Patents Examined by Kimberly N. Kakalec
  • Difraction grating display body and labelled article
    Patent number: 11002892
    Abstract: A diffraction grating display body includes: a plurality of cell sets each having a plurality of cell groups in which cells R, G, and B corresponding to red, green, and blue, respectively, in each pixel in a piece of color gradation image data, are arranged in a predetermined order, wherein the cells in the cell groups in at least one cell set among the plurality of cell sets have diffraction gratings with mutually different spatial frequencies and the same grating angle, the cell groups included in at least one cell set among the plurality of cell sets have diffraction gratings with mutually different grating angles among the cell groups, and each of the cells R, G, and B included in at least one cell set among the plurality of cell sets have a predetermined cell area so that the display body with a wide observation area is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Uchida
  • Planar display assembly
    Patent number: 10993555
    Abstract: A planar display assembly is provided with a pane with a front reflective surface and a rear surface. An array of mounting plates is provided, each with a first fastener, and a polygonal mounting plate adhered to the rear surface by an adhesive. A plurality of second fasteners is each engaged with one of the array of first fasteners for linear adjustment relative to the pane in a direction generally perpendicular to the pane to support the planar display assembly upon an upright support surface. Each mounting plate is oriented upon the pane rear surface such that at least one vertex extends away from the corresponding first fastener in a direction toward another sequential first fastener within the array of first fasteners. A metal bracket is adapted to be mounted to the upright support surface. The bracket has at least one enclosed cleat to receive two of the second fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
    Inventors: Earl David Forrest, Jeffrey John Mathison, Norman Dax Allen, Rubin Thomas Abraham
  • Optical element and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 10996375
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical element includes the steps of: providing a first material including a precursor of a first energy curable resin which contains fine particles of a transparent conductive material on a transparent substrate, curing the first material by light irradiation, and performing a heat treatment on the cured first material. In the method described above, the cured first material processed by the heat treatment is again processed by light irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Ukuda
  • Optical element and optical system including the same
    Patent number: 10996376
    Abstract: An absorption layer 13 is formed above a substrate 11. The transmittance of the absorption layer 13 varies at different locations of the substrate 11. The absorption layer 13 includes a first material and a second material that have an absorption coefficient that depends on a wavelength. The extinction coefficient of the absorption layer 13 is equal to or less than 0.5 at a wavelength of 400 nm to 700 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironobu Koga
  • Protective wafer including inclined optical windows and device
    Patent number: 10996461
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a protective wafer including a frame wafer and an optical window, and to a method for manufacturing a micromechanical device including such a protective wafer having an inclined optical window. Also described are a protective wafer including a frame wafer and an optical window, and a micromechanical device including a MEMS wafer and such a protective wafer, which delimit a cavity, the protective wafer including an inclined optical window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Pinter
  • Adjustable mirror assembly with leaf spring element
    Patent number: 10989896
    Abstract: An adjustable mirror assembly comprising a mirror, a support, a leaf spring element biased between the support and a planar reverse side of the mirror, said leaf spring element generating a spring force, as well as at least two adjusting units mounted in the support and acting on the mirror in opposition to the spring force. The leaf spring element is mounted to the reverse side of the mirror via at least one mirror mounting point by a substance-to-substance bond and to the support via at least one support mounting point. The spring force is directed toward the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Erbe, Frank Pacholik
  • Waveguide display with gratings for improved diffraction efficiency
    Patent number: 10976555
    Abstract: A waveguide display is used for presenting media to a user. The waveguide display includes a light source assembly, an output waveguide, and a controller. The light source assembly projects an image light at least along one dimension. The output waveguide includes a waveguide body with two opposite surfaces. The output waveguide includes an input area, an output area, a first diffractive element on the first side, and a second diffractive element on the second side of the output waveguide. The output area is located between the input area and the first and second diffractive elements. The first and second diffractive elements reflect a second portion of the expanded image light back toward the output area for outcoupling to the eyebox. The controller controls the scanning of the light source assembly to form a two-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wanli Chi, Hee Yoon Lee
  • Interchangeable lens structures
    Patent number: 10969660
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for replaceable outer lenses for use in water. For example, an image capture device may include a lens barrel in a body of the image capture device; a replaceable lens structure mountable on the body of the image capture device, the replaceable lens structure including a first set of two or more stacked lenses, including a first outer lens, and a first retaining ring configured to fasten the first set of two or more stacked lenses against a first end of the lens barrel in a first arrangement, wherein the first set of two or more stacked lenses is configured to collimate light incident on the first outer lens when the first outer lens is underwater at an interface between the lens barrel and the first replaceable lens structure; and an image sensor mounted within the body at a second end of the lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Ingrid Cotoros, Ian Griggs, Peiqian Zhao
  • Optical apparatus, film to be provided on surface of optical apparatus, paint to be used for optical apparatus
    Patent number: 10947397
    Abstract: There is provided an optical apparatus which comprises a lens, and a lens barrel holding the lens, wherein a film is formed on a surface of the lens barrel, the film contains a resin, titanium oxide coated with silica, and an inorganic particle, an average particle size of the inorganic particle is 10 nm or more and 110 nm or less, and an average particle size of the titanium oxide coated with the silica is 0.2 ?m or more. Thus, it is possible to achieve the optical apparatus which, in an anoxic atmosphere, has less discoloration due to sunlight and less reflectance deterioration even when color is thin, and has the high solar reflectance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Reiko Kubota, Yoji Teramoto
  • Display system with optical elements for in-coupling multiplexed light streams
    Patent number: 10948642
    Abstract: Architectures are provided for selectively incoupling one or more streams of light from a multiplexed light stream into a waveguide. The multiplexed light stream can have light with different characteristics (e.g., different wavelengths and/or different polarizations). The waveguide can comprise in-coupling elements that can selectively couple one or more streams of light from the multiplexed light stream into the waveguide while transmitting one or more other streams of light from the multiplexed light stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Brian T. Schowengerdt, Michael Nevin Miller, Vikramjit Singh, Christophe Peroz, Pierre St. Hilaire, Jie Sun
  • Interference filter
    Patent number: 10948641
    Abstract: An interference filter, including a first interface layer; a first dielectric portion of a first dielectric material, having a first thickness and resting on the first interface layer at a first location; a second dielectric portion of the first dielectric material, the second dielectric portion resting on the first interface layer at a second location, the second dielectric portion having a second thickness greater than the first thickness; a third dielectric portion of a second dielectric material having a refraction index smaller than the refraction index of the first material, the third dielectric portion having a third thickness and resting on the first dielectric portion, the sum of the first thickness and of the third thickness being equal to the second thickness; and a second interface layer resting on the second and third dielectric portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventor: Laurent Frey
  • Inorganic oxide articles with thin, durable anti-reflective structures
    Patent number: 10948629
    Abstract: An article that includes: an inorganic oxide substrate having opposing major surfaces; and an optical film structure disposed on a first major surface of the substrate, the optical film structure comprising one or more of a silicon-containing oxide, a silicon-containing nitride and a silicon-containing oxynitride and a physical thickness from about 50 nm to less than 500 nm. The article exhibits a hardness of 8 GPa or greater measured at an indentation depth of about 100 nm or a maximum hardness of 9 GPa or greater measured over an indentation depth range from about 100 nm to about 500 nm, the hardness and the maximum hardness measured by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test. Further, the article exhibits a single-side photopic average reflectance that is less than 1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Lin Lin, James Joseph Price, Alexandre Michel Mayolet, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams
  • Diffractive optical element and method for the design of a diffractive optical element
    Patent number: 10948731
    Abstract: A diffractive optical element (DOE) is designed to implement both a collimation function with respect to an input divergent beam and a beam shaping function with respect to an output divergent beam. The phase designs of the collimation function and the beam shaping function are independently produced in the phase domain. These phase designs are then combined using a phase angle addition of the individual functions and wrapped between 0 and 2? radians. The diffractive surface of the DOE is then defined from the wrapped phase angle addition of the individual functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
    Inventor: James Peter Drummond Downing
  • Method of manufacturing a member, optical member and optical element
    Patent number: 10942303
    Abstract: An optical member having a concentric diffraction surface facing the outside, wherein the projection having a inclined surface concentric to the diffraction surface having an angle of inclination ? smaller than the angle of inclination ? is provided outside the diffraction surface having the largest ?, so that an interference of a cutting tool is avoided, and simultaneously, deterioration of a surface roughness may be restrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Tanaka, Makoto Kojima, Tomonao Nakayasu, Yukinobu Okura
  • Isotropic filters in spatial frequency domain by a photonic crystal slab
    Patent number: 10928551
    Abstract: An isotropic imaging filter is provided that includes a photonic crystal slab, where the photonic crystal slab includes a square lattice of air through holes, a dielectric constant, a thickness (d), a through hole radius (r), and a lattice constant (a), where the square lattice of air holes are separated according to a value of the lattice constant, where the thickness is configured according to d=M(a), where the through hole radii is configured according to r=N(a), where the thickness and the hole radii are configured to generate isotropic bands of guided resonances of an incident image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Cheng Guo, Meng Xiao, Momchil Minkov, Yu Shi, Shanhui Fan
  • Optical film having high slip property, and polarizing plate comprising the same
    Patent number: 10928557
    Abstract: The optical film according to the present invention has a feature that it can implement zero retardation and have high slip property and thus enabling self-winding, even while using an acrylic resin not containing monomers having a ring structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Min Kwak, Seong Wook Kang, Dong Wan Kim, Kil An Jung, Ki Joong Lee, Min Su Park, Jong Sung Park
  • Optical element, and optical element-equipped article
    Patent number: 10921500
    Abstract: A concavo-convex structure forming layer with a concavo-convex structure on one surface; and a light-reflecting layer on at least part of a surface of the concavo-convex structure. In the optical element, the concavo-convex structure forming layer includes a unit group made up of a plurality of units whose concavo-convex structures are different from each other; each of the units has a flat portion and either a plurality of convexities or a plurality of concavities, with an upper surface of each convexity or a bottom surface of each concavity being substantially parallel to a surface of the flat portion; the convexities or the concavities adjacent to each other have center-to-center distances that are not constant; the convexities or the concavities have a constant height or depth; and in the unit group, units having an identical concavo-convex structure are not arrayed at a pitch of less than 150 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naomichi Mimita, Mizuki Yanagimoto
  • Light-pad microscope for high-resolution 3D fluorescence imaging and 2D fluctuation spectroscopy
    Patent number: 10908403
    Abstract: A microscope is described, having an illumination light path for illuminating a sample or object and a viewing light path for viewing the sample. The microscope includes an illumination light path focussing arrangement in the illumination light path, defining a substantially two-dimensional sample or object illumination region extending along an illumination direction of the illumination light path and transversely thereto. The microscope further includes an illumination region-confining device in the illumination light path for selectively illuminating a portion of the substantially two-dimensional object illumination region, wherein the portion of the substantially two-dimensional object illumination region is confined at least in the illumination direction and/or in the direction transversely thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY (EMBL)
    Inventors: Michael Knop, Malte Wachsmuth, Jérémie Capoulade
  • Display
    Patent number: 10908330
    Abstract: The display of the present invention includes an uneven-structure-forming layer having a surface provided with a plurality of concavities or a plurality of convexities respectively provided with flat bottoms and flat tops substantially parallel to the flat bottoms, and a light reflecting layer covering all or a part of an uneven surface of the uneven-structure-forming layer. The uneven-structure-forming layer is provided with two kinds of uneven-structure-forming regions. Each of the two kinds of uneven-structure-forming regions has a constant optical distance between the flat bottoms and the flat tops, but the optical distance is different between the two kinds of regions. The two kinds of uneven-structure-forming regions are alternately arrayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Ebina
  • Wavelength tunable interference filter, optical device, optical module, and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 10901200
    Abstract: A wavelength tunable interference filter includes a movable section having a mirror region that faces a first mirror in a first direction and an electrode so provided in a region outside the mirror region in a plan view viewed in the first direction as to surround the mirror region along the circumferential direction thereof, the electrode configured to displace the movable section in the first direction when voltage is applied to the electrode, and the width of the electrode in the plan view varies in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventor: Akira Sano