Patents Examined by Brandi N Thomas
  • Patent number: 10390696
    Abstract: Methods for presenting dynamic images to a user, configured to evaluate and/or improve the user's foveal and/or peripheral visual acuity. Dynamic computer games are popular, but the moving images of prior art dynamic computer games are not suitable for improving visual acuity. To overcome this restriction, embodiments of the present invention analyze user's responses to the moving images to determine a change in the user's visual acuity, and responsively adjust parameters of the moving images, such as speed, direction of motion, orientation, crowding, contrast, and spatial frequency, in order to improve the user's visual acuity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: EYEKON E.R.D. LTD.
    Inventor: Shai Novik
  • Patent number: 10386657
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the measurements needed to fabricate prescription eyeglasses. The system and method take into account how the frames fit naturally on the head and how the person's posture orients the head and alters the line of sight through the lens of the eyeglasses. A sensor unit is provided that is attached to the eyeglass frames. The individual then wears the eyeglass frames and moves through at least one situational simulation. The sensor unit generates data that corresponds to changes in orientation. The data is used to determine how a person's line of sight is altered by the anatomy of the face and the posture of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: OptiKam Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Bassem El-Hajal, Marco Lancione, Piotr Szymborski
  • Patent number: 10386692
    Abstract: An electrophoretic element according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; and an electrophoretic layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and has a plurality of pixels. In each pixel, the electrophoretic layer includes a dispersion medium, and a plurality of types of electrophoretic particles dispersed in the dispersion medium. The plurality of types of electrophoretic particles include first electrophoretic particles and second electrophoretic particles that are charged with the same polarity and have different threshold characteristics from each other. In each pixel, the electrophoretic element includes at least three electrodes to which different potentials can be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Moriwaki, Hiromi Katoh
  • Patent number: 10386693
    Abstract: An electrophoretic element according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; and an electrophoretic layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and has a plurality of pixels. In each pixel, the electrophoretic layer includes a dispersion medium, and a plurality of types of electrophoretic particles dispersed in the dispersion medium. The plurality of types of electrophoretic particles include first electrophoretic particles and second electrophoretic particles that are charged with the same polarity and have different threshold characteristics from each other. In each pixel, the first substrate includes at least three electrodes to which different potentials can be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 10383512
    Abstract: A wavefront device produces adjustable amplitudes in optical path differences and adjustable axis orientation angles. two substantially identical wave plates have a wavefront profile of at least the third order Zernike polynomial function which are not circularly symmetric, as denoted by Z(i,j) where i?3 and j?0. The wave plates are mounted in rotatable mounts with their optical centers substantially aligned with each other. An subjective wavefront refraction instrument and method are provided to correct low and high order aberrations of the eye, using the adjustable wave plates that have astigmatism and higher order Zernike function optical path difference wavefront profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Inventor: Shui T. Lai
  • Patent number: 10379342
    Abstract: To provide a head-up display apparatus capable of displaying an easily visible image. The apparatus projects a display image displayed on the image displaying part installed in an instrument panel of a vehicle toward a windshield glass (translucent member) through an opening of the instrument panel, reflects the image on the windshield glass, and displays character information and symbol information as a virtual image, which is visible from a predetermined eye-position range. The character information is displayed in a first area where a difference in distortion (binocular parallax) of the virtual image is less than a predetermine value when the translucent member is seen from the predetermined eye-position range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naomi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10379314
    Abstract: A multi-degree-of-freedom support mechanism includes a first member having a protruding part with a spherical surface, and a second member having a pair of planes opposite to each other across the protruding part. One of the first member and the second member is able to make relative movement with respect to the other with sliding movement of the spherical surface on the pair of planes. The pair of planes is in contact with the spherical surface. The relative movement includes translational movement in two degrees of freedom in planar direction and rotational movement about an axis in three degrees of freedom in the pair of planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hironori Honsho
  • Patent number: 10371970
    Abstract: Disclosed a display screen having a mirror function, a control method, a device and a terminal. The display screen includes: a screen lens (20), a liquid crystal screen (22) and a nano suspension layer (21), wherein the nano suspension layer (21) is disposed between the screen lens and the liquid crystal display. The control method includes: controlling the magnetic layer to provide a static magnetic field perpendicular to the display screen upon receipt of the trigger-off signal; and controlling the upper plate to provide a voltage, or controlling the upper plate to provide a voltage and controlling the magnetic layer to provide a static magnetic field perpendicular to the display screen upon receipt of the trigger-on signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Li
  • Patent number: 10365533
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes: a first substrate on which a common electrode is provided; a second substrate on which a pixel electrode and a plurality of terminals are provided; dispersion liquid that is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and includes particles and a dispersion medium; and two or more connecting portions that electrically connect two or more terminals among the plurality of terminals respectively to different points of the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Akihito Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10359623
    Abstract: A optical phase shifter is provided for adjusting an optical phase of light propagating therethrough along an optical axis. The optical phase shifter includes first and second transparent slides defining a cavity therebetween. A sheet is received in the cavity and has first and second sides. The sheet includes a rigid inner portion alignable with the optical axis and is moveable along the optical axis between a first position and a second position. A tuning structure is operatively engageable with the rigid inner portion of the sheet to selectively move the rigid inner portion of the sheet along the optical axis so as to adjust the optical phase of light propagating through the optical phase shifter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Hongrui Jiang, Alireza Ousati Ashtiani
  • Patent number: 10353179
    Abstract: An optical image lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, wherein at least one surface of the fifth lens element is aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein at least one surface of the sixth lens element is aspheric, and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element has at least one inflection point thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Shan Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 10353266
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a method of rendering an image on a reflective display wherein each pixel is capable of rendering a limited number of colors, each of which is rendered by predetermined set of waveforms stored in a waveform lookup table. Furthermore, the present invention provides for a method for rendering an image using such colors, having been chosen for optimal color rendition. This invention further provides for rendering a color image formed from a plurality of pixels on a reflective display wherein each pixel has a color selected from the group consisting of at least: red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, black and white.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Alain Bouchard, Stephen J. Telfer
  • Patent number: 10353188
    Abstract: An optical system for generating an Airy beam light sheet comprising an optical arrangement for generating a Gaussian beam, and an optical element for converting the Gaussian beam into an Airy beam light sheet, wherein a single optical element is provided for converting the Gaussian beam into an Airy beam light sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Michael Mazilu, Tom Vettenburg, Kishan Dholakia, Miguel Preciado, Zhengyi Yang
  • Patent number: 10353207
    Abstract: There is provided a head-mounted display device capable of adjusting a distance to an image forming position that includes video display elements that show a video, optical elements arranged in front of user's eyes to cause the video shown by the video display elements to be incident on the user's eyes, and a control mechanism that changes an optical distance between the video display elements and the optical elements. Also provided is a video display system that includes the head-mounted display device and a video supply device that includes a video supply section that supplies a video to the head-mounted display device and an image forming distance control section that outputs a control instruction to change a distance from the optical elements to the image forming position by operating the control mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Takao Maruyama, Yoshinori Ohashi, Koichi Shiono, Yoichi Nishimaki
  • Patent number: 10353196
    Abstract: An electro-optical device is configured by a laminated body of a second conductive layer and a reflective layer for a mirror. The second conductive layer includes a mirror support post facing a concave portion at a side opposite to a substrate, and a flat plate which extends from an end portion of the mirror support post and faces the substrate. The concave portion is filled with the resin. Surfaces of the flat plate and the resin configure a continuous plane. The reflective layer for a mirror is laminated on a surface of the resin at a side opposite to the substrate, and a surface of the flat plate of the second conductive layer at a side opposite to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 10338374
    Abstract: A display device includes a first support plate and an opposing second support plate. A pixel region is between the first support plate and an inner surface of the second support plate. A diffuser is disposed on the second support plate. The diffuser has a first diffusion area over the pixel region. The first diffusion area has a first region with a first diffusion profile and a second region with a second diffusion profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tulasi Sridhar Reddy Guntaka, Karel Johannes Gerhardus Hinnen
  • Patent number: 10327635
    Abstract: Methods and systems for improving quantification of OCT angiography data are disclosed. The disclosure specifically relates to methods for compensating for the effect of tissue reflectance to improve the accuracy and repeatability of OCT angiography measurements. These improvements are effected by deriving and then utilizing a dynamic thresholding approach to process decorrelation data to properly classify flow versus non-flow data in OCT angiograms. The disclosed methods overcome quantification errors associated with within-scan variations in reflectance as well as repeatability problems associated with differences in scan quality over successive imaging sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Oregon Health & Science University
    Inventors: David Huang, Yali Jia, Simon Gao
  • Patent number: 10330918
    Abstract: A display device includes a first support plate and a second support plate. A pixel region between the first support plate and the second support plate includes a plurality of pixel wall portions over the first support plate forming a perimeter of the pixel region. A first liquid and a second liquid that is immiscible with the first liquid are disposed in the pixel region. A light-blocking layer is disposed on an inner surface of the second support plate. The light-blocking layer includes a light-blocking portion positioned over a first pixel wall portion of the plurality of pixel wall portions. An electrically conductive layer comprising an electrically conductive portion is disposed on a first surface of the light-blocking portion. A recessed region is aligned with the electrically conductive portion such that a portion of the second liquid disposed within the recessed region contacts the electrically conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Toru Sakai
  • Patent number: 10324315
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electronic device, to solve the technical problem that it is relatively complex to implement a change in color of an appearance of the electronic device in the related art. The electronic device comprises a main body having a basic form and a deformed form; and a color changing film attached to the main body to form a part of a surface of an appearance of the main body, the color changing film being deformed as the main body is changed from the basic form to the deformed form, wherein if the main body is in the basic form, the color changing film as the part of the appearance of the main body presents a first visual effect, and if the main body is in the deformed form, the color changing film as the part of the appearance of the main body presents a second visual effect different from the first visual effect. Based on the same concept, the present disclosure further discloses another electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software, Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventor: Hua Yao
  • Patent number: 10317768
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: an upper substrate, a lower substrate and an electrophoretic layer located between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; wherein, the lower substrate includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix and a plurality of touch electrodes; the upper substrate includes a common electrode layer, a plurality of openings are provided on the common electrode layer, the maximum aperture of the openings is less than or equal to a space between adjacent pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI AVIC OPTO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kerui Xi, Tingting Cui, Zhaokeng Cao