Combination Of Two Or More Modifiers Patents (Class 362/607)
  • Patent number: 11946621
    Abstract: An illumination system can produce a dynamically variable illumination pattern. The illumination system can include a light guide. The illumination system can include projection optics, which can contribute to the illumination pattern at relatively low beam angles (i.e., beam angles formed with respect to a surface normal of the light guide). The projection optics can include individually addressable light-producing elements that can direct light through one or more focusing elements. A controller can control which of the light-producing elements are electrically powered and can therefore control the illumination pattern contribution from the projection optics. The illumination system can also include scattering optics, which can contribute to the illumination pattern at relatively high beam angles. The scattering optics can direct light out of the light guide over a relatively large surface area, which can help reduce glare when the light guide is viewed directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Wouter Soer, Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis Smitt
  • Patent number: 11947203
    Abstract: A display device includes a first backlight, a viewing angle control assembly disposed on the first backlight, a second backlight disposed on the viewing angle control assembly, and a display panel disposed on the second backlight. In a security mode, only the first backlight may be operable with the viewing angle control assembly having light blocking areas that limit light transmission to the display panel to within a predetermined range to limit a viewing angle of images displayed on the display panel. In a sharing mode, the second backlight is operated and the viewing angle control assembly does not limit light transmission, thus widening the viewing angle of images on the display panel. The display device may also include an anti-condensation layer on the second backlight to improve durability in high temperature and high humidity environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SungHee Kim
  • Patent number: 11906779
    Abstract: A microLED may be used to generate light for intra-chip or inter-chip communications. The microLED, or an active layer of the microLED, may be embedded in a waveguide. The waveguide may include a lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AvicenaTech Corp.
    Inventors: Robert Kalman, Bardia Pezeshki, Alexander Tselikov, Cameron Danesh
  • Patent number: 11772342
    Abstract: The invention provides a reflector (2) comprising a reflector wall (20), the reflector wall (20) comprising a first wall surface (22) and a second wall surface (23) defining said reflector wall (20), the reflector wall (20) comprising a light transmissive material (21), wherein the reflector wall (20) has a first dimension (d1) and a second dimension (d2) defining a first reflector wall area, wherein each wall surface (22,23) comprises a plurality of parallel arranged elongated corrugations (210), wherein the corrugations have corrugation heights (h2) relative to recesses (220) between adjacent corrugations (210) and corrugation widths (w2) defined by the distance between adjacent recesses (220) at the respective wall surfaces (22,23), wherein the corrugations (210) have curved corrugation surfaces (230) between said adjacent recesses (220) having corrugation radii (r2) at the respective wall surfaces (22,23), and wherein over at least part of one of the first dimension (d1) and the second dimension (d2) one
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Erik Paul Boonekamp, Paulus Albertus Van Hal, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • Patent number: 11747637
    Abstract: Provided is an optical unit and a display device capable of suppressing the occurrence of stray light by suppressing the incidence of light onto a peripheral region of a panel. In the optical unit, a first panel, a second panel, and a third panel are arranged to face a dichroic prism. A first light-emitting element is provided in a display region of the first panel, the second panel, and the third panel, and metal wiring is provided in a peripheral region. Here, a light shielding layer is provided between the dichroic prism and the peripheral region of each of the first panel, the second panel, and the third panel. Thus, even when a part of color light that should be reflected passes through a dichroic mirror, the leaked light is absorbed by the light shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Koshihara
  • Patent number: 11675117
    Abstract: Optical films are disclosed. More particularly, optical films including a collimating reflective polarizer are disclosed. The optical films are useful in backlights, and in particular backlight recycling cavities. Constructions suitable with both edge-lit and direct-lit backlights are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Jong-Seok Shin
  • Patent number: 11668452
    Abstract: An illumination system can produce a dynamically variable illumination pattern. The illumination system can include a light guide. The illumination system can include projection optics, which can contribute to the illumination pattern at relatively low beam angles (i.e., beam angles formed with respect to a surface normal of the light guide). The projection optics can include individually addressable light-producing elements that can direct light through one or more focusing elements. A controller can control which of the light-producing elements are electrically powered and can therefore control the illumination pattern contribution from the projection optics. The illumination system can also include scattering optics, which can contribute to the illumination pattern at relatively high beam angles. The scattering optics can direct light out of the light guide over a relatively large surface area, which can help reduce glare when the light guide is viewed directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Wouter Soer, Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis Smitt
  • Patent number: 11635622
    Abstract: A nanovoided spacer material that is used as a mechanical buffer between at least two optical components. The optical components may include gratings (e.g., Bragg gratings, moth-eye surfaces, etc.) having sensitive and fragile surfaces (e.g., patterned surfaces). The nanovoided spacers may have a predetermined thickness and concentration of nanovoids to provide a given optical property (e.g., a reflection coefficient at an interface between two optical elements). The nanovoided spacer may include a multilayer structure (e.g., two or more layers) of varying refractive index (e.g., to reduce reflections between surfaces of the optical elements). The nanovoided spacer may include from about 10% to 90% nanovoids by volume and may have an average index of refraction of about 1.15. Various other methods, systems, apparatuses, and materials are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, Katherine Marie Smyth
  • Patent number: 11619781
    Abstract: A microLED may be used to generate light for intra-chip or inter-chip communications. The microLED, or an active layer of the microLED, may be embedded in a waveguide. The waveguide may include a lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: AVICENATECH CORP.
    Inventors: Robert Kalman, Bardia Pezeshki, Alexander Tselikov, Cameron Danesh
  • Patent number: 11567256
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes: a back plate including a bottom wall and a side wall coupled thereto, with the bottom wall and the side wall defining an accommodating space; a light guide plate disposed in the accommodating space and including: a light outgoing surface disposed away from the bottom wall, a bottom surface disposed toward the bottom wall, and a light incident surface coupled between the light outgoing face and the bottom face; a light source disposed in the accommodating space and configured to emit light toward the light incident surface; and a composite film located on a side of the light guide plate away from the bottom wall and including a diffuser sheet and a plurality of prism sheets combined together and sequentially arranged in a direction away from the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaodong Wang, Yangli Zheng, Xiaoping Zhang, Jian Ren, Site Cai, Luo Zhang, Qin Xin, Zhenguo Zhou, Siqi Yin, Fangyi Liu, Boning Wang, Litao Fan, Xiaojuan Gao
  • Patent number: 11415289
    Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device for a motor vehicle headlight, said illumination device comprising the following: —multiple light sources (10) which are designed to emit light beams in a main emission direction, —a primary optical system (100) having multiple light-guiding elements (110), said light-guiding elements (110) being arranged in the main emission direction of the light sources (10) and each having a light entry face (120) into which the light beams of the light sources can be fed, and a light exit face (130), the light-guiding elements (110) opening into a common light exit face (130), and—a holder (200) which is designed to hold the light entry faces (120) of the light-guiding elements (110) in position in relation to the light sources (10), the holder (200) having at least one latching element (210) formed with a latching tab (220) to fasten the primary optical system (100), the latching tab (220) being designed to engage in an undercut (140) associated with the latching tab (220)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventors: Lukas Taudt, Nina Brauner, Mathias Schragl, Christoph Längauer, Johann Höfler
  • Patent number: 11402569
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical sheet for a light guide plate type liquid crystal display, including a low refractive index layer having an extremely low refractive index. The optical sheet A12 for a light guide plate type liquid crystal display (1000) according to the present invention includes a first optical film (light guide plate) (1010), a low refractive index layer (20), and a second optical film (reflection plate) (1020) laminated in this order, and the low refractive index layer (20) has a refractive index of 1.25 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Hattori, Kozo Nakamura, Takahiro Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11366427
    Abstract: A backlight unit and a holographic display apparatus including the same are provided. The backlight unit includes a light guide plate and a uniformity changing element. The uniformity changing element has a light-incident surface and a light-exiting surface facing the light-incident surface, and the uniformity changing element receives the light output from the light guide plate through the light-incident surface, changes uniformity of the received light from the light guide plate and outputs the received light with the change in the uniformity of the received light through the light-exiting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chilsung Choi, Hoon Song, Jungkwuen An, Changkun Lee, Hongseok Lee
  • Patent number: 11360255
    Abstract: A display device comprises a liquid crystal panel, an optical sheet under the liquid crystal panel, and a light emitting diode (LED) assembly configured to supply a light to the liquid crystal panel through the optical sheet. The LED assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a plurality of LED chips on the PCB and configured to emit a blue colored light, a fluorescent lens over the plurality of LED chips, and a light guiding panel between an adjacent two of the plurality of LED chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Soon Oh, Yeoun-Jei Jung
  • Patent number: 11353920
    Abstract: An overlay surface for a user interface of a device comprises a lower light-diffusing semitransparent layer affixed to an upper transparent layer. Graphics printed on the bottom surface of the transparent layer are protected from wear by the overlying transparent layer, while light sources back-illuminating the graphics from below are diffused by the semitransparent layer before they reach the graphics. The graphics of the surface may be provided by an opaque mask having transparent or translucent cutouts. The multilayer surface enables the graphics to be evenly back-illuminated while at the same time being protected from external wear without the need for additional light-diffusing elements such as light pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: William J. Lurie, Charles G. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11262048
    Abstract: An illumination system can produce a dynamically variable illumination pattern. The illumination system can include a light guide. The illumination system can include projection optics, which can contribute to the illumination pattern at relatively low beam angles (i.e., beam angles formed with respect to a surface normal of the light guide). The projection optics can include individually addressable light-producing elements that can direct light through one or more focusing elements. A controller can control which of the light-producing elements are electrically powered and can therefore control the illumination pattern contribution from the projection optics. The illumination system can also include scattering optics, which can contribute to the illumination pattern at relatively high beam angles. The scattering optics can direct light out of the light guide over a relatively large surface area, which can help reduce glare when the light guide is viewed directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Soer Wouter, Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis Smitt
  • Patent number: 11231359
    Abstract: A multi-angle colorimeter includes an index calculation unit that calculates, based on a predetermined calculation formula, an index corresponding to luminance of a glittering material used in metallic coating or pearl coating by using optical parameters for color evaluation of the metallic coating or pearl coating on a surface of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Teraoka, Tomomi Setoguchi
  • Patent number: 11209645
    Abstract: A display device and method, a head-up display system, a means of transportation and a storage medium are disclosed. The display device includes a display module, an image analysis device and a controller. The display module includes a plurality of display subareas, and each of the display subareas includes at least one display pixel; the image analysis device is configured to perform an analysis of an input image received by the image analysis device, so as to obtain an information zone of the input image and a non-information zone outside the information zone; and the controller is configured to render brightness of a display pixel, with a lowest brightness in a first region, in the first region of the display module higher than brightness of any display pixel in at least part of a second region of the display module, when the display module displays the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yisan Zhang, Yongcan Wang
  • Patent number: 11187841
    Abstract: A light guide plate (LGP) and a light source module are provided. The LGP includes a plate body, first microstructures and second microstructures. The plate body has a first light incident surface, a second light incident surface adjacent to the first light incident surface and a first surface connected thereto. The first microstructures are located on the first surface, and each has a first optical surface facing the first light incident surface. Two sides of each first microstructure respectively have a first edge portion. One of the first edge portions faces and is inclined relative to the second light incident surface, and there is a first included angle between the first edge portion facing the second light incident surface and the first surface. The second microstructures are located on the first surface, and each second microstructure has a second optical surface facing the second light incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CHAMP VISION DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Chien Liao, Hsin-Hung Lee, Chin-Ku Liu
  • Patent number: 11176894
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first light source, a second light source having a color different from a color of the first light source, a light guide plate converting a point light source generated by the first light source and the second light source into a surface light source, a diffuser plate positioned on an upper portion of the light guide plate and diffusing the surface light source emitted by the light guide plate, and a frame supporting the light guide plate and the diffuser plate and including a protrusion protruded between the diffuser plate and the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyehoon Lee, Dongyoon Kim, Beomkyun Rha, Mingu Roh, Sanghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11162658
    Abstract: Light emitting panel assemblies and panel members for light emitting panel assemblies are provided. In some embodiments, a light source can be positioned to provide light to the panel member at an input area along a primary surface of the panel member without requiring light to be input from an edge surface of the panel member. Light emitted into the panel member can be refracted, reflected, diffused, and/or transmitted from the panel member based on the refractive, reflective, and other optical properties of the panel member to provide a desired light output, such as a uniform light output along at least a portion of the primary surfaces of the panel member. In some embodiments, the light emitting assembly can include surface coatings, treatments, reflectors, and/or materials to manage the refraction, reflection, diffused and/or transmitted of light in the panel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Avelino De Oliveira
  • Patent number: 11166389
    Abstract: An assembly structure includes a first assembly member, a second assembly member and a retaining member. The first assembly member includes a plurality of protruding portions and each of the protruding portions has a recess. The second assembly member includes a plurality of restraining portions. The restraining portions are disposed with respect to the protruding portions by a plurality of relative offsets and the relative offsets are different from each other. Each of the restraining portions is capable of passing through the recess of the protruding portion correspondingly. The retaining member is disposed on one of the protruding portions and covers the recess correspondingly. When the second assembly member is assembled to the first assembly member, one of the restraining portions abuts against the retaining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Ying Lin
  • Patent number: 11152593
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display panel and a display device. On the one hand, the display panel disposes a groove, which forms on one side of a packaging layer of a display area away from a substrate, and extends downward to one side of an antireflective film facing a thin film transistor layer; and a camera is disposed on one side of the substrate away from the thin film transistor layer and is corresponding the groove, thereby reducing process flow, improving productivity and yield, and realizing a full screen. On the other hand, the present invention also adds an antireflective film to improve the light transmittance at the groove and avoid the phenomenon that the camera is difficult to image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ying Zheng
  • Patent number: 11099062
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a device body, a screen, and a photo-sensing module. The screen is mounted on a front side of the device body. The photo-sensing module includes a light emitter and a light receiver. The light emitter is arranged obliquely relative to the screen, and a direction of the emitted light from the light emitter is tilted towards the side with the screen relative to the device body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chaoxi Chen
  • Patent number: 11067228
    Abstract: A planar illumination device according to an embodiment includes a light guide plate, an attenuation element, and a plurality of light sources. The light guide plate has a light-emitting surface that is a main surface through which light is emitted and a light-receiving side surface that is a side surface intersecting with the light-emitting surface and receives the light. The attenuation element attenuates the light entering through the light-receiving side surface. The light sources face the light-receiving side surface of the light guide plate and are arranged in parallel with one another at certain intervals. One of the intervals closer to the attenuation element is smaller than another of the intervals distanced from the attenuation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventor: Kenta Takakusaki
  • Patent number: 11003018
    Abstract: Provided is a backlight unit (2) including a light source (4) where multiple light-emitting elements (8) are two-dimensionally laid out, and a wavelength converting member (6) that has a phosphor (12), and that converts a wavelength of light from the light source, where a wavelength conversion capability varies in accordance with a distance to a light-emitting element that is closest of the multiple light-emitting elements, in order to reduce color unevenness that occurs depending on difference in distance between the light source and wavelength converting member of the backlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Ishida
  • Patent number: 10998476
    Abstract: A light-emitting device package includes a first lead frame; a second lead frame separated from the first lead frame in a first direction; a package body having a cavity exposing a portion of the second lead frame. Further, the cavity includes an inclined inner surface inclining with respect to an upper surface of the second lead frame; a light-emitting diode disposed on the exposed portion of the second lead frame; a hole in the inclined inner surface of the cavity and exposing a portion of the first lead frame; a protection device disposed in the hole and on the exposed portion of the first lead frame; a first wire having a first end connected to the light-emitting diode, and a second end connected to the first lead frame; a second wire having a first end connected to the light-emitting diode, and a second end connected to the second lead frame; and a third wire having a first end connected to the protection device, and a second end connected to the exposed portion of the second lead frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hyun Yu, Bong Kul Min
  • Patent number: 10969624
    Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a light source component, and an illumination rendering film located on a light exiting side of the light source component. The illumination rendering film includes a plurality of dimming units arranged in an array; each of the dimming units is configured to receive a dimming signal and change a transmittance of the each of the dimming units according to the dimming signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuerong Wang, Lu Yu, Junjie Ma, Lei Chen, Fei Gao
  • Patent number: 10969532
    Abstract: Time-multiplexed backlighting includes a time-multiplexed light source to provide a light beam having a first non-zero propagation angle during a first time interval and a second non-zero propagation angle during a second time interval. A time-multiplexed backlight includes a light guide configured to guide the light beam and a diffraction grating configured to coupled out a portion of the guided light beam with a different principal angular direction in each of the first time interval and the second time interval. A multiview display includes the time-multiplexed light source and a multibeam backlight to provide coupled-out light beams during each of the first and second time intervals, wherein the principal angular directions of the coupled-out light beams correspond to different view directions of the multiview display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: LEIA INC.
    Inventor: David A. Fattal
  • Patent number: 10953792
    Abstract: An optical conductor has several spherically curved light-extraction areas on its surface that are arranged in spaced relationship to one another and have a particular height (h) and a particular radius (R) of surface curvature, wherein h/R ratios of the respective height to the respective radius of all light-extraction areas are substantially equal and lie within a range of 0.1 to 0.45. A lighting system comprises one or more optical conductors and one or more light sources for irradiation of at least one light-injection area of the optical conductor, wherein useful light radiated from the front of the optical conductor can be emitted unscattered from the lighting system and/or interference light emitted outside of a useful light path is absorbable by the lighting system. Some embodiments may be particularly applicable in vehicle lighting systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventors: Bernhard Bayersdorfer, Alexandr Zaviyalov
  • Patent number: 10955593
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light source unit capable of displaying an image of a desired color without causing color unevenness when mounted on a display. A light source unit including: a light source; a color conversion member that converts incident light incident from the light source into light having a longer wavelength than the incident light does; and a reflective film that is present between the light source and the color conversion member, transmits light incident from the light source, and reflects light exited from the color conversion member, wherein in the reflective film, the scattering angle (R2?R1) on at least one film surface is 5° or more, where the scattering angle is obtained from angles R1 and R2 (R1<R2) at which the transmitted light intensity is Tmax(0)/100 relative to the maximum transmitted light intensity of halogen light incident perpendicularly to the film surface of Tmax(0).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Uto, Wataru Gouda, Takahito Sakai
  • Patent number: 10955110
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a precollimator for a lighting device, including: a) a number of first collimator units each having an entry face and an exit plane, wherein for each first collimator unit the exit plane is wider than the entry face in a first direction and the entry face and the exit plane have the same width in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and b) a second collimator unit having an entry plane and an exit face, wherein the exit face is wider than the entry plane in the second direction, and wherein the exit plane of each first collimator unit is optically connected to the entry plane of the second collimator unit, wherein the precollimator is joined together from at least two components. The disclosure further describes such lighting device and a method to manufacture such precollimator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Steffen Zozgornik, Ulrich Hechtfischer
  • Patent number: 10942308
    Abstract: A light source member including a guide panel, a light source disposed adjacent to at least one side of the guide panel, a low refractive layer disposed on the guide panel, and a color converting layer disposed on the low refractive layer and including a base resin and a quantum dot dispersed in the base resin, in which the low refractive layer includes a matrix part, a plurality of low refractive substances dispersed in the matrix part, and a void disposed in the matrix part, and an area occupied by the void is less than about 20% of an entire area of the low refractive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongyeon Lee, Taewoo Lim, Dongwoo Kim, Minsu Kim, Cheonjae Maeng, Keunwoo Park, Hongbeom Lee
  • Patent number: 10918322
    Abstract: This relates to an electronic device configured for optical sensing having shared windows and including light restriction designs. The light restriction designs can include one or more of optical layers, optical films, lenses, and window systems configured to reduce or eliminate crosstalk between optical components. A plurality of accepting sections and a plurality of blocking sections can be employed to selectively allow light having an angle of incidence within one or more acceptance viewing angles and block light with angles of incidence outside of the acceptance viewing angles. In some examples, the light restriction designs can include variations in optical and structural properties can allow the light restriction designs to have spatially varying acceptance angles. Variations in structural properties can include, but are not limited to, differences in widths, heights, and/or tilts of the accepting sections and/or blocking sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guocheng Shao, Mathieu Charbonneau-Lefort, Ueyn L. Block
  • Patent number: 10775607
    Abstract: A backlight module, a holographic display device and a holographic display method thereof are provided. The backlight module includes a semi-transparent layer and a reflective layer which are disposed opposite to each other, a light source, and a deflectable optical device. The light source is configured to emit a light beam, the deflectable optical device is configured to deflect a propagation direction of the light beam emitted from the light source and make the reflected light beam enter between the semi-transparent layer and the reflective layer in an angle, and is deflectable to change the angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuxin Zhang, Bingchuan Shi, Xinyin Wu, Yong Qiao
  • Patent number: 10754195
    Abstract: The lighting device includes a light source, a light transmissive plate opposed to the light source, a light reflecting portion disposed on the light transmissive plate and providing at least transmitted light with a specific tint, and a coloring portion disposed on the light source and/or the light transmissive plate. The light transmissive plate includes a light source overlapping region and a light source peripheral region. The light reflecting portion is disposed with a higher distribution density in the light source overlapping region than in the light source peripheral region. The coloring portion colors light travelling from the light source toward the light source overlapping region with a tint having a complementary relationship with the specific tint, or colors light travelling from the light source toward the light source peripheral region with a tint having a corresponding or similar color relationship with the specific tint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Yasunaga, Hisashi Watanabe, Youzou Kyoukane
  • Patent number: 10712496
    Abstract: The present disclosure provide a positioning structure, a backlight source, a display module, and a display device, and the positioning structure is applied to a backlight source include a light guide plate and an optical film, the positioning structure includes a structural body, the structural body includes: multiple protruding structures spaced from each other, an end portion of each of the protruding structures adjacent to the light guide plate forming a contact positioning surface, and at least two contact positioning surfaces located in a same plane forming a first positioning surface for positioning an end surface of the light guide plate; wherein the structural body is provided with a second positioning surface for positioning an end surface of the optical film of the backlight source, and the second positioning surface and the first positioning surface are located at different planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongda Ma, Yong Qiao, Jianbo Xian
  • Patent number: 10663795
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitters, a colloid, an optical film, and a liquid crystal panel. The light emitters are located on a surface of the substrate. There are a plurality of gaps between the light emitters. The colloid is located in the gaps on the surface of the substrate and surrounds the light emitters. The optical film is located above the colloid and the light emitters. The liquid crystal panel is located above the optical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY (CHENGDU) CO., LTD., INTERFACE OPTOELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., GENERAL INTERFACE SOLUTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Yin-Cheng Chen, Wen-Hsiao Huang, Ta-Jen Huang
  • Patent number: 10657920
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a signal transmission device are provided. The display panel includes: an array substrate; an opposed substrate arranged opposite to the array substrate; a circuit board, disposed on a side of the array substrate away from the opposed substrate; a driving circuit, disposed on a side of the array substrate close to the opposed substrate; a light emitter, disposed on a side of the circuit board close to the array substrate and electrically connected with the circuit board, in which the light emitter includes a light emitting surface which faces the array substrate; and a light receiver, disposed on a side of the array substrate close to the opposed substrate and electrically connected with the driving circuit, in which the light receiver includes a light receiving surface which faces the light emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seo Yoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10571690
    Abstract: A window for a motor vehicle includes an inner glass pane, an outer glass pane, and a first display module having a first light source, a first light guide disposed between the inner glass pane and the outer glass pane and configured to receive light from the first light source, a second light source, and a second light guide disposed between the inner glass pane and the outer glass pane and configured to receive light from the second light source. When the first light source is activated a first signal is displayed through the first light guide, when the second light source is activated a second signal is displayed through the second light guide, and when the first light source and the second light source are activated a third signal is displayed through the first light guide and the second light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Susan C. Ellis
  • Patent number: 10561855
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a lighting device (100) and a method of masking an edge transition (15e). An edge structure (15) provides the light with a first edge transition (L1) along a circumference (15e) of the edge structure (15). A patterned layer (11) is provided between the edge structure (15) and the front side (31) of the device. The patterned layer (11) comprises a gradient edge pattern (11g) configured to provide the transmitted light with a second edge transition (L2). The gradient edge pattern (11g) is configured with respect to the circumference (15e) of the edge structure (15) to smoothen the first edge transition (L1). A diffuser (10) is disposed between the front side (31) and the patterned layer (11) for scattering the light of the second edge transition (L2) to smoothen the second edge transition (L2) of the gradient edge pattern (11g).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Oege Smedinga, Georg Hagenauer, Ype Bernardus Brada
  • Patent number: 10539661
    Abstract: A plurality of beams of illumination light are emitted from a LIDAR device over a range of angles and scanned about an axis of rotation. The range of angles includes the axis of rotation. Intermediate electronics boards provide mechanical support and electrical connectivity between a rotating electronics board and various elements of a light emission and collection engine. One or more of the optical elements of the collection optics, the illumination optics, or both, is constructed from one or more materials that absorb light outside of a predetermined wavelength range. An overmolded lens is fixedly coupled to one or more of the light detecting elements to collect incoming light over a larger range of angles. A lens element is disposed in the light path between a light emitting element and the illumination optics to flatten the intensity distribution of light emitted from the light emitting element to reduce peak intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Velodyne Lidar, Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Hall, Mathew Noel Rekow, Stephen S. Nestinger, Pieter J. Kerstens
  • Patent number: 10461275
    Abstract: A flexible display component and a display screen are provided. The flexible display component includes a display module; a buffering layer; and at least two fixing parts disposed at the display module for fixing the buffering layer to be movably fixed to a side of the display module, wherein, when the display module is under a natural status, the buffering layer is contacted with the display module, when the display module is under a bending status, a gap layer is existed between the buffering layer and the display module. Through above way, the present invention can improve the bending reliability of the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Szu Yuan Wang, Lei Hu
  • Patent number: 10444565
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display apparatus, a backlight source, and a light source module. The display apparatus includes a display panel and interference light sources which generate interference light on a display side of the display panel. The interference light is invisible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenbo Li
  • Patent number: 10400974
    Abstract: An illumination device, a headlight, and a movable body are provided which can increase luminosity and resolution at a central region or a peripheral region in an illuminable region. A primary lens is placed at a light emission side of a plurality of light sources, and the primary lens includes a plurality of light guides corresponding in a one-to-one relationship to the plurality of light sources. A size of a light exit surface of a light guide corresponding to a light source which illuminates a central region in the illuminable region of the headlight is set to differ from a size of a light exit surface of a light guide corresponding to a light source which illuminates a peripheral region surrounding the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kanayama, Yasuharu Ueno, Hiroya Tsuji, Tomoyuki Ogata
  • Patent number: 10352524
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a light and thin tail lamp comprising a light guide structure and a lampshade, wherein the light guide structure is arranged in the lampshade, one surface of the light guide structure is an emergent surface, and the other surface of the light guide structure is a reflective surface; two incident surfaces are arranged on opposite positions at two sides of the light guide structure, at least one of the incident surfaces is provided with light sources, and rays emitted from the light sources enter the light guide structure through the incident surfaces; and the light sources are connected with a control circuit. The light and thin tail lamp disclosed by the present invention is reasonable in design, small in thickness, size and occupied space, and convenient to mount; and the light and thin tail lamp is high in brightness, uniform in light emergence and non-dazzling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Laster Automotive Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang'an Hong, Ze Ma
  • Patent number: 10330274
    Abstract: An embodiment of present Utility Model application provides a light beam adjusting device and an optical device. The light beam adjusting device includes: one or more first light incidence face arranged to receive an incident light beam; one or more total reflection collimating face arranged to totally reflect the incident light beam from the first light incidence face to collimate the incident light beam; and a first light exit face, from which the collimated light beam is emitted. In the above light beam adjusting device and the optical device, the incident light beam is firstly collimated into a substantially parallel light beam and then exits from the light exit face, thereby improving the luminance of the emergent light and broaden the emergent light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Chen Chen, Tao Xu, Zhichao Lin, Liang Lin, Qiang Hu
  • Patent number: 10330291
    Abstract: A panel light fixture kit for mounting to a planar surface of a dwelling. The kit includes a mounting plate for a flush mount to the planar surface. A frame mounts to and covers the mounting plate. The mounting plate includes alignment notches. The frame includes a tunnel cover that slides into the alignment notches to align the two parts during installation. The mounting plate further includes eyelet slots. The frame has attachment pins that slide into the eyelet slots to hold the frame to the mounting bracket. An LED light source inside the frame illuminates a light guide panel positioned at the bottom. In a T-bar drop ceiling application, the mounting plate is not needed. The frame includes bendable T-bar brackets that are bent to a hook shape that is fastened to the T-bar to affix the frame to the T-grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CORDELIA LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Huan C. Nguyen, Aaron O'Brien
  • Patent number: 10310161
    Abstract: A planar illumination device according to an embodiment includes: a light source; a light guide plate including a light incident side surface on which the light source is arranged; a housing that includes side walls surrounding outer circumferential surfaces of the light source and the light guide plate; a first light blocking sheet that is adhered to an outer side surface and a top end surface of a side wall opposed to the light source among the side walls and that covers the top end surface, a top surface of the light source, and part of a top surface of the light guide plate; and a second light blocking sheet that is adhered to top end surfaces of the side walls other than the side wall to which the first light blocking sheet is adhered and that covers at least the top end surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Adachi
  • Patent number: 10302842
    Abstract: An optical transmittance adjustment device including a light guide plate and an optical transmittance adjustment film is provided. The light guide plate has a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is opposite to the first surface and has a plurality of light scattering microstructures. The optical transmittance adjustment film is located at a side of the light guide plate, and the light scattering microstructures are located between the optical transmittance adjustment film and the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: ChengFeng Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Ching-Fang Wong