Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Some embodiments include suspension arrangements.

Abstract: One example of a display device includes a first layer and a second layer including a conductive material. The second layer is attached to the first layer such that a surface of the second layer facing the first layer is exposed along an edge of the second layer. The second layer supports an electronic paper display imageable by receiving charges on an imaging surface of the electronic paper display. The second layer is electrically coupled to a counter-electrode of the electronic paper display.

Abstract: An EUV greyscale filter of an EUV optical unit of a metrology system has a membrane that is at least partly transmissive in regions for EUV light in the wavelength range of between 5 nm and 30 nm. The latter interacts with a whole beam of the EUV light in the operational position of the EUV greyscale filter. This results in a metrology system with extended application possibilities on account of the EUV greyscale filter.

Abstract: Provided is a method for converting a hologram resolution of an apparatus for converting a hologram resolution. The apparatus for converting a hologram resolution includes receiving a hologram data and determining a direction and a height of an envelope for the hologram data based on first information associated with the hologram data. The apparatus for converting a hologram resolution includes converting the resolution of the hologram data from a first resolution into a second resolution based on the envelop having the determined direction and height.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving an optical system with a memory unit includes a main frame having an optical system; a base frame configured to accommodate the main frame; a driving unit configured to move the main frame in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis with respect to the base frame; and a memory unit configured to store first reference position information that is information about a position at which the optical system is aligned in the first direction.

Abstract: An observation device including: a stage having a transparent pedestal surface; an illumination system under the pedestal surface, the illumination system emitting illumination light toward the pedestal surface; and an object system under the pedestal surface for capturing transmission light generated from the illumination light, reflected off a reflection surface and transmitted through a sample. Wherein a first light path in the illumination system is different from a second light path in the object system, in a first pupil surface of the illumination system, the illumination system generates the illumination light by restricting light in a first transparent region, in a second pupil surface of the object system, the object system restricts the transmission light in a second transparent region, and the second transparent region has first and second subregions with different transmittance, the second subregion located between the first subregion and an edge of the second transparent region.

Abstract: Provided is an active camouflage device including a reflective layer, a first electrode disposed on the reflective layer, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an electrolyte provided between the first and second electrodes. The first electrode includes a transparent electrode, and the second electrode includes a metal mesh.

Abstract: The present invention provides processes (100, 200, 300, 400) for making a flexible packaging substrate having one or more Fresnel lenses (410, 602) and a product made therefrom. The said process comprises providing one or more Fresnel lenses (410, 602) on a first surface (408a, 610a) of a substrate/film (408, 610); and overlapping a predetermined portion (411, 603) of the Fresnel lenses (410, 602) on the substrate/film (408, 610) by printing or foil stamping. The flexible packaging substrate having one or more Fresnel lenses comprises a substrate (408) having the Fresnel lens or the pattern of Fresnel lenses (410) on the first surface (408a) thereof, wherein a predetermined portion (411) of the Fresnel lenses (410) is covered to hide irregular/uneven/torn edges.

Abstract: A microscope system includes: a stage on which a specimen is mounted; one or more light sources configured to emit light irradiating the specimen; an illumination optical system configured to irradiate the specimen with the light; an operating unit configured to receive selection of the light sources and setting of the state and/or an amount of light; a focusing unit configured to move in a direction orthogonal to a mounting surface and adjust the distance between the stage and an objective lens; an imaging unit configured to image the observation image of the specimen and generate image data; and a combined image generating unit configured to combine the image data and generate combined image data. The microscope system enables selection of the state of optical elements constituting the illumination optical system and selection of the type, the state, and an amount of light of the light source.

Abstract: A thin-plate-typed rotating module includes a rotating element, a driving unit and a base board. The rotating element is rotatable about a first axial direction and a second axial direction in a limited degree. The driving unit connects the rotating element for driving the rotating element to rotate about the first and second axial directions. The base board is furnished with a control module which is connected with the driving unit for controlling the driving unit to operate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an antireflection film which exhibits one extremum at a thickness of 35 nm to 55 nm from the surface and exhibiting one extremum at a thickness of 85 nm to 105 nm from the surface in a graph showing the result of Fourier transform analysis for the result of X-ray reflectivity measurement using Cu—K-alpha rays.

Abstract: The optical element has transmissivity in a first direction, and includes a plurality of first members each having a first surface that forms an element of first information. The first surface faces a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: Provided is a sterile drape configured to cover a medical observation apparatus to keep the medical observation apparatus sterile, the medical observation apparatus including a microscope part configured to magnify and image a microfine site of an observation object, an input part configured to receive an input of an operation instruction to the microscope part, and a grip part having a bar shape and having a surface provided with at least a portion of the input part, the sterile drape including: an attaching part configured to be fixed and attached to the grip part in a state where the sterile drape covers the medical observation apparatus.

Abstract: An anti-vibration device includes first reflective members, second reflective members, barrels, a first link member, and a second link member. The barrels each hold the first reflective member and the second reflective member. The first link member connects the pair of left and right barrels with each other, and rotates the barrels. The second link member engages with the pair of left and right second reflective members, and rotates the second reflective members. In a case where the barrel is viewed in a direction parallel to a second rotational axis, at least a part of the first link member and the second link member is disposed in a triangle region on a rear side of the second reflective member.

Abstract: An annular optical element assembly having a central axis includes a first annular optical element, a second annular optical element and a light blocking sheet. The first annular optical element includes a first central opening, a first axial connecting structure and a first inner receiving surface. The second annular optical element includes a second central opening, a second axial connecting structure and a second inner receiving surface. The second inner receiving surface surrounds the second central opening, wherein the second inner receiving surface is closer to the central axis than a second axial connecting surface is to the central axis, the second inner receiving surface is vertical to the central axis, and the first inner receiving surface and the second inner receiving surface are corresponding and not connected to each other for defining a receiving space.

Abstract: Optical stack assemblies and fabrication techniques thereof. The optical stack assembly includes first and second sub-assemblies, each of which include a substrate and a sub-structure fixed to the respective substrate. Each sub-structures includes a respective first edge feature and a respective second edge feature that project away from the substrate of that sub-structure, each second edge feature being disposed laterally closer to an outer periphery of the respective sub-structure than the first edge feature of the same sub-structure. The first edge feature of the first sub-structure is in direct contact with the first edge feature of the second sub¬structure, while the second edge feature of the first sub-structure and the second edge feature of the second sub-structure are attached to one another by adhesive. At least one of the first or second sub-structures includes an optical element on a same side of the sub-structure as the first and second edge features of that sub-structure.

Abstract: Unpolarized broadband reflectors enabled by a serial arrangement of a pair of polarized subwavelength gratings are disclosed. Device illustrations include partially-etched crystalline-silicon films on quartz substrates and amorphous silicon films on glass. The individual reflectors exhibit extremely wide spectral reflection bands in one polarization. By arranging two such reflectors sequentially with orthogonal periodicities, there results an unpolarized spectral band that exceeds those of the individual polarized bands. In the prototypes disclosed, there results zero-order reflectance exceeding 97% under unpolarized light incidence over a 500-nm-wide wavelength band. This wideband represents a ˜44% fractional band in the near infrared spectral band. The elemental polarization-sensitive reflectors based on one-dimensional resonant gratings have simple design, robust performance, and are straightforward to fabricate.

Abstract: An addressable display system configured for use in a mounting adapter configured to mount a personal electronic device (PED) on an aircraft includes a transparent surface configured to overlay the display surface of a PED when the PED is mounted in the mounting adapter wherein the transparent surface includes a region that is uniformly coated with a coating layer that when activated with a select excitation wavelength is configured to emit visible light to annunciate a message indicating a problem with an image displayed on a PED display; a lighting source configured to provide light in at an excitation wavelength; a MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) scanner module that is controllable to write desired symbology for annunciation at different addressable locations on the transparent surface; and an imaging device configured to capture an image of the PED display for an integrity check of data displayed on the PED display.

Abstract: A display panel includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a waveguide layer disposed on a surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate for coupling incident light into the waveguide layer; a first electrode layer disposed on the waveguide layer, the first electrode layer including a plurality of independently controllable first electrodes; a second electrode layer disposed on a surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate; and a light emission control layer disposed between the first and the second electrode layers, the light emission control layer defining a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array. The light emission control layer controls respective amounts of light to be coupled out of the waveguide layer to respective ones of the plurality of sub-pixels based on respective voltages applied between the plurality of first electrodes and the second electrode layer.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a composite thermal insulator including a first transparent substrate layer, a second transparent substrate layer, and a near-infrared shielding layer positioned between the first transparent substrate layer and the second transparent substrate layer, and the near-infrared shielding layer is formed by dispersively fixing multiple nanoparticles containing tungsten oxide in polyethylene terephthalate. The composite thermal insulator can't change color under sunlight so that it can be used for light output controlling and thermal isolation.