Patents Examined by Ryan D Howard
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Patent number: 11974078Abstract: In the present application, for a detailed protocol for realizing supplemental downlink communication in the filed patent, particularly, a system is proposed which performs training processing at high speed by using two-dimensionally developed information. In the present application, compared to the filed patent, a two-dimensional pilot symbol can be used in a display unit, further, introduction of a segment for communication band control using a two-dimensional pilot symbol, training processing using a two-dimensional test pattern for establishing a communication path, and a configuration of a communication frame are clarified, and MIMO processing of communication using video information by a plurality of segments is realized to improve a throughput of an existing portable phone.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Takashi Tsutsui, Kazuhiko Goukon
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Patent number: 11960101Abstract: An optical measurement device includes an optical system that focuses emitted light that is emitted from a measurement surface of a light emitting electronic display or a light emitting surface of which a speckle contrast or a sparkle contrast is to be measured; a two-dimensional sensor array having a two-dimensional sensor array surface on which the emitted light is focused, the two-dimensional sensor array capturing an image of the emitted light; and a calculation unit that calculates the speckle contrast or the sparkle contrast based on the image of the emitted light captured under an imaging condition under which a size of a light-emitting region on the measurement surface is constant, the light-emitting region contributing to formation of a diffraction limited spot of the emitted light on the two-dimensional sensor array surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Makio Kurashige, Kazutoshi Ishida, Shumpei Nishio
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Patent number: 11958270Abstract: Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of enhancing the heat shielding property, suppressing multiple images, and satisfactorily displaying an image. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention is an interlayer film for laminated glass for use in a laminated glass serving as a head-up display, the interlayer film has a region for display corresponding to a display region of the head-up display, the interlayer film includes an infrared reflective layer, a first resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin, and a second resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin, the first resin layer is arranged on a first surface side of the infrared reflective layer, the second resin layer is arranged on a second surface side opposite to the first surface of the infrared reflective layer, at least one of the first resin layer and the second resin layer has a wedge angle of 0.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Nohara, Yuusuke Oota
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Patent number: 11953688Abstract: Various embodiments set forth high-resolution liquid crystal displays and components thereof. In some embodiments, light emitted by a high-resolution green color liquid crystal display is combined, via a combiner, with light emitted by at least one lower-resolution red and blue color liquid crystal display. The red and blue color display(s) may include a single display or two displays positioned on opposing sides of the combiner. The combiner may be a dichroic or polarization-based combiner. Combined light from the green color display and the red and blue color display(s) is passed through collimating optics, such as a pancake lens or a Fresnel lens, toward a viewer's eye.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jacques Gollier, Ying Geng, Dong Chen
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Patent number: 11953665Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first reflection optical system and a second reflection optical system having mutually different optical axes, each of the first and second reflection optical systems includes a plurality of reflecting surfaces, a first imaging portion configured to receive an imaging light reflected by the first reflection optical system, a second imaging portion configured to receive an imaging light reflected by the second reflection optical system, a first member, a second member, and a frame. A part of the plurality of reflecting surfaces of the first reflection optical system are reflecting surfaces provided on the frame. Among the plurality of reflecting surfaces of the first reflection optical system, a final-stage reflecting surface configured to reflect the imaging light toward the first imaging portion is a first reflecting surface formed on a surface of the first member.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoto Fuse, Chiaki Inoue, Ichiro Kanazashi, Atsushi Takata, Kazuhiro Kochi, Kouga Okada
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Patent number: 11947131Abstract: A display device configured to be disposed in a vehicle includes a light emitting unit and a light controlling means. The light controlling means is disposed on a route that a light emitted from the light emitting unit moves, and the light is controlled to move at a first angle in a horizontal direction and at a second angle in a vertical direction through the light controlling means. The horizontal direction is defined as a direction parallel to a floor of the vehicle and the vertical direction is defined as a direction perpendicular to the floor of the vehicle. The first angle is greater than the second angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventor: Jui-Jen Yueh
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Patent number: 11945306Abstract: A method operates a visual field display device, in particular for a motor vehicle, which is designed to produce a projection light beam with a display content and to project the display content onto a partially transparent reflecting projection screen, in particular a front window of the motor vehicle, such that a virtual display image which is superimposed into a field of vision of a user is generated behind it. The method determines image element edges having vertical or a vertical component in the virtual display image to be superimposed and tilts the image element edges thus determined to a respectively adapted tilt angle with respect to the vertical, such that double images of the respective image element edges in the virtual display image are offset with respect to each other in the horizontal direct for the user due to double reflections of the projection light beam on two optical boundaries of the projection screen and appear substantially sharp.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Wolfgang-Andreas Huber
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Patent number: 11934086Abstract: A method and device for adjusting a projected image are provided. In the method, a distance between a mobile terminal and a projection screen is acquired (S102); and at least one of a display area or a display orientation of a projected image on the projection screen is adjusted at least according to the distance between the mobile terminal and the projection screen (S104). Through the method and the device, a problem in a related art that the projected image can only be adjusted manually by a user is solved, and a viewing angle is adjusted to an optimal viewing angle for viewing a projected image in real time according to a distance with respect to a user, thereby protecting the eyesight of the user and improving user experience.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Li Yue
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Patent number: 11936488Abstract: A fixture system includes a fixture having an input device, an output device, and a fixture computing system. The fixture computing system includes a database and programming for receiving information from the input device and accessing the database. The programming has instructions that, when activated by the processor, performs the following steps: (a) activate the output device to output a first signal; (b) receive information from the input device; (c) access the database to determine a second signal, wherein the second signal is based on the information from the input device; and (d) activate the output device to output the second signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Newtonoid Technologies, L.L.C.Inventors: Fielding B. Staton, David Strumpf
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Patent number: 11937024Abstract: A projection system includes a projection device that projects drawings individually onto a plurality of work spots in a work site. The projection device includes a driver that changes an orientation of the projection device. When drawings are individually projected onto a first work spot and a second work spot in a stated sequence, and the second work spot is outside a projection angle that is projectable by the projection device, the driver changes the orientation of the projection device to include the second work spot within the projection angle after work at the first work spot is finished. The first work spot and the second work spot are included in the plurality of work spots.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Hayashi, Tetsuya Nishi, Keisuke Hara
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Patent number: 11927750Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an image source emitting a light field. A first freeform mirror is positioned to provide a first reflection of the light field. A generally concave second freeform mirror is positioned to receive the first reflection and provide a second reflection of the light field. The second reflection is reflected off of a windshield of the vehicle so as to be visible to a driver of the vehicle as a virtual image. The generally concave second freeform mirror includes a reflective surface having a shape such that the virtual image appears to be curved to the driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North AmericaInventors: Patrick O'Connell, Edo Omanovic
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Patent number: 11924587Abstract: A display method includes attenuating the brightness of an image corresponding to a superimposed area of a first image when the position of a projector is a reference position based on a first attenuation coefficient specified in accordance with the position in the superimposed area, calculating displacement information on displacement of the projector based on an output signal from an inertial sensor when the position of the projector is displaced from the reference position, obtaining a corrected first attenuation coefficient by correcting the first attenuation coefficient in accordance with the displacement information, and attenuating the brightness of the image corresponding to the superimposed area of the first image based on the corrected first attenuation coefficient when the position of the projector is displaced from the reference position.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Naoki Suzuki
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Patent number: 11914149Abstract: A system for generating a virtual image for a wearer includes: a lens providing vision of a real scene and having refractive power related to the prescription of the wearer, a directive light source that emits directive light beams to create the virtual image, a reflecting element positioned on or in the lens that receives and redirects the directive light beams emitted by the directive light source toward a convergence area of an eye of the wearer, a dynamical optical element for modifying the received light beams, and a memory storing prescription data relative to the prescription of the wearer, the dynamical optical element modifying the light beams at the convergence area so as to compensate at least partly the prescription of the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventor: Vincent Roptin
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Patent number: 11917123Abstract: A light projection system for projecting full-resolution, high quality images into different directions. The system includes a light source configured to provide a homogenous output beam of light and an illumination shaping optic elements configured with at least one of a predetermined cone angle, numerical aperture, and F-number. The system also includes a spatially-dependent, angular light modulator (ALM) with a plurality of pixels, each having an ON state, an OFF state, one input pupil, and N diffraction order pupils. The ALM is positioned such that the output beam is incident on the plurality of pixels. The at least one of the predetermined cone angle, numerical aperture, and F-number of the illumination shaping optic elements prevents contaminating light from entering an incorrect pupil. The system additionally includes a processor coupled to the ALM to provide discrete diffraction-based beam steering, whereby the ALM will project into one diffraction order at one time.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of ArizonaInventors: Brandon Hellman, Yuzuru Takashima
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Patent number: 11909164Abstract: An optical pulse pair generator is configured to generate an optical pulse pair including a first pulse beam and a second pulse beam having respective central wavelengths that are separated by a predetermined wavelength difference from each other and having target time waveforms that are substantially the same as each other. The optical pulse pair generator provided includes a splitter section configured to split an incident pulse beam into two, a first shaping section configured to shape one of the pulse beams split by the splitter section by shaping into the target time waveform and setting a central frequency so as to configure the first pulse beam, and a second shaping section configured to shape the other of the pulse beams split by the splitter section by shaping into the target time waveform so as to configure the second pulse beam.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kazuhiko Misawa, Terumasa Ito
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Patent number: 11899224Abstract: A lensed display system includes a projector configured to project an image. The lensed display system includes a lens formed of a glass or crystalline material. The lens includes a first surface, wherein at least a portion of the first surface includes a coating that is configured to display the projected image. The lens includes a second surface, wherein the second surface comprises a transparent curved surface that is configured to face toward a user and to enable the user to view the image projected onto the coating through the transparent curved surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: John David Smith, Bradford Ross Benn, Peter Carsillo, Tony Plett
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Patent number: 11897182Abstract: There is provided a novel and improved resin laminated optical body and a method for manufacturing the same that can easily adjust an optical property other than an optical property derived from a micro concave-convex structure, and eventually can reduce manufacturing costs of an optical device. The resin laminated optical body includes: an optical base material having a curved surface; and a resin layer provided on the curved surface of the optical base material. A micro concave-convex structure is formed in a surface of the resin layer, and the resin laminated optical body has a first optical property derived from the micro concave-convex structure and a second optical property derived from a property of the resin layer other than the micro concave-convex structure, the second optical property being different from an optical property of the optical base material.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroshi Tazawa
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Patent number: 11892761Abstract: An image projector with a high optical efficiency projects an image at an arbitrary distance from an observer. The image projector includes an illumination module having at least one spatially coherent light source; a phase image generator with an array of optical phase shifting elements; an electronic image controller connected electrically to the phase image generator; and a waveguide which includes at least one embedded partial reflector. The waveguide may be positioned either between the illumination module and the waveguide, or between the waveguide and the observer. The phase image generator may include phase shifts for canceling speckle, correcting optical aberrations, and/or compensating interference caused by light rays having different optical path lengths.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Lumus Ltd.Inventors: Ronen Chriki, Eitan Ronen, Yochay Danziger, Shimon Grabarnik, Tsion Eisenfeld
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Patent number: 11885978Abstract: Disclosed are a micro-lens structure, a displaying device, and a machining method of the micro-lens structure. The micro-lens structure specifically comprises: micro-lens units distributed in an array, wherein each micro-lens unit comprises at least two micro-lenses made of a photoresist, and the at least two micro-lenses have different arch heights.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Feng Zhang, Kang Guo, Renquan Gu, Detian Meng, Libo Wang, Dongfei Hou, Guangcai Yuan, Xue Dong, Wei Wang, Jinye Zhu, Jing Yu, Jing Liu, Haitao Huang
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Patent number: 11889237Abstract: A setting method includes acquiring arrangement information including first information representing a positional relationship between a projector and a projection surface and second information representing a size of a first image projected onto the projection surface from the projector, acquiring, based on the arrangement information, one or a plurality of pieces of setting information, each of which including a plurality of setting values used for the projector to project the first image onto the projection surface, and outputting one piece of setting information of the one or plurality of pieces of setting information to the projector.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshinori Minamide