28th week of 2022 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20220223002 | RANDOM SYMBOL SET DETERMINATIONS FOR SYMBOL CONFIGURATIONS FOR SUBSEQUENT RANDOM SYMBOL DETERMINATIONS - Gaming systems and methods for providing a random symbol set determination for configuration for subsequent random symbol determinations. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223003 | ELECTRONIC GAMING SYSTEM FOR AWARDING MULTIPLE OF WAGER AND METHOD OF USE - An electronic gaming machine is provided, including a player interface, a meter, a game display, and a game controller. The player interface is configured to receive a wager for a round of the wagering game. The meter is configured to record a wager amount for the round. The game display is configured to display a matrix of symbols. The game controller is coupled to the meter and the game display. The game controller is configured to conduct the round of the wagering game, including selecting the matrix of symbols. The game controller is further configured to detect a trigger symbol among the matrix of symbols. The trigger symbol corresponds to a multiplier feature. The game controller is further configured to award a multiple of the wager amount according to the multiplier feature. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223004 | AMUSEMENT GAMING ACCESS AND AUTHORIZATION POINT - In various embodiments, an electrical interface allows a player at a casino to connect a personal computing device and to engage in licensed gaming activities using the personal computing device. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TICKET VOUCHERS ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFERENT BETTING OPPORTUNITIES - Systems and methods employing a ticket voucher handling device, such as an electronic gaming machine or a ticket voucher redemption kiosk, that issues and/or redeems ticket vouchers associated with different ticket voucher systems corresponding to different activities. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223006 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF NON-WAGERING ACCOUNT ASSOCIATED WITH GAMING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a player identifier with a stored value account. The stored value account can holds funds that are accessible through the player's use of a stored value payment vehicle. The stored value payment vehicle can be a reloadable stored value payment vehicle or a non-reloadable stored value payment vehicle. Information associated with transactions using the stored value payment vehicle can be used for player relationship purposes. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223007 | METHOD OF MODIFYING A PRIMARY GAME OF AN EXISTING LEGACY GAMING MACHINE TO INCLUDE SECONDARY AWARDS - Secondary gaming functionality is implemented relative to a casino gaming machine by a secondary controller which is associated with the gaming machine. In this manner, primary gaming functionality, such as primary wagering games and the award of primary awards and/or player reward points, may be implemented by the main game controller of the gaming machine. In addition, however, secondary gaming functionality may also be implemented at the gaming machine, such as secondary wagering games, secondary awards such as bonus and progressive awards and/or player reward points, via the secondary controller. The secondary controller may only implement secondary gaming functionality in response to a secondary wager placed by a player beyond a primary wager which enables the primary gaming functionality. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223008 | DICE GAME DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD FOR DICE GAME DEVICE - A dice game device capable of giving the same fun as card games and enhancing customer attraction. The dice game device | 2022-07-14 |
20220223009 | DYNAMIC GAME FLOW MODIFICATION IN ELECTRONIC WAGERING GAMES - A wagering game operates according to a set of game rules including game flow rules that define a sequence of game events that are presented to a player in a course of operation of the wagering game, a math engine that governs probabilities of pseudorandom events that can occur in the course of operation of the wagering game, and a pay table that defines winning events that can occur in the course of operation of the wagering game and corresponding payouts that are made to the player upon occurrence of the wining events. The method determines a player game play preference of the player associated with playing the wagering game on the EGM, and adjusts the game flow rules in response to the determined player game play preference. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223010 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SPORTING EVENT WAGERING OPPORTUNITIES REMOTE FROM A GAMING ESTABLSHMENT SPORTS BOOK - Systems and methods which utilize a player account to place one or more wagers on one or more sporting event wagering opportunities remote from a gaming establishment sports book such as in association with a hotel room system. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223011 | PLAYER GAME SYMBOL COMBINATIONS USED FOR SUBSEQUENT PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER CHALLENGES - Gaming systems and methods that provide player versus player games using symbol combinations from underlying game plays. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223012 | SANITIZING SELF-SERVICE TERMINAL - A self-service terminal has a bin for storing media items. A mechanism is coupled to the bin that has a pathway for selectively conveying a media item from the bin to a dispenser. A heater device is mounted in the pathway for sanitizing the media item as it is conveyed to the dispenser. The heater device has a heating element set to a predetermined temperature and a roller driven by a motor set to move the media item past the heating element at a predetermined rate of speed. By selecting the predetermined temperature to 116° C. and the predetermined rate of speed to 181 mm/sec, 99.9999% of the viral load of a known type pathogen, i.e., SARS-CoV-2, is eliminated from the media item by the sanitization process. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223013 | GENERATING TACTILE OUTPUT SEQUENCES ASSOCIATED WITH AN OBJECT - In some embodiments, an electronic device generates a tactile output sequence in response to detecting that the electronic device is oriented within a range of orientations that changes as the distance between the electronic device and a respective object changes. In some embodiments, an electronic device changes one or more characteristics of a tactile output in response to detecting a change in the orientation of the electronic device relative to a respective object. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates tactile outputs with characteristics indicative of the orientation of a camera of the electronic device relative to one or more AR (augmented reality) planes. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates tactile outputs indicative of a data sharing process with a second electronic device. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223014 | Device and Method for Providing Haptic Feedback to a User - Devices and methods for providing haptic feedback to a user. A first solenoid is constructed and arranged to move a first magnetic object to a first end of the first solenoid where the first magnetic object can be felt by the user when a current is supplied through the first solenoid. A second solenoid is constructed and arranged to move a second magnetic object to a first end of the second solenoid where the second magnetic object can be felt by the user when a current is supplied through the second solenoid. The first and second magnetic objects have different shapes so as to provide different haptic feedback sensations to the user. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223015 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) THEFT PREVENTION AND RECOVERY - Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for Artificial Intelligence (AI) theft prevention and recovery, such as by utilizing image object analysis to identify and report pilfering-type cargo or materials theft events. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223016 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image capturing apparatus is provided with a plurality of image capturing units that capture images in directions that differ from one another, an approximately spherical housing that houses the plurality of image capturing units and that is rotatable around a tilt axis, and a drive unit that drives the housing to be rotated around a tilt axis, and in which at least a portion of the drive unit is disposed inside the housing. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223017 | Buffered Video Recording for Video Cameras - A battery-powered camera includes a system processor configured to operate in a standby mode or a full-power mode. While operating the system processor in the standby mode, the camera detects an event in a field of view of the camera; records, using an image sensor of the camera, a plurality of image frames corresponding to the field of view in which the event was detected; stores in a frame buffer the plurality of image frames; and wakes the system processor from the standby mode. While operating the system processor in the full-power mode, the camera processes the plurality of image frames stored in the frame buffer using the system processor; and provides the processed image frames for streaming. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223018 | CONTACTLESS SECURITY FOR A RETAIL STORE - Consistent with disclosed embodiments, systems, methods, and computer readable media for electronic security systems for retail establishments may be provided. Embodiments may include an electronic article surveillance (EAS) gate and at least one receiver configured to receive transmissions from wireless tags associated with products offered by a retail establishment. Embodiments may also include at least one processor configured to receive, from a device operated by a prospective purchaser, a tag ID associated with a specific product for prospective purchase; perform a lookup of the tag ID in a data structure to identify the specific product; initiate an electronic purchase transaction to debit an account associated with the prospective purchaser for purchase of the specific product; and disable an ability to initiate an alarm when the at least one receiver receives a transmission from a tag associated with the specific product in proximity to the EAS gate. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223019 | THEFT PREVENTION FOR RETURNED MERCHANDISE - Consistent with disclosed embodiments, systems, methods, and computer readable media for electronic security systems for preventing theft of returned goods may be provided. Embodiments may include an electronic article surveillance (EAS) gate in an establishment and at least one receiver configured to receive transmissions from wirelessly transmitting tags. Embodiments may also include at least one processor configured to receive, from a mobile communications device associated with a previous purchaser, a notification of intent to return a previously purchased product to the establishment; identify a unique tag ID of a specific wirelessly transmitting tag associated with the previously purchased product; update a data structure to indicate that the previously purchased product was returned to the establishment; and enable an ability to initiate an alarm when the at least one receiver receives a transmission from the specific tag associated with the previously purchased product in proximity to the EAS gate. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223020 | ELECTRIC FIRE PREDICTION MONITORING SYSTEM AND THE METHOD INCLUDING THE SAME - The present disclosure relates to a system and method for predicting and detecting the outbreak of a fire. In particular, the present disclosure includes a management server configured to store and output data, a state detection unit disposed in a given space (hereinafter referred to as a “detection space”) becoming a target of detection and configured to transmit, to the management server, a detected value of a normal state or an abnormal state within the detection space, a detection space photographing unit configured to transmit, to the management server, a first screen obtained by photographing the detection space in the normal state in which a detected value detected by the state detection unit is less than a set value and a second screen obtained by photographing the detection space in the abnormal state in which a detected value detected by the state detection unit is the set value or more, an abnormal state determination unit configured to determine a dangerous situation when a detected value transmitted by the state detection unit is the set value or more and to transmit, to a management terminal, thermal image data measured through the second screen, and the manager terminal configured to communicate with the management server. Accordingly, the present disclosure provides an advantage in that a manager can predict and identify a fire outbreak danger point in advance. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223021 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTELY MONITORING A WEARABLE DEVICE USED FOR SENIOR CARE - A wetness or saturation and temperature, and motion, and posture or orientation detecting distributed system that can include a wireless module, a wireless hub and a local or cloud server. A distributed algorithm that is stored and executed in the wireless module and the wireless hub or cloud or local server can detect wetness or saturation of the undergarment and temperature, and motion, and posture or orientation of the wearer and can also automatically count the number of undergarment changes performed daily by the caregivers. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223022 | PROXIMITY-BASED PERSONNEL SAFETY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method includes receiving first position data from at least one of a TOF sensor or a LIDAR. The first position data is representative of a position of a human within a hazardous environment. The method further includes receiving second position data associated with a plurality of wearable sensors associated with a plurality of personnel. The method further includes comparing the first position data to the second position data to identify a match between the first position data and the second position data. The method further includes sensing a signal to an alert device associated with the hazardous environment such that the alert device issues an alert in response to the first position data failings to match the second position data. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223023 | BUILDING RISK ANALYSIS SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC MODIFICATION OF ASSET-THREAT WEIGHTS - A building management system includes one or more computer-readable storage media having a data structure, wherein the data structure comprises a plurality of vulnerabilities and a plurality of pairs, each of the plurality of pairs comprising one of a plurality of assets and one of the plurality of threat types, wherein each of the plurality of pairs is associated with one of the plurality of vulnerabilities and instructions. The instructions cause one or more processors to receive a threat, the threat comprising a particular threat type of the plurality of threat types, the threat indicating an incident affecting a risk value associated with a particular asset of the plurality of assets, identify a particular vulnerability of the data structure based on the particular threat type and the particular asset, and determine, based on the particular vulnerability and the threat, the risk value associated with the particular asset. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223024 | OPERATOR PROFICIENCY-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE ARTICLES - An infrastructure article includes a signal receiver device configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal emitter device configured at an electrically powered scooter; and a controller configured to determine information, coded in the wireless signal, that is based on an operator proficiency of an operator of the electrically powered scooter; and to perform, based at least in part on the information that indicates the operator proficiency of the operator of the electrically powered scooter, at least one operation. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223025 | REMOTE COOKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A remote temperature monitoring system includes a first unit operatively connected to one or more temperature sensors for sensing the temperature of one or more materials or food items being cooked or heated. The first unit transmits the sensed temperature to a second unit that is located remotely from the first unit during heating. The second unit is programmable with the desired temperature and/or heating parameters of the item. By monitoring the temperature status of the item over time, the system determines when the food has reached the desired temperature or degree of cooking, and notifies the user. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223026 | ITEM SEPARATION ALERTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system for alerting of an item being potentially lost, comprising a transmitter device configured to be attached to a physical item, wherein the transmitter device emits one or more detectable short range signals, and a receiver device configured to detect one or more short range signals emitted from the first data communication device, and actuate an alert condition responsive to the failure to detect the one or more short range signals emitted from the first data communication device, wherein the alert condition actuates one of a visible or auditory alert through one or both of the audio device and the multimedia device. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223027 | CONTINGENT AID DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING WITH AN EMERGENCY CONTACT - A contingent aid device, system, and method are disclosed including a cavity with lid to hold a medicine, a control module, a lid status sensor, a medicine status sensor, a user-activatable tactile input, a status indicator module, a display screen, a communication module, a global positioning system module, an altimeter, a voice-in module, an audio-out module, a digital-in module, and a power source, wherein the device is configured to, without further user-initiated instruction or action, initiate communication with an emergency contact following removal of the medicine from the cavity, following user activation of the user-activatable tactile input, following a first predetermined period of time after opening of the lid without removal of the medicine from the cavity, or following a second predetermined period of time after removal of the medicine from the cavity without user activation of the user-activatable tactile input confirming the medicine has been administered. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223028 | SECURITY DEVICE AND SECURITY SYSTEM - A security device is provided with a plurality of detectors for detecting a person, and controls the security status of a security target, the security device being provided with: a detection sequence comparison unit which performs a comparison to determine whether the sequence in which the person was detected by the detector coincides with a prestored detection sequence that is performed by the detector and associated with the security setting status or security cancellation status; and a control unit which controls the security status of the security target from the security cancellation status to the security setting status, or controls the security status from the security setting status to the security cancellation status, if the result of the comparison by the detection sequence comparison unit indicates that the sequence in which the person was detected by the detector coincides with the detection sequence performed by the detector. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223029 | CONFIGURATION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONFIGURATION OF A CONTROL CENTER - The invention relates to a computer program product for configuration of a control center, in particular a fire alarm and/or extinguishing control center, and to an associated method. The computer program product comprises: a hardware configuration component for configuration of hardware components such as modules and/or front panel components of the control center, a logic configuration component for configuration of a functional logic of the control center, wherein the logic configuration component is designed to provide functional components. The functional components are decoupled from the hardware of the control center and embodied in such a way that reversible assignment of functional component to hardware component is made possible. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223030 | DATA ACQUISITION METHOD AND SIGNAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A data acquisition method and a signal measurement system that allow measured data to be easily and reliably obtained from memory are provided. The signal measurement system includes a reception device on which a plurality of devices storing measurement data are placed, a probe mechanism configured to be able to come into contact with the plurality of devices placed on the reception device, a control circuit configured to read, in parallel, the measurement data from the plurality of devices with the probe mechanism, and an information processing apparatus configured to process, in parallel, the measurement data having been read, wherein at a point in time when a subsequent device set is placed on the reception device, the control circuit drives the probe mechanism, and at a point in time when data processing with the information processing apparatus is completed, the control circuit starts reading, in parallel, data from the subsequent device set. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223031 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING OUTPUT UNIT SIGNALS AND CONTROL SIGNALS TO AT LEAST ONE INTERFACE CONNECTED WITH OPTICAL FIBER - Described is a transmission system ( | 2022-07-14 |
20220223032 | Hybrid Light Personal Electric Vehicle Analysis - Hybrid light personal electric vehicle analysis is disclosed herein. An example method includes determining empirical data from a light personal electric vehicle (LPEV) over a period of time, determining LPEV behaviors from the empirical data during the period of time, and building a hybrid simulation model over the period of time by switching between a pedestrian simulation model when the LPEV behaviors correspond to pedestrian behaviors and a vehicle simulation model when the LPEV behaviors correspond to vehicle behaviors. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223033 | Method and System for Misbehavior Detection Report Management Routing - Methods, misbehavior management systems, non-transitory processor-readable media of various embodiments provide for managing the generation, storage, and transmission of misbehavior reports from vehicle-to-everything (V2X) onboard equipment to an associated entity, such as a misbehavior managing authority. Various embodiments may include detecting a misbehavior condition has occurred and determining whether to generate a misbehavior report based on an aggregated criticality value. The misbehavior management system may then determine whether to store the generated misbehavior report. The misbehavior management system may also determine whether to transmit the generated misbehavior report to a misbehavior managing authority. In some embodiments, the misbehavior management system may determine which stored misbehavior reports may be deleted from storage. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223034 | TRAFFIC LIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND TRAFFIC LIGHT MANAGEMENT METHOD - A traffic light management system that manages display of traffic lights includes a communication device, a control device, and a map database. The control device performs emergency control of the display when abnormal traveling information indicating the information on an abnormally traveling vehicle is included in the information received from a communication vehicle. In the emergency control, the control device predicts a future trajectory of the abnormally traveling vehicle based on the abnormal traveling information. Next, the control device generates the emergency control signal for temporarily prohibiting passage at an intersection and a crosswalk on a road along the future trajectory based on the map information and the future trajectory. After that, the control device sends the emergency control signal to controlled traffic lights. The controlled traffic lights are each a traffic light at the intersection and the crosswalk on a road along the future trajectory. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223035 | UBIQUITOUS VISUAL COMPUTING WITNESS - In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a memory and a processor. The memory is to store sensor data captured by one or more sensors associated with a first device. Further, the processor comprises circuitry to: access the sensor data captured by the one or more sensors associated with the first device; determine that an incident occurred within a vicinity of the first device; identify a first collection of sensor data associated with the incident, wherein the first collection of sensor data is identified from the sensor data captured by the one or more sensors; preserve, on the memory, the first collection of sensor data associated with the incident; and notify one or more second devices of the incident, wherein the one or more second devices are located within the vicinity of the first device. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223036 | VEHICLE SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING RECOMMENDED LANE - A vehicle system includes: a controller configured to communicate with a map server; and a vehicle position acquiring device configured to acquire own vehicle position information. The controller includes: a vehicle position determining unit configured to determine a lane in which an own vehicle is traveling based on the own vehicle position information; a storage unit configured to store an attendant circumstance of the own vehicle; and a recommended lane determining unit configured to determine a recommended lane. The recommended lane determining unit is configured to set a priority of each lane based on map information, determine the lane having a highest priority as the recommended lane, and exclude a travel prohibited lane, in which travel of the own vehicle is prohibited, from a candidate for the recommended lane based on restriction information and the attendant circumstance. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223037 | MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TO FUSE EMERGENCY VEHICLE AUDIO AND VISUAL DETECTION - According to various embodiments, systems, methods, and mediums for operating an autonomous driving vehicles (ADV) are described. The embodiments use a number of machine learning models to extract features individually from audio data and visual data captured by sensors mounted on the ADV, and then to fuse these extracted features to create a concatenated feature vectors. The concatenated feature vector is provided to a multiplayer perceptron (MLP) as input to generate a detection result related to the presence of an emergency vehicle in the surrounding environment. The detection result can be used by the ADV to take appropriate actions to comply with the local traffic rules. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223038 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND SERVER DEVICE - Provided is a system for properly avoiding a waiting-for-entrance congestion caused by vehicles that stop on a road to enter a facility along the road. A map server | 2022-07-14 |
20220223039 | MONITORING CENTER, MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A monitoring center communicates with an autonomous vehicle via a network to monitor the autonomous vehicle. The monitoring center includes a communication unit that receives data regarding a vehicle state from the autonomous vehicle, a determination unit determines whether a state of the autonomous vehicle satisfies a condition for assistance by an operator based on the data regarding a vehicle state, and an operator cooperation unit that notifies the operator of an assistance request if it is determined that the condition is satisfied. The determination unit performs the determination based on a condition different from the last condition if a situation in which the autonomous vehicle is placed is not changed from when an assistance request is issued last time. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223040 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT DRIVING - A vehicle control system for energy efficient driving includes a processing circuitry configured to cause the vehicle control system to: determine that the vehicle is approaching a stop point; determine if the vehicle needs to stop at the stop point; determine the presence of at least a first other vehicle within a predefined distance behind the vehicle; and determine the intended route of the at least first other vehicle for determining if the vehicle is going to prepare at least a first energy saving action or not. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223041 | VEHICLE SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING RECOMMENDED LANE - A vehicle system includes: a controller configured to communicate with a map server; and a vehicle position acquiring device configured to acquire own vehicle position information. The controller includes: a vehicle position determining unit configured to determine a lane in which an own vehicle is traveling based on the own vehicle position information; and a recommended lane determining unit configured to determine a recommended lane. The recommended lane determining unit is configured to set a priority of each lane based on map information, determine the lane having a highest priority as the recommended lane, calculate a congestion degree of each lane based on traffic state information and/or a statistic, and adjust a switching point of the recommended lane according to the congestion degree of the lane to be switched to the recommended lane. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223042 | REAL-TIME DATA SERVICES BASED ON GEO-LOCATION INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a communicable integration of a user network of devices and a vendor system. Embodiments receive, at the vendor system from the user network of devices, a request for provisioning of products by a vendor; determine a provisioning location for provisioning of the products by the vendor; continuously identify a real-time location of the user via the one or more components of the user network of devices; continuously calculate a real-time first limit based on the continuously identified current location of the user and the provisioning location; calculate a total time to provision the products comprising a sum of a product preparation time and the real-time first limit; and optimize delivery of the products based on the total time to provision and the real-time location of the user. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223043 | TARGET ADDRESSING SYSTEM - A system can receive a request for a service from a computing device of a given user of the network service, and select an entrance from multiple entrances for a geographic region associated with the request for the service. Based on the request, the system determines a vehicle stopping location for a driver of a vehicle that is to service the request, where the vehicle stopping location is the entrance for the geographic region. The system then transmits an instruction set to a computing device of the driver, where the instruction set indicates the vehicle stopping location for a vehicular portion of the service. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223044 | Warning About a Hazardous Situation in Road Traffic - To improve road safety, a method for warning about a hazardous situation in road traffic is specified, wherein the hazardous situation is identified by means of a vehicle guidance system and a warning system is to used to determine whether a road user is within an effective range in surroundings of a motor vehicle. Depending on the identified hazardous situation, the warning system is used to transmit a warning signal to the road user before an automatic reaction to the hazardous situation is initiated or prepared by means of the electronic vehicle guidance system. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223045 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM A TRANSACTION DESCRIPTION - Methods and systems for vehicle-to-vehicle communication are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, from a first vehicle via a network, a request for communicating with another vehicle; receiving, via the network, a first position signal from the first vehicle; determining a position of the first vehicle based on the first position signal; determining a target vehicle of the request, based on the request and the position of the first vehicle; transmitting, via the network, the request to the target vehicle; determining whether the target vehicle drives according to the request; and adding an amount of credit to an account associated with the target vehicle when it is determined that the target vehicle drives according to the request. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223046 | Systems And Methods For Providing Proximity Alerts Between Vehicles And Personal Transportation Devices - Example embodiments described in this disclosure are generally directed to systems and methods for preventing vehicle mishaps. In an example method, a vehicle receives an alert signal from a personal transportation device. A driver of the vehicle may be made aware of the alert by a sound that is produced through a speaker system of the vehicle (for example, a ringing sound produced by a bicycle bell or a beep of a motorcycle horn). In some cases, an intensity and/or a directionality of the sound produced through the speaker system may provide location and/or distance information of the personal transportation device with respect to the vehicle. The vehicle may transmit an acknowledge signal to the personal transportation device. A rider of the personal transportation device may be informed of the acknowledgement via an audio announcement through a speaker mounted on the personal transportation device. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223047 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING SIMILARITY VALUES OF TRAFFIC SCENARIOS - A method for determining similarity values of traffic scenarios based on movement profiles of traffic participants in the traffic scenarios includes: generating, by a test device, at least one movement profile of a traffic participant using measurement data, wherein the at least one movement profile comprises at least one movement element, and wherein a new segment in the at least one movement profile begins with a change of a movement element; generating, by the test device, a sequence of the at least one movement profile for an ego vehicle and/or a fellow vehicle of a traffic scenario, wherein a sequence change is generated based on a segment being changed for a movement element; determining, by the test device, a measure of similarity based on movement profiles from at least two traffic scenarios by comparing respective sequences created from the movement profiles; and providing the measure of similarity. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223048 | VIRTUAL RAILROAD - A virtual railroad of vehicles is disclosed. In one aspect of the disclosure, a system includes one or more passenger vehicles of a peloton, and a first engine vehicle of the peloton. The first engine vehicle communicatively connected to the one or more passenger vehicles, wherein the first engine vehicle comprises: a processor communicatively connected to a memory and is configured to receive status information of the one or more passenger vehicles, determine, based on the received status information, a set of current values for a set of vehicle attributes for each of the one or more passenger vehicles, and adjust, based on the set of current values for the set of vehicle attributes, a position of a corresponding passenger vehicle of the one or more passenger vehicles. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223049 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OBSERVER-BASED LANDING CONTROL OF A VEHICLE - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for observer-based landing control of a vehicle are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and at least one processor to execute instructions to at least in response to determining an aircraft is in a flight plan flare regime, determine an estimate state of an aircraft parameter based on an execution of a transfer function of an observer model, the execution of the transfer function based on an altitude command corresponding to the flare regime, determine a gain value based on the aircraft parameter, determine an altitude control input based on the estimate state and the gain value, determine an altitude command output based on the altitude control input and longitudinal dynamics of the aircraft, the longitudinal dynamics generated in response to the aircraft executing the altitude command output, and control an elevator of the aircraft based on the altitude command output. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223050 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTROLLING A PLURALITY OF EXTERNAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES PERFORMING RESOURCE OFFLOADING, AND A CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an electronic device for controlling a plurality of external electronic devices that perform resource offloading and a method for controlling the same. An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: a communication module comprising communication circuitry, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to: control the communication module to acquire first information related to a suspected event from a first external electronic device, determine a second external electronic device to be dispatched to a location where the suspected event has occurred, control the second external electronic device so that the determined second external electronic device is dispatched to a vicinity of the location where the suspected event has occurred, acquire second information related to an analysis result of the suspected event from the first external electronic device based on controlling the second external electronic device to be dispatched to the vicinity of the location where the suspected event has occurred, and perform a subsequent procedure based on the acquired second information. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223051 | SECURE TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL AIRCRAFT DATA, DATA PRODUCER SYSTEM, DATA CONSUMER SYSTEM, AND RELATED TRANSFER METHOD - A secure transfer system for digital aircraft data includes a data producer system configured to generate a data capsule at each data production and a data consumer system. The consumer system is configured to retrieve each capsule to extract an identifier, a refresh indicator, a functional data packet, and an integrity control result. It is configured to check the integrity of the data in the capsule by establishing a new integrity check result from the identifier, the refresh indicator, and the functional data packet retrieved from the capsule and comparing the new integrity check result to the integrity check result of the capsule. The data capsule is in an integrity state when the new integrity check result matches the integrity check result retrieved from the capsule. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223052 | Augmented Reality in Aircraft Cockpit Through Bi-Directional Connectivity - A system for improving cockpit operations in an aircraft includes an airborne augmented reality module and a ground-based information management module. The augmented reality module may be disposed in the cockpit of the aircraft and may include processing circuitry configured to generate an augmented reality display in the cockpit based at least in part on selected external environmental data received. The information management module may be configured to include external environmental data received from a plurality of sources and generate the selected external environmental data for communication to the augmented reality module via a wireless communication network while the aircraft is in flight. The selected external environmental data may be selected based on aircraft location and a determination of temporal relevance and locational relevance of the selected external environmental data. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223053 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUSLY TRACKING DISTRESS EVENTS ON AN AIRCRAFT IN REAL-TIME WHILE IN FLIGHT - Disclosed is a method and a system for autonomously tracking distress events on an aircraft in real-time while in flight. The method involves maintaining a multi-logic classifier configured for identifying distress events, receiving aircraft state data from at least one MAU (main avionics unit), transforming the aircraft state data using the multi-logic classifier to produce transformed state data, producing a trigger event if the transformed state data indicates a distress event, and generating an alert of the trigger event. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, the multi-valued logic classifier is configured for identifying distress events using more than two possible truth values, for example by implementing a fuzzy logic algorithm or an artificial neural network. This is an improvement over conventional methods in which fixed thresholds are used to determine a Boolean true/false value to represent if an aircraft is in distress. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223054 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODEL BASED VEHICLE NAVIGATION - Systems and methods for model based vehicle navigation are provided. In one embodiment, a navigation system: a strapdown navigation processor; a propagator-estimator filter, the navigation processor configured to input inertial sensor data and navigation corrections from the filter to generate a navigation solution comprising a vehicle velocity estimate and a vehicle attitude estimate; a vehicle physics model configured to perform calculations utilizing dynamics equations for a rigid body. The model inputs 1) vehicle state estimates from the navigation solution and 2) platform inputs indicative of forces acting on a vehicle platform. The model outputs a set of three orthogonal predicted translational acceleration measurements based on the inputs. The filter comprises a measurement equation associated with the model and is configured to input the navigation solution and inertial sensor data, and to input and process the translational acceleration measurements as a navigation aid to generate the navigation corrections. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223055 | AIRCRAFT STATUS DETERMINATION BASED ON AIRCRAFT TRANSPONDER SIGNALS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving aircraft transponder signals. Identifying, from among the aircraft transponder signals, a first aircraft transponders signal based on an identifier, wherein the identifier indicates that the first aircraft transponder signal is associated with an aircraft on which the computing system is located. Identifying first location data within the first aircraft transponder signal. Generating second location data by converting the first location data to a format recognizable by a geographic mapping application, where the second location data is readable by the geographic mapping application to permit the geographic mapping application to present a graphical representation of a geographical location of the aircraft as represented by the first location data. Providing the second location data to the geographic mapping application for presentation to a user. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223056 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS - Various systems, methods, for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are disclosed. In one aspect, UAVs operation in an area may be managed and organized by UAV corridors, which can be defined ways for the operation and movement of UAVs. UAV corridors may be supported by infrastructures and/or systems supported UAVs operations. Support infrastructures may include support systems such as resupply stations and landing pads. Support systems may include communication UAVs and/or stations for providing communications and/or other services, such as aerial traffic services, to UAV with limited communication capabilities. Further support systems may include flight management services for guiding UAVs with limited navigation capabilities as well as tracking and/or supporting unknown or malfunctioning UAVs. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223058 | Drone station, arrangement, method of operating a drone station, and computer readable memory - According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a drone station comprising a housing having a cavity, and a structure permeable to air and configured to be moved from a first position into a second position and reverse, wherein a platform for landing, storing and starting of a drone is provided by the structure within the cavity in the first position, and wherein an entry into the cavity or an exit out of the cavity through a ventral access is provided for the drone in the second position. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223059 | PROBABILITY-BASED OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE - A system includes an interface configured to receive sensor data corresponding to a potential hazard associated with a travel path of a vehicle. The system also includes an obstacle database including probability distributions of potential obstacles. The system further includes one or more processors coupled to the interface and configured to generate a probability index associated with the potential hazard and to determine whether to modify the travel path based on the probability index and the probability distributions. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223060 | DETERMINING ABNORMAL TRAFFIC CONDITIONS FROM A BROADCAST OF TELEMATICS DATA ORIGINATING FROM ANOTHER VEHICLE - A computer-implemented method of using telematics data at a destination device is provided. The destination device may be a mobile device associated with a driver, or a smart vehicle controller of a destination vehicle. The telematics data is generated by an originating mobile device (i) having a Telematics Application (or “App”), and (ii) associated with a second driver/vehicle, the telematics data including acceleration, braking, speed, heading, and location data associated with an originating vehicle. The telematics data may be broadcast from the originating mobile device to the destination device that (a) analyzes the telematics data received, (b) determines that an abnormal travel condition exists, and (c) automatically take corrective action that alleviates a negative impact of the abnormal travel condition on the destination vehicle to facilitate safer travel. A usage-based or other insurance discount may be provided based upon insured usage of the telematics data-based risk mitigation or prevention functionality. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223061 | HEARING PROTECTION EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEM WITH TRAINING CONFIGURATION - The invention relates to a system comprising a hearing protection device ( | 2022-07-14 |
20220223062 | LEARNING SUPPORT DEVICE, LEARNING SUPPORT METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is a learning support device capable of providing highly reliable parameter estimation. A learning support device for supporting user learning acquires correct/incorrect answer data indicating whether each of answers from a plurality of users to a plurality of items to be learned is correct or incorrect, and calculates, based on the acquired correct/incorrect answer data, a proficiency level indicating an ability level of each user, a difficulty level indicating a difficulty of each item, and reliabilities indicating reliability levels of the proficiency level and the difficulty level. The learning support device also generates a trigger for instructing to update at least one of the calculated proficiency level or difficulty level, and uses, as a reference parameter, at least one of a proficiency level or a difficulty level which has a reliability exceeding a first threshold value among the calculated proficiency levels or difficulty levels to recalculate, in response to the generated trigger, at least one of the proficiency level or the difficulty level which is instructed to be updated by the trigger. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223063 | EDUCATIONAL KEYBOARD DEVICE - This disclosure describes a keyboard that is selectively configurable in a testing mode, where characters are not visible on a set of touch-based input receivers of the input device, a training mode, where characters are visible on some but not all of the set of touch-based input receivers of the input device, and a standard mode, where characters are visible on all of the set of touch-based input receivers of the input device. This disclosure also describes techniques for manufacturing the input device and illuminating characters via the touch-based input receivers. The described keyboard improves on conventional input devices by allowing selection of one or more touch-based input receivers for which characters are illuminated, or selection of a testing mode where a user cannot see characters on any of the touch-based input receivers. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223064 | EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The disclosure herein describes an emotional insight management system that provides user-configured prompts and insights to the user. In some examples, an insights application provides personalized, recurring prompts to encourage users to provide current emotional state updates to a well-being journal. The user's responses over time are aggregated within a historical trends report, which provides emotional response data over time. The insights application generates insights into potential reasons for the user's emotional states on a given day. The system analyzes the user-provided emotion response data with integrated work-related data to identify reasons for the user's mood and make recommendations for actions to be taken by users to reduce stress and improve the user's emotional well-being. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223065 | ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CODING EDUCATION - A robot control system for coding education may include: a robot configured to move according to a tangible block including a command, and having a plurality of motors therein; a control unit configured to independently control the plurality of motors; and a tile board corresponding to the space in which the robot moves. The control unit may include a line detection unit configured to detect a line of the tile board in order to check whether the robot moves according to the tangible block. The line detection unit may include line information which is configured in a different manner depending on whether the line is present within a detection radius of the line detection unit. The order information of the tangible block may be read by a block recognition algorithm, and the block recognition algorithm may map the tangible block placed on a 3D space to a 2D space. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223066 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION ASSESSMENT - An English pronunciation assessment method includes: receiving an audio file including an English speech and a text transcript corresponding to the English speech; inputting audio signal to one or more acoustic models to obtain phonetic information of each phone in each word, wherein the one or more acoustic models are trained with speeches spoken by native speakers and further with speeches spoken by non-native speakers without labeling out mispronunciations, such that a pronunciation error is detected more accurately based on the obtained phonetic information; extracting time series features of each word; inputting the extracted time series features of each word, the obtained phonetic information of each phone in each word, and the audio signal included in the audio file to a lexical stress model to obtain misplaced lexical stress in each of words in the English speech with different number of syllables without expanding short words to cause input approximation. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223067 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR LEARNING AND TRAINING USING COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC CODING IN A VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for providing an immersive environment is described herein. The immersive environment, such as virtual reality or augmented reality, can be used to develop a trainee's ability to make decisions through a language-based comparison process. Cognitive linguistic coding, including brevity coding, can be used by the trainee to develop, reinforce, or enhance alignment and mapping between structured conceptual representations. The immersive environment can simulate or emulate an actual environment in which a task is to be performed. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223068 | STUDY MATERIAL FOR NATIVE SPEAKER PRONUNCIATION BY BEGINNERS IN ENGLISH, AND ENGLISH STUDY METHOD USING SAME - The present invention relates to study material for beginners in English, and an English study method using same. According to the English study material and method according to the present invention, even beginners can easily convert Korean proper nouns into English notation. In addition, the beginners can easily pronounce English words similarly to native speakers on the basis of study areas, in which rules for notating stresses on vowels within English words segmented according to segmentation rules are studied step by step, and Korean-English character tables which exist in each of the study areas and are designed according to the stress rules. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223069 | ORIENTATION AID SYSTEM FOR BLIND PEOPLE - The present invention is part of the aid devices for blind people and in particular for the dedicated orientation systems. In particular, the present system is suitable both as a domestic aid as well as outdoors, advantageously leaving the user's hands free. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223070 | COLORECTAL AND PELVIC SURGICAL SIMULATION MODEL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A custom support structure and models for use in simulated robotically-assisted, telesurgical and/or laparoscopic colonic, pelvic, bladder, or uterine surgery are disclosed. The support structure comprises components for inserting the support structure into a mannequin, and for positioning animal tissue in a way that mimics the human colorectal, pelvic, uterine, and bladder systems, thus allowing for simulated surgery. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223071 | Environmentally Reactive Labels - A label and methods and devices for detecting an environmental factor that exceeds a threshold are described. The label includes a plurality of codable areas. The first portion of the plurality of codable areas are coded according to a first value and the second portion of the plurality of codable areas are coded according to a second value. The label additionally includes an environmentally triggered bubble positioned in one of the plurality of codable areas. The environmentally triggered bubble changes between the first value and the second value when ruptured. As a result, the code that the label represents changes when the environmentally triggered bubble ruptures. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223072 | Multi-Display Apparatus And Methods of Use - The current inventive technology includes methods and apparatus for a multi-display system and methods of use thereof. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a multi-display coupler that may be used to support a plurality of displays, such as a helium-free balloons. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223073 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display module, a backplane assembly, a bracket assembly ( | 2022-07-14 |
20220223074 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING SAME - A display substrate according to an embodiment relates to a display substrate comprising a display panel installation area and a bezel area. The display substrate comprises one surface and the other surface opposite to the one surface, and the display substrate comprises: a first area which is defined as a folding area; and a second area which is defined as an unfolding area, wherein a groove is formed on the one surface or the other surface of the display substrate and formed in the display panel installation area of the first area, and a hole is formed through the one surface and the other surface of the display substrate and formed in the bezel area of the first area. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223075 | LED ARC DISPLAY - An LED arc display includes at least one LED matrix array module. Each LED matrix array module is composed of a plurality of LED matrix units arranged regularly. Each LED matrix unit includes a display surface, and the display surface has an outer contour. The outer contour is a non-quadrilateral. Therefore, a non-smooth visual experience caused by assembly tolerances of the plurality of LED matrix units can be improved by using non-quadrilateral outer contours of each LED matrix unit. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223076 | Color Calibration of Display Modules Using a Reduced Number of Display Characteristic Measurements - This document describes techniques and apparatuses for performing color calibration of display modules using a reduced number of display characteristic measurements. In aspects, methods include generating a measured lookup table ( | 2022-07-14 |
20220223077 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a border region, an optical component region, and a main display region. The border region is provided with multiple load compensation units. At least one first data line is electrically connected to M load compensation units, so as to compensate for a load of the first data line, making the compensated load on the first data line and a load on the second data line are basically the same or tend to be the same. In this way, any display difference across different regions of the display panel due to a difference of the load on the first data line and the load on the second data line may be avoided, which in turn improves the display uniformity of the display panel and improves the display effect of the display panel. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223078 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE EXECUTION OF A GRAPHICAL CALCULATION AND DISPLAY CHAIN ASSOCIATED WITH AN AIRCRAFT COCKPIT DISPLAY SCREEN - The invention relates to this method comprising the following steps, for at least one input/output parameter:
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20220223079 | APPARATUS FOR DRIVING STRETCHABLE DISPLAY - An apparatus for driving a stretchable display includes a first pixel driving signal generating module to generate a first pixel driving signal including data to be displayed on a stretchable display, a first pixel driving circuit to receive the first pixel driving signal to drive a first pixel, a second pixel driving circuit to drive a second pixel, wherein the driving of the second pixel is determined depending on whether the stretchable display is stretched, and a second pixel driving signal generating module to receive the first pixel driving signal and a power signal and to generate a second pixel driving signal to be applied to the second pixel driving circuit by using one of the first pixel driving signal and the power signal, based on a stretching state signal generated depending on whether the stretchable display is stretched. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223080 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL - A display driver includes control circuitry and image processing circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to store a default gamma curve and determine a scaling factor based on a location of a target pixel in a display panel. The control circuitry is further configured to determine a modified gamma curve by scaling the default gamma curve with the scaling factor. The image processing circuitry configured to apply a gamma transformation based on the modified gamma curve to image data defined for the target pixel to generate output voltage data for the target pixel. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223081 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL - A display driver includes control circuitry and image processing circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to store first and second predetermined gamma curve defined for first and second regions of a display panel, respectively, the first region having a different pixel layout than the second region. The control circuitry is further configured to determine first and second modified gamma curves by scaling the first and second predetermined gamma curves with a common scale factor. The image processing circuitry is configured to apply a first gamma transformation based on the first modified gamma curve to a first graylevel defined for a first pixel circuit located in the first region to determine a first output voltage level and apply a second gamma transformation based on the second modified gamma curve to a second graylevel defined for a second pixel circuit located in the second region to determine a second output voltage level. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223082 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display driving circuit includes a clock signal generator which generates a clock signal at a frequency in response to a frequency control signal, a frequency variation determiner which adaptively changes a frequency variation of the clock signal, based on a magnitude of a deviation between the frequency of the clock signal and a target frequency calculated based on a reference clock signal supplied from the outside, and a frequency controller which generates the frequency control signal which updates the frequency of the clock signal, based on the frequency variation, and provides the frequency control signal to the clock signal generator. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223083 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a driving circuit including N-level shift registers cascaded with each other, where N is greater than or equal to two. A shift register includes a first control unit configured to receive an input signal, and control a signal of a first node; a second control unit configured to receive a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal, and control a signal of a second node; a third control unit configured to receive the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal, and control a signal of a fourth node; and a fourth control unit configured to receive a third voltage signal and a fourth voltage signal, and generate an output signal. The first and third voltage signals are high-level signals, and the second and fourth voltage signals are low-level signals. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223084 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel and a display device are provided. A shift register of the display panel includes a first control unit, configured to receive an input signal and control a signal of a first node in response to a first clock signal; a second control unit, configured to receive a first voltage signal and control a signal of a second node in response to the input signal and the first clock signal; a third control unit, configured to receive the first voltage signal and a second voltage signal and control a signal of a fourth node in response to the signal of the second node and a signal of a third node; and a fourth control unit, configured to receive a third voltage signal and a fourth voltage signal and generate an output signal in response to the signals of the second node and the fourth node. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223085 | SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUIT AND PIXEL DRIVING DEVICE - A shift register circuit includes a driving signal generating circuit, a coupling circuit, and a sweep signal generating circuit. The driving signal generating circuit is configured to receive a plurality of first clock signals, a low voltage source, an initial signal, and a first high voltage source so as to output a driving signal. The coupling circuit is coupled to the driving signal generating circuit. The coupling circuit is configured to transmit the low voltage source. The sweep signal generating circuit is coupled to the coupling circuit. The sweep signal generating circuit is configured to receive a second clock signal, the low voltage source, and a second high voltage source so as to output a sweep signal. A waveform of the sweep signal includes an oblique waveform. The first high voltage source and the second high voltage source are electrically independent of each other. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223086 | PIXEL DRIVING DEVICE - A pixel driving device includes at least one data line and at least one driver integrated circuit. The at least one data line includes a first area and a second area on both sides. The first area and the second area are separated by the at least one data line. The at least one driver integrated circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit is disposed in the first area, is configured to receive at least one first high-frequency signal so as to at least one first driving signal. The second circuit is disposed in the second area, is coupled to the first circuit and is configured to receive at least one low-frequency signal. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223087 | DISPLAY DRIVING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR SHORT CIRCUIT DETECTION - A display driving integrated circuit includes a common voltage buffer configured to provide a common voltage to a display panel and when a line outputting the common voltage and a gate line are short-circuited, apply a first current to the gate line or receive a second current from the gate line; a current generator configured to sum currents respectively corresponding to the first current and the second current and output an output current obtained by the summing; and a current detector configured to convert the output current into an output voltage and output a high or low signal based on a result of comparing the output voltage with a preset voltage. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223088 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a data line, a pixel electrically connected to the data line, a data driver for outputting a data voltage, and a transmitter electrically connected between an output terminal of the data driver and the data line. The transmitter may transmit an instance of the data voltage to the data line in a first period. The transmitter may amplify a second instance of the data voltage to generate a reference voltage and then transmit the reference voltage to the data line in a second period different from the first period. The pixel includes a light emitting element for emitting light in response to the first instance of the data voltage. A voltage level of the reference voltage may be higher than a voltage level of the data voltage. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223089 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MULTI-PRIMARY WIDE GAMUT COLOR SYSTEM - Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223090 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - A method of controlling an element of a display device is provided. At least one processor of the display device may be configured to determine a first chromaticity value corresponding to a first grayscale value of the element of the display device, and determine a first luminance value corresponding to the first chromaticity value, based on the first chromaticity value and a target with respect to a relationship between chromaticity and luminance. In addition, the at least one processor of the display device may be configured to determine a second grayscale value corresponding to the first luminance value, determine a second chromaticity value corresponding to the second grayscale value, determine a second luminance value corresponding to the second chromaticity value, based on the second chromaticity value and the target, and determine chromaticity and luminance calibration coefficients, based on the second luminance value. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223091 | GAMMA VOLTAGE GENERATION CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A display device includes a display unit including a pixel which displays an image based on a first power voltage and a data signal, a gamma voltage generator which generates gamma voltages, and a data driver which generates the signal using the gamma voltages and provides the data signal to the pixel. The gamma voltage generator generates first and second reference voltages, generates first and second corrected reference voltages by correcting the first and second reference voltages using a target voltage and an external power voltage provided from the display unit in correspondence with the first power voltage, and generates the gamma voltages by dividing the first and second corrected reference voltages. The gamma voltage generator sets the target voltage based on at least one selected from the first reference voltage, the second reference voltage, and a ground voltage. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223092 | IMAGE STICKING COMPENSATION DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An image sticking compensation device includes: a deterioration calculator which calculates deterioration data of a current frame based on input image data and sensing frequency information which are received from a timing controller; an accumulator which accumulates the deterioration data and generates age data in which the deterioration data is accumulated; and a compensator which determines a grayscale compensation value corresponding to the age data and an input grayscale value of the input image data, and outputs age compensation data by applying the grayscale compensation value to the input image data. The sensing frequency information includes a frequency of the current frame, and the deterioration data varies in accordance with the frequency of the current frame. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223093 | DRIVING METHOD AND DRIVING SYSTEM OF DISPLAY PANEL - The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display panels and provides a driving method and a driving system of a display panel. The driving method of a display panel includes detecting a refresh rate of each frame of the display panel; in response to that the refresh rate of a current frame of the display panel changes relative to the refresh rate of a previous frame of the current frame, generating an adjustment instruction of an initialization voltage; determining a target initialization voltage of the current frame based on the adjustment instruction of the initialization voltage; and at a reset phase of the current frame, initializing a pixel drive circuit of the display panel with the target initialization voltage, so that a difference value between a working current of the pixel drive circuit in the current frame and a working current of the pixel drive circuit in the previous frame is less than a preset threshold. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223094 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROGRAMMING, CALIBRATING AND/OR COMPENSATING, AND DRIVING AN LED DISPLAY - A method and system for programming, calibrating and driving a light emitting device display, and for operating a display at a constant luminance even as some of the pixels in the display are degraded over time. The system may include extracting a time dependent parameter of a pixel for calibration. Each pixel in the display is configured to emit light when a voltage is supplied to the pixel's driving circuit, which causes a current to flow through a light emitting element. Degraded pixels are compensated by supplying their respective driving circuits with greater voltages. The display data is scaled by a compression factor less than one to reserve some voltage levels for compensating degraded pixels. As pixels become more degraded, and require additional compensation, the compression factor is decreased to reserve additional voltage levels for use in compensation. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223095 | DISPLAY PANEL, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PIXEL COMPENSATION THEREOF - A display panel, and a method and a device for pixel compensation thereof are provided. The method includes receiving a signal of a frame of image, obtaining grayscale compensation data, and compensating the grayscale data. In the image in a same frame, polarities of grayscale compensation data of two adjacent sub-pixels are opposite. In a time period unit, respective polarities of high grayscale compensation data and low grayscale compensation data of each of the sub-pixels remain symmetrical. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223096 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, GATE ELECTRODE DRIVER CIRCUIT, SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUIT AND DRIVE METHOD THEREOF - A shift register circuit includes:an input sub-circuit connected to a first node, and configured to receive a first control signal, and cause a potential of the first node to jump from an initial potential to a first potential greater than the initial potential; an output sub-circuit connected to the first node, and configured to receive a first clock signal, generate an output signal, cause the potential of the first node to jump from the first potential to a third potential greater than the first potential; and a chamfering sub-circuit connected to the first node, and configured to receive a second control signal, cause the potential of the first node to gradually decrease from the third potential to a fourth potential greater than the initial potential and less than the third potential, and cause the potential of the first node to jump from the fourth potential to the initial potential. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223097 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. A signal processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an input interface to receive an image signal; a first image processor to generate first image frame data based on the image signal; a second image processor to generate second image frame data scaled down from the first image frame data based on the image signal; and an output interface to receive the first image frame data from the first image processor and the second image frame data from the second image processor and to output the first image frame data and the second image frame data, wherein the first image frame data output from the output interface is more delayed than the second image frame data output from the output interface. Accordingly, a timing controller may accurately and rapidly perform signal processing for a panel. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223098 | FRAME REPLAY FOR VARIABLE RATE REFRESH DISPLAY - A graphics processing unit (GPU) instructs a display control module to capture content and display captured content in response to the refresh rate of a display exceeding a frame generation rate of the GPU. Rather than re-transmit the same frame multiple times, the GPU instructs the display control module to replay a previously-transmitted frame. During a refresh cycle in which the display control module is replaying captured content, the GPU omits accessing memory to retrieve and resend the frame that is being replayed, and instead sends only invalid data and GPU timing information so that the display control module remains synchronized with the GPU. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223099 | Light Emitting Device Array Circuit Capable of Reducing Ghost Image and Driver Circuit and Control Method Thereof - A light emitting device array circuit capable of reducing ghost image includes: a light emitting device array, plural scan line switch circuits, and a driver circuit. The light emitting device array includes plural light emitting devices arranged in plural scan lines and plural data lines. In one frame, plural scan line switch circuits respectively electrically connect plural scan nodes in plural corresponding scan lines to a scan conduction voltage in a non-overlapping sequential order. Data line buffer circuits of the driver circuit provide predetermined dimming levels to corresponding data nodes respectively according to data operation signals. A pre-discharge control amplifier circuit of the driver circuit is coupled to the plural scan nodes and provides a pre-discharge level to at least one predetermined scan node during a predetermined pre-discharge time period according to a pre-discharge signal. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223100 | OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING OPTICAL SYSTEMS THAT CAN BE MOVED BETWEEN DIFFERENT PIXELS, AND CONTROL METHOD - An optoelectronic device having a set of pixels wherein each pixel has a sub-pixel capable of emitting a primary light beam, a set of pixels each pixel being adjacent to a pixel wherein each secondary pixel has at least one secondary sub-pixel capable of emitting a secondary light beam, a set of optical systems arranged so as to be able to cover an entire pixel belonging to one of the sets and at least part of the sub-pixels of at least one of the adjacent pixels belonging to the other set, the number of pixels being greater than twice the number of optical systems. At least one movement mechanism applies a relative movement between the set and the sets according to a predetermined sequence. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223101 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels, including first pixels and second pixels, where each of the first pixels includes a first light-emitting element connected with a first pixel circuit; the first pixel circuit includes a first drive transistor; each of the second pixels includes a second light-emitting element connected with a second pixel circuit; and the second pixel circuit includes a second drive transistor. The display panel further includes a display region, including an optical component region and a first display region, where the first light-emitting element is in the optical component region; the second light-emitting element is in the first display region. | 2022-07-14 |
20220223102 | APPARATUS, METHODS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR A MICRO-LED DISPLAY - Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for a micro-LED display are disclosed. An example apparatus for a micro-LED display includes a substrate, a micro-LED matrix on a first side of the substrate, a driver circuit on a second side of the substrate, the second side opposite the first side, and a conductive path in the substrate to extend between the first side and the second side to electrically couple the micro-LED matrix to the driver circuit. | 2022-07-14 |