Patents Examined by William Choi
  • Patent number: 11726310
    Abstract: A meta-optical device includes a plurality of phase modulation areas configured to modulate a phase of an incident light, each of the plurality of phase modulation areas including a plurality of nanostructures having a shape and an arrangement that are determined according to a respective rule set for each of the plurality of phase modulation areas; and a compensation area located between a kth phase modulation area and a (k+1)th phase modulation area adjacent to each other, from among the plurality of phase modulation areas, and including a compensation structure for buffering an effective refractive index change occurring in a boundary area between the kth phase modulation area and the (k+1)th phase modulation area according to respective rules of the kth phase modulation area and the (k+1)th phase modulation area, wherein N is a number of the plurality of phase modulation areas, k and N are natural numbers, and k is equal to or greater than 1 and less than N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangeun Mun, Hyeonsoo Park, Hyunsung Park, Seunghoon Han
  • Patent number: 11720016
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods of forming a substrate having a target thickness distribution at one or more eyepiece areas across a substrate. The substrate includes eyepiece areas corresponding to areas where optical device eyepieces are to be formed on the substrate. Each eyepiece area includes a target thickness distribution. A base substrate thickness distribution of a base substrate is measured such that a target thickness change can be determined. The methods described herein are utilized along with the target thickness change to form a substrate with the target thickness distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: David Sell, Samarth Bhargava
  • Patent number: 11703699
    Abstract: This specification discusses a device which modulates, simultaneously or independently, the amplitude, polarization and phase of the electromagnetic radiation. This device has multiple metasurfaces, a spacer region between the metasurfaces, and an actuator for applying a force to at least one of the metasurfaces. The application of the force changes distance between at least two of the metasurfaces creating the of the electromagnetic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
    Inventors: Simone Zanotto, Alessandro Pitanti
  • Patent number: 11698506
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a carrier mechanism for retaining optical devices. The carrier mechanism includes adjacent tray assemblies stacked such that a plurality of optical device lenses are retained therebetween. The carrier mechanism retains the plurality of optical device lenses without damaging the plurality of optical device lenses by contacting corners of the optical device lenses. The plurality of optical device lenses are retained with a plurality of support pins and a plurality of capture pins disposed in the tray assemblies. Each tray includes a plurality of openings corresponding to the plurality of optical device lenses such that fluids may contact the plurality of optical device lenses. The carrier mechanism may be utilized in multiple processing methods of the plurality of optical device lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin B. Riordon, Kangkang Wang
  • Patent number: 11698511
    Abstract: Provided is a camera optical lens including, sequentially from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power; and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power. At least one of the first to seventh lenses comprises a free-form surface. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: ?3.00?f4/f3??1.00; 2.90?d9/d10?8.50; and 2.00?d11/d12?15.00. The camera optical lens can achieve high optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia Chen, Wen Sun
  • Patent number: 11693231
    Abstract: A laser beam scanning (“LBS”) display device is configured with an optical system that includes a laser beam emitter configured to emit a laser beam. The optical system also includes a driver configured to generate a driving signal for controlling a mirror, such as a microelectromechanical systems (“MEMS”) mirror. The optical system also includes a controller configured to generate a driving signal while rejecting a system disturbance response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Wenjun Liao, Chuan Pu
  • Patent number: 11693217
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power with a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens having positive refractive power with a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; and a fifth lens having refractive power. Half of a maximal field-of-view Semi-FOV of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfies: Semi-FOV>48°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yabin Hu, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11681127
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged from an object side to an imaging plane. An angle of view of the optical system is 82 degrees or more. A constant indicating brightness of the optical system, F-number, is less than 1.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ju Hwa Son
  • Patent number: 11675169
    Abstract: An image picking-up system includes seven lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group including a first lens element and a second lens element, a second lens group including a third lens element and a fourth lens element, and a third lens group including a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. At least one surface of object-side surfaces and image-side surfaces of the seven lens elements includes at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11675201
    Abstract: A packaging structure of head mounted terminal and a head mounted terminal are disclosed. The packaging structure comprises an annular rear casing and a soft rubber member, and the soft rubber member is disposed between the rear casing and two lenses of the head mounted terminal. The outer edge of the soft rubber member is fixed on the inner ring of the rear casing, the soft rubber member comprises two lens barrels arranged symmetrically, and the two lens barrels are respectively sleeved on the two lenses of the head mounted terminal. The soft rubber member further comprises an extending and folding part disposed on an outer periphery of the lens barrel, which is used to realize the extension of the lens barrel with the left and right movement of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QINGDAO PICO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zishang Wang
  • Patent number: 11675242
    Abstract: An electrochromic device is provided. The device includes a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate and a first electrically conductive layer and a second electrically conductive layer. A first bus bar is in contact with the first electrically conductive layer and a second bus bar in contact with the second electrically conductive layer. The first and second electrically conductive layers are patterned with sets of scribed lines substantially parallel to the corresponding bus bar, wherein the sets of scribed lines are made up of a series of collinear segments, which are gaps in the electrically conductive layer, wherein the length of the collinear segments, the period, the valve width and the offset between segments in adjacent scribed lines determines the resistance to the flow of electrons traversing a set of scribed lines in the direction substantially perpendicular to the corresponding bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Halio, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Sharpe, Cyrus Elias, Jonathan Ziebarth
  • Patent number: 11668930
    Abstract: Optical hyperfocal reflective systems and methods are provided. One such optical hyperfocal reflective system has an optical substrate; an optical input coupling portion configured to input couple a collimated display image to the optical substrate; and an optical hyperfocal output coupling portion integrated with said optical substrate. The optical output coupling portion includes at least one hyperfocal reflective view port formed from a discrete optical hyperfocal reflector spot integrated with the optical substrate. The discrete optical hyperfocal reflector spot is sized to form a reflected discrete optical spot beam with a diameter at a target area such that a view of a discrete virtual display image portion, as seen by a lens-detector system locatable at the target area, is hyperfocused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brennon Pennell, James Leighton, Adrian Stannard, Louahab Noui, Iain Wright, Lawrence Hoar
  • Patent number: 11662593
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure may include: a transparent member; a housing coupled to the transparent member in a rotatable manner via a hinge portion, such that the housing is foldable in a designated direction with respect to the transparent member; a projector at least partially disposed in the housing; and an optical transferring member configured to guide light emitted from the projector to the transparent member when the housing is unfolded with respect to the transparent member in an unfolded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunguk Lee, Yoonseok Kang
  • Patent number: 11662504
    Abstract: Electrically tunable metasurfaces including an array of subwavelength metasurface unit elements are presented. The unit elements include a stacked metal-insulator-metal structure within which an active phase change layer is included. A purely insulator, metal, or coexisting metal-insulator phase of the active layer can be electrically controlled to tune an amplitude and phase response of the metasurfaces. In combination with the subwavelengths dimensions of the unit elements, the phase and amplitude response can be controlled in a range from optical wavelengths to millimeter wavelength of incident light. Electrical control of the unit elements can be provided via resistive heating produced by flow of current though a top metal layer of the unit elements. Alternatively, electrical control of the unit elements can be provided via electrical field effect produced by applying a voltage differential between the top and bottom metal layers of the unit elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yonghwi Kim, Pin Chieh Wu, Ruzan Sokhoyan, Kelly W Mauser, Rebecca D Glaudell, Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh, Harry A Atwater
  • Patent number: 11662611
    Abstract: A tunable optical metamaterial system includes a tunable optical metamaterial, an actuator module to selectively activate the tunable optical metamaterial, and a control system to selectively control the actuator module. The tunable optical metamaterial includes a substrate composed at least in part of an electroactive polymer (EAP), and an optically active particle array that includes a plurality of optically active elongated members populated spaced apart on the substrate in two or more orientations to form confocal lenses that are optically responsive to the expansion of the substrate. The control module, is configured to control the optical properties of the tunable optical metamaterial by causing the electrical activation of the substrate via the actuator module to selectively expand the substrate in a manner that alters the spacing between the optically active elongated members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean P. Rodrigues, Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini, Paul D. Schmalenberg
  • Patent number: 11656523
    Abstract: An electro-optic display is provided that may include a layer of light-transmissive conductive material, a substrate, a layer of an electro-optic medium disposed between the layer of conductive material and the substrate, a color filter array, and a light emitting layer. The electro-optic medium may include a photo-luminescent material that functions as either a down-converter or an up-converter that may be excited by the light received from the light emitting layer. The photo-luminescent material may be excited by radiation having a first wavelength transmitted by a filter within the color filter array and emit radiation having a second wavelength transmitted by the filter. The photo-luminescent material may also be excited by radiation at a wavelength within a first and second range of wavelengths transmitted by two filters within the color filter array and emit radiation at a wavelength within one of the first and second ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Crounse, Stephen J. Telfer, Dirk Hertel
  • Patent number: 11650353
    Abstract: A cut pattern for a film or film laminate used in the fabrication of optical articles such as lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Blacker, Lance Andersen, James Kunkel, David Olund
  • Patent number: 11650430
    Abstract: A method for adjusting an optical system is provided, including a positioning device positioning a first optical module; a measuring device measuring an angular difference between a main axis of the first optical module and an optical axis of an optical element sustained by the first optical module to obtain a measurement information; an adjusting device changing the shape of an adjustment assembly of the first optical module according to the measurement information; and assembling the first optical module with an optical object, wherein the optical axis of the optical element is parallel to a central axis of the optical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Chih-Wei Weng, Shu-Shan Chen, Yung-Hsien Yeh, Sin-Jhong Song
  • Patent number: 11650409
    Abstract: The invention relates to a visual aid apparatus (1), in particular an optically or electronically magnifying visual aid apparatus (1), comprising at least one electrical or electronic functional component (2) that consumes electrical energy in at least one operating state, at least one rechargeable electrical energy store (3) that is assigned to the at least one electrical or electronic functional component (2), at least one inductive element (4) that is assigned to the at least one electrical energy store (3) and configured to supply the at least one electrical energy store (3) with electrical energy by way of an inductive interaction with at least one further inductive element (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: A. SCHWEIZER GMBH OPTISCHE FABRIK
    Inventor: Alfred Schüttinger
  • Patent number: 11644657
    Abstract: A laser beam delivery apparatus for a microscope comprises first and second optical diffusers that are configured to move in a periodic manner with a respective different frequency. Each optical diffuser may comprise a spinning disk. The laser light is spatially randomized by the first spinning diffuser and its spatial pattern is further randomized by the second diffuser. The second diffuser prevents any spatial pattern from repeating after one revolution of the first diffuser, which prevents beating patterns from forming when the light is imaged through a spinning confocal disk and increases the uniformity in other cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Andor Technology Limited
    Inventor: David Cooper