Patents Issued in April 6, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170097488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical microscope stand (100) encompassing: a first carriage (16) that is arranged on a first carrier arm (14) and is drivable by a first drive unit; and a second carriage (18) that is arranged on a second carrier arm (22) and is drivable by a second drive unit. The surgical microscope stand (100) further encompasses an operating region (34) within which at least one operating unit for manual application of control to the first and second drive units is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Marco SCHUTZ
  • Publication number: 20170097489
    Abstract: A low interference optical mount assembly that permits the mounting of one or more optics in a stable clamped configuration while minimizing the amount of surface area of the optic obscured by an optic mount of the assembly. Clamp embodiments for such an assembly may include a resilient leaf spring or a rigid clamp plate. In some cases, the mount assembly may be configured in a wheel arrangement that allows the selection of multiple optics by rotating a support frame that supports a plurality of optic mounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: NEWPORT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rick SEBASTIAN, Wen Xu JIN, Arthur Robert PROCHNOW
  • Publication number: 20170097490
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes four lens elements positioned in order from the object side to the image side of the optical imaging lens. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of lens elements, the refracting power of lens elements, the thickness of the at least one lens element, one or more air gaps between lens elements along the optical axis, and a half field of view HFOV of the optical imaging lens, an embodiment satisfies the relation: 4.21?T3/(G12×tan(HFOV))?7.55, for which T3 is the thickness of the third lens element and G12 is the air gap between the first lens element and the second lens element. The optical imaging lens provided by embodiments of the present invention has better optical characteristics and a reduced total length in comparison to conventional lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: SHIH-HAN CHEN, YAN BIN CHEN, LONG YE
  • Publication number: 20170097491
    Abstract: A two-surface narrow field-of-view (FOV) compound lens for producing an image of an object at an image plane of an imaging system includes a biplanar substrate between a plano-convex lens and a plano-concave lens having a common optical axis. The plano-convex lens has a first planar surface on a first side of the biplanar substrate and is formed of a material having a first Abbe number. The plano-concave lens has a second planar surface on a second side of the biplanar substrate opposite the first side, and is formed of a material having a second Abbe number less than the first Abbe number. The first and second lens have respective focal lengths F1 and F2 that may satisfy ?1.4<F2/F1<?0.9. The compound lens may have a total track length T and an effective focal length feff such that their ratio satisfies 0.88<T/feff<0.98.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Chuen-Yi Yin, Jau-Jan Deng
  • Publication number: 20170097492
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises a focus driving mechanism and a zoom driving mechanism and corresponding lens groups. The zoom driving mechanism is sleeved outside the focus driving mechanism. The focus driving mechanism is a voice coil motor and comprises a focus stator assembly (7a1) and a focus rotor assembly (7a2) that are connected by means of an elastic connection member (7a3). One of a focus stator sleeve (7a11) in the focus stator assembly and a focus rotor sleeve (7a21) in the focus rotor assembly is a permanent magnet sleeve, and the other of the focus stator sleeve (7a11) and the focus rotor sleeve (7a21) is a non-magnet sleeve, and the assembly to which the non-magnet sleeve belongs further comprises a preliminary magnetic member (7a22) and a driving coil (7a23).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Xiaoping HU
  • Publication number: 20170097493
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image pick-up lens system, an imaging module having the image pick-up lens system, and a terminal having the imaging module. The image pick-up lens system comprises the following lenses arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive focal power; a second lens with negative focal power, having a convex object-side surface; a third lens with negative focal power; a fourth lens with focal power; a fifth lens with positive focal power, having a convex image-side surface; and a sixth lens with focal power, having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis, wherein, the lenses meet the following relational expression: 5.5<f1.2.3/Dr1r6<10, where, f1.2.3 is a combined focal length of the first lens, second lens, and third lens; Dr1r6 is a spacing from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image-side surface of the third lens on the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Fujian DAI, Lin HUANG
  • Publication number: 20170097494
    Abstract: A photographing optical lens assembly includes five lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side. The first lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface and an image-side surface both being aspheric. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave object-side surface. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface and a concave image-side surface with at least one inflection point, both the object-side surface and the image-side surface being aspheric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi TANG, Ming-Ta CHOU
  • Publication number: 20170097495
    Abstract: There are provided a subminiature optical system having a miniature size and capable of obtaining a narrow view angle using only five sheets of lenses, and a portable device having the same. The subminiature optical system includes a first lens convex toward the object side and having positive refractive power a second lens concave toward an image side and having negative refractive power, a third lens convex toward the object side and having positive refractive power, a fourth lens concave toward the image plane and having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens convex toward the image plane and having negative or positive refractive power, sequentially from an object side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Joo JO, Young Suk KANG
  • Publication number: 20170097496
    Abstract: There are provided a subminiature optical system having a miniature size and capable of obtaining a narrow view angle using only five sheets of lenses, and a portable device having the same. The subminiature optical system includes a first lens convex toward the object side and having positive refractive power, a second lens concave toward an image side and having negative refractive power, a third lens convex toward the object side and having positive refractive power, a fourth lens concave toward the image plane and having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens convex toward the image plane and having negative or positive refractive power, sequentially from an object side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Joo JO, Young Suk KANG
  • Publication number: 20170097497
    Abstract: A three-surface wafer-level lens system for imaging a wide field-of-view scene onto an image plane includes (a) a first wafer-level lens with (i) a first substrate having a first planar surface facing the image plane, and (ii) a first lens element bonded to the first planar surface and having a first lens surface facing the image plane, and (b) a second wafer-level lens with (i) a second substrate having a second planar surface facing away from the image plane, (ii) a third substrate bonded to the second substrate and having a third planar surface facing the image plane, (iii) a second lens element bonded to the second planar surface and having a second lens surface facing away from the image plane, and (iv) a third lens element bonded to the third planar surface and having a third lens surface facing the image plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Tingyu Cheng, Jau-Jan Deng
  • Publication number: 20170097498
    Abstract: A wide-angle optical system includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens. An object-side surface of the first lens is convex toward the object side, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied. 1.0<(R1L+R1R)/(R1L?R1R)?2.0??(1) where, R1L denotes a paraxial radius of curvature of the object-side surface of the first lens, and R1R denotes a paraxial radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the first lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro AMANAI
  • Publication number: 20170097499
    Abstract: A near-infrared hybrid lens system for imaging a wide field-of-view scene onto an image plane includes (a) a first cast lens positioned closest to the scene and at least partly transmissive to near-infrared light, (b) a second cast lens positioned closest to the image plane and at least partly transmissive to near-infrared light, and (c) a wafer-level lens at least partly transmissive to near-infrared light and disposed between the first cast lens and the second cast lens, wherein the wafer-level lens has (i) a planar substrate with a first surface facing away from the image plane and a second surface facing the image plane, (ii) a first lens element disposed on the first surface, and (iii) a second lens element disposed on the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Tingyu Cheng, Jau-Jan Deng
  • Publication number: 20170097500
    Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a non-imaging optical system including a focusing optical element positioned within an input optical path to receive electromagnetic radiation, a micro-mirror array including a plurality of micro-mirror pixels positioned within the input optical path, individual micro-mirror pixels of the plurality of micro-mirror pixels being positioned to receive electromagnetic radiation from the focusing optical element and redirect electromagnetic radiation along a redirected optical path, a relay optical element positioned within the redirected optical path to receive and focus electromagnetic radiation from the micro-mirror array, and a single-pixel non-imaging detector positioned to receive electromagnetic radiation from the relay optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Sean D. Keller, Gerald P. Uyeno
  • Publication number: 20170097501
    Abstract: A heliostat contained within a mechanical enclosure is described that optimizes the heliostat for domestic applications by emphasizing features of durability, protection from outside weather, low cost of manufacture, self-powering, light-weight, and aesthetics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Diva Tommei, Daniele Tommel
  • Publication number: 20170097502
    Abstract: An electrowetting element comprising a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid. A support plate includes an electrode and, located between the electrode and the first fluid, a first layer and a second layer. The first layer comprises an inorganic material and the second layer comprises an organic material. The first layer is in contact with the second layer and between the second layer and the first fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Cristina Maria PETCU, Gerben BOON
  • Publication number: 20170097503
    Abstract: A multi-beam scanner may include a scan lens and a reflecting mirror. The scan lens may have eccentric incidence points offset from a center point of the scan lens to which at least two light beams may be irradiated. The scan lens may be configured to concentrate the light beams. The concentrated light beams may be incidence to the reflecting mirror. Thus, an object may be scanned by the light beams using only one scan lens so that the multi-beam scanner may have a less complex structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Kohei Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20170097504
    Abstract: An HUD unit is equipped with a first display and a second display. The light irradiating directions of the first display and the second display are adjusted so that the first image irradiated from the first display, reflected by the front window of a vehicle and visually recognized by the driver of the vehicle and the second image irradiated from the second display to the eye point of the driver and visually recognized by the driver are visually recognized in a state of being arranged side by side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro Takamatsu, Masahide Nagata, Takao Kanai
  • Publication number: 20170097505
    Abstract: A display unit is equipped with an LED circuit body for irradiating light onto the windshield of a vehicle and a surface panel positioned on the front side in the light irradiating direction of the LED circuit body and constituting part of the surface of the instrument panel of the vehicle. The surface panel is provided with a plurality of pores formed in the direction connecting the LED circuit body to the windshield. The light irradiating direction of the LED circuit body is set to the direction in which the light irradiated from the LED circuit body and reflected by the windshield is visually recognized by the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro Takamatsu, Masahide Nagata, Takao Kanai
  • Publication number: 20170097506
    Abstract: A display subsystem for a virtual image generation system for use by an end user comprises a planar waveguide apparatus, an optical fiber, at least one light source configured for emitting light from a distal end of the optical fiber, and a collimation element mounted to a distal end of the optical fiber for collimating light from the optical fiber. The virtual image generation system further comprises a mechanical drive assembly to which the optical fiber is mounted to the drive assembly. The mechanical drive assembly is configured for displacing the distal end of the optical fiber, along with the collimation element, in accordance with a scan pattern. The virtual image generation system further comprises an optical waveguide input apparatus configured for directing the collimated light from the collimation element down the planar waveguide apparatus, such that the planar waveguide apparatus displays image frames to the end user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian T. Schowengerdt, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Ivan Yeoh, Aaron Mark Schuelke, William Hudson Welch, John Graham Macnamara
  • Publication number: 20170097507
    Abstract: A display subsystem for a virtual image generation system comprises a planar waveguide apparatus, an optical fiber, at least one light source configured for emitting light from a distal end of the optical fiber, and a mechanical drive assembly to which the optical fiber is mounted as a fixed-free flexible cantilever. The drive assembly is configured for displacing a distal end of the optical fiber about a fulcrum in accordance with a scan pattern, such that the emitted light diverges from a longitudinal axis coincident with the fulcrum. The display subsystem further comprises an optical modulation apparatus configured for converging the light from the optical fiber towards the longitudinal axis, and an optical waveguide input apparatus configured for directing the light from the optical modulation apparatus down the planar waveguide apparatus, such that the planar waveguide apparatus displays one or more image frames to an end user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Yeoh, Hui-Chuan Cheng, Lionel Ernest Edwin, David Tinch, William Hudson Welch
  • Publication number: 20170097508
    Abstract: Integral optical stacks and optical systems including an image surface, a stop surface and an integral optical stack disposed between the image surface and the stop surface are described. The integral optical stack includes an optical lens, a partial reflector, a multilayer reflective polarizer and a quarter wave retarder. At least one chief light ray transmitted through the stop surface and the image surface passes through the stop surface at an incident angle of at least 40 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Zhisheng Yun, Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Timothy L. Wong, Erin A. McDowell, Gregg A. Ambur
  • Publication number: 20170097509
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a display apparatus capable of obtaining excellent heat radiation performance of a light source while ensuring positional accuracy of the light source. [Solving Means] A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a light guide portion, a casing, a projection portion, a heat source, and a heat-transfer member. The light guide portion is disposed in front of eyes of a user. The casing is fixed to the light guide portion. The projection portion is housed in the casing and is configured to be capable of projecting an image to the light guide portion. The heat-transfer member includes a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the heat source, the second end being connected to an inner surface of the casing, and is configured to be deformable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Takaaki YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170097510
    Abstract: An image sensor including a color splitter and a method of manufacturing the image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion layer; a plurality of color filters disposed on the photoelectric conversion layer; a light transmission layer disposed on the photoelectric conversion layer and the plurality of color filters; and a color splitter that is disposed on the light transmission layer, comprises a top surface and a side surface exposed to ambient air, and is configured to transmit a portion of light incident on the color splitter toward a first pixel region and refract a remaining portion of the incident light toward second pixel regions adjacent to the first pixel region, according to a difference between a refractive index of the color splitter and a refractive index of the ambient air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinseung SOHN
  • Publication number: 20170097511
    Abstract: Apparatus (systems) and methods are described for generating and displaying a virtual true 3D image viewable by a single eye of a viewer. A fixed-curve mirror is translated along an optical axis in synchrony with a temporally-modulated 2D image generator to generate a virtual image in multiple virtual image planes, enabling depth perception of the image by a single eye of the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Jing Xu
  • Publication number: 20170097512
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image viewer comprises a frame to be physically coupled to a handheld electronic device. The frame comprises a face plate having a pair of lens sockets with a pair of lenses, and a pair of side arms with a pair of slots to receive the handheld electronic device. The lenses can be coupled in the sockets by twist-to-lock couplings. A forehead pad comprising a squat dome is disposed on the face plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Bryce Haymond
  • Publication number: 20170097513
    Abstract: A multi-display system (e.g., a display including multiple display panels) includes at least first and second displays (e.g., display panels or display layers) arranged substantially parallel to each other in order to display three-dimensional (3D) features to a viewer(s). The first and second displays have different color filter patterns, respectively, as viewed from a point of view of a viewer of the display device, in order to reduce moiré interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Gareth Paul BELL, John D. NEWTON, James S. EMSLIE, Darryl SINGH
  • Publication number: 20170097514
    Abstract: An optical low-pass filter (30) includes a vertically splitting birefringent plate (31), a 45° splitting birefringent plate (32), and a 135° splitting birefringent plate (33). The 45° splitting birefringent plate (32) and the 135° splitting birefringent plate (33) are adjacent to each other. The thickness of the 45° splitting birefringent plate (32) is approximately equal to the thickness of the 135° splitting birefringent plate (33). The thicknesses of the 45° splitting birefringent plate (32) and the 135° splitting birefringent plate (33) are each less than the thickness of the vertically splitting birefringent plate (31). The position (point Pal) of incidence of an incident beam (L) on the vertically splitting birefringent plate (31) overlaps with the approximate center of a square split pattern (points P11, P12, P13, and P14) when viewed from the incident beam side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Daishinku Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya SHOGAKI
  • Publication number: 20170097515
    Abstract: A multi-display system (e.g., a display including multiple display panels) includes at least first and second displays (e.g., display panels or display layers) arranged substantially parallel to each other in order to display three-dimensional (3D) features to a viewer(s). At least sub-pixel compression is utilized in order to reduce moiré interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Gareth Paul BELL, Darryl SINGH
  • Publication number: 20170097516
    Abstract: A technique enabling accurate positioning of a flexible printed circuit board and a magnetic sensor to an image blur correction device. A lens holding section holds a correction lens in a manner movable in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A Hall element is mounted on the flexible printed circuit board to detect change in magnetic field of a magnet provided in the lens holding section. A Hall element-holding section holds the Hall element. An area of the flexible printed circuit board where the Hall element is mounted is locked to the Hall element-holding section in a manner movable in the first direction in a state restricted in movement in the second direction. The Hall element is movable relative to the Hall element-holding section in the second direction, in a state restricted in movement in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Junichiro Iwamatsu
  • Publication number: 20170097517
    Abstract: An electromagnetic driving module is provided which includes a frame, a magnetic element, a base, and an OIS driving coil. The frame surrounds a main axis. The magnetic element is disposed on the frame and has an engaging surface in contact with the frame. The base is arranged to be adjacent to the frame. The OIS driving coil for driving the movement of the frame in a direction that is perpendicular to the main axis is disposed on the base and arranged to correspond to the magnetic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Yi-Ho CHEN, Kuo-Chun KAO, Yi-Hsin NIEH
  • Publication number: 20170097518
    Abstract: Eyeglasses with a changeable frame are revealed. The eyeglasses with a changeable frame include an eyeglass frame and a half frame set under the eyeglass frame. The eyeglass frame is disposed with left and right lenses while temples are connected to two outer sides thereof respectively. A lower half of each lens is exposed outside the eyeglass frame. The half frame includes a mounting slot for receiving the lenses and a connecting support piece disposed on top thereof. The connecting support piece is for connecting the eyeglass frame. The connecting support piece is set with a locking block while a mounted block and a projecting pin are disposed on each of two sides of the half frame. Thus the eyeglass frame and the half frame are connected stably. Thereby users can select half frame or full frame eyeglasses according to their needs and have different looks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: JUI-CHI LI
  • Publication number: 20170097519
    Abstract: A contact lens for lens-to-lens communication includes blink detection circuitry, one or more electrodes, a logic engine, and data transmission circuitry. The blink detection circuitry is configured to generate a blink signal in response to a blinking of an eye. The logic engine is coupled to receive the blink signal from the blink detection circuitry. The data transmission circuitry is coupled between the one or more electrodes and the logic engine. The logic engine causes the data transmission circuitry to drive electrical data signals onto the one or more electrodes in response to the blink signal reaching a pre-determined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Shungneng Lee
  • Publication number: 20170097520
    Abstract: A contact lens, system of contact lenses, and a method for detecting eye convergence includes detecting a first inward gaze with first gaze detection circuitry included in a first contact lens disposed on a first eye. A first inward gaze signal is transmitted from the first contact lens to a second contact lens disposed in a second eye in response to detecting the first inward gaze. A second inward gaze is detected with second gaze detection circuitry included in a second contact lens disposed on the second eye. The first inward gaze signal is received by the second contact lens. If the first inward gaze signal is received within a pre-determined time period from detecting the second inward gaze, an optical power for the second eye is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Shungneng Lee
  • Publication number: 20170097521
    Abstract: [Object] An optical product and a spectacle lens are provided which allow both blue light and ultraviolet rays to be cut off while visibility is made advantageous. [Solution] An optical product (spectacle lens) of the present invention includes: a base; and an optical multilayer film formed on a surface of the base. The optical multilayer film includes six or more layers in which a low refractive index layer and a high refractive index layer are alternately disposed in which a first layer is closest to the base, and a final layer is the low refractive index layer. The final layer includes an optical film thickness M and a layer adjacent to the final layer includes an optical film thickness N, in which a sum M+N of the optical film thickness M and the optical film thickness N satisfies conditions of [1] 0.295??M?0.415? and [2] 0.460??M+N?0.560?, respectively, when a design wavelength ?=500 nm is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Takuro YOSHIDA, Hirotoshi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170097522
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided to create a focal zone for mindfulness meditation. The apparatus includes a first member extending between a first edge and a second edge, the first member having a translucent portion, a first elongated side member attached adjacent the first edge of the first member, and a second elongated side member attached adjacent the second edge of the first member, the first and second elongated members being generally parallel to another and lying in a single horizontal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Alan D. Parks
  • Publication number: 20170097523
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing an ophthalmic lens equipped with an insert (1), by means of a mold, comprising:—a step of molding a puck (3) comprising two faces (3A, 3B) and said insert (1) positioned between said faces; and—a step of machining at least one of said faces (3A, 3B) of said puck in order to form one of the front or back faces of said ophthalmic lens, the insert (1) being positioned relative to one portion of the mold before said molding step, According to the invention, an element associated with the insert or an imprint of this element left in the puck after the element has been removed comprises at least one of its portions providing a positional reference relative to said insert (1) in the machining step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Eric GACOIN, Mathieu MEYNEN, Thierry DEVANNEAUX, Ludovic JOUARD, Chéfik HABASSI
  • Publication number: 20170097524
    Abstract: A reader for communicating with both an eye-mountable device and a display device is provided. The reader can transmit radio frequency power to a tag that is part of the eye-mountable device. The reader can communicates with the tag using a first protocol. Communicating with the tag can include having the reader request data from the tag and receive the requested data from the tag. The reader can process the received data. The reader can store the processed data. The reader can communicates with the display device using a second protocol, where the first and second protocols can differ. Communicating with the display device can include having the reader transmit the stored data to the display device. The display device can receive the transmitted data, process the transmitted data, and generate one or more displays including the transmitted and/or processed data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Frank Honoré, Brian Otis, Andrew Nelson
  • Publication number: 20170097525
    Abstract: Various types of edge seals for protecting electro-optic displays against environmental contaminants are described. In one type of seal, the electro-optic layer is sandwiched between a backplane and a protective sheet and a sealing material extends between the backplane and the protective sheet. In other seals, the protective sheet is secured to the backplane or to a second protective sheet adjacent the backplane. The electro-optic layer can also be sealed between two layers of adhesive or between one layer of adhesive and the backplane. Other seals make use of flexible tapes extending around the periphery of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Guy M. DANNER, Shamus Ford PATRY, Charles Howie HONEYMAN, Thomas H. WHITESIDES, Michael D. MCCREARY, Gregg M. DUTHALER
  • Publication number: 20170097526
    Abstract: Articles comprises iron oxide colloidal nanocrystals arranged within chains, wherein the chains of nanocrystals are embedded within a material used to form the article or a transfer medium used to transfer a color to the article are described. The material or transfer medium includes elastic properties that allow the nanocrystals to display a temporary color determined by the strength of an external force applied to the article, and the material or transfer medium includes memory properties that cause the displayed temporary color to dissipate when the external force is removed, wherein the dissipation of the displayed temporary color is sufficiently slow as to be visually observable by an average observer's unaided eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Michel Reginald Pierre Joseph Lussier
  • Publication number: 20170097527
    Abstract: An electro-optic modulator device includes a modulation region, a reflecting region, a conductive line and an anti-reflecting region. The modulation region includes a doped region. The reflecting region is over the modulation region. The conductive line is connected to the doped region. The conductive line extends through the reflecting region. The anti-reflecting region is on an opposite surface of the modulation region from the reflecting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Wan-Yu Lee, Ying-Hao Kuo
  • Publication number: 20170097528
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate generally to a display device that may include: a first substrate and a second substrate, each including a transparent encapsulation area; an outer sealant along a side of the transparent encapsulation area; a pattern part disposed on the first substrate and extending in a direction parallel to the outer sealant; and a transparent sealant adjacent to the pattern part and extending in a direction parallel to the pattern part, and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Hyoung-Joon KIM, Hyo Jin KIM, Kap Soo YOON, Jeong Hyun LEE, Tae Hee LEE, So Young JUN, Soong Won CHO, Jeong Uk HEO
  • Publication number: 20170097529
    Abstract: There are provided connecting wires whose reliability may be ensured by preventing leakage between the connecting wires and by preventing entry of moisture. Overexposure is performed by using a mask having a shape of a protruding pattern (55a) with a sharp tip end at a position corresponding to a pattern edge of an organic insulating film (70) between adjacent connecting wires (50). Inclination of an inclined surface of the organic insulating film (70) sandwiched by the connecting wires (50) is thereby made gradual, and thus, at the time of forming the connecting wires (50), a film thickness of a resist may be prevented from becoming thick along an edge line of the organic insulating film (70). As a result, the resist is prevented from remaining in a connected manner at a region sandwiched by the adjacent connecting wires (50), and leakage between the adjacent connecting wires (50) may be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Tomofumi KUBOTA, Kazushige MIYAMOTO, Yasuhiro MIMURA, Yasuhiro NAKATAKE, Kazuya NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170097530
    Abstract: A blue phase liquid crystal display having a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween and a photo-conversion means disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Tzu-Yi TSAO, Cheng-Yeh TSAI, Fang-Cheng YU, Yi-Fen LAN, Yi-Ting CHEN, Pu-Jung HUANG, Szu-Yu LIN
  • Publication number: 20170097531
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal panel and an anti-dust translucent substrate fixed to a first surface of the liquid crystal panel. The translucent substrate includes a first phase difference compensation element having a first optical axis and integrally formed on a first surface of the translucent substrate, and a second phase difference compensation element having a second optical axis is opposed to the first phase difference compensation element. The second phase difference compensation element is placed such that an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules of a liquid crystal layer is located in an angular position between the extending direction of the first optical axis and the extending direction of the second optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitake TATENO
  • Publication number: 20170097532
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided, including a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; black matrixs formed on the first substrate; a color filter layer formed on the black matrixs. A main photo spacers is formed on the color filter layer and disposed under the black matrixs; wherein a first groove is formed on each of the main photo spacers, and a bump corresponding to the first groove is provided on the second substrate, and the bump is disposed in the first groove. A liquid crystal display including the liquid crystal display panel is also provided. With the present disclosure, damage to main photo spacers for overcompression may be avoided, and a mismatching of the first and second substrates may also be avoided, to thereby prevent light leaking of the liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: Yuejun TANG
  • Publication number: 20170097533
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate on which a display area and a non-display area disposed around the display area are defined; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; a common power supply line disposed in the non-display area of the first substrate to provide a common voltage; and a spacer disposed on the common power supply line to connect the common power supply line and the common electrode, where the spacer includes a conductive ball, and the conductive ball includes a heating solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Hyung Jun PARK, Byoung Sun NA, Seon Kyoon MOK, Seong Young LEE, Hwan Young JANG
  • Publication number: 20170097534
    Abstract: A transparent conductive film includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer, and a third conductive layer disposed on the second conductive layer. The second conductive layer includes silver (Ag) and an alloy element, the alloy element has a smaller atomic radius than the Ag, and a thickness of the second conductive layer is in a range of 20 ? to 60 ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Hyuneok SHIN, Dongmin LEE, Chanwoo YANG, Juhyun LEE, Changoh JEONG
  • Publication number: 20170097535
    Abstract: A display device in an embodiment according to the present invention includes a display region arranged above a flexible substrate, the display region including a first display region and a second display region continuing from the first display region, at least the second display region including a curved surface. The second display region is located at a position where an image displayed in the second display region is not seen directly when viewing the first display region from a perpendicular direction with respect to a center part of the first display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Naohisa ANDOU, Tomoki NAKAMURA, Yoshihiro KANNO
  • Publication number: 20170097536
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a backlight unit, a bottom cover, a printed circuit board (“PCB”) electrically connected to the display panel, a shield cover disposed on a lower surface of the PCB, and including a planar part on which a hook opening part is defined, and a bent part bent from the planar part to face the side wall part, and a top cover which is coupled to the bottom cover and includes a side surface part surrounding the side wall part, and a hook part extending from one end of the side surface part, inserted into the hook opening part, and coupled to the shield cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Kwangsun YOU, Keunho LEE
  • Publication number: 20170097537
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to transparent display apparatus including a transparent display panel. The transparent display panel includes a plurality of transmissive areas transmitting incident light and a plurality of emissive areas emitting light and a light control device disposed on one surface of the transparent display panel to execute a transmissive mode, where incident light is transmitted, and a light shield mode where incident light is blocked. The light control device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a liquid crystal cell provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a partition wall maintaining a cell gap of the liquid crystal cell. The partition wall has a honeycomb structure, and a plurality of column spacers are disposed between partition walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Sunyoung Park, JiYoung Ahn