Patents Issued in March 2, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170059927
    Abstract: A color filter substrate, a method for preparing the color filter substrate, and a display panel are provided. The color filter substrate is in contact with the spacer on the surface facing the array substrate. At least one layer of the color filter substrate has a hollow structure at the position corresponding to the spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Yuman ZHAI
  • Publication number: 20170059928
    Abstract: A color conversion panel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an insulation substrate, a plurality of color conversion media layers on the insulation substrate and configured to emit different lights, and a light blocking member between adjacent ones of the color conversion media layers, wherein a cross-section of one of the color conversion media layers is inversely tapered when compared to a cross section of another one of the color conversion media layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yong Seok KIM, Ki Soo PARK, Young Min KIM, Hae Il PARK
  • Publication number: 20170059929
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a motherboard of a liquid crystal display panel are provided. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, in one aspect, identification patterns are formed in different unit display panel regions of the same exposure region of a motherboard of an array substrate by designing a mask of the array substrate of a liquid crystal display panel, to distinguish the unit display panels exposed in the same batch; in another aspect, the unit display panels exposed in different batches are distinguished through the arrangement modes of the color filters in the unit display panel regions of a motherboard of a color filter substrate, to realize marking of all unit display panels on a same motherboard glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Chun Wang, Junsheng Chen, Xiaohe Li, Chuncheng Che
  • Publication number: 20170059930
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a display substrate, a display device and a manufacturing method thereof, and belongs to the field of display technologies. The display substrate comprises a base plate, and a blue light inhibition layer arranged on the base plate, wherein the blue light inhibition layer weakens a portion of blue light emitted by a light source. In this disclosure, by forming a blue light inhibition layer in the existing process for manufacturing a display device, it is unnecessary to significantly modify the manufacturing process, and thus the problem of blue light harm in a display device is solved in a simple and cost effective manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Yanbing Wu
  • Publication number: 20170059931
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a main body having an opening at the front part; a backlight unit configured to generate light; and an image forming unit provided in the front part of the main body, and configured to block or transmit the light generated by the backlight unit to create an image, where the image forming unit includes: a pair of transparent substrates disposed to be opposite to each other; a cable configured to transmit image data to the pair of transparent substrates; and a pair of polarizing films respectively disposed on the outer surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and wherein an edge part of at least one transparent substrate of the pair of transparent substrates protrudes to connect to the cable, and at least one polarizing film of the pair of polarizing films extends to the main body in a direction in which the at least one transparent substrate protrudes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Min KIM, Jeong Dong NOH, Jung Woo HONG, Jung Hyun PARK, Duk Jin JEON
  • Publication number: 20170059932
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device containing a liquid crystal panel that includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and first and second polarizers at respective outer surfaces of the first and second substrates; and a backlight unit under the liquid crystal panel that includes a light source, wherein the light source includes a first luminous body having a first peak wavelength, a second luminous body having a second peak wavelength greater than the first peak wavelength, and a third luminous body having a third peak wavelength greater than the second peak wavelength, and wherein the first polarizer contains a light absorption layer having an absorption peak between the second peak wavelength and the third peak wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ga-Ram HONG, Jin-Ho KIM, Sang-Min LEE, Ki-Duck PARK, Joo-Bin LEE
  • Publication number: 20170059933
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a TFT disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected with the TFT and disposed on the TFT; a common electrode positioned on the pixel electrode and separated from the pixel electrode by a microcavity; a roof layer disposed on the common electrode; an injection hole disposed in the common electrode and the roof layer along a long-axial direction of the substrate to expose a part of the microcavity; a liquid crystal layer filling the microcavity; a first polarizer having a polarization axis in a short-axial direction of the substrate on the roof layer; and a second polarizer having a polarization axis in a long-axial direction of the substrate below the substrate, in which heights of edges in the long-axial and short-axial directions of the substrate are larger than a height of the center of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Min-Woo Lee, Dae Ho Song, Woo Jae Lee
  • Publication number: 20170059934
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical film including a prism part including a plurality of prism patterns arranged at an incline relative to a transmission axis of a reflective polarizing part, in order to reduce a Moiré phenomenon. In detail, the optical film includes a multilayer-structured reflective polarizing part configured to reflect light from a first polarization axis and transmit light through a second polarization axis perpendicular to the first polarization axis, and a prism part including a plurality of prism patterns arranged at an incline relative to the second polarization axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Yeoun-Jei JUNG
  • Publication number: 20170059935
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that can suppress warp of a half mirror plate with a reflective polarizer under heat to prevent distortion of a reflected image in a mirror mode. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate that includes a first reflective polarizer and a first base material, a display device, and a warp-suppressing member that suppresses shrinking of the first reflective polarizer under heat. The first reflective polarizer and the first base material are integrated, and the display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HAKOI, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Akira SAKAI, Kiyoshi MINOURA
  • Publication number: 20170059936
    Abstract: A backlight unit including a frame including a bottom and a sidewall extending from the bottom; at least one substrate located on the frame, and a plurality of light sources mounted on the at least one substrate; and a reflecting sheet located on the at least one substrate, further the reflecting sheet includes a first sheet part located on the bottom, the first sheet part including a plurality of holes corresponding to the plurality of the light sources; and a second sheet part extended from the first sheet part, the second sheet part including a horizontal dot area located along a long side of the reflecting sheet and a vertical dot area located along a short side of the reflecting sheet, and at least one of the horizontal dot area and the vertical dot area comprising first areas and second areas, also the first areas correspond to outermost holes among the plurality of holes, and the second areas are located between the first areas, in addition the first areas and the second areas include a plurality of do
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sewon OH, Eunseok KIM
  • Publication number: 20170059937
    Abstract: A lighting device including a circuit substrate; a plurality of light sources disposed on the circuit substrate; a reflection layer disposed on the circuit substrate, the reflection layer comprising a plurality of openings where respective light sources are located; a plurality of absorbers disposed at an edge of the reflection layer and at an angle with respect to the reflection layer, wherein first areas aligned with the respective light sources have a greater density of the plurality of absorbers than second areas between the first areas; and an optical sheet disposed on the light sources. In addition, a central axis of a corresponding first area matches a central axis of a corresponding light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yongjin KIM, Munheon HONG, Chilkeun PARK, Sangcheon KIM, Mangeun KIM
  • Publication number: 20170059938
    Abstract: An assembly for enhancing an image displayed on a liquid crystal display (LCD) is disclosed. The assembly comprises a housing configured to surround a backlight, an optical sheet, and an LCD. The optical sheet being located between the backlight and the LCD. The assembly further comprises a spring assembly for tensioning the optical sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Mike Brown, Michael LeCave
  • Publication number: 20170059939
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display panel, a first backlight unit, and a second backlight unit. The first backlight unit provides first light beams to the display panel. The second backlight unit is disposed between the display panel and the first backlight unit, and provides second light beams which have a different wavelength from that of the first light beams to the display panel. The second backlight unit includes a front light guide plate and a short-wavelength light source. The short-wavelength light source emits light which has a wavelength of about 340 nm to about 430 nm to the top surface of the front light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Jaejoong KWON, Hyosun KIM
  • Publication number: 20170059940
    Abstract: A color conversion panel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an substrate, first, second, and third color conversion layers on the substrate and configured to emit lights of different colors, and a light blocking member between adjacent ones of the first, second, and third color conversion layers, wherein any one of the first, second, and third color conversion layers and the light blocking member is soluble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yong Seok Kim, Seong Gyu Kwon, Young Min Kim, Ki Soo Park, Hae Il Park
  • Publication number: 20170059941
    Abstract: A curved liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a thin film transistor (“TFT”) array substrate, a counter substrate facing the TFT array substrate, a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules of negative dielectric anisotropy and disposed between the TFT array substrate and the counter substrate, a liquid crystal alignment layer disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the counter substrate, a liquid crystal alignment base layer disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the TFT array substrate, and a liquid crystal alignment stabilization layer including projections spaced apart from each other on the liquid crystal alignment base layer between the liquid crystal layer and the liquid crystal alignment base layer, wherein the projections include reactive mesogen polymers, and one of the liquid crystal alignment layer and the liquid crystal alignment base layer includes the reactive mesogen polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hyeok Jin LEE, Oh Jeong KWON, Jin Won KIM, Dong Han SONG, Ki Chul SHIN, Taek Joon LEE
  • Publication number: 20170059942
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display device including a first substrate including a plurality of unit regions, a unit electrode portion disposed on the first substrate in one unit region, an opposed electrode facing the unit electrode portion, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the unit electrode portion and the opposed electrode, and a protrusion interposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer and protruded toward the liquid crystal layer. The protrusion includes a pair of horizontal portions facing each other and including a side parallel to a first direction, a pair of vertical portions facing each other and including a side parallel to a second direction different from the first direction, and at least one corner portion including a first oblique side parallel to a direction oblique with respect to the first and second directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Jeong Man SON, Min Wook PARK, Jong-Keun KIM, Sang-Je LEE
  • Publication number: 20170059943
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a liquid crystal display and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, to a liquid crystal display including an alignment layer pattern and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes a lower panel including a first alignment layer and a signal line. An upper panel faces the lower panel and uncovers an end portion of the signal line of the lower panel. A sealant is positioned between the lower panel and the upper panel and couples the lower panel and the upper panel with each other. The first alignment layer includes a coated region positioned between a first removed region overlapping the end portion of the signal line and a second removed region overlapping the sealant. The first alignment layer does not exist in the first removed region and the second removed region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Sang-Myoung LEE, Seung Jun YU, Do Yeong PARK, Young Goo SONG, Sang Woo WHANGBO
  • Publication number: 20170059944
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pixel electrode unit, a display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The pixel electrode unit comprises a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel. The green sub-pixel includes a green sub-pixel main area and a green sub-pixel supplementary area. The blue sub-pixel only includes a blue sub-pixel main area. Since human eyes are sensitive to the green colour, the green sub-pixel adopts 8 domains pixel electrode unit structure, while the blue sub-pixel adopts 4 domains pixel electrode unit structure. By this way, the aperture ratio of the pixel can be improved, and the balance between the aperture ratio of the pixel and the colour shift can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Liang XU
  • Publication number: 20170059945
    Abstract: A display panel includes pixel structures. Each pixel structure includes an active device, a pixel electrode, and a protective layer. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the active device, wherein the pixel electrode has at least one block-shaped electrode. The protective layer is located below the pixel electrode and includes a recess main portion and recess branched portions. The width of the recess main portion is greater than 0 ?m and equal to or less than 4 ?m, and the recess branched portions are extended along at least four directions. The pixel electrode covers the recess main portion and the recess branched portions. The display panel includes at least one polarizer, wherein the direction of an adsorption axis of the polarizer is different from the four directions of extension of the recess branched portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Chao-Wei Yeh, Wei-Cheng Cheng, Yi-Chi Lee, Chen-Chun Lin, Tien-Lun Ting
  • Publication number: 20170059946
    Abstract: A pixel structure including an active device and a pixel electrode is provided. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the active device and includes a main trunk portion and branch portions. The main trunk portion includes a first extending part and a second extending part that cross each other. The plurality of branching portions is connected to the main trunk portion, and each branching portions is separated by the main trunk portion. The branching portions include a plurality of first branching part and a plurality of second branching part. The first extending part separates the first and second branching part. An included angle of at least part of the first branching part and the second extending part is ?1, an included angle of at least part of the second branching part and the second extending part is ?2, and ?1 is not equal to ?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hung-Che Lin, Yi-Jung Chen, Cheng-Han Tsao, Sheng-Ju Ho
  • Publication number: 20170059947
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an insulating substrate, a data line disposed on the insulating substrate and extended in a first direction, a plurality of pixel electrodes which is disposed on the insulating substrate and in which a slit pattern is defined, a common electrode facing the pixel electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, where each of the pixel electrodes includes an edge electrode portion and a plurality of branch electrode portions protruding in a direction toward a central portion of the pixel electrode from the edge electrode portion, and at least a portion of the edge electrode portion overlaps the data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Sang Gyun KIM, Heung Shik PARK, Kyung Min KIM, Hoon KIM, Ki Chul SHIN
  • Publication number: 20170059948
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a pixel electrode which includes a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode, a first insulating substrate and a second insulating substrate which faces the first insulating substrate, a common electrode which overlaps the pixel region, where the first subpixel electrode includes a first main unit electrode and a first sub unit electrode which is electrically connected to the first main unit electrode and smaller in area than the first main unit electrode, the second subpixel electrode includes a second main unit electrode, and a first opening part which overlaps the first main unit electrode, a second opening part which overlaps the second main unit electrode, and a third opening part which overlaps the first sub unit electrode and has a different shape from those of the first opening part and the second opening part are defined in the common electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Wan NAMGUNG, Ik Han OH, Ho Jun LEE, Youn Hak JEONG, Seung Kyu LEE, Mi Hyeon JO
  • Publication number: 20170059949
    Abstract: A liquid crystal (LCD) panel is provided. The LCD panel has a plurality of pixels. One of the pixels includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first electrode layer and a first alignment layer covering the first electrode layer. The second substrate includes a second electrode layer and a second alignment layer covering the second electrode layer. The second electrode layer has a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern. The first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern are separated. The first electrode pattern has a convex edge. The second electrode pattern has a concave edge. The shape of the convex edge is complementary to the shape of the concave edge. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Bo-Chin Tsuei, Jian-Cheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20170059950
    Abstract: In order to increase the transmittance around a pixel and to increase the brightness of the screen in an IPS mode liquid crystal display device, a pixel electrode with a slit is formed on a common electrode through an interlayer insulating film. An opening is formed in the common electrode on the outside of the end portion of the pixel electrode as seen in a plane view. Because of the presence of the opening, the electric field lines from the end portion of the pixel electrode reach the layer above the liquid crystal layer and reach further away from the end portion of the pixel electrode, so that it is possible to increase the control ability to the liquid crystal around the pixel. As a result, the pixel transmittance can be increased as a whole and the brightness of the screen can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Takeyuki TSURUMA, Hidemasa Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20170059951
    Abstract: An array substrate and a display panel are provided according to embodiments, which include: a first substrate; multiple data lines and multiple scan lines located on a first side of the first substrate. The multiple data lines and multiple scan lines define a pixel array. The pixel array includes multiple sub-pixels. A length of each of the sub-pixels in an extension direction of the data lines is less than a width of each of the sub-pixels in an extension direction of the scan lines. The pixel array includes multiple first pixel groups and multiple second pixel groups arranged in a matrix form. A type of each of the sub-pixels included in the first pixel groups is different from a type of each of the sub-pixels in the second pixel groups. The first pixel groups and the second pixel groups are arranged alternately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Dongliang Dun, Xuejing Zhu, Huijun Jin, Wantong Shao
  • Publication number: 20170059952
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a scan signal line, an image signal line, a thin-film transistor, and a color filter including a recessed portion which is recessed in planar view, a second substrate above the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a spacer, wherein the spacer and the scan signal line are provided in the recessed portion in planer view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu ITOU, Yoshiro AOKI
  • Publication number: 20170059953
    Abstract: An array substrate and a fabrication method thereof, a test method and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units formed on a base substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) and a pixel electrode, a passivation layer, and a common electrode sequentially formed on the base substrate being provided in the pixel unit, the pixel electrode being connected with a drain electrode of the thin film transistor (TFT), wherein, a via hole located above the pixel electrode is further provided in the at least one of the pixel units, the via hole penetrates through the common electrode and the passivation layer, and a bottom of the via hole is in contact with a conductive surface (S, S?), and the conductive surface (S, S?) is electrically connected with a portion of the pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicants: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., HEFEI BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shiqiang Huang
  • Publication number: 20170059954
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus, including a substrate including: a pixel electrode; an organic insulating film; a common electrode laminated on the organic insulating film so as to be opposed to the pixel electrode via an insulating layer; a common signal line connected to the common electrode; and a transistor configured to apply, to the pixel electrode, a voltage signal input to a signal line. The pixel electrode is connected to a source electrode of the transistor via a through hole formed through the organic insulating film. The through hole includes, in at least one extending portion formed by retreating the organic insulating film toward an outer side of the through hole, a stepped portion formed by laminating a part of the common signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Norihisa KAKINUMA, Teruhisa NAKAGAWA, Masahiro ISHII, Daisuke KAJITA
  • Publication number: 20170059955
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display and a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display. According to an aspect of the present inventive concept, there is provided a liquid crystal display which includes a first substrate which includes a display area and a non-display area, and a plurality of data fan-out lines which is disposed in the non-display area and includes a first conductive line extending toward the display area, and a second conductive line extending to overlap the first conductive line. At least a portion of the second conductive line includes a first wiring section extending in a direction parallel to an x-axis, and a second wiring section extending in a direction parallel to a y-axis. In the first wiring section, an upper surface of the second conductive line includes an inclined surface which slopes upward toward a negative direction of the y-axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Seung Kyu LEE, Sung Jin MUN, Hyun Jae YOO
  • Publication number: 20170059956
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a projection type liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a bezel. The liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate, an opposed substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the array substrate and the opposed substrate. The liquid crystal display panel has a first surface on one side of the array substrate and the opposed substrate, and a second surface on another side of the array substrate and the opposed substrate. The bezel covers a part of the liquid crystal panel. The bezel includes a first opening provided on a side of the first surface and a second opening provided on a side of the second surface. The second opening has a larger size than the first opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: apan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Fumiaki NIHEI
  • Publication number: 20170059957
    Abstract: An electrochromic device and method, the device including: a first transparent conductor layer; a working electrode disposed on the first transparent conductor layer and including nanostructures; a counter electrode; a solid state electrolyte layer disposed between the counter electrode and the working electrode; and a second transparent conductor layer disposed on the counter electrode. The nanostructures may include transition metal oxide nanoparticles and/or nanocrystals configured to tune the color of the device by selectively modulating the transmittance of near-infrared (NIR) and visible radiation as a function of an applied voltage to the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Guillermo GARCIA, Jason HOLT, Scott THOMSEN
  • Publication number: 20170059958
    Abstract: Disclosed are structures and methods for optical isolation based on tandem phase modulators in a long interferometer that advantageously provides low-loss, broadband isolation in a photonic integrated circuit without requiring special materials or fabrication steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher DOERR, Long CHEN, Diedrik VERMEULEN
  • Publication number: 20170059959
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular to a liquid crystal cell, a method for manufacture the liquid crystal cell, and a display device. The liquid crystal cell comprises two substrates and a liquid crystal layer, the liquid crystal layer disposed between the two substrates and provided with ferriferous oxide nano-particles. A viscosity coefficient of liquid crystals is substantially reduced by adding into the liquid crystal layer the ferriferous oxide nano-particles which may produce heat under a voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Xiaojuan Wu, Hongliang Yuan
  • Publication number: 20170059960
    Abstract: A beam steering device includes a first active deflector. The first active deflector includes a first substrate with one or more electrodes, a second substrate with one or more electrodes, and liquid crystals located between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate is distinct from the first substrate. The beam steering device also includes a passive deflector positioned parallel to the first active deflector. The passive deflector includes a third substrate, a fourth substrate that is distinct from the third substrate, and liquid crystals located between the third substrate and the fourth substrate. A method for separating zeroth order leakage with the beam steering device is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Jianru Shi, Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Publication number: 20170059961
    Abstract: Provided are a lighting system, a backlight unit and a 3D image display apparatus including the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes: a lighting system configured to selectively output collimated light and diverging light, a diffraction device, and a light guide plate configured to guide the collimated light and the diverging light from the lighting system to the diffraction device. An exit direction of the collimated light from the diffraction device depends on at least one of an angle of incidence of the collimated light and the wavelength of the collimated light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joonyong PARK, Dongouk KIM, Hyunjoon KIM, Jihyun BAE, Alexander V. MOROZOV, Bongsu SHIN, Sunghoon LEE, Changsoo LEE, Jaeseung CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20170059962
    Abstract: A photonic microwave generation apparatus and a method thereof are disclosed. A comb-like optical signal generation module of the photonic microwave generation apparatus generates a comb-like optical signal. The comb-like optical signal is injected into a photonic microwave generation module of the photonic microwave generation apparatus, wherein the photonic microwave generation module includes a microwave generation laser. An optical power and a carrier frequency of the comb-like optical signal are adjusted so as to place the microwave generation laser in period-one nonlinear dynamics, and, at the same time, to phase-lock an oscillation sideband of the period-one nonlinear dynamics by one harmonic of the comb-like optical signal. Under such operation, the microwave generation laser emits an output optical signal that carries a microwave signal of a narrow linewidth and a stable frequency, which can be retrieved from the output optical signal by using a photodetector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: SHENG-KWANG HWANG, YU-HAN HUNG
  • Publication number: 20170059963
    Abstract: A terahertz-wave generating element includes a waveguide including an electro-optic crystal; an optical coupling member that extracts a terahertz wave, which is generated from the electro-optic crystal as a result of light propagating through the waveguide, to a space; and at least two electrodes that cause a first-order electro-optic effect in the electro-optic crystal by applying an electric field to the waveguide so as to change a propagation state of the light propagating through the waveguide. A crystal axis of the electro-optic crystal of the waveguide is set such that the terahertz wave generated by a second-order nonlinear optical process and the light propagating through the waveguide are phase-matched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Toshihiko Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20170059964
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a quantum computer includes first physical systems provided in a cavity, a second physical system provided in the cavity, and a light source unit. The first physical systems include a transition coupled to a common cavity mode of the cavity. The second physical system includes a first transition coupled to the common cavity mode and a second transition. The light source unit generates a first and a second light beam to manipulate two of the first physical systems and generates a third light beam that resonates with the second transition. The third light beam is radiated to the second physical system during a period when the first and the second light beam are simultaneously radiated to the two first physical systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi NAKAMURA, Kouichi ICHIMURA, Hayato GOTO, Mamiko KUJIRAOKA
  • Publication number: 20170059965
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, having a casing including an image pickup device, includes: a casing that surrounds a shooting light flux and has a length in a direction of the shooting light flux; an image pickup device that receives the shooting light flux at a terminal end of the shooting light flux in the casing and picks up an image; a planar electric substrate arranged in parallel to an optical axis of the shooting light flux, outside an image pickup surface of the image pickup device; an electronic element mounted on the electric substrate, the electronic element generating heat along with operation of an electronic circuit; a heat transmission sheet placed on the electronic element; and a heat sink placed on the heat transmission sheet so that the heat transmission sheet is held together with the electronic element between the electric substrate and the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yuji KOBAYASHI, Masaya OTA, Yukinori TAKAHASHI, Hiroki AMINO, Yoshihiro YOKOMAE
  • Publication number: 20170059966
    Abstract: A housing structure that can be used for forming a variety of camera arrays is disclosed. The housing structure comprises a plurality of camera retaining elements which can adaptably receive and retain cameras of various sizes and shapes. Adjacent camera retaining elements that form the housing structure are connected to each other via moveable couplings that enable the formation of camera arrays of various sizes and shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Charles Wallace
  • Publication number: 20170059967
    Abstract: A camera helmet mount can removably secure a camera to a helmet via three attachment points, each of which may be a vent hole, a portion of a face mask, or an edge of the helmet. The camera helmet mount may include a main base that couples with a portion of a camera mount, a rear strap, two main arms, and two optional extension arms. The rear strap and two main arms may have hooks at their distal ends opposite the main base that are secured to the three attachment points. The rear strap can be looped through a rear strap fastener of the main base and secured to itself via a strap clip. The main arms may be removably secured to the main base and can be lengthened by installing extension arms and attaching the hooks of the main arms to the other end of the extension arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan Harrison, Joshua Todd Druker
  • Publication number: 20170059968
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hand-held camera mount for mounting an imaging device. In one embodiment, a hand-held imaging device mount comprises a handle configured to be held by a user; a base connected to the handle; an arm movably secured to the base such that the arm can be rotated relative to the handle and secured in place; and a mount head movably secured to the arm such that the mount head can be moved relative to the arm and secured in place, the mount head configured to mount an imaging device, wherein the imaging device mount permits an imaging device mounted to the mount head to be adjusted with multiple degrees of freedom relative to the handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: EVOKE INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Reno Makani MALTESE
  • Publication number: 20170059969
    Abstract: A camera apparatus includes: a camera main body having a single plate type imaging section; and a handle mounting section for mounting a handle on an upper portion of the camera main body, wherein a lens for a three-plate type imaging section can be mounted on a lens mount section of a front portion of the camera main body via a mount adapter, and the handle mounting section mounts the handle on the upper portion of the camera main body so as to be able to move in a front-back direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Sakishita, Yuki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170059970
    Abstract: Technologies are described for methods and systems to support a mirror. The systems may comprise a mounting board with a top side and two or more bases attached to the top side of the mounting board at a first end of the bases. The bases may be configured to attach to a mirror at a second end of the bases. The systems may comprise bumpers attached to the top side of the mounting board. The bumpers may be configured to maintain a gap between the top side of the mounting board and the mirror. The systems may comprise a camera and a wireless transmitter attached to the top side of the mounting board, and a wire. The wire may connect the camera to the wireless transmitter. The systems may comprise a tubing secured to the top side of the mounting board. The wire may be threaded through the tubing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: DERRICK NIEVES
  • Publication number: 20170059971
    Abstract: An optical system includes a reflective optical system on a magnification side along an optical path of the projection optical system and a refractive optical system on a reduction side along the optical path. The reflective optical system includes one reflective optical element having a power. The refractive optical system includes a front group on the magnification side and a rear group on the reduction side. The front group having, in order from the magnification side toward the reduction side, a first lens group with a positive or negative refractive power, a second lens group, and a third lens group with a positive refractive power. The rear group has a positive refractive power. The first lens group moves to the magnification side, and the second lens group and the third lens group move to the reduction side in a change in focus from a long distance to a short distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yohei Takano, Hibiki Tatsuno, Yasuyuki Shibayama
  • Publication number: 20170059972
    Abstract: A projection optical system includes a first lens unit that moves in a direction of an optical axis in adjusting an amount of field curvature and a second lens unit located closer to a reduction side than the first lens unit. The first lens unit includes an aspherical lens satisfying predetermined conditional equations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Junya Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20170059973
    Abstract: A light source device includes heat releasing fins for cooling a blue light emitting diode (LED), a red LED, and a green LED, respectively, which are located next to each other in a direction in which a cooling fan blows air. A space formed between an upper surface of an optical unit and the heat releasing fins enable cooling air of the cooling fan to pass through the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Takuya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20170059974
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source device, an optical mixing device, a light guide device, a prism group, a digital display, and projection lenses. The light guide device includes a hollow body; the body includes an inner surface and an exterior surface corresponding to the inner surface. The inner surface is coated with a first film, the exterior surface is coated with a second film, the first film is configured to partially reflect light rays, the second film is configured to totally reflect the light rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: MING-CHIH SUN, SHI-KAI HUANG
  • Publication number: 20170059975
    Abstract: An optical apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a reflective substrate which reflects irradiating light, and a driving unit which rotates the reflective substrate centering on a rotating axis. Furthermore, the optical apparatus divides the reflective substrate into first and second regions in a circumferential direction centering on the rotating axis. A phosphor is provided upon the first region, one of first and second regions dividing the reflective substrate. The phosphor is stimulated by the irradiating light and radiates light whose color is different from the irradiating light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Takatsugu Aizaki
  • Publication number: 20170059976
    Abstract: An illumination system including a coherent light source device, a light delivery module, and a light wavelength conversion module is provided. The coherent light source device includes a light emitting source and a light collimating element. The light emitting source is adapted to emit at least one coherent light beam. The light collimating element is located on a transmission path of the at least one coherent light beam from the light emitting source and collimates the at least one coherent light beam. The light delivery module is located on a transmission path of at least one coherent light beam from the light collimating element and includes a first lens. The first lens has a lens array surface adapted to diverge any of the coherent light beam from the light collimating element. A projection apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Wang, Chi-Tang Hsieh, Ko-Shun Chen, Chi-Hsun Wang