Patents Examined by Don Williams
  • Patent number: 10094855
    Abstract: A frequency visualization apparatus for detecting and displaying one or more specific sets of energy waves based on one or more of defined discrete sets of frequency ranges is disclosed, the apparatus including two or more directional radio frequency antennas for capturing a field of view, such orientation comprising a detector array, each antenna configured to output a specific voltage based on the strength of the intercepted radio waves, two or more voltage amplifiers in communication with the one or more radio frequency antennas, two or more analog to digital converters, a digital memory apparatus connected to the two or more converters for receiving and storing the digital data in a numeric array, a processor connected to the digital memory apparatus, and a display connected to the processor for displaying a visual array comprising visual array elements, each visual array element corresponding to a specific antenna of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Fuhr, Harris Kagan
  • Patent number: 10097074
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an electromagnetic driving module which includes a base, two magnetic elements, a wiring assembly, a reference element, and a sensor element. The two magnetic elements are arranged along a reference line and positioned at two sides of the base. The wiring assembly is connected to the base and arranged adjacent to the two magnetic elements. The reference element is positioned on the base. The sensor element is adjacent to the reference elements and configured to detect the movement of the reference element to position the base. A lens device using the electromagnetic driving module is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Shangyu Hsu, Nai-Wen Hsu
  • Patent number: 10098213
    Abstract: A lighting fixture system for lamps includes one or more lamps and one or more ballasts configured to provide controlled power to the one or more lamps. The lighting fixture further includes a controller wired to the lighting fixture. The controller includes one or more relays configured to turn power provided to the one or more ballasts on and off such that the one or more lamps turn on and off with the switching of the one or more relays. The controller further includes a logic circuit configured to control the switching of the one or more relays, wherein the logic circuit is configured to log usage information for the lighting fixture in memory. The controller yet further includes communications electronics configured to output the logged usage information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: ORION ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Neal R. Verfuerth, Daniel J. Czaja, Jr., Michael J. Potts, Ryan M. Franzen, Eric A. Smasal
  • Patent number: 10091860
    Abstract: Control of one or more switches arrayed in a multi-gang switch box is disclosed. One or more sensors may receive or provide an indication of a gesture near one of the switches. An indication of the switch determined to which a gesture is determined to be directed toward may be displayed. A state change may be performed on the switch according to the gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Michael Simonian, Joe Freeman Britt, Jr., Erich Schlaepfer
  • Patent number: 10090349
    Abstract: A device includes an image sensor chip having an image sensor therein. A read-out chip is underlying and bonded to the image sensor chip, wherein the read-out chip includes a logic device selected from the group consisting essentially of a reset transistor, a source follower, a row selector, and combinations thereof therein. The logic device and the image sensor are electrically coupled to each other, and are parts of a same pixel unit. A peripheral circuit chip is underlying and bonded to the read-out chip, wherein the peripheral circuit chip includes a logic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng-Hsun Wan, Szu-Ying Chen, Dun-Nian Yaung, Jen-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 10072976
    Abstract: An optical sensor arrangement (10) comprises a light sensor (11), a current source (41), an analog-to-digital converter (12) and a switch (44) which selectively couples the light sensor (11) or the current source (41) to an input (14) of the analog-to-digital converter (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: ams AG
    Inventor: Gonggui Xu
  • Patent number: 10066994
    Abstract: A Fabry Perot resonator spacer is provided. The Fabry Perot resonator spaced includes a tetrahedral body, the tetrahedral body being made of a material having a Poisson ratio and defining a plurality of triangular faces, a plurality of edges, and a plurality of corners, wherein each one of the plurality of corners is truncated to form a mounting surface in a mounting plane. The spacer further includes a first mirror channel configured to receive a first optical element, a second mirror channel configured to receive a second optical element, and an optical cavity extending linearly through the tetrahedral body between the first mirror channel and the second mirror channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventor: Makan Mohageg
  • Patent number: 10061139
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to optical devices comprising planar lenses. In one aspect, an optical device includes two or more planar lenses, and one or more dielectric layers. Each planar lens includes a non-periodic, sub-wavelength grating layer, and each dielectric layer is disposed adjacent to at least one planar lens to form a solid structure. The two or more planar lenses are substantially parallel and arranged to have a common optical axis so that light transmitted through the optical device substantially parallel to the optical axis is refracted by the two or more planar lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Jingjing Li, Nate Quitoriano, David A. Fattal, Raymond G. Beausoleil
  • Patent number: 10056868
    Abstract: An electrical circuit includes a sensor configured to generate a current signal comprising a first portion comprising a contribution from a target source and/or a second portion comprising a contribution from sources other than the target source, a trans-impedance amplifier that amplifies the current signal and generate a low noise signal, and a high pass filter that converts the low noise signal into an AC signal having a positive amplitude, a negative amplitude, and a zero cross-over point between the positive and negative amplitudes. The circuit also includes a positive integrating amplifier that receives the positive amplitude of the AC signal and generates a positive integrated value over an integration period, and a negative integrating amplifier that receives the negative amplitude of the AC signal and generates a negative integrated value over the integration period. The circuit further includes at least one analog-to-digital converter that receives the integrated values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Shrenik Deliwala, Steven J. Decker, Dan M. Weinberg
  • Patent number: 10048123
    Abstract: An electronic device including a component and a light circuit structured to detect light. The light circuit is structured to output a detection signal in response to detecting light and the detection signal is used to wake up or communicate with the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Gregg James Haensgen, James Derek Formea, Andrew John Sowada, Richard William Lucas, Kyle Heiden, Denis Sterjo
  • Patent number: 10032825
    Abstract: A CMOS imaging system with increased charge storage of pixels yet decreased physical size, kTC noise and active area. A storage node is connected to the transfer gate and provides a storage node for a pixel, allowing for kTC noise reduction prior to readout. The pixel may be operated with the shutter gate on during the integration period to increase the amount of time for charge storage by a pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peter P. Altice, Jr., Jeffery A. McKee
  • Patent number: 10021333
    Abstract: An image sensor comprises a pixel portion formed by arraying pixels including photoelectric conversion portions in a matrix, a plurality of A/D converters which are provided in a one-to-one correspondence to pixel columns of the pixel portion, an adding unit which adds pixel signals from a plurality of pixel columns to each other, and a connecting portion capable of inputting, to an arbitrary A/D converter, a sum signal obtained by adding the pixel signals by the adding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusaku Motonaga, Kazuo Yamazaki, Tetsuya Itano
  • Patent number: 10012530
    Abstract: A light sensing device for a vehicle. A housing defines a light sensor cavity and a lens cover. A light sensor is positioned in the light sensor cavity and is surrounded by a gasket assembly. A manifold is configured to receive and store a fluid. A first fluid dispensing assembly extends from the manifold through the gasket assembly. The first fluid dispensing assembly is juxtapositioned above the lens cover and is configured to trickle the fluid downwardly over the manifold at a predetermined flow rate. A second fluid dispensing assembly extends from the manifold through the gasket assembly. The second fluid dispensing assembly is juxtapositioned laterally adjacent to the lens cover and is configured to expel fluid that blows across the lens cover as the vehicle moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luke W. Koops, Kristopher R. Green
  • Patent number: 10012760
    Abstract: A heat source-free fiber positioning and orienting system for seepage of submerged or partially submerged structures and monitoring method thereof includes a plurality of seepage monitoring devices connected through rotary supports. The seepage monitoring devices include first seepage monitoring units symmetrically distributed on the front and back and second seepage monitoring units symmetrically distributed on left and right. Seepage monitoring fibers are distributed in the first seepage monitoring units and the second seepage monitoring units, and the seepage conditions of the submerged or partially submerged structures are monitored through the seepage monitoring fibers. The heat source-free fiber positioning and orienting system for the seepage of submerged or partially submerged structures has the characteristics of no heating, distribution manner, multiple orientations and synchronicity or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: HOHAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Huaizhi Su, Meng Yang, Hao Li, Xing Li, Zhaoqing Fu
  • Patent number: 10006806
    Abstract: A light sensor arrangement according to the proposed principle comprises at least one first unshielded well (D0) and at least one second shielded well (D1) in a substrate (P). The at least one first unshielded well (D0) is being exposed to incident light (?) and configured to generate a first sensor signal (Ch0) as a function of the incident light (?). The at least one second shielded well (D1) in the substrate (p) being shielded from the incident light (?) and configured to generate a second sensor signal (Ch1) as a function of the incident light (?). The light sensor arrangement further comprises means for temperature compensation providing the first and second sensor signals (Ch0, Ch1) as temperature compensated sensor signals as a function of substrate temperature. Means to determine spectral content of the incident light (?) are provided to determine the spectral content as a function of the temperature compensated first and second sensor signals (Ch0, Ch1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: ams AG
    Inventors: Gonggui Xu, Lloyd Hasley, Cecil Aswell, Mario Manninger
  • Patent number: 10006863
    Abstract: One aspect provides a system, including: a sensor adjustment component having: a memory device having adjustment information stored therein; a light engine capable of producing a signal detectable by a light detector of an optical sensor to be adjusted; and one or more processors; where the one or more processors are configured to execute program instructions to operate the light engine to produce a predetermined light pattern detectable by the light detector of the optical sensor to be adjusted; where the predetermined signal pattern comprises the adjustment information; and where the adjustment information configures said light detector that receives said predetermined signal pattern carrying the adjustment information. Other aspects are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: HACH COMPANY
    Inventors: David T. Crook, Areef A. Moin
  • Patent number: 10008522
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-spectrum photosensitive device and manufacturing method thereof. The multi-spectrum photosensitive device comprises at least one opaque base layer; each base layer having at least two sides, at least two of the sides are provided with photosensitive pixel groups, each photosensitive pixel group is used for sensing light of either spectrum irradiated from the obverse direction of the located side. Alternatively, the multi-spectrum photosensitive device comprises at least one transparent base layer; each base layer having at least two sides, at least two of the sides are provided with photosensitive pixel groups, each photosensitive pixel group is used for sensing light of interested spectrum irritated from the obverse direction or reverse direction of the located side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Boly Media Communications (Shenzen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaoping Hu
  • Patent number: 9991409
    Abstract: An optical detection sensor functions as a proximity detection sensor that includes an optical system and a selectively transmissive structure. Electromagnetic radiation such as laser light can be emitted through a transmissive portion of the selectively transmissive structure. A reflected beam can be detected to determine the presence of an object. The sensor is formed by encapsulating the transmissive structure in a first encapsulant body and encapsulating the optical system in a second encapsulant body. The first and second encapsulant bodies are then joined together. In a wafer scale assembling the structure resulting from the joined encapsulant bodies is diced to form optical detection sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Yonggang Jin, Wee Chin Judy Lim
  • Patent number: 9989640
    Abstract: There is provided an optical apparatus including a substrate, a light emitting device, a light sensitive device and a plurality of micro-lenses. The light emitting device is disposed on the substrate and adapted to provide a light beam. The light sensitive device is disposed on the substrate and adapted to receive a light beam reflected from an object, wherein the light sensitive device has a plurality of photosensitive units arranged in matrix. The micro-lenses are disposed above the light sensitive device and respectively opposite to the associated photosensitive units. There is further provided a light sensitive device with micro-lens and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: En-Feng Hsu, Chia-Yu Liu, Ching-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 9985622
    Abstract: A comparator includes: a first amplifying unit that includes a differential pair configured with a pair of transistors which are first and second transistors, and amplifies a difference of signals input to each of the gate electrodes of the first and second transistors, to output; a second amplifying unit that amplifies the signal output from the first amplifying unit; a third transistor that connects the first transistor to a power source voltage; a fourth transistor that connects the second transistor to the power source voltage; a fifth transistor that connects a connection point of gate electrodes of the third transistor and the fourth transistor to a drain of the third transistor; and a sixth transistor that connects a connection point of gate electrodes of the third transistor and the fourth transistor to a drain of the fourth transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Tanaka, Shizunori Matsumoto, Haruhisa Naganokawa, Yuuichi Kaji