Patents Issued in December 6, 2016
  • Patent number: 9513465
    Abstract: The present invention provides a camera device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises six lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements, the view angle of the optical imaging lens is efficiently increased to shows better optical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Wei Hsu, Tzu Chien Tang, Chih Yang Yeh
  • Patent number: 9513466
    Abstract: A photographing lens and an electronic device including the same are provided. The photographing lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a meniscus third lens, a meniscus fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power and an object side lens surface that is convex toward the object side. The second lens has negative refractive power and an image side lens surface that is convex toward the image side. The meniscus third lens has a positive refractive power and an image side lens surface that is concave toward the image side. The meniscus fourth lens has a positive refractive power and an image side lens surface that is convex toward the image side. The fifth lens has a negative refractive power and an image side lens surface that is concave toward the image side around an optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 9513467
    Abstract: An imaging lens consists of five lenses, including: a fist lens having a biconvex shape with the surface having the radius of curvature with the smaller absolute value toward the object side, a second lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface toward the image side, a third lens having a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the object side, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the image side, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape with a concave surface toward the image side, the image-side surface thereof having at least one inflection point, disposed in this order from the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kondo, Takayuki Noda, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 9513468
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Though controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Wei-Yu Lo
  • Patent number: 9513469
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises a first lens unit G1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit G2 having a negative refractive power, and a plurality of lens units G3 and G4. Zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end is carried out by changing a distance between the lens units. One of the first lens unit G1 and the second lens unit G2 has, or both the first lens unit G1 and the second lens unit G2 have a specific arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Akinori Nishio, Masahiro Imamura
  • Patent number: 9513470
    Abstract: Systems and methods for imaging a target are provided. A system includes a detector and a substantially bitelecentric lens assembly positioned between the detector and the target. A first optical assembly is configured to focus light received from the substantially bitelecentric lens assembly onto the detector. The substantially bitelecentric lens assembly and the first optical assembly are configured to produce a collimated light space between the substantially bitelecentric lens assembly and the first optical assembly. A second optical assembly is positioned within the collimated light space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Vanderbilt University
    Inventor: Charles David Weaver
  • Patent number: 9513471
    Abstract: In a zoom lens system, an optical apparatus, and a manufacturing method, there are provided, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group having negative power, a third lens group having positive power, a fourth lens group having negative power, a fifth group having positive power, and an aperture stop disposed to an image side of the second lens group. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens and second lens groups increases, a distance between the second and third lens groups decreases, a distance between the third and fourth lens groups varies, and a distance between the fourth and fifth lens groups varies. With given conditions being satisfied, high optical performance with suppressing variation in aberrations are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Norikazu Yokoi, Akihiko Obama
  • Patent number: 9513472
    Abstract: A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; a third lens unit having positive optical power; a fourth lens unit having negative optical power; a fifth lens unit; and a sixth lens unit, wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at a time of image taking, the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit move along an optical axis so that an interval between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit at the telephoto limit is larger than that at the wide-angle limit, and wherein focusing from an infinity in-focus condition to a close-object in-focus condition is performed by moving the fourth lens unit along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takakazu Bito, Hiroaki Suzuki, Yoshiaki Kurioka, Yusuke Yonetani
  • Patent number: 9513473
    Abstract: Fluorescence microscopy systems with polychroic mirror changers are described. In one aspect, a polychroic mirror changer includes a polychroic-mirror array. The array includes a plate with a planar surface and a number of holes formed in the plate. The array also includes polychroic mirrors attached to the planar surface of the plate such that each polychroic mirror covers one of the holes and the reflective surface of each polychroic mirror is adjacent to and aligned with the planar surface of the plate. Each polychroic mirror is partially exposed through a corresponding hole to reflect a different subset of excitation channels of a beam of excitation light input to the changer. The polychroic-mirror array can be mounted in the changer so that when a different subset of excitation channels is selected to illuminate a specimen, the plate is moved within a single plane of motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: GE HEALTHCARE BIO-SCIENCES CORP.
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Cooper, Justin Kyle Curts
  • Patent number: 9513474
    Abstract: An electrowetting element includes a surface having a display area; a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid; and a non-switchable color filter for further determining the display effect. A configuration of the first and second fluids is switchable, using an applied voltage, to determine a size of area that the first and second fluids adjoin the display area, which thereby determines a display effect provided by the electrowetting element. An extent of the non-switchable color filter in a plane parallel to a plane of the display area is smaller than the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Eugene Bergeron, Andrea Giraldo
  • Patent number: 9513475
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes a black matrix that includes a plurality of openings corresponding to pixels, respectively, a first extension portion extending in a driving direction of an electrowetting layer, the driving direction being a direction in which motion of the electrowetting layer is induced when a voltage difference is applied between a common electrode and a pixel electrode, and a partition wall that partitions the pixels. The first extension portion includes first and second areas respectively extending in opposite directions to each other and a third area having a width substantially the same as a width of the partition wall. The first area has a width less than about half of a first length corresponding to a length extending between both sides of each pixel in the driving direction, and the second area has a width less than the width of the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Bo Shim, Sung-Kyun Park, Yong Jun Park, Hyun-Sup Lee, Jin-Ho Ju
  • Patent number: 9513476
    Abstract: A micro-electromechanical component includes: an electrically conductive substrate having an upper side and an underside; a structured electrically conductive first functional layer fashioned on the upper side of the substrate; an elastically deflectable actuator device suspended via a spring device fashioned in the first functional layer; a movable first electrode device extending vertically through the substrate and connected to the actuator device; and a stationary second electrode device extending vertically through the substrate, at a distance from the first electrode device, the actuator device being configured to be deflected through the application of an electrical voltage between the first and the second electrode device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jochen Reinmuth
  • Patent number: 9513477
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicular heads-up display device with which it is possible to avoid burn-in of an internal component upon a reflecting member by exterior light, improving display quality. A vehicular heads-up display device, comprising a case body (50) whereon an aperture part (51c) is disposed and a light-emitting body (30) that is housed within the case body (50) reflects emitted light L that is emitted by the light-emitting body (30) externally to the case body (50) via the aperture part (51c) and reflects said emitted light L from the windshield (13), causing the driver (14) to have sight of the virtual image V that is obtained by said reflection. The vehicular heads-up display device further comprises a semi-transmissible cover (55) installed in the aperture part (51c), and a dispersal means (58) is disposed between the light emitting body (30) and the cover (55), for dispersing exterior light that enters the case body (50) via the cover (55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Genichiro Sato, Masatoshi Azuma, Daisuke Tsukuda, Masao Itagaki
  • Patent number: 9513478
    Abstract: In a mirror system for displaying an image on a mirror surface, a mirror reflects incident light from an object facing its front surface side to present a reflected image, and transmits incident light from its rear surface. A display unit generates a presentation image to be superimposed on the reflected image. An optical unit is arranged between the display unit and the rear surface of the mirror, and images the presentation image. An acquisition unit acquires distance information between the object and the mirror. A controller controls the imaging point of the presentation image by the optical unit according to the distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuo Katano, Masakazu Matsugu, Masahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9513479
    Abstract: With respect to an emitting side optical axis, which is an optical axis on a first surface, a sight line reference axis which is assumed as a sight line axis of the eyes of an observer extends in a slightly inclined direction. In particular, the emitting side optical axis with respect to the sight line reference axis is configured to approach the eyes from the outside (that is, a corner of the eyes) of the eyes. In addition, a long image in a vertical direction which is perpendicular to an alignment of the eyes rather than in the horizontal direction which corresponds to the alignment of the eyes, is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Komatsu, Takahiro Totani, Masayuki Takagi, Takashi Takeda, Toshiaki Miyao
  • Patent number: 9513480
    Abstract: A waveguide has a front and a rear surface, the waveguide for a display system and arranged to guide light from a light engine onto an eye of a user to make an image visible to the user, the light guided through the waveguide by reflection at the front and rear surfaces. A first portion of the front or rear surface has a structure which causes light to change phase upon reflection from the first portion by a first amount. A second portion of the same surface has a different structure which causes light to change phase upon reflection from the second portion by a second amount different from the first amount. The first portion is offset from the second portion by a distance which substantially matches the difference between the second amount and the first amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pasi Saarikko, Pasi Kostamo
  • Patent number: 9513481
    Abstract: There is provided a light-guide, compact collimating optical device, including a light-guide having a light-waves entrance surface, a light-waves exit surface and a plurality of external surfaces, a light-waves reflecting surface carried by the light-guide at one of the external surfaces, two retardation plates carried by light-guides on a portion of the external surfaces, a light-waves polarizing beamsplitter disposed at an angle to one of the light-waves entrance or exit surfaces, and a light-waves collimating component covering a portion of one of the retardation plates. A system including the optical device and a substrate, is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Naamah Levin, Mali Mansharof, Yaakov Amitai
  • Patent number: 9513482
    Abstract: A Heads-Up Display (HUD) system for mounting on a pair of glasses comprises a power module for providing electrical power removably mountable to one side of a lens assembly of the glasses, an electronics module connectable to receive electrical power from the power module, the electronics module removably mountable to an opposite side of the lens assembly of the glasses; and a display housing mounted on a display arm extending from the electronics module to a position within a field of vision of a user wearing the glasses. A pair of glasses adapted to receive a HUD system comprises a lens assembly providing one or more electrically conductive paths from a first side thereof to a second side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hamid Abdollahi, Raymond C. M. Leung
  • Patent number: 9513483
    Abstract: Proposed is a beam shaper for beams emitted from at least one laser-diode bar and consisting of a fast-axis collimator composed of a common cylindrical lens with an aspherical profile, an array of spherical/aspherical telescope units formed from a pair of microlenses, where each individual telescope unit is shifted in accordance with a predetermined law to a certain distance relative to a neighboring individual telescope unit, an array of cylindrical lenses shifted relative to each other in accordance with another predetermined law, and a system of collimation lenses that collimate the beams of the predetermined spatial pattern into a two-dimensional pattern having a less discrete and more uniform distribution of light intensity and a shape more convenient for subsequent coupling, e.g., for focusing into the end face of an optical fiber of a light transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventor: Igor Gurevich
  • Patent number: 9513484
    Abstract: A device focuses laser light into a working plane. The device contains a deflection mirror and a cylindrical lens. A lens apex of the cylindrical lens has an offset and which has a first transmission portion and a second transmission portion different from the first transmission portion. The device further has retroreflector device with an optical axis. The deflection mirror is arranged in the beam path of the device such that it can deflect the laser light during the operation of the device such that the light can propagate substantially parallel to the optical axis of the retroreflector device and can be transmitted through the first transmission portion of the cylindrical lens, and can then be reflected back by the retroreflector device such that the laser light can be transmitted through the second transmission portion of the cylindrical lens and can be focused into the working plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: LIMO Patentverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Mitra
  • Patent number: 9513485
    Abstract: To produce optical beam splitter cubes, an optically transparent plate is provided with an optically active layer on a cover side. Then, on both cover sides of the plate, a plurality of prism bars are formed by molding an optically transparent material, so that a double prism plate is obtained. The prism bars are arranged on cover sides of the plate projecting roof-like in ridge lines separated from each other by valleys. Each prism bar has the cross section of an isosceles right-angled triangle, complemented by the prism bar lying opposite on the other cover side of the plate to form the cross section of the beam splitter cube. The double prism plate is cut up along the valleys between the prism bars and transverse to the longitudinal direction into segments which in each case form a beam splitter cube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Schildtec GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Joachim Freitag
  • Patent number: 9513486
    Abstract: An optical imaging apparatus 10 disposing the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 abutting to or in proximity to each other when reflective surfaces 11, 13 of the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 are crossed when viewed from thereabove, the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 composed of the transparent material with a plurality of belt-shaped reflective surfaces 11, 13 vertically disposed in parallel, wherein the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 are formed with a plurality of reflectors 15-18 laminated respectively and the places of the reflective surfaces 11, 13 of each reflector 15-18 of the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 are shifted in parallel. Thus, high definition three-dimensional real image is formed inexpensively in a space a plurality of observers gaze simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ASUKANET COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Otsubo
  • Patent number: 9513487
    Abstract: A display unit is provided including: a display panel having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged; a first polarization plate and a second polarization plate that face each other with the display panel in between; and an illumination device configured to illuminate the display panel through the first polarization plate. The illumination device includes a light modulation layer provided in a clearance between first and second transparent substrates, the light modulation layer being configured to exhibit scattering property or transparency of the light from the light source depending on a magnitude of an electric field. The light modulation layer includes a first portion having optical anisotropy, and relatively high responsiveness to the electric field, and a second portion having optical anisotropy, and relatively low responsiveness to the electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Shinkai, Harumi Sato, Akira Ebisui, Kentaro Okuyama, Yuji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9513488
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device is disclosed, and it includes a substrate, plural rows of pixel regions, and a patterned retarder film. Each pixel region includes plural pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The pixel regions are divided into plural groups. Each group includes N rows of the pixel regions. The first electrode of each pixel unit in first N/2 rows of the pixel regions is in a form of one of a “” shape and a “” shape, and the first electrode of each pixel unit in last N/2 rows of the pixel regions is in a form of the other one of the “” shape and the “” shape. The present invention can solve the problems of the color shift phenomenon and the inconsistent brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chihming Yang, Deyong Fan, Changchengmr Lo
  • Patent number: 9513489
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes a barrier panel that includes a first barrier panel configured to partially reflect light, and a second barrier panel provided on the first barrier panel configured to partially absorb light. Each of the first barrier panel and the second barrier panel includes an electrochromic element and electrodes respectively provided on opposite surfaces of the electrochromic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Hyun Cho, Seung Jun Yu, Seon Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 9513490
    Abstract: An apparatus for viewing of a three dimensional image of a scene, including a monocular device worn by a viewer for displaying a first two-dimensional image to one eye of the viewer, The monocular device being arranged so it can be worn on either eye of the viewer. A second display for displaying a second two-dimensional image of the scene in a stereo image pair which is viewed by the other eye of the viewer. A way of selecting the first two-dimensional image with either a left or right perspective relative to the second two-dimensional image dependent upon which eye the viewer uses with the monocular device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventors: John Norvold Border, Amit Singhal
  • Patent number: 9513491
    Abstract: A 3D image display device includes an image projection unit for projecting a first image; a first polarization unit disposed on a projection path of the first image for linearly polarizing the first image to have a first linear polarization direction; a lens array disposed on the projection path of the first image for refracting an image having a second linear polarization direction, the second linear polarization direction being different from the first linear polarization direction; a first quarter-wave plate disposed on the projection path of the first image for converting polarization direction of an image between a linear polarization direction and a circular polarization direction; and a reflection unit disposed on the projection path of the first image for reflecting the first image transmitted from the first quarter-wave plate back to the first quarter-wave plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Kuan-Yu Tung, Hsin-Ying Wu, Li-Min Chen
  • Patent number: 9513492
    Abstract: An shake correction apparatus includes a correcting unit configured to optically correct an image shake based on an output of a shake detecting unit; a moving member configured to hold the correcting unit; and a control unit configured to perform initialization driving of the correcting unit by driving the moving member during a start-up of the shake correction apparatus. The control unit converts at least one of a driving amplitude and a driving speed of the initialization driving of the moving member in response to the start-up mode of the shake correction apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobushige Wakamatsu
  • Patent number: 9513493
    Abstract: A system for the supply of ophthalmic lenses and related methods for providing ophthalmic lenses for enhanced experience based on right-handedness and left-handedness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Aude Contet, Cyril Guilloux
  • Patent number: 9513494
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a corrective ophthalmic glasses lens personalized for a wearer, includes defining and digitally recording the configuration parameters of the lens, calculating modeling data of the refractive faces of the lens, and manufacturing the lens in accordance with the configuration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventor: Laurent Cussac
  • Patent number: 9513495
    Abstract: There is provided illuminated eyewear having one or more light sources mounted thereto to project light forwardly thereof. The illuminated eyewear includes a cross-frame member or portion and temple arm members or portions extending rearwardly therefrom in a use configuration. The illuminated eyewear may include a pass-through portion of the cross-frame member that is oriented to be forwardly of the light source to allow light projected from the light source to pass therethrough to an area forwardly of the cross-frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventor: Michael Waters
  • Patent number: 9513496
    Abstract: An optical fiber rotary squeezer polarization controller, comprising a base, a left bracket and a right bracket respectively mounted at both ends of the base, characterized in that a shaft is rotatably mounted between the left bracket and the right bracket, the shaft having a through channel cut therein lengthwise for placement of an optical fiber, the shaft further being mounted with a squeezing apparatus corresponding to the channel. The present invention has altered the means by which an optical fiber is fixed onto the prior-art polarization controllers and has eliminated the clamps at both ends of the optical fiber. The shaft carries the squeezing apparatus to rotate to any desired angles while the optical fiber remains stationary under the effect of its own tension. As the optical fiber extends outwardly from either end of the shaft, it is restrained by its own tension and, therefore, will not rotate along with the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Andol Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Deguang Liu, Yifei Qian, Yihua Zhang
  • Patent number: 9513497
    Abstract: Described herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses to utilize an electro-optic modulator including one or more heating elements. The modulator can utilize one or more heating elements to control an absorption or phase shift of the modulated optical signal. At least the active region of the modulator and the one or more heating elements of the modulator are included in a thermal isolation region comprising a low thermal conductivity to thermally isolate the active region and the one or more heating elements from a substrate of the PIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Aurrion, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Silvio Guzzon, Erik Norberg, Jonathan Edgar Roth
  • Patent number: 9513498
    Abstract: A detector remodulator comprising a silicon on insulator (SOI) waveguide platform including: a detector coupled to a first input waveguide; a modulator coupled to a second input waveguide and an output waveguide; and an electrical circuit connecting the detector to the modulator; wherein the detector, modulator, second input waveguide and output waveguide are arranged within the same horizontal plane as one another; and wherein the modulator includes a modulation waveguide region at which a semiconductor junction is set horizontally across the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Rockley Photonics Limited
    Inventors: Haydn Frederick Jones, Andrew Rickman, Aaron John Zilkie
  • Patent number: 9513499
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a laser repairing apparatus for a display panel, which comprises a laser generating device, a bearing device, a backlight, a first polarizer, a second polarizer and an image generating device, the laser generating device is located above the bearing device, the first polarizer is located between the backlight and the bearing device, and the second polarizer is located between the image generating device and the bearing device. In the technical solution of the present invention, the first polarizer and the second polarizer are used to control the amount of light transmittance of the transmission light, and the human eye can identify the exact positions of the defective pixels quickly and accurately by means of the transmission image having overall low brightness, and consequently, the time required for the whole repairing process is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuxin Deng, Manping Niu, Ran Tong, Wei Qin, Yonggang Du
  • Patent number: 9513500
    Abstract: A fixing device for an LCD module and a faceplate includes a frame having one side fixing an LCD module and another side provided with plural fixing plates respectively bored with an elongated insert hole. A circuit board is secured at a rear side of a faceplate and provided with plural locking plates corresponding with the fixing plates so that the fixing plates of the frame can be respectively secured with the locking plates. Thus, relative positions of an LCD module and a faceplate can be adjusted and hence LCD modules different in thickness can be firmly fixed with a faceplate and the surface of the LCD module can be stably kept flush with the surface of the faceplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CHYNG HONG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mu-Chun Lin
  • Patent number: 9513501
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a touch screen structure used in a touch panel. The touch screen structure comprises a protection cover and at least one color changeable decoration layer. The color changeable decoration layer is made of thermochromic material or photochromic material, located at a side region of the lower surface of the protection cover, and the region at which the color changeable decoration layer is located defines a non-visible region of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Yu, Qiong Yuan, Manyu Yang
  • Patent number: 9513502
    Abstract: A flexible display has a display layer, a thin-film transistor (TFT) layer and a flexible substrate. The display layer has a plurality of display units. The TFT layer has a plurality of pixel control circuits and a plurality of sensing circuits. The pixel control circuits are configured to control operations of the plurality of display units. Each of the sensing circuits is configured to generate a deformation signal according to deformation of the flexible display. The flexible substrate and the TFT layer are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Ji-Feng Chen, Chia-Hsun Tu, Po-Yang Lin, Chen-Shuo Huang, Keh-Long Hwu
  • Patent number: 9513503
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a polarizer for multi-domain vertical aligned liquid crystal display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display device, a first polarizer, a second polarizer and a diffractive optical element. The first polarizer is disposed on the first substrate. The second polarizer is disposed between the second substrate and the backlight module. The diffractive optical element includes a first diffraction grating and is disposed on a light emitting side of the first polarizer. An azimuth angle the first diffraction grating is counted from an absorbing axis of the first polarizer as standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CHI MEI MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wang-Yang Li, Ting-Yi Wu
  • Patent number: 9513504
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate; a column spacer disposed on the first substrate; a light blocking member disposed on the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The light blocking member includes a dome shaped portion having a concave surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Jung Kang, Yi Seop Shim, Nu Ree Um, Chul Huh
  • Patent number: 9513505
    Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chang Xie
  • Patent number: 9513506
    Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display panel, a display device, an array substrate, a color filter substrate and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The transflective liquid crystal display panel comprises a first substrate (11), a second substrate (21) arranged opposite to the first substrate (11), and a liquid crystal layer (31) disposed between the first substrate (11) and the second substrate (21). The liquid crystal display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit comprises a transmissive region and a reflective region, and a thickness (d1) of the liquid crystal layer (31) in the transmissive region is equal to a thickness (d2) of the liquid crystal layer (31) in the reflective region. On a side facing the liquid crystal layer (31), the first substrate (11) is provided with a first common electrode (12) corresponding to the reflective region and the transmissive region and a second common electrode (15) corresponding to the transmissive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Sic Choi, Hui Li, Zhiqiang Xu, Yoon Sung Um
  • Patent number: 9513507
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a three-dimensional liquid crystal display device, and shutter glasses and a control method for the shutter glasses. In the case, the three-dimensional liquid crystal display device comprises: a backlight controller, for controlling turn-on of a backlight, and keeping the backlight normally on while left and right eye images are alternately output by the panel; and a transmitting module, for outputting a picture refresh signal with a fixed frequency, and outputting a backlight enabling signal when the backlight are turned on. The shutter glasses include a controller. Under the function of the controller, the shutter glasses receive the picture refresh signal with a fixed frequency and the backlight enabling signal, and start timing once the picture refresh signal triggered by a positive source is detected, with the time point when the backlight enabling signal is received by the receiving module as a starting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yufeng Jin, JhenWei He
  • Patent number: 9513508
    Abstract: Discussed are a backlight unit and an LCD device including the same. The backlight unit includes a light guide panel, a light source part disposed at a side of the light guide panel to emit the light, an optical sheet disposed at a front surface of the light guide panel to change a traveling direction of the light to a direction vertical to the light guide panel, a guide panel separated from an end of the optical sheet, and configured to guide the light guide panel, the light source part, and the optical sheet, a reflector disposed at a rear surface of the light guide panel to reflect the light toward the front surface of the light guide panel, a side reflector adhered to a side of the light guide panel, and a cover bottom coupled to the guide panel and in which the reflector is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 9513509
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other. A color filter is positioned on the first substrate. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A first polarizer is positioned on an outer surface of the first substrate. A first compensation film is positioned on an outer surface of the first polarizer. A second compensation film is positioned on an outer surface of the second substrate. A third compensation film is positioned on an outer surface of the second compensation film. A second polarizer is positioned on an outer surface of the third compensation film. The second compensation film includes a negative C-plate, and the third compensation film includes a biaxial film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Hoon Kim, Kwang-Hyun Kim, Dae Won Kim, Seung Beom Park, Beong-Hun Beon, Seung Hee Lee, Yun Jang, Na Young Shin, Sang-Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 9513510
    Abstract: There is provided an alignment material for a liquid crystal (LC) lens comprising a co-polymer of a photosensitive monomer and at least one alkyl methacrylate monomer. The material allows for the fabrication of a LC lens or LC lens system that is self-aligned and polarization-independent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Institute of Chemistry of New Materials, National Academy of Science of Belarus
    Inventors: Turki Saud Mohammed Al-Saud, Rashid Mohammed Altamimi, Vladimir Enokovich Agabekov, Alexander Anatolievich Muravsky, Anatoli Alexandrovich Murauski, Veranika Sergeevna Biazruchanka
  • Patent number: 9513511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment agent, a liquid crystal alignment film made by the liquid crystal alignment agent and a liquid crystal display element having the liquid crystal alignment film. The liquid crystal alignment agent includes a polymer composition (A) and a solvent (B). The polymer composition (A) is synthesized by reacting a mixture that includes a tetracarboxylic dianhydride component (a) and a diamine component (b). The aforementioned liquid crystal alignment agent has a better process stability, and the liquid crystal alignment film made by the liquid crystal alignment agent could improve the reliability of the liquid crystal display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CHI MEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsung-Pei Tsai
  • Patent number: 9513512
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for producing a masterboard alignment film, and a transfer printing plate and an alignment solution. The method comprises coating the alignment solution on a masterboard having two or more substrates using the transfer printing plate which has a transfer region simultaneously covering the two or more substrates, so that the alignment solution forms an alignment film on the masterboard; and removing the alignment film on the masterboard which is located in regions that are out of the display regions of the substrates and where there is no need to retain the alignment film. This method can solve the existing display defect issues that are caused by too thick peripheral regions of the alignment film, and the overlapping of the too thick peripheral regions of the alignment film with the sealant region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiyun Lin, Chengtan Zhao, Hui Li, Jingpeng Li
  • Patent number: 9513513
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a gate line disposed on a first substrate; a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate line; a semiconductor layer disposed on the gate insulating layer; a data line disposed on the semiconductor layer and including a source electrode; a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer and facing the source electrode via the semiconductor layer interposed therebetween; a passivation layer disposed on the data line and the drain electrode; a pixel electrode disposed on the passivation layer and connected to the drain electrode; a first alignment pattern layer disposed on the pixel electrode; and a first alignment layer disposed on the pixel electrode and the first alignment pattern layer and made of a photoalignment material, wherein the first alignment pattern layer includes a plurality of first alignment patterns separated with a predetermined interval, and the first alignment layer has a concave-convex shape
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong Sung Seo, Hwa Sung Woo, Baek Kyun Jeon
  • Patent number: 9513514
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a first substrate including a pixel-displaying region; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a sealant disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and disposed outside the pixel-displaying region; and a spacer wall disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and disposed between the pixel-displaying region and the sealant, wherein a first side of the spacer wall is adjacent to the pixel-displaying region and a second side of the spacer wall is adjacent to the sealant, and a height of the first side is greater than a height of the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hung-Kun Chen, Hong-Kang Chang, Yu-Chien Kao, Li-Wei Sung, Fang-Jin Lee, Hsieh-Li Chou