Patents Issued in March 16, 2017
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Publication number: 20170075121Abstract: The present application provides a head-mounted display, including a display device comprising a display body and two support arms extending from opposite ends of the display body, a headphone device comprising two headphone bodies, and two connection mechanisms connected to the two support arms respectively and rotatably connected to the two headphone bodies respectively. A head-mounted bracket is connected to the two connection mechanisms via two connection portions. Each connection mechanism includes a first rotation member for connecting a support arm to a corresponding headphone body and a second rotation member rotatably connected to the first rotation member and connected to a corresponding connection portion, respectively. The display device is driven to rotate relative to the head-mounted bracket under the first rotation member rotating relative to the second rotation member, which enables the display device to be folded together with the head-mounted bracket to improve portability of the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: SONGYA CHEN, Songling Yang
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Publication number: 20170075122Abstract: A Heads-Up Display (HUD) system for mounting on a pair of glasses comprises a power module for providing electrical power removably mountable to one side of a lens assembly of the glasses, an electronics module connectable to receive electrical power from the power module, the electronics module removably mountable to an opposite side of the lens assembly of the glasses; and a display housing mounted on a display arm extending from the electronics module to a position within a field of vision of a user wearing the glasses. A pair of glasses adapted to receive a HUD system comprises a lens assembly providing one or more electrically conductive paths from a first side thereof to a second side thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Hamid Abdollahi, Raymond C. M. Leung
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Publication number: 20170075123Abstract: A head-up display device includes a housing, a guiding base, a projecting board assembly, a protecting cover and a driving mechanism. The projecting board assembly is movably arranged at the guiding base. The driving mechanism includes a link, a lever, and a drive wheel. A front end of the link is pivotally connected to the protecting cover, and a rear end of the link is engaged with the drive wheel. A lower end of the lever is pivotally connected to the projecting board assembly. The drive wheel is rotatable and can be selectively engaged with the lever. The rotation of the drive wheel can drive the link and the lever to move and thus drive the protecting cover and the projecting board assembly to move. Therefore, the driving mechanism can be more easily arranged, so as to simplify the structure and reduce cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Hung-Chang Chien
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Publication number: 20170075124Abstract: An optical system for a laser apparatus includes: a long-short axis reversing module that includes a splitter, a first mirror, and a second mirror positioned in a propagation path of an incident laser beam, where the first mirror includes a first submirror and a second submirror connected to each other at a predetermined angle therebetween. The optical system converts an incident laser beam having an asymmetric energy distribution into an emitted laser beam with a symmetric energy distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: BYUNG SOO SO, Jong Oh Seo, Dong-Min Lee, Sang Ho Jeon
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Publication number: 20170075125Abstract: A radio-wave transparent cover of a vehicle is provided. The radio-wave transparent cover includes a design layer that is disposed on the front or rear surface of a film member having improved radio-wave transparency and a design layer that has an image formed thereon. The radio-wave transparent cover further includes a lens layer that is formed on the front surface of the film member and that has protrusions formed thereon, to exhibit exhibiting a metal appearance and effect and that forms a three-dimensional image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Seung Mok Lee, Young Sub Oh, Jin Young Yoon, Bock Cheol Lee, Hyun Gyung Kim, Dong Eun Cha
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POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS PROVIDING HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES AND SYSTEMS UTILIZING SUCH BEAM SPLITTERS
Publication number: 20170075126Abstract: Polarizing beam splitters and systems incorporating such beam splitters are described. More specifically, polarizing beam splitters and systems with such beam splitters that incorporate multilayer optical films and reflect imaged light towards a viewer or viewing screen with high effective resolution are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Joseph C. Carls, Seong Taek Lee, Yeow Leng Tao, Kin Sheng Chan, Xiaohui Cheng -
Publication number: 20170075127Abstract: A transparent substrate having an antiglare surface with reduced display sparkle. The transparent substrate has a roughened antiglare surface and a diffraction element below the antiglare surface. The diffraction element reduces sparkle by filling gaps between sub-pixels in a pixelated display with orders of diffraction. A display system comprising the transparent substrate and a pixelated display is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Jacques Gollier, Ellen Marie Kosik Williams, James Andrew West
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Publication number: 20170075128Abstract: Provided is an observation optical system including: an objective lens; an image inverting unit; and an ocular lens, the objective lens including, in order from object side to observation side: a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; and a positive third lens unit, wherein the first lens unit consists of a positive front unit and a positive rear unit separated by an air interval, which is largest along optical axis, wherein the second lens unit moves to have a component orthogonal to optical axis for image blur correction, and wherein a lateral magnification of second lens unit, a curvature radius of a lens surface of second lens unit closest to observation side, a curvature radius of a lens surface of third lens unit closest to object side, the air interval between front and rear units, and a focal length of first lens unit are appropriately set.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Yasunori Tanami
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Publication number: 20170075129Abstract: An anti-shake lens driving device includes a cover, a base, a movable part, a spring member, four upper magnets, four lower magnets, four driving coils and a circuit board. The cover has a through hole. The base is sleeved by the cover to form a central accommodation room. The movable part performs image-capturing through the through hole. The spring member is mounted exteriorly to the movable part to elastically fix the movable part inside the accommodation room. The upper magnets located above the spring member circle evenly the movable part. The lower magnets located below the spring member in a one-to-one matching manner with respect to the upper magnets circle evenly the movable part. The driving coils positioned individually corresponding to the upper/lower magnets circle evenly the movable part in a rectangle formation. The circuit board includes a circuit loop and electrically couples the driving coils.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: PowerGate Optical Inc.Inventors: Wen Tsai Hsu, Ying Chun Huang, Chuan Yu Hsu
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Publication number: 20170075130Abstract: A camera lens module according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to include an autofocus carrier driven by an autofocus driving unit to advance and retreat along an optical axis and having an upper portion open in an optical axis direction; an optical image stabilizer stopper located at the open portion of the autofocus carrier; and an optical image stabilizing carrier configured to accommodate a lens barrier and located between the autofocus carrier and the optical image stabilizer stopper, the optical image stabilizing carrier being driven by an optical image stabilizer driving unit to perform optical image stabilization in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, wherein a movement of the optical image stabilizing carrier in an optical axis direction is limited by the optical image stabilizer stopper located at the autofocus carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: JAHWA electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: HEE SEUNG KIM, IN SOO KIM, NOH YO HAN
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Publication number: 20170075131Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an anti-vibration optical system, a telephoto optical system, a binocle (binoculars), and an anti-vibration unit that are capable of appropriate distant observation even in a case where the number of reflective members is reduced. In a telephoto optical system, an anti-vibration optical system, which is provided with a first reflective member and a second reflective member, is disposed between an objective optical system and an ocular optical system. The anti-vibration optical system corrects image blurring in a first direction (pitch direction) by rotating the first reflective member around a first rotary shaft, and corrects image blurring in a second direction (yaw direction), which is orthogonal to the first direction, by rotating the first reflective member and the second reflective member around a second optical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Akimasa KAYA
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Publication number: 20170075132Abstract: A shake correction device includes a fixed member and movable member. The fixed member has one of three drive coils and three magnets. The movable member has other of the drive coils and the magnets. Three detectors are arranged on the fixed member or the movable member. A movement amount calculator calculates movement amounts and movement directions of operating points in the drive coils. A drive controller moves the movable member to apply to the drive coils based on outputs from the movement amount calculator. The drive coils are arranged such that imaginary lines passing through the operating points in the respective drive coils and parallel to long sides of the respective drive coils cross one another. Each of the detectors is arranged at a position with respect to the corresponding drive coil, where detection direction differs from a direction of a force acting on the operating point.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yosuke INOUE
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Publication number: 20170075133Abstract: A device for retaining eyewear is disclosed. The device comprises one or more tethers rotatably coupled to a plurality of temple fasteners, the temple fasteners coupled to the temples of eyewear disposed on the ears of a user. More specifically, the device can further comprise a plurality of positioning members configured to couple with and rotate within a temple fastener to allow a tether coupled to the rotating position member to rotate relative to the head and neck of the user. The at least one tether can be disposed in various fixed positions relative to the head and neck of the user as well as relative to the eyewear.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Richard Jeremy Hadden, Sterling McMurrin
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Publication number: 20170075134Abstract: This invention is related to an eyeglasses temple structure. Two assembly slots are formed at two ends of a frame for assembling with a positioning element, respectively. A pivot element is pivoted on the assembly slot through a hinge part of the positioning element. A protruding part at a wearing portion is inserted into the assembly slot through an end opening of the frame, and the protruding part has a pit for embedding and fixing an embedding part of the hinge part. Therefore, when the wearing portion is assembled with the frame, the wearing portion is positioned via the positioning element which is pivoted on the frame. When replace the wearing portion, the positioning element is pressed to enable the wearing portion to separate from the frame, so the replacement of the wearing portion is more quickly, easy, and convenient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: PEN-WEI CHEN
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Publication number: 20170075135Abstract: A hinge and joint for a pair of eyeglasses is disclosed. A split frame has upper and lower rim end pieces that bend and extend rearwardly. A vertically-extending hollow shaft is provided on the end of a temple. A spring or springs are positioned laterally between the rim end pieces and the shaft, such that the shaft bears against the spring or springs. A U-shaped housing fits over the exterior top, bottom, and side of the joint and has a pair of aligned slots in top and bottom flanges. A pin is placed through the aligned slots in the housing and the shaft of the temple. Lateral force provided by the spring or springs biases the joint away from the aligned position, and that force, in combination with upper and lower shoulders on the pin, keep the joint and hinge together.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Gunnar Gunnarsson
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Publication number: 20170075136Abstract: A contact lens in a reduced state and an expanded state is provided. The reduced state includes a parabola shape and has a diameter of about 6 mm up to about 11 mm. The reduced state may be reduced in size due to dehydration. The reduced state is capable of absorbing a liquid and expanding to an expanded state. The expanded state includes a diameter of about 12 mm up to about 15 mm and maintains the parabola shape of the reduced state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: MICRO CONTACT, LLCInventor: Keith Smithson
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Publication number: 20170075137Abstract: A contact lens product includes a multifocal contact lens and a buffer solution. The multifocal contact lens includes a central region and at least one annular region. The annular region concentrically surrounds the central region. A diopter of the annular region is different from a diopter of the central region. The multifocal contact lens is immersed in the buffer solution, and the buffer solution includes a cycloplegic agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: En-Ping Lin, Wei-Yuan Chen, Chun-Hung Teng
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Publication number: 20170075138Abstract: A contact lens product includes a multifocal contact lens and a buffer solution. The multifocal contact lens is immersed in the buffer solution. The multifocal contact lens includes a central region and at least one annular region. The annular region concentrically surrounds the central region, and a diopter of the annular region is different from a diopter of the central region. The multifocal contact lens is made of silicone hydrogel or hydrogel. The annular region closest to a periphery of the multifocal contact lens is a first annular region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: En-Ping Lin, Wei-Yuan Chen, Chun-Hung Teng
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Publication number: 20170075139Abstract: The invention is directed to a spectacle lens and includes a body which is transparent or at least partly transparent to light and has a phase object which guides the light incident at an angle of incidence ? on a side facing away from an observer into a direction depending on the wavelength ? of the light and the angle of incidence ? thereof. The phase object has a multiplicity of diffraction structures, which diffract monochromatic light at a wavelength of 380 nm???800 nm with a diffraction efficiency of ??70% into one and same order of diffraction |m|?1 when the monochromatic light is incident at an angle of incidence ? on the side of the lens facing away from the observer which lies within a diffraction-structure-specific angle interval 15° wide and dependent on the wavelength of the light.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Rainer Sessner, Joerg Petschulat, Katharina Havermann, Peter Klopfleisch, Matthias Burkhardt, Peter Pacher, Timo Kratzer, Herbert Krug
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Publication number: 20170075140Abstract: Various embodiments of methods and systems for improving and enhancing vision are disclosed. Adjustable lenses or optical systems may be used to provide adaptive vision modification. In some embodiments, vision modification may be responsive to the current state of the user's visual system. Certain embodiments provide correction of the subject's near and far vision. Other embodiments provide enhancement of vision beyond the physiological ranges of focal length or magnification.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: W. Daniel Hillis, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Edward K.Y. Jung, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
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Publication number: 20170075141Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices and methods for the design and manufacturing of electronic eyeglasses and associated components thereof. Electronic eyeglasses consist of electro-active lenses, receiving electrical signals that turn them on and off from an electronic control module. The electronic control module is embedded within a temple of the eyeglass frame, and is powered by a removable power source pack residing at a temple tip through a flexible cable. Various methods describe the interconnection schemes between the components of the electronic eyeglasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Ronald D. BLUM, Sophie ADAMS, David BOYD, Richard CLOMPUS, Mark GRAHAM, Joshua HADDOCK, Robert HALL, Venki IYER, William KOKONASKI, Charles WILLEY, Yongping WANG, Claudio Dalla LONGA
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Publication number: 20170075142Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed to provide for simulating the vision of animals. One embodiment is eyeglasses that simulate the vision of animals from a color perspective. The eyeglasses can be used by humans to view the perceptual differences in the color spectrum between what a human sees and what an animal sees. The eyeglasses operate by restricting particular color wavelengths that pass through the lenses. By simulating the color vision of animals, humans may better understand an animal's sight capabilities. The eyeglasses may allow humans to design improved training devices, adjust an animal's living environment according to their visual abilities, or adapt human behavior to conform to the animal's perceptual abilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Raymond Thibault
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Publication number: 20170075143Abstract: Certain embodiments disclosed herein include lenses for eyewear with a molded wafer and a molded clear resin lens component integrated onto a surface of the molded wafer. The molded wafer can include an optical filter that enhances one or more properties of filtered light. The optical filter can be, for example, a contrast-enhancing, color-enhancing, and/or chroma-enhancing filter. The clear resin lens component can be shaped such that the lenses have optical power. In some embodiments, the molded wafer is integrated onto a surface of a polarizing wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Ryan Saylor, Benjamin J. Meunier
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Publication number: 20170075144Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a spectacle lens including a multilayer film of a vapor deposition film (excluding a metal film and a metal alloy film) directly or indirectly at least on one surface of a lens substrate. The multilayer film includes at least one high refractive index layer and at least one low refractive index layer, the total optical film thickness of the high refractive index layer is ?/4 or more at a wavelength ?=780 nm, and a reflection spectrum measured in a wavelength range of 380 to 2000 nm on a surface having the multilayer film has a maximum reflectance in a wavelength range of 800 to 1350 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka MATSUI, Yoichi OGO, Koushi HARADA
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Publication number: 20170075145Abstract: A rearview mirror that is attached to the front surface; left or right side, of any type of eyewear where rear viewing is needed, but especially designed with sportswear in mind. This design is unique because of how and it is attached; to the surface of the eyewear by so-called socketed suction cup; truly held on by atmospheric pressure. The cup being about ¼? inch in diameter can hold on with about 4 lbs of force with a gentle touch because it is made of pliable rubber. The interior of the suction cup has a ball socket housing; both socket and suction cup is all one piece. The stem and ball, is a part of the plastic housing, which encases the mirror, which is all one piece, with smooth rounded edges for safety. The plastic housing exterior acts as an airfoil plate, designed and shaped in such a way to give way to the wind, and cause less turbulence. The ball and socket allows the mirror to swivel in all directions from 0-45 degrees of adjustment in angle, which is adjusted by hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Brawnski Lee Armstrong
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Publication number: 20170075146Abstract: There is provided a novel and improved eyeglasses protection device capable of suppressing occurrence of reflected light that may enter eyes of a user of the eyeglasses protection device and thus reducing fatigue of the user, the eyeglasses protection device including: a lens surface protective part configured to protect a lens surface of eyeglasses. The lens surface protective part is equipped with a substrate film, and a micro concavo-convex structure that is formed on a surface of the substrate film, with an average period of the concavo-convex part being equal to or less than a wavelength of visible light. According to the aforementioned viewpoint of the present invention, it is possible to suppress occurrence of reflected light that may enter eyes of a user of the eyeglasses protection device because the micro concavo-convex structure is formed in the lens surface protective part of the eyeglasses protection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Kimitaka NISHIMURA, Satoshi KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20170075147Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a polarization-maintaining optical fibre, consisting of a core region and stress-generating elements embedded in the fibre body, having the following method steps: producing a core preform for the core region using internal deposition on a substrate tube, the internally coated substrate tube subsequently being collapsed, generating recesses on the core preform by virtue of the material on the outer surface of the core preform being removed parallel to the longitudinal axis of the core preform at diametrically opposed positions, filling the recesses with stress-generating rods, with the tightest possible rod packing, in a freely selectable first filling geometry, possibly filling the recesses in addition with non-stress-generating rods in a second filling geometry, sheathing the filled core preform with a jacketing tube, preparing the sheathed core preform for a fibre-drawing process, and drawing the sheathed arrangement to form in the optical fibre.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Thomas Gutsche, Wolfgang Hämmerle, Robert Hanf, Lothar Brehm
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Publication number: 20170075148Abstract: An E/O phase modulator may include a waveguide having an insulating substrate, a single-crystal silicon strip and a polysilicon strip of a same thickness and doped with opposite conductivity types above the insulating substrate, and an insulating interface layer between the single-crystal silicon strip and polysilicon strip. Each of the single-crystal silicon strip and polysilicon strip may be laterally continued by a respective extension, and a respective electrical contact coupled to each extension.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Charles BAUDOT, Maurin DOUIX, Frédéric BOEUF, Sébastien CREMER
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Publication number: 20170075149Abstract: Described herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses to utilize an electro-optic modulator including one or more heating elements. The modulator can utilize one or more heating elements to control an absorption or phase shift of the modulated optical signal. At least the active region of the modulator and the one or more heating elements of the modulator are included in a thermal isolation region comprising a low thermal conductivity to thermally isolate the active region and the one or more heating elements from a substrate of the PIC.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Robert Silvio Guzzon, Erik Norberg, Jonathan Edgar Roth
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Publication number: 20170075150Abstract: Apparatuses for manipulating a color displayed by an article of wear comprising iron oxide colloidal nanocrystals arranged within chains are described, The apparatus includes (a) a magnetic field source, wherein a strength of a magnetic field generated by the magnetic field source is tunable to control the color displayed by the article of wear, and (b) an energy source, wherein energy generated by the energy source is applied to at least some of the chains of nanocrystals to soften materials within the article of wear immediately surrounding the chains of nanocrystals to which the energy is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Michel Reginald Pierre Joseph Lussier
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Publication number: 20170075151Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display and a fabricating method thereof, and a fabricating method of a photosensitive film. The display comprises: a display screen for displaying a picture, and a photosensitive film disposed on a light emergent surface of the display screen, wherein the photosensitive film is configured to automatically adjust corresponding transmittance according to a gray level brightness of the picture displayed by the display screen, and the transmittance of the photosensitive film increases with the increase of the gray level brightness of the picture displayed by the display screen. The display provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure can increase the contrast ratio without changing the existing design, thereby improving the display effect of the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Zhiyong WANG, Hong ZHU, Hailin XUE
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Publication number: 20170075152Abstract: Electrical switchable glasses production comprising the steps of: (a) providing a first and second cover glass; (b) providing a PDLC or other electrically switchable film; (c) providing a first and second layer of adhesive interlayer; (d) providing a PDLC inspection station further comprising: (i) a levelled-up table; (ii) means for inspecting properties of the PDLC film and/or glasses selected from the group consisting of electric properties, optical properties, mechanical properties and any combination thereof; (e) placing the first cover glass onto the levelled-up table; (f) spreading a first layer of adhesive intelayer (g) spreading the PDLC film over the previously placed adhesive interlayer; (h) spreading a second layer of adhesive interlayer; (i) covering the PDLC film by means of the second cover glass; (j) laminating the PDLC film between the first and second cover glasses; and (k) inspecting the glass properties by means of the PDLC inspection station before and after laminating the PDLC film.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: GAUZY LTD.Inventors: Adrian LOFER, Eyal PESO, Dimitri DOBRENKO, Yair ASULIN
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Publication number: 20170075153Abstract: The invention provides an optical composite layer structure with a built-in touch sensitive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) structure. The optical composite layer structure comprises an upper transparent substrate, a lower transparent substrate, an upper transparent conductive layer, a lower transparent conductive layer and a PDLC layer. A PDLC circuit and a touch sensitive circuit are provided on the upper and lower transparent conductive layers. A cable region that is electrically connected to external soft circuit cables is provided at an end of the upper transparent conductive layer and the lower transparent conductive layer to electrically connect to an external control unit. With a touch sensitive operation of a touch sensitive circuit of the optical composite layer structure, a signal instruction is provided to the control unit. The corresponding PDLC circuit may drive the corresponding regions of PDLC layer to conduct the change of light transmission of local region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Te-Fong CHAN, Fu-Tien KU, Shiou-Ming LIU, Yu-Yang CHANG, Te-Liang YU
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Publication number: 20170075154Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device that may include a first substrate; a first electrode on the first substrate, the first electrode including a plurality of first inclined planes; a nanocapsule liquid crystal layer on the first electrode, the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer including a plurality of nano-sized capsules dispersed in a buffer layer, each of the plurality of nano-sized capsules including nematic liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy; and a second electrode on the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer, the second electrode including a plurality of second inclined planes facing the plurality of first inclined planes, wherein the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer is substantially, optically isotropic in a normal state, and is optically anisotropic when a voltage is applied to the first and second electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Kyeong-Jin KIM, Jung-Im HWANG, Ji-Na JEON, Kyung-Su HA, Min-Geun CHOI
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Publication number: 20170075155Abstract: A novel display device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. Furthermore, a display device with low power consumption and high display quality is provided. The display device includes a first display element, a second display element, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first display element includes a first pixel electrode and a liquid crystal layer. The second display element includes a second pixel electrode and a light-emitting layer. The first transistor is electrically connected to the first pixel electrode. The second transistor is electrically connected to the second pixel electrode. The first transistor and the second transistor each include an oxide semiconductor film. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode each include at least one metal element contained in the oxide semiconductor film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Junichi KOEZUKA, Kenichi OKAZAKI
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Publication number: 20170075156Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the display technical field, and disclose a display substrate and a liquid crystal display device, which will improve the pressure resistant performance of the liquid crystal display device, while not substantially reducing the LC margin of the liquid crystal display device. The display substrate comprises a base substrate and spacers disposed on the base substrate; the spacers at least comprise main spacers, auxiliary spacers and first sub-spacers; the plurality of main spacers encircle to form a repeating unit, in which a plurality of the auxiliary spacers are arranged in an array, and at least one first sub-spacer is distributed in a center region of the repeating unit; wherein the vertical distances from the top of the main spacers, the top of the first sub-spacers, the top of the auxiliary spacers to the base substrate decrease sequentially.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Yuguang FAN, Jian LI, Jing HAN, Shichao WANG, Jingpeng LI, Yifeng QIN
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Publication number: 20170075157Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a common electrode, a pixel electrode, a first conductive layer spaced apart from the common electrode, and a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer. The second substrate includes a spacer disposed to overlap with the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer on the first base substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Bon Yong KOO, Dongyeon SON
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Publication number: 20170075158Abstract: The invention discloses a liquid crystal display device and its display panel. The display panel includes: a display region; a fan-out region, which is connected to at least one side of the display region; the fan-out region includes at least one group of fan-out wires, each group of the fan-out wires includes a plurality of wires, the wires include a first layer of metal wires and a second layer of metal wires that are disposed alternately, a part of the first layer of metal wires and the second layer of metal wires that are adjacent is overlapped. By the method above, the invention can reduce RC delay between the wires of each group of fan-out wires and improve display quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cong WANG, Peng DU
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Publication number: 20170075159Abstract: A display panel includes a gate integrated circuit, a number of scan lines extending from the gate integrated circuit for transmitting scan signals, a source integrated circuit, a number of data lines extending from the source integrated circuit for transmitting data signals, a number of pixel electrodes for receiving the scan signals and the data signals, and a number of transistors each electrically coupled to a corresponding scan line, a corresponding data line, and a corresponding pixel electrode. The transistors each include a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The drain electrode includes an overlapping portion overlapping with the gate electrode. The gate integrated circuit transmits the scan signals along the scan lines. A size of the overlapping portion increases along a transmitting direction of the scan signal along the scan line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: MING-TSUNG WANG, CHIH-CHUNG LIU, YI-HSIU CHENG, WEN-QIANG YU
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Publication number: 20170075160Abstract: The present invention provides a surface frame for a display module, a display module and a display device. The surface frame comprises a first support portion for supporting an optical film and a light guide plate and arranged surrounding three edges of the optical film and the light guide plate; a second support portion for supporting a liquid crystal panel and arranged surrounding three edges of the liquid crystal panel; a side frame connected to a rear shell; and a connection portion for connecting the side frame to outer sides of the first support portion and the second support portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Meng YANG
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Publication number: 20170075161Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a display device including a display module and a cover member, bonded together by a photosensitive resin layer. A portion of the photosensitive resin layer that is located behind a light-shielding portion (in other words, located in a shaded portion) with respect to the light for curing the photosensitive resin is cured.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Katsuhiro KATO, Toru YAGASAKI, Haruki YAMADA
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Publication number: 20170075162Abstract: A display device for displaying an image on a display surface includes a liquid crystal panel having the display surface, the liquid crystal panel with a first through hole formed in the display surface, a backlight disposed oppositely to the liquid crystal panel, the backlight with a second through hole formed at a position overlapping with the first through hole, and a cap inserted into the first through hole and the second through hole. The cap includes a tube portion with a third through hole formed, the third through hole parallel to the first through hole and the second through hole, and a flange portion formed at least one end of the tube portion, the flange portion having an outer diameter larger than a diameter of the first through hole, and larger than a diameter of the second through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Nobuo TSUBOKURA, Isao HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20170075163Abstract: An electro-optic device having at least one liquid crystal cell for providing spatially variable control of light includes: a pair of opposed substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween; a pair of electrodes for applying an electric field therebetween, each electrode being deposited on a corresponding substrate; and a liquid crystal reservoir wall defining a lateral extent of the liquid crystal layer between the substrates. The reservoir wall includes: a first bottom barrier deposited on a bottom one of the pair of substrates; and a second curable top barrier deposited on the top substrate outside the first barrier. The first barrier and second uncured barrier are configured to merge on contact to retain liquid crystal material inside the reservoir wall prior to curing the second barrier. Also, a method of wafer level manufacturing and assembly of a liquid crystal optical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: LensVector Inc.Inventors: Tigran GALSTIAN, Aram BAGRAMYAN, Amir TORK, David YOON, Sergei YAKOVENKO
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Publication number: 20170075164Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; and a roof layer facing the pixel electrode. A plurality of microcavities are between the pixel electrode and the roof layer. A liquid crystal material is in the microcavities, and a dent is formed in the roof layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Hee-Keun LEE, Seon Uk LEE
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Publication number: 20170075165Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display module including a peripheral area located outside a display area, a cover member including a phototransmissive region and a light-shielding region, and a ultraviolet-cured resin layer which bonds the display module to the cover member, includes first and second portions, and contains polar monomers as a monomer component. A transparent first electrode is interposed between the cover member and the display module to cover the phototransmissive region. A second electrode is separated from the first electrode and extends along the first electrode in an area corresponding to the peripheral area. The first and second electrodes apply an electric field to the part of the first portion to orient the polar monomers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Katsuhiro KATO
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Publication number: 20170075166Abstract: A display device may include a first layer, a passivation layer, and a pixel. The passivation layer may overlap the first layer and may include a first passivation portion and a second passivation portion. The pixel may include a first-color filter, a first-color-corresponding electrode, a second-color filter, and a second-color-corresponding electrode. The first-color-corresponding electrode may overlap the first-color filter and may be positioned between the first layer and the first passivation portion. The second-color-corresponding electrode may overlap the second-color filter. The second passivation portion may be positioned between the first layer and the second-color-corresponding electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Ock Soo SON, Sung In RO, Jun Ho SONG, Sung Jin KIM, Seung Hyun PARK, Young Jin PARK, Yeo Geon YOON, Jae Hak LEE, Woong Ki JEON
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Publication number: 20170075167Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a partition layer provided on the first substrate and defining plural pixel regions, colored layers of plural colors constituting color filters in the plural pixel regions, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal material arranged between the first and second substrates. The partition layer includes a longitudinal light-shielding part made of a light-shielding resin and extending in a longitudinal direction, a lateral light-shielding part made of the light-shielding resin and extending in a lateral direction, and a light reducing part in which the colored layers including two or more of the colors overlap each other. At least one of the longitudinal light-shielding part and the lateral light-shielding part has a space to avoid contact with the other. The light reducing part fills the space between the longitudinal light-shielding part and the lateral light-shielding part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Toshio SATO, Shinji AOTSUKA
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Publication number: 20170075168Abstract: Processes are provided for depositing multiple color filter materials on a substrate to form color filters. In a first process, the surface characteristic of a substrate is modified by radiation so that a flowable form of a first color filter material will be deposited on a first area, and converted to a non-flowable form. A second color filter material can then be deposited on a second area of the substrate. In a second process, first and second color filter materials are deposited on separate donor sheets and transferred by radiation to separate areas of the substrate. A third process uses flexographic printing to transfer the first and second color filter materials to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: E Ink CorporationInventor: Guy M. Danner
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Publication number: 20170075169Abstract: A backlight unit for a LCD can include a TFT array substrate, a UV light source disposed at an edge or bottom of the TFT array substrate, and a layer of transparent fluorescent films formed on the TFT array substrate. The layer of transparent fluorescent films can include a plurality of red transparent fluorescent films, a plurality of green transparent fluorescent films, and a plurality of blue transparent fluorescent films. The layer of transparent fluorescent films can function as a color filter. In some embodiments, a light guide plate and a conventional color filter are omitted from the LCD.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLCInventor: Hidekazu Hayama
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Publication number: 20170075170Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an array substrate. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units. The array substrate comprises a first electrode layer, an insulating layer covering the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer formed on the insulating layer. The first electrode layer comprises a first electrode arranged in each of the pixel units, the insulating layer comprises an insulating layer unit covering the surface of each of the first electrodes, and the second electrode layer comprises a second electrode arranged on the insulating layer unit. Within each of the pixel units, the insulating layer unit comprises a plurality of insulating regions, and at least one of the insulating regions has a dielectric constant different from dielectric constants of other insulating regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Lingjuan MENG