Patents Examined by John R. Lee
  • Patent number: 11656120
    Abstract: This application provides a structure of the optical sensor, in which a photosensitive element is arranged on a substrate, a colloid layer is arranged on the upper part of the substrate and covers the photosensitive element, and a thin film is further arranged. The device includes an adhesive layer and a light-transmitting layer, the adhesive layer is disposed above one of the colloid layers, the light-transmitting layer is disposed above one of the adhesive layers, and the structure can be used to provide the film member that can be changed according to requirements The optical design reduces the production cost of the optical sensor; this application further provides a shielding layer between the film member and the colloid layer to improve the photosensitive efficiency of the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Sensortek Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Feng-Jung Hsu
  • Patent number: 11652129
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optoelectronic module. In one aspect, the optoelectronic module includes an insertion member including a housing insert and an imager disposed in the housing insert, and a receiving member including an interposer, a housing disposed on the interposer, and an optoelectronic device electrically connected to said interposer. The housing of the receiving member is configured to engage and receive the housing insert of the insertion member. The optoelectronic device of the receiving member is configured to align with the imager of the insertion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Wavefront Research, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Vincentsen, Jonas D. Corl, Thomas A. Mitchell, Michelle M. Stone, Thomas W. Stone, Randall C. Veitch
  • Patent number: 11653123
    Abstract: A light sensor module includes a substrate. A first detection region is provided on the substrate. At least one photosensitive device is provided inside the first detection region. The at least one photosensitive device is adapted to collecting first light sensor data from the first detection region under current incident light. The first light sensor data are used for determining whether light sensor data collected by the light sensor module under the current incident light are to be compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chihjen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11639868
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for determining a volume of remaining liquid in a container are disclosed. A container profile can first be developed using image analysis to determine a maximum liquid level in the container. The profile can then be broken into divisions, each corresponding to an equal volume. When real-world measurements of a liquid level in a real-world container are made, these can be translated to one of the divisions, which can be summed with all underlying divisions to estimate a volume of remaining liquid in the real-world container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Beverage Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Grimm, Daniel Grimm
  • Patent number: 11640021
    Abstract: An optical filter (1a) includes a light-absorbing layer (10). The light-absorbing layer absorbs light in at least a portion of the near-infrared region. When light with a wavelength of 300 nm to 1200 nm is incident on the optical filter (1a) at incident angles of 0°, 30°, and 40°, the optical filter (1a) satisfies given transmittance requirements. IE?1/?2?1 to ?2, IAE?1/?2?1 to ?2, and ISE?1/?2?1 to ?2 defined by the following equations (1) to (3) for two incident angles ?1° and ?2° (?1<?2) selected from 0°, 30°, and 40° satisfy given requirements in a given domain of a wavelength ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomitaka Takagi, Katsuhide Shimmo
  • Patent number: 11635326
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for a stray-light testing station. In one aspect, the stray-light testing station includes an illumination assembly including a spatially extended light source and one or more optical elements arranged to direct a beam of light from the spatially extended light source along an optical path to an optical receiver assembly including a lens receptacle configured to receive a lens module and position the lens module in the optical path downstream from the parabolic mirror so that the lens module focuses the beam of light from the spatially extended light source to an image plane, and a moveable frame supporting the optical receiver assembly including one or more adjustable alignment stages to position the optical receiver assembly relative to the illumination assembly such that the optical path of the illumination assembly is within a field of view of the optical receiver assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Chen David Lu, Matthew Thomas Daniel Rinehart, Joshua Chia Fong Wang, Michael Shagam
  • Patent number: 11626441
    Abstract: An optical module includes an image sensor and micro lens array. The image sensor has at least one group of pixels. The micro lens array is disposed on the image sensor. The at least one group of pixels is shifted from the micro lens array in a first direction from a top view perspective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventor: Hsin-Ying Ho
  • Patent number: 11627298
    Abstract: An optical system for collecting distance information within a field is provided. The optical system may include lenses for collecting photons from a field and may include lenses for distributing photons to a field. The optical system may include lens tubes that collimate collected photons, optical filters that reject normally incident light outside of the operating wavelength, and pixels that detect incident photons. The optical system may further include illumination sources that output photons at an operating wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Ouster, Inc.
    Inventors: Angus Pacala, Mark Frichtl
  • Patent number: 11623613
    Abstract: An optical rain sensor including a plurality of light detecting elements and a plurality of peripheral light emitting elements disposed on a printed circuit board (PCB) and surrounding a central light emitting element disposed on the PCB, wherein, in a first mode of operation, the central light emitting element is configured to emit light beams toward the plurality of light detecting elements, and wherein, in a second mode of operation, each of the peripheral light emitting elements is configured to emit light beams toward the plurality of light detecting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Littelfuse, Inc.
    Inventors: Mindaugas Ketlerius, Mangirdas Rasiulis
  • Patent number: 11609414
    Abstract: Method for calibrating a phase mask in a beam path of an optical device with the steps: the phase mask is actuated successively with different patterns of grey levels, wherein a first grey level of a first quantity of segments remains constant and a second grey level of a second quantity of segments is varied from one pattern to the next, light of the optical device impinges on the phase mask, at least one part of the total intensity of the light in the beam path is measured downstream of the phase mask for the different patterns, and a characteristic of the measured intensity is obtained in dependence on the second grey level, a relationship between the second grey level and a phase shift, being imprinted by the phase mask, is obtained from the characteristic and an actuation of the phase mask is calibrated based on the obtained relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Toni Eichelkraut, Jörg Siebenmorgen
  • Patent number: 11609643
    Abstract: An optical processing apparatus and a light source luminance adjustment method adapted to detect a rotational displacement and a pressing state are provided. The optical processing apparatus includes a light source unit, a processing unit, and an image sensing unit, wherein the processing unit is electrically connected to the light source unit and the image sensing unit. The light source unit provides a beam of light. The processing unit defines a frame rate, defines a plurality of time instants within a time interval, and sets the light source unit to a luminance value at each of the time instants. A length of the time interval is shorter than the reciprocal of the frame rate. The luminance values are different and are within a range. The image sensing unit captures an image by an exposure time length at each of the time instants, wherein the exposure time lengths are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Chung-Ting Yang, Ching-Lin Chung
  • Patent number: 11605239
    Abstract: Disclosed are a fingerprint recognition sensor, a manufacturing method, and a display device. The fingerprint recognition sensor includes a base substrate, a thin film transistor, on a side of the base substrate; and a photosensitive element, on a side of the base substrate away from the thin film transistor, the thin film transistor, the base substrate, and the photosensitive element are sequentially stacked in a thickness direction perpendicular to the base substrate, the base substrate includes a conductive structure penetrating through the base substrate in the thickness direction perpendicular to the base substrate, and the photosensitive element is connected with the thin film transistor through the conductive structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shipei Li, Ying Zhao, Renquan Gu, Wei He, Huili Wu, Dongsheng Yin, Sheng Xu, Lizhen Zhang, Xuefei Zhao, Fang He, Yupeng Gao
  • Patent number: 11600650
    Abstract: In a photoelectric conversion apparatus including charge storing portions in its imaging region, isolation regions for the charge storing portions include first isolation portion each having a PN junction, and second isolation portions each having an insulator. A second isolation portion is arranged between a charge storing portion and at least a part of a plurality of transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Kobayashi, Yuichiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11598941
    Abstract: A method for operating a light microscope with structured illumination includes: providing illumination patterns by means of a structuring device which splits impinging light into at least three coherent beam parts which correspond to a ?1., 0., and +1. diffraction orders of light; generating different phases of the illumination patterns by setting different phase values for the beam parts with phase shifters; and recording at least one microscope image for each of the illumination patterns and calculating a high resolution image from the microscope images. Phase shifters are provided not only for the beam parts of the ?1. and +1. diffraction orders but also at least one phase shifter for the beam part of the 0. diffraction order. At least two different phase values ?0 are set with the at least one phase shifter for the 0. diffraction order to provide a plurality of illumination patterns with different phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Netz, Gerhard Krampert
  • Patent number: 11592530
    Abstract: A lidar system includes a laser source, an emission lens configured to collimate and direct a laser beam emitted by the laser source, a receiving lens configured to receive and focus a return laser beam reflected off of one or more objects to a return beam spot at a focal plane of the receiving lens, and a detector including a plurality of photo sensors arranged as an array at the focal plane of the receiving lens. Each photo sensor has a respective sensing area and is configured to receive and detect a respective portion of the return laser beam. The lidar system further includes a processor configured to determine a respective time of flight for each respective portion of the return laser beam, and construct a three-dimensional image of the one or more objects based on the respective time of flight for each respective portion of the return laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Cepton Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. McCord, Jun Pei, Dongyi Liao
  • Patent number: 11592584
    Abstract: There may be provided a radiation sensor, that may include multiple semiconductor regions that form a sensing PN junction and a draining PN junction that is located below the sensing PN junction; a bias circuit that is configured to (i) bias the sensing PN junction to maintain a sensing PN junction depletion region of a fixed size during a first sensing period and during a second sensing period, and (i) bias the draining PN junction to form a draining PN junction depletion region of a first size during the first sensing period and of a second size during the second sensing period; and an output circuit that is configured to generate a first output signal that represent sensed radiation out of radiation that impinged on the radiation sensor during the first sensing period, and to generate a second output signal that represent sensed radiation out of radiation impinged on the radiation sensor during the second sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tower Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventor: Amos Fenigstein
  • Patent number: 11581342
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a substrate, a protection layer, and a photodiode. The protection layer is disposed over the substrate, has a single layer-structure, and is provided with a through-hole therein. The photodiode includes a lower electrode, a PN junction and an upper electrode, which are sequentially over the substrate. The PN junction is within the through-hole. The protection layer and the PN junction of the photodiode have a substantially same thickness. The array substrate further includes a thin-film transistor over the substrate. An orthographic projection of an active layer of the thin-film transistor on the substrate does not overlap with an orthographic projection of the PN junction of the photodiode on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guoqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11579013
    Abstract: An integrated computing element for an optical computing device includes a flexible optical substrate. The integrated computing element also includes at least one optical thin film deposited on a first surface of the flexible optical substrate. The at least one optical thin film is configured to selectively pass fractions of electromagnetic radiation at different wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Li, James M. Price, Bin Dai, Christopher M. Jones, Daniel Stark
  • Patent number: 11572990
    Abstract: The present disclosure sets forth a motion sensing outdoor security light with the flexibility of being mounted to either a wall structure or to an eave or ceiling structure. An adjustable spherical motion sensor housing may be provided with the rotationally adjustable outdoor security light, allowing easy adjustment of motion detection ranges under different mounting schemes without comprising the aesthetic design of the light. The adjustable spherical motion sensor housing may also provide an enlarged horizontal field of view for better performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: HEATHCO LLC
    Inventors: Miles William McDonald, Kushagra Dixit, Scott Blaise Tylicki, Apollo Paul Paredes, Lionel V. Luu, John Colvin Deaton
  • Patent number: 11567180
    Abstract: One example device comprises a plurality of emitters including at least a first emitter and a second emitter. The first emitter emits light that illuminates a first portion of a field-of-view (FOV) of the device. The second emitter emits light that illuminates a second portion of the FOV. The device also comprises a controller that obtains a scan of the FOV. The controller causes each emitter of the plurality of emitters to emit a respective light pulse during an emission time period associated with the scan. The controller causes the first emitter to emit a first-emitter light pulse at a first-emitter time offset from a start time of the emission time period. The controller causes the second emitter to emit a second-emitter light pulse at a second-emitter time offset from the start time of the emission time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Michael Marx, Pierre-Yves Droz