Display Peripheral Interface Input Device Patents (Class 345/156)
  • Patent number: 11865430
    Abstract: A scoreboard control system is provided for enabling web-based access and real-time control of a scoreboard display associated with a particular venue, by users that can use their personal computing devices. The scoreboard is provided with a scoreboard computer adapter, operatively connected to a hosted web application server. The web server may send messages to specified users prompting them to access the system, or may passively receive messages from users seeking access rights to operate the scoreboard. The web server, upon authenticating an end user computing device with respect to the venue and a specified event, generates a web interface on the end user device display that is customized with respect to an associated scoreboard profile, and transmits scoreboard commands received via the web interface to the scoreboard computer adapter. The adapter directs updating of the display in accordance with the respective scoreboard commands and in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Major Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael C. Bates, Glen M. Whittaker
  • Patent number: 11868530
    Abstract: Disclosed is an accurate control method of visual stimuli for a brain-computer interface. It is a common approach for brain-computer interfaces to evoke specific EEG signal patterns by visual stimuli and recognize the EEG signal patterns in real time. However, due to the influence of process scheduling, a process showing the visual stimuli may sometimes be dispatched out of a CPU, leading to the difficulty in guaranteeing the accuracy of the visual stimuli and the recognition effect of the EEG signal patterns. The invention designs a control method to support accurate visual stimuli of a brain-computer interface. A software system implementing the method comprises a generator, an actuator and a controller. The generator automatically generates an image sequence according to test requirements. The actuator is a module running on a GPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Zhihua Huang, Yingjie Wu
  • Patent number: 11861087
    Abstract: Foldable touch screen display devices with a flexible display including foldable segments to configure from a compact state to an expanded state, and a fold over camera window are described. The form factor of the compact state can be the size of a handheld phone. The form factor of the expanded state can be the size of a tablet computer, and can include the mechanical functionality of a laptop. Both states include an integrated speaker and microphone. The fold over camera window allows symmetrically folding so that edges of each segment are tangent with each other in a fully folded state. The device includes sensors indicating the state of configuration and mechanisms for alignment, locking, and further structural support. A module attached to at least one segment of the flexible display or rigid display contains all processing and memory, and a communications system to be used in any state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LEPTON COMPUTING LLC
    Inventor: Stephen E. Delaporte
  • Patent number: 11861114
    Abstract: The electronic equipment includes a display, an ultrasound emitter, an ultrasound receiver, and a processor. The ultrasound emitter can be adapted to emit a first ultrasound signal into at least a space the display faces. The ultrasound receiver can be adapted to receive a second ultrasound signal. The second ultrasound signal is an echo of the first ultrasound signal reflected by an object. The processor can be connected respectively to the ultrasound emitter and the ultrasound receiver. The processor can be adapted to acquire a floating touch signal by locating the object in three-dimensional space according to charactering information charactering the first ultrasound signal and the second ultrasound signal, and execute an instruction corresponding to the floating touch signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guilin Zhong
  • Patent number: 11854502
    Abstract: A display method includes displaying an image on a display surface; and differentiating a brightness or a color tone of a first part of the image corresponding to a first user whose face is directed to the display surface, from a brightness or a color tone of a second part of the image that is different from the first part, based on a movement of eyelids of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Nakashin
  • Patent number: 11853480
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for capturing touchless inputs and controlling an electronic device with the same are described. In one embodiment, the method for controlling a user interface of software on a portable electronic device, the method comprising: obtaining one or more touchless inputs by capturing movements of the portable electronic device resulting from one or more hand gestures made by a hand holding the portable electronic device; determining one or more operations to control the user interface being displayed on a display of the portable electronic device based on the one or more touchless inputs; and controlling the software using at least one of the one or more operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Zouheir Taher Fadlallah
  • Patent number: 11847728
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary technically improved system and method for controlling the body movements and facial expressions of a digital character in real time by using: a body-motion capture system comprising a headset configured to be worn on a head of a user and comprising controllers and sensors that can be used to track at least one head or body motion of the user (including arms and hands); and correspondingly control at least one head or body motion (including arms and hands) of a digital character in real time based, at least in part, on the captured motion data; a mobile computing device configured to track and capture facial expression data relating to at least one facial expression of the user, and use at least that data to correspondingly control at least one facial expression of the digital character in real time; a microphone configured to capture an audio output of the user, and control an audio output of the digital character in real-time based, at least
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Amanda Legge, Chen Shen
  • Patent number: 11848000
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer program products and data structures are described which allow for efficient correction of a transcription output of an automatic speech recognition system by a human proofreader. A method comprises receiving a voice input from a user; determining a transcription of the voice input; providing the transcription of the voice input; receiving a text input from the user indicating a revision to the transcription; determining how to revise the transcription in accordance with the text input; and revising the transcription of the voice input in accordance with the text input. A general or specialized language model, an acoustical language model, a character language model, a gaze tracker, and/or a stylus may be used to determine how to revise the transcription in accordance with the text input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: William Duncan Lewis
  • Patent number: 11847773
    Abstract: A mobile device that includes a camera and an extended reality software application program is employed by a user in an operating environment, such as an industrial environment. One or more objects within a geofence may be identified. A device crosses within the geofence and acquires sensor data associated with an object within the geofence. The sensor data may include image data and/or audio data. The device or a server system may then determine an object identifier associated with the object based on a comparison of the sensor data with data associated with object identifiers corresponding to objects within the geofence. Based on the object identifier, data associated with the object are obtained. The data associated with the object may be presented via the device, such as an extended reality overlay over a view of the object in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Jesse Chor, Michael Emery, Christopher Chan, Glen Wong, Devin Bhushan
  • Patent number: 11847256
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing multimedia data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In an embodiment, a wearable multimedia device determines a projection area of a laser projector, the projection area having an inner region and a border region at least partially enclosing the inner region. Further, the device projects, using the laser projector, a virtual interface (VI) on a surface. In particular, the device determines, based on sensor data from a camera and/or a depth sensor, a position of the surface relative to the projection area. Further, the device projects the VI on the surface based on the position of the surface. Further, the device determines that a portion of the VI coincides with the border region, and in response, modifies a visual appearance of that portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Humane, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Luke Kocienda, Imran A. Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11847258
    Abstract: There is disclosed an augmented reality (AR) glasses device including: a camera, a transparent display, a communication circuit, a memory storing images of a plurality of external electronic devices, and a processor. The processor may be configured to control the AR glasses device to: acquire an image including an image of at least one external electronic device, acquire running application information of the at least one external electronic device, identify a first external electronic device corresponding to a gaze from among the at least one external electronic device from the acquired image, determine whether a specified application is running in the first external electronic device based on the running application information, and connect to the first external electronic device using a communication circuit, based on the specified application running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Insik Myung, Shinjae Jung, Inyoung Choi, Hoon Han
  • Patent number: 11842015
    Abstract: Provided are a hologram touch display device and a hologram touch gesture control method. A hologram touch display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a space projector configured to project a keypad hologram having a plurality of key buttons in air; a touch recognition part configured to emit light to the keypad hologram, receive the light reflected by a touch gesture of a user at the keypad hologram to detect a touch position of the user with respect to the keypad hologram, and determine keypad touch information of the user according to the touch position; and a touch controller configured to perform control such that an external device connected over a network operates on the basis of the keypad touch information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MARKETON INC.
    Inventor: Chang-Joon Yang
  • Patent number: 11841730
    Abstract: A tactile stimulation providing system includes: an apparatus for generating first actuator strength values corresponding to representative values of frequency bands of first audio data and second actuator strength values corresponding to representative values of frequency bands of second audio data; and an apparatus for driving actuators, based on the first actuator strength values and the second actuator strength values, wherein a number of the actuators is smaller than a number of the first and second actuator strength values, the first audio data includes information on a first direction, the second audio data includes information on a second direction, an actuator corresponding to first position information is driven based on only at least one of the first actuator strength values, and an actuator corresponding to second position information is driven based on only at least one of the second actuator strength values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Bhaptics Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Won Choi, Ki Uk Gwak
  • Patent number: 11842566
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus that allows an operator to grasp a factor leading a face recognition result at a glance and to confirm or modify the face recognition result on the spot. The display control apparatus comprises a similarity acquirer that acquires a similarity between each pair of partial regions of face images by performing collation processing between the each pair of partial regions of the face images, and a display controller that controls to overlay, on the face images, at least one of a first region the similarity of which exceeds a threshold and a second region the similarity of which does not exceed the threshold, and display the overlaid face images. The display controller controls to overlay and display the first region and the second region in contrast with each other on the face images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Hamada
  • Patent number: 11829562
    Abstract: A registration system is provided. The registration system includes: a display device, a collection device and an ultrasonic generating device. The display device is configured to display a graphical user interface. The collection device is configured to collect a scene image at the display device to recognize an operation of a user on the graphical user interface. The ultrasonic generating device is configured to emit ultrasonic signals, so that the ultrasonic signals gather to form one or more virtual buttons for operating the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jijing Huang, Zhiming Yang, Chuqian Zhong, Zongmin Liu, Dawei Tang, Qiong Wu
  • Patent number: 11829561
    Abstract: A floating image generation device is disclosed, which includes a light source, an image generation module, and a floating image generation unit. The image generation module is disposed above the light source and includes a shading unit and an image generation unit. The shading unit is capable of changing light transmissivity state. The image generation unit is disposed above the shading unit. The floating image generation unit is disposed above the image generation unit. The light source emits a light passing through the shading unit, the image generation unit, and the floating image generation unit to generate a first floating image when the shading unit is in a first light transmissivity state. The light source emits a light passing through the shading unit, the image generation unit, and the floating image generation unit to generate a second floating image when the shading unit is in a second light transmissivity state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: DARWIN PRECISIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih-Ping Hsu, Ran-Shiou You, Yu Jen Lai, Ya Han Ko
  • Patent number: 11826638
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, devices, apparatuses, and methods of adjusting a resistance of user-input device. In particular configurations, the device includes a shaft configured to couple to a user element, such as a joystick, a brake coupled to the shaft at a planar element of the shaft, and a piezoelectric element coupled to the brake. The piezoelectric element may be configured to apply different forces to the brake to adjust a resistance to movement of the shaft by the user. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Scott Morrison, Robert D. Hrehor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11831938
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for providing content recommendations to a user based on an elapsed playback time of the current content on the user device. A recommendation server having memory and a processor can be used to compare an elapsed playback time of the current content and compare the elapsed playback time with one or more threshold values. If the elapsed playback time is less than a first threshold, anticorrelated content with respect to the current content can be recommended and presented on or using the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Passenger Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Louis Poupard, III
  • Patent number: 11829576
    Abstract: Systems and processes for manipulating a graphical user interface are disclosed. One process can include receiving user input through a crown to rotate a virtual object. The process includes selecting a surface of the object from among the multiple surfaces of the object in response to determining that the crown rotation exceeded a speed threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Gary Ian Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Jonathan P. Ive, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Duncan Robert Kerr, Stephen O. Lemay, Natalia Maric, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 11830614
    Abstract: A healthcare delivery system, a wearable computing device and a method are disclosed. The method includes capturing, by the wearable computing device worn by a medical practitioner, medical multimedia data of a patient during a medical procedure. The method further includes displaying one or more selectable options associated with the medical multimedia data on a display screen of the wearable computing device to the medical practitioner. Further, the method includes receiving a selection of a selectable option from among the one or more selectable options. Thereafter, at least one action is performed on the medical multimedia data based on the selection of the selectable option. An example of the at least one action includes sharing at least a part of the medical multimedia data with a third party device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Opticsurg, Inc.
    Inventor: Tran Tu Huynh
  • Patent number: 11829519
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing feedback to a human operator during performance of a manufacturing or other motor task. The system comprises a plurality of neuromuscular sensors configured to collect or record a plurality of neuromuscular signals from the human operator, wherein the plurality of neuromuscular sensors are arranged on one or more wearable devices, and at least one computer processor programmed to determine, based on the plurality of neuromuscular signals and/or information based on the plurality of neuromuscular signals, one or more metrics associated with a performance of the manufacturing or motor task by the human operator, and provide via an extended reality interface such as an augmented reality (AR) interface, feedback to the human operator regarding their performance of the manufacturing task, wherein the feedback is based, at least in part, on the determined one or more metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Anthony D. Moschella
  • Patent number: 11831213
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device includes a housing, a contact member attached to the housing, and a vibration generating device. The vibration generating device is fixed to the contact member or the housing. A gap is formed between a surface of the vibration generating device facing the housing and a surface of the housing facing the vibration generating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Umehara, Yutaka Kamogi
  • Patent number: 11831459
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method and device for a home device and a storage medium. The control method for the home device can include monitoring an action of a user through a radar wave emitted from the radar wave sensor, and controlling the home device to perform a function corresponding to the action of the user in response to monitoring that the action of the user matches a preset action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cong Peng, Wenjun Gao
  • Patent number: 11822734
    Abstract: A display keyboard video mouse (KVM) switch detects cables connected to ports of the display and compares the cable types against a configuration table to select a configuration user interface for presentation at the display retrieved from non-transitory memory of the display by a processing resource of the KVM switch. As an end user adjusts the cables connected to the display KVM switch, logic executing on the display adjusts the presentation of the configuration user interface to guide connections with plural information handling systems based upon the cable types and to confirm correct association of keyboard and mouse inputs through the KVM switch with each information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Khang Chian Yong, Vui Khen Thien, Michael Hock Meng Peh
  • Patent number: 11823493
    Abstract: To provide an imaging device and an electronic device capable of capturing a motion of a subject at a moment desired by a user in the motions of the subject. A CIS (2), which is an example of an imaging device according to the present disclosure, includes an imaging unit (5), a memory (6), a detection unit (83), and a decision unit (84). The imaging unit (5) continuously captures images of the subject to generate image data. The memory (6) stores image data. The detection units (83) detects motions of the subject based on the image data. The decision unit (84) decides the image data in which the motion of the subject in a direction matching the moving direction of the subject predicted based on the image data has been detected by the detection unit, as image data to be saved in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Goshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11822381
    Abstract: A display mounting device is disclosed. The display mounting device includes a driving motor which provides a rotational driving force; and an arm unit which receives the rotational driving force and moves linearly in at least one zone, thereby becoming stretched or extended. The display mounting device further includes a display mount for receiving a display and for moving the display in coordination with the stretching or extension of the arm unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DOTHEAL Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo Ram Hong
  • Patent number: 11822711
    Abstract: A method for switching a configuration of an enhanced reality headset is provided. The method includes identifying a scenario to switch a configuration of an enhanced reality headset between a virtual reality configuration, an augmented reality configuration, and a direct reality configuration, wherein the virtual reality configuration and the augmented reality configuration include a computer generated image, and the direct reality configuration and the augmented reality configuration include a real-time image of an environment of a user of the enhanced reality headset. The method includes providing a notification to a user of the enhanced reality headset including an intent to switch the configuration of the enhanced reality headset, and switching the configuration of the enhanced reality headset according to the scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Cross, Tiffany Madruga, Allison Fu, Meaghan Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 11825066
    Abstract: There is provided a video reproduction apparatus, a reproduction method, and a program that can suppress a decline in the degree of immersion of a viewer. A video generation apparatus of the present disclosure acquires a first 3D shape video generated from a plurality of viewpoint videos obtained by capturing images of a subject from different viewpoints, and a second 3D shape video being a video different from the first 3D shape video, and switches a frame to be reproduced, from a frame of the first 3D shape video to a frame of the second 3D shape video on the basis of a state of a viewer viewing the first 3D shape video. The present disclosure may be applied, for example, to a video generation apparatus, a video processing apparatus, a video reproduction apparatus, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Yuichi Hasegawa, Nobuaki Izumi
  • Patent number: 11822379
    Abstract: A display mounting device is disclosed. The display mounting device includes a driving motor which provides a rotational driving force; and an arm unit which receives the rotational driving force and moves linearly in at least one zone, thereby becoming stretched or extended. The display mounting device further includes a display mount for receiving a display and for moving the display in coordination with the stretching or extension of the arm unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DOTHEAL Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo Ram Hong
  • Patent number: 11822380
    Abstract: A display mounting device is disclosed. The display mounting device includes a driving motor which provides a rotational driving force; an arm unit which receives the rotational driving force and moves linearly in at least one zone, thereby becoming stretched or extended. The display mounting device further includes a display mount for receiving a display and for moving the display in coordination with the stretching or extension of the arm unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DOTHEAL Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo Ram Hong
  • Patent number: 11816977
    Abstract: A somatosensory generation system featuring with thermal effects, includes a somatosensory effect controller used to access and process audio signals or control signals of actions or events of games, movies, AR/VR or application software from media players, game consoles, personal computers, AR/VR devices, and transmit them to at least a somatosensory effect conversion device and a plurality of somatosensory transducers are staggered distribution on the carrier to react the simulated waveform and heating information in corresponding to the portions of torso and limbs of the human body. This somatosensory generation system enhances immersive presence of entertainment dramatically and make users like to enter live action scenes through both haptic feedback and thermal effect applied on user's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: Feng-Chou Lin
  • Patent number: 11818852
    Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the disclosure are a folding terminal control method and apparatus, a terminal and a storage medium. A folding terminal is provided with a first display area and a second display area, and an included angle between the first display area and the second display area changes along with folding or unfolding of the folding terminal. The folding terminal control method includes: responding to an unfolding operation, opening at least one second application different from a first application in the second display area, wherein the first application is an application which is running by the folding terminal before responding to the unfolding operation, and the second application can be quickly called by changing unfolding and folding postures of the folding terminal, thereby improving the interactive use experience of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi Fang, Haizhou Zhu
  • Patent number: 11814083
    Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to an autonomy computing system for an autonomous vehicle. The autonomy computing system can include functional circuits associated with a first compute function of the autonomous vehicle. Each of the functional circuits can be configured to obtain sensor data that describes one or more aspects of an environment external to the autonomous vehicle at a current time. Each of the functional circuits can be configured to generate, over a time period and based on the sensor data, a respective output according to the specified order. The autonomy computing system can include monitoring circuits configured to evaluate an output consistency of the respective outputs, and in response to detecting an output inconsistency between two or more of the respective outputs, generate data indicative of a detected anomaly associated with the first autonomous compute function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Hyde, Jose Francisco Molinari, Stephen Luke Thomas
  • Patent number: 11818451
    Abstract: An optical device includes: a display device configured to display an image; a camera mounting component on the display device; a camera on the camera mounting component; and a multi-channel lens on the camera covering the camera and the camera mounting component, wherein the camera comprises an image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Won Lee, Sang Ho Kim, Soo Min Baek, Cheon Myeong Lee, Ju Hwa Ha
  • Patent number: 11813518
    Abstract: Provided is a controller apparatus mounted on a hand of a user, the controller apparatus including a controller body, first sensors arranged at positions on the controller body where a plurality of fingers of the user comes into contact when the user grasps the controller body, the first sensors configured to detect displacement in spatial position between the plurality of fingers of the user and the first sensors; buttons that are arranged at positions where fingertips of the user reach and that is operated by corresponding fingers, and a plurality of second sensors arranged between the first sensors and the buttons and on surfaces of the buttons, the second sensors configured to detect displacement in spatial position between the plurality of fingers of the user and the second sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Ishikawa, Shin Kimura, Kazuyoshi Enomoto, Takeshi Igarashi, Tsubasa Umeki, Masaaki Tonogai, Isao Okuyama, Takuro Sawada
  • Patent number: 11816265
    Abstract: In some implementations, an extended reality (XR) device may generate a first event in a virtual environment, wherein the first event is associated with a first difficulty level. The XR device may detect vital information of a user associated with the XR device, wherein the vital information is associated with the first event. The XR device may determine whether the vital information satisfies a threshold. The XR device may transmit, to a server, an indication that indicates whether the vital information satisfies the threshold. The XR device may receive, from the server, virtual environment information, wherein the virtual environment information is based on whether the vital information satisfies the threshold. The XR device may generate, based on the virtual environment information, a second event in the virtual environment, wherein the second event is associated with a second difficulty level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Saideep Tiku, Poorna Kale
  • Patent number: 11815954
    Abstract: Provided is a method, performed by an electronic device, of performing an operation based on bending, the method including: sensing bending that deforms a shape of the electronic device; determining a first region, from which the bending is sensed, from among regions of the electronic device; selecting an object indicated by the first region from at least one object displayed on the electronic device; and performing an operation on the selected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vipul Gupta, Rahul Agrawal, Ankur Agrawal, Amit Agrawal, Kalgesh Singh, Saurabh Kumar, Ashutosh Raghuvanshi
  • Patent number: 11816310
    Abstract: An interactive multi-view module identifies a plurality of media items associated with one or more real-world events. Each of the plurality of media items is created by capturing the real-world events from a particular geographic location. The interactive multi-view module determines a geographic position associated with each of the media items and presents the media items in an interactive multi-view player interface based at least on the geographic positions. The interactive multi-view player interface allows a user to switch between of media items, and indicates at least one of a video density indicating a number of media items available at a given point in time or an event highlight indicating a popularity of the media items at a given point in time. The popularity of the respective media items is determined using one or more factors comprising a number of views of the media items at a given point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Neil Birkbeck, Isasi Inguva, Damien Kelly, Andrew Crawford, Hugh Denman, Perry Tobin, Steve Benting, Anil Kokaram, Jeremy Doig
  • Patent number: 11809638
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a screen display content of a display terminal, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium, which belongs to the field of image display technology. The method includes: acquiring angular acceleration data collected by a motion sensor in a terminal device, and determining a movement trajectory of the terminal device according to the angular acceleration data; determining an operation instruction corresponding to the movement trajectory of the terminal device according to a preset mapping relationship between the movement trajectory and the operation instruction; and sending the operation instruction to control a screen of the display terminal to switch the display content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Wang, Wei Liang, Qimeng Sun
  • Patent number: 11810231
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments may include a camera circuit, a communication circuit, a display, a memory storing instructions, and a processor, configured to identify, in response to a user input, an object from content being displayed on the display, display, through the display, the object superimposed on an image being obtained through the camera circuit, wherein the image includes at least part of different content being displayed through a different electronic device, receive, while the object is being displayed, information on the different content being displayed by the different electronic device from the different electronic device through the communication circuit, determine a location of the object to be included in the different content, based on the image being obtained and the information on the different content, and transmit, in response to receiving of a specified input, information on the object and information on the location so that the object is included at the loc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Donggoo Kang, Changwon Kim, Hyunjin Kim, Chanwoong Park, Imkyeong You
  • Patent number: 11809633
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: capturing, by an electronic mirroring device, a video feed received from a camera of the electronic mirroring device, the video feed depicting a user; identifying a finger of a hand of the user in the video feed; determining a direction within the video feed to which the finger is pointing; and accessing a first menu option based on the direction within the video feed to which the finger is pointing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Kyle Goodrich, Andrew James McPhee, Daniel Moreno
  • Patent number: 11807231
    Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes communication circuitry, an output interface, memory and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: storing, in the memory, accident modeling information including at least one of a history of accidents at a present location, and a first driver profile of a driver associated with the history of accidents at the present location, receiving at least a portion of a second driver profile from at least one external vehicle proximate to the vehicle via the communication circuitry, the second driver profile indicating driving characteristics of a driver of the at least one external vehicle, generating accident risk information based at least on the accident modeling information and the second driver profile, and outputting the generated accident risk information through the output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minwoo Song, Kyungjin Yoon, Chulmin Lee, Jaeseung Cho
  • Patent number: 11803299
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing input mechanisms. In some examples, the electronic device transitions from a first mode into a second mode in accordance with a determination that the one or more characteristics of a user input detected via a second input mechanism of the electronic device meet a set of predefined criteria. In the first mode, a first input mechanism of the electronic device is disabled for user input. In the second mode, the first input mechanism of the electronic device is enabled for user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bronwyn Jones, Gary Ian Butcher, Stephen O. Lemay, Nathan De Vries, Molly Pray Wiebe, Aled Hywel Williams
  • Patent number: 11803273
    Abstract: A touch sensor, a touch pad, a method for identifying an inadvertent touch event and a computer device are provided. A control circuit of the touch sensor identifies whether there is the inadvertent touch event in response to the touch signals that indicates at least one touch event applied to the touch pad having the touch sensor. In the method, the touch signals are discarded if the inadvertent touch event is identified when a touch position corresponding to the touch signals is within an object detection area defined for the touch pad, or the touch positions in response to the touch signals are reported to the computer device if a multi-touch event is identified when the touch positions are within a touch detection area defined for the touch pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Chieh Liao, Yi-Hsien Ko
  • Patent number: 11803246
    Abstract: A gesture recognizing system for recognizing gestures includes a wearable band configured to wrap around an appendage of a user and a printed circuit board (PCB). The wearable band includes a first dielectric layer and a plurality of electrodes affixed on an outer surface of the first dielectric layer. When the first dielectric layer of the wearable band wraps around the appendage, each electrode is configured to form a capacitive sensor with skin of the user. The PCB includes a processor and a data collection hardware configured to collect data from capacitive sensors. The processor is configured to process the collected data and to recognize a gesture of the appendage of the user based on the processed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
    Inventor: Louis J. Dankovich
  • Patent number: 11800173
    Abstract: A digital signage system allows a person to use the person's own mobile device as a voice input device to the digital signage system and also can leverage the person's mobile device in other ways such as by accepting other inputs from the mobile device, providing various outputs to the mobile device, or utilizing communication capabilities of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Joseph F. Kirley
  • Patent number: 11797248
    Abstract: There is provided a wearable device, comprising: at least one processing core; at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the wearable device to: receive one or more recipes being indicative of input elements for the computer program code, the input elements comprising at least one or more triggering events; one or more display templates; one or more content elements; receive user input for selection of a recipe of the one or more recipes; detect a triggering event corresponding to the one or more triggering events; in response to detecting the triggering event, provide the one or more content elements corresponding to the triggering event for display on a display of the wearable device according to a display template corresponding to the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Suunto Oy
    Inventors: Janne Kallio, Tuomas Hapola, Erik Lindman
  • Patent number: 11797110
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a system implements detent operation using tactile and audio effects that give the user the effect of a detent without including the mechanical devices that detents would normally imply. The detent operation may be implemented in software and may be synchronized to events on the display of the system (e.g. animation events), which may provide a convincing user experience. A low latency path from the applications and user interface program of the system to the hardware that implements the detent operation may be provided to help ensure that the synchronization of animation events and detent operations is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hernan R. Eguiluz, Michael J. Lamb, Kevin Tyler McAtee, Dylan R. Edwards
  • Patent number: 11789568
    Abstract: A display device having a photosensing function is provided. A display device having a biometric authentication function typified by fingerprint authentication is provided. A display device having both a touch panel function and a biometric authentication function is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a light guide plate, a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, and a light-receiving element. The first substrate and the light guide plate are provided to face each other. The first light-emitting element and the light-receiving element are provided between the first substrate and the light guide plate. The first light-emitting element has a function of emitting first light through the light guide plate. The second light-emitting element has a function of emitting second light to a side surface of the light guide plate. The light-receiving element has a function of receiving the second light and converting the second light into an electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Ryo Hatsumi, Taisuke Kamada
  • Patent number: 11789533
    Abstract: An illustrative system includes an extended reality system and a brain interface system configured to be concurrently worn by a user. The extended reality system is configured to provide the user with an extended reality experience and output a timing signal while the extended reality experience is being provided to the user, the timing signal representing a plurality of timing events that occur during the extended reality experience. The brain interface system is configured to receive the timing signal from the extended reality system while the extended reality experience is being provided to the user, acquire brain activity measurements while the extended reality experience is being provided to the user, and output measurement timestamp data representative of a temporal association of the brain activity measurements with the timing events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HI LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Field, Bryan Johnson, Gabriel Lerner, Antonio H. Lara