Patents Examined by Hwa (Andrew) Lee
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Patent number: 12046492Abstract: A transportation monitoring method is provided, including the following steps. A monitoring image of a robot blade outside a carrier is captured from a fixed field of view by an image capturing device. The robot blade is configured to move an item into or out of the carrier. Next, a sampling area is obtained from the monitoring image by a processing device. Also, a tilting state of the robot blade is determined according to the sampling area by the processing device. When the processing device determines that the robot blade is tilted, the processing device sends a warning signal. A transportation monitoring system is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.Inventors: Yi-Ta Chen, Wen-Chin Hsieh
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Patent number: 12038276Abstract: An optical fiber ring interferometer is provided, which is based on a common light path for two or more light beam pairs preferably originated from two or more light sources of a substantially different spectrum or from a single light source split spectrum and whereas each light beam of a specific pair is propagating in relative opposite directions, wherein at least one pair of light beams is utilized to detect acousto-mechanical events and to provide information regarding location and other characteristics of detected environmental disturbance.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Inventor: Zbigniew Sobolewski
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Patent number: 12031863Abstract: An optical device includes: a base which includes a main surface; a movable mirror which includes a mirror surface; a first and a second elastic support portions which support the movable mirror so as to be movable along a first direction perpendicular to the main surface; an actuator which moves the movable mirror; and a first optical function portion which is disposed at one side of the movable mirror in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first elastic support portion includes a pair of first levers extending from the movable mirror toward both sides of the first optical function portion in a third direction perpendicular to the first and the second directions. A length of each of first levers in the second direction is larger than the shortest distance between an outer edge of the mirror surface and an edge of the first optical function portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Tatsuya Sugimoto, Tomofumi Suzuki, Kyosuke Kotani
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Patent number: 12018941Abstract: An optical fiber ring interferometer is provided, which is based on a common light path for two or more light beam pairs preferably originated from two or more light sources of a substantially different spectrum or from a single light source split spectrum and whereas each light beam of a specific pair is propagating in relative opposite directions, wherein at least one pair of light beams is utilized to detect acousto-mechanical events and to provide information regarding location and other characteristics of detected environmental disturbance.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Inventor: Zbigniew Sobolewski
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Patent number: 12007221Abstract: A heterogeneous integration detecting method and a heterogeneous integration detecting apparatus are provided. The heterogeneous integration detecting method includes the following. Under the condition of maintaining the same relative distance between an interference objective lens and a sample, the relative posture of the interference objective lens and the sample is continuously adjusted according to the change of an image of the sample in the field of view of the interference objective lens until a first optical axis of the interference objective lens is determined to be substantially perpendicular to the surface of the sample according to the image. The interference objective lens is replaced with an imaging objective lens and the geometric profile of at least one via of the sample is detected. A second optical axis of the imaging objective lens after replacement overlaps with the first optical axis of the interference objective lens before replacement.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Hsiang-Chun Wei, Chih-Hsiang Liu, Yi-Sha Ku, Chung-Lun Kuo, Chun-Wei Lo, Chieh-Yi Lo
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Patent number: 12002195Abstract: A computer vision-based anomaly detection method and device and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The method comprises: dividing a target picture into at least two feature regions according to different region features of the target picture, and forming training sets respectively using the feature regions corresponding to each target picture; selecting generative adversarial networks GAN as network models to be used, and training GAN network models with the training sets of different feature regions to obtain GAN network models corresponding to different feature regions; and when performing anomaly detection, performing same feature region division on a target picture to be detected, inputting different feature regions of the target picture to be detected into corresponding GAN network models to obtain a generated picture, and performing pixel value-based difference detection on the generated picture and the target picture to be detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: GOERTEK INC.Inventors: Fuli Xie, Yifan Zhang, Jie Liu, Jifeng Tian
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Patent number: 12000752Abstract: A system for measuring (200) a sample (2) by deflectometry comprising: a source (10) for generating a light beam in a source plane (105); an illumination module (19) for forming an illumination beam (9) comprising: a first converging optical element (18); a first selection optical element (16) with a first aperture (160); reflective matrix optical modulation means (30) to form a pattern (7), said first aperture (160) being configured to control the angles of said illumination beam (9) on said reflective matrix optical modulation means (30); a Schlieren lens (20) for obtaining an angle-intensity encoding of said pattern (7) on the sample (2); imaging (40) and detecting means (50) for detecting an image of said sample (2).Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: LAMBDA-X OPHTHALMICSInventors: Philippe Antoine, Didier Beghuin, Luc Joannes
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Patent number: 12002197Abstract: A defect detection method based on an image of products and an electronic device can accurately determine the error threshold by determining the reconstruction error generated during image reconstruction and by determining the estimated probability generated by the Gaussian mixture model. The test error can then be compared with the error, since the test error and the error threshold are compared numerically, the existence of subtle defects are revealed in the product image, thereby improving the accuracy of defect detection.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chin-Pin Kuo, Tung-Tso Tsai, Shih-Chao Chien
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Patent number: 11994628Abstract: A LIDAR sensing system includes a light source that is controlled to project a collimated beam at various wavelengths. An interferometer receives the collimated beam and projects an object beam corresponding to the collimated beam at a diffraction grating. The object beam is diffracted from the diffraction grating at different angles corresponding to the wavelength of the collimated beam, creating a two dimensional scan along a first axis. The object beam is also controlled along a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis. As a result, the LIDAR sensing system generates a horizontal and vertical scan (e.g., a three-dimensional scan) of the external environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Santec Holdings CorporationInventor: Changho Chong
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Patent number: 11983863Abstract: An alpha channel is added in addition to multiple channels forming an image of an item. A second pixel value differing from a first pixel value, which is assigned to a defect-free region, is assigned to a region corresponding to a defect region in the alpha channel. The image including the alpha channel is divided into multiple image segments. A defect label is assigned to the image segment in which the second pixel value is included in the alpha channel, and a non-defect label is assigned to the image segment, in which the second pixel value is not included in the alpha channel. The alpha channel is removed from the image segments to generate labeled image segment data.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha N-TechInventors: Kazumi Banno, Yuichi Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Kibe, Kunimitsu Toyoshima
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Patent number: 11976977Abstract: An Information Handling System (IHS) display includes an integrated colorimeter that is stored within a front-facing bezel that borders one side of the display screen. The front-facing bezel includes hinged door that conceals a compartment housing a tray. The tray includes a colorimeter and is deployed from the front-facing bezel via the hinged door. With the tray deployed, the colorimeter is raised from the tray and positioned for measuring light emitted by the screen. The deployment of the tray from the front-facing bezel is along an axis perpendicular to the screen and the raising of the colorimeter from the deployed tray is along an axis parallel to the screen. The raised colorimeter may be positioned closer to the screen though movement of the tray along the axis perpendicular to the screen, thus reducing ambient light that reaches a colorimeter sensor of the colorimeter.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Tiak Hooy Sim, Tze Fung Chung, Seen Yee Cindy Cheong
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Patent number: 11963907Abstract: In a laser beam delivery system for an ophthalmic laser system, a single multi-use beam sampler is employed to form three sampled laser beams, including two for redundant laser energy monitoring and one for laser focal point depth measurement. The beam sampler is a transparent plate with preferably parallel front and back surfaces. The front surface reflects a fraction of the incoming beam to form the first sampled beam toward an energy monitoring detector. The back surface reflects another fraction of the beam to form a second sampled beam exiting backwardly from the front surface toward another energy monitoring detector. An objective lens focuses the transmitted beam onto a target, and collects back reflected or scattered light from the target to form a return beam. The back surface of the beam sampler reflects a fraction of the return beam to form the third sampled beam toward a third detector.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: AMO Development, LLCInventors: Mohammad Saidur Rahaman, Hong Fu
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Patent number: 11927444Abstract: Disclosed is a chip-level resonant acousto-optic coupling solid-state wave gyroscope based on MEMS technology. A surface acoustic progressive wave mode sensitive structure and a micro-ring resonant cavity optical detection structure are combined in the gyroscope. Through acousto-optic effect, mechanical strain of the device crystal caused by wave vibration of a primary surface acoustic wave and a secondary surface acoustic wave caused by Coriolis force is converted into a variation in the refractive index of an optical waveguide etched on the device, so that the optical signal transmitted in the waveguide diffracts, thereby generating frequency modulation. Meanwhile, a micro-ring resonant cavity using the resonance principle peels off the frequency change introduced by the primary surface acoustic wave, and obtains an output signal containing external angular velocity information.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Honglong Chang, Lu Tian, Qiang Shen
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Patent number: 11913785Abstract: An optical fiber ring interferometer is provided, which is based on a common light path for two or more light beam pairs preferably originated from two or more light sources of a substantially different spectrum or from a single light source split spectrum and whereas each light beam of a specific pair is propagating in relative opposite directions, wherein at least one pair of light beams is utilized to detect acousto-mechanical events and to provide information regarding location and other characteristics of detected environmental disturbance.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventor: Zbigniew Sobolewski
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Patent number: 11906301Abstract: A thickness evaluation method of the cell sheet according to the invention includes tomographically imaging a cell sheet by optical coherence tomography and obtaining a thickness distribution of the cell sheet based on a result of the tomography imaging. A tomographic image corresponding to one cross section of the cell sheet is obtained by tomography imaging while scanning the light in a main scanning direction. The tomography imaging is performed in every time while moving an incident position of the light at a predetermined feed pitch in a sub-scanning direction, thereby a plurality of the tomographic images corresponding to a plurality of cross-sections are obtained. One-dimensional thickness distributions of the cell sheet in the corresponding cross-sections are obtained based on each of the plurality of tomographic images, and a two-dimensional thickness distribution of the cell sheet is obtained by interpolating the one-dimensional thickness distributions.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryo Hasebe
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Patent number: 11906281Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for measuring the thickness and refractive index of a multilayer thin film by measuring angle-resolved spectral reflectance according to light polarization. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the apparatus and method for measuring the thickness and refractive index of a multilayer structure using angle-resolved spectroscopic reflectometry is capable of measuring and analyzing thickness and refractive index of each layer of a structure having a multilayer thin film through an s-polarized imaging and a p-polarized imaging of the reflective light located in a back focal plane of an objective lens which are acquired through an angle-resolved spectral imaging acquisition part.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and ScienceInventors: Young-sik Ghim, Hyug-gyo Rhee
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Patent number: 11879730Abstract: A laser interferometer includes a light source that emits first laser light, an optical modulator that includes a vibrator and modulates the first laser light by using the vibrator to generate second laser light including a modulated signal, a photodetector that receives interference light between third laser light including a sample signal generated by reflecting the first laser light on an object and the second laser light to output a light reception signal, and an optical path length variable section that changes an optical path length of an optical path through which the third laser light propagates.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Jun Kitagawa
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Patent number: 11874110Abstract: Methods and systems concerning non-reciprocal sensing paths for a self-mixing interferometry operation are disclosed herein. Optical components may be used to direct light transmit from a light source along an illumination path. The optical components may additionally return light to the light source after being reflected from a target and may direct the returned light along a collection path. The illumination path and the collection path may be at least partially non-reciprocal so that the transmitted light and the returned light follow along partially different paths. Once the received light is received within a cavity of the light source, a self-mixing interferometry operation may be performed and may be used to detect a property of the target in relation to the light source.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tong Chen, Ahmet Fatih Cihan, Mingzhou Jin
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Patent number: 11867624Abstract: A refractive index distribution estimating system includes an illumination optical system configured to illuminate a sample, an imaging optical system configured to form an optical sample image, an image sensor configured to capture optical images of the sample, and a processor configured to reconstruct a refractive index distribution of the sample from images.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Evident CorporationInventors: Yoshimasa Suzuki, Toshiro Okamura
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Patent number: 11852474Abstract: A method including: scanning a sample over a period of time using an electro-magnetic radiation source, the period of time including a first time period and a second time period, a sample portion of the electro-magnetic radiation source being directed to the sample in a sample arm of an optical interferometric system, and a reference portion of the electro-magnetic radiation source being directed to a reference arm of the optical interferometric system; applying, using a phase modulator, a phase shift comprising a first phase shift and a second phase shift to at least one of the reference portion or the sample portion of the electro-magnetic radiation source, the first phase shift being applied during the first time period and the second phase shift being applied during the second time period, the second phase shift having a difference of 90 degrees from the first phase shift; acquiring in-phase data based on a first interference between first backscattered electro-magnetic radiation during the first time perType: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: Benjamin J. Vakoc, Norman Lippok