Patents Issued in May 7, 2024
  • Patent number: 11978329
    Abstract: A method of triggering a security alert using a tracking device, including detecting motion using a motion sensor of the tracking device, determining that the detected motion meets a motion threshold, detecting one or more wireless access points in proximity to the tracking device, determining that the one or more wireless access points do not correspond to a recognized wireless access point, and in accordance with the determination that the one or more detected wireless access points do not correspond to a recognized wireless access point, triggering a security alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: 3SI Security Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Lawrence Cromer, Quang Ngoc Tran, Terry L. Hipp, Anthony Hugh Green, David Philip Aldoretta
  • Patent number: 11978330
    Abstract: A sensing system for a floating pool system for detecting and alerting a user of disturbances and detecting various levels and releasing chemicals into a liquid medium. The system comprises a controller that can comprise a wireless communication module and at least one sensor, and a receiving device can be configured to receive a signal from the wireless communication module. The controller can comprise at least one tilt sensor that is generally in an open position and closes with a waking event. The controller sends a message to the receiving device when a waking event occurs, alerting the user to a disturbance and possibly dangerous situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventors: Clint Morris, Gary Morris
  • Patent number: 11978331
    Abstract: This is an early warning method for a shallow soil landslide based on a digital topographic map, belonging to the field of landslide prevention and control engineering. It has following steps: a. connecting a straight line along an upward bulged intermediate point of a contour line of the topographic map as an intermediate line; b. determining an intermediate point; c. constituting a three-point group of a plane curvature; d. taking an arithmetic average of slopes as a slope ? of a landslide mass. The shallow soil landslide can be early warned without a lot of historical observation data of landslide occurrence, and the dangerous landslide mass can be determined in advance, which greatly improves the applicability of disaster prevention and the early warning efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventors: Bin Yu, Yangchun Li, Weiwei Deng, Lingwei Yang, Wenhong Chen
  • Patent number: 11978332
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for voice prompting, a mobile control terminal and a system for voice prompting. The method includes: receiving, by the mobile control terminal, a warning instruction transmitted by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); generating corresponding text information according to the warning instruction; converting the text information to an audio file; and playing the audio file. The mobile control terminal of the present invention provides various warning information to a user by playing an audio file, which is not a preset audio file directly stored in the mobile control terminal, but an audio file converted from text information generated by the mobile control terminal according to a warning instruction transmitted by the UAV. Therefore, there is no need to store a preset audio file in the mobile control terminal, which reduces a memory space occupied in the mobile control terminal and improves performance of the mobile control terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yinhua Feng
  • Patent number: 11978333
    Abstract: An automatic addressing system for a fire loop and a method for automatically addressing a plurality of remote units electrically connected to a fire panel in a fire loop, the method including: (1) requesting an initial identifier from each remote unit; (2) for each remote unit which responds with a unique initial identifier: (a) assigning a unique address to the remote unit; and (b) silencing the response of the configured remote unit to further identifier requests; (3) for each remote unit which responds with an initial identifier matching the initial identifier of at least one other remote unit: (a) initialising an identifier array with the initial identifier for the remote unit in question; (b) requesting a further identifier and adding it to the identifier array for the remote unit; (c) for each remote unit which responds with a unique identifier array: (i) assigning a unique address to the remote unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jordi Escofet, Andres Cordoba, Ramon De La Torre, Santiago Vilarrubla Canals
  • Patent number: 11978334
    Abstract: A system may include a vehicle. The vehicle may include an array of haptic devices. The system may further include at least one processor configured to: determine a location of an object or occurrence relative to the user; based at least on the location of the object or occurrence relative to the user, select at least one haptic device of the array of haptic devices to be driven and function as a directional haptic alert to the user, wherein the directional haptic alert is indicative of a direction from the user toward the object or occurrence; and output at least one command to cause a driving of the selected at least one haptic device, wherein the driving of the selected at least one haptic device is perceivable by the user as the directional haptic alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Arjun Harsha Rao, Timothy J. Wittkop, Christopher L George, Michael P. Matessa, Peggy Wu, Wade T. Johnson, Sarah Barber, Felix B. Turcios, Bryan C. Schultz
  • Patent number: 11978335
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a first computing device (110) and from a second computing device (118), using a short-range wireless communication unit of the first computing device (110), data including state information of the second computing device (118) and identification information for the second computing device (118). The method also includes, responsive to a distance between the first computing device (110) and the second computing device (118) satisfying a threshold distance, determining a particular template graphical user interface from a plurality of template graphical user interfaces. The method also includes determining one or more operations the second computing device (118) is configured to perform. The method further includes outputting a graphical user interface (114) associated with the remote computing device (118).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Miroslav Bojic, Rohan Dhing, Zhengnan Zhao, Michael DelGaudio, Henry Holland, Mårten Jönsson, Ding Xu, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Mikkel Crone Koser
  • Patent number: 11978336
    Abstract: A wireless control device includes a power source, one or more sensors, one or more switches, a wireless transceiver circuit, an antenna connected to the wireless transceiver circuit, and a processor communicably coupled to the power source, the one or more sensors, the one or more switches, and the wireless transceiver circuit. The processor receives a data from the one or more sensors or the one or more switches, determines a pre-defined action associated with the data that identifies one or more external devices and one or more tasks, and transmits one or more control signals via the wireless transceiver circuit and the antenna that instruct the identified external device(s) to perform the identified task(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ILUMI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Swapnil Bora, Corey Egan, Qinghui Tang
  • Patent number: 11978337
    Abstract: A thermostat and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, multiple wireless transceivers are located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a processor, memory, and a camera. To improve convenience, the thermostat may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. Virtual remote control functionality for various amenities may then be provided. To improve safety, the thermostat may be incorporated into a geolocation and safety network and, under certain conditions, the thermostat may provide a video feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Enseo, LLC
    Inventors: William C. Fang, Raymond S. Horton, Thomas R. Miller, Vanessa Ogle
  • Patent number: 11978338
    Abstract: Provided is an intersection deadlock identification method for a mixed flow of autonomous vehicles. This method considers the reality that the intersection traffic flow is composed of human driven vehicles and connected autonomous vehicles. Firstly, the two-dimensional coordinates, speed and front wheel steering angle information of all vehicles in the intersection are obtained, and the blockage graph of vehicles is constructed on the assumption that the front wheel steering angles of all vehicles are fixed. If there is no ring structure in the blockage graph, there is no deadlock; if there is a ring structure, the evasion distance propagation algorithm is used to calculate the evasion requirement distance of a vehicle in the ring. When the evasion requirement distance is greater than the permitted travelling distance of the vehicle itself, a weak traffic deadlock exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Hongsheng Qi
  • Patent number: 11978340
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to identifying vehicles using wireless device identifiers. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, a system for identifying vehicles in a parking structure includes a camera configured to capture images of an area in the parking structure where the camera captures an image containing one or more vehicle(s), a detector configured to scan for wireless device identifiers in the area, and a processing system including an electronic storage. The processing system is configured to execute instructions to access the image containing the vehicle(s) in the area and access one or more wireless device identifier(s) scanned by the detector in the area, process the image containing the vehicle(s) to extract one or more license plate identifier(s) corresponding to the vehicle(s), and store in the electronic storage at least one record associating the license plate identifier(s) with the wireless device identifier(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TKH SECURITY LLC
    Inventors: Garett Neff, Joseph Ruggero, Scott Dubois, Anders Nelson, Geoffrey Gaetan Naudet, Pablo Rozanski, Aurelien Ramondou, Morgan Kesler, Mark Kudas, Chien Hsiang Tang
  • Patent number: 11978341
    Abstract: A system for detecting driving violations on a roadway in real time includes spaced apart cameras and spaced apart presence sensors which generate timestamp signals when detecting passing vehicles. A GPS module and a communication module are operatively connected to a computer monitoring unit which determines the driving violations. A photographic image is taken of each vehicle which is committing a driving violation and the image and a violation report is transmitted to a transit authority. The system may be a static system mounted in the median of a roadway or may be a dynamic system mounted in a monitoring vehicle. The driving violations may be one of speeding, tailgating, street racing, improper passing, and lane blocking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventor: Wael Mohamed ElSayed Ali Eldessouki
  • Patent number: 11978342
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a method for transmitting a safety message, by a UE, in a wireless communication system supporting sidelink, and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. The method for transmitting a safety message, by a UE, in a wireless communication system supporting sidelink comprises the steps of: receiving, from an adjacent UE, a sidelink signal including mobility information on the adjacent UE; calculating a collision risk range for the adjacent UE on the basis of the mobility information on the adjacent UE; and determining whether to transmit a safety message on the basis of the collision risk range to which an estimated threshold value has been applied, wherein the estimated threshold value is determined on the basis of a received decentralized environmental notification message (DENM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsung Kwak, Seungryul Yang
  • Patent number: 11978343
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed is provided on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus has a controller configured to execute the processing of obtaining a trajectory record defined as a record of the trajectory along which the vehicle has travelled, detecting an abnormal behavior of the vehicle, generating record information, which is information representing a trajectory record prior to the detection of the abnormal behavior of the vehicle among the obtained trajectory records, and transmitting the record information to other vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11978344
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, disclosed are a method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a message in a wireless communication system supporting a sidelink, and an apparatus therefor. A method for transmitting, by a first UE, a message in a wireless communication system supporting a sidelink, and an apparatus therefor are disclosed, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining state information including geographic location information; receiving a first message from a second UE; and determining whether to stop transmission of a second message, on the basis of the state information and whether the first message includes information on a geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsung Kwak, Seungryul Yang
  • Patent number: 11978345
    Abstract: A moving object behavior prediction device improves prediction accuracy and includes: an input map generation unit that generates a single input map in which a region capable of containing a plurality of the moving objects is divided into a plurality of cells, in which each of the cells stores related information of a static object and related information of the moving object; a movement amount estimation unit that estimates a movement amount as a feature amount of each cell from the input map, using a trained convolutional neural network; a movement amount acquisition unit that acquires a movement amount at a current position of the moving object from a movement amount stored in a peripheral cell the moving object; and a future position prediction unit that predicts a future position of the moving object based on a feature amount at a current position of the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Ishikawa, Hideaki Suzuki, Hidehiro Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11978346
    Abstract: A system includes a radio configured to transmit and receive voice transmissions to and from air traffic control (ATC), the radio installed onboard an aircraft. The system includes a processor communicatively coupled to the radio and installed onboard the aircraft. The processor is configured to: receive an ATC voice command via the radio; transcribe the ATC voice command into an ATC command; and when the ATC command includes an aircraft identification associated with the aircraft, categorize the ATC command into components, each of the components being categorized based on a criticality level associated with said component, wherein the criticality level is or is associated with a required accuracy confidence level of transcribed speech for a given component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. Shapiro, Katarina Vuckovic
  • Patent number: 11978347
    Abstract: A method for generating data sets of a UAV, performed by a data set generation apparatus, may comprise obtaining flight environment information including a moving object; obtaining flight data including first physical information and first sensor information of the UAV in a flight environment based on the flight environment information; obtaining second physical information and second sensor information of the UAV when the moving object exists, based on the flight data, and generating a first data set based on the second physical information and the second sensor information; obtaining third physical information and third sensor information of the UAV when the moving object does not exist, based on the flight data, and generating a second data set based on the third physical information and the third sensor information; and combining the first data set and the second data set to generate a third data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Jeong Gi Yang
  • Patent number: 11978348
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention are provided to generate a plurality of flight trajectories that do not conflict with other aircraft in a local area. Interventions by an air traffic control system help prevent collisions between aircraft, but these interventions can also cause an aircraft to substantially deviate from the pilot's intended flight trajectory, which burns fuels, wastes time, etc. Systems and methods of the present invention can assign a standard avoidance interval to other aircraft in the area such that a pilot's aircraft does not receive an intervention by an air traffic control system. Systems and methods of the present invention also generate a plurality of conflict-free flight trajectories such that a pilot or an automated system may select the most desirable flight trajectory for fuel efficiency, speed, and other operational considerations, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DOUBLE BLACK AVIATION TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.
    Inventor: Richard Shay
  • Patent number: 11978349
    Abstract: A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11978350
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technical field for airborne navigation and discloses a data acquisition system and method for airborne navigation devices based on unmanned aerial vehicle. The system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle flight control system, a navigation devices test antenna array, a multi-channel signal processing module, a signal acquisition module, an ADS-B transmitting module, a GNSS receiver, a UHF data link receiver, a power module and a ground station. The unmanned aerial vehicle is equipped with corresponding modules to receive signals from ground navigation devices, perform corresponding processing and storage, and transmit data to the ground, at the same time, receive control instructions sent by the ground to complete corresponding monitoring, analysis and inspection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yanbo Zhu, Xiaofeng Shi, Zhipeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11978351
    Abstract: A beacon unit (2) configured to generate a virtual point (TP) which is moveable along a virtual trajectory (TR), from one or more data item(s) of a kinematics of the aircraft (AC). The device includes a control unit (4) configured to generate an order to move the aircraft towards a dynamic point (TP) and thus along the target trajectory (TR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS (SAS)
    Inventors: Francois Courbun, Mario Cassaro
  • Patent number: 11978352
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a macroscopic, two or three-dimensional support medium that facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of macroscopic art, design that is applied art and architecture. The invention also relates to various methods of making such novel support mediums and the works of art, design and architecture they are made as or into. Examples are works of art, design and architecture made with new and extraordinary aesthetic and/or functional properties from the use of nanomaterials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Sydney Hyman
  • Patent number: 11978353
    Abstract: A biocybernetics based system for detecting the biofeedback of human central nervous system activity and its optimization includes a non-invasive human brain interface device for the stimulation of the human brain using weak pulsed electromagnetic fields, a multi-sensor detection unit for the real-time measurement of various states of the central and autonomic nervous system, linked to a processing and feedback software supported by a database. Optimization processes are based on bio-cybernetic regulation, controlled by intrinsic feedback loops, generating measurable output for optimizing brain stimulation parameters as well as sensing feedback output to the human subject, in the form of visual, auditory, tactile, and highly immersive content related output including simulations in virtual and augmented reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventors: Wolfgang Vogel, Amira Jaber
  • Patent number: 11978354
    Abstract: An intermediation device and an intermediating method, capable of improving public interest in an industrial robot compared to before, are provided. The intermediation device is adapted to execute processings of receiving, from at least two manipulation terminals, or from at least one manipulation terminal and at least one computer, manipulation signals for manipulating at least two industrial robots each corresponding to the manipulation terminal or the computer and configured to perform a given work or a given game, causing the at least two industrial robots to perform the given work or the given game based on the manipulation signals, and causing a display unit held by an operator of the manipulation terminal to display an image of a site of the work or the game performed by the at least two industrial robots, the image being captured by an imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Masayuki Kamon, Shigetsugu Tanaka, Yoshihiko Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11978355
    Abstract: Raw motion data generated by sensors affixed to a user performing exercises or poses in response to perceiving content annotated with a motion track and presented to the user, the motion track generated using a posture dictionary is collected. The exercises or poses are determined from the raw motion data using the posture dictionary. Motion data indicating the exercises or poses within the raw motion data is generated using the raw motion data. The user is graded in performing the exercises or poses by comparing the motion data with the motion track. The content is presented to the user based on the grading of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Asensei, Inc
    Inventors: Steven Webster, Ross Arnott, William Burgar
  • Patent number: 11978356
    Abstract: Techniques for administering a care plan for a patient. A monitoring device is selected, at a care plan management system based on a care plan, to use in administering the care plan. The care plan specifies biometric data to monitor for a patient. The monitoring device is configured to collect the biometric data, based on the care plan. The biometric data collected using the monitoring device is received at the care plan management system. The biometric data includes a first event initially classified as a first type of event using the monitoring device. The first event is selected for reclassification, based on the initial classification, and in response the first event is reclassified as a second type of event using the care plan management system. The patient is treated based on the care plan and the reclassified first event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CARDIAC DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Richard D. Dettinger, Richard M. Smith, Scott J. Burrichter
  • Patent number: 11978357
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ulcer model used to practice a procedure including hemorrhage arrest, the ulcer model including a model main body which includes upper and lower surfaces facing each other and a tubular simulated blood vessel path provided between the upper surface and the lower surface and having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The upper surface includes a ring-shaped raised surface that rises in a thickness direction of the model main body and a simulated ulcer surface that is a recessed bottom surface surrounded by the raised surface. The simulated blood vessel path extends from a part other than the upper surface of the surfaces of the model main body to the simulated ulcer surface or an area in the vicinity of the inside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: Denka Company Limited, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Akira Miyama, Toru Arai, Takashi Sasaki, Takeshi Kanno, Yularo Arata, Atsushi Masamune
  • Patent number: 11978358
    Abstract: A vascular access training simulator system for training intravascular insertion of a medical device is disclosed. The vascular access training simulator system includes an anatomical training model having clinically relevant ultrasonic properties representative of ultrasonic properties of a human body site for ultrasound imaging. The training model includes a transparent housing, a transparent simulated tissue, at least one simulated blood vessel suspended in the tissue, and a layer of simulated skin covering the housing and the tissue. A first imaging device is records a first video showing a view of an insertion site outside of the simulated skin. A second imaging device records a second video showing the simulated blood vessel through the transparent simulated tissue. A third imaging device is shows an ultrasound view of the simulated blood vessel and the simulated tissue. A monitor displays a composite view of all three videos simultaneously on a single screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFLEX MEDICAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Benjamin Horst, Mark Spinka, Jacob Ammarell
  • Patent number: 11978359
    Abstract: A learning model is created using a computer which includes receiving input from a user. The learning model includes comparing the input to the knowledge area in a knowledge database to assess a level of proficiency on topics within the knowledge area. The learning model includes determining topics of knowledge within the knowledge area where a user currently meets a proficiency threshold for one or more topics. A work topic is identified within the knowledge area where the user does not meet the proficiency threshold. Study material is presented to the user for the work topic of the knowledge area using an interactive mechanism. Feedback is received regarding the study material for the work topic from the interactive mechanism from the user. The learning model includes evaluating the feedback from the user to determine a score which indicates when the user meets a proficiency threshold for the work topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mukundan Sundararajan, Jignesh K Karia, Shilpa Shetty
  • Patent number: 11978360
    Abstract: A training simulator for intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) systems includes channels where at least one of the channels is identified as an active stimulation channel and a subset of the rest of the channels is identified as reference or pick up sites. Channels of the subset having signal data that exceed a predefined threshold are retained for further processing, while channels with signal data that do not exceed the threshold are eliminated from further reporting. Response data for the remaining channels are generated in advance of a future time when the response would occur. The generated data is time stamped and stored for display at a time window when requested by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventors: John A. Cadwell, Melissa Miles, Mark Romero
  • Patent number: 11978361
    Abstract: A pop-up display having a first arcuate display panel with an internal side, an external side, a first side edge and a second side edge and a second arcuate display panel with an internal side, an external side, a first side edge abutting the first side edge of the first arcuate display panel and a second side edge abutting the second side edge of the first arcuate display panel. A first insert is connected on a first side to the internal side of the first arcuate display panel and connected on a second side to the internal side of the second arcuate display. The first insert is configured to provide an outward curve to the first arcuate display panel and the second arcuate display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Menasha Corporation
    Inventor: Benjamin M. Marich
  • Patent number: 11978362
    Abstract: A transparent display device using rotation-based persistence of vision includes: an opaque display unit that displays first images; a transparent display unit that includes image display bars, which are positioned outside the opaque display unit and on each of which a plurality of light emitting elements are mounted, and a display bar driving unit which rotates the image display bars, the transparent display unit displaying second images which are viewed to overlap the first images by persistence of vision based on rotation of the image display bars; and a display casing that accommodates both the opaque and transparent display units in a state where the transparent display unit is positioned outside the opaque display unit, the display casing having a sight window through which the first images and the second images are viewed at a preset region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOVIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Bum Cho
  • Patent number: 11978363
    Abstract: A safety warning sign, when not in use, is rolled and stored inside to case, and in the event of emergency, when a driver opens the trunk and then opens the case by pulling a cover with a finger while the case is attached and affixed to the edge of the trunk by means of a magnetic body of an attachment member connected to the case, the safety warning sign stored in the form of a roll inside the case is, simultaneously as the case is opened, automatically spread open by its own weight (gravity) and deployed, thus allowing the driver, even in the state of panic from an accident, to easily and rapidly install the car safety warning sign and quickly escape to safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Hongjae Park
  • Patent number: 11978364
    Abstract: An identification assembly is provided having a tag assembly and a bracket assembly, the tag assembly comprising a front plate rotatably fixed to a tag body. In accordance with embodiments, the front plate has two identification surfaces and the tag body has one identification surface, and the tag assembly is configured to removably receive the bracket assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: David Stapleton
  • Patent number: 11978365
    Abstract: Labeling material includes a labeling region to be printed using a printing device and/or for handwritten labeling. The labeling material includes a carrier layer that is at least partially transparent and can be folded over onto the labeling region to cover or seal the labeling region and can be bonded thereto in portions or over the entire surface. One or more adhesive regions, such as an adhesive layer, adhesive dots, adhesive strips, etc., bond the at least partially transparent carrier layer to the labeling region in portions or over the entire surface. The adhesive region and the labeling region are arranged on the same side of the at least partially transparent carrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Oster, Alexander Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11978366
    Abstract: A hangtag for a product and related methods are disclosed. The hangtag has a foldable main body comprising a proximal portion having a first end and a second end, a distal portion having a first end and a second end, the first ends of the proximal and the distal portion having a first width, a crease portion positioned between the distal portion and the proximal portion, the crease portion having the first width and a first length extending between the distal portion and the proximal portion. The foldable main body is configured to be folded at or near the crease portion, where the crease portion is shaped and sized to mount the main body over one or more edges of the product such that the proximal portion is adjacent a first side of the product and the distal portion is adjacent a second side of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: The Duck Company
    Inventor: James N. Bruno
  • Patent number: 11978367
    Abstract: A flexible, four-sided, a-frame display for merchandising greeting card and non-greeting card merchandise. The display is relatively small and can be used as an outpost display in smaller retail spaces. It can easily be set up, taken down and arranged with various merchandising assemblies. It also contains a hidden storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: American Greetings Corporation
    Inventor: Anthony Santarelli
  • Patent number: 11978368
    Abstract: A magnetized decorative fence assembly for providing decorative fencing includes a plurality of magnets of a fence post. The plurality of magnets of the fence post engages by magnetism to a plurality of magnets of a housing. An interior of the housing holds a fence roll. An end of the fence roll is positioned in an opening of the housing. The fence roll is pulled out of the housing to display a surface having a variety of decorative illustrations. A bar coupled to the end of the fence roll has a plurality of hooks used to retain the end of the fence roll to a plurality of screws of the fence post. The plurality of hooks can be latched or unlatched to the plurality of screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Jeffrey Humbles
  • Patent number: 11978369
    Abstract: The invention provides method and apparatus for raising a display poster to an overhead position for viewing by persons passing below. The apparatus comprises a motorized winder remotely controllable to cause take-up and paying out of first and second separate cords distally connected to an overhead supporting structure. The motorized winder is contained within a housing having a lower receiving space into which an edge adjacent portion of a poster to be displayed in a retailing or similar environment is receivable for clamping in place against removal by clamping means preferably comprising an elongate roller. The apparatus contains a formation for inhibiting rolling of the roller when in entrapment position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Jarek Andrzejewski
  • Patent number: 11978370
    Abstract: A cover window includes a first layer having a first modulus, a second layer disposed on the first layer and having a second modulus smaller than the first modulus, and a third layer disposed on the second layer and having a third modulus equal to or larger than the first modulus, and in which the third layer includes a nanoparticle-polyurethane complex in which polyurethane is bonded with nanoparticles by a covalent bond. Therefore, the cover window of the present disclosure provides effects that the folding and rolling are possible with excellent surface characteristic and the restorability against the pressing and excellent optical property. A flexible display device may include the cover window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changwoo Chun, Sejin Jang, JooHye Park, Wansoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11978371
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling presentation on a foldable display of an electronic device is provided. A foldable electronic device comprises a foldable housing including a hinge structure, a first housing structure and a second housing structure foldable and unfoldable with respect to the first housing structure about the hinge structure. The electronic device includes a processor and a memory to store instructions that cause the processor to receive a first user input to select an application program; detect a change from a folded state to an unfolded state; determine whether the selected application program has user interface size restrictions; and in the unfolded state, display a user interface of the selected application on at least a portion of the foldable display, based in part on the screen size restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Duncan Knarr, Andrew R McHugh, Seokhyun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11978372
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for synchronized dual eye variable refresh rate update for a VR display. A display processor obtains an indication of a synchronous flush or an asynchronous flush with respect to a first DPU and/or a second DPU. The display processor determines whether a first flush operation and/or a second flush operation is available at a time instance, where the first flush operation and the second flush operation are associated with the first DPU and/or the second DPU. The display processor performs, based on a VSync instance, the first flush operation and/or the second flush operation based on whether the first flush operation and/or the second flush operation are available at the time instance and based on the indication of the synchronous flush or the asynchronous flush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sreekanth Modaikkal, Kumar Saurabh, Kalyan Thota, Vishnuvardhan Prodduturi, Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 11978373
    Abstract: A pixel detection device includes a data line, a pixel circuit, and a detection circuit. Pixel circuit is coupled to a system high voltage source, a system low voltage source, and a first reference voltage source. Detection circuit is coupled to data line and pixel circuit, and is configured to receive a driving signal and a detection control signal. Detection circuit forms a first detection loop with the system low voltage source and the data line so as to detect whether the pixel circuit is abnormal according to the driving signal and the detection control signal in a first stage. Detection circuit forms a second detection loop with the first reference voltage source, the system low voltage source, the pixel circuit, and the data line so as to detect whether the pixel circuit is abnormal according to the driving signal and the detection control signal in a second stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: AUO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu-Hao Huang, Sung-Yu Su, Rwei-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 11978374
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a housing; a display; a roller accommodated in the housing to rotate and roll or unroll the display; and a processor configured to in response to receiving a command to display content, control the roller to rotate and unroll the display from the housing so the display is drawn out and extended from the housing, and control the display to display an entire image of the content while simultaneously expanding a size of the entire image of the content as the display is being extended from the housing so a partial portion of the content is not blocked from being viewed as the display is drawn out and extended from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sungeun Kim, Woojin Choi
  • Patent number: 11978375
    Abstract: A disclosed example includes a plurality of display pixels; timing controller circuitry; driver circuitry on a same integrated circuit as the timing controller circuitry, the driver circuitry to drive the display pixels; and de-multiplexer circuitry to de-multiplex pixel data to send to the plurality of display pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Yeung Kwak, Ramon C. Cancel Olmo, Thomas A. Nugraha, Jue Li
  • Patent number: 11978376
    Abstract: A power management circuit is disclosed that includes a boost converter, a pass transistor, and an overcurrent detect circuit. The boost converter is configured to convert an input voltage into a first power supply voltage. The pass transistor is configured to transfer the first power supply voltage as a second power supply voltage after a predetermined time from a time point at which the first power supply voltage is activated. The overcurrent detect circuit is configured to perform an overcurrent detect operation by sensing a current flowing through the pass transistor. A display device is also disclosed that includes the power management circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Taek Hong, Sungchun Park
  • Patent number: 11978377
    Abstract: A driving circuit and a driving device for a display panel, and the driving circuit for the display panel includes: a stretching circuit, a control circuit, a bootstrapping circuit, and an output circuit; the control circuit is respectively electrically connected with the stretching circuit, the bootstrapping circuit, and the output circuit, and the bootstrapping circuit is electrically connected with the output circuit. The stretching signal generated by the stretching circuit can enable the bootstrapping circuit to have enough time to be charged, and ensure that the output circuit can reach or exceed the preset potential when receiving the bootstrap signal, thereby the voltage being not stable when the gate driving signal is output is avoided, and the phenomenon that the gate driving signal is stopped in advance is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Jing He, Baohong Kang
  • Patent number: 11978378
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first set of pixels that each include a respective red sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel and a second set of pixels that each include a respective blue sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel, where the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels are arranged on the display panel such that at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is adjacent to at least one of the pixels in the second set of pixels, at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is not adjacent to any pixel, and the green sub-pixels are arranged on the display panel such that the green sub-pixels are evenly distributed in the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Morris Hoffman, Sangmoo Choi, Sun-il Chang, Ion Bita
  • Patent number: 11978379
    Abstract: The present invention includes systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: James M. DeFilippis, Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz, Corey P. Carbonara, Michael F. Korpi, Gary B. Mandle