Patents by Inventor Tao-Hung Kuo

Tao-Hung Kuo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230288626
    Abstract: An optical lens adapted to receive an image beam from an imaging element is provided. The optical lens sequentially includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens with refracting power along an optical axis from a light incidence side to a light exit side, and the first lens to the fourth lens each include a light incidence surface facing the light incidence side and a light exit surface facing the light exit side. The first lens has positive refracting power. The second lens has negative refracting power. The third lens has positive refracting power. The first lens or the third lens is made of glass. The optical lens receives the image beam from the light incidence side. The image beam forms a stop on the light exit side, and the image beam forms the minimum beam cross-section at a location of the stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Tao-Hung Kuo
  • Patent number: 11644650
    Abstract: An optical lens and a head-mounted display device including the optical lens are provided. The optical lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens sequentially arranged from a light exit side to a light incident side. An image generator is disposed at the light incident side. The optical lens is configured to receive an image light beam provided by the image generator. A stop is formed at the light exit side of the image light beam. At the stop, the image light beam has a minimum light beam cross-sectional area. The technical solution of the invention may be used to shorten an overall length of the optical lens, so as to reduce an appearance volume of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Fu-Ming Chuang
  • Publication number: 20220390719
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical lens including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens with refracting power in order from a light incidence side to a light-emitting side along an optical axis, and at least one glass lens is included. The first lens has a positive refracting power, the second lens has a positive refracting power, and the third lens has a negative refracting power. The optical lens satisfies a condition of 0.5EFL<EFLG<2EFL, where EFL is an effective focal length of the optical lens, and EFLG is an effective focal length of the at least one glass lens. The optical lens is adapted for receiving an image beam from the light incidence side, and the image beam forms a stop on the light-emitting side after passing through the optical lens. A display device is also proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Po-Che Lee
  • Patent number: 11520128
    Abstract: A zoom projection lens with eleven lens elements is provided. The zoom projection lens sequentially includes a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, an aperture stop, a fourth lens group and a fifth lens group along an optical axis from a screen side to an image source side. The first lens group has a negative refractive power and includes three lens elements. The second lens group has a positive refractive power and includes one lens element. The third lens group has a positive refractive power and includes one lens element. The fourth lens group has a negative refractive power and includes four lens elements. The fifth lens group has a positive refractive power and includes two lens elements. A first lens element in the first lens group is an aspheric lens made of plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Lun Hu, Ching-Chuan Wei, Meng-Feng Chung, Tao-Hung Kuo, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Publication number: 20220373813
    Abstract: A head-up display device adapted to project a first image beam and a second image beam onto a target element is provided. The head-up display device includes a display unit, a first optical module, and a second optical module. The first and the second image beams from the display unit are sequentially transmitted the first and the second optical modules. The first image beam and the second image beam are respectively reflected by the second optical module out of the head-up display, and then transmitted to the target element to form a first virtual image and a second virtual image. Through the first optical module, the optical path length of the first image beam from the display unit to the position of the first virtual image is greater than the optical path length of the second image beam from the display unit to the position of the second virtual image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Kuei-En Peng, Po-Che Lee, Tao-Hung Kuo
  • Publication number: 20220373798
    Abstract: A head-up display device including a display unit, a polarization beam-splitting module, and an optical module is provided. The polarization beam-splitting module receives a first image beam and a second image beam from the display unit, and transmits the first image beam and the second image beam to the optical module. The first image beam and the second image beam are respectively reflected by the optical module to an outside of the head-up display device, and then transmitted to a target element, to form a first virtual image and a second virtual image. By the polarization beam-splitting module, an optical path length of the first image beam from the display unit to a position of the first virtual image formed by itself is longer than an optical path length of the second image beam from the display unit to a position of the second virtual image formed by itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Kuei-En Peng, Po-Che Lee, Tao-Hung Kuo
  • Publication number: 20210271055
    Abstract: An optical lens is provided. The optical lens includes a first lens element to a fifth lens element sequentially arranged from a light incident side to a light exit side. An image generation device is disposed at the light incident side, and the optical lens is configured to receive an image beam provided by the image generation device. The image beam forms a stop at the light exit side. The stop has a minimum cross-sectional area of beam shrinkage of the image beam. The optical lens provided by the invention exhibits good optical quality and thermal stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Fu-Ming Chuang, Po-Che Lee, Hsin-Wen Tsai
  • Publication number: 20210096341
    Abstract: The invention provides a projection zoom lens and a projector. The projection zoom lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group sequentially arranged along an optical axis from a screen end to an image source end. The first lens group has a negative refractive power and includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The second lens group has a positive refractive power and includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, a ninth lens, a tenth lens, an eleventh lens, and a twelfth lens. The first lens to the twelfth lens are sequentially arranged along the optical axis from the screen end to the image source end, and the refractive powers of the first lens to the twelfth lens are negative, negative, positive, positive, positive, negative, negative, positive, positive, negative, positive, and positive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Ting Wu, Meng-Feng Chung, Ching-Chuan Wei, Tao-Hung Kuo
  • Publication number: 20200409037
    Abstract: An optical lens and a head-mounted display device including the optical lens are provided. The optical lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens sequentially arranged from a light exit side to a light incident side. An image generator is disposed at the light incident side. The optical lens is configured to receive an image light beam provided by the image generator. A stop is formed at the light exit side of the image light beam. At the stop, the image light beam has a minimum light beam cross-sectional area. The technical solution of the invention may be used to shorten an overall length of the optical lens, so as to reduce an appearance volume of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Fu-Ming Chuang
  • Publication number: 20200409034
    Abstract: An optical lens and a head-mounted display device are provided. The optical lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens sequentially arranged from a light exit side to a light incident side. Refractive powers of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens and the fourth lens are sequentially positive, negative, positive and positive. An image generator is disposed at the light incident side. The optical lens is configured to receive an image beam provided by the image generator. The image beam forms a stop at the light exit side. The stop has the minimum cross-sectional area of beam convergence of the image beam. The optical lens and the head-mounted display device of the disclosure have advantages of smaller size, light weight, large viewing angle and high resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Fu-Ming Chuang
  • Patent number: 10877252
    Abstract: A fixed-focus projection lens including a first lens group, an aperture stop and a second lens group arranged sequentially along an optical axis of the fixed-focus projection lens in a direction from an outgoing side to an incoming side. The first lens group includes a first lens element to the sixth lens element arranged sequentially along the optical axis in a direction from the outgoing side to the incoming side. The second lens group includes a seventh lens element to an eleventh lens element arranged sequentially along the optical axis in a direction from the outgoing side to the incoming side. The material of the first lens element is plastic. The material of the second lens element to the eleventh lens element is glass. The fixed-focus projection lens of the disclosure has a smaller size, good optical quality and good durability of high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Chin Chen, Tao-Hung Kuo, Wen-Chieh Chung, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Publication number: 20200379224
    Abstract: A zoom projection lens with eleven lens elements is provided. The zoom projection lens sequentially includes a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, an aperture stop, a fourth lens group and a fifth lens group along an optical axis from a screen side to an image source side. The first lens group has a negative refractive power and includes three lens elements. The second lens group has a positive refractive power and includes one lens element. The third lens group has a positive refractive power and includes one lens element. The fourth lens group has a negative refractive power and includes four lens elements. The fifth lens group has a positive refractive power and includes two lens elements. A first lens element in the first lens group is an aspheric lens made of plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Lun Hu, Ching-Chuan Wei, Meng-Feng Chung, Tao-Hung Kuo, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Publication number: 20190302428
    Abstract: A fixed-focus projection lens including a first lens group, an aperture stop and a second lens group arranged sequentially along an optical axis of the fixed-focus projection lens in a direction from an outgoing side to an incoming side. The first lens group includes a first lens element to the sixth lens element arranged sequentially along the optical axis in a direction from the outgoing side to the incoming side. The second lens group includes a seventh lens element to an eleventh lens element arranged sequentially along the optical axis in a direction from the outgoing side to the incoming side. The material of the first lens element is plastic. The material of the second lens element to the eleventh lens element is glass. The fixed-focus projection lens of the disclosure has a smaller size, good optical quality and good durability of high temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Chin Chen, Tao-Hung Kuo, Wen-Chieh Chung, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Publication number: 20190187354
    Abstract: An optical lens including a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens arranged in sequence from a light emitting side to a light incident side is provided. A light valve is disposed at the light incident side. The optical lens is adapted to receive an image beam provided by the light valve. The image beam forms a stop at the light emitting side. The stop has the smallest cross-sectional area of a beam shrinkage of the image beam. The optical lens of the invention has the advantages of small size, light weight, large viewing angle, and high resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Publication number: 20190187353
    Abstract: A display including an optical lens and a light valve is provided. The optical lens includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens arranged in sequence from a light emitting side to a light incident side. The light valve is disposed at the light incident side. The light valve provides an image beam. The optical lens is configured to receive the image beam. The image beam forms a stop at the light emitting side. The stop has the smallest cross-sectional area of a beam shrinkage of the image beam. A range of an OPD of the image beam on an active surface of the light valve is ?2.0?<OPD<2.0?, wherein the OPD is an optical path difference at each field of view, and ? is a wavelength of each color light. The display of the invention has the advantages of small size, light weight, large viewing angle, and high resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Publication number: 20190064527
    Abstract: A head mounted display apparatus includes a display device. The display device includes an image source and an imaging lens. The image source is adapted to provide an image beam, and adjacent to a narrowing end. The imaging lens is disposed on a transmission path of the image beam, and disposed between an amplifying end and the narrowing end. The imaging lens includes a light redirecting element, a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens arranged sequentially from the amplifying end to the narrowing end. Refractive powers of the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are positive, negative, and positive respectively. An imaging lens adapted to be applied to the head mounted display apparatus is also provided. The head mounted display apparatus and its imaging lens has a small size and good optical characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Patent number: 9915810
    Abstract: A projection lens and a projection apparatus are provided. The projection lens has a screen side and an image side. The projection lens includes a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group. The first lens group disposed between the screen side and the image side includes a first, a second, and a third lenses arranged sequentially from the screen side to the image side. The second lens group disposed between the first lens group and the image side includes a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, an eighth, a ninth, and a tenth lenses arranged sequentially from the screen side to the image side. The third lens group disposed between the second lens group and the image side includes an eleventh and a twelfth lenses, and a distance between the twelfth lens and the light valve is a constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Hsin-Wen Tsai, Ching-Chuan Wei, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Patent number: 9798118
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes a light source module, an optical engine module and a projection lens module. The optical engine module includes a prism and a light valve. The projection lens module includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group is disposed between the screen end and the imaging end. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens and a third lens, which are sequentially disposed from the screen end to the imaging end and have negative, negative and positive refractive powers, respectively. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the imaging end and has a positive refractive power. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens, which are sequentially disposed from the screen end to the imaging end and have negative, positive and positive refractive powers, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Yi-Chin Chen, Ching-Chuan Wei, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Patent number: 9791680
    Abstract: A projection lens disposed between a screen side and an image side and including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. Refractive powers of the first lens group and the second lens group are respectively negative and positive. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens arranged in sequence from the screen side to the image side, and refractive powers thereof are respectively negative, negative, and positive. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the image side and includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, a ninth lens, and a tenth lens arranged in sequence from the screen side to the image side, and refractive powers thereof are respectively positive, positive, negative, negative, negative, positive, and positive. A projection apparatus is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Tzu-Yuan Lin, Hsin-Wen Tsai, Ching-Chuan Wei, Chuan-Te Cheng
  • Patent number: 9733457
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group has a negative refractive power and includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens arranged in sequence from a magnified side to a minified side, refractive powers of which are negative, negative, and positive, respectively. The second lens group has a positive refractive power and is disposed between the first lens group and the minified side. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, a ninth lens, and a tenth lens arranged in sequence from the magnified side to the minified side, refractive powers of which are positive, negative, positive, negative, positive, negative, and positive, respectively. The first lens and the tenth lens are aspheric lenses, and the second lens to the ninth lens are spherical lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Tao-Hung Kuo, Hsin-Wen Tsai, Ching-Chuan Wei, Chuan-Te Cheng