Patents by Inventor Tao Hong

Tao Hong has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220377311
    Abstract: A device for optical-field displaying includes: a display screen and a lens unit provided on a light exiting side of the display screen; the lens unit includes a plurality of lenses arranged in an array; the display screen is provided on a focal plane of the plurality of lenses; the display screen includes a first substrate and a second substrate that match; the first substrate is a light-exiting-side substrate, the second substrate includes a plurality of pixel islands arranged in an array; the plurality of pixel islands correspond to the plurality of lenses; a view region formed by light rays emitted by the sub-pixels of the pixel islands and propagated via the corresponding lenses to a human eye is smaller than or equal to a half-pupil region, and light rays of different viewpoints emitted by different sub-pixels of the pixel islands enter different cone cells via the lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Gao, Fang Cheng, Qingxun Zhang, Jinye Zhu, Tao Hong
  • Publication number: 20220366819
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display assembly, a display device and a driving method. The display assembly includes: a display panel provided with a plurality of pixel islands distributed in an array, any one of the pixel islands including sub-pixels continuously arranged along a set direction; and a lens layer arranged on a light exit surface of the display panel and including lenses arranged along the set direction. A lenticular lens pitch is not greater than a size of an opening of each pixel island in the set direction, and along the set direction, a sub-pixel pitch in each of the pixel islands is smaller than a half of the lenticular lens pitch. The lenticular lens pitch is equal to a sum of a size of each lenticular lens in the set direction and a distance between two adjacent ones of the plurality of lenticular lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jian GAO, Xue DONG, Sen MA, Xiaochuan CHEN, Tao HONG, Yanliu SUN, Fang CHENG
  • Publication number: 20220350207
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes: a plurality of sub-pixels and a light splitting structure including a plurality of light splitting portions. Each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes a plurality of display units, the plurality of sub-pixels are arranged as a plurality of sub-pixel row groups, each of the plurality of sub-pixel row groups includes at least two rows of sub-pixels, a gap is provided between two adjacent sub-pixels in each row of sub-pixels, and two adjacent rows of sub-pixels in each sub pixel row groups are shifted from each other in a row direction so that a sub-pixel in one row and the gap between two adjacent sub-pixels in another row are shifted from each other; a ratio of a size of each light splitting portions along the row direction to a pitch of the sub-pixels is in a range from 0.9 to 1.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunmiao Zhou, Kuanjun Peng, Tao Hong, Xin Gu, Kang Guo, Xue Dong
  • Publication number: 20220342232
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a display device, and a driving method for the display device, and relates to the field of display technology. The display device includes a display panel, a polarization conversion layer, and a lens layer. The display panel is used to display multiple depth-of-field images in a time-division way during a frame. The polarization conversion layer is arranged on the light exit side of the display panel, and is used to convert light for different depth-of-field images into polarized light of different polarization states. The lens layer is arranged on the side of the polarization conversion layer away from the display panel, and includes a plurality of lens units, each lens unit including a metasurface lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Tao HONG
  • Publication number: 20220317427
    Abstract: Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are an imaging lens, an imaging device and an imaging system, including: a lens body, including: a first optical surface and a second optical surface arranged in sequence along an incident direction of light; the first optical surface includes: an annular light incident area, for transmitting incident light; and at least one first annular reflection area, surrounding the first annular reflection area; the second optical surface includes: a light emitting area, for transmitting emitted light; and at least one second annular reflection area, surrounding the light emitting area; the incident light is incident into the lens body through the annular light incident area, is reflected for a plurality of times between the at least one second annular reflection area and the at least one first annular reflection area in sequence, and is emitted outwards from the lens body through the light emitting area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Fang CHENG, Tao HONG, Lei ZHANG, Tianyang HAN
  • Patent number: 11460699
    Abstract: An augmented reality device, an augmented reality system and an information prompt method thereof. The augmented reality device includes a micro display, an augmented reality element and an optical waveguide element. The micro display is configured to emit light carrying display content, the light includes a first light portion in a first polarization state and a second light portion in a second polarization state; the augmented reality element is configured to allow the first portion to convert from the first polarization state into the second polarization state, to allow the second light portion to convert from the second polarization state into the first polarization state, and to couple the first light portion in the second polarization state and the second light portion in the first polarization state to the optical waveguide element; the first polarization state is perpendicular to the second polarization state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tao Hong
  • Publication number: 20220311991
    Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a display panel and a microlens array disposed on a light-emitting side of the display panel, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of pixel islands in which a first pixel island displaying a first color, a second pixel island displaying a second color, and a third pixel island displaying a third color adjacent to one another form a repeating unit. In a same repeating unit, three sub-pixels at the same positions relative to their respective microlens units in the first pixel island, the second pixel island, and the third pixel island are disposed at three vertexes of a triangle respectively, and thus form a color fusion pixel. In addition, the display device further includes microlens arrays in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of pixel islands to realize 3D display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventor: Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 11448231
    Abstract: The cooling fan module may include a fan assembly and a fan shroud. The fan shroud of the cooling fan module may include a first sidewall that may extend in a radial direction and define an opening. The fan assembly may include a hub disposed within the opening, a blade extending from the hub to a distal end that may include a first side and a second side converging to form a first leading edge with respect to the rotational direction. The fan assembly may include a winglet that may include a first fin, extending in the axial direction from the distal end of the blade and a second fin extending in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventor: Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 11415799
    Abstract: A display system and a display method therefor, and a vehicle. The display system includes a display device and an image transmission device. The display device is configured to display a plurality of images; the image transmission device is configured to transmit light of at least two images of the plurality of images through different paths and to respectively form at least two virtual images corresponding to the at least two images of the plurality of images, and an imaging position of at least one of the at least two virtual images is variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 11416964
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and device for adjusting resolution of a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) apparatus. Wherein, the method comprises the steps of: determining saliency information of display contents in multimedia information; adjusting, according to the saliency information, resolution corresponding to each display content in the multimedia information; and, displaying the resolution-adjusted multimedia information. In the present invention, by determining saliency information of display contents in multimedia information, the resolution corresponding to the display contents is adjusted, which enable the resolution of the display contents to be matched with the saliency of the display contents, and accordingly, the resolution-adjusted multimedia information is displayed without the need of displaying the complete multimedia information in a higher resolution and a higher frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiming Li, Guangwei Wang, Mingcai Zho, Tao Hong, Deheng Qian, Haitao Wang
  • Publication number: 20220252765
    Abstract: A display assembly includes a display panel and a light adjusting layer disposed on a light-emitting side of the display panel. The display panel has a middle display region and a peripheral display region, and is configured to project light towards an optical device. An orthographic projection of the light adjusting layer on the display panel at least partially overlaps with the peripheral display region. The light adjusting layer is configured to: deflect at least a portion of light emitted to a first region of the optical device and at least a portion of light emitted to an outer side of the optical device among light emitted from the peripheral display region, after passing therethrough; and emit the deflected light to a second region of the optical device. The second region is farther away from a center of the optical device than the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Angran ZHANG, Can ZHANG, Can WANG, Xiaochuan CHEN, Tao HONG
  • Patent number: 11402633
    Abstract: A head-up display device, a method for controlling the same, and a vehicle are provided. The head-up display device includes a display component, a first optical component, a second optical component, and a synthesizing component. The light in different polarization directions or states can be transmitted or reflected by the first optical component, so that state information projection light and augmented reality information projection light can be separated from each other to thereby be dual-layer displayed. For example, augmented reality information can be displayed at a longer distance from eyes of a driver so that the focus of the human eyes does not need to be adjusted frequently to thereby make it comforter to view the information so as to eliminate a hidden risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tao Hong
  • Publication number: 20220236585
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a grating including: a first substrate including stacked first and second electrode layers each including strip-shaped electrodes with an identical width, strip-shaped electrodes in the first and second electrode layers arranged alternately; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate with a liquid crystal layer therebetween; driving modules for driving the strip-shaped electrodes to form light shading parts and light transmission parts, one light shading part and one adjacent light transmission part defining a grating unit, at least one grating unit defining a grating part, the driving modules arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the grating parts; and a control module for generating driving signals in one-to-one correspondence with the driving modules according to a distance between the human eyes and the grating, thereby changing a width of the grating unit corresponding to a crosstalk position. A 3D display device and a grating driving method are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Jinye ZHU, Sen MA, Zhichong WANG, Tao HONG, Junxing YANG, Jing YU, Tianyang HAN
  • Publication number: 20220228381
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a combined prefabricated reinforced concrete stair mold and a splicing method. The combined prefabricated reinforced concrete stair mold comprises a bottom mold platform (1), wherein an upper platform module (2), a tread module (3) and a lower platform module (4) which are spliced with one another are sequentially arranged on the upper surface of the bottom mold platform (1), and corner modules (5) are arranged between the upper platform module (2) and the tread module (3) and between the tread module (3) and the lower platform module (4); the tread module (3) comprises a tread upper surface mold (6) and a tread lower surface mold (7); and the tread lower surface mold (7) comprises a plurality of combined templates (8) formed by mutual splicing, and the tread upper surface mold (6) comprises a plurality of tread splicing pieces (9) formed by mutual splicing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicants: Zhejiang University, The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Benyue LI, Quanbiao XU, Mingshan ZHANG, Zhibin XIAO, Jiayin YANG, Liang XIA, Kepeng CHEN, Tao HONG, Minwei CHEN
  • Patent number: 11394938
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a projection apparatus, a projection system and a projection method. The projection apparatus includes a region selection part, an image calibration part and a projection part. The image calibration part is respectively connected with the region selection part and the projection part. The region selection part is configured to select at least one projective region and send position information of the projective region to the image calibration part, the image calibration part is configured to acquire a relative positional relationship between the projective region and the projection part and calibrate an image to be displayed according to the relative positional relationship, and the projection part is configured to project the calibrated image to be displayed onto the projective region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 11385502
    Abstract: Disclosed are a near-eye display apparatus. The near-eye display apparatus comprises: a display screen; a polarization converter; an imaging lens group; a semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer arranged between the polarization converter and the first lens; a reflective polarized layer arranged on the side, facing away from the polarization converter, of the semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer, the polarization direction of the first linearly polarized light is vertical to the polarization direction of the second linearly polarized light; and a liquid crystal lens arranged between the semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer and the reflective polarized layer. When the liquid crystal lens is switched between the first phase retardation amount and the second phase retardation amount, the light path of light in the near-eye display apparatus changes, so that the near-eye display apparatus can image at two focal lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenxing Zhou, Tao Hong, Chengfu Xu
  • Publication number: 20220197072
    Abstract: Disclosed are a near-eye display apparatus. The near-eye display apparatus comprises: a display screen; a polarization converter; an imaging lens group; a semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer arranged between the polarization converter and the first lens; a reflective polarized layer arranged on the side, facing away from the polarization converter, of the semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer, the polarization direction of the first linearly polarized light is vertical to the polarization direction of the second linearly polarized light; and a liquid crystal lens arranged between the semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer and the reflective polarized layer. When the liquid crystal lens is switched between the first phase retardation amount and the second phase retardation amount, the light path of light in the near-eye display apparatus changes, so that the near-eye display apparatus can image at two focal lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Zhenxing ZHOU, Tao HONG, Chengfu XU
  • Publication number: 20220171206
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display screen including multiple light-emitting points and a first side, wherein light generated by the light-emitting points emits from the first side; and a microlens array provided on the first side of the display screen, the microlens array includes multiple microlenses arranged in an array, an orthographic projection of the microlens array on the display screen covers the display screen, and the display screen is provided on a focal surface of the microlens array. The focal lengths of the multiple microlenses increase sequentially from the center of the microlens array to the edge of the microlens array, so that a beam width of the light that is emitted from each light-emitting point of the display, transmits through the microlens array and is incident into a pupil of a human eye is less than a preset threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Jinye ZHU, Jian GAO, Fang CHENG, Tao HONG, Jing YU, Tianyang HAN
  • Publication number: 20220163815
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 3D display device, includes: a display panel; a lens layer arranged on a light exit side of the display panel, and including a plurality of convergent lenses arranged in an array; a human eye tracker provided on a side of the lens layer away from the display panel, the human eye tracker being used to determine spatial positions of one or more viewers' eyes relative to the display panel when facing the display panel; and a controller electrically connected to the display panel and the human eye tracker, the controller being used to receive the spatial positions and control subpixels of the display panel corresponding to the spatial positions to display image slices corresponding to the spatial positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Junxing YANG, Tao HONG, Sen MA
  • Publication number: 20220146853
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light field display system including: a plurality of light field display modules spliced at an angle, wherein each of the light field display modules includes a display screen and a micro-lens array located on a light-emitting side of the display screen; a lens group, including a plurality of spliced lenses corresponding to the plurality of light field display modules on a one-to-one basis, wherein the lens group is located on a side, away from the display screen, of the micro-lens array and configured to form a plurality of first imaging faces corresponding to the plurality of light field display modules on a one-to-one basis on one side, away from the micro-lens array, of the display screen, and the plurality of first imaging faces are seamlessly spliced to form a plurality of second imaging faces seamlessly spliced on a side, away from the light field display module, of the plurality of first imaging faces, wherein the first imaging face is configured to display an uprig
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Jian GAO, Tao HONG, Wenji ZHU