Patents Assigned to NANOLUMENS ACQUISITION, INC.
  • Publication number: 20170372646
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of display systems that provide directional emission from light emitting elements. The light emissive display systems disclosed provide methods and apparatus for controlling the direction and intensity of light emitted by the display. Display modules have a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a predetermined pattern and providing a highly uniform visual effect. Arrangement of physical and optical components with respect to the position and orientation of light emitting devices collectively steers the light from the display with a controlled directionality and intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Cope, Edward Buckley, Jorge Perez-Bravo
  • Publication number: 20170365198
    Abstract: Display module mounting apparatus and methods provide mounting features enabling ease of installation and service. The apparatus may have one or more releasable frame couplers and pivoting releasable frame couplers coupled to a display module having a display plane defined in relation to a substrate. One or more adjustable linkages may adjustably define a standoff distance between the display plane and a support frame to which the module may be mounted by the mounting apparatus. Concave and convex adjustments to the display plane may be made. Operation of pivoting action to tilt the display plane enables installation, removal, and serviceability of large displays constructed with a tiled plurality of display modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Perez-Bravo, QINGHUA XIAO, BIN ZHU
  • Patent number: 9830885
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of flexible display modules and systems of flexible display modules. Display modules have a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a predetermined pattern and providing a highly uniform visual effect. Alignment and complementary alignment features enable the alignment of adjacent display modules and the creation of large displays from a plurality of aligned display modules. Features to couple to and retain a support frame are provided. Flexible and durable weather resistance features are provided. Modules and systems have features that permit installation and removal from the front side or the back side of the display. A system of modular support frames works cooperatively with the display modules, adapting to different mounting environments, and thereby providing large modular displays with desirable properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J Cross, Jorge Perez-Bravo
  • Patent number: 9831223
    Abstract: A flexible display includes a plurality of pixel chips, chixels, provided on a flexible substrate. The chixels and the light emitters thereon may be shaped, sized and arranged to minimize chixel, pixel, and sub-pixel gaps and to provide a desired bend radius of the display. The flexible substrate may include light manipulators, such as filters, light converters and the like to manipulate the light emitted from light emitters of the chixels. The light manipulators may be arranged to minimize chixel gaps between adjacent chixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Cope
  • Publication number: 20170270896
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of in-situ display monitoring and calibration systems and methods. An image acquisition system captures images of the viewing plane of the display. Captured images may then be processed to characterize various visual performance characteristics of the display. When not in use capturing images of the display, the image acquisition system can be stored in a manner that protects it from environmental hazards such as dust, dirt, precipitation, direct sunlight, etc. A calibration image in which a plurality of light emitting elements is set to a particular color and intensity may be displayed, an image then captured, and then a difference between what was expected and what was captured may be developed for each light emitting element. Differences between captured images and expected images may be used to create a calibration data set which then may be used to adjust the display of further images upon the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Cope, Theodore Heske, III
  • Patent number: 9754518
    Abstract: Display module mounting apparatus and methods provide mounting features enabling ease of installation and service. The apparatus may have one or more releasable frame couplers and pivoting releasable frame couplers coupled to a display module having a display plane defined in relation to a substrate. One or more adjustable linkages may adjustably define a standoff distance between the display plane and a support frame to which the module may be mounted by the mounting apparatus. Concave and convex adjustments to the display plane may be made. Operation of pivoting action to tilt the display plane enables installation, removal, and serviceability of large displays constructed with a tiled plurality of display modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Perez-Bravo, Qinghua Xiao, Bin Zhu
  • Publication number: 20170251558
    Abstract: A retractable display configured as a plurality of interlinked display subassemblies or panels, a transport box having a lid configured to enclose the display system, the box or subassemblies having a rack system configured to support the plurality of linked display subassemblies in the transport box, a lift mechanism configured to assemble and disassemble the plurality of releasably interlinked display subassemblies into a seamless display, and an alignment system configured to align one display subassembly with a neighboring display subassembly and thus, functions as a rugged self-contained transport box of a plurality of interlinked display subassemblies capable of automated assembly into a seamless display larger than its transport box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc
    Inventors: Richard Craig Cope, Douglas Andrew Price, Drew Fredrick Meincke
  • Publication number: 20170235033
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of photo-luminescent display systems and photo-luminescent visual elements creating eye-catching displays of visual advertising or marketing messages that are very effective at generating interest, engagement, and loyalty in the viewing public. Photo-luminescent pigment containing visual elements are illuminated by one or more remotely located emitters at a first wavelength that is outside the human visual spectrum. In response, the visual elements then radiate at one or more wavelengths within the human visual spectrum. Additional features control unwanted reflections and unwanted transmission of radiation at the first wavelength. Additional features control the uniformity of radiation of one or more wavelengths within the human visual spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc
    Inventors: Robert J. Cross, Richard C. Cope, Jorge Perez-Bravo, Gary Feather, Theodore Heske, III
  • Publication number: 20170236805
    Abstract: A flexible display includes a plurality of pixel chips, chixels, provided on a flexible substrate. The chixels and the light emitters thereon may be shaped, sized and arranged to minimize chixel, pixel, and sub-pixel gaps and to provide a desired bend radius of the display. The flexible substrate may include light manipulators, such as filters, light converters and the like to manipulate the light emitted from light emitters of the chixels. The light manipulators may be arranged to minimize chixel gaps between adjacent chixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc,
    Inventor: Richard C. Cope
  • Patent number: 9655267
    Abstract: A retractable display configured as a plurality of interlinked display subassemblies or panels, a transport box having a lid configured to enclose the display system, the box or subassemblies having a rack system configured to support the plurality of linked display subassemblies in the transport box, a lift mechanism configured to assemble and disassemble the plurality of releasably interlinked display subassemblies into a seamless display, and an alignment system configured to align one display subassembly with a neighboring display subassembly and thus, functions as a rugged self-contained transport box of a plurality of interlinked display subassemblies capable of automated assembly into a seamless display larger than its transport box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Craig Cope, Douglas Andrew Price, Drew Fredrick Meincke
  • Patent number: 9651724
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of photo-luminescent display systems and photo-luminescent visual elements creating eye-catching displays of visual advertising or marketing messages that are very effective at generating interest, engagement, and loyalty in the viewing public. Photo-luminescent pigment containing visual elements are illuminated by one or more remotely located emitters at a first wavelength that is outside the human visual spectrum. In response, the visual elements then radiate at one or more wavelengths within the human visual spectrum. Additional features control unwanted reflections and unwanted transmission of radiation at the first wavelength. Additional features control the uniformity of radiation of one or more wavelengths within the human visual spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Cross, Richard C. Cope, Jorge Perez-Bravo, Gary Feather, Theodore Heske, III
  • Publication number: 20170127539
    Abstract: Display modules have a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a predetermined pattern and providing a highly uniform visual effect. Systems are provided to support a plurality of flexible display modules in an adjustable convex arrangement. Alignment and complementary alignment features enable the alignment of adjacent display modules and the creation of large displays from a plurality of aligned display modules. Features to couple to and retain a support frame are provided. Flexible and durable weather resistance features are provided. A system of modular support frames works cooperatively with the display modules, adapting to different mounting environments, and thereby providing large modular displays with desirable properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Drabant, Michael C. Fleming, JR.
  • Patent number: 9640516
    Abstract: A flexible display includes a plurality of pixel chips, chixels, provided on a flexible substrate. The chixels and the light emitters thereon may be shaped, sized and arranged to minimize chixel, pixel, and sub-pixel gaps and to provide a desired bend radius of the display. The flexible substrate may include light manipulators, such as filters, light converters and the like to manipulate the light emitted from light emitters of the chixels. The light manipulators may be arranged to minimize chixel gaps between adjacent chixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Cope
  • Publication number: 20170114971
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of flexible display modules and systems of flexible display modules. Display modules have a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a predetermined pattern and providing a highly uniform visual effect. Alignment and complementary alignment features enable the alignment of adjacent display modules and the creation of large displays from a plurality of aligned display modules. Features to couple to and retain a support frame are provided. Flexible and durable weather resistance features are provided. Modules and systems have features that permit installation and removal from the front side or the back side of the display. A system of modular support frames works cooperatively with the display modules, adapting to different mounting environments, and thereby providing large modular displays with desirable properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Cross, Jorge Perez-Bravo
  • Patent number: D784952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael C. Fleming, Jr.
  • Patent number: D791235
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventor: Clayton C. Pumphrey
  • Patent number: D798247
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew F. Meincke, Jorge Perez-Bravo, Douglas A. Price
  • Patent number: D801300
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael C. Fleming, Jr.
  • Patent number: D806051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael C. Fleming, Jr.
  • Patent number: D806670
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: NanoLumens Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael C. Fleming, Jr.