Patents Examined by Tamara Y Washington
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Patent number: 12032224Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided and includes a fixed assembly, a movable assembly, a driving assembly and a circuit assembly. The movable assembly is configured to connect an optical element, the movable assembly is movable relative to the fixed assembly, and the optical element has an optical axis. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable assembly to move relative to the fixed assembly. The circuit assembly includes a plurality of circuits and is affixed to the fixed assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Sin-Hong Lin, Yung-Ping Yang, Wen-Yen Huang, Yu-Cheng Lin, Kun-Shih Lin, Chao-Chang Hu, Yung-Hsien Yeh, Mao-Kuo Hsu, Chih-Wei Weng, Ching-Chieh Huang, Chih-Shiang Wu, Chun-Chia Liao, Chia-Yu Chang, Hung-Ping Chen, Wei-Zhong Luo, Wen-Chang Lin, Shou-Jen Liu, Shao-Chung Chang, Chen-Hsin Huang, Meng-Ting Lin, Yen-Cheng Chen, I-Mei Huang, Yun-Fei Wang, Wei-Jhe Shen
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Patent number: 12032226Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, wherein the optical imaging system satisfies 0.5<L12345TRavg/L7TR<0.9, where L12345TRavg is an average value of overall outer diameters of the first to fifth lenses, L7TR is an overall outer diameter of the seventh lens, and L12345TRavg and L7TR are expressed in a same unit of measurement.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Hwa Jung, Sot Eum Seo, Yong Joo Jo, Ga Young An
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Patent number: 12025811Abstract: A system including an optical path length extender (OPLE) having two light paths having different path lengths, such that light entering the OPLE with a first polarization is directed through a first light path, and light entering the OPLE with a second polarization is directed through a second light path through the OPLE. The OPLE includes a first polarization sensitive reflective element at a first angle to the light entering the OPLE and a second angled polarization sensitive reflective element at a second angle to the light entering the OPLE, the second angled polarization sensitive reflective element intersecting the first polarization sensitive reflective element.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Avegant Corp.Inventors: Aaron Matthew Eash, Allan Thomas Evans, Andrew John Gross, D. Scott Dewald, Warren Cornelius Welch, III
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Patent number: 12025819Abstract: A picometer optical comb and a device and a method for generating the same, wherein the picometer optical comb is a special grating with continuously variable widths of adjacent grating lines, wherein the width of each grating line is different from that of the adjacent grating line by a fixed difference in the magnitude of picometer to nanometer. The picometer optical comb provides a reference for picometer measurement. The picometer optical comb can generate a diffraction optical field distribution different from that of a traditional grating, which brings a new diffraction effect, achieves new diffraction optical functions, and provides tools such as picometer photolithography, picometer measurement, picometer imaging and the like. The picometer optical comb plays an important role in the fields of semiconductor photolithography, life science, interaction of light and substances in picometer scale.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Shanghai Institute of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventor: Changhe Zhou
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Patent number: 12013546Abstract: Vehicle mountable holographic promoting system and method of use; system includes a body with light, mount, and controller in communication with a software application and the body. The body is mountable to the vehicle using mount. Mount can be removably attachable or otherwise secured to the roof of the vehicle. The controller controls the body such that the body can visually promote via an image display an item using the light-display region appearing to float on a plane above vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Inventor: Tarkan Bastiyali
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Patent number: 12013529Abstract: A method of moderating chromaticity of ambient light in an environment reflected back into the environment by a component comprised in a lens of glasses through which a user of views the environment, the method comprising: determining a first set of tristimulus values that characterizes ambient light reflected by the component surface as a function of angle of reflection ? in a bounded span of angles of reflection; determining a second set of tristimulus values for angles in the bounded span of angles so that light characterized by the second set of tristimulus values combined with light reflected by the component would be perceived substantially as white light; and providing an optical coating that reflects ambient light from the environment so that the reflected light is substantially characterized by the second set of tristimulus values.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Lumus Ltd.Inventors: Eitan Ronen, Elad Sharlin
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Patent number: 12007618Abstract: Autofocus assembly and related methods are described. One example of an autofocus assembly includes a housing element. The housing element including a hall housing wall configured to secure a hall sensor. The autofocus assembly includes a lens carriage configured to secure a hall magnet and configured to be received within the housing element and configured to define a receiving space between the lens carriage and the housing element to receive one or more bearing elements. The autofocus assembly includes a magnetic element disposed at the hall housing wall and configured to magnetically attract the hall magnet and to secure the hall housing wall to the housing element and secure the one or more bearing elements between the hall housing wall and the lens carriage.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Hutchinson Technology IncorporatedInventor: Mark A. Miller
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Patent number: 12007671Abstract: Systems having a Wide/Ultra-Wide camera, a folded Tele camera with an optical path folding element and a Tele lens module, a lens actuator for moving the Tele lens module for focusing to object-lens distances between 3.0 cm and 35 cm with an object-to-image magnification between 1:5 and 25:1, and an application processor (AP), wherein the AP is configured to analyze image data from the UW camera to define a Tele capture strategy for a sequence of Macro images with a focal plane slightly shifted from one captured Macro image to another and to generate a new Macro image from this sequence, and wherein the focal plane and a depth of field of the new Macro image can be controlled continuously.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.Inventors: Noy Cohen, Michael Scherer
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Patent number: 12001034Abstract: A coating composition for application over a retroreflective substrate, a retroreflective article comprising a coating formed from the coating composition, and a method of production thereof are provided. The coating composition comprises a pigment suitable to absorb and/or scatter electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range of 800 nm to 2000 nm. The coating comprises a ratio of reduction in electromagnetic radiation retroreflectance at a wavelength of 905 nm and/or 1550 nm to reduction in electromagnetic radiation retroreflectance averaged over a wavelength range of 400 nm to 700 nm of at least 2:1.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Shuyu Fang, Eldon L. Decker, Kristen M. Kruszewski
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Patent number: 12001082Abstract: An image capturing optical assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group, a second lens group and a third lens group, wherein the first lens group includes a first lens element and a second lens element, the second lens group includes a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element, and the third lens group includes a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. At least one surface of at least one of the lens elements of each lens group is aspheric. At least one surface of at least one of the lens elements includes at least one inflection point.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
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Patent number: 12001077Abstract: An imaging lens assembly module includes an imaging lens element set, a lens carrier and a light blocking structure. The imaging lens element set has an optical axis. At least one lens element of the lens elements is disposed in the lens carrier. The light blocking structure includes a light blocking opening. The optical axis passes through the light blocking opening, and the light blocking opening includes at least two arc portions and a shrinking portion. Each of the arc portions has a first curvature radius for defining a maximum diameter of the light blocking opening. The shrinking portion is connected to the arc portions for forming the light blocking opening into a non-circular shape. The shrinking portion includes at least one protruding arc which extends and shrinks gradually from the shrinking portion to the optical axis, and the protruding arc has a second curvature radius.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Lin-An Chang, Ming-Ta Chou, Shu-Yun Yang, Cheng-Feng Lin, Hsiang-Chi Tang
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Patent number: 11994794Abstract: An optical array includes one or more optical elements each including an incident surface at which light is incident into the optical element, a first reflection surface at which the light passing through the incident surface is reflected, a second reflection surface at which the light reflected by the first reflection surface is reflected again, an emission surface at which the light from the second reflection surface exits the optical element, and a refractive surface at which light that passes through the first reflection surface is refracted away from the emission surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takashi Shiraishi
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Patent number: 11982864Abstract: A lens driving device includes a lens support, a first moving member plate and a second moving member plate that surround around a periphery of the lens support, wherein the first moving, member plate is supported so as to be freely movable relative to the second moving member plate by a first support mechanism that includes a first support protrusion and a first guide recess into which the first support protrusion is fitted, the lens support is supported so as to be freely movable relative to the first moving member plate by a second support mechanism that includes a second support protrusion and a second guide recess into which the second support protrusion is fitted.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuyoshi Hagiwara
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Patent number: 11982824Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to optical devices. Specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to optical devices with one or more optical component circuits. The optical devices including one or more optical component circuits prevent the user from exposure to light when a conductive pathway is interrupted via aperture breakage, for example, from the user dropping the substrate, or from the user dropping the optical device. The conductive pathway allows for current to flow from a power source through the apertures and to one or more light sources and, in some embodiments, one or more light detectors. Aperture breakage resulting in the interruption of the conductive pathway prevents current from being provided to the one or more light sources and/or one or more light detectors to prevent (e.g., automatically prevent) light exposure to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Sage Toko Garrett Doshay, Naamah Argaman
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Patent number: 11982860Abstract: An optical member driving mechanism is provided. The optical member driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, an electromagnetic driving assembly and an elastic member. The fixed portion has a base and a frame that is disposed on the base. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion, and includes a carrier for carrying an optical member with an incident optical axis. The carrier includes a body and a sidewall that extends along the edge of the body, wherein the carrier further includes a first stopping portion and a second stopping portion protruding towards the fixed portion. The electromagnetic driving assembly drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The movable portion is movably connected to the fixed portion via the elastic member.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Chia-Che Wu, Sung-Mao Tsai, Chao-Chang Hu, Che-Wei Chang, Chen-Hsien Fan, Chih-Wei Weng
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Patent number: 11971611Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, wherein the optical imaging system satisfies 0.5<L12345TRavg/L7TR<0.9, where L12345TRavg is an average value of overall outer diameters of the first to fifth lenses, L7TR is an overall outer diameter of the seventh lens, and L12345TRavg and L7TR are expressed in a same unit of measurement.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Hwa Jung, Sot Eum Seo, Yong Joo Jo, Ga Young An
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Patent number: 11960145Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system; and a spacer disposed between the sixth and seventh lenses, wherein the optical imaging system satisfies 0.5<S6d/f<1.4, where S6d is an inner diameter of the spacer, f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and S6d and f are expressed in a same unit of measurement.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Phil Ho Jung, In Gun Kim, Yong Joo Jo, Ga Young An
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Patent number: 11953702Abstract: A graded-index optical element may include a nanovoided material including a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The nanovoided material may be transparent between the first surface and the second surface. Additionally, the nanovoided material may have a predefined change in effective refractive index in at least one axis due to a change in at least one of nanovoid size or nanovoid distribution along the at least one axis. Various other elements, devices, systems, materials, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, Kenneth Alexander Diest, Renate Eva Klementine Landig
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Patent number: 11953663Abstract: A zoom optical system includes a first lens group, a position of which with respect to an imaging plane is adjustable, and including first and second lenses. The zoom optical system also includes a second lens group of which a position with respect to the imaging plane is adjustable and includes third to fifth lenses. The zoom optical system further includes a third lens group including a sixth lens. An object-side surface of the first lens is convex.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Youn Lee, Jung Hui Ko
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Patent number: 11953666Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a main assembly, a mounting unit mounted on a head of a user and supporting the main assembly, a display unit housed in the main assembly and displaying images, a first lens and a second lens housed in the main assembly and guiding image light from the display unit to right eye and left eye, respectively, of the user, a first light reducer including an annular first end base disposed in the main assembly in surrounding relationship to edge of the first lens and a tubular first wall extending from the first end base in rearward direction of the main assembly, and a second light reducer including an annular second end base disposed in the main assembly in surrounding relationship to edge of the second lens and a tubular second wall extending from the second end base in the rearward direction of the main assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Yuko Hirowatari