Patents Examined by William Choi
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Patent number: 11966041Abstract: An optical module comprising: at least three lens elements, wherein the lens elements collectively set a numerical aperture NA, a field height FH, and a system effective focal length EFLsys for directing the light rays between first and second planes, wherein NA, FH, and EFLsys satisfy 0<NA<0.25 and 0<FH<(0.4)·(EFLsys); wherein first and second adjacent lens elements having effective focal lengths EFL1 and EFL2, respectively, satisfies (1.5)·(EFLsys)<EFL1<3·(EFLsys) and (1.5)·(EFLsys)<EFL2<3·(EFLsys); wherein an air-distance between the first and second lens elements A12 satisfies 0<A12<EFLsys; wherein a third lens element adjacent the second lens elements opposite the first lens element and having an effective focal length EFL3 satisfies (?20)·EFLsys<EFL3<(?1)·EFLsys; and wherein an air-distance between the second and third lens elements A23 satisfies 0<A23<EFLsys.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Zygo CorporationInventor: Nicholas Mark Cirucci
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Patent number: 11964453Abstract: A laminated pane with electrically controllable optical properties, includes an outer pane and an inner pane that are joined to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer, wherein an optoelectronic functional element with electrically controllable optical properties is incorporated into the intermediate layer, including an active layer, to which transparent sheetlike control electrodes are assigned on both surfaces, between a first carrier film and a second carrier film, wherein the intermediate layer, which surrounds the optoelectronic functional element, and the carrier films contain, in each case, thermoplastic material, wherein at least one capacitive touch element is integrated into the optoelectronic functional element such that a portion of at least one control electrode of the optoelectronic functional element is separated and provided with a signal lead for detecting a capacitive touch or approach signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Michael Zeiss, Stefan Uebelacker, Laurent Lamoureux
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Patent number: 11966113Abstract: A composite pane having an electrically controllable functional element that can be switched in segments, includes first and second panes joined to one another via an intermediate layer, and a functional element with a plurality of side edges embedded in the intermediate layer. The functional element includes, arranged flat one over another, a first surface electrode and a second surface electrode, between which an active layer is arranged flat. The first surface electrode is divided into multiple segments by a separating line. A group of first busbars electrically conductively contact the first surface electrode, and each segment of the first surface electrode is electrically conductively contacted by one busbar from the group of the first busbars. A second busbar electrically conductively contacts the second surface electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Jefferson Do Rosario, Florian Manz, Sebastian Schurse, Johannes Wolf
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Patent number: 11960099Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for producing non-rotationally symmetric optical aberrations. Such aberrations may be created by a removable attachment that may be attached to another lens, such as a spherical lens. Aberrations that appear to reproduce an anamorphic effect may be produced, yet the underlying camera system may remain a spherical camera system, and the capture mode may remain non-anamorphic.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Brian Grant Mills, Rick Takeshi Ishioka
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Patent number: 11958738Abstract: An optical system including a dual-layer microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device, and methods of fabricating and operating the same are disclosed. Generally, the MEMS device includes a substrate having an upper surface; a top modulating layer including a number of light modulating micro-ribbons, each micro-ribbon supported above and separated from the upper surface of the substrate by spring structures in at least one lower actuating layer; and a mechanism for moving one or more of the micro-ribbons relative to the upper surface and/or each other. The spring structures are operable to enable the light modulating micro-ribbons to move continuously and vertically relative to the upper surface of the substrate while maintaining the micro-ribbons substantially parallel to one another and the upper surface of the substrate. The micro-ribbons can be reflective, transmissive, partially reflective/transmissive, and the device is operable to modulate a phase and/or amplitude of light incident thereon.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SILICON LIGHT MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Olav Solgaard, Stephen Hamann, Alexander Payne, Lars Eng, James Hunter, Tianbo Liu
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Patent number: 11951814Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide an intelligent glass and an intelligent window system, and relates to the technical field of window display. The intelligent glass of the disclosure includes a touch display assembly and a glass assembly. The touch display assembly is communicatively coupled to the glass assembly, and is configured to send a corresponding dimming instruction to the glass assembly based on a received touch instruction, such that the glass assembly adjusts its light transmittance based on the dimming instruction.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yongbo Wang, Chen Meng, Zhong Hu, Yutao Tang, Wenjie Zhong, Dahai Hu, Wei Shi
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Patent number: 11953439Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the generation of tunable coloration and/or interference from, for example, surfaces, emulsion droplets and particles. Embodiments described herein may be useful for generation of tunable electromagnetic radiation such as coloration (e.g., iridescence, structural color) and/or interference patterns from, for example, surfaces (e.g., comprising a plurality of microdomes and/or microwells), emulsion droplets and/or particles. In some embodiments, the surfaces, interfaces, droplets, and/or particles produce visible color (e.g., structural color) without the need for dyes.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Lauren Dell Zarzar, Sara N. Nagelberg, Mathias Kolle, Amy Goodling
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Patent number: 11953661Abstract: Disclosed are a zoom lens, a zoom method and a terminal. The zoom lens includes n lens groups, n reflecting elements and n imaging planes, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2. The n lens groups and an n-th imaging plane are arranged sequentially along an optical axis. A first reflecting element is configured to receive and reflect first incident light to a first lens group. An i-th imaging plane is arranged between an i-th lens group and an (i+1)-th lens group, where i is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than n. A j-th reflecting element is disposed between a (j?1)-th lens group and a j-th lens group, and is configured to be moved and/or rotated to enable the zoom lens to zoom, where j is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to n.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Qing Xu
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Patent number: 11947240Abstract: An optical apparatus includes a light source, an optical waveguide element, a light detector, and an optical system. The light source emits a light beam. The optical waveguide element includes first and second gratings. The first grating causes part of the light beam to propagate in the optical waveguide element as a guided light beam. The second grating causes part of the guided light beam to exit from the optical waveguide element. The optical system causes the light beam to enter the first grating and causes a reflected light beam from an object to enter the second grating. Part of the reflected light beam entering the second grating propagates in the optical waveguide element and exits from the first grating as an optical feedback beam. The optical system causes part of the optical feedback beam to enter the light detector as separated light beams separated depending on wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Seiji Nishiwaki
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Patent number: 11947126Abstract: An apparatus includes an eye cover adapted to be removably mounted on a head-worn computer with a see-through computer display and a flexible audio headset mounted to the eye cover. The flexible audio headset is mounted to the eye cover with a magnetic connection.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
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Patent number: 11947104Abstract: A spiral phase plate, according to one embodiment, for generating a Laguerre Gaussian beam by reflecting an incident beam emitted from a light source, may comprise: a first quadrant area in which the step height increase rate per unit angle decreases progressively in one direction from the point with the lowest step height to the point with the highest step height; and a second quadrant area in which the step height increase rate per unit angle increases progressively in the one direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: KOREA BASIC SCIENCE INSTITUTE, INSTITUTE FOR BASIC SCIENCE, GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: I Jong Kim, Ji Yong Bae, Hong Seung Kim, Geon Hee Kim, Ki Soo Chang, Cheonha Jeon, Il Woo Choi, Chang Hee Nam
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Patent number: 11947089Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having an image-side surface that is concave; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having an object-side surface that is convex; a fourth lens having an image-side surface that is concave; a fifth lens having a refractive power; and a sixth lens having a refractive power and an image-side surface having an inflection point, wherein the first lens through the sixth lens are sequentially disposed in numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and the optical imaging system satisfies TL/(2Y)?1.01 and 1.2?tan ?, where TL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, 2Y is a diagonal length of the imaging plane, and ? is half a field of view of the optical imaging system.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Youn Lee, Jae Hyun Baik, Yong Joo Jo, Phil Ho Jung
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Patent number: 11940629Abstract: An optical system for a head-worn computer includes an upper optical module adapted to convert illumination into image light by illuminating a reflective display through a field lens, wherein the image light is transmitted back through the field lens, then through a partially reflective partially transmissive surface and into a lower optic module adapted to present the image light to an eye of a user wearing the head-worn computer and the upper optical module being positioned within a housing for the head-worn computer and having a height of less than 24 mm, as measured from the reflective display to the bottom edge of the rotationally curved partial mirror.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: John N. Border, Joseph Bietry, John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 11940705Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Stephen C. Brown, Deepika Khowal, Namrata Vora, Santosh V. Philip
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Patent number: 11936971Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a first magnet, a housing, a bobbin, around which a coil is wound and which moves in a first direction in the housing, an upper elastic member disposed on upper surfaces of the bobbin and the housing, a lower elastic member disposed under lower surfaces of the bobbin and the housing, and a damping member disposed between the upper or lower elastic member and the bobbin.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Seong Min Lee, Jun Taek Lee, Byung Wook Son
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Patent number: 11927865Abstract: An electrochromic device with side-by-side structure including a common electrode unit, at least one color-changing unit and an electrolyte layer is provided. The common electrode unit includes an electrode layer and an electrode protection layer disposed on the electrode layer. The color-changing unit includes a transparent conductive layer and a color-changing layer disposed on the transparent conductive layer. The common electrode unit and each color-changing unit are arranged on the same plane with an insulating region between two adjacent units. The electrolyte layer covers and connects the electrode protection layer of the common electrode unit and the color-changing layer of each color-changing unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: WUYI UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiufeng Tang, Guoxin Chen, Yongxian Li, Zhixin Li, Zhaopeng Mo, Zhijun Ou, Tengcheng Huang, Lan Su, Zehui Zhang, Jianyi Luo
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Patent number: 11927778Abstract: The present invention relates to a variable light transmittance element including a variable light transmittance structure, wherein the variable light transmittance structure includes: a first electrode; a variable light transmittance layer made of a transparent semiconductor material in which metal nanoparticles are dispersed, and electrically connected to the first electrode; a second electrode; and an insulating layer interposed between the variable light transmittance layer and the second electrode, and also relates to a color filter for a display device and smart window including the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: RMK INC.Inventor: Min Ki Ryu
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Patent number: 11927730Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. The first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an image side. The third lens, the fourth lens, the sixth lens, and the seventh lens are formed of plastic, and the first lens, the second lens, and the fifth lens are formed of glass.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hag Chul Kim, Yong Joo Jo, Hwan Soo Park
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Patent number: 11921281Abstract: The invention relates to an attachment device for at least one objective lens and/or at least one eyepiece of a long-range optical device, in particular in the form of a riflescope, a telescope or a binocular, wherein the attachment device comprises at least one window, which is transparent at least in a visible spectral range, as well as at least one electrical heating device for the window.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Swarovski-Optik AG & Co KG.Inventors: Alois Zangerl, Martin Kuhn, Michael Socher, Philipp Gimpl
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Patent number: 11914271Abstract: A multi-input folded camera includes a plurality of folding devices, a common lens array, and a sensor. The folding devices change paths lights that are incident to the folding devices and output a plurality of folded lights propagating along a plurality of paths. The common lens array combines the folded lights received through an input surface of the common lens array to output a combined light through an output surface of the common lens array. The sensor is at an optical axis of the common lens array to receive the combined light. Performance of a mobile device including the multi-input folded camera is enhanced by sufficient light amounts using the multiple folding devices and combining the lights through the multiple light paths. In implementing an under display camera (UDC), an entire-region display is supported without an aperture in a display panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyunjin Kang, Hyunsu Jun, Younggyu Jung