Patents Examined by Bao-Luan Q Le
  • Patent number: 11796808
    Abstract: A directional backlit display device includes a light source module, a reflective narrow-angle diffuser, a backlit display device panel, an eye tracking device, and a controller. The diffuser includes a shaft and is utilized to reflect and uniformly diffuse the light to provide a uniform directional light beam. The backlit display device panel is included on the projecting optical path of the uniform directional light beam. The uniform directional light beam illuminates an image displayed on the backlit display device panel and projects to a projection area. The controller receives an eye position information from the eye tracking device and determines a coordinate. The controller determines a corrective projection area when the coordinate deviates from the projection area, and the drive module rotates the reflective narrow-angle diffuser around an axis of the shaft according to the corrective projection area, so the image projection area moves with the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: E-LEAD ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Stephen Chen
  • Patent number: 11789263
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes a liquid crystal display device including a display surface for displaying an image; and an optical system including a reflecting surface, and forming an optical path of display light from the display surface toward an eye point of a vehicle. The optical system includes a first reflecting surface placed closest to the display surface in the optical path of the display light, and a magnifying reflecting surface that magnifies and reflects the display light. When viewed from an image horizontal direction, the display surface is inclined toward an optical axis of the display light extending from the display surface toward the first reflecting surface. The optical system is configured so that a width of the optical path of the display light in an image vertical direction is reduced, gradually from the display surface toward the first reflecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Ichikawa, Tetsuya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11789264
    Abstract: A display for providing an image to an eye of a user has a compound light-guide arrangement formed from juxtaposed first and second slab waveguides (10, 20). Image illumination from a projector (100) is introduced, part into each waveguide, so as to propagate by internal reflection within the waveguide. A coupling-out configuration of the first waveguide (10) includes a first set of obliquely-angled internal partially-reflecting surfaces (11) in a first region of the compound light-guide arrangement for coupling-out a first part of the field of view, and a coupling-out configuration of the second waveguide (20) includes a second set of obliquely-angled internal partially-reflecting surfaces (21) in a second region of the compound light-guide arrangement, at least partially non-overlapping with the first region, for coupling-out a second part of the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Eitan Ronen, Ronen Chriki, Yochay Danziger
  • Patent number: 11789282
    Abstract: A projection apparatus including an illumination system and a projection imaging system is provided. The illumination system is adapted to emit an illumination beam, and the illumination system includes a light source module and a light shaping module. The light source module is adapted to emit at least one beam. The light shaping module is disposed on the transmission path of the at least one beam. The at least one beam forms an illumination beam after passing through the light shaping module, and the illumination beam has a light imaging matching angle. The light shaping module includes at least one first lens element. The at least one first lens element is disposed on the transmission path of the at least one beam. The projection imaging system is disposed on a transmission path of the illumination beam. The projection apparatus is suitable for eliminating stray light and crosstalk of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Yi-Chien Lo
  • Patent number: 11789182
    Abstract: There is provided an optical body and a display device that enable wavelength dependence of a reflectance to be reduced and reflection of incident light to be further suppressed, the optical body including: a concave-convex structure formed on a surface of a base material. An average period of concavities and convexities of the concave-convex structure is equal to or shorter than a wavelength belonging to a visible light band. A standard deviation of differences between respective positions of bottom faces of the concavities of the concave-convex structure in a normal direction of a flat surface of the base material and a median of the positions of the bottom faces is greater than or equal to 25 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi Kajiya, Asahiko Nogami, Kyoko Sakurai, Kazuya Hayashibe
  • Patent number: 11789349
    Abstract: A light source module includes a light source, a fluorescent ring, a reflector, and a driving device. The light source is configured to emit light. The fluorescent ring has an inner surface. The reflector is configured to reflect the light to form a light spot on the inner surface. The driving device is configured to rotate the reflector to cause the light spot to move along a circular path on the inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Chia-Chan Hu
  • Patent number: 11792335
    Abstract: A projection system, including a projection target, a projection device, an image capturing device, and a processor circuit, is provided. The projection target includes a reflective surface and an anti-reflective film disposed on the reflective surface. The anti-reflective film defines a projection range. The image capturing device captures a first captured image containing the projection target. The first captured image includes an image of the anti-reflective film. The processor circuit determines a position and a shape of the anti-reflective film in the first captured image according to the first captured image. The projection device projects a projection image on the projection target. The projection device adjusts the projection image according to the position and the shape of the anti-reflective film, and correspondingly adjusts the projection image to the projection range. In addition, an image projection method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Peng, Hsun-Cheng Tu, Chi-Wei Lin, Chun-Lin Chien
  • Patent number: 11785190
    Abstract: A projection apparatus includes an illumination system including a first laser light source and a second laser light source, a first light valve, and a second light valve. The first laser light source provides a first laser beam in first time periods. The second laser light source provides a second laser beam in second time periods. A color refresh rate of the projection apparatus is the number of times of alternating the first and second time periods with each other, and the color refresh rate ranges between 60 Hz and 6000 Hz. The first and second laser beams respectively form a first color light and a second color light when exiting the illumination system. The first and second light valves are located on a transmission path of the first color light. One of the first and second light valves is located on a transmission path of the second color light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Haw-Woei Pan
  • Patent number: 11782333
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a projection device and a color gamut switching method thereof. The projection device includes a light source, a wavelength conversion element, an optical engine module, a projection lens module, and a filter element. The light source is configured to emit a first light beam. The wavelength conversion element is disposed on a transmission path of the first light beam, and the wavelength conversion element is configured to convert the first light beam into a second light beam. The optical engine module is disposed on a transmission path of the second light beam from the wavelength conversion element. The optical engine module is configured to convert the second light beam to form an image beam. The projection lens module is disposed on a transmission path of the image beam from the optical engine module. The filter element is removably disposed on the transmission path of the second light beam or the image beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Che Chien, Ming-Tsung Weng, Kuan-Lun Chen
  • Patent number: 11782332
    Abstract: An exemplary laser light source system of a modular high-efficiency heat-dissipation uniform field is described. The light beam emitted by the blue laser light source is incident to the reflecting-blue transmitting-yellow beam combining mirror after passing through the scattering plate, and then is incident to the fluorescent unit through the lens group. The light beam generated after the excitation of the fluorescent unit is incident to the light pipe through the lens group I, the reflecting-blue transmitting-yellow beam combining mirror, the reflecting-red transmitting-blue-green beam combining mirror and the lens group II in sequence. The laser light source system of a modular high-efficiency heat-dissipation uniform field can effectively dissipate the heat generated by the laser, and obtain uniform picture projection output at the same time, which has a good practical application value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: JINMEI LASERTEC CORP., LTD
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Hu, Haiyang Chen, Hui Li, Xinyu Yan, Xiangyu Ji
  • Patent number: 11774843
    Abstract: Disclosed are a light source system and a display device, including: a first light source configured to emit first light; a second light source configured to emit second light; a wavelength conversion device configured to perform a wavelength conversion on the first light to obtain third light; a first optical splitter having a first area and a second area; and a first light combining device. The first optical splitter moves in timing sequence to make the first area and the second area be sequentially located on a preset light path. A side surface of the first optical splitter is configured to homogenize the first light and the second light that are emitted to the first light combining device; and the first light combining device is configured to guide the first light, the second light, and the third light to exit along a same light path to form illumination light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Zuqiang Guo, Ning Lu, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11774834
    Abstract: A scanning laser projector includes an optical module and projection engine. The optical module includes a laser generator outputting a laser beam, and a movable mirror scanning the laser beam across an exit window defined through the housing in a scanning pattern wider than the exit window such that the laser beam is directed through the exit window in a projection pattern that is smaller than and within the scanning pattern. A first light detector is positioned about a periphery of the exit window such that as the movable mirror scans the laser beam in the scan pattern, at a point in the scan pattern where the laser beam is scanned across an interior of the housing and not through the exit window, the laser beam impinges upon the first light detector. The projection engine adjusts driving of the movable mirror based upon output from the first light detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics LTD, STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alex Domnits, Elan Roth, Davide Terzi, Luca Molinari, Marco Boschi
  • Patent number: 11776219
    Abstract: Augmented reality glasses including a first image source, a second image source and a lens set are provided. The first image source emits a first image beam. The second image source emits a second image beam. The lens set includes a first lens and a second lens and disposed on the path of the image beams. A gap is disposed between the first lens and the second lens. The refractive index of the gap is lower than that of the first lens. The image beams enter the lens set at an incident surface of the lens set, are reflected at a first surface of the first lens, and exit the lens set at an exit surface. The optical path length of the first image beam from the first image source to the eyes is different from that of the second image beam from the second image source to the eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
  • Patent number: 11768384
    Abstract: A cycloidal diffractive waveplate based star simulator generates a star field with very high precision star locations and accurate brightness. The present disclosure provides a star simulator that allows for a large FOV, modular, multi-star simulator capable of very high precision dynamic star locations for testing of high accuracy, large FOV star trackers. The system is composed of a light source, a polarization grating-based image [1], and an opto-mechanical system for steering the light. The light is projected onto a diffuse screen where the light is scattered, creating a functional point source at the screen. A star tracker or other device under test views the screen which has a multitude of projected spots (each with its own light source and beam steering device) positioned in a star field distribution appropriate for the simulated viewing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Joshua Lentz
  • Patent number: 11768427
    Abstract: A projector includes first and second cooling targets and a cooling device. The cooling device includes a first compressor, a condenser, a first expander configured to decompress a part of the working fluid condensed by the condenser, a first evaporator configured to change the working fluid in a liquid phase flowing from the first expander into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat from the first cooling target, a second expander configured to decompress the other part of the working fluid condensed by the condenser, a second evaporator configured to change the working fluid in a liquid phase flowing from the second expander into the working fluid in a gas phase by using heat from the second cooling target, and a second compressor configured to compress the working fluid in a gas phase flowing from the second evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaname Nagatani, Osamu Katsuda
  • Patent number: 11762272
    Abstract: A light-source device includes an excitation light source; a wavelength conversion unit to convert at least some of first color light into second color light; a light mixing element including a rod integrator to mix at least one of the first color light and the second color light from the conversion unit; and an optical element on an optical path of the first color light and having a reflecting surface. A center of the first color light on the reflecting surface intersects with only one of a first light flux of the first color light incident on and a second light flux of the first color light emitted from the conversion unit. An angle formed by a projection straight line of the first color light incident on an incident aperture of the integrator and a predetermined axial line of the incident aperture of the integrator is smaller than 40°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kasumi Nakamura, Yohei Takano, Makoto Hirakawa, Kazuhiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 11762273
    Abstract: An image generation apparatus includes a first reflective optical element that reflects at least part of the light outputted from a light source apparatus and a second reflective optical element disposed in the optical path of the light reflected off the first reflective optical element. A projection optical apparatus has an entrance optical path located in the light exiting optical axis of the image generation apparatus, a deflection member that deflects light having traveled along the entrance optical path, and a passage optical path along which the light deflected by the deflection member travels. The light exiting optical axis of the light source apparatus is parallel to the light incident optical axis of the projection optical apparatus, and the extension of the light exiting optical axis of the light source apparatus intersects with the passage optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Otsuki, Makoto Zakoji, Katsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11765327
    Abstract: A method for controlling projectors includes identifying a first projector and a second projector by using a database, acquiring a first control code of the first projector and a second control code of the second projector after the first projector and the second projector are identified, and generating at least one control signal to the first projector and the second projector for controlling operational actions of the first projector and the second projector according to the first control code and the second control code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: BenQ Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, BENQ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih-Pen Huang, Chang-Sheng Lee, Tung-Chia Chou
  • Patent number: 11762265
    Abstract: An imaging lens and a projection device including the imaging lens are provided. The imaging lens includes a central lens portion and a peripheral lens portion arranged around the central lens portion. The peripheral lens portion has opposite first outer and inner surfaces, at least one of the first outer and inner surfaces has a plurality of first convex regions. The central lens portion has opposite second outer and inner surfaces, and at least one of the second outer and inner surfaces of the central lens portion protrudes beyond the corresponding first outer or inner surface of the peripheral lens portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventors: Haiquan Pang, Biao Xia, Minghua Yang
  • Patent number: 11762267
    Abstract: A light source apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an excitation light source that outputs excitation light, a ceramic phosphor that has a first surface and a second surface, converts in terms of wavelength part of the excitation light outputted from the excitation light source and incident via the first surface to generate fluorescence, and causes the fluorescence to exit via the second surface, and a substrate that supports the first surface of the ceramic phosphor. The excitation light outputted from the excitation light source is incident on an exposed portion of the first surface of the ceramic phosphor that is the portion exposed via the substrate. The distance in the exposed portion from an irradiated region irradiated with the excitation light to the substrate is 0.34 mm or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Kito