Patents Issued in February 21, 2017
  • Patent number: 9575305
    Abstract: A digital microscope apparatus includes an illumination optical system configured to emit illumination light; a stage having an opening capable of transmitting the light therethrough, on which a preparation can be placed in accordance with a position of the opening; an enlarging imaging unit including an objective lens configured to enlarge an image and disposed to face the system with the stage disposed therebetween, and an imaging device configured to capture an image enlarged by the lens; a white image acquiring unit configured to open the opening, to cause the system to emit the light in a state where an image point of the system is aligned with a focal point of the lens, and to acquire, as a white image, an image formed on an imaging surface of the device; and a calculation unit configured to use the captured white image to calculate a shading correction coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiro Tanabe, Ryu Narusawa, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Takamichi Yamakoshi, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9575306
    Abstract: An electronic stereoscopic microscope for detecting and reproducing pairs of stereoscopic part images comprises a camera unit having at least one electronic image sensor, a dog-leg objective for generating an image of an object on the image sensor, wherein the objective comprises a first leg facing the object to be imaged, a second leg facing the image sensor and including an angle with the first leg and deflection means provided between the legs, wherein the first leg extends along an imaging axis and the second leg extends along a detection axis. The microscope furthermore comprises an electronic viewfinder for reproducing stereoscopic part images detected by means of the image sensor, with the electronic viewfinder being arranged in an observation position or being movable into an observation position which is provided at a rear side of the objective in an extension of the imaging axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG
    Inventors: Hans Kiening, Manuel Millahn, Martin Kiening
  • Patent number: 9575307
    Abstract: Compressive sensing based video rate imaging techniques are presented. Rather than scan the entire image, the imaging system only scans part of the topography of the sample as a compressed scan. After the data has been collected, an algorithm for image reconstruction is applied for recovering the image. Because compressive sensing is used, the imaging rate is increased from several minutes per frame to seconds per frame. Non-vector space control techniques are also presented. No-vector space control use image or compressive data as the input and feedback to generate a closed-loop motion control. Compressive sensing technique provides an efficient data reduction method to retain the essential information in the original image. The non-vector space control method can be used as motion control method with compressive feedback without or with noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Ning Xi, Bo Song, Jianguo Zhao, Wai Chiu King Lai
  • Patent number: 9575308
    Abstract: An instrument and method for scanning large microscope specimen on a specimen holder has a scanning optical microscope that is configured to scan the specimen in one of brightfield and fluorescence. The specimen is dynamically tillable about a scan direction during a scan to maintain focus along the length of each scan line as the scan proceeds. A three dimensional image of the specimen can be obtained wherein the specimen tilt and relative focus are maintained from a first image contour to a second image contour through a thickness of a specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Huron Technologies International Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Edward Dixon, Savvas Damaskinos
  • Patent number: 9575309
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reflective telescopic system, to control the generation of filamentation of ultrashort and intense laser pulses that includes: a flat mirror, an adaptive reflective mirror, a dichroic convex mirror, an off-axis parabolic mirror, and a first laser source. The convex mirror and the adaptive reflective mirror are mounted on an independent breadboard and set on a translation stage. The propagation axis of the laser beam reflected by the mirror should correspond to the off-axis of the parabolic mirror. The parabolic mirror reflects the beam at a specific angle. Finally, the propagation axis between the dichroic convex mirror and the off-axis parabolic mirror, the propagation axis between the flat mirror and the adaptive reflective mirror, and the axis of the translation stage should be substantially parallel to each other. The present invention also contemplates the boresighting of a weak laser beam from a second laser source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE
    Inventors: Francis Théberge, Jacques Dubois, Marc Châteauneuf
  • Patent number: 9575310
    Abstract: An optical system for an endoscope includes an objective lens, a relay lens arrangement, and a correction optical system disposed in an optical path on a proximal end side of the objective lens. The correction optical system corrects curvature of field caused by the relay lens arrangement. In the optical system for an endoscope, the correction optical system includes at least one concave mirror having an aspherical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9575311
    Abstract: A magnifying container apparatus including a generally cylindrical member and one or more magnifying lenses is provided for magnifying, viewing, and carrying items. A magnifying lens is detachably connected to the lower end of the cylindrical member to close the lower end. The magnifying lens magnifies the items present below the magnifying lens. The cylindrical member accommodates and carries the items within a space defined by a generally cylindrical wall and between an open upper end and the closed lower end of the cylindrical member. The magnifying container apparatus further includes a threaded rod, a threaded wheel, and a generally cylindrical sieve member. The sieve member drains a predetermined amount of an extraneous element from the magnifying container apparatus, when the threaded rod, in communication with the threaded wheel, traverses the magnifying lens from the lower end of the cylindrical member toward a lower end of the sieve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Seneca S. Cooper
  • Patent number: 9575312
    Abstract: A light deflector includes a mirror unit having a light reflection plane, a base, a pair of elastic supporting members each having one end attached to the mirror unit and the other end attached to the base and configured to support the mirror unit in a rotatable and oscillatable manner, and a pair of drive bars each having one end attached to another end of a corresponding one of the elastic supporting members and the other end attached to the base in a cantilevered state. The mirror unit rotates and oscillates about a center of rotation as deformation of the drive bars is transmitted to the mirror unit through the elastic supporting members. The center of rotation of the mirror unit is within a range of ?0.05×D to ?0.01×D, where D denotes a diameter of the mirror unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Goichi Akanuma
  • Patent number: 9575313
    Abstract: An optical deflector includes a mirror with a reflective layer on its front-side surface, a first support frame adapted to support the mirror, at least one torsion bar coupled between the first support frame and the mirror; and a reinforcement rib provided on a rear-side surface of the mirror. The torsion bar has a pair of protruded portions arranged symmetrically with respect to the torsion bar in the vicinity of a coupling portion between the torsion bar and the mirror. The reinforcement rib has a central portion and a pair of extension portions extended symmetrically from the central portion and coupled to the protruded portions, respectively, of the torsion bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Kenjiro Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 9575314
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a polygon mirror formed with a plurality of reflection surfaces, and a generating device configured to generate a pulse signal required to modulate a laser beam based on image data. The generating device is further configured to generate a pulse signal by inserting or deleting a pulse signal having a width smaller than a width of a pulse signal corresponding to one pixel of the image data into or from a pulse signal corresponding to the image data based on information associated with deviation amounts between lengths of scanning lines formed by the plurality of reflection surfaces and a reference value, so as to adjust the lengths of the scanning lines formed by the plurality of reflection surfaces to be closer to the reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Go Araki
  • Patent number: 9575315
    Abstract: A display mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a front shield having a first side and a second side. A partially reflective, partially transmissive element is mounted on the first side. A rear shield is disposed behind the front shield. A display module is mounted between the front shield and the rear shield and includes in order from the front shield: a display; an optic block; a heat sink having an edge lit PCB mounted along a top edge thereof; and a PCB. The front shield is secured to at least one component of the display module with a first retaining feature and the rear shield is secured to at least one component of the display module with a second retaining feature. A housing at least partially surrounds the partially reflective, partially transmissive element, the front shield, carrier plate, display module, and rear shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ethan J. Lee, Danny L. Minikey, Jr., Bradley R. Hamlin, Eric P. Kern, Richard T. Fish, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9575316
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an optical system and a method for its manufacture. One embodiment of the optical system may include an optical material upon which a multilayer stack may be deposited. The multilayer stack may include a first layer composed on a first surface of the optical material, a second layer composed on the first layer, and a third layer composed on the second layer. Among other possibilities, the first layer may include Al2O3, the second layer may include Al, and the third layer may include SiO2. The multilayer stack may be a reflective coating on a surface of the optical material with optical power. Thus, the reflective coating may serve as a reflective image former within the optical system. The optical system may be configured as a head-mountable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ali-Reza Bahmandar, Oscar Luis Martinez, Michael Baldwinson, Ajay Kamath
  • Patent number: 9575317
    Abstract: An optical guide comprises at least one guiding element adapted for enabling, by total internal reflections, transporting an image taking the form of a collimated light beam from an injection zone to an extraction zone where an extracting device for extracting the image is mounted. The optical guide comprises a retardation plate and a polarization beam splitter, the polarization beam splitter being placed between the guiding element and the extracting device. The optical guide is such that each ray of said collimated light beam striking the polarization beam splitter for the first time separates into two portions, a first portion being transmitted to the extracting device so as to define a first light imprint and a second portion being reflected by the polarization beam splitter, said second portion continuing to be guided by the guiding element and thus passing twice through the retardation plate before striking the polarization beam splitter so as to define a second light imprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: OPTINVENT
    Inventors: Khaled Sarayeddine, Xavier Hugel, Pascal Benoit
  • Patent number: 9575318
    Abstract: Provided is a see-through head mounted display (HMD) optical system which includes a display device, a collimation lens that parallelizes image lights emitted from the display device, a first wedge prism that includes a first enlargement unit for enlarging an image in a horizontal direction, a second wedge prism that includes a second enlargement unit for enlarging the image in a vertical, and a third wedge prism that has an inverse shape of the second wedge prism so as to prevent the image lights which have been reflected in the second wedge prism and enlarged in the vertical direction and an external image which has passed through the second wedge prism and been provided to a user from being distorted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: GREEN OPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jang-Ho Choi, Dong-Kyun Kim, Sang-Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 9575319
    Abstract: A system or apparatus for reducing motion blur includes an active shutter system, shutter control and processing components, an optional optical sensor, one or more optional movement sensors, and a power source, and can cooperate with a virtual or augmented reality system and display. The shutter system is optimally positioned between a user and the display so that one or more shutters of the system can be activated to block a user's view of the display. The shutter system is activated to block refresh lines or other artifacts present when the display refreshes. The shutter system also can be activated according to movement of the user. The shutter system can be one or more independent shutters and each shutter can have one or more shutter segments. Additionally, the shutter system can include multiple cooperating layers of shutters. The shutter system further can be incorporated in a multi-lens optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel Thurber, Jorrit Jongma, Von Ertwine
  • Patent number: 9575320
    Abstract: A video display device is provided that naturally displays a video without blocking an observer's field of view, and includes the following: a display optical system that displays a video; an ocular optical system that guides video light emitted from the display optical system to the optical pupil of an observer; and a support that supports the ocular optical system upon the light path of video light emitted from the display optical system. The support includes a first support plate and a second support plate that face each other, and the ocular optical system is located between the first support plate and the second support plate. An opening through which the observer's line of sight passes is formed at least partially between the first support plate and the second support plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: TELEPATHY HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahito Iguchi
  • Patent number: 9575321
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a personally selected geo-spatial location from a sender of digital content for the presentation of the digital content in a recipient's head-worn see-through display, and presenting, based on data indicative that the user is near the geospatial location, the digital content in the head-worn see-through display such that the digital content is perceived by the recipient to be associated with a physical attribute proximate the geo-spatial location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse, John N. Border, Nima L. Shams
  • Patent number: 9575322
    Abstract: A display device and an electronic apparatus using the display device are described. The display device includes a display component configured to output initial light corresponding to a first image; and a transmission optical component at least partially provided within an irradiation area of the initial light and configured to transmit the initial light corresponding to the first image from the display component and perform light path conversion to convert it into a first exit light; and an adjustment optical component at least partially provided within an irradiation area of the first exit light and configured to perform light path conversion on the first exit light to obtain a second exit light, wherein an image corresponding to the first image is capable of being perceived at a particular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaopan Zheng, Feijun Weng, Fei Wu, Zhenrong Zheng
  • Patent number: 9575323
    Abstract: The present invention provides a biochip image-forming system including a case having a cavity, an optical assembly, a chip-holding assembly and an electricity storage assembly. The cavity communicates with a chip inlet for a biochip to be inserted into the cavity through the chip inlet and an image outlet for an image of the biochip to be outputted from the cavity via the image outlet. The optical assembly is received in the cavity and aligned with the image outlet for forming the image of the biochip. The chip-holding assembly is received in the cavity and arranged between the optical assembly and a heating component. The chip-holding assembly aligns with the chip inlet for the biochip to be placed thereon. The electricity storage assembly is electrically connected with the optical assembly and the heating component. As such, a biochip can be analyzed conveniently using said biochip image-forming system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Lung-Ming Fu, Wei-Jhong Ju
  • Patent number: 9575324
    Abstract: In one implementation, a beam guiding apparatus includes a vacuum chamber that includes a target region arranged to receive a target material for generating EUV radiation. The vacuum chamber further includes a first opening for receiving into the vacuum chamber a first laser beam and a second opening for receiving into the vacuum chamber a second laser beam. The vacuum chamber also includes a superposition apparatus arranged to superpose the first laser beam having a first wavelength and a second laser beam having a second wavelength for common beam guidance in the direction of the target region. The vacuum chamber also includes a beam shaping apparatus arranged upstream of the superposition apparatus in the beam path of the second laser beam, wherein the beam shaping apparatus is configured to set a ring-shaped beam profile of the second laser beam, The first and second laser beam have different wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: TRUMPF Lasersystems for Semiconductor Manufacturing GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Lambert
  • Patent number: 9575325
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for two-dimensional wavelength beam combining of laser sources. In one example, an external cavity multi-wavelength laser includes an array of laser emitters each producing an optical beam having a specified wavelength, a grating stack comprising a plurality of first-order diffraction gratings arranged linearly in a first dimension, and a dispersive element. The laser further includes a cylindrical telescope that images the optical beams from the array of laser emitters onto the grating stack. A first cylindrical transform lens spatially overlaps the optical beams in a second dimension forming a first region of overlap at the grating stack. A second cylindrical transform lens spatially overlaps the optical beams from the grating stack in the first dimension forming a second region of overlap at the dispersive element. The dispersive element transmits a multi-wavelength output beam comprising the spatially overlapped optical beams from the array of laser emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Bien Chann, Tso Yee Fan, Antonio Sanchez-Rubio
  • Patent number: 9575326
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image, and a switching panel operated in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional mode. A viewer perceives the image of the display panel as a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image depending on the mode of the switching panel. The switching panel may include first and second substrates facing each other, a first electrode layer provided on the first substrate, a second electrode layer provided on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates. One of the first and second electrode layers may include first and second electrodes provided on a specific plane, and two opposite inner sides of the first and second electrodes may be configured in such a way that lines extending therefrom converge on at least one first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungho Jung, Moonjung Baek
  • Patent number: 9575327
    Abstract: Stereoscopic image viewing eyewear includes a left-eye shutter that controls a visual field of a viewer's left eye, a right-eye shutter that controls a visual field of a viewer's right eye, a distance determiner that detects a distance between the display device and the eyewear and determines whether the detected distance is smaller than a predetermined value, and a shutter controller that controls open and close of the left-eye shutter and the right-eye shutter based on the determined result of the distance determiner to cause the viewer to view the stereoscopic image when the detected distance is larger than a predetermined value, and to cause the viewer to view a non-stereoscopic image when the detected distance is smaller than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuo Saigo, Kazuo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9575328
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of display technology, and particularly to a stereoscopic display device and a cell-aligning packaging method of the same. The stereoscopic display device is divided into a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area on the periphery of the display area, and comprises a conversion panel and a liquid crystal panel which are aligned to form a cell, a first polarizer is provided between the conversion panel and the liquid crystal panel, the first polarizer is arranged in the display area, and an adhesive lump is provided around the first polarizer and correspondingly to the non-display area between the conversion panel and the liquid crystal panel and is used for bonding the conversion panel and the liquid crystal panel into a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiangtao Wang, Hyunsic Choi, Haiyan Wang, Zheng Fang
  • Patent number: 9575329
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a housing including a guide protrusion projecting from an upper surface thereof and a guide groove formed adjacent to the guide protrusion, a first magnet disposed at the housing, a bobbin on which a lens is mounted, a first coil disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin to move the bobbin by interaction with the first magnet, an upper elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing and having an end disposed in the guide groove, a damping member disposed between a side surface of the guide protrusion and a first end of the upper elastic member disposed in the guide groove, and a second coil for moving the housing by interaction with the first magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Cheol Kim, Jin Suk Han
  • Patent number: 9575330
    Abstract: A payload stabilizer suitable for use with video camera payloads. The stabilizer has a feedback system providing supplemental torques to the payload through a gimbal while remaining responsive to direct operator control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventors: Steven D. Wagner, Garrett W. Brown, Ty Corey Hargroder, H. Robert Orf
  • Patent number: 9575331
    Abstract: A lens driving device is based on a Voice Coil Actuator (VCA) structure and provides the auto-focusing and optical image stabilization (OIS) functions. These two functions can be realized by a common magnet scheme, or a separate magnet scheme. Also, the present invention provides an improved structure for the lens driving device to enhance the function of OIS thereof. By arranging a magnetic enhancement device below the OIS coils in the lens driving device, the magnetic driving force of the OIS coils and magnetic induction of the Hall sensors, if present, can be enhanced, and the magnetic sensitivity thereof may be also improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Fu-Yuan Wu, Shih-Ting Huang, Jyun-Jie Lin, Yi-Ho Chen
  • Patent number: 9575332
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method for applying a coating of hydrophilic polymers onto silicone hydrogel contact lenses to improve hydrophilicity and lubricity. In particular, the present invention is directed to a method for forming a coating on a contact lens, preferably a silicone hydrogel contact lens, directly in the primary package and maintaining the coated contact lens within said primary package until insertion of the coated contact lens in the eye of the contact lens user. The resultant silicone hydrogel contact lens has a coating with good hydrophilicity, improved lubricity and good durability and also can be used directly from the lens package by a patient without washing and/or rising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Yongxing Qiu, Arturo Norberto Medina, John Dallas Pruitt
  • Patent number: 9575333
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a colored contact lens designed for making a wearer's eyes to appear larger, bolder, and enhanced color while giving the wearers eyes a very natural appearance. A colored contact lens of the invention comprising a first print of a first color and a second print of a second color, wherein the first print consisting of an annular ring of gradient dot matrix, wherein the second print comprises a limbal ring and an outer starburst pattern, wherein the limbal ring surrounds the outer starburst pattern, wherein the annular ring and the limbal ring have a substantially identical outer diameter and the annular ring has a larger inside diameter than the limbal ring, the first color and the second color are different or the same, wherein the first print and the second print are concentric with the center of contact lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Robert Carey Tucker, Ellen A. Day, Sandra Corti, Roland Schmieder, Laura A. Creech
  • Patent number: 9575334
    Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to lenses, devices and/or methods. For example, a lens for an eye having an optical axis and an aberration profile along its optical axis, the aberration profile having a focal distance and including higher order aberrations having at least one of a primary spherical aberration component C(4,0) and a secondary spherical aberration component C(6,0). The aberration profile may provide, for a model eye with no aberrations and an on-axis length equal to the focal distance: (i) a peak, first retinal image quality (RIQ) within a through focus range that remains at or above a second RIQ over the through focus range that includes said focal distance, where the first RIQ is at least 0.35, the second RIQ is at least 0.1 and the through focus range is at least 1.8 Diopters; (ii) a RIQ of 0.3 with a through focus slope that improves in a direction of eye growth; and (iii) a RIQ of 0.3 with a through focus slope that degrades in a direction of eye growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Brien Holden Vision Institute
    Inventors: Ravi Chandra Bakaraju, Klaus Ehrmann, Arthur Ho
  • Patent number: 9575335
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in certain spectral bands. At least some of the spectral bands can include spectral features that tend to substantially increase the colorfulness, clarity, and/or vividness of a scene. In certain embodiments, eyewear incorporates an optical filter that enhances chroma within one or more spectral bands. In some embodiments, a wearer of the eyewear can perceive the increase in chroma when viewing at least certain types of scenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Oakley, Inc.
    Inventors: Brock Scott McCabe, Ryan Saylor, Carlos D Reyes, Colin Boyles
  • Patent number: 9575336
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for providing privacy viewing of an output from a electronic display, including a first polarizer configured to polarize a display signal at a first polarization angle; a second polarizer configured to polarize a noise signal at a second polarization angle orthogonal to the first polarization angle; a combiner configured to combine the polarized display signal and the polarized noise signal, and a third polarizer configured to receive the output of the electronic display and polarize the combined polarized display and noise signal at the first polarization angle. The system includes first and second polarization rotators configured to rotate the first and second polarization angles of the combined polarized display and noise signals prior to being output by the electronic display and prior to being received by the third polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Cao, Jianbin Tang, Yini Wang, Ziyuan Wang
  • Patent number: 9575337
    Abstract: Embodiments presented in this disclosure generally relate to an electro-optic device that includes one or more modulator portions and a terminator portion. Each modulator portion is disposed along a propagation path of an optical signal and includes a respective first doped region and one or more coupled first electrical contacts. Each modulator portion operates to modulate an optical signal propagating through the first doped region using first electrical signals applied to the electrical contacts. The terminator portion is disposed along the propagation path and proximate to at least one modulator portions, and operates to mitigate effects of droop on the propagating optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Donald Benjamin Adams, Sean P. Anderson, Mark Andrew Webster, Matthew Traverso
  • Patent number: 9575338
    Abstract: A method of modulating an optical input with a radio frequency (RF) signal, an interdigitated modulator, and an electro-optical modulator including the interdigitated modulator are described. The method includes splitting the optical input to a first optical input and a second optical input, traversing a first region and a second region, respectively, with the first optical input and the second optical input, and modulating the first optical input with the RF signal in the first region. The method also includes controlling propagation speed of the RF signal in the first region, controlling RF line impedance in the first region, and controlling an optical loss of the first optical input in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Douglas M. Gill
  • Patent number: 9575339
    Abstract: A method of modulating an optical input with a radio frequency (RF) signal, an interdigitated modulator, and an electro-optical modulator including the interdigitated modulator are described. The method includes splitting the optical input to a first optical input and a second optical input, traversing a first region and a second region, respectively, with the first optical input and the second optical input, and modulating the first optical input with the RF signal in the first region. The method also includes controlling propagation speed of the RF signal in the first region, controlling RF line impedance in the first region, and controlling an optical loss of the first optical input in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Douglas M. Gill
  • Patent number: 9575340
    Abstract: An electro-optic modulator for high voltage applications exhibits reduced corona and arcing by utilizing dielectric-coated electrodes in conjunction with a non-centrosymmetric crystal. The inclusion of an insulative coating (i.e., a dielectric material) on at least a portion of the electrodes reduces the possibility of arcing or corona, without requiring the application of any type of coating material directly on the crystal itself. Thus, the birefringent response of the crystal is not impacted by this coated electrode configuration of the present invention. In one configuration, the exposed surfaces of the electrodes are coated with an insulative material, while maintaining a direct contact between the electrodes and the surface of the crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: II-VI Incorporated
    Inventors: Elgin Eissler, Gary Herrit, Stephen Rummel, Wen-Qing Xu, Travis Miller
  • Patent number: 9575341
    Abstract: A solid state photonics circuit having a liquid crystal (LC) layer for beam steering. The LC layer can provide tuning of an array of waveguides by controlling the application of voltage to the liquid crystal. The application of voltage to the liquid crystal can be controlled to perform beam steering with the light signal based on different tuning in each of the waveguides of the array. The waveguides are disposed in a substrate having an oxide or other insulating layer with an opening. The opening in the oxide layer exposes a portion of a path of the array of waveguides. The waveguides are exposed to the liquid crystal through the oxide opening, which allows the voltage changes to the liquid crystal to tune the optical signals in the waveguides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: John Heck, Jonathan K Doylend, David N Hutchison, Haisheng Rong, Jacob B Sendowski
  • Patent number: 9575342
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed, which has improved transmittance, and which meanwhile can obtain a higher contrast and maintain a lower cost. The device comprises a color filter substrate, an array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. The array substrate comprises a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode being arranged at an interval, and applied with AC voltages of equal frequency but opposite phase, respectively. Also, a method for driving the liquid crystal display device is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiaoming Lu
  • Patent number: 9575343
    Abstract: A method includes a first bonding step including providing a first polarizing film obtained by transversely cutting a first long polarizing film having an absorption axis in its longitudinal direction, supplying the first polarizing film from a first optical film roll, and bonding the first polarizing film to a back side of the optical cell while feeding the optical cell; and a second bonding step including providing a linearly polarized light separating film obtained by transversely cutting a long linearly polarized light separating film having a reflection axis in its transverse direction, supplying the linearly polarized light separating film from a second optical film roll, and bonding the linearly polarized light separating film onto the first polarizing film bonded to the back side of the optical cell, while feeding the optical cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Hada, Satoshi Hirata, Seiji Kondo
  • Patent number: 9575344
    Abstract: A display module includes a panel frame, a display panel, a system frame, and a printed circuit board. The panel frame includes a baseplate having at least one edge, at least one sidewall located on the edge, at least one top wall adjacent to the sidewall, and a support element. An accommodating space is formed by the sidewall and the baseplate. The support element includes a first support portion and a second support portion connected to the first support portion. The support element extends from the edge of the baseplate toward the outside of the accommodating space. The display panel is disposed on the panel frame. The first support portion is disposed on the system frame. The printed circuit board is disposed on the second support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien-Ting Liao, Chian-Hsing Huang, Po-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 9575345
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device, including a display panel and a supporting frame arranged around the display panel, wherein at least one spacer structure is arranged between the display panel and the supporting frame, and wherein the spacer structure is fixedly mounted on the supporting frame and includes a first spacer part and a second spacer part, the first spacer part is arranged between the bottom surface of the display panel and the supporting frame, and the second spacer part is arranged between the lateral surface of the display panel and the supporting frame. Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the advantages that the impact from multiple directions to the display panel may be reduced, the probable damage to the display panel is reduced, and the quality of a product is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE SPECIAL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhihui Sun
  • Patent number: 9575346
    Abstract: A support device for a display includes a support assembly, a rotating assembly, and a fixing assembly. The support assembly includes a base, a plug defined on the base, a support rod coupled to the base, and a first conducting line received in the support rod, and connected to the plug. The rotating assembly includes a connecting member coupled to the support rod, a rotating shaft connected to the connecting member, and a second conducting line received in the rotating shaft. The second conducting line is electrically connected to the first conducting line by the connecting member. The fixing assembly includes a fixing block fastened to the rotating shaft away from the base, a conducting block assembled to the fixing block and electrically connected to the second conducting line, and a rotating member rotationally connected to the fixing block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Yu Tseng, Chih-Huang Lien, Chen-Jung Fang, Hui-Ting Shen
  • Patent number: 9575347
    Abstract: A base material for a display device, a display device and a method for fabricating the display device are disclosed. One or more grooves are disposed on a bonding surface of the base material, the grooves are configured for accommodating at least a portion of adhesive coated to the bonding surface. The grooves on the base material can accommodate redundant adhesive, thereby effectively preventing the adhesive overflow and air bubble defects during the bonding process, and increasing the yield ratio of bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing Zhang, Hongqiang Luo
  • Patent number: 9575348
    Abstract: A display substrate is disclosed. In one aspect, the display substrate includes a base substrate having a first refractive index and receiving external light and an insulating layer disposed below the base substrate and having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index. The display substrate also includes a pixel electrode disposed below the first insulating layer and a first compensation layer forming an interface with the insulating layer and having a third refractive index greater than the first refractive index and less than the second refractive index. The first compensation layer is disposed between the first insulating layer and the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joonyong Park, Hyungjune Kim, YeoGeon Yoon, Kyungseop Kim, Sangwon Shin, Sangwook Lee, Changoh Jeong, Hyun-Ho Kang, Taehyung Kim, Taekyung Yim
  • Patent number: 9575349
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected with the thin film transistor; a roof layer provided facing the pixel electrode; and a capping layer disposed on the roof layer, wherein a plurality of microcavities are between the pixel electrode and the roof layer, each microcavity includes a liquid crystal material, and the roof layer is formed of only at least one inorganic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Seong Yang, Tae Woo Lim, Kyung Tae Chae
  • Patent number: 9575350
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a touch panel. The array substrate comprises a substrate and gate lines and data lines formed thereon. The gate lines and the data lines define pixel units, each of which comprises a display thin film transistor and a pixel electrode. Scanning lines, receiving lines and touch electrodes are also formed on the substrate. Each of a part or all of the pixel units further comprises a touch thin film transistor connected to the touch electrode, and the touch thin film transistor is connected to the scanning line and the receiving line. In the present invention, the display thin film transistors and the touch thin film transistors are simultaneously disposed in the pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEIFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Suzhen Mu, Ming Hu
  • Patent number: 9575351
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated type display device includes gate lines and data lines that cross over each other, pixel electrodes, first electrodes, second electrodes and shielding portions. The pixel electrodes are formed in areas defined by crossings of the gate lines and the data lines. The first electrodes at least partially overlap the pixel electrodes and are formed in parallel with the data lines. The second electrodes are formed in parallel with the gate lines between the pixel electrodes neighboring each other with the gate lines interposed therebetween. The shielding portions extend from the second electrodes in the spaces formed by the first electrodes arranged with the data lines interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juhan Kim, Jinseong Kim
  • Patent number: 9575352
    Abstract: A display system includes a switchable display screen comprising a first transparent substrate, a first transparent conductive layer disposed upon the first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, and a second transparent conductive layer disposed upon the second transparent substrate. The display screen further includes a polymer-stabilized cholesteric texture layer and spacer elements disposed between and in contact with the first transparent conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The display screen comprises a plurality of addressable regions, each region capable of being switched from a transparent state to a diffuse state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian T. Weber, Qingbing Wang, Patrick M. Campbell, Glenn E. Casner, Guanglei Du, John A. Wheatley
  • Patent number: 9575353
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a gate line disposed on the first substrate, a data line disposed on the first substrate, a first passivation layer disposed on the gate line and the data line, a color filter disposed on the first passivation layer, a common electrode disposed on the color filter, a light blocking member disposed directly on or directly below the common electrode, a second passivation layer disposed on the common electrode and the light blocking member, and a pixel electrode disposed on the second passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Je Jang, Sung In Ro, Young Gu Kang, Hyun Wuk Kim, Ock Soo Son, Jean Ho Song, Sung Jin Hong
  • Patent number: 9575354
    Abstract: An electronic device display may have a color filter layer and a thin film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin film transistor layer. A layer of polarizer may be laminated onto the surface of the color filter layer. Laser trimming may ensure that the edges of the polarizer are even with the edges of the color filter layer. The thin film transistor layer may have an array of thin film transistors that control pixels of the liquid crystal material in the display. Driver circuitry may be used to control the array. The driver circuitry may be encapsulated in a planarized encapsulant on the thin film transistor layer or may be mounted to the underside of the color filter layer. Conductive structures may connect driver circuitry on the color filter layer to the thin film transistor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dinesh C. Mathew, Thomas W. Wilson, Jr., Victor H. Yin, Bryan W. Posner, Chris Ligtenberg, Brett W. Degner, Peteris K. Augenbergs, John Z. Zhong, Steve Hotelling, Lynn Youngs, Kuo-Hua Sung