Abstract: A self-powered variable transmittance optical device, such as a smart window or other device, and associated method are provided. The device comprises one or more transparent substrates, with a switching material disposed thereon or therebetween. The switching material may be a hybrid photochromic/electrochromic material capable of transitioning from a first transmittance state to a second transmittance state with application of electricity, and from second state to first state due to another stimulus, such as UV radiation. Electrodes are coupled to the switching material for applying electricity. An electrical system provides for controllable application of the electricity, and may store energy. Energy is provided by an energy-harvesting power source such as a solar cell or other photovoltaic source, or array thereof, or another device for harvesting vibrational or thermal energy.

Abstract: Provided is a head-up display capable of displaying a plurality of virtual images presented at different distances while increasing the design flexibility in the display device for creating the virtual images. The head-up display comprises: a first display surface disposed to extend the light path of first image light emitted toward a viewer and a second display surface disposed to make the light path of second image light emitted shorter than that of the first image light; a first concave reflector for reflecting the first image light and the second image light; and a second concave reflector for reflecting the image light reflected from the first concave reflector. The first concave reflector is configured such that the first image light and the second image light intersect with each other in the vertical direction between the first concave reflector and the second concave reflector.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an electrowetting display may include forming pixel electrodes on a support plate; depositing a first layer on the pixel electrodes; etching portions of the first layer to form pixel walls that partition pixel regions; depositing a second layer on the pixel electrodes and the pixel walls; etching portions of the second layer to form spacers on tops of the pixel walls; and depositing a hydrophobic layer to at least partially cover the pixel electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a driving method for an SOA integrated EA-DFB laser monolithically-integrating a DFB laser portion, an EA modulator portion and an SOA portion, on a same substrate, wherein an electric current ISOA is injected into the SOA portion within a range of a power consumption not exceeding a total amount of a power consumption eliminated in the DFB laser portion of the SOA integrated EA-DFB laser and a power consumption eliminated in the EA modulator portion of the SOA integrated EA-DFB laser by eliminating an elimination amount ?IDFB from a maximum injection electric current into a DFB laser portion of an EA-DFB laser allowable in a case of mounting the EA-DFB laser on an optical transmission module.

Abstract: A lens barrel in which tilt adjustment can be made depending on the position of a lens unit in the optical axis direction. This lens barrel includes: at least three guide bars provided so as to extend along the optical axis direction; a driving unit that respectively drives the at least three guide bars in the optical axis direction; a lens frame holding unit that holds an image-capturing lens, the lens frame holding unit being attached to at least three guide bars and being driven in the optical axis direction by the at least three guide bars; and a control unit that controls said at least three linear actuators so as to adjust the respective drive amounts in the optical axis direction of the at least three guide bars and to tilt the lens frame holding unit from a direction orthogonal to the optical axis.

Abstract: A short-range optical amplification module, spectacles, a helmet and a VR system. The amplification module includes a reflective polarizing plate, a first phase delay plate, a second lens and a second phase delay plate, and a first lens. In the second lens, the optical surface adjacent to the second phase delay plate is a transflective optical surface. The first focal length f2 of the second lens meets the condition: 1F?f2?2F, wherein F is the system focal length of the optical amplification module. By performing parameter refining on the first focal length f2 that influences the optical amplification effect, the module can keep a small overall thickness while obtaining a large optical amplification effect, and the VR device can realize a good field angle, a large oculomotor range and a high-quality imaging effect.

Abstract: A head mounted display device is provided. The head mounted display device includes a main frame including a lens, a front case including a seating area in which an electronic device is seated, a peripheral area that surrounds at least a portion of a periphery of the electronic device, a connector holder that is horizontally movable from one side of the peripheral area and that is electrically connected to a connection port of the electronic device while surrounding at least a portion of one side of the electronic device when the electronic device is mounted, and a fixing holder that is horizontally movable from one side of the peripheral area and that surrounds a portion of an opposite side surface of the electronic device when the electronic device is mounted.

Abstract: A display apparatus has an image generator that generates image-bearing light from a f surface and a lens spaced apart from the image generator and having an aspheric incident refractive surface concave to the image generator and having an aspheric reflective surface concave to the image generator, wherein a principal axis of the reflective surface is normal to the image generator. A beam splitter plate disposed in free space between the image generator and the lens has first and second parallel surfaces that are oblique to a line of sight of a viewer. The lens and the beam splitter plate define a viewer eye box for the image-bearing light along the line of sight of the viewer.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a lens module. The lens module includes a lens barrel and a lens group. The lens group is installed inside the lens barrel. The lens barrel includes a first barrel wall extended horizontally and a second barrel wall bended and extended from the first barrel wall. The lens module includes also a stop installed inside the lens barrel. The stop is installed inside the lens barrel and clamped between the first barrel wall and the lens group. The stop and the lens group are lined up in turn from object side to image side.

Abstract: A VCM (voice coil motor) is disclosed, the VCM including: a rotor including a cylindrical bobbin for accommodating a lens and protruded at a bottom end with a boss, and a coil block arranged at a periphery of the bobbin; a stator including a magnet facing the coil block and a yoke fixing the magnet; and an elastic member including a first elastic member formed with a through hole coupled to the boss of the bobbin and a second elastic member coupled to an upper end facing the bottom end of the bobbin; wherein the boss is formed with a disengagement prevention unit preventing the first elastic member from being disengaged from the boss, and the first elastic member is formed with a coupling unit contacting a joint where the disengagement prevention unit and the coupling unit meet.

Abstract: An image display device includes an image forming unit configured to emit light forming an image; and a concave mirror configured to reflect the light emitted from the image forming unit toward a transparent reflecting member. The image forming unit includes a transparent member on which the image is formed or which forms the image, the transparent member being curved bulging toward the concave mirror.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an electrowetting display may include depositing a sacrificial layer on a support plate, etching portions of the sacrificial layer to form liquid duct forms on the support plate, depositing a photoresist layer on the liquid duct forms and the support plate, etching portions of the photoresist layer to form a spacer grid, and removing the liquid duct forms to form liquid ducts between the support plate and the portions of the spacer grid.

Abstract: A print on-demand color shift material which has high reflection, high saturation color and intrinsic, high impact color-shift produced by thermal printing or laser writing for use, for example in security laminates, tax and excise stamps, machine-readable features and banknote foils, and offering a rainbow of colors with full color shifting, producible in full manufacturing scale.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a panel comprising a plurality of microcells wherein each of the microcells has a bottom, the panel has a first area and a second area, and the microcells in the first area have substantially the same bottom thickness and the microcells in the second area have added bottom thicknesses. Such a panel is useful for many applications, such drug administrations.

Abstract: A generator of short optical pulses includes: a generator of optical pulses with a wavelength equal to ?/2 and a spectral width less than ?/3; a generator of optical pulses of a duration less than 10 picoseconds at a wavelength ?/3; a device for recombining the pulses from the generators; a parametric amplification device receiving the output of the recombination device as input; a filter extracting, from the output of the amplification device, a band centered about a wavelength ?; a second harmonic generator receiving the output of the filter and generating a band centered over a wavelength ?/2; and a programmable device making it possible to temporally adjust the pulses corresponding to the bands, in order to allow for the generation of a pulse with a wavelength equal to ?/3 and of a duration less than the period of the optical cycle.

Abstract: Disclosed are examples of optical/electrical devices including a variable TIR lens assembly having a transducer, an optical lens and an electrowetting cell coupled to an exterior wall of the lens. The electrowetting cell contains two immiscible liquids having different optical and electrical properties. One liquid has a high index of refraction, and the other liquid has a low index of refraction. At least one liquid is electrically conductive. A signal causes the high index of refraction and the low index of refraction liquids to assume various positions within the electrowetting cell along the exterior wall. The properties of the optical lens, e.g. its total internal reflectivity, change depending upon the position of the respective liquids along the exterior wall. The light characteristics of the assembly change to produce a light beam over a range of light beam outputs or a field of view over a range of fields of view.

Abstract: An electrochromic element is provided. The electrochromic element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an electrolyte disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first layer overlying the first electrode, and a second layer overlying the second electrode. The first layer contains an oxidizable color-developing electrochromic compound. The second layer contains a compound having the following formula (1): wherein each of R1 to R5 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a monovalent organic group, and at least one of R1 to R5 includes a functional group directly or indirectly bindable to a hydroxyl group (OH).

Abstract: A method of controlling tint of a tintable window to account for occupant comfort in a room of a building. The tintable window is between the interior and exterior of the building. The method predicts a tint level for the tintable window at a future time based on a penetration depth of direct sunlight through the tintable window into the room at the future time and space type in the room. The method also provides instructions over a network to transition tint of the tintable window to the tint level.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling tint of a display panel provided on a vehicle window to adjust light transmittance depending on ambient light conditions, thereby overcoming difficulties in securing a clear view, such as glare caused by sunlight or high-beam headlamps of a vehicle in the opposite direction lane during driving. The apparatus includes: a display panel film attached to a window glass of the vehicle, and having an adjustable tint; an operation unit setting the tint of the display panel film; a detection sensor unit quantifying a change in an external environment into data; and a control unit adjusting the tint of the display panel film according to a preset program by using the data received from the detection sensor unit.

Abstract: An endoscope magnification optical system includes, in order starting from an object side, a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group having positive power, and a third lens group including at least a meniscus lens with a concave surface facing the object side and a positive lens, and the endoscope magnification optical system is configured to magnify an optical image by moving at least the second lens group in an optical axis direction with respect to the first lens group, which is a fixed lens group, while a distance from a lens surface located the closest to the object of the first lens group to an image plane is kept constant.