Abstract: A head-up display system including an optical laminate having at least one substrate material and a half-wave plate, and a display unit that makes display light representing a display image into S-polarized light or P-polarized light and emits the S-polarized light or the P-polarized light. In the head-up display system, an angle formed by a polarization axis of the S-polarized light or the P-polarized light incident from a position inclined at not less than 45° and not more than 65° with respect to an axis perpendicular to a surface of the optical laminate and a slow axis of the half-wave plate is not less than 35° and not more than 44°.

Abstract: A camera module of an electronic device includes a lens body and a bracket. The lens body includes a base mount. The bracket includes a main body and a conductive member. The main body is made of electrically non-conductive material and is configured to fixedly mount the lens body. The conductive member is received within the main body and is configured to electrically couple the base mount to a housing of the electronic device to discharge electric charge accumulated on the base mount.

Abstract: Multilayer reflective polarizers are described. More particularly, multilayer reflective polarizers having a higher block light transmission at longer wavelengths than shorter wavelengths while having a high pass light transmission are described. The described multilayer reflective polarizers may be combined with absorbing polarizers or used in display devices.

Abstract: A modulator assembly for modulating light comprising a first and a second electro-absorption modulator which each at least substantially only act on a polarization component of incident light; a light generating assembly for generating light which includes a first and a second polarization component; a first electro-absorption modulator for modulating the light generated by the light generating assembly, wherein the first electro-absorption modulator at least substantially only modulates the first polarization component of the light, so that the light exiting from the first electro-absorption modulator includes a modulated and an unmodulated polarization component; a polarization converter for changing the polarization direction of the light exiting from the first electro-absorption modulator.

Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) apparatus and method, and an optical engine component, where the AR apparatus includes a light-emitting light source, a polarization splitting subsystem, a first image source, a first optical subsystem, and a first combination subsystem. The first optical subsystem includes a first lens group, a first quarter-wave plate, and a first reflection surface. The first optical subsystem is configured to receive second polarized light and output first polarized light to the first combination subsystem. The first combination subsystem is configured to combine the received first polarized light and received external ambient light, and combined light is projected into an eye.

Abstract: The invention relates to glasses provided with two transparent spectacle glasses enclosed in a frame. Each spectacle glass is positioned in front of a person's eye with the aid of a frame to be positioned on the ears and nose of said person. The glasses are further provided with at least one light source integrated in the frame for directly and/or indirectly delivering light to the eyes substantially from above. A nose frame part of the frame reflects at, at least, a nose frame side portion facing the eye, to the eye at least partially the direct or indirect incident light thereon originating from the light source.

Abstract: An eye measurement instrument includes: an optical measurement subsystem for measuring an optical characteristic of an eye; an imaging system, including: a camera, an optical system including a movable optical element, and an actuator to move the movable optical element. When the movable optical element is moved into a first position outside an optical path between the eye and the camera, then the optical system focuses a first feature of the eye at the camera, and the camera is configured to capture a first image of the eye, and when the movable element is moved in a second position in the optical path then the optical system focuses a second feature of the eye, different from the first feature, at the camera, and the camera captures a second image of the eye.

Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for determining a direction of gaze by a user of an ophthalmic device. In an embodiment, at least a portion of a magnetic field is generated by one of the ophthalmic device and an auxiliary reference device while the ophthalmic device is disposed in or on an eye of the user, and while the auxiliary reference device is adhered on the user's skin or under a surface of the skin. The ophthalmic device and the auxiliary reference device interact with each other via a magnetic field, and the interaction is detected with one or more sensors of the ophthalmic device. In another embodiment, the ophthalmic device stores predetermined reference information which corresponds various magnetic field signal characteristics each with a different respective direction of gaze. Based on the sensor information and the reference information, a controller of the ophthalmic device determines a direction in which the eye of the user is gazing.

Abstract: A composition for a high refractive index, low dispersion resin for a close-contact double layer-type composite diffractive optical element that is highly photocurable and provides a high productivity, and a close-contact double layer-type composite diffractive optical element using such composition are provided. A composition for a high refractive index, low dispersion resin for a close-contact double layer-type composite diffractive optical element includes a thiol compound represented by general formula (1) or an oligomer synthesized by use of a thiol compound represented by general formula (1) (A component); and an ene compound including two or more polymerizable unsaturated bonds (B component). (In the formula, p represents an integer of 2 to 5; Xp and Zp independently represent a hydrogen atom or a mercaptomethyl group; a ratio of sulfur atoms in a molecule is 40 to 80% by mass; and the number of thiol groups is 3 or larger.).

Abstract: A microscope for imaging a sample includes an illumination unit for emitting illumination light to the sample; a detector for capturing a detection light originating from the sample; an optical system for focusing the illumination light onto the sample and focusing the detection light onto the detector; and a scanning unit for scanning the sample using the illumination light. The illumination unit emits the illumination light as separate illumination light beams which can be focused on spatially mutually separated, strip-like sample regions simultaneously. The detector captures the detection light in the form of separate detection light beams originating from the sample regions simultaneously and in a spatially mutually separated manner. The sample regions are in sample planes, and the detector having sub-detectors, which are each assigned to a sample plane and capture a detection light beam that originates from a respective sample plane.

Abstract: A near-eye display apparatus including at least one display unit having a display element and an optical system is provided. The display element provides a light beam. The light beam includes a first light beam and a second light beam having different image information and different polarization states. The optical system includes a first semi-reflective element, a first polarization conversion element, and a polarization reflector, arranged in sequence along an optical axis. The polarization reflector allows a light beam having a first polarization state to pass and reflects a light beam having a second polarization state. The light path and the image distance of the second light beam are greater than the light path and the image distance of the first light beam, and the first light beam and the second light beam are emitted by at least one display unit to form a combined light beam.

Abstract: A diffractive optical element prevents degradation of the optical performance of the element due to moisture absorption of the resin layers from taking place and also can prevent cracks of the resin layers and peeling of the resin layers along the interface thereof from taking place in a hot environment or in a cold environment. The diffractive optical element comprises a first layer and a second layer sequentially laid on a substrate, a diffraction grating being formed at the interface of the first layer and the second layer, the height d of the diffraction grating, the average film thickness t1 of the first layer and the average film thickness t2 of the second layer satisfying the relationship requirements expressed by the expressions of 1.1×d?t1?50 ?m and 30 ?m?t2?(400 ?m?t1?d).

Abstract: An electrochromic device is provided. The electrochromic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode at an interval, and an electrochromic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrochromic layer contains an electrochromic material and a first ion-conducting material partially comprising a non-ion-conducting portion that does not conduct ions. The non-ion-conducting portion comprises a molecular unit structure having an atomic arrangement in which 8 or more atoms having a valence of 2 or more are bonded with each other. The atoms comprise heteroatoms in a number of 15% or less based on a total number of the atoms.

Abstract: An image display system includes a first image display unit that has a first image display surface for displaying a first image and emits first emission light as first polarized light, a beam splitter that has a transflective surface for transmitting a part of incident light and reflecting another part of the incident light, the transflective surface being arranged at a position where the first emission light emitted from the first image display unit is incident, and the beam splitter changing the polarized light of the first emission light and reflecting the first emission light, and an absorption polarizer that is arranged at a position where reflected light reflected from the transflective surface of the beam splitter out of the first emission light is incident, to absorb the first polarized light and transmit second polarized light different from the first polarized light.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a structure comprising a polymeric structure or composite material having a surface patterned via methods employing a kirigami-type technique. The patterned surface may define a first row of at least two discontinuous cuts and a second row of at least two discontinuous cuts offset from the first row. The first row and the second row cooperate to define a plurality of bridge structures therebetween, making the nanocomposite is stretchable in at least one direction. Methods of making such patterned structures via kirigami techniques, for example, via photolithography top-down cutting are also provided. Devices incorporating such kirigami-patterned polymeric structures are also provided, such as strain tunable optic devices.

Abstract: An electrophoretic device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and between the electrodes an electrophoretic cell containing an electrophoretic ink and one or more non-planar solid polymer elements. The ink includes charged particles of at least one type suspended in a suspending fluid, and, 75% or more by mass of the suspending fluid is an organosilicone or an aliphatic hydrocarbon and the solid polymer is a fluorinated elastomeric polymer.

Abstract: Actuators for rotating or tilting an optical element, for example an optical path folding element, comprising a voice coil motor (VCM) and a curved ball-guided mechanism operative to create a rotation or tilt movement of the optical element around a rotation axis upon actuation by the VCM. In some embodiments, an actuator includes two, first and second VCMs, and two curved ball-guided mechanisms operative to create rotation or tilt around respective first and second rotation axes.

Abstract: There is provided a compact and high-resolution imaging lens at a low cost.

Abstract: An optical module includes: a filter holding member to which an interference filter having a pair of mirrors facing each other is fixed; a base to which the filter holding member is fixed; and a first fixing member which fixes the filter holding member to the base. In the optical module, k<m?2/2 is satisfied, where k is a spring constant of the first fixing member, ? is a frequency of vibration generated in the base, and m is a total mass of the interference filter and the filter holding member.

Abstract: An antenna structure as an example of a structure including a transparent conductor includes: an antenna as an example of the transparent conductor; a film transmitting a visible light; a positioning structure configured to position the film from an invisible side of a ceiling as an example of a facility; and a flange transmitting the visible light and configured to position the film from a visible side of the ceiling and including a lens part at a position facing the positioning structure.