Patents Examined by Ephrem Mebrahtu
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Patent number: 9400393Abstract: A display apparatus including a display module, a variable parallax barrier module, and a control unit is provided. The display module is configured to provide a light beam. The variable parallax barrier module is disposed on a transmission path of the light beam. The variable parallax barrier module respectively forms a plurality of different parallax barrier patterns during different display periods of a frame time. Each of the parallax barrier patterns includes a plurality of light-transmissive regions and a plurality of light-shielding regions alternately arranged along an arrangement direction. In all of light-transmissive regions of the parallax barrier patterns, any two adjacent light-transmissive regions partially overlap each other. The control unit enables a plurality of display images displayed by the display module during the different display periods to respectively correspond to the parallax barrier patterns. A variable parallax barrier module and a displaying method are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Wu-Li Chen, Chao-Hsu Tsai
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Patent number: 9395475Abstract: Traditional solar control applications rely on thin metal films to reflect EM radiation with wavelengths longer than that of the visible spectrum. Unfortunately such films also block radiation in cellular, GPS, and radio frequency bands. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a selectively-blocking filter that uses one or more optical filters tuned to a specific range(s) of wavelengths (e.g. for blocking IR radiation), while readily transmitting other wavelengths (e.g. both visible light and cellular/GPS signals). The filters can be manufactured on both flexible and rigid substrates.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Kevin Krogman, J. Wallace Parce, Siglinde Schmid, Melissa Fardy, Tom Hood, Steven D. White, Benjamin Wang
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Patent number: 9389403Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a microscope in which excitation light is focused on, or beamed to, different points of a specimen, in which an intensity of the excitation light is point-specifically varied and in which an intensity of the light reflected by said specimen in at least one spectral range is measured point-specifically and quantitatively. The method according to the invention is characterized in that the intensity and/or a spectral composition of the excitation light beamed to a specific point of said specimen is automatically adjusted by a regulating device on the basis of information previously gained from measured data of said specimen concerning an estimated or actual intensity of the light reflected in the spectral range by said point such that an integral of the intensity of the light reflected in the spectral range by this point during a pixel dwell time is within a predefined value interval. The invention also relates to a microscope.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Ingo Kleppe, Mirko Liedtke
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Patent number: 9322964Abstract: Nanostructured photonic materials and associated components for use in devices and systems operating at ultraviolet (UV), extreme ultraviolet (EUV), and/or soft Xray wavelengths are described. Such a material may be fabricated with nanoscale features tailored for a selected wavelength range, such as at particular UV, EUV, or soft Xray wavelengths or wavelength ranges. Such a material may be used to make components such as mirrors, lenses or other optics, panels, lightsources, masks, photoresists, or other components for use in applications such as lithography, wafer patterning, biomedical applications, or other applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Inventor: Supriya Jaiswal
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Patent number: 9323067Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display apparatus having a display material provided between a pair of substrates arranged to face each other, the method comprises: bonding a first mother substrate and a second mother substrate to form a cell substrate from which one or more panels are bring out; thinning one of the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate after forming the cell substrate; forming a parallax barrier layer that separates a display image and a light transmission layer to be stacked on the parallax barrier layer on a surface of the one of the first mother substrate and the second mother substrate at an outer-side face of the cell substrate; and dividing the cell substrate into one or more panels.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Yamayoshi, Junichi Tsuchimichi, Hiromasa Morita
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Patent number: 9291997Abstract: A high speed hologram recording apparatus and method. The hologram recording apparatus includes: a light source for emitting coherent light; a beam splitter for splitting the coherent light emitted from the light source into a signal beam and a reference beam; a signal beam transfer unit comprising an angular deflector that changes a direction of the signal beam according to time, and irradiating the signal beam onto a hologram recording medium; and a reference beam transfer unit irradiating the reference beam at a location of the hologram recording medium where the signal beam is also irradiated.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyoung-seok Pyun, Alexander Morozov, Chil-sung Choi, Ivan Bovsunovskiy, Vladislav Druzhin, Andrew Putilin
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Patent number: 9279994Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device (hereinafter, referred to as a “3D device”) and polarizing glasses are provided. According to the 3D device and polarizing glasses, a three-dimensional image having excellent crosstalk ratio and color characteristics can be observed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Byoung Kun Jeon, Moon Soo Park, Sin Young Kim, Su Young Ryu
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Patent number: 9235048Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for reducing fouling of a surface of an optically transparent element with a light source. According to one aspect, the invention is a system including an LED for emitting UV-C radiation, a mount for directing emitted UV-C radiation toward the optically transparent element, and control circuitry for driving the LED. The system may be used to remove a desired amount of biofilm.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONInventors: Norman Erwin Farr, Clifford Thomas Pontbriand, Timothy Goodwin Peters
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Patent number: 9201247Abstract: Disclosed is an image display apparatus, including a display device displaying right-eye images and left-eye images. A light-modulating device attached to the display device; and a temperature sensor monitoring the light-modulating device temperature. The light-modulating device deflects the right-eye and left-eye images to an observer's right and left eyes respectively without a temperature variation in the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Yeong-Feng Wang, Ching-Tung Hsu, Yen-I Chou, Chia-Yen Lee, Meng-Han Liu, Ming-Wei Tsai
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Patent number: 9164200Abstract: A lens includes a first optical surface including an optical axis X, and a first cut end surface at an outer circumference of the first optical surface. The first optical surface has a first SWS configured to reduce reflection of light. The first cut end surface has a second SWS configured to reduce reflection of light. A reflectance of the second SWS with respect to light having a predetermined wavelength is higher than the reflectance of the first SWS with respect to the light having the predetermined wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamasa Tamura, Jun Murata
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Patent number: 9158109Abstract: Optical systems with aspherical optical elements are described. The aspherical optical elements have surfaces in which the in-plane radius of curvature spatially varies and the in-plane cross section surface profile is characterized in that the multiplication of the cosine of the incidence angle raised to a non-zero exponent by the in-plane radius of curvature varies less than twenty percent between any two points on the in-plane cross section surface profile.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: SI-WARE SYSTEMSInventors: Yasser M. Sabry, Diaa Abdel Maged Khalil, Bassam A. Saadany, Tarik E. Bourouina
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Patent number: 9134499Abstract: An object is to provide a method for manufacturing an image pickup lens unit which can form a holder member with a small number of components, and can avoid generation or a ghost or flare caused by a positioning shape, an appearance problem, deterioration of dimension accuracy. In an installing step, since a lens 10 is positioned by one pressing member (protrusion) 61d of protrusions 61d and 62d which are a pair of pressing members disposed in a position corresponding to a pair of openings OP1 and OP2 by molds 51 and 52, it is possible to reliably fix the lens 10 in the molds 51 and 52 in a state of not affecting to a shape of a holder member 40 without interrupting the molding of the holder member 40. Thus, it is possible to avoid deterioration of the dimension accuracy due to the remaining large positioning shape on the holder member 40.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Hajime Mori, Takashi Fujii, Takemi Miyazaki
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Patent number: 9122055Abstract: A substrate having a second material on a surface of the substrate or embedded as a layer within the substrate are described. The second material has a different index of refraction and/or stiffness than the substrate so that stretching and unstretching of the substrate and the second material can induce wrinkles in the second material that interacts with light thereby allowing reversible change from a transparent state to an opaque or iridescent state, and vice versa. The present disclosure is useful as a shading system and/or displays.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Philseok Kim, Jack Alvarenga
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Patent number: 9116350Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for an optoelectronic assembly including a MEMS scanning mirror. In one embodiment, the MEMS scanning mirror may include a micro-scale mirror configured to be rotatable about a chord axis of the mirror to deflect an incident light beam into an exit window of the optoelectronic assembly, and a support structure configured to host the mirror to provide a light delivery field between a mirror surface and the exit window such that a path of the deflected light beam via the provided light delivery field to the exit window is un-obstructed. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Barak Freedman, Arnon Hirshberg
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Patent number: 9110328Abstract: The present invention provides a color filter and a manufacturing method thereof. A transparent dyeable material is coated on a roller, and then imprint onto a patterned mold. A part of the transparent dyeable material is retained on the roller, and then imprinted onto a substrate by the roller and forms a black matrix (BM) layer through a dyeing process and a curing process in sequence. The other part of the transparent dyeable material is transferred onto the patterned mold for forming a plurality of softened color resist layers by the dyeing process, and then forms a plurality of color resist layers by a curing process after transferring the softened color resist layers onto the substrate having the BM layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.Inventor: Hsiao-hsien Chen
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Patent number: 9091841Abstract: A zoom optical system ZL to be mounted on an optical apparatus such as a single lens reflex camera 1, comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group G4 having negative refractive power, a fifth lens group G5 having positive refractive power, and a sixth lens group G6 having negative refractive power. The zoom optical system is configured such that at least a portion of any one lens group among these lens group G1 to G6 may be moved such that a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis may be included. Thus, there are provided a zoom optical system that can suppress well variation in aberrations upon zooming, an optical apparatus equipped therewith and a method for manufacturing the zoom optical system.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Tomoki Ito
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Patent number: 9091853Abstract: A device for forming an interference grating on a sample. The device including a laser emitting a light beam of wavelength ?, a beam splitter plate splitting the light beam into first and second beams, the first beam being deflected in a first direction, a first stationary deflection mirror for deflecting the first beam onto a point P of the sample at a first constant angle of incidence ?1, and at least one second stationary deflection mirror for deflecting the second beam along a final path that reaches point P of the sample at a second angle of incidence ?2 in order to form an interference grating on the sample at a pitch that depends on the angular difference ?. The device includes a movable deflection mirror to deflect the second beam from a plurality of first deflection points towards a plurality of second deflection points on the second mirror.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInventor: Christophe Longeaud
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Patent number: 9001418Abstract: The present invention provides a highly flexible near-infrared reflecting film which has achieved good near-infrared reflection characteristics by comprising layers that have different refractive indexes and which is not susceptible to bending or cracks. This near-infrared reflecting film has a multilayer film, in which films having refractive indexes different from each other are laminated, on a film, and is characterized in that: the difference of the refractive indexes between at least two adjacent layers is 0.3 or more; at least one of the two adjacent layers contains a metal oxide; and at least one of the two adjacent layers contains a polyvinyl alcohol or an inorganic polymer.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Noriyuki Kokeguchi, Takeo Arai