Patents Examined by Joseph P. Martinez
  • Patent number: 11822206
    Abstract: There is provided an optical signal processing device capable of RC in a complex space using optical intensity and phase information. An optical modulator controlled by an electric signal processing circuit modulates laser light, which is emitted from a laser light source, at a modulation period either or both of the intensity and phase values of the optical electric field. On the other hand, an input signal is also modulated by the optical modulator at a modulation period in the time domain so as to be an input signal. The converted input signal passes through an optical transmission path and enters an optical circulation circuit via an optical coupler. Part of the circulating light is branched into two by an optical coupler, and the branched light is converted into a complex intermediate signal at a coherent optical receiver. This complex intermediate signal demodulated at the coherent optical receiver is computed at an electric signal processing circuit, and thereby the operation as RC can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsumasa Nakajima, Masanobu Inubushi, Takashi Go, Toshikazu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11822101
    Abstract: A liquid lens module includes a liquid lens comprising “M” individual electrode sectors (where “M” is a positive integer of 2 or greater) and “N” common electrode sectors (where “N” is a positive integer of 1 or greater); an upper cover comprising first to Mth individual terminals electrically connected to the first to Mth individual electrode sectors, respectively, and exposed in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis of an image sensor; and a lower cover configured to surround the liquid upper cover, the lower cover comprising first to nth common terminals (where 1?n?N) electrically connected to the first to Nth common electrode sectors, respectively, and exposed in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Bok Choi
  • Patent number: 11815660
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a fourth lens element, and each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The first lens element has negative refracting power, an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the first lens element is convex, the third lens element has negative refracting power, and an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is convex. Lens elements included by the optical imaging lens are only the four lens elements described above, and the optical imaging lens satisfies the relationship of Tmax+Tmin?700.000 ?m, Tmax is a maximum thickness of the four lens elements from the first lens element to the fourth lens element along the optical axis, Tmin is a minimum thickness of the four lens elements from the first lens element to the fourth lens element along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huabin Liao, Hai Lin, Ou Zhou, Lanlan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11815741
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power, a sixth lens having refractive power, a seventh lens having positive refractive power, and an eighth lens having refractive power. The first to eighth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side. The first lens and the fourth lens are formed of a glass material. The second lens, the third lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, the seventh lens, and the eighth lens are formed of a plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyuk Joo Kim, Hwan Soo Park, Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 11815749
    Abstract: A functional element housing package includes a pin terminal disposed in an outer region of a housing for housing a functional element. A wiring substrate is connected with the pin terminal. The wiring substrate includes a through hole for receiving the pin terminal, a first metallic layer disposed around an opening of the through hole on a side of the wiring substrate which side is located close to the housing, a second metallic layer disposed around an opening of the through hole on a side of the wiring substrate which is opposed to the side located close to the housing, the second metallic layer being greater in area than the first metallic layer, a connection wiring line connected to the first metallic layer or the second metallic layer, and a solder which connects the pin terminal to each of the first metallic layer and the second metallic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakamichi, Takayuki Shirasaki
  • Patent number: 11811011
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an interconnect electrical connects a light emitter to wiring on a substrate. The interconnect may be deposited by 3D printing and lays flat on the light emitter and substrate. In some embodiments, the interconnect has a generally rectangular or oval cross-sectional profile and extends above the light emitter to a height of about 50 ?m or less, or about 35 ?m or less. This small height allows close spacing between an overlying optical structure and the light emitter, thereby providing high efficiency in the injection of light from the light emitter into the optical structure, such as a light pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin Curtis
  • Patent number: 11808923
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11809017
    Abstract: A lens control unit as a control device includes a second position profile generator that generates a second target position profile indicating a target position of a second focus lens unit of a lens apparatus in driving the second focus lens unit. A trajectory shift amount calculator of the lens control unit calculates a shift between an ideal position of the second focus lens unit corresponding to a position of the first focus lens unit and a position of the second focus lens unit in the second target position profile. A correction value calculator corrects the target position of the second focus lens unit based on this shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11809022
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a head-worn computer having a see-through computer display, a frame mechanically adapted to hold the see-through computer, a first side arm pivotally attached to the frame and adapted to hold the head-worn computer in place on a head of the user, wherein the first side arm comprises a temple section and an ear horn section and the temple section further comprising a compartment adapted to contain a battery, wherein the battery powers the see-through computer display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Greg Hires, Nima L. Shams, John D. Haddick, Joseph Rejhon Duggan, Patrick John William Casey, Nicholas Polinko
  • Patent number: 11803037
    Abstract: A camera optical lens includes first to fifth lenses from an object side to an image side, the first, third, and fourth lenses having positive refractive power, the second and fifth lenses having negative refractive power, and satisfies: ?6.00?f2/f??3.00; ?20.00?(R7+R8)/(R7?R8)??2.00; and 1.60?d2/d4?6.00, where f denotes focal length of the camera optical lens, f2 denotes focal length of the second lens, R7 denotes central curvature radius of an object side surface of the fourth lens, R8 denotes central curvature radius of an image side surface of the fourth lens, d2 denotes on-axis distance from an image side surface of the first lens to an object side surface of the second lens, and d4 denotes on-axis distance from an image side surface of the second lens to an object side surface of the third lens, thereby having good optical performance while meeting design requirements of a wide angle and ultra-thinness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hongye Li
  • Patent number: 11802440
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices that include a perovskite, where, when a first condition is met, at least a portion of the perovskite is in a first phase that substantially transmits light, when a second condition is met, at least a portion of the perovskite is in a second phase that substantially absorbs light, and the perovskite is reversibly switchable between the first phase and the second phase by reversibly switching between the first condition and the second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Lance Michael Wheeler, Joseph Matthew Luther, Jeffrey A. Christians, Joseph Jonathan Berry
  • Patent number: 11796765
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging system including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens, each of which has refractive power. Each of the first lens, the third lens and the fourth lens has positive refractive power. Half of a diagonal length ImgH on an imaging plane of the optical imaging system satisfies ImgH>5 mm. A total effective focal length f of the optical imaging system and an effective focal length f3 of the third lens satisfy 2.0<f3/f<3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wenbo Huang, Lingbo He
  • Patent number: 11796777
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a rear group having a positive refractive power as a whole in order from an object side. The zoom lens has specific optical characteristics indicated by two expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 11796772
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11796842
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Bragg grating chip, which comprises a monocrystalline silicon substrate, a silicon dioxide layer arranged on the monocrystalline silicon substrate, a Bragg grating arranged on the silicon dioxide layer and a negative thermal-optical coefficient material arranged on the Bragg grating, so that the sensitivity of the Bragg grating based on lithium niobate crystals to temperature is eliminated, the drift amount of the reflection spectrum center wavelength of the Bragg grating chip in the environment temperature change of 1 k is basically zero, and the insensitivity of the spectral response of photoelectric devices such as optical filter, laser and the like formed by the lithium niobate Bragg grating to the temperature change can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: IRIXI PHOTONICS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifan Chen, Ting Yan
  • Patent number: 11796828
    Abstract: Reflections from a display device are controlled using retarders arranged on the output side of a display panel which outputs light with a predetermined polarization state. First and second planes of incidence are defined in respect of first and second rays of light output from the device and first and second normals to first and second surfaces of optically transmissive material at first and second points at which the first and second rays of light are reflected. The retarders are selected to cause the polarization state of the first ray to be linearly polarized in a direction that is in the first plane of incidence, and to cause the polarization state of the second ray to be linearly polarized in a direction that is in the second plane of incidence. The reflections from the surfaces are minimized because for both surfaces the polarization direction is in-plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: RealD Spark, LLC
    Inventors: Michael G. Robinson, Graham J. Woodgate
  • Patent number: 11789283
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an optical element configured to separate incident light into light components in at least two types of wavelength bands. The incident light includes light emitted from a narrow-band light source. At least one light component of the light components in the at least two types of wavelength bands separated by the optical element is light in a narrow band separated by a bandwidth corresponding to a width of a wavelength of the light emitted from the narrow-band light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junya Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 11789284
    Abstract: An optical layered composite includes: a substrate having a front face, a back face, a thickness ds between the front face and the back face and a refractive index ns; and a coating applied to the front face. The coating comprises one or more coating layers. For at least one wavelength ?g in the range from 390 nm to 700 nm, the coating satisfies one of the following criterion: nc<ns; or nc>ns, and d c < k n c 2 - n s 2 · arctan ? n s 2 - 1 n c 2 - n s 2 ; nc is a mean refractive index of the coating layers, weighted by thickness; do is a total thickness of the coating; thicknesses are determined in a direction perpendicular to the front face; and k=?g/4?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Jens Ulrich Thomas, Thorsten Damm, Frank-Thomas Lentes, Kurt Nattermann
  • Patent number: 11789237
    Abstract: The present application discloses an optical imaging system, comprising, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a planar glass, a first lens having a positive focal power, a second lens having a negative focal power and a plurality of subsequent lenses having a respective focal power, wherein the maximum field of view FOV of the optical imaging system satisfies FOV?40°; and a radius of curvature R3 of an object side surface of the second lens and a radius of curvature R4 of an image side surface of the second lens satisfy ?0.5<R3/R4<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengna Tang, Jianke Wenren, Fujian Dai, Liefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11782242
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical imaging lens assembly, sequentially includes, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having refractive power; a second lens having an refractive power, the image-side surface thereof is concave; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power; a sixth lens having refractive power; a seventh lens having a positive refractive power, the object-side surface thereof is a convex surface; and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power, the object-side surface thereof is a concave surface; where half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on an image plane of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfies: ImgH?6.0 mm, and the total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly and an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfy: f/EPD<1.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Fujian Dai, Lin Huang, Yunbing Ji, Liefeng Zhao