Patents Examined by Sultan Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 11829002
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a zooming projection method and a projector. The projector includes a focusing device and a lens movable along an optical axis. The method includes: acquiring a projection distance between the projector and a projection position; adjusting the lens to a target position for projection by the focusing device in response to the projection distance being within an optical zooming range; and scaling a projection image and projecting the scaled projection image in response to the projection distance being not within the optical zooming range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: IVIEW DISPLAYS (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Wenxiang Li, Mingnei Ding, Steve Yeung, Zhiqiang Gao
  • Patent number: 11829061
    Abstract: An image display device according to an aspect of the present technology includes an emission portion, a transparent base material, an irradiation target, and an optical portion. The emission portion emits image light along a predetermined axis. The transparent base material includes a tapered surface having a tapered shape along the predetermined axis. The irradiation target is disposed at least a part around the predetermined axis along the tapered surface. The optical portion controls an incident angle of the image light on the irradiation target, the image light having been emitted from the emission portion, the optical portion being disposed in a manner that the optical portion faces the emission portion on the basis of the predetermined axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoharu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11829059
    Abstract: A scanning light imaging device for continuously pseudo randomly scanning patterns of light in a beam onto a remote surface to achieve spatio-temporal super resolution for finding remotely located objects. The scanning light imaging device employs a scanner to project image beams of visible or non-visible light and/or tracer beams of non-visible light onto a remote surface or remote object to detect reflections. The device employs a light detector to sense at least the reflections of light from one or more of the image beams or the tracer beams incident on the remote surface or remote object. The device employs the sensed reflections of light beams to predict the trajectory of subsequent scanned beams in a pseudo random pattern and determine up to a six degrees of freedom position for the remote surface or remote object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Gerard Dirk Smits
  • Patent number: 11822220
    Abstract: A projection control apparatus includes at least one processor or a control processing unit, and a communication unit. The control processing unit obtains a first captured image captured at a first point and a second captured image captured at a second point differing from the first point via the communication unit, obtains first correction data from the first captured image and second correction data from the second captured image, obtains first position data at the first position, second position data at the second point, and third position data at a third point differing from the first and second points, determines third correction data corresponding to the third point using the first correction data, the second correction data, the first position data, the second position data, and the third position data, and corrects a projected image to be projected by a projector based on the third correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Hara, Tetsuro Narikawa
  • Patent number: 11822062
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ultra-short focus projecting optical system, which includes a display unit, a first lens group having a positive focus power, a second lens group having a positive focus power, a third lens group having a negative focus power, and an aspherical reflector arranged sequentially along a projection direction. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens and a diaphragm arranged sequentially along the projection direction. The first lens is a glass aspherical lens, the second lens is a glass spherical lens, and the first lens and the second lens are bent toward the diaphragm from their respective centers to their respective peripheries. The ultra-short focus projecting optical system and a projection device provided by this application can realize a large aperture and high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Union Optech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuancai Li, Liwei Quan, Shoulin Li, Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 11822225
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a projector, an input/output interface, a memory, and a processor that controls the electronic apparatus by executing at least one instruction stored in the memory. The processor obtains screen information of a screen device connected to the electronic apparatus, controls the input/output interface to transmit first operation information corresponding to an unrolling of the screen device in response to receiving a user command to project an image, and controls the projector to project a first image to at least a partial region of a region in which a screen of the screen device is exposed based on the screen information while the screen of the screen device is being unrolled, based on the first operation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seunghyun Moon, Hakjae Kim
  • Patent number: 11818514
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a digital light processing (DLP) projection equipment and its electronic device. There proposes an electronic device for a digital cinema grade DLP projection equipment compatible with Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), including: a processing circuit configured to process an input video data; an output controller to control processed video signal so that the video signals are suitable for projection display via an output optics, wherein the processing circuit and the output controller are integrated on the same circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: GDC Technology (Shenzhen) Limited
    Inventors: Man Nang Chong, Pranay Kumar
  • Patent number: 11812203
    Abstract: A projection system includes: a projection device that includes a laser scanner and projects one or more drawings individually onto work spots in a work site; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust at least one of (i) a quantity of the one or more drawings to be simultaneously projected by the projection device or (ii) a setting parameter regarding a mode of projection performed by the projection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Hara, Tetsuya Nishi, Yuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11796817
    Abstract: An optical arrangement for expanding and uniformizing a beam of light, including a first optical member arranged to receive a collimated incoming light beam, from an incoming beam direction, with a first polarization, the first optical member configured to expand and uniformize the collimated incoming light beam along a first axis to form a first collimated light beam exiting therefrom in a first beam direction; a second optical member adapted to receive the first collimated light beam, from the first beam direction, with the first polarization in relation thereto, the second optical member configured to expand and uniformize the first collimated light beam along a second axis to form a second collimated light beam exiting therefrom in a second beam direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Lightspace Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilmars Osmanis, Ugis Gertners, Kriss Osmanis, Martins Narels, Marcis Greitans, Ainars Ozols, Sandra Balode, Roberts Zabels
  • Patent number: 11800070
    Abstract: A control method for a projector includes coupling a projector to another projector, transmitting first instruction information representing a start of setting of stack projection using the projector and the other projector to the other projector by the projector, setting a first projection range indicating a range in which the projector projects an image for the stack projection, and transmitting second instruction information representing adjustment to make a second projection range indicating a range in which the other projector projects an image coincide with the first projection range to the other projector by the projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Ozawa, Morio Matsumoto, Takeo Koshiba
  • Patent number: 11796899
    Abstract: A control device of a projection apparatus that projects an image from a display portion displaying the image based on input image data to a projection object through an optical system, includes: a correction portion that corrects the input image data by performing first processing of increasing pixel values of pixels of the input image data corresponding to a specific region determined by a light quantity distribution in a surface of the projection object in the image projected to the projection object, and second processing of uniformly decreasing each of pixel values of pixels of the input image data by a first pixel amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Inoue, Akihiro Ishizuka, Tomonori Masuda, Kazuki Ishida
  • Patent number: 11789324
    Abstract: A head-up display includes a liquid-crystal panel including a display screen provided at a front surface thereof, a Fresnel lens which is on an opposite side of the liquid-crystal panel from the display screen, a light-diffusion structure between the liquid-crystal panel and the Fresnel lens, a backlight that emits light toward the Fresnel lens, a light-transmissive member between the backlight and the Fresnel lens, a body part accommodating the Fresnel lens, and a mirror that forms a virtual image corresponding to an image displayed on the display screen of the liquid-crystal panel, in a target space. The body part has a step-shaped structure including a first step surface and a second step surface, the first and second step surfaces are oriented in the same direction as the front surface of the liquid-crystal panel. The first step surface is located on the liquid-crystal panel side from the second step surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takato Hada, Takahiro Akiyoshi, Hiroki Hara, Keiji Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11789346
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light emitting element configured to emit light, a substrate on which the light emitting element is disposed, a first heat radiating member thermally connected to the substrate, a base supporting the first heat radiating member, a frame fixed to the base and surrounding the light emitting element and the substrate, and a pressing member fixed to the frame and configured to press the substrate toward the first heat radiating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Shindo, Shin Aruga, Makoto Zakoji
  • Patent number: 11782283
    Abstract: A laser system includes a laser source generating a laser beam having ultra-short pulses; a laser delivery assembly optically receiving the laser beam and comprising: a beam splitter configured to split the laser beam between a first beam delivery path and a second beam delivery path; and at least one focusing lens optically coupled to the beam splitter and configured to focus the laser beam from each of the first beam delivery path and the second beam delivery path to a focal point on a predefined plane; wherein the first beam delivery path intersects the predefined plane at a first angle, the second beam delivery path intersects the predefined plane at a second angle, and a first pulse from the first beam delivery path and a second pulse from the second beam delivery path are coincident at the focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Matthew David Treiser
  • Patent number: 11785188
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus that includes an image projection section that performs an image projection process based on a PWM method, an output image control section that sets a portion of a single-frame output period of a view-use image as a period in which to output a pattern image to be used for calculating an image correction parameter, a correction parameter calculation section that calculates the image correction parameter with use of the pattern image captured by a camera in the pattern image output period, and an image correction section that performs a correction process on the view-use image with use of the image correction parameter. The output image control section controls the pattern image output period in such a manner that pixel values of the pattern image fall within a range from a minimum pixel value to less than a minimum significant pixel value of the view-use image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masuyoshi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11774731
    Abstract: An optical system forms an intermediate image between a reduction-side conjugate plane and a enlargement-side conjugate plane. The optical system includes a first optical system and a second optical system including a lens and disposed on the enlargement side of the first optical system. The lens has a first transmission surface, a reflection surface disposed on the enlargement side of the first transmission surface, and a second transmission surface disposed on the enlargement side of the reflection surface. At least one of the reflection surface and the second transmission surface is a free-form surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirotaka Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 11778148
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the use of variable-pitch light-emitting devices for display applications, including for displays in augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality environments. In particular, it relates to small (e.g., micron-size) light emitting devices (e.g., micro-LEDs) of variable pitch to provide the advantages, e.g., of compactness, manufacturability, color rendition, as well as computational and power savings. Systems and methods for emitting multiple lights by multiple panels where a pitch of one panel is different than pitch(es) of other panels are disclosed. Each panel may comprise a respective array of light emitters. The multiple lights may be combined by a combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre St. Hilaire, Evgeni Poliakov, Sundeep Kumar Jolly
  • Patent number: 11768411
    Abstract: Provided is a head-up display including a liquid-crystal panel including a display screen, a Fresnel lens which is on an opposite side of the liquid-crystal panel from the display screen, a light-diffusion structure between the liquid-crystal panel and the Fresnel lens, and a mirror that forms a virtual image corresponding to an image displayed on the display screen of the liquid-crystal panel, in a target space, where the light-diffusion structure is thinner than the Fresnel lens, and the light-diffusion structure has a thickness equal to or smaller than 300 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takato Hada, Takahiro Akiyoshi, Hiroki Hara, Keiji Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11768426
    Abstract: A projection toy includes a top housing. A bottom housing is fixedly mounted at a top end of the top housing. A projection mechanism is fixedly mounted between the top housing and the bottom housing. A light-emitting diode (LED) lamp panel is fixedly mounted on one side of the projection mechanism between the top housing and the bottom housing. An end, away from the LED lamp panel, of the projection mechanism is clamped in a limiting enclosure. The limiting enclosure is fixedly mounted at one end of a first cover. A second cover is fixedly connected to the first cover. A decorative cover is fixedly mounted on the second cover. The first cover is fixedly mounted at one end of the top housing and one end of the bottom housing on a side away from the decorative cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Bingling Chen
  • Patent number: 11768410
    Abstract: Provided is a head-up display including a display system that has a liquid-crystal panel including a display screen, a Fresnel lens which is on an opposite side of the liquid-crystal panel from the display screen, and a backlight that emits light toward the Fresnel lens. The head-up display also includes a first mirror that reflects light from the display system, a second mirror that reflects light from the first mirror, and a control circuit that controls the liquid-crystal panel, where a center of the second mirror is closer to a center of the control circuit than a center of the display system in a direction connecting a center of the first mirror and the center of the second mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takato Hada, Takahiro Akiyoshi, Hiroki Hara, Keiji Sugiyama