Abstract: A lens is provided. The lens comprises a lens body. The lens body is substantially in a shape of a circular table. A small end of the lens body is provided with a concave inner light source accommodation space. The inner surface of the light source accommodation space is an incident surface of light. A surface of a large end of the lens body is an exit surface, and a side surface of the lens body is a reflecting surface. A bottom of the light source accommodation space is provided with a cylindrical protrusion. A cross section dimension of the light source accommodation space gradually decreases, from the small end of the lens to the large end of the lens. The cylindrical protrusion is formed by protrusion from the bottom of the light source accommodation space toward the small end of the lens body.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an optical member, a housing, and a light source. The optical member contains a photocatalyst film on an object-side surface. The housing contains an accommodation section in which the optical member is accommodated. The light source is located in an internal space of the housing and emits light to activate the photocatalyst film. The light from the light source passes through the optical member and irradiates the photocatalyst film.

Abstract: A monitoring component for monitoring relative position of a head mounted device and a user of the head mounted device, the head mounted device including at least one sensor, the monitoring component including: a memory configured to store computer executable code, and a processor configured to execute the computer executable codes stored in the memory of: a communication code configured to receive data from the head mounted device indicative of at least one feature sensed by the at least one sensor of the head mounted device, an information generating code configured to generate an information indicative of the relative position of the head mounted device and the user of the head mounted device based at least on the data received from the head mounted device.

Abstract: Lens barrel includes: a first barrel; and a second barrel that is arranged on an outer circumferential side or on an inner circumferential side of first barrel, second barrel being movable in a first direction relative to first barrel without being rotated relative to the first barrel, wherein: second barrel has a first engaging part that protrudes toward first barrel and a second engaging part that protrudes toward first barrel, the second engaging part being different from first engaging part; the first barrel has a first engaged part with which the first engaging part is engaged so as to be linearly movable and a second engaged part with which the second engaging part is engaged so as to be linearly movable; and one end of the first engaging part and another end of the second engaging part are arranged at different positions in a linear motion direction.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a black microprismatic retroreflective film. The black microprismatic retroreflective film comprises a body layer and a black color layer. The body layer includes microprismatic optical elements. The black color layer gives the black microprismatic retroreflective film a daytime color of black. The black microprismatic retroreflective film has a coefficient of retroreflectivity greater than 50 cd/lx/m2 at a ?4 degree entrance angle and 0.2 degree observation angle.

Abstract: A wire grid polarization element includes a wire grid including a plurality of wire-shaped metal layers arranged in parallel on one surface of a substrate, and a light-absorbing layer including a germanium film containing at least one of oxygen and nitrogen is provided on a side opposite to the substrate with respect to the plurality of wire-shaped metal layers. Such a germanium film can be formed by mixing an oxygen gas or a nitrogen gas into an argon gas in film formation by reactive sputtering. In this case, a flow rate of the oxygen gas or the nitrogen gas is made appropriate and thus, a complex refraction index of the germanium film is set to an appropriate value, and a reflectance with respect to linearly polarized light vibrating in an extending direction of the wire-shaped metal layers is set to 3.0% or lower.

Abstract: One embodiment of a lens driving device comprises: a housing supporting a first magnet; a bobbin provided on the inside of the first magnet, provided with a first coil on an outer peripheral surface thereof, and moving within the housing; a base disposed at the bottom of the bobbin; an upper elastic member provided at the top of the bobbin; and a supporting member disposed on a side surface of the housing, and having the bottom thereof coupled to the base, wherein a portion of the top of the supporting member may be coupled to the upper elastic member.

Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination system (10) for a fluorescence microscope (3) for observation of an object (17) containing at least one fluorophore (19), to a microscope (1) and to a microscope method for illumination of an object (17) comprising at least one fluorophore (19). Solutions of the art have the disadvantage that orientation within an object (17) is difficult and visibility of fluorescing regions of the object (17) is non satisfying.

Abstract: The switching mirror panel of the present invention includes, in the following order: a reflective polarizing plate; a liquid crystal panel including a pair of substrates facing each other and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates; and an absorptive polarizing plate, at least one of the substrates including divided pixel regions, the pixel regions each including, in the following order from the liquid crystal layer side, a pixel electrode, a transparent insulating film, and transparent conductive lines superimposed on the pixel electrode, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to at least one of the transparent conductive lines through an aperture formed in the transparent insulating film, the switching mirror panel being configured to switch between a transparent mode and a mirror mode by applying voltage to the pixel electrode to control the alignment of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A biological object observation system includes an observation optical unit, a photodetector, a display unit, a detection unit, and a processor. The observation optical unit includes an optical system that guides a luminous flux from a biological object and a drive unit that drives the optical system. The photodetector receives optical information in accordance with the biological object. The display unit displays an observation image of the biological object generated on the basis of the optical information. The detection unit detects one of a position and a movement of an object in a display region of the displayed observation image. The processor controls the drive unit in accordance with the one of the position and the movement of the object that is detected.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass plate including a first main surface subjected to antiglare treatment, and a second main surface opposed to the first main surface, in which a clarity index value T, a reflection image diffusiveness index value R and an anti-sparkle index value S satisfy respective relations of: clarity index value T?0.8; reflection image diffusiveness index value R?0.01; and anti-sparkle index value S?0.85; and a transmission haze measured by a method according to JIS K 7136 (2000) being 15% or less. The glass plate of the present invention is excellent in clarity, reflection image diffusiveness and anti-sparkle, and also excellent in reproducibility of color.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical film which has thermochromic properties that a near-infrared light shielding ratio can be controlled according to temperature environment and which has a low haze and has excellent crack resistance and adhesiveness even when the optical film is used over a long period of time, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: An active prism structure includes: an isotropic layer made of a photocurable isotropic polymer having a predetermined refractive index np and stacked on a substrate; and a birefringent layer made of a birefringent material having an ordinary refractive index no and an extraordinary refractive index ne and stacked on the isotropic layer, an interface between the isotropic layer and the birefringent layer is formed in a prism shape, and refractive index differences occurring at the interface between the isotropic layer and the birefringent layer are different according to a polarization direction of incident light. The active prism structure is configured such that the refractive index differences are different according to the polarization direction of the incident light, and thus, it is possible to change a refraction angle and refraction direction of the prism by controlling the polarization direction of the incident light.

Abstract: Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for implementing light-emitting hyperbolic metasurfaces. In one exemplary aspect, a light-emitting device includes a surface; a plurality of quantum heterostructures positioned on the surface, each of the plurality of quantum heterostructures including multiple quantum wells distributed along an axis perpendicular to the surface and separated by multiple quantum barriers, wherein each two adjacent quantum heterostructures of the plurality quantum heterostructures form a gap; and a monocrystalline material at least partially filling gaps between the plurality quantum heterostructures.

Abstract: Ultra thin Fresnel lenses and methods of forming the same are described herein. An optical element comprising an ultra thin Fresnel lens includes a plurality of Fresnel elements formed on a surface of a substrate. Each of the plurality of Fresnel surface elements has an angled facet portion and a shallow or substantially horizontal portion. The Fresnel surface elements can be formed, for example, by a hot stamp or cold transfer method.

Abstract: A blended optical device includes a first objective with a first axis and a first image position adjustment means for adjusting the position of a first image. An electronic control circuitry is configured to control the first adjustment means to adjust a position of the first image. A second objective includes a second axis and a variable focus mechanism, and a blender configured to form a blended image from the first image and a second image. The electronic control circuitry is configured to receive data from the second objective regarding a range to a target of the second objective as a function of the focus setting, and to adjust the position of the first image so that the blended image is corrected for parallax errors.

Abstract: An eyeglasses structure includes a frame body, at least one lens, a first elastic contacting member and a second elastic contacting member. The frame body includes an attaching portion and a positioning portion. The at least one lens is detachably attached to the attaching portion. Each of the first and second elastic contacting members includes an engaging portion detachably engages the positioning portion, a linking rod portion connected with the matching portion, and a nose pad portion connected to the linking rod portion. The radial cross-sectional area of the linking rod portion is smaller than that of the nose pad portion connected to the linking rod portion, so as to increase the swing angle of the nose pad portion relative to the engaging portion connected with the linking rod portion.

Abstract: A method for demonstrating optical properties of a lens for spectacle glasses is disclosed in which a demonstration tool displays an optical property of the lens. The demonstration tool includes a light source and a light sensor receiving light from the light source. Placing a lens in the beam path between the light source and the light sensor changes the readout from the light sensor and the change in readout is converted into an optical property of the lens. An observer sees the optical property of the lens on a display.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a micro-objective lens, comprising the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, the fourth lens group, the fifth lens group, the sixth lens group, the seventh lens group, the eighth lens group, the ninth lens group and the tenth lens group with optical axis arranged in a sequence from the left to the right; the focal length of the first lens group is negative; the second lens group belongs to doublet, in which the focal length of the first and second lens is positive and negative respectively; the focal length of the third lens group is positive; the fourth and fifth lens groups belongs to doublets, in which the focal length of the first and second lens in each group is negative and positive respectively; the focal length of the sixth lens group is positive; the focal length of the seventh and eighth lens groups is negative; the focal length of the ninth and tenth lens groups is positive.

Abstract: A diffractive multi-focal lens having a diffractive structure comprising a plurality of concentric circular zones, wherein: at least a portion of the diffractive structure is provided with an overlapping region in which at least two zone profiles overlap in the same region; in the overlapping region, at least a portion of a first zone profile has a zone pitch represented by a prescribed equation, and at least a portion of a second zone profile has a zone pitch represented by another prescribed equation; and an addition power P1 given by the first zone profile and an addition power P2 given by the second zone profile are determined by a prescribed relational expression, in which a and b are mutually different real numbers, and a value of a/b cannot be expressed by a natural number X or by 1/X.