Patents Issued in December 8, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160357001
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a microscope. The microscope includes: a lens system receiving light emitted from a light source and containing image information of an observation object; turbid media interposed between the observation object and the lens system; and an image acquisition device acquiring the image information, wherein the image acquisition device comprises: an image sensor acquiring information of light passing through the lens system; a transmission matrix storage unit previously storing a transmission matrix indicating a transmission state of various light components entering the light entrance portion; and an image recovery unit recovering the image information from the information of light acquired by the image sensor through compressed sensing using a sparse representation based on the transmission matrix. The microscope can provide improved image quality and can acquire an image through simple operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Hwanchol JANG, Heung-No LEE
  • Publication number: 20160357002
    Abstract: A focusing method includes a step of preparing a microscope, a step of mounting a sample, and a predetermined processing step, the predetermined processing step includes a step of receiving light emitted from the observation optical system, a step of obtaining the quantity of light based on light from a predetermined region of the received light, a step of calculating a difference or a ratio between the quantity of light in the predetermined region and the quantity of light as a reference, a step of comparing a calculation result with a threshold, and a step of changing the distance between the sample and the observation optical system, and in the step of preparing, a partial region of illumination light is shielded or darkened, and when the result of the calculation is equal to or smaller than the threshold, the predetermined processing step is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa SUZUKI, Kazuo KAJITANI
  • Publication number: 20160357003
    Abstract: A surgical microscope for producing an observation image of an object region for an observer is provided. The surgical microscope includes an image acquisition device to acquire an image of the object region, a display device, an image processing and control device, a computer unit, a switchable imaging optical unit, an eyepiece and an optical observation beam path. The switchable imaging optical unit feeds the observation image to the eyepiece via the optical observation beam path in a first switching state. In a second switching state, the switchable imaging optical unit interrupts the optical observation beam path between the object region and the eyepiece to display an acquired image in the eyepiece and to electronically superpose the object region image data at a predefined position onto the image of the object region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Christoph Hauger, Guenter Meckes
  • Publication number: 20160357004
    Abstract: A microscope-based system and method for simultaneous imaging of several object planes, of a three-dimensional (3D) sample, associated with different depths throughout the sample. The system includes a polyfocal optical portion, adapted to create a plurality of optical channels each of which is associated with an image of a corresponding object plane, and a spectrally-selective portion, adapted to transform the spectral distribution of the image-forming beam of light to a corresponding spatial distribution. The image, registered by a detector, includes an image of an object plane and an image of the spatially-coded spectral distribution. The method effectuates the simultaneous multispectral imaging of the several object planes. The required data-acquisition time is several fold shorter than that taken by a conventional multispectral microscope-based imaging system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Karl Garsha, Michael Otter
  • Publication number: 20160357005
    Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus includes a fixing member having a through hole at a center portion and configured to fix an exit end portion in a state penetrating through the through hole, and an actuator section including a first drive section, provided on an outer surface of the fixing member, configured to swing, in a first direction, the exit end portion protruding from a distal end portion of the fixing member, and a second drive section, provided on an outer surface of the fixing member, configured to swing, in a second direction different from the first direction, the exit end portion protruding from the distal end portion of the fixing member, where the first drive section and the second drive section differ from each other in at least one of a shape and a material of piezoelectric elements of the first drive section and the second drive section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinari OKITA
  • Publication number: 20160357006
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: a bending portion; an operation portion; a frame body; a first long member; a second long member; a chain separator; a second chain cover; and a restriction surface formed on the chain separator and configured to restrict movement of the second chain cover in a direction away from the chain separator, wherein the restriction surface forms an engagement portion configured to engage the second chain cover with the chain separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiji KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160357007
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are configurations for fiber optic endoscopes employing fixed distal optics and multicore optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Eric SWANSON
  • Publication number: 20160357008
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a fiber optic device that enables multiphoton imaging with improved signal-to-noise ratio having a single piece of double-clad fiber (DCF). The device also includes all components for focusing, scanning and signal collection within an endomicroscope probe of 2.1 mm outer diameter (OD). The unprecedented imaging capability of this miniature endomicroscope is demonstrated herein via both ex vivo and in vivo experiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Xingde Li, Yicong Wu, Wenxuan Liang
  • Publication number: 20160357009
    Abstract: A Fabry-Perot interference filter includes a fixed mirror and a movable mirror disposed opposite to the fixed mirror via a gap, distance between the fixed mirror and the movable in a light transmission region being adjusted by electrostatic force. A plurality of first annular grooves surrounding the light transmission region and a plurality of first through-holes opening to the gap side and the opposite side are formed at a surrounding portion surrounding the light transmission region in the movable mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Katsumi SHIBAYAMA, Takashi KASAHARA, Masaki HIROSE, Toshimitsu KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20160357010
    Abstract: An optical device with variable aperture, including a deformable membrane having a central optical area, a support to which a peripheral anchoring area of said membrane is connected, a first cavity filled with a constant volume of a first transparent fluid in a determined range of wavelengths, said cavity being delimited at least in part by a first face of said membrane and a wall of the support. The optical device also includes at least one actuation device of a region of the membrane located between the peripheral anchoring area and the central optical area of the membrane, configured to bend said region of the membrane by application of electrical actuation voltage so as to displace some of the volume of the first fluid towards the center or towards the periphery of the first cavity, said displacement of fluid being intended to deform the central area of the membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Webster Capital LLC
    Inventor: Sébastien Bolis
  • Publication number: 20160357011
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a motion control system controlling an image projected from an underwater projection system in a water feature, pool, or spa. The system includes a rotatable base and a mirror support member hingedly coupled to the rotatable base. A first motor is coupled to the rotatable base and is configured to rotate the mirror support member in a first plane. A second motor is coupled to the rotatable base and a fixed mount, wherein the second motor is configured to rotate the rotatable base relative to the fixed mount thereby rotating the mirror support member in a second plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Rakesh Reddy, Bruce Johnson, Kevin Doyle, Gabriel Perez
  • Publication number: 20160357012
    Abstract: An optical system has a housing with a mount and an opening to a receiving region, the receiving region being located within the housing and including the mount. At least one optical element is inserted into and removed from the receiving region through the opening, and at least one gas supply device provides a flow of gas in the receiving region. An associated method of inserting or removing an optical element into or from a receiving region in a housing is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Guido SOYEZ, Stephan BACK, Joachim BUECHELE, Julian KALLER, Guido LIMBACH, Harald WOELFLE
  • Publication number: 20160357013
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light guide that propagates image light while totally reflecting the image light, an optical system that introduces the image light into the light guide, a light beam extractor that emits the image light propagating in the light guide from an observer-side surface of the light guide along an extent of propagation of the image light, and a window member facing the observer-side surface of the light guide with a gap therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daichi WATANABE, Kanto MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160357014
    Abstract: New optic control systems are provided that manage user or environmental factors impacting viewing experiences. In some aspects of the invention, a variably, directionally shadable screen and actuating system is provided, which prevents and limits problematic glare for an observation point. In other aspects of the invention, a matrix of specialized pixels creates variably-directed light from a plurality of angle-directable, shiftable sources, which aids in creating virtual, 3-D objects of greater realism than conventional 3-D imaging methods and aid in reducing the appearance of distracting interceding objects (e.g., finger blocking a touch screen). In these aspects, existing images and objects viewed through a screen may be enhanced and overlaid with effects, and shifted in perspective, and demonstrative information related to images and objects and an environment. In other aspects of the invention, driving enhancement, and semi-autonomous driving systems and displays are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Christopher V. Beckman
  • Publication number: 20160357015
    Abstract: A vehicle display device according to the present invention includes a projecting direction changing mechanism that can adjust a light projecting direction in which display light including a certain image is emitted and a display control unit that changes a correction pattern for correcting the shape of the image according to the projecting direction adjusted by the projecting direction changing mechanism and corrects the shape of the image based on the correction pattern. With the vehicle display device according to the present invention, the display light including the shape of the image corrected by the display control unit is emitted and guided to a windshield, so that the display light reflected on the surface of the windshield is visually recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Kennji YAGI, Akihiro Ohata
  • Publication number: 20160357016
    Abstract: An eyepiece for a head wearable display includes a curved lightguide component, an input coupler, and an output coupler. The curved lightguide component guides display light received at an input region peripherally located from a viewing region and emits the display light along an eye-ward direction in the viewing region. The curved lightguide component includes an eye-ward facing surface that is concave and a world facing surface that is convex. The input coupler is disposed at the input region to couple the display light into the curved lightguide component. The output coupler is disposed at the viewing region to redirect the display light towards the eye-ward direction for output from the curved lightguide component. The output coupler is partially transmissive to ambient light incident through the world facing surface. The display light is guided between the input coupler and the output coupler entirely by total internal reflection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Ozan Cakmakci, Oscar A. Martinez, James Dunphy
  • Publication number: 20160357017
    Abstract: A head-mounted display that displays an image representing appearance obtained when an object is viewed from a point of view disposed in a virtual three-dimensional space, includes a detecting section that detects rotation of the head-mounted display and a display control section that carries out control to cause displaying of an image representing appearance obtained when the object is viewed from the point of view that has relatively revolved in the direction of the detected rotation while the position of a point of gaze is kept in response to the detection of the rotation by the detecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Masaomi NISHIDATE, Ryuichi OKAYAMA, Keisuke AI
  • Publication number: 20160357018
    Abstract: An eyepiece for a head wearable display includes a light guide component for guiding display light received at a peripheral location and emitting the display light at a viewing region. The light guide component includes an eye-ward facing surface having a reflection portion and a viewing portion, a folding surface oriented to reflect the display light received into the light guide component to the reflection portion of the eye-ward facing surface, and a first interface surface oriented to receive the display light reflected from the reflection portion of the eye-ward facing surface. A partially reflective layer is disposed on the first interface surface in the viewing region to reflect the display light through viewing portion of the eye-ward facing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Ozan Cakmakci, Anurag Gupta, Oscar A. Martinez
  • Publication number: 20160357019
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: John N. Border, John D. Haddick
  • Publication number: 20160357020
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a shell, a display generation unit, a processing unit, at least one pressure sensor, and a linkage mechanism. The display generation unit includes at least an optical engine and a mirror connected to the optical engine. The processing unit is electrically connected to the optical engine and the pressure sensor, and the pressure sensor detects an external force applied to the shell and outputs a pressure signal to the processing unit. The linkage mechanism is electrically connected to the processing unit and connected to the display generation unit. The processing unit actuates the linkage mechanism to cause the mirror of the display generation unit to move away from the user's face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Chwen-Tay HWANG, Chi-Wu HSIAO, Chun-Li LU, Chih-Lung CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160357021
    Abstract: A Heads-Up Display (HUD) system comprises a processor, a power source, and one or more sensors coupled to a frame connector. The processor is configured to receive signals from the one or more sensors and output image data. A display is mounted on a display arm extending from the frame connector. The display is configured to display images based on the image data. A goggles frame is configured to releasably receive the frame connector. The display is located within a field of view of a user wearing the goggles frame when the frame connector is received by the goggles frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hamid Abdollahi, Adam Capelin, Xichi Zheng, Braden Fraser Hall
  • Publication number: 20160357022
    Abstract: A kaleidoscope is made by installing a kit of parts within a beverage bottle that has been altered by cutting off the bottom of the bottle. The kit includes multiple lens systems and reflective tubes that are sized, shaped and arranged to create a dazzling composite image. In some examples, the composite image includes a multifaceted reflection of an assortment of viewable items plus a halo-distortion of the items encircling the multifaceted reflection. In addition to collecting ambient light directly from an axial direction, the kaleidoscope collects reflected light from multiple radial directions as directed by a multifaceted light-gathering reflector surrounding a transparent object container that contains the viewable items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Gerald A. Bonsack
  • Publication number: 20160357023
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal lens and a display apparatus. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged to be opposite to each other, a common electrode being provided on the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates and including liquid crystal molecules; liquid crystal lens units, each of which includes a first group of strip-shaped electrodes and a second group of strip-shaped electrodes parallel to each other and spaced apart thereon, upon applying a voltage among the first and second groups, and the common electrode, a planoconvex lens is formed within the liquid crystal molecules between them, wherein each of the first and second groups includes layers of sub-electrodes insulated from each other, the sub-electrodes of the first and second groups are applied with a voltage, so as to adjust symmetry of the planoconvex lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Haiyan WANG, Hui LI, Yunyun TIAN, Zheng FANG, Hyun-Sic CHOI
  • Publication number: 20160357024
    Abstract: The present application discloses 3D display glasses include an eyeglass frame; a first image projection unit and a second image projection unit respectively fixed on the eyeglass frame, for projecting a first beam carrying a first image and a second beam carrying a second image, respectively; and a first lens and a second lens which maintain fixed onto the eyeglass frame, for receiving the first beam and the second beam, respectively, wherein the first lens and the second lens are configured to collimate respective one of the first beam and the second beam into a beam of parallel light which in turn travels into respective one of the left and the right eyes of the wearer of the 3D display glasses. The 3D display glasses may display images independent of any display screen such that excellent portability and superior 3D-display visual effect may be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Fang, Hanqi Chu, Jin-Moo Park, Shounian Chen, Dong Chen
  • Publication number: 20160357025
    Abstract: A system of reflectors forms a real or virtual image of an object, and causes the image to float in space inside or outside a vehicle. This real or virtual image may be used as a decorative element in a vehicle. The real or virtual image can also function as an illuminated light for the vehicle, such as a clearance light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Lee King
  • Publication number: 20160357026
    Abstract: Methods and systems for the super-resolution imaging can make visible strongly subwavelength feature sizes (even below 100 nm) in the optical images of biomedical or any nanoscale structures. The main application of the proposed methods and systems is related to label-free imaging where biological or other objects are not stained with fluorescent dye molecules or with fluorophores. This label-free microscopy is more challenging as compared to fluorescent microscopy because of the poor optical contrast of images of objects with subwavelength dimensions. However, these methods and systems are also applicable to fluorescent imaging. Their use is extremely simple, and it is based on application of the microspheres or microcylinders or, alternatively, elastomeric slabs with embedded microspheres or microcylinders to the objects which are deposited on the surfaces covered with thin metallic layers or metallic nanostructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Vasily N. ASTRATOV, Nicholaos I. LIMBEROPOULOS, Augustine M. URBAS
  • Publication number: 20160357027
    Abstract: An image stabilization apparatus which reduces variations in performance with surface accuracy of a rolling surface for rolling members. A movable unit holds an optical element and is rotatable about a first rotational axis perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical element and a second rotational axis perpendicular to the optical axis and the first formational axis through rolling of the rolling members. With the second rotational axis coinciding with a center of the rolling surface, a first ratio of the first moving range of the rolling members to the first rotational range of the movable unit is smaller than a second ratio of the second moving range of the rolling members to the second rotational range of the movable unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Izumi
  • Publication number: 20160357028
    Abstract: An eyewear includes a lens unit and two temples each having a fixed segment, a movable segment, at least one connecting portion and a flexible elastic portion. For each temple, the connecting portion interconnects the fixed segment and the movable segment. The movable segment is pivotable between an open position and a folded position. The elastic portion is integrally formed with and interconnects the fixed segment and the movable segment. When the movable segment is moved between the open position and the folded position, the elastic portion is deformed for generating a restoring force to drive the movable segment to pivot to one of the open position and the folded position from the other one of the open position and the folded position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Shun-Tien Yang
  • Publication number: 20160357029
    Abstract: The present, invention relates to a contact lens for presbyopia including: a lens foody; long distance portions and short distance portions arranged on the lens body, the long distance portions having refraction for long distance and the short distance portions having refraction for short distance, wherein the lens body is divided into concentric circles as well as in top/bottom and left/right directions and the long distance portions and the short distance portions are arranged repeatedly and alternately on the neighboring divisions on the lens body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: O-SUB KOO
  • Publication number: 20160357030
    Abstract: An optimized contact lens design and method which leverages the strain energy of the system when placed on eye that improves centration, translation, and stabilization characteristics, or any combination thereof, in order to improve both comfort and vision. A contact lens design and methodology wherein the lens-eye resulting strain energy is optimized to achieve the desired function be it centration, translation, or stabilization. Since the lens strain energy is directly driven by the amount of lens deformation, it is possible to control the lens strain energy through the modulus of the material, design of the lens geometry, namely the radii or curvature, peripheral thickness profiles, edge or rim shapes. The surface pressure and/or lens strain energy can be optimized for a given population by averaging the ocular eye shape/surface. Alternatively the lens strain energy can be optimized for a single given eye (i.e., custom design).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Gerligand, Gregory J. Hofmann, Philippe Jubin
  • Publication number: 20160357031
    Abstract: Described herein are acyl germanium photoinitiator for cost-effective and time-efficient method for producing UV-absorbing contact lenses capable of blocking ultra-violet (“UV”) radiation and optionally (but preferably) violet radiation with wavelengths from 380 nm to 440 nm, thereby protecting eyes to some extent from damages caused by UV radiation and potentially from violet radiation. This invention also provides a method for making UV-absorbing contact lenses made by using an acyl germanium photoinitiator of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Troy Vernon Holland, Frank Chang, Ryan DeSousa
  • Publication number: 20160357032
    Abstract: In a method for determining at least one fitting parameter for a spectacle lens received in a spectacle frame, an image, lying in an image plane, of at least one portion of a spectacle frame worn by a subject is acquired. When acquiring the image, the inclination of the image plane about a horizontal axis which is parallel to the image plane is established and, in the process, the at least one fitting parameter is established from the acquired image of the portion of the subject with the spectacle frame worn by the subject and the established inclination of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Jesus-Miguel Cabeza-Guillen, Subhashini Mani, Michael Gamperling
  • Publication number: 20160357033
    Abstract: A circuit that may include a circuit network and a transmission line coupled to the circuit network. The circuit network may include an electro-optic modulator and various inductors. The electro-optic modulator may be a capacitive load having a predetermined capacitance. The circuit may further include a resistor coupled to the circuit network. The resistor may have a resistance value configured to produce a first impedance with the circuit network. The first impedance may be configured to match substantially with a second impedance in the transmission line. The circuit may further include an electric driver couple to the transmission line. The electric driver may be configured for transmitting a driving voltage to the electro-optic modulator. The driving voltage may be configured to generate a predetermined voltage swing across the electro-optic modulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Vladimir Pelekhaty, Michael Y. Frankel
  • Publication number: 20160357034
    Abstract: Articles comprising fibres that change colour when they are stretched, thereby giving an indication of the tension being applied to the article. The present invention can be used with a variety of articles which require tension to be applied to achieve maximum functionality. These articles can include garments, such as compression garments, shirts, shorts, pants, socks, underwear, or hats; bandages, such as compression bandages; shoelaces; shoes; securities, sutures, ropes or cables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Andrew Pothier
  • Publication number: 20160357035
    Abstract: An optical semiconductor device in which a first optical waveguide 407 comprising a silicon-containing amorphous semiconductor layer and a second optical waveguide 409 containing a silicon-containing i-type semiconductor layer as a constituent element are disposed in different layers in a range in which optical interaction can occur. An electro-optical modulator 409 having a pin junction structure comprising a p-type semiconductor layer 403, an i-type semiconductor layer 404, and an n-type semiconductor layer 405 is provided to at least a portion of the second optical waveguide 409, and the index of refraction of the second optical waveguide is varied by the electro-optical modulator, whereby light waves propagated through the first optical waveguide are modulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kamei, Ryohei Takei, Masahiko Mori, Youichi Sakakibara, Makoto Okano
  • Publication number: 20160357036
    Abstract: A ring optical modulator includes a SOI substrate, including at least first and second top silicon layers, and a silicon-based ring resonator formed on the SOI substrate. The silicon-based ring resonator includes first and second top silicon layers, a thin dielectric gate layer disposed between the top silicon layers, first and second electric contacts, and first rib-type waveguide and ring-shape rib-type waveguide formed on the second top silicon layer. The thin dielectric layer includes a first side in contact with the first top silicon layer and a second side in contact with the second top silicon layer. With electric signals applied on the electric contacts, free carriers accumulate, deplete or invert within the top silicon layers on the first and second sides of the thin dielectric gate layer beneath the ring-shape rib-type waveguide, simultaneously, and a refractive index of the ring-shape rib-type waveguide confining optical fields is modulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Tuo Shi, Tzung-I Su, Yongbo Shao, Dong Pan
  • Publication number: 20160357037
    Abstract: The invention provides an electro-optically induced waveguide including: a waveguide layer stack having a core layer including an electro-optic material for guiding light waves; and a field generator for generating an electrical field in the core layer, wherein the field generator includes an electrode arrangement having a plurality of electrodes and a voltage supply arrangement for supplying at least two potentials to the electrode arrangement; wherein the field generator is configured to induce an electro-optic effect by the generated electrical field in a first cross sectional region of the core layer such that a propagation of transverse-electric polarized light waves is enabled in the first cross sectional region; wherein the field generator is configured to induce an electro-optic effect by the generated electrical field in a second cross sectional region of the core layer such that a propagation of transverse-magnetic polarized light waves is enabled in the second cross sectional region; and wherein
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Blasl, Florenta Costache, Haldor Hartwig
  • Publication number: 20160357038
    Abstract: A curved liquid crystal display panel and a curved liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The curved liquid crystal display panel comprises: two substrates curved towards a same direction with liquid crystals filled therebetween to form a curved liquid crystal layer; and a transparent layer covering an outer surface of a glass of at least one of the substrates, a stress-optical coefficient of the glass of the substrate and a stress-optical coefficient of the transparent layer at a same side of the liquid crystal layer have opposite signs, wherein the outer surface of the glass of the substrate is a surface of the glass of the substrate away from the liquid crystals. The curved liquid crystal display device comprises the curved liquid crystal display panel. The optical rotation effects of the glass of the substrate and the transparent layer located at the same side of the liquid crystal layer are opposite from each other, optical delay thereof are counteracted by each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Weili Zhao, Jae-Geon You
  • Publication number: 20160357039
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate including a first surface and a second surface, a second substrate disposed on the second surface of the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a color conversion layer disposed on the second substrate, and a third substrate disposed on the color conversion layer. The second surface of the first substrate is opposite the first surface of first substrate. The color conversion layer includes a magnetic anisotropy barrier wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Donguk KIM, Junghyun KWON, Youngmin KIM, Kisoo PARK, Haeil PARK, Seontae YOON, Junhan LEE
  • Publication number: 20160357040
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having an alignment film subjected to an optical alignment process, the frame area can be reduced while maintaining the reliability of the sealing portion. To achieve this, in the display area, the alignment process is performed with UV light on the alignment film, to form an area in which the alignment film is not formed in the opposing first and second sides, and to form an area in which the amount of UV light irradiation on the alignment film is one fourth or less of the display area in the opposing third and fourth sides. In the first and second sides, the sealing material overlaps the area in which the alignment film is not formed. In the third and fourth sides, the sealing material overlaps the area in which the amount of UV light irradiation is one fourth or less of the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hidehiro SONODA, Noboru KUNIMATSU, Takenori HIROTA, Yosuke HYODO, Yasuo IMANISHI, Yasushi TOMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20160357041
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel, manufacturing methods thereof and a display device. The array substrate includes a display region and a non-display region. The non-display region includes a sealant region arranged at a periphery of the display region and a peripheral region arranged at a periphery of the sealant region. The array substrate further includes a plurality of signal connection lines for connecting driving lines. The signal connection lines include a first connection line, a portion of which is arranged at the peripheral region and another portion of which is arranged at the sealant region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xuebing JIANG, Lin LIN
  • Publication number: 20160357042
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first panel including a common voltage wire on a first substrate, and a light blocking layer which is on the common voltage wire and exposes a portion of the common voltage wire, a second panel facing the first panel and including a common electrode on a second substrate; and a sealant between the first and second panels and electrically connecting the common electrode of the second panel and the common voltage wire of the first panel to each other. The sealant includes a first sealing portion having a first color and a second sealing portion having a second color different from the first color of the first sealing portion. The second sealing portion overlaps the exposed portion of the common voltage wire of the first panel and electrically connects the common electrode of the second panel to the common voltage wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Won-Gap Yoon, Byung-Chul Kim, Jae Hong Park, Sang Hee Yu, Young Joo Jeon, Kyung Seon Tak
  • Publication number: 20160357043
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device has a pixel structure which enhances a viewing angle of the LCD device through the use of a sub-pixel in which a gray scale varies during a display period and to which a photoconductive element is applied, the photoconductive element including a photoconductive layer of which a resistance level varies corresponding to an amount of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Hyunsik KIM, Heejin KIM
  • Publication number: 20160357044
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an array substrate, comprising a substrate, a plurality of pixel regions on the substrate, and a thin-film transistor formed in each of the pixel regions, each of the pixel regions comprising a pixel electrode region, wherein, the thin-film transistor comprises a gate layer and a source/drain layer formed laminatedly on the substrate; the array substrate further comprises a flat layer and a reflective metal layer formed in sequence on the substrate and covering at least the pixel electrode region and the thin-film transistor; the reflective metal layer is electrically connected to a drain of the thin-film transistor; and at least one of the gate layer and the source/drain layer is formed of a single metal layer. The present disclosure further provides a method for manufacturing the array substrate and a totally reflective type liquid crystal display comprising the array substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhijun Lv, Tailiang Li, Tao Gao, Ce Ning, Shuang Sun
  • Publication number: 20160357045
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a liquid crystal display device which has excellent viewing angle characteristics and higher quality. The present invention has a pixel including a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first liquid crystal element, and a second liquid crystal element. A pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a signal line through the first switch. The pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element through the second switch and the first resistor. The pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a Cs line through the third switch and the second resistor. A common electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a common electrode of the second liquid crystal element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Hajime Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160357046
    Abstract: An electronic device may generate content that is to be displayed on a display. The display may have an array of liquid crystal display pixels for displaying image frames of the content. The display may be operated in at least a normal viewing mode, a privacy mode, an outdoor viewing mode, and a power saving mode. The different view modes may exhibit different viewing angles. In one configuration, the display may include a switchable phase retarder that can be selectively activated to help reduce contrast ratios at higher viewing angles. A rotated pixel design that includes one or more groups of parallel fingers can be used to help properly align the low contrast regions. In another configuration, the display may include multiple electrically controlled birefringence (ECB) layers that can be selectively activated to provide a desired cone of vision, a region outside of which exhibits substantially reduced contrast ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Hyungryul J. Choi, Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang, Giovanni Carbone
  • Publication number: 20160357047
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch display panel and a touch display device. The touch display panel includes a color filter substrate, an array substrate arranged opposite to the color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. Black matrices are arranged on the color filter substrate. A plurality of first electrodes made of metal is arranged parallel to each other on the color filter substrate, and a projection of each first electrode onto the color filter substrate in a perpendicular direction completely falls within a range of a corresponding black matrix. A plurality of second electrodes made of a transparent conductive layer is further arranged parallel to each other on the color filter substrate, and the second electrodes are insulated from, and cross, the first electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHONGQING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daoping YU, Gyuhyun LEE, Qichao CHEN, Fujun LIU
  • Publication number: 20160357048
    Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The array substrate includes: a substrate; a plurality of thin film transistors spaced apart from each other and disposed in an array on the substrate; a first passivation layer on the plurality of thin film transistors; and a plurality of touch signal lines and a pixel electrode layer on the first passivation layer, where the pixel electrode layer includes a plurality of pixel electrodes spaced apart from each other and disposed in an array, and is disposed in the same layer as the touch signal lines and electrically insulated from the touch signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Xingyao Zhou, Qijun Yao, Jun Ma
  • Publication number: 20160357049
    Abstract: A touch display device including a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium, and a pixel array structure is provided. The pixel array structure includes a scan line, a data line, an active device, pixel electrodes, a signal electrode layer and a signal transmission layer. The scan line intersects the data line. The active device is connected to the scan line and the data line. The pixel electrodes are arranged in an array. The signal electrode layer includes signal electrodes. The signal transmission layer includes a signal line disposed between two adjacent columns of the pixel electrodes and electrically connected to one of the signal electrodes. The data line includes at least a portion located outside of the signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Hung-Kun Chen, Hsieh-Li Chou, Li-Wei Sung, Tung-Kai Liu, Chia-Hao Tsai, Chih-Hao Chang, Bo-Feng Chen, Yu-Chien Kao
  • Publication number: 20160357050
    Abstract: A display module and a display device are provided. The display module includes a display panel and a front frame. The display panel includes a display region and a non-display region both located at a side of a light emitting surface. The non-display region is disposed at a peripheral area of the display panel and is provided with a test pad electrically connected to a wiring of the display region. The front frame includes a front plate opposite to at least a portion of the non-display region and having an electric conduction portion for conducting away an electrical current and an insulation portion for insulating the electric conduction portion from the test pad on the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bing HAN, Shih-hsun LO