Patents Examined by Kiho Kim
  • Patent number: 11271030
    Abstract: A detection panel and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The detection panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, and the first substrate includes a light detection layer; the second substrate includes a drive circuit; the first substrate and the second substrate are opposite to each other for cell assembly, and the drive circuit is coupled to the light detection layer to read a photosensitive signal generated by the light detection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., KA IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Gang Hua, Chuncheng Che, Cheng Li, Jian Wang, Yanna Xue, Yong Zhang, Chia Chiang Lin
  • Patent number: 11259765
    Abstract: A method for fluoroscopy energizes a radiation source to form a scout image on a detector and processes the scout image to determine and report a radiation field position with respect to a predetermined zone of the detector. The radiation source is energized for fluoroscopic imaging of a subject when the reported radiation field position is fully within the predetermined zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Richard, Xiaohui Wang, Michael C. Lalena
  • Patent number: 11262299
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for non-invasive condition detection using an all fiber portable terahertz imaging system. An imaging system of the present disclosure may comprise a control module comprising a femtosecond pulsed laser configured to generate an output light beam, a dispersion compensation unit configured to receive the output light beam and transmit a laser light beam generated based upon the output light beam, a beam splitter configured to receive the laser light beam and divide the laser light beam into a pump light beam and a reference light beam; and a rapid scanning optical delay line configured to receive the pump light beam and transmit an exit light beam generated based upon the pump light beam, a patch probe comprising a transmitter module, an optics lens, and a detector module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: 3DT Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ghassan S. Kassab, Ali Dabiri
  • Patent number: 11264371
    Abstract: A monolithic sensor for detecting infrared and visible light according to an example includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor layer coupled to the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor layer includes a device surface opposite the semiconductor substrate. A visible light photodiode is formed at the device surface. An infrared photodiode is also formed at the device surface and in proximity to the visible light photodiode. A textured region is coupled to the infrared photodiode and positioned to interact with electromagnetic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SiOnyx, LLC
    Inventors: Jutao Jiang, Jeffrey McKee, Martin U. Pralle
  • Patent number: 11262462
    Abstract: A method of detection of radiation is described. The method comprises providing at least one source of radiation; providing at least one detector capable of detecting radiation from the source; causing said source to emit radiation along a predetermined radiation path towards said detector; during a measurement period, detecting successive count events corresponding to photons from the source detected by the detector; measuring a duration of each such count event to determine a dead time associated with each count event; calculating a total dead time for the measurement period as the sum of each determined dead time associated with each count event; determining a photon count rate from the total number of count events during the measurement period; calculating a corrected count rate by applying a correction factor based on subtracting the total dead time from the measurement period. A method of scanning an object and apparatus for performing the methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Nathan Myers
  • Patent number: 11249204
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a radiation image detector and a manufacture method to produce the radiation image detector. The radiation image detector includes: a radiation conversion layer, configured to convert a radiation image into a visible light image; an image sensing layer for visible light, including a pixel array formed by a plurality of photosensitive pixels, configured to detect the visible light image; and a microlens layer, disposed between the radiation conversion layer and the image sensing layer, the microlens layer including a lens array formed by multiple micro convex lenses, and optical axes of the micro convex lenses being perpendicular to the image sensing layer. In addition, both the radiation conversion layer and the microlens layer have curved surface structures that are bended in the same direction that non-parallel radiations, emitted from an X-ray generator, will impinge perpendicularly on the radiation conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: IRAY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhongshou Huang, Tieer Gu
  • Patent number: 11251221
    Abstract: An imaging panel includes a photoelectric conversion element disposed on a substrate. The photoelectric conversion element includes a cathode electrode, a first semiconductor layer having a first conductive type, the first semiconductor layer being in contact with the cathode electrode, a second semiconductor layer having a second conductive type different from the first conductive type, the second semiconductor layer being joined to the first semiconductor layer, and an anode electrode in contact with the second semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer has a greater extinction coefficient as closer to the anode electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsunori Misaki
  • Patent number: 11248907
    Abstract: A test block is formed of at least one profile block and one mating block, wherein the two blocks lying one on top of the other with varying thickness combinations are radiographed together, in order to ascertain, for the pairings of the materials in the respective thickness, in each case a reference value relating to their common radiographic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Wipotec GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Heil, Christian Bur
  • Patent number: 11237278
    Abstract: A radiation image acquisition system includes a radiation source that outputs radiation toward an object, a scintillator that has an input surface to which the radiation output from the radiation source and transmitted through the object is input, converts the radiation input to the input surface into scintillation light, and is opaque to the scintillation light, an image capturing means that includes a lens portion focused on the input surface and configured to image the scintillation light output from the input surface and an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of the scintillation light imaged by the lens portion and outputs radiation image data of the object A, and an image generating unit that generates a radiation image of the object based on the radiation image data output from the image capturing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Mototsugu Sugiyama, Tatsuya Onishi, Toshiyasu Suyama
  • Patent number: 11237370
    Abstract: A dual inclined beam line-scanning confocal microscope apparatus, associated method, and applications thereof. An embodied dual-inclined beam line-scanning confocal microscope (2iLS) utilizes dual, parallel excitation beams each having a focused line shape that are scanned over a fluorescent sample. The emitted fluorescence from the sample is spatially filtered and detected by an array detector. 2iLS microscopy provides high resolution, ultrasensitivity, and deep optical sectioning capability. A reduced excitation intensity lowers photobleaching and photodamage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Kyu Young Han, Jialei Tang
  • Patent number: 11231370
    Abstract: Provided is a method of enclosing a microscopic body in at least some of a plurality of cavities formed in the surface of a substrate, including the step of arranging an insertion member above the cavity-formed surface of the substrate, determining relative positions of the insertion member and the substrate by a support section provided on the insertion member such that the bottom surface of the insertion member and the cavity-formed surface of the substrate face each other, thereby providing a solution introduction space between the bottom surface of the insertion member and the cavity-formed surface of the substrate, and providing a solution discharge space that is in communication with the solution introduction space, the solution discharge space being located above the bottom surface of the insertion member, and between the substrate and the insertion member, within the substrate and/or within the insertion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Noji, Kazuhito Tabata
  • Patent number: 11226479
    Abstract: A system for high resolution multiphoton excitation microscopy is described herein. In one embodiment, the system may include an electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) prism optically coupled to an excitation source, the EWOD prism adapted or configured to: receive a light beam from the excitation source, and project the received light beam onto a sample plane based on a tunable transmission angle of the EWOD prism, and a fluorescence imaging microscope adapted or configured to: receive a fluorescence signal from the sample plane based on the projected light beam, and relay the fluorescence signal from the sample plane to a set of detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado
    Inventors: Juliet T. Gopinath, Victor M. Bright, Omkar D. Supekar, Wei Yang Lim, Mo Zohrabi
  • Patent number: 11226286
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus is provided with: an irradiating device configured to irradiate a sample in which a plurality of layers are laminated with a terahertz wave; a detecting device configured to detect the terahertz wave from the sample to obtain a detected waveform; and an estimating device configured to estimate a position of a boundary surface of the plurality of layers on the basis of the detected waveform and a library indicating an estimated waveform, the library is generated on the basis of a sample waveform that is the detected waveform obtained by irradiating the sample or a sample member with the terahertz wave, the sample member has specifications that are same as those of the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takanori Ochiai
  • Patent number: 11224389
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to X-ray detectors and more particularly to a system and a method for integrating an anti-scattering grid with scintillators to significantly enhance the performance of flat panel X-ray detector. In particular, the performance of a flat panel X-ray detector may be enhanced by photon counting detector pixels configured underneath the septa of a 2D antiscatter grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
    Inventor: Cem Altunbas
  • Patent number: 11221295
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for quantifying an analyte in a gas or liquid phase. A light source with an emission spectrum overlapping an absorption of the analyte, and a pair of reflective mirrors located on an optical axis to form an optical cavity can be included. An off-axis photon detector can be configured as a fluorescence detector and located off the cavity axis and arranged to provide a first signal in response to fluorescence within the cavity. An axial photon detector can be located axially, and external, to the cavity and arranged to provide a second signal. The portion of the apparatus including the light source, the cavity, and the axial photon detector can be configured with a cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometer, and the portion of the apparatus including the off-axis photon detector can be configured with a cavity-enhanced laser-induced fluorescence (CELIF) spectrophotometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
    Inventors: David Carty, Eckart Wrede, Nils Hendrik Nahler
  • Patent number: 11221301
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, apparatuses, and methods for measuring submerged surfaces. Embodiments include a measurement apparatus including a main frame, a source positioned outside a pipe and connected to the main frame, and a detector positioned outside the pipe at a location diametrically opposite the source and connected to the main frame. The source may transmit a first amount of radiation. The detector may receive a second amount of radiation, determine a composition of the pipe based on the first and second amounts of radiation, and send at least one measurement signal. A control canister positioned on the main frame or on a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) attached to the apparatus may receive the at least one measurement signal from the detector and convey the at least one measurement signal to software located topside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DELTA SUBSEA, LLC
    Inventors: Scott P. Dingman, Roger Warnock, Alessandro Vagata
  • Patent number: 11221424
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for calibrating a collimator of X-rays and an apparatus for X-ray analysis which comprises the collimator and can carry out the method automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: IMS GIOTTO S.P.A.
    Inventors: Sara Vecchio, Paolo Vignoli, Valerio Salomoni
  • Patent number: 11215425
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining characteristic-curve correction factors a matrix detector that images in the infrared spectral range. A good image correction can be obtained by virtue of an area of homogeneous temperature being recorded at two different temperatures by the matrix detector, there being two images with different integration times for each temperature. A signal gradient over the integration time is established for each of the pixels from the four pixel values at the two temperatures in each case and the gain being established from the difference of the signal gradients and characteristic-curve correction factors for the gain being stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Diehl Defence Gmbh & Co. KG
    Inventor: Florian Gagel
  • Patent number: 11213264
    Abstract: A positron emission tomography (PET) assembly includes an annular housing and an annular scintillator disposed within the annular housing. The annular scintillator includes an annular, substantially continuous crystal scintillator tube configured to absorb ionizing radiation and to emit light energy. A plurality of photo detectors are annularly disposed around the annular scintillator within the annular housing and configured to detect the emitted light energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Stuart S. Berr, Stanislaw Majewski, JosE Maria Benlloch Baviera, Antonio Javier Gonzalez Martinez
  • Patent number: 11215362
    Abstract: A flame detection system includes: a UV sensor that serves as a flame sensor detecting a UV ray generated by a flame; an application voltage generation unit that applies a driving voltage to the UV sensor; a discharge detection unit that detects a discharge in the UV sensor; a discharge count unit that counts the number of detected discharges; a discharge probability calculation unit that calculates a discharge probability on the basis of the number of discharges counted by the discharge count unit and the number of times the driving voltage is applied; a UV intensity determination unit that determines an intensity of the UV ray on the basis of the discharge probability; and a determination result output unit that outputs the intensity of the UV ray determined by the UV intensity determination unit via display or communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Watanabe, Shigeki Ishii, Yuichi Kumazawa, Kayo Suzuki, Satoru Yamagishi