By Surface Composed Of Lenticular Elements Patents (Class 359/619)
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Patent number: 11973319Abstract: A method and apparatus for beam combining for multiple multimode semiconductor laser diodes includes achieving beam combining in radiant space to provide a directional laser beam with a uniform high radiant intensity level distribution over a large area at a long distance from the source. The method uses more than one broad area high-power multimode semiconductor laser diode and individual optics for collimation, and includes combining the beams of these emitters to provide a relatively homogeneous radiant intensity beam at a long distance for applications such as directed energy delivery, free-space laser communication, and directional infrared countermeasures.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: UAB Brolis SemiconductorsInventors: Edgaras Dvinelis, Augustinas Vizbaras, Kristijonas Vizbaras
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Patent number: 11965981Abstract: A light-source device includes a plurality of light emitters; and a plurality of optical elements through which laser beams emitted from the plurality of light emitters pass. The plurality of optical elements includes: a first optical element configured to emit a laser beam of a first divergence angle; and a second optical element configured to emit a laser beam of a second divergence angle smaller than the first divergence angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Ohta, Takumi Satoh
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Patent number: 11960211Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes an energy source, a support platform for holding a wafer, an optical path extending from the energy source to the support platform, and a photomask aligned such that a patterned major surface of the photomask is parallel to the force of gravity, where the optical path passes through the photomask, where the patterned major surface of the photomask is perpendicular to a topmost surface of the support platform.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hung-Jui Kuo, Ting-Yang Yu, Ming-Tan Lee
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Patent number: 11956398Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image reading device having a highly-accurate structure that enables an easy increase in depth of field, that is, improvement in the depth of the field, without need for a change in basic characteristics of lenses. An overlap preventer (5) disposed between a lens array (1) and a sensor element array (3) to prevent overlap of images formed by lenses (2) is included. A slit section (5) that is the overlap preventer (5) includes multiple slit plates (7) arranged in a main scanning direction and extending in a sub-scanning direction to partition off a space, and the slit plates (7) are fixed to fixing plates (13).Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hironobu Arimoto, Kazuya Makabe, Daisuke Fukui, Koki Takasaki
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Patent number: 11945253Abstract: A security device includes an arrangement of image icon focusing elements, wherein each image icon focusing element of the arrangement of image icon focusing elements is associated with a focal path. The device further includes an image icon layer with one or more image icons associated with a first characteristic color and one or more image icons associated with a second characteristic color and one or more regions between the image icons comprising a volume of substantially colorless material. At a first viewing angle, a color is visible through each image icon focusing element, and the color visible through each image icon focusing element at the first viewing angle is based on one or more of the first characteristic color, the second characteristic color, or the substantially colorless material.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Crane & Co., Inc.Inventors: Nancy J. Gettens, Jonathan D. Gosnell, Michael McAllister, Pearl N. Dickerson
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Patent number: 11912057Abstract: A security device made up of a security film (130) having (i) an array of image elements (103); (ii) an array of focusing elements (106); and (iii) at least one anti-viscid agent (115), is provided. The array of focusing elements and the array of image elements are disposed relative to each other such that a synthetic image is projected by the security film when at least a portion of the array of image elements are viewed through at least a portion of the array of focusing elements. The anti-viscid agent is coupled with the array of focusing elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Crane & Co., Inc.Inventors: Nancy J. Gettens, Pearl N. Dickerson, Michael McAllister, David L. Peters
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Patent number: 11914163Abstract: A device includes a host medium having a first refractive index value; a first layer comprising a first dielectric material having a second refractive index value, wherein the second refractive index value is greater than the first refractive index value, and wherein the first layer comprises a first step structure at a boundary between the first layer and the host medium; and a second layer comprising a second dielectric material and comprising a second step structure, the second layer having a third refractive index value higher than the first refractive index value of the host medium, wherein the second step structure is stacked on the first step structure, and, in response to an incident electromagnetic wave reaching the device, a first nanojet beam generated by the first step structure and a second nanojet beam generated by the second step structure are combined and focused around a first focusing point.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventors: Oksana Shramkova, Artem Boriskin, Laurent Blonde
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Patent number: 11842907Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to apparatus and methods for semiconductor processing, more particularly, to a thermal process chamber. In one or more embodiments, a process chamber comprises a first window, a second window, a substrate support disposed between the first window and the second window, and a motorized rotatable radiant spot heating source disposed over the first window and configured to provide radiant energy through the first window.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Shu-Kwan Danny Lau, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Zhiyuan Ye
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Patent number: 11822053Abstract: A method of fabricating an optical aperture multiplier is provided. A slice and a first optical structure are obtained. The slice has external faces including a pair of parallel faces, and a first plurality of partially reflective internal surfaces oblique to the pair of parallel faces. The first optical structure has external surfaces including a planar coupling surface, and a second plurality of partially reflective internal surfaces oblique to the coupling surface. The slice is optically coupled with the first optical structure such that one of the faces of the pair of parallel faces is in facing relation with the coupling surface to form a second optical structure. At least one optical aperture multiplier is sliced from the second optical structure by cutting the second optical structure through at least two cutting planes perpendicular to the coupling surface. The optical aperture multiplier is preferably part of a near eye display augmented reality system.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: LUMUS LTD.Inventors: Yochay Danziger, Edgar Friedmann
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Patent number: 11815402Abstract: Disclosed is a wavefront sensor for measuring a tilt of a wavefront at an array of locations across a beam of radiation, wherein said wavefront sensor comprises a film, for example of Zirconium, having an indent array comprising an indent at each of said array of locations, such that each indent of the indent array is operable to perform focusing of said radiation. Also disclosed is a radiation source and inspection apparatus comprising such a wavefront sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Sietse Thijmen Van Der Post, Peter Danny Van Voorst
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Patent number: 11808953Abstract: A microlens array device includes a substrate and a microlens array. The microlens array is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of first lenses and a plurality of second lenses. Each of the first lenses is used to project a first pattern on a far field. Each of the second lenses is used to project a second pattern on the far field. The first pattern has a first area on the far field. The second pattern has a second area on the far field. The first area is different from the second area. One of the two patterns is completely overlapped on the other one of the two patterns.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventor: Yu-Ching Cheng
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Patent number: 11796385Abstract: The present application discloses an optical receiving device and an optical sensing device. The optical receiving device includes a lens assembly, a reflecting member, and a photosensitive member. The lens assembly includes at least one lens. The reflecting member is located on a transmission path of light passing through the lens assembly. The reflecting member has a reflecting surface. The reflecting surface is configured to reflect the light passing through the lens assembly. The photosensitive member has a photosensitive surface. The photosensitive surface is configured to receive light reflected by the reflecting surface. After passing through the lens assembly, a detecting echo light beam reflected back from a target object is reflected by the reflecting surface of the reflecting member, so that the light is transmitted to the photosensitive surface of the photosensitive member intensively.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SUTENG INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhihong Qi, Ying Yang
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Patent number: 11791445Abstract: A lighting device comprises a light-emitting module with light-emitting elements, wherein the light-emitting elements are arranged adjacent to each other and are configured to emit light towards a light-emitting side. The light-emitting module is configured such that the light-emitting elements can be addressed partially independently of each other, such that some may be brought into a switched-on state while others are brought into a switched-off state. A top layer is disposed on the light-emitting module at the light-emitting side. Further comprising a switching material capable of a reversible change in transmittance for the light emitted by changing to a higher transmittance in regions where the top layer situated on light-emitting elements in the switched-on state or to a lower transmittance in regions of the top layer situated in the switched-off state. The invention further refers to methods for producing and operating a lighting device and using a lighting device.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Nicola Bettina Pfeffer, Arjen Gerben Van der Sijde, Marcel Rene Bohmer
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Patent number: 11782134Abstract: The optical manifold has multiple cores that each generates an outgoing LIDAR signal that carries one or more channels. Scanning heads are located apart from the manifold. Each scanning head is associated with one of the cores and is configured such that each scanning head receives an outgoing LIDAR signal from the associated core. The scanning heads are each configured to transmit one or more LIDAR output signals that each carries light from a different one of the channels and such that the different LIDAR output signals each travels away from the scanning head in a different direction. Each of the cores is associated with different core electronics. The core electronics are configured to tune a property of one of the outgoing LIDAR signals such that the tuning of the property causes a change to the direction that the one or more LIDAR output signals travel away from the scanning head associated with the core electronics.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SiLC Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mehdi Asghari, Dazeng Feng, Bradley Jonathan Luff, Majid Boloorian
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Patent number: 11726266Abstract: A structured surface reduces optical reflectance at a predetermined wavelength in a first wavelength range extending from 600 nm to 1700 nm. The structured surface includes a plurality of parallel linear structures arranged along a first direction and extending along an orthogonal second direction. Each linear structure includes opposing nonlinear facets meeting at a peak extending along the second direction. An average spacing between the peaks of adjacent linear structures is less than the predetermined wavelength, such that for light having the predetermined wavelength and incident on the structured surface in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first and second directions, the structured surface has a reflectance Rx<0.5% for light polarized along the first direction and a reflectance Ry<0.5% for light polarized along the second direction, where an absolute value of Rx?Ry is less than 0.3%. An optical ferrule may have an exit surface that includes the structured surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Bing Hao, James M. Nelson
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Patent number: 11719956Abstract: An ophthalmic lens incorporating an array of microlenses.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.Inventors: Michael Marshall, José A. Orozco Rodriguez, Richard Blacker
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Patent number: 11703688Abstract: An anamorphic optical system and a display apparatus including the same are disclosed. The anamorphic optical system includes an illumination system having astigmatism, and first and second correction lenses that are provided to have tangential power and sagittal power respectively and correct the astigmatism in the illumination system. The first and second correction lenses are provided in which a difference between a distance from the first correction lens to a tangential image formed by the first correction lens and a distance from the second correction lens to a sagittal image formed by the second correction lens corresponds to a distance between the first correction lens and the second correction lenses, and at least one of the first correction lens and the second correction lens has an asymmetric stop to form the tangential image and the sagittal image on the same surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., MYONGJI UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA COOPERATIONInventors: Bongsu Shin, Woojun Han, Jaisoon Kim, Sunil Kim, Hongseok Lee
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Patent number: 11690253Abstract: An OLED display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, a light emitting structure layer and a viewing angle improving layer which are arranged on the substrate. The light emitting structure layer is configured to emit light to the viewing angle improving layer. The viewing angle improving layer is disposed on one side of the light emitting structure layer away from the substrate and is configured to adjust the viewing angle of the display panel to allow the viewing angle of the display panel along a first direction to satisfy a first viewing angle range, and allow the viewing angle along a second direction to satisfy a second viewing angle range. The first direction is perpendicular to the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xing Huang, Xin Mou, Yuhsiung Feng
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Patent number: 11685180Abstract: A micro-optic security device with zonal color transitions includes a planar array of focusing elements, an image icon layer including a plurality of retaining structures, the plurality of retaining structures defining isolated volumes at a first depth within the image icon layer, a first zone of image icons, the first zone of image icons having a first predefined subset of the plurality of retaining structures, wherein the isolated volumes of retaining structures of the first predefined subset of the plurality of retaining structures contain cured pigmented material of a first color, and a second zone of image icons, the second zone of image icons including a second predefined subset of the plurality of retaining structures, wherein the isolated volumes of retaining structures of the second predefined subset of the plurality of retaining structures contain cured pigmented material of a second color, wherein the second color contrasts with the first color.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Crane & Co., Inc.Inventors: Samuel M. Cape, Jonathan D. Gosnell, Benjamin E. Bleiman, Jennifer Cowan, Nicholas G. Pearson, Ryan Toole
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Patent number: 11668860Abstract: A micro-lens array includes a shutter bezel substrate, a first lens substrate having a first inner surface in contact with a first surface of the shutter bezel substrate, a first lens array disposed at a first outer surface of the first lens substrate that is opposite to the first inner surface of the first lens substrate, a second lens substrate having a second inner surface in contact with a second surface of the shutter bezel substrate, and a second lens array disposed at a second outer surface of the second lens substrate that is opposite to the second inner surface of the second lens substrate. At least one of the first lens substrate or the second lens substrate includes an alignment mark that is configured to guide placement of the first lens array on the first lens substrate and the second lens array on the second lens substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jongmoo Lee, Eunyoung Kim, Sejoon You
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Patent number: 11650458Abstract: A light emitting device includes a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate, a first ink layer covering the PCB substrate, the first ink layer having a first refractive index, light emitters on the first ink layer, and a second ink layer on the first ink layer and spaced apart from the light emitters, the second ink layer having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongsoo Lee, Seogho Lim, Changho Shin, Jongpil Won, Sangsu Lee
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Patent number: 11644166Abstract: The light-guiding optical unit (1) for a light device of motor vehicles comprises a light guide (2) that comprises at least one routing surface (3), and at least one light source (4) to generate light rays (10). The light-guide (2) further comprises a top surface (12) at least a part of which is constituted by the output surface (15), and a bottom surface (13) opposite the top surface (12) and fitted with a prismatic structure (16) comprising reflective surfaces (7).Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Varroc Lighting Systems, S.r.o.Inventors: Michal Juhanak, Tomas Gloss, Jakub Hruska
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Patent number: 11644541Abstract: An emitting device (26) for a scanning optical detection system of a vehicle for monitoring at least one monitoring region (14) for objects is described, having at least one light source (40a, 40b) for generating at least one optical emission signal (32a, 32b) and having at least one diffraction unit (50a, 50b), which has a diffractive effect on the at least one emission signal (32a, 32b), for controlling at least one beam direction (66a, 66b) of the at least one emission signal (32a, 32b). At least one diffraction unit (50a, 50b) which is settable to set the beam directions (66a, 66b) associated with the respective signal paths (41a, 41b), is arranged in at least two different signal paths (41a, 41b) of one emission signal or various emission signals (32a, 32b).Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbHInventors: Bernd Bertschinger, Daniel Stricker-Shaver, Jan Simon, Thomas Schuler
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Patent number: 11627211Abstract: According to an embodiment disclosed in this specification, an electronic device may include a cover glass, a back cover facing away from the cover glass, a display panel exposed through the cover glass, a plurality of pixels disposed on the display panel, a plurality of wires electrically connected to the plurality of pixels, a light source interposed between the display panel and the back cover, a lens interposed between the light source and the display panel and refracting light output from the light source, and a structure for passing through the light output from the light source such that the light output from the light source has a specified pattern. The structure may be interposed between the lens and the cover glass. Besides, various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongkoo Her, Sungyoung Shin, Songhee Jung, Hyunchang Shin, Byungduk Yang
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Patent number: 11627263Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus that captures a multispectral image of four bands or more. An imaging apparatus (1) includes an imaging optical system (10), an image sensor (100), and a signal processing unit (200). The imaging optical system (10) includes a bandpass filter unit (16) of which at least one of aperture regions transmits light beams of a plurality of wavelength ranges, and a polarization filter unit (18) that polarizes the light beams transmitted through the bandpass filter unit (16) in a plurality of directions, in a vicinity of a pupil thereof. The image sensor (100) receives light beams transmitted through a plurality of types of spectral filter elements and a plurality of types of polarization filter elements. The signal processing unit (200) processes signals output from the image sensor (100) to generate a plurality of image signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasunobu Kishine, Shuji Ono, Kazuyoshi Okada
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Patent number: 11555596Abstract: A radiation angle changing element bonded to a housing includes: a glass substrate; and a resin layer provided on the glass substrate and having an optically functioning part. In a bonding portion bonded to the housing, the resin layer is not formed on the glass substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Keiji Tsunetomo, Satoru Kusaka
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Patent number: 11543640Abstract: A confocal optical system includes a light source and a spinning polarizer disposed in the optical pathway such the light emitted from the light source passes through the spinning polarizer. A first objective lens is disposed in the optical pathway to allow passage of light that passes through the spinning polarizer. A microlens array member is disposed adjacent the first objective lens to receive light. The microlens array member includes a plate having a plurality of holes arranged in an array pattern. A second objective lens is disposed in the optical pathway to receive and allow passage of light to a sample. The optical pathway is arranged such that, after reaching the sample, the light is directed back through the second objective lens, the microlens or microlens with filter array, and the first objective lens and a fluorescent filter cube as an emission beam to reach at least one camera which provides an image of the sample.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Laxco IncorporatedInventor: Congliang Chen
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Patent number: 11493606Abstract: Optical apparatus includes a plurality of emitters arranged in a row and configured to emit respective beams of optical radiation. Projection optics, which are configured to project the beams toward a target, include first cylindrical lenses, which have respective, mutually-parallel first cylinder axes and are aligned respectively with the emitters in the row so as to receive and focus the respective beams in a first dimension, and a second cylindrical lens, which has a second cylinder axis perpendicular to the first cylinder axes and is positioned to receive and focus all of the beams in a second dimension, perpendicular to the first dimension. A scan driver is configured to shift the second cylindrical lens in a direction perpendicular to the second cylinder axis so as to scan the beams across the target.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: David S. Gere, Brad V. Johnson, Neil MacKinnon, Scott T. Smith, Seyedeh Nasim Habibi
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Patent number: 11477350Abstract: Imaging systems and method of optical imaging. One example of an imaging system includes an optical scanning subsystem including an optical source and a MEMS MMA, the MEMS MMA being configured to direct optical radiation generated by the optical source over an area of a scene, a detection subsystem including an optical sensor configured to collect reflected optical radiation from the area of the scene, and a fused fiber focusing assembly including a fused fiber bundle, a plurality of lenses coupled together and positioned to receive and focus the reflected optical radiation from the area of the scene directly onto the fused fiber bundle, a microlens array interposed between the fused fiber bundle and the optical sensor and positioned to receive the reflected optical radiation from the fused fiber bundle, and a focusing lens positioned to direct the reflected optical radiation from the microlens array onto the optical sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Gerald P. Uyeno, Sean D. Keller, Benn H. Gleason
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Patent number: 11472698Abstract: A method for producing damper structures on a micromechanical wafer. The method includes: providing an at least partially UV-transparent master mold for molding damper structures; inserting and pressing a micromechanical wafer into the master mold so that micromechanical structures in the wafer are aligned in relation to the damper structures; filling the master mold with UV-curing LSR and subsequent UV irradiation; and mold release and removal of the connected structure of the micromechanical wafer with attached dampers. A method for producing a singulated MEMS chip comprising a UV-cured damper is also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Stumber, Stefan Apelt
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Patent number: 11469573Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate having first and second faces. A first array of emitters are formed on the first face of the semiconductor substrate and are configured to emit respective beams of radiation through the substrate. Electrical connections are coupled to actuate selectively first and second sets of the emitters in the first array. A second array of microlenses are formed on the second face of the semiconductor substrate in respective alignment with the emitters in at least one of the first and second sets and are configured to focus the beams emitted from the emitters in the at least one of the first and second sets so that the beams are transmitted from the second face with different, respective first and second focal properties.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Keith Lyon, Arnaud Laflaquiere
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Patent number: 11446950Abstract: An optical device that produces flicker-like optical effects is provided. The optical device employs directionally cured image icons. Specifically, the optical device is made up of at least one arrangement of image icons formed from one or more cured pigmented materials, and at least one arrangement of optionally embedded focusing elements positioned to form one or more synthetic images of at least a portion of the arrangement(s) of image icons. Some or all of the pigmented material(s) is cured using collimated light directed through the focusing elements toward the arrangement(s) of image icons at one or more angles relative to a surface of the optical device to form directionally cured image icons. The synthetic image(s) of the directionally cured image icons is viewable at the cure angle(s) and therefore visually appears and disappears, or turns on and off, as the viewing angle of the device moves through the cure angle(s).Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Visual Physics, LLCInventors: Samuel M. Cape, Jonathan D. Gosnell, Gregory R. Jordan, Scott K. Palm
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Patent number: 11448799Abstract: A device for altering vergence of light to improve human vision of an electronic display. The change in vergence is received at the pupil of the wearer. The altered light effectively recreates the rays emitted by a pixel such that they reach a presbyopic eye as though they were being viewed at a distance (i.e., the rays are substantially parallel). As such, the emmetropic presbyopic eye produces a sharp image of the electronic display. The device comprises: a refractive element that refracts rays, emitted from a pixel of an electronic display, at a predetermined vergence, wherein the refractive element is located directly adjacent or on the electronic display.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: FORGETSPECS.COM PTY LTD, QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Darrell Bruce Edwards, Marwan Suheimat, David A. Atchison
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Patent number: 11415295Abstract: Disclosed are a lamp for an automobile and an automobile. The lamp for an automobile includes a micro lens array (MLA) module which is provided in front of a light source and into which light is incident. The MLA module includes a light-incident lens array and a light-emitting lens array. At least a portion of optical axes of a plurality of light-incident lenses provided in a first section of the light-incident lens array is aligned with one of optical axes of a plurality of light-emitting lenses provided in an A section of the light-emitting lens array. At least a portion of optical axes of a plurality of light-incident lenses provided in a second section of the light-incident lens array is misaligned with all of the optical axes of a plurality of light-emitting lenses provided in a B section of the light-emitting lens array.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyun Soo Lee
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Patent number: 11407062Abstract: A laser system is configured for providing a laser line (L) in a working plane (WP) for line illumination of an object. The laser line (L) extends in a first direction (x) over a significant length and in a second direction (y) over a small extent. The laser system includes a laser source for providing a laser beam as basis for an elongated input laser beam propagating along a propagation direction (z), and a homogenization and focusing unit for homogenizing the elongated laser beam to form the laser line (L). The laser system is, for example, suitable for providing a laser line (L) that can be stitched to another laser line (L?) of another laser system.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TRUMPF LASER GMBHInventors: Martin Huonker, Christoph Tillkorn, Stefan Dorer
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Patent number: 11400746Abstract: An optical device that produces flicker-like optical effects is provided. The optical device employs directionally cured image icons. Specifically, the optical device is made up of at least one arrangement of image icons formed from one or more cured pigmented materials, and at least one arrangement of optionally embedded focusing elements positioned to form one or more synthetic images of at least a portion of the arrangement(s) of image icons. Some or all of the pigmented material(s) is cured using collimated light directed through the focusing elements toward the arrangement(s) of image icons at one or more angles relative to a surface of the optical device to form directionally cured image icons. The synthetic image(s) of the directionally cured image icons is viewable at the cure angle(s) and therefore visually appears and disappears, or turns on and off, as the viewing angle of the device moves through the cure angle(s).Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Visual Physics, LLCInventors: Samuel M. Cape, Jonathan D. Gosnell, Gregory R. Jordan, Scott K. Palm
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Patent number: 11391957Abstract: Various embodiments provide optical lenses that include phase shift layers that transmit incident light with four or more distinct phase quantizations. In one embodiment, a lens includes a substrate, a first immersion material layer on the substrate, and a plurality of anti-reflective phase shift layers on the first immersion material layer. The phase shift layers define a first anti-reflective phase shift region that transmits received light without a phase shift, a second anti-reflective phase shift region configured to transmit the received light with a first phase shift, a third anti-reflective phase shift region configured to transmit the received light with a second phase shift, and a fourth anti-reflective phase shift region configured to transmit the received light with a third phase shift. The first, second, and third phase shifts are different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) LimitedInventor: James Peter Drummond Downing
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Patent number: 11394918Abstract: A solid-state optical phase scanning array component is provided, including: a plurality of optical units, each of the optical units including a high dielectric constant layer, and a first electrode and a second electrode located on two sides of the high dielectric constant layer, the refractive index of each high dielectric constant layer being changeable as the power supply condition supplied to first and second electrodes is changed; and a lens unit, being disposed to face toward a light-exiting side of the plurality of optical units, and including a light-incident face and a light-exiting face, being configured to guide light beam incident from the light incident surface to the plurality of optical units to change the path of the light beam, and then the light beam emitting out from the light exiting surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITYInventors: Chun-Nien Liu, Tien-Tsorng Shih
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Patent number: 11393432Abstract: A rotational image viewer for viewing an image on a mobile device having a display including a viewport. The image viewer monitors the orientation of the mobile device and enlarges/reduces the image responsive to the mobile device's orientation such that the viewport remains filled with at least a portion of the image (i.e., no letterboxing or pillarboxing within the viewport).Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Justin Huang, Oleksandr Romanov
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Patent number: 11353715Abstract: In various embodiments, a wavelength beam combining laser system includes a fast-axis collimation lens that is rotated with respect to a plurality of emitters in order to converge the emitted beams onto a dispersive element and/or reduce the size of the multi-wavelength output beam of the system.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TERADIODE, INC.Inventors: Michael Deutsch, Daqing Wang, James Zambuto, Bien Chann, Bryan Lochman
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Patent number: 11331937Abstract: A security element formed on a substrate having a printing side and a viewing side is provided, the security element including: a first image portion provided on the printing side of the substrate, the first image portion including one or more micro-image elements; a second image portion provided on the printing side and/or the viewing side of the substrate; and a plurality of focussing elements disposed on or in the viewing side of the substrate for observing the one or more micro-image elements; wherein the first image portion and the second image portion are integrated into at least one distinguishable security element when observed from the viewing side of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: CCL SECURE PTY LTDInventors: Karlo Ivan Jolic, Darren Phillips, Gary Fairless Power
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Patent number: 11300717Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical film and a cover plate for an electronic device. The optical film comprises: a support; a micro/nano-structure layer which is formed by providing a groove on a surface of the support, which groove forms a micro/nano-structure and is provided with a filler; wherein the micro/nanostructure layer has a visual gradient in at least one direction. The present invention provides an optical film, which realizes a visual change or a gradient effect, by adjusting the area ratio of the micro/nano-structure, the depth of the groove, the period of the micro/nano-structure or the density of the micro/nano-structure, and produces a decorative or practical effect. It plays an aesthetic role when used in the casing of an electronic device, and it can shade light but not block the sight line when used in buildings or automotive glass. Furthermore, no black spots will appear with this structure, and it is visually more artistic.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Shine Optoelectronics (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yulong Gao, Shen Hong, Sheng Zhang, Quan Yuan
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Patent number: 11294192Abstract: A beam shaper array assembly including a beam source that provides a plurality of beams having a low fill factor profile. The assembly also includes an input beam shaper array having cells positioned adjacent to each other, where each cell includes an input beam shaper that receives one of the plurality beams and is shaped to cause the beam to expand as it propagates away from the input array to be converted from the low fill factor profile to a high fill factor profile. The assembly further includes an output beam shaper array having cells positioned adjacent to each other, where each cell includes an output beam shaper that receives one of the converted beams and is shaped to cause the beam to stop expanding so that the output array provides a plurality of adjacent beams with minimal overlap and a minimal gap between the beams.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Gregory D. Goodno, Joshua E. Rothenberg, William H. Long
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Patent number: 11289882Abstract: A light source module includes a light source and a first optical element. The light source is configured to emit first and second light beams. The first optical element has a first surface on which the first second light beam are to be incident. The first light beam and the second light beam are incident on the first surface along a first direction such that the first light beam is incident at a first position on the first surface and the second light beam is incident at a second position on the first surface. The first light beam has a first width in a second direction intersecting the first direction on the first surface, and a second width in a third direction intersecting a plane including the first direction and the second direction on the first surface. The first width is greater than the second width. The second light beam has a third width in the second direction on the first surface, and a fourth width in the third direction on the first surface. The third width is greater than the fourth width.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventor: Takanori Aruga
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Patent number: 11262582Abstract: A display device and a mobile object. The display device is installable in a mobile object, and includes a light source, an image former to receive light emitted from the light source and output image light that forms an image, a screen on which the image light forms the image, a housing that houses the light source and the image former, and a holding member to hold the screen. The holding member is attached to the housing with a normal direction of a surface of the screen intersecting with a vertical direction and with a front-and-rear direction of the mobile object. A width of the housing is narrower than a width of the holding member. The mobile object includes the display device, a front windshield to reflect the image light, and an image-forming optical system to project the image light projected from the screen toward the front windshield.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Tokiko Gotoh
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Patent number: 11256023Abstract: A light wave-guide optical element for use in a head-mounted display (HMD) or in a head-up display (HUD) includes an organic optical material, an anti-reflection stack and an organic optical cover. The organic optical material includes multiple bulging tips surrounded by a periphery plane. The anti-reflection stack conformally covers the bulging tips and the periphery plane. The organic optical cover correspondingly covers the anti-reflection stack, the periphery plane and the bulging tips.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Yin-Dong Lu, Han-Yi Kuo, Han-Ching Lin
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Patent number: 11252381Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of photodiodes, a plurality of color filters, and a plurality of microlenses. The plurality of photodiodes are arranged as a photodiode array, each of the plurality of photodiodes disposed within respective portions of a semiconductor material with a first lateral area. The plurality of color filters are arranged as a color filter array optically aligned with the photodiode array. Each of the plurality of color filters having a second lateral area greater than the first lateral area. The plurality of microlenses are arranged as a microlens array optically aligned with the color filter array and the photodiode array. Each of the plurality of microlenses have a third later area greater than the first lateral area and less than the second lateral area.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Chin Poh Pang, Guansong Liu, Xiaodong Yang, Boyang Zhang, Hongjun Li, Da Meng
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Patent number: 11214009Abstract: A shaping system that shapes a stereoscopic shaped object, the shaping system including a control PC and a shaping device serving as a shaping executer, where the control PC includes a three-dimensional data inputter that accepts an input of three-dimensional data, which is data indicating at least a stereoscopic shape of the shaped object, and a surface data processor that generates decorated shaped object data, which is data indicating the shaped object on which decoration indicated by decoration data has been applied based on the decoration data which is data indicating decoration to be applied on at least a part of the surface of the shaped object and the three-dimensional data, and the shaping device executes a shaping operation of the shaped object based on the decorated shaped object data to shape the shaped object on which decoration indicated by the decoration data has been applied.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kunio Hakkaku, Wataru Hioki, Keita Nishio
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Patent number: 11196969Abstract: A display that includes a plurality of contiguous pixel areas. Each pixel area is divided into subpixels for displaying and a photodetector for imaging. The display can be configured into a display mode to display information using the subpixels for displaying or an imaging mode to capture image information using the photodetectors for imaging.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Tony Ong, Steven Fong, Yichi Chen
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Patent number: 11194079Abstract: A lens unit includes a first lens array including first lenses arranged in at least two lines; a second lens array including second lenses arranged in an arrangement relationship corresponding to the first lens array, the second lenses respectively facing the first lenses, the second lens array being arranged to face the first lens array so that each pair of the first and second lenses has a common optical axis; and a first light blocking member arranged between the first lens array and the second lens array and having first openings each being arranged to face the pair of the first and second lenses in a direction of the optical axis. An interval PXL from an array center position between two adjacent lines to the optical axis and an interval PXS from the array center position to an opening center of the first opening satisfy PXL<PXS.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiro Yamamura