Patents Issued in May 14, 2024
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Patent number: 11983359Abstract: A display device can include a substrate including a display area and a non-display area. The display device can further include a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on the substrate, and a sealing layer disposed on the plurality of light-emitting elements. The display device also can include a touch detection part disposed on the sealing layer in the display area, and a plurality of touch routing lines connected to the touch detection part in the non-display area. Further, the display device can include a shield part disposed to surround two opposite sides and a lower side of one or more touch routing lines among the plurality of touch routing lines.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: TaeYeon Yoo, Sanghoon Jeong, Seonghwan Woo
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Patent number: 11983360Abstract: A touch sensor including: a touch sensing area including driving electrodes and sensing electrodes; a driving signal generator which determines phases of driving signals based on a reference code and supplies the driving signals to the sensing electrodes, wherein the driving signals are sine waves; and a touch processor which receives sensing signals according to the driving signals from the sensing electrodes and determines a touch position based on the sensing signals and the reference code, wherein the driving signal generator controls the phases of the driving signals by updating the reference code at a predetermined time point.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Choon Hyop Lee, Jang Hui Kim, Jae Won Kim, In Nam Lee
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Patent number: 11983361Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a touch display device, in a structure that a touch electrode line is disposed to be divided on a plurality of sub-areas included in an active area, by synchronizing a driving of the touch electrode line adjacent to a boundary of the sub-area, or by performing a differential sensing processing by sharing a touch sensing signal detected from the touch electrode line, thus an accuracy of a touch sensing for an area adjacent to the boundary of the sub-area can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: SeungRok Shin, Jeonghoon Lee, DeukSu Lee, Yoonnara Jang
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Patent number: 11983362Abstract: A first detection signal creation unit has detection nodes connected to detection electrodes in one-to-one correspondence. The first detection signal creation unit supplies charge from each detection node through a second wire to the relevant detection electrode so that a voltage at the relevant detection node vibrates according to an alternating-current voltage, and creates first detection signals matching the supplied charge. First filters are provided in first paths, each of which branches from an alternating-current output node to a first wire. A phase difference signal creation unit creates a phase difference signal matching the phase difference between the alternating-current voltage and one of the first detection signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Iikura, Motoshi Oi, Tomoya Sasaki
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Patent number: 11983363Abstract: A user gesture behavior simulation system includes a touch gesture recording and editing device and a touch gesture simulation device. When at least one touch gesture is implemented on a record touch object with at least one finger of a user, the at least one touch gesture is recorded by the touch gesture recording and editing device, and at least one touch gesture operating trajectory is correspondingly generated by the touch gesture recording and editing device. The touch gesture simulation device includes at least one artificial finger. The at least one artificial finger is driven and moved to an under-test touch object by the touch gesture simulation device. The at least one touch gesture is simulated by the touch gesture simulation device according to the at least one touch gesture operating trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventors: Yung-Tai Pan, Jui-Hung Hsu, Chang-Ming Huang
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Patent number: 11983364Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a display device including: a loop coil; a display unit configured to include a plurality of pixels; a display driver configured to apply a data signal and a scan signal to the pixels depending on a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal; a plurality of touch electrodes positioned on the display unit; a driving receiver configured to apply a driving signal to the loop coil during a first period and to receive a sensing signal from at least one of the touch electrodes during a second period after the first period; and a controller configured to generate touch information by using the sensing signal, wherein the driving signal is synchronized to at least one pulse of the vertical synchronization signal and the horizontal synchronization signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: HIDEEP INC.Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim, Youngho Cho, Hyoungwook Woo, Kiryoung Jung, Hwanhee Lee, Wonwoo Lee, Kyeonghan Park, Sein Lee, Jeongwon Seo, Jongsik Kim, Inuk Jeong, Hojun Moon, Beomkyu Ko
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Patent number: 11983365Abstract: An electronic device includes a capacitive sense array and is coupled to a stylus including a conductive tip and a conductive wire module. The conductive tip and wire module of the stylus are driven by a tip drive signal and a wire drive signal simultaneously. The tip and wire drive signals have a single stylus drive frequency. While the conductive tip and wire module are driven by the tip and wire drive signals, the electronic device scans the capacitive sense array to obtain a plurality of capacitive sense signals from a plurality of sense electrodes of the capacitive sense array. The electronic device generates a composite image of the capacitive sense array based on the plurality of capacitive sense signals and processes the composite image to determine one or more orientation parameters (e.g., a tilt angle) of the stylus with respect to a surface of the capacitive sense array.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTDInventors: Yi Ling, Pete Vavaroutsos, Roel Coppoolse
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Patent number: 11983366Abstract: A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, and an input sensing layer disposed on the display panel. The input sensing layer includes a sensing insulating layer disposed on the display panel and a conductive layer disposed on the sensing insulating layer. The conductive layer includes a barrier layer disposed directly on the sensing insulating layer and including metal nitride and a main conductive layer disposed on the barrier layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gyungmin Baek, Hyuneok Shin
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Patent number: 11983367Abstract: An electronic device is provided in which a capacitance of a capacitor that is formed between one or more reference second touch sensor electrodes and at least one first touch sensor electrodes is defined as a first reference capacitance with the capacitor formed when the touch sensor is folded along a folding line. Moreover, a capacitance of a capacitor formed between a left second touch sensor electrode and at least one of the plurality of first touch sensor electrodes is defined as a left capacitance. Furthermore, a capacitance of a capacitor formed between a right second touch sensor electrode and at least one of the plurality of first touch sensor electrodes is defined as a right capacitance. Using these capacitances, a determining unit of the electronic device can determine that a touch sensor is folded if both the left and the right capacitances are greater than the first reference capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu Kano, Hiroaki Kitada
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Patent number: 11983368Abstract: A display panel and a touch display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a first touch electrode positioned in the first area, a second touch electrode positioned in the second area, a third touch electrode positioned in the third area, a fourth touch electrode positioned in the fourth area, and a first connection pattern electrically connecting the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode. A connection portion between the third touch electrode and the fourth touch electrode may pass through an intermediate area between the first area and the second area. The first connection pattern may pass through the intermediate area between the first area and the second area and may cross the connection portion between the third and fourth touch electrodes. Each of the first, second, third and fourth touch electrodes may include a first metal layer and a second metal layer, the first metal layer and the second metal layer may be separated by a touch-interlayer insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dongjoong Cha, MinSeob Song, TaeYeon Yoo, Wonchang Do
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Patent number: 11983369Abstract: A conductive member for a touch panel, a touch panel, and a touch panel display device that suppresses peeling of a connection terminal portion while using a flexible substrate. The conductive member includes a flexible substrate; a first conductive layer disposed on the flexible substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the insulating layer and on the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer has an anchor electrode portion. The second conductive layer has a first connection terminal portion covering the anchor electrode portion. Contour lines of a shape pattern of a portion of the anchor electrode portion covered with the first connection terminal portion are set such that a total value of lengths of components orthogonal to a predetermined direction is equal to or more than a total value of lengths of components parallel to the predetermined direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinichi Nakahira
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Patent number: 11983370Abstract: A two dimensional touch sensor panel can be thermoformed or curved by another process to a three-dimensional touch sensor panel, and the three-dimensional touch sensor panel can be laminated to a three-dimension surface having a highly curved or spherical shape. In some examples, thermoforming a two-dimensional touch sensor panel into a three-dimensional touch sensor panel can result in strain of the touch electrodes, and can result in non-uniform three-dimensional touch electrodes (distortion of the two-dimensional touch electrode pattern). The strain can be a function of the curved touch-sensitive surface and/or process related mechanical strain from thermoforming. In some examples, a three-dimensional touch sensor panel can be formed with uniform area touch electrodes using a two-dimensional touch sensor panel pattern with non-uniform area touch electrodes in accordance with the strain pattern expected for a given curved surface and thermoforming technique.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Supratik Datta, Karan Jain, Zhiyuan Sun, Ho Hyung Lee, Da Yu, Wei Lin, Nathan K. Gupta, Chun-Chih Chang
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Patent number: 11983371Abstract: A touch sensor panel having co-planar single-layer touch sensors fabricated on a single side of a substrate is disclosed. The drive and sense lines can be fabricated as column-like patterns in a first orientation and patches in a second orientation, where each column-like pattern in the first orientation is connected to a separate metal trace in the border area of the touch sensor panel, and all patches in each of multiple rows in the second orientation are connected together using a separate metal trace in the border area of the touch sensor panel. The metal traces in the border areas can be formed on the same side of the substrate as the patches and columns, but separated from the patches and column-like patterns by a dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steve Porter Hotelling, John Z. Zhong
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Patent number: 11983372Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch display device, a touch panel, a touch sensing circuit and a touch sensing method. In the touch display device, the touch panel, and the touch sensing circuit, and in the method of performing touch sensing therein, a structure in which a plurality of touch sensor groups is arranged is provided, and one of a self-capacitance touch sensing scheme and a mutual-capacitance touch sensing scheme is adaptively implemented according to the type and position of a touch event. Therefore, the number of signal lines and the number of touch channels may be reduced, and the ghost phenomenon can be reduced or be overcome when multiple touches occur.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: CheolSe Kim, JuHan Kim
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Patent number: 11983373Abstract: A device may include a first set of electrodes, a second set of electrodes that is transverse the first set, and at least one connection between an electrode in the first set to an electrode in the second set by a high pass filter. The connected electrode(s) in the first set and the connected electrode(s) in the second set may form an antenna. The device may include a processor and memory. The memory may store programmed instructions which cause the processor, when executed, to transmit a wireless signal using the connected electrodes during a first time, and measure a capacitance signal using electrodes in the first set and electrodes in the second set during a second time.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventors: Tyler Smith, David Taylor, Michael Litster
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Patent number: 11983374Abstract: A touch sensor may include a substrate and may include electrode units, first demultiplexers, second demultiplexers, and driving pads all located on the substrate. The electrode units each may include a plurality of electrode groups, the electrode groups each including a plurality of touch electrodes. The first demultiplexers each may include a plurality of sub-demultiplexers and each may be electrically connected to a corresponding one of the electrode units. Each of the sub-demultiplexers of a first demultiplexer may be electrically connected to a corresponding one of the electrode groups of a corresponding electrode unit. The second demultiplexers may be connected between the first demultiplexers and the driving pads.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hwa Jeong Kim, Jae Sic Lee, Na Yun Kwak, Dong Hwan Kim, Seung Woo Sung, Min Kyu Woo, Min Ku Lee, Seong Jun Lee, Sang Jin Pak, Sang Hyun Jun
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Patent number: 11983375Abstract: Embodiments include a method and system for projected capacitive (PCAP) touchscreen construction with laser ablation. In glass/film/film (GFF) PCAP touchscreens, the films are coated with indium-tin-oxide (ITO), patterned by printing silver ink, and by ablating both the ITO and silver with a laser. A similar process occurs for a glass/glass (2GS) PCAP touchscreen. Embodiments include varying the pattern with which the laser ablates ITO on film within the touch area to improve touchscreen sensitivity. For example, by varying the width of patterns of floating ITO islands such that widths are less than or equal to a plan-view electrode gap between vertical and horizontal electrode pads and larger elsewhere, the touch sensitivity of the PCAP touchscreen may be improved and/or maximum touchscreen size may be increased.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: ELO TOUCH SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventor: Joel C. Kent
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Patent number: 11983376Abstract: A touch frame and a touch screen having the same. The touch frame includes an outer frame, a light filtering member, and a printed circuit board. The outer frame has an accommodating groove having at least one groove opening, and the light filtering member is arranged in the accommodating groove. The light filtering member is provided with an accommodating cavity, and a part of the light filtering member extending to the groove opening of the accommodating groove is a light filtering portion. The printed circuit board is arranged in the accommodating cavity. A light receiving/transmitting device is provided on the printed circuit board, and the light receiving/transmitting device is directly opposite to the light filtering portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED, GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Meiming Deng, Jianhui Cao
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Patent number: 11983377Abstract: A touch module includes a base plate, a magnet, a touchpad and a magnetic board. The magnetic board includes a first sensing line, a second sensing line, a third sensing line, a first communication part and a second communication part. The touchpad is located over the base plate. The magnetic board is arranged between the touchpad and the magnet. The first sensing line, the second sensing line and the third sensing line of the magnetic board are in parallel with each other and stacked on each other. The first sensing line is electrically connected with the second sensing line through the first communication part. The second sensing line is electrically connected with the third sensing line through the second communication part. The first sensing line, the second sensing line and the third sensing line sense a magnetic field of the magnet and generates a vibration.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventors: Hung-Wei Kuo, Tse-Ping Kuan, Ying-Yen Huang, Wei-Chiang Huang
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Patent number: 11983378Abstract: The invention relates to a method for tracking an end of a utensil equipped with a magnetic object, wherein a parameter K(tn) representative of a contact between the end and a reference surface of a touch sensor is determined, and when contact is detected: an actual value D1(k+1) of the distance D1 between the end and the magnetic object is determined, on the basis of a value D1I(k+1) of a distance, referred to as the projected distance D1I between the position PA(tn) of the magnetic object and a position PI(tn) of a point of intersection between the reference surface and a straight line collinear with the magnetic moment m(tn), then the recorded value of the distance D1 is updated on the basis of the actual determined value D1(k+1) of the distance D1.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: ADVANCED MAGNETIC INTERACTION, AMIInventors: Jean-Marie Dupre La Tour, Tristan Hautson
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Patent number: 11983379Abstract: Multiple anchors may be utilized for robotic process automation (RPA) of a user interface (UI). The multiple anchors may be utilized to determine relationships between elements in the captured image of the UI for RPA. The results of the anchoring may be utilized for training or retraining of a machine learning (ML) component.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: UIPATH, INC.Inventor: Cosmin Voicu
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Patent number: 11983380Abstract: The electronic device detects a pointing input to an edge area in a viewable screen portion on one side of a display screen of a display module, provides an affordance for changing a size of the viewable screen portion based on one or a combination of two or more of a time when a pointing input is maintained in the edge area, a moving distance of the pointing input, and a moving speed of the pointing input, and changes an area of the viewable screen portion to a size determined by the pointing input through a variable driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Myunghoon Kwak, Sangeun Lee, Yangwook Kim, Jookwan Lee, Jihea Park
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Patent number: 11983381Abstract: A display method includes displaying a first image representing a first user and a second image representing a second user on a display surface on which a camera is arranged, obtaining information representing a position of the camera on the display surface, outputting a sound made by the first user, displaying the first image at a position, the position being closer to a position of the camera than a position at which the second image is displayed is, during a period in which the sound made by the first user is output, and transmitting an image obtained by the camera during the period in which the sound made by the first user is output, to a terminal device used by the first user.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Ano
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Patent number: 11983382Abstract: Disclosed is a system and associated methods for controlling computer operation through three-dimensional (“3D”) menus, 3D toolbars, and other 3D elements that provide an efficient and dynamic organization of application functionality and icons across three dimensions. The system generates a first 3D element with a first number of regions with each region of the first number of regions providing access to different functionality from a first set of functionality, and a second 3D element with a second number of regions with each region of the second number of regions providing access to different functionality from a second set of functionality. The system connects the first 3D element to the second 3D element, and rotates one or more of the first element and the second 3D element to change the functionality that is accessible from the one or more of the first element and the second element.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Illuscio, Inc.Inventors: Max Good, Joseph Bogacz
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Patent number: 11983383Abstract: A display control device includes a display and a controller. The display is configured to be installed in a vehicle and capable of touch operation. The controller configured to control an image displayed on the display. The controller detects a start trigger indicating that a user has started scrolling to the left or right on the display, and increases a relative position between a tile and an icon at a prescribed acceleration with a passage of time from detection of the start trigger. The controller detects a stop trigger indicating that the user has stopped scrolling, and reduces the relative position between the tile and the icon at a prescribed deceleration with a passage of time from detection of the detected stop trigger.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasutomo Sasanuma, Jun Ueda
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Patent number: 11983384Abstract: A machine learning feature studio comprises a user interface configured to allow a user to define features associated with an entity. The features are calculated using historical or real-time data stored in an event store and associated with the entity. Visualizations and values of the calculated feature are displayed in the user interface and the user may interact with the features, such as to edit and compare them. The user commits the features to the project associated with a machine learning model and selects to export the project. Feature vectors may are calculated using the committed features and are exported to a production environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Kaskada, Inc.Inventors: Davor Bonaci, Benjamin Chambers, Andrew Concordia, Corinne DiGiovanni, Emily Kruger, Ryan Michael
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Patent number: 11983385Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of receiving a touch operation and a touchless operation includes an operation control unit configured to control an operation method by enabling any one of the touch operation and the touch operation according to the setting information related to the operation method, and the operation control unit controls the operation method according to the operation method of the detected operation of a user if the operation method cannot be determined only by the setting information.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Satoki Watariuchi
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Patent number: 11983386Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods for automatic generation of livestream carousel widgets are disclosed and may be configured to retrieve a plurality of candidate livestreams based on first data related to one or more users and second data related to a plurality of livestreams, organize the retrieved plurality of candidate livestreams, input third data related to a first user and fourth data related to the retrieved plurality of candidate livestreams into a ranking model, output, from the ranking model, a value for each livestream of the organized plurality of candidate livestreams, based on the outputted value for each livestream, determine a rank for each livestream of the organized plurality of candidate livestreams, generate a livestream carousel widget including a number of candidate livestreams based on the determined rank, and transmit the generated livestream carousel widget for display on a user interface associated with the first user.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Coupang Corp.Inventors: Ning Tang, AnAn Hu
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Patent number: 11983387Abstract: In some implementations, a system may receive interaction data indicating an interaction time and amount. The system may categorize the interaction in a category of a plurality of categories. For each category, the system may compare a total category amount with an average category amount. The system may determine, for each category, a proportion of the total category amount relative to a total account amount. The system may transmit, to a user device, user interface data associated with a ring-shaped user interface element that includes a plurality of segments corresponding to the plurality of categories. The user interface data indicates a width of a particular segment that is based on the comparison of the total category amount for a corresponding category with the average category amount, and an arc length that is based on the proportion of the total category amount for the corresponding category to the total account amount.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Erik Jay Salazar De Leon, Thomas Dohan, II, Xiang Lan, Min Jung Kim, Vivian Wang, Jennifer L. Ellison
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Patent number: 11983388Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute: viewably displaying, on the basis of an operation performed by a user, any of a plurality of partial content items constituting content; storing view history of the content; determining, on the basis of the view history, a type of view state of the content if at least one of the partial content items constituting the content has been viewed; determining, on the basis of the type of view state, whether or not the content satisfies a display condition set for each type of view state, the display condition including a condition that the content has a partial content item that has not been viewed; and displaying, in a predetermined display area, an image indicating the content if the content satisfies the display condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.Inventors: Kiyoshi Igusa, Takashi Totsuka
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Patent number: 11983389Abstract: A method for determining playback behavior of a media item including a video component and an audio component includes determining a current event that causes a playing of the video component of the media item on a screen of a user device to be suspended. The method further includes predicting user playback preferences for the media item using a behavioral model trained on previous events corresponding to the current event, and determining, based on the predicted user playback preferences, whether to continue playing the audio component of the media item.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Yuhki Yamashita, Matt Ward, Bryce Gibson Reid
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Patent number: 11983390Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for interacting with visual codes within a messaging system. The program and method provide for displaying, by a messaging application, captured image data comprising a visual code, the visual code including a custom graphic and being decodable to access a first feature of the messaging application; receiving user input selecting the visual code; displaying an updated version of the custom graphic; providing an animation which depicts the updated version of the custom graphic as moving from the visual code to an interface element comprising a group of icons, each icon within the group of icons being user-selectable to access a respective second feature of the messaging application; and updating the group of icons to include an additional icon which is user-selectable to access the first feature of the messaging application.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventor: Vadim Velicodnii
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Patent number: 11983391Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for providing data analysis and processing using identification tagging of information on a graphical user interface. The method includes identifying a data point within a data rendering to a graphical user interface. The method also includes generating a point identification indicator for the given data point within the data rendering to the graphical user interface. The method includes receiving a user input associated with the data point within the data rendering to the graphical user interface. The user input includes a user commentary associated with the data associated with the data point within the data rendering to the graphical user interface. The method further includes associating the user input with the data point using the point identification indicator. The user input is associated with the data point within the data rendering to the graphical user interface via the point identification indicator.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Rajneesh Acharya, Vikash Agarwal, Rahul Tandon, Suresh Solomon, Mark Labbancz, Ganesh Agrawal, Laura A. Bertarelli Hamilton
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Patent number: 11983392Abstract: A system and method for facilitating user interactions with a virtual space through a graphical chat interface is disclosed. One or more potential inputs to the virtual space and/or virtual space status information may be determined dynamically for a user participating in a chat session through a graphical chat interface. An activity notification may be generated for the user based on the determined potential inputs and/or the virtual space status information. The generated activity notification may comprise graphical representation for the notification and as well as representation information for one or more controls facilitating the user to provide inputs requested by the activity notification through the graphical chat interface. User acceptance to the activity notification via the graphical chat interface may be received. One or more activity commands may be generated based on the received user acceptance and executed in the virtual space.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Kabam, Inc.Inventors: Michael C. Caldarone, Kellen Christopher Smalley, Matthew Curtis, James Koh
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Patent number: 11983393Abstract: An image processing method includes displaying a first screen on a display surface, the first screen including at least a part of a drawing area in which at least one object image drawn by a user is arranged, excluding an area in which at least a part of an object image included in the first screen is arranged from the drawing area when an operation of erasing the at least a part of the object is received, and displaying a reduced screen on the display surface when an operation is received, the reduced screen being obtained by reducing a whole of the drawing area into a size of the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Akio Tomotoshi, Toshiki Fujimori
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Patent number: 11983394Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a system for generating semantically accurate synthetic images. During operation, the system generates a first synthetic image using a first artificial intelligence (AI) model and presents the first synthetic image in a user interface. The user interface allows a user to identify image units of the first synthetic image that are semantically irregular. The system then obtains semantic information for the semantically irregular image units from the user via the user interface and generates a second synthetic image using a second AI model based on the semantic information. The second synthetic image can be an improved image compared to the first synthetic image.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Raja Bala, Sricharan Kallur Palli Kumar, Matthew A. Shreve
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Patent number: 11983395Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for dynamically modifying electronic content presented on a user device by third-party content providers based on goals associated with one or more entities. A content modification system may receive inputs related to goals for a user. The content modification system may synthesize the goals associated with the user. When the user uses a user device to request content from a third-party server, the content modification system may obtain the content and extract items included within the content. The content modification system may modify the content based on the synthesized goals, such as re-arranging the items, highlighting some of the items, or adding and/or removing items. The content modification system may cause the user device to present the modified content.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Gwendolyn Phelan Roberts, Vladimir Bacvanski, Michael Charles Todasco
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Patent number: 11983396Abstract: The disclosed methods and systems generate augmented reality tours. Initially, information associated with a tour place of the augmented reality tour is received. Subsequently, a set of points of interest associated with the tour place is selected based on the information associated with the tour place. Further, a plurality of nodes associated with each point of interest of the set of points of interests are generated. The plurality of nodes includes at least one of a menu node, a marker node, a location node, a scene node, a timer node, a full screen video node, an instant tracking node, and a pause node. Finally, a combination of one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes is modified to create tour paths in the augmented reality tour, thus generating the augmented reality tour in real-time.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventors: Luigi Percuoco, Alexcia Bernice Cleveland, Giovanni Stefanelli
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Patent number: 11983397Abstract: An image display method includes: displaying, on a user interface, a first image loaded into a first image container in a sliding container; adding a second image container to the sliding container in response to an image switching instruction; loading a second image into the second image container, and the second image being an image located behind the first image in a queue of images to be played; and displaying the second image on the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Heng Liu
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Patent number: 11983398Abstract: A foldable screen of an electronic device includes a first display region, a second display region, and a third display region. When the electronic device is in a folded form, an included angle between the first display region and the second display region is less than or equal to a first preset angle. The third display region is disposed between the first display region and the second display region. A touch control method for the electronic device includes detecting a first operation in the third display region and controlling the first display region and/or the second display region. When the electronic device is in the folded form, a primary screen and/or a secondary screen may be controlled by using an operation detected on a side screen.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Jing Zhang
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Patent number: 11983399Abstract: An information handling system touchpad includes an application area with a display to present control icons of an application executing on the information handling system, such as camera and microphone icons to control camera and microphone functions of a videoconference application. A gesture at the touchpad in the application area commands presentation and removal of the control icons at the touchpad display in the application area while different touch analysis logic is applied to end user touches in the application area versus the remainder of the touchpad at which cursor inputs are accepted.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Julia A. Ogbevoen, Barry Paul Easter, Andelon Xuan Tra, Frank Quintanilla
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Patent number: 11983400Abstract: A content extraction method includes in the case that the target interface is displayed on the screen of the electronic device, if the target touch input of the user on the screen is received, obtaining target coordinates, where the target coordinates are coordinates of the selected target position in the target interface, and the target position corresponds to the touch position of the target touch input on the screen; obtaining node information of at least one node in the target interface, where the node information of a node includes node coordinates of the node and the content indicated by the node; determining a target node according to the target coordinates and the node information of the at least one node, where the node coordinates of the target node match the target coordinates; and extracting the target content included in the target interface and indicated by the target node.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Song Li
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Patent number: 11983401Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to selecting a virtual item from a virtual grid in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space. It also relates to navigating a virtual modality displaying a plurality of virtual items arranged in a grid by and automatically selecting a virtual item in a virtual grid at a terminal end of a control gesture of a control object responsive to a terminal gesture that transitions the control object from one physical arrangement to another. In one implementation, the control object is a hand. In some implementations, physical arrangements of the control object include at least a flat hand with thumb parallel to fingers, closed, half-open, pinched, curled, fisted, mime gun, okay sign, thumbs-up, ILY sign, one-finger point, two-finger point, thumb point, or pinkie point.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO LIMITED, , United KingdInventors: Bingxin Ku, Pohung Chen, Isaac L. Cohen, Paul A. Durdik
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Patent number: 11983402Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention, a virtual phone is provided which includes a touch screen mounted on an enclosure that includes a processor, memory, wireless communication port, and a power port. The virtual phone further includes a software application executing on the processor to control image display on the touch screen and emulate features of a handheld device presented in the image in response to a user touching a presented feature. The virtual phone further includes a configuration of a user-specific handheld device that is derived from the user-specific handheld device is stored in a memory that is accessible to the processor; wherein the virtual phone presents a visual representation of the user-specific handheld device on the touch screen based on the configuration.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KCG Technologies LLCInventor: Michael Kildevaeld
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Patent number: 11983403Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for data relocation in memory. An embodiment includes a controller, and a memory having a plurality of physical units of memory cells. Each of the physical units has a different sequential physical address associated therewith, a first number of the physical units have data stored therein, a second number of the physical units do not have data stored therein, and the physical address associated with each respective one of the second number of physical units is a different consecutive physical address in the sequence. The controller can relocate the data stored in the physical unit of the first number of physical units, whose physical address in the sequence is immediately before the first of the consecutive physical addresses associated with the second number of physical units, to the last of the consecutive physical addresses associated with the second number of physical units.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Neal A. Galbo
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Patent number: 11983404Abstract: Method for active data storage management to optimize use of an electronic memory. The method includes providing signal injections for data storage. The signal injections can include various types of data and sizes of data files. Response signals corresponding with the signal injections are received, and a utility of those signals is measured. Based upon the utility of the response signals, parameters relating to storage of the data is modified to optimize use of long-term high latency passive data storage and short-term low latency active data storage.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Gilles J. Benoit, Nicholas A. Johnson
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Patent number: 11983405Abstract: A management device that may communicate with at least one devices is disclosed. The management device may include a communication logic to communicate with the devices over a communication channels about data associated with the devices. The management device may also include reception logic that may receive a query from a host. The query may request information from the management device about the devices. The management device may also include a transmission logic to send the data about the devices to the host. The host may be configured to send a message to the devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sompong Paul Olarig, Son T. Pham
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Patent number: 11983406Abstract: A management device that may communicate with at least one devices is disclosed. The management device may include a communication logic to communicate with the devices over a communication channels about data associated with the devices. The management device may also include reception logic that may receive a query from a host. The query may request information from the management device about the devices. The management device may also include a transmission logic to send the data about the devices to the host. The host may be configured to send a message to the devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sompong Paul Olarig, Son T. Pham
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Patent number: 11983407Abstract: A method for performing write operations on a set of one or more physical disks of a set of one or more host machines is provided. The method receives a data block to write on at least one physical disk in the set of physical disks and generates a first set of one or more compressed sectors based on the received data block. The method writes (i) a first entry having a first header and the first set of compressed sectors to a data log that is maintained in a cache, and (ii) the first set of compressed sectors to a bank in memory. The method further determines if a size of data including compressed sectors in the bank satisfies a threshold, and when the size of data in the bank satisfies the threshold, writes the data to the at least one physical disk in the set of physical disks.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: VMare LLCInventors: Wenguang Wang, Vamsi Gunturu
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Patent number: 11983408Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to allocate a first memory portion to a first application as a combination of a local memory and remote memory, wherein the remote memory is shared between multiple compute nodes, and manage a first memory balloon associated with the first memory portion based on two or more memory tiers associated with the local memory and the remote memory. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Rasika Subramanian, Lidia Warnes, Francesc Guim Bernat, Mark A. Schmisseur, Durgesh Srivastava