Patents by Inventor Zuqiang GUO

Zuqiang GUO 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).

  • Patent number: 10845694
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light source device, including a first light source, a fly-eye lens pair, a light guiding system and a wavelength conversion device. The first light source emits first exciting light. The wavelength conversion device includes a wavelength conversion section and a reflective section. The wavelength conversion section absorbs the first exciting light and emits excited light. The first exciting light is obliquely incident to the reflective section and is reflected to form second exciting light. The light guiding system is also used for collecting the excited light and the second exciting light and guiding them to exit along an exiting light channel. The light guiding system reflects the second exciting light in such a manner that main optical axes of the reflected second exciting light and the excited light coincide. Lens units perform imaging with overlap on a surface of the wavelength conversion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zuqiang Guo, Peng Du, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 10831088
    Abstract: A projection display system, comprising: a first light source for emitting a first light; a first light modulation system for receiving the first light and modulating the first light into a first image light; a supplementary light source for at least emitting a supplementary light, wherein a spectrum of the first light comprises a spectrum of the supplementary light; a second light modulation system for receiving the supplementary light and modulating the supplementary light into a supplementary image light; a light combining device for combining the first image light and the supplementary image light, the beam cross-sectional area of the first image light being greater than the beam cross-sectional area of the supplementary image light at the light combining position; and a projection lens system for causing the first image light and the supplementary image light to form coincident images at a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Appotronics Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Zuqiang Guo, Lin Mi, Yi Li
  • Publication number: 20200319539
    Abstract: A light source system includes an excitation light unit, a spectral filter unit, a scattering unit, and an excited-light unit. The excitation light unit is configured to emit excitation light. In an embodiment, the spectral filter unit reflects a portion of the excitation light to the scattering unit, the scattering unit scatters the same to generate a first light and a second light, and the spectral filter unit transmits the second light. The spectral filter unit also transmits another part of the excitation light to the excited-light unit, the excited-light unit emits excited light under the illumination thereof, and the spectral filter unit reflects the excited light, so that the spectral filter unit merges and emits the transmitted second light and the reflected excited light. The excitation light is thus split into two paths at the spectral filter unit, and finally emits light by combining excitation light and excited light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Appotronics Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Zuqiang GUO, Fei HU, Yi LI
  • Publication number: 20200310235
    Abstract: An excitation light intensity control system, including a lighting part, an imaging part and a control part. The lighting part includes a light source; the imaging part includes a light modulator and a color conversion element; the excitation light emitted from the light source is imported to the light modulator for modulation; the modulated excitation light excites the color conversion element to produce multicolor excited light; the lighting part further includes a light recycling system used for recoupling part of the excitation light emitted from the light modulator to be incident to the light modulator; the control part includes a controller used for receiving original image data and controlling the intensity of the excitation light emitted from the light modulator and/or the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Zuqiang GUO, Fei HU, Yi LI
  • Publication number: 20200301264
    Abstract: A laser illumination device and a projection system including the same. The laser illumination device includes a laser source, a light combining assembly, a micro-lens assembly, and a plurality of cylindrical lens assemblies; the plurality of cylindrical lens assemblies are provided in a light transmission path of the laser source; the micro-lens assembly is mounted at one side of the light combining assembly; each cylindrical lens assembly includes a first cylindrical lens array and a second cylindrical lens array; and the first cylindrical lens array and the second cylindrical lens array form a preset angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Fei HU, Zuqiang GUO, Peng DU, Yi LI
  • Publication number: 20200285137
    Abstract: The light source system includes a first light source, a light splitting device, a wavelength conversion device, and a light guiding device. The first light source emits first light. The wavelength conversion device includes at least a first color light region and a second color light region, which are sequentially inserted into an outgoing path of the first light. The first color light region emits second light excited by the first light to the light splitting device. The second color light region reflects the first light to the light splitting device. The light splitting device directs one of the first light and the second light to a light path and directs the other to the light guiding device. The first light or the second light is reflected by the light guiding device to the light splitting device, and then is guided to the light path by the light splitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Fei HU, Zuqiang GUO, Peng DU, Yi LI
  • Publication number: 20200271300
    Abstract: A light source system includes an exciting light source, a collection system, a wavelength conversion device, a relay system, an optical-mechanical system, a detection device, and a distance adjustment device. The exciting light source emits exciting light. The conversion region converts the exciting light into excited light. Optical axes of the excited light and the exciting light that are emitted from the wavelength conversion device do not coincide with each other. The excited light and exciting light collected by the collection system are guided to the optical-mechanical system via the relay system. The detection device detects information on brightness and/or color coordinates of the light emitted from the optical-mechanical system. The distance adjustment device adjusts a distance between the collection system and the wavelength conversion device in such a manner that the brightness and/or color coordinates of the light emitted from the optical-mechanical system meet a preset condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Zuqiang Guo, Peng Du, Yi Li
  • Publication number: 20200272039
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wavelength conversion device, a light source and a projection device. A light conversion region and a light path conversion region are provided on one surface of the wavelength conversion device. The light path conversion region includes a first segment and a second segment. The first segment and the second segment are configured to alternately receive excitation light and respectively guide the excitation light to different preset light paths. The light conversion region is provided with a wavelength conversion material for receiving excitation light emitted from one of the segments, converting the received excitation light into excited light that has at least one wavelength range different from a wavelength of the excitation light, and emitting the excited light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Zuqiang Guo, Peng Du, Yi Li
  • Publication number: 20200248892
    Abstract: A light source system includes a laser light source, a transflective optical component, a set of first lenses, a scattering surface, a set of second lenses, an excited light generator, a relay lens, an aperture, and a lens. The laser light source generates light in the first wavelength range irradiating onto the transflective optical component. The transflective optical component reflects a part of the light in the first wavelength range to form first light and transmits a part of the light in the first wavelength range to form second light. The scattered light formed by the first light being scattered on the scattering surface is of uniformly distributed light intensity and converges with the light in the second wavelength range generated by the excited light generator under excitation of the second light to form output light, which is of uniform brightness. A light source adjusting method is further provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Zuqiang Guo, Jianpei Jin, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 10719005
    Abstract: Provided is a projection screen. The screen includes: a base layer; a cylindrical lens layer formed on a side of the base layer close to a viewer, a Fresnel structure formed on a side of the base layer facing away from the viewer, a reflective layer formed on a side of the Fresnel structure facing away from the base layer, including reflective particles and configured to scatter and reflect, in a solid angle range corresponding to a particle size of the reflective particles, incident light incident from the Fresnel structure, to form reflected light; and a light-absorbing layer formed on a side of the reflective layer facing away from the Fresnel structure. The cylindrical lens layer includes a plurality of cylindrical lenses each having an axis perpendicular to a horizontal direction, and scatters light from the Fresnel structure to increase a viewing angle in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Appotronics Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Hongxiu Zhang, Zuqiang Guo, Yi Li
  • Publication number: 20200162707
    Abstract: A projection display system, comprising: a first light source for emitting a first light; a first light modulation system for receiving the first light and modulating the first light into a first image light; a supplementary light source for at least emitting a supplementary light, wherein a spectrum of the first light comprises a spectrum of the supplementary light; a second light modulation system for receiving the supplementary light and modulating the supplementary light into a supplementary image light; a light combining device for combining the first image light and the supplementary image light, the beam cross-sectional area of the first image light being greater than the beam cross-sectional area of the supplementary image light at the light combining position; and a projection lens system for causing the first image light and the supplementary image light to form coincident images at a predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Fei HU, Zuqiang GUO, Lin MI, Yi LI
  • Patent number: 10638101
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a projection system and a control method thereof, comprising: a light source system, configured to sequentially generate primary light of three colors; a light modulation system comprising at least one light modulator configured to module the primary light; and a control system, configured to: divide time duration of each primary light in each source image frame into a plurality of modulation periods according to the number of gray scales, sequentially arrange the modulation periods, wherein at least two modulation periods of at least one primary light are arranged with an interval, and control the light source system to generate the primary light of the corresponding color in each modulation period according to a sequence of the modulation periods, and control the at least one light modulator to modulate the primary light of the corresponding color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zeqing Wang, Zuqiang Guo
  • Publication number: 20200124952
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light source device, including a first light source, a fly-eye lens pair, a light guiding system and a wavelength conversion device. The first light source emits first exciting light. The wavelength conversion device includes a wavelength conversion section and a reflective section. The wavelength conversion section absorbs the first exciting light and emits excited light. The first exciting light is obliquely incident to the reflective section and is reflected to form second exciting light. The light guiding system is also used for collecting the excited light and the second exciting light and guiding them to exit along an exiting light channel. The light guiding system reflects the second exciting light in such a manner that main optical axes of the reflected second exciting light and the excited light coincide. Lens units perform imaging with overlap on a surface of the wavelength conversion device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Zuqiang Guo, Peng Du, Yi Li
  • Publication number: 20200124955
    Abstract: Provided is a light source device including a first light source, a light guiding system and a wavelength conversion device. The first light source emits first exciting light which is incident to the light guiding system along an incidence light channel. The wavelength conversion section absorbs the first exciting light and emits excited light. The first exciting light is obliquely incident to a surface of the reflective section and reflected to form second exciting light. The light guiding system collects the excited light and the second exciting light and guides them to be emitted along an exiting light channel. The light guiding system includes an optical path correcting assembly, which reflects the second exciting light in such a manner that main optical axes of the reflected second exciting light and the excited light coincide, and changes a beam angular distribution of the second exciting light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Fei HU, Zuqiang GUO, Peng DU, Lin MI, Yi LI
  • Patent number: 10620524
    Abstract: A projection system has a light source, a spatial light modulator, a light recycling system, and a lens assembly. The light source emits source light toward the spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator modulates, according to an image signal, light incident on the spatial light modulator, so as to form projection light and non-projection light. The light recycling system receives at least a portion of the non-projection light, and guides the at least a portion of the non-projection light toward the spatial light modulator. The lens assembly receives and emits the projection light to form a projection image. The projection system of the present disclosure enables efficient use of non-projection light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Appotronics Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Yi Li, Fei Hu, Zuqiang Guo
  • Publication number: 20200089093
    Abstract: A display system includes: a light source, a light modulator, a recovery device, and a light intensity adjustment device. The light source emits original light that is incident to the light modulator. The light modulator modulates, on the basis of image data of an image to be displayed, the light incident thereto so as to form image light and non-image light. The recovery device recovers the non-image light, and the recovered non-image light is incident to the light modulator. The light intensity adjustment device adjusts, on the basis of the intensity of the non-image light corresponding to the currently modulated image to be displayed, the intensity of the original light emitted by the light source, thus allowing total intensity of the original light and the recovered non-image light that are incident to the light modulator to be kept consistent in modulation periods for different images to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Zuqiang GUO, Fei HU, Yi LI
  • Patent number: 10554938
    Abstract: A light source system including: a light source device emitting excitation light; an light output device receiving the excitation light and converting it into converted light, wherein the light output device includes at least two different wavelength conversion materials, the converted light of at least one wavelength conversion material being a multi-color light; a light splitting and combining device splitting the multi-color light into a first and a second color light propagating respectively along a first and a second optical channel, wherein the first and second color lights have different wave spectrum coverage ranges; and a first and a second light modulation device respectively modulating the light propagating over the first and second optical channels, wherein the light of three primary colours can be allocated to two DMDs for processing. This results in improved colour gamut of the light source and the light efficiency and reliability of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zuqiang Guo, Zeqin Wang
  • Publication number: 20190354002
    Abstract: Provided is a projection screen. The screen includes: a base layer; a cylindrical lens layer formed on a side of the base layer close to a viewer, a Fresnel structure formed on a side of the base layer facing away from the viewer, a reflective layer formed on a side of the Fresnel structure facing away from the base layer, including reflective particles and configured to scatter and reflect, in a solid angle range corresponding to a particle size of the reflective particles, incident light incident from the Fresnel structure, to form reflected light; and a light-absorbing layer formed on a side of the reflective layer facing away from the Fresnel structure. The cylindrical lens layer includes a plurality of cylindrical lenses each having an axis perpendicular to a horizontal direction, and scatters light from the Fresnel structure to increase a viewing angle in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Fei HU, Hongxiu ZHANG, Zuqiang GUO, Yi LI
  • Patent number: 10466580
    Abstract: A projection system includes a light source system that has a first light source for emitting first light, and a rotating color wheel that has at least a first fluorescent color band to absorb the first light and generate second light, and a second fluorescent color band to absorb the first light and generate compensation light. A light splitting device sequentially splits the first and second lights into light travelling along first and second light paths respectively. A first light modulation device modulates the light travelling along the first light path, and a second light modulation device for modulating the light travelling along the second light path. The first light is a primary light, the second light is a wide-spectrum light comprising at least two kinds of primary light, and a combined light of the first light and the second light comprises light of three primary colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Appotronics Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Zuqiang Guo, Zeqin Wang
  • Patent number: 10386705
    Abstract: A light emitting device and a projection display apparatus. The light emitting device comprises: an excitation light source (11), used for emitting excitation light; a compensation light source (12), used for emitting compensation light having a spectral range different from that of the excitation light; and a wavelength conversion device (13), disposed in a transmission path of the excitation light and the compensation light and used for outputting sequential light under alternate irradiation of the excitation light source (11) and the compensation light source (12), the sequential light comprising at least one type of excited light and the compensation light. The compensation light has spectral overlap with at least one type of excited light in the at least one type of excited light, so as to greatly improve the brightness of the light emitting device and the utilization efficiency of light in the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Zuqiang Guo