-bendable region, and a second touch electrode structure located in the second non-bendable region. The first touch electrode structure comprises a plurality of first transmitter electrode groups and a plurality of first receiver electrode groups. The second touch electrode structure comprises a plurality of second transmitter electrode groups and a plurality of second receiver electrode groups. The bendable region comprises at least a first receiver electrode and a second receiver electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yao Hu
  • Patent number: 11954295
    Abstract: A touch panel, a display panel, and a display device. The touch panel includes: a substrate; an electrode layer disposed on the substrate. The electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes and a plurality of first electrodes arranged to intersect with the second electrodes; and an insulating layer. The second electrodes and the first electrodes are insulated by the insulating layer, and the insulating layer includes an inorganic material layer and an organic material layer. The inorganic material layer is provided with openings at least corresponding to intersections of the second electrodes and the first electrodes, and a part of the organic material layer fills in the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hefei Visionox Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Binbin Yuan, Qi Zhou, Jiaoyang Li
  • Patent number: 11954296
    Abstract: A flexible capacitive tactile sensor is provided. The flexible capacitive tactile sensor may include a first flexible electrode layer, a second flexible electrode layer, and an ion gel thin film dielectric layer disposed between the first flexible electrode layer and the second flexible electrode layer. A first electrode array is disposed on the first flexible electrode layer. The first electrode array may include m series-connected electrodes parallel to a second direction. A second electrode array is disposed on the second flexible electrode layer. The second electrode array may include n series-connected electrodes parallel to a first direction. The first electrode array and the second electrode array may be disposed opposite to each other, and the first direction may be different from the second direction. The first electrode array, the second electrode array, and the ion gel thin film dielectric layer may form mƗn electric double layer capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuan Dai, Peng Lu, Zhengyou Zhang, Chuanfei Guo
  • Patent number: 11954297
    Abstract: A digitizer includes a base layer including first and second non-folding areas and a folding area disposed between the first and second non-folding areas and foldable with respect to a folding axis extending in a first direction and a plurality of coils disposed on the base layer and including a first coil and a second coil closest to the first coil. Each of the first coil and the second coil includes a coil portion defining an open loop and a line portion extending from the coil portion. The coil portion or the line portion overlaps the folding area, and a distance between the coil portion of the first coil and the coil portion of the second coil or a distance between the line portion of the first coil and the line portion of the second coil, which overlap the folding area, is equal to or greater than about 100 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Dasom Gu, Chul Ho Jeong
  • Patent number: 11954298
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus displays a main screen image including a main content, displays a sub-screen image including a sub-content of a kind different from a kind of the main content in a time period same as the main screen image, receives a switchover manipulation from a mode in which a manipulation for the main screen image is received over to a mode in which a manipulation for the sub-screen image is received, and displays the sub-screen image in an emphasized manner when a switchover to the mode in which the manipulation for the sub-screen image is received is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Suki
  • Patent number: 11954299
    Abstract: A dynamic-state recording apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an input device configured to be operated by a user; a display; display control means for displaying, on the display, a dynamic-state recording screen containing a plurality of report items required to be reported at a disaster site; and first storage means in which, each time the user selects a next report item to be reported among the plurality of report items through the input device, the selected report item and a report date and time of the selected report item are accumulated in a state in which the report item and the report date and time are associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Honoka Kajihara
  • Patent number: 11954300
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a comparative modeling system is configured to receive selections of a data set, a transform scheme, and one or more machine-learning algorithms. In response to a selection of the one or more machine-learning algorithms, the comparative modeling system determines parameters within the one or more machine-learning algorithms. The comparative modeling system generates a plurality of models for the one or more machine-learning algorithms, determines comparison metric values for the plurality of models, and causes presentation of the comparison metric values for the plurality of models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Maclean, Benjamin Duffield, Mark Elliot
  • Patent number: 11954301
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes causing a first one of a plurality of digital photographs to be displayed on a video display device. Responsive to receiving an indication that a user desires to digitally link the first digital photograph with another one of the plurality of photographs, the method includes prompting the user to select one of the plurality of digital photographs to be digitally linked to the first digital photograph. Responsive to the user selecting a second one of the plurality of digital photographs, the method includes digitally linking the first digital photograph with the second digital photograph. The method includes causing the first digital photograph to be displayed with a user-selectable flipping element. Responsive to receiving a selection of the displayed user-selectable flipping element, the method includes causing the first digital photograph to be digitally flipped such that the second digital photograph is displayed on the video display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MemoryWeb. LLC
    Inventors: Christopher J. Desmond, Nancy L. Desmond, L. Michael Taylor
  • Patent number: 11954302
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface accesses a collection of media items, organized into a hierarchy of granularity levels, each corresponding to a respective timescale. The device displays a first plurality of representations of the media items at a first granularity level, corresponding to a first timescale, and in response to a pinch gesture, replaces the display of the first plurality of representations of the media items with display of a second plurality of representations of the media items at a second granularity level that corresponds to a second timescale that is longer than the first timescale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Richard R. Dellinger, Gregory Christie, Justin S. Titi
  • Patent number: 11954303
    Abstract: The subject technology displays an application window showing first contents of a given level of a hierarchical content structure associated with an electronic device. Upon receiving a first user input, a navigation bar is displayed. The navigation bar displays a path including levels for arriving at the first contents within the hierarchical content structure. The displayed path is determined based on metadata associated with contents displayed in the application window. Responsive to a user selection of one of the items of the hierarchical content structure displayed in the navigation bar, content items displayed in the application window are changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kim Hunter, Pavel Cisler
  • Patent number: 11954304
    Abstract: When displaying a setting value selection screen for selecting a setting value of a setting item of a function associated with a selected menu button, an image forming device displays, for each setting list, a notification batch for notifying the presence or absence of a shortcut button associated with a setting list of the setting value selection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11954305
    Abstract: The present application discloses an operation method of an interactive flat panel. The method includes starting a slide play mode of the interactive flat panel, displaying a play mode interface of a slide document and an interface of an annotation application on a display screen of the interactive flat panel, wherein the interface of the annotation application is a transparent layer covering the interface of the slide document, and the play mode interface plays a first image of the slide document, and receiving, via a touch sensing device of the interactive flat panel, a touch operation on the interface of the annotation application, wherein the touch operation is a sliding operation of one or more fingers on the interface of the annotation application, and the sliding operation is a horizontal or vertical sliding action relative to a border of the interface of the annotation application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: Ruiqiang Wu, Zeming Cai
  • Patent number: 11954306
    Abstract: A system enables universal remote media control across multiple platforms, devices, and users. A protocol allows a cast controller to have access to media operations and a state(s) associated with media content. The system receives commands from a cast controller, provides the commands to a media player, loads new media content into the media player, based on the commands, and receives state notifications from the media player. Another cast controller can receive the state notifications from the media player and control the media player based on the media operations and state(s) associated with media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mark David Scott, Mark Alan Foltz, John Affaki, Majd Bakar, Francis Tsui, Jennifer Shien-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11954307
    Abstract: Visually selecting application activities can include superimposing a visual selector overlay on a page displayed on a device, the page corresponding to a foreground activity. The superimposing can be responsive to receiving user input invoking the foreground activity. Contextual information corresponding to the foreground activity can be detected. The contextual information can be presented to the user visually within the visual selector overlay. The contextual information can be automatically added to a list and the list stored electronically on the device in response to received user input. The list can be configured to contain contextual information selected from page displays corresponding to a plurality of activities relating to one or more apps stored on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deepali Vinay, Shivangi Jain Mehra, Savan Kiran
  • Patent number: 11954308
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to account recovery. An example method includes, at a computer system in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices: performing a recovery contact set up process including providing a notification to a contact; after performing the recovery contact set up process, receiving, via the one or more input devices, a request to initiate an account recovery process; in response to the request to initiate the account recovery process and without providing a request to the contact, displaying, via the display generation component, a recovery code interface for receiving a set of recovery credentials; while displaying of the recovery code interface, receiving the set of recovery credentials; in accordance with a determination that the recovery credentials are valid, performing a recovery function; and in accordance with a determination that the recovery credentials are not valid, forgoing performing the recovery function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Carmen S. Yu, David G. Knipp, Munish K. Poonia, Keetae Ryu, Hannah S. Story, Gokul P. Thirumalai
  • Patent number: 11954309
    Abstract: In implementations of systems for predicting a terminal event, a computing device implements a termination system to receive input data defining a period of time and a maximum event threshold. This system uses a classification model to generate event scores for a plurality of entity devices. Each of the event scores indicates a probability of an event occurrence for a corresponding entity device within a period of time. The plurality of entity devices are segmented into a first segment and a second segment based on an event score threshold. Entity devices included in the first segment have event scores greater than the event score threshold and entity devices included in the second segment have event scores below the event score threshold. The termination system generates an indication of a probability that a number of event occurrences for the entity devices included in the second segment exceeds the maximum even threshold within the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Doda, Gaurav Sinha, Kai Yeung Lau, Akangsha Sunil Bedmutha, Shiv Kumar Saini, Ritwik Sinha, Vaidyanathan Venkatraman, Niranjan Shivanand Kumbi, Omar Rahman, Atanu R. Sinha
  • Patent number: 11954310
    Abstract: A customized interactive computing environment may allow for a customized interactive user experience. The interactive computing environment may be defined by session parameters to customize a session of the interactive computing environment. The session parameters may include customized interactive user objectives that may be defined by a user. Each objective may be defined with a number of points awarded to a user for completing the objective. Real-time interactive user data may be received from user devices for completion of the custom objectives. Custom profile information may be defined by a user to customize user interfaces provided to users that log into a session of the interactive computing environment. Data analysis about the session and/or the defined objectives may be generated and displayed to users to indicate progress or other data about the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: James L. Moran, Stephen G. Pjura, Bradley D. Moran, Jesse T. Rendell
  • Patent number: 11954311
    Abstract: An information processing method including: displaying, based on an object file selected in a first display area, a file icon in a first sub-area of a second display area, where an application icon is displayed in a second sub-area; displaying an application interface of an object application in the first display area in response to detecting a first operation acting on the application icon; detecting a second operation acting on the file icon; and transmitting, in response to detecting the second operation, the object file to the object application to be processed by the object application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Li
  • Patent number: 11954312
    Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel having an operation surface and configured to receive a touch input and a hover input by an operation body; a display device configured to display a plurality of selection items; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to highlight a selection item, a selection of the selection item being made by the hover input from the plurality of selection items, confirm the selection of the selection item by the hover input in a case where a duration during which the selection item is selected by the hover input reaches a first predetermined threshold, and confirm a selection of the selection item by the touch input in a case where the touch input is detected on the selection item before the duration reaches the first predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Nakamura, Hiroshi Shigetaka, Hirofumi Kuga, Masahiro Takata, Yasuji Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11954313
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that provide users with efficient and effective user experiences when browsing, selecting, or inspecting content items. More specifically, systems and methods described herein provide users the ability to easily and effectively select multiple content items via a single touch gesture (e.g., swipe gesture). Additionally, systems and methods disclosed herein can allow users to select various content items in a selection interface, preview a content item, and return to the selection interface with the previous selections remaining in tact. Still further, systems and methods described herein allow users to transition between a content graphical user interface and a selection interface based on touch gestures with content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Senderek, Daniel Tobias Wagner, Leonard Fink
  • Patent number: 11954314
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request to generate a media overlay corresponding to a home of a first user, and for generating the media overlay corresponding to the home of the first user using media content received in the request. The systems and methods further provide for associating, with the media overlay, a location of the home of the first user and a selection of users to grant permission to access the media overlay corresponding to the home of the first user. The systems and methods further provide for determining whether a second user and a location corresponding to the second computing device trigger access to the media overlay and providing the media overlay to the second computing device, based on determining that the second user and location corresponding to the second computing device trigger access to the media overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Michael Barkman, Michael Cumberbatch, Zachary Lupei, Ashley Michelle Wayne, Eric Wood
  • Patent number: 11954315
    Abstract: In one aspect, a graphical user interface (GUI) for a dynamic model creation (DMC) system may be provided. The GUI may include: (i) a first display area programmed to display the at least one model including a visual representation of a determined location where a collision occurred, and/or (ii) a second display area programmed to display at least one data table corresponding to the at least one model, wherein movement of a visual representation of a vehicle on the GUI during a simulation of the at least one model is controlled at least by telematics data, and wherein the GUI is configured to receive user inputs such that the visual representations in the first display area and the at least one data table in the second display area are dynamically modifiable by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Matthew Megyese, Anna Zarkoob, Alexander Cardona
  • Patent number: 11954316
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: while presenting an object via the display device, determining an operation set associated with the object that includes a plurality of input-response pairings, wherein each input-response pairing includes an input type and an associated response; obtaining, via the one or more input devices, a user input directed to the object; and, in response to detecting the user input: mapping the user input to an input-response pairing within the operation set associated with the object; and performing an operation on the object based on the user input and the input-response pairing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Tyler Casella
  • Patent number: 11954317
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing for visualization and analysis of geospatial data are described. An example method includes automatically generating a first map comprising a plurality of layers that each comprise part of the input data, providing a graphical user interface for receiving at least one selection from the user of one or more of the plurality of layers of the first map for display and an indication that the user has zoomed in on the first map to a first area featuring a symbol corresponding to an item of interest, and automatically generating, based on bounds of the dataset, a second map showing a second area of a bounding shape selected to fit the data related to the item of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Elasticsearch B.V.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Thomas Reese, Nicholas W. Knize, Thomas Raphaƫl Gentiel Neirynck