Patents Issued in December 28, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170371148
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and more particularly to membrane structures comprising pixels for use in, e.g., display devices. In embodiments, a membrane structure comprises a monocrystalline silicon membrane above a cavity formed over a silicon substrate. The membrane structure can comprise a light interference structure that, depending upon a variable distance between the membrane and the substrate, transmits or reflects different wavelengths of light. Related devices, systems and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Meier, Klemens Pruegl, Bernhard Winkler, Thomas Popp, Raimund Foerg
  • Publication number: 20170371149
    Abstract: A display device includes a first support plate and a pixel region over the first support plate. A thin film transistor (TFT) structure is disposed over the first support plate and associated with the pixel region. The TFT structure includes a first metal layer over the first support plate. The first metal layer includes a gate. A silicon layer is disposed over the gate. A second metal layer is disposed over the silicon layer. The second metal layer includes a source and a drain covering a first portion of the silicon layer. An amorphous silicon layer is disposed over at least a portion of the second metal layer and a second portion of the silicon layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Toru Sakai, Abhishek Kumar
  • Publication number: 20170371150
    Abstract: An illumination device for a light modulated projector includes a first and a second colour wheel. A first filter surface of the first colour wheel comprises at least three first surface sections arranged one behind the other, which protrude into an illumination beam path of the illumination device successively on rotation and in each case convey illumination radiation of a different partial range of the visible wavelength range. At least one of the first surface sections of the first filter surface conveys illumination radiation from the infrared range. A second filter surface of the second colour wheel comprises a first surface segment which only conveys illumination radiation from the visible wavelength range and a second surface segment which only conveys illumination radiation from the infrared range. The first and second surface segments protrude into the illumination beam path successively on rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Axel KRAUSE, Enrico GEISSLER, Juergen KRAENERT
  • Publication number: 20170371151
    Abstract: Gravitational Janus microparticle having, a center-of-mass, a center-of-volume, and a non-uniform density, wherein: the center-of-mass and the center-of-volume are distinct. When suspended in a fluid, the microparticle substantially aligns with either: i) the gravitational field; or ii) the direction of an acceleration, such that the Janus microparticle is in substantial rotation equilibrium. After perturbation from substantial rotational equilibrium, the Janus microparticle reversibly rotates to return to substantial rotational equilibrium. The gravitational Janus microparticle may comprise at least two portions, each having distinct physical and/or chemical characteristics, wherein at least one portion provides a detectable effect following rotation and alignment of the microparticle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel BRASSARD, Lidija MALIC, Keith J. MORTON, Teodor VERES, Charles D. MACPHERSON, Theodoros GARANZOTIS
  • Publication number: 20170371152
    Abstract: An optical shutter apparatus has a baseplate that defines an aperture in a plane and that has at least first and second tabs that extend outward from the plane. At least a first linear actuator is coupled to the first tab and drives a magnetic shaft between the first and second tabs according to an electrical signal. A shutter blade is coupled to the magnetic shaft and is linearly translatable along a translation path in the direction of the plane between a first and a second position, wherein the shutter blade blocks at least a first portion of the aperture in the first position and unblocks the first portion of the aperture in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Stanley W. Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20170371153
    Abstract: An information providing method includes: measuring a static object three-dimensionally in an environment, by a processor; sequentially measuring a position of a dynamic object in the environment, by the processor; transmitting measurement data of the static object measured to a predetermined information processing apparatus through a communication network; transmitting measurement data of the dynamic object measured to the information processing apparatus through a communication network; receiving support data rem the information processing apparatus based on an environment grasping image that is generated from the measurement data, of the static object and the measurement data of the dynamic object by the information processing apparatus; and presenting the received support data to the environment at predetermined timing, by the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi HIDAKA, Yuichi Murase, Keiju Okabayashi, Shan Jiang, Katsushi Sakai, Junya Fujimoto, Moyuru Yamada, Shizuko Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20170371154
    Abstract: An apparatus for mitigating contamination of an optical device comprises an open-topped, closed-sided, and closed-bottomed housing cup partially defining a protected volume to enclose the optical device. A housing cap encloses a top of the housing cup and partially defines the protected volume. The housing cap includes a top collar having an open central aperture. A top cover laterally spans the central aperture of the top collar. An interface structure circumscribes the top cover to suspend the top cover downwardly into the housing cup from the top collar. The interface structure prevents direct contact between the top cover and the top collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: STEPHEN JOHN FEDIGAN, DAVID PATRICK MAGEE
  • Publication number: 20170371155
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus is provided with an image emission mechanism that emits image display light, and a combiner arranged in front of an eye (or eyes) of a pilot to introduce the image display light to the eye(s) of the pilot. The head-up display apparatus is equipped with a light guide including first and second plane arranged in parallel planes, an incidence plane including a first reflector and an emission plane including a second reflector disposed between the first and second planes. The light guide is configured to reflect image display light from the emission mechanism to the combiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Naohiro KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20170371156
    Abstract: A vehicular display control device includes an image acquisition section configured to acquire a first captured image obtained by capturing a back or a side of a vehicle and a second captured image including an image obtained by a driver of the vehicle by facing to a left side or a right side with respect to a vehicle's traveling direction and a display controller configured to make a head-up display mounted on the vehicle display both of a first display image based on the first captured image and a second display image based on the second captured image on different display screens respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori HEISHI, Atsushi MICHIMORI, Shota NAKAHARA, Jun KONDO
  • Publication number: 20170371157
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a virtual reality control device. The virtual reality control device comprises a pedestal, an upper body supporting element connected to an upper part of the pedestal, a lower body supporting element connected to a lower part of the pedestal, a central shaft whose one end is connected to the pedestal and another end is connected to a central portion of the upper body supporting element, and one or more encoders whose ends are connected to the pedestal and the other ends are connected to the upper body supporting element. The upper body supporting element makes a movement around the central shaft on the basis of a movement of the user, and the one or more encoders detect at least one of a linear displacement, a rotation angular displacement, and a speed depending on the movement of the upper body supporting element to generate first signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Indigo Entertainment
    Inventor: Ju Chul Kim
  • Publication number: 20170371158
    Abstract: A head up display mirror mounting arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a mirror positioned to reflect an image such that the image is again reflected by a windshield of the vehicle. A mirror holder includes two opposite ends each having a respective pivot. The pivots define an axis of rotation of the mirror. The mirror holder holds the mirror. A housing includes two opposite ends each having a respective bearing support. Two rotation mechanisms each pivotably couple a respective pivot to a respective bearing support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: GERALD A. TANG-KONG
  • Publication number: 20170371159
    Abstract: A display device includes a two-dimensional array of pixels configured for outputting a respective pattern of light. The display device also includes a lens assembly configured for relaying the respective pattern of light from the two-dimensional array of pixels to a pupil of an eye of a user. The lens assembly includes two or more lenses. The two or more lenses are configured in such a way that a ray of light from a respective pixel of the two-dimensional array of pixels passes through the two or more lenses of the lens assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Youngshik Yoon
  • Publication number: 20170371160
    Abstract: A head-mounted imaging apparatus includes a frame that houses a left-eye and a right-eye imaging apparatus. Each imaging apparatus forms a virtual image to an eye of an observer and includes a projector, a planar waveguide, and an optical coupler. The projector is supported by a temple member of the frame and emits a central projected light beam along a projection axis. The planar waveguide accepts the projected light beam through an input aperture and forms an expanded light beam that is output from an output aperture and directed toward the observer's eye. The optical coupler receives the central projected light beam along a first axis that is at an obtuse angle with respect to the waveguide surface, and the optical coupler redirects the central projected light beam along a second axis that is at an acute angle with respect to the waveguide surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Robert J. Schultz
  • Publication number: 20170371161
    Abstract: A binocular device adapted to a wearer comprising: a first lens and a second lens, respectively designed to be placed in front of first and second eyes of the wearer, the first lens comprising at least a back face, a monocular display device designed and arranged to display a virtual picture towards the first eye of the wearer, the virtual picture being transmitted through the back face of the first lens defining a display area on the back face, wherein: the second lens comprises an adapted area and a corresponding area, the corresponding area is the area scanned by the second eye of the wearer when the first eye scans the virtual picture through the display area, and the adapted area is arranged so that the adapted area overlaps at least a part of the corresponding area, and the adapted area is configured to be obscured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Luis Ricardo CASTRO MARTINEZ, Konogan BARANTON, Vincent ROPTIN
  • Publication number: 20170371162
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes: a first display that displays a first image, the first display being located in front of a pupil of a user in a forward-looking-state in which the pupil is looking forward; a second display that displays a second image, the second display being located diagonally in front of the pupil in the forward-looking-state; a first eye lens that causes first light of the first image to pass through the pupil, the first eye lens being located between the pupil and the first display in the forward-looking-state; and a second eye lens that causes second light of the second image to pass through the pupil, the second eye lens being located between the pupil and the second display in the forward-looking-state. The distance between the second display and the second eye lens decreases as a distance from the first display increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: HIROYASU MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20170371163
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device (such as a head mounted device) includes a partially transparent and partially reflective lens, a laser light source, a radio frequency source, a display controller, an acousto-optical modulator, and a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device. The laser light source generates light. The radio frequency (RF) source generates a RF signal. The display controller generates a synchronization signal. The acousto-optical modulator receives at least a portion of the light, modulates the light based on the RF signal, and provides modulated light. The MEMS device receives the synchronization signal from the display controller and reflects the modulated light towards the partially transparent and partially reflective lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Ryan Ries
  • Publication number: 20170371164
    Abstract: Smart glasses comprise a glasses frame. The smart glasses further comprise a pair of glasses legs connected to two lateral portions of the glasses frame respectively, each of the glasses legs having a first end and a second end, wherein the second end of each of the glasses legs bends inwardly to form a first arc portion. In addition, the smart glasses further comprise a pair of clamping members each disposed at one of the glasses legs, wherein each of the clamping members comprises an elastic clamping element, said elastic clamping element being disposed at the inner side of said second end, wherein said elastic clamping element having a free end that bends inwardly to form a second arc portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Chunyuan Liao
  • Publication number: 20170371165
    Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes an image source emitting a virtual image based on image data. A mirror is positioned to reflect the virtual image such that the virtual image further reflects off of a windshield of the motor vehicle and is visible to a driver of the vehicle while eyes of the driver are disposed within an eyebox. A driver's input device is coupled to the mirror and changes an angle of reflection of the mirror and thereby changes a vertical level of the eyebox in response to input from the driver. A controller is communicatively coupled to the image source and produces the image data. The controller determines the angle of reflection of the mirror, and adjusts the image data in response to the change in the angle of reflection of the mirror such that a vertical level of the virtual image is unchanged by the change in the angle of reflection of the mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: DAVID KAY LAMBERT
  • Publication number: 20170371166
    Abstract: A device for machining material by means of laser radiation, including a focusing optics for focusing a laser beam onto a workpiece and an adjusting optics for adjusting the intensity distribution comprising at least two plate-shaped optical elements which are arranged one behind the other in the beam path of the laser beam, which are rotatable relative to one another in the circumferential direction, and which each have a surface with a circular pattern of sector-shaped facets which, in the circumferential direction, are alternately inclined with respect to the respective plate plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas RUDOLF, Martin SCHÖNLEBER
  • Publication number: 20170371167
    Abstract: Discrete light fiber inputs for high powered image projector display systems are disclosed herein. Various embodiments disclosed herein may employ a bundle of light fiber inputs, a diffuser and reducing relay optic to convert the fiber input array into a smaller pattern of spots that may be interfaced to a projector display system that may perform light recycling. Many embodiments herein may facilitate higher power laser light for illumination and, possibly, recycling. In these embodiments, laser fibers may be individually collimated and illuminate a diffuser. The diffuser spots may be then imaged through a common path relay that can be resized to allow room for the individual lasers and collimation lenses. The diffuser spots may be imaged through holes in a mirror that is on the input side of an integration rod which recycles the light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Duane Scott DEWALD, Nathan WAINWRIGHT, Douglas J. GORNY, Martin J. RICHARDS
  • Publication number: 20170371168
    Abstract: Integrating rod modules are disclosed comprising a plurality of single and/or solid integrating rods that are mated together by straps. Such modules tend to comprise a greater length than the single and/or solid integrating rods and provide good illumination to a modulator that light from a light source is transmitted through the integrating rod module. The straps may comprise a material (e.g., glass) that has substantially same or similar thermal characteristics as the integrating rods. The straps may be glued to the integrating rods by a glue having a substantially different (e.g., lower) index of refraction than the integrating rods, so as not to disturb the internal reflectance of the rods. The straps may be reinforced by braces that may allow the integrating rod module to be set within a projection display system at an angle substantially different from horizontal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Duane Scott DEWALD, Nathan WAINWRIGHT, Douglas J. GORNY, Martin J. RICHARDS
  • Publication number: 20170371169
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lens grate having a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a first electrode layer on the first substrate, a resin layer on the first electrode layer, a second electrode layer on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the resin layer and the second electrode layer. One side of the resin layer facing toward the liquid crystal layer is configured with a plurality of concave spherical surfaces. By configuring the concave spherical surfaces, the thickness of the liquid crystal layer is gradually decreased along the direction from the center area to the rim area from regardless of the viewing directions, i.e., top-down, left-right, or slant, and thus the viewing angle is wide. With such design, the viewing angle of the 3D effect may be enlarged so as to enhance the 3D display performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang XIE
  • Publication number: 20170371170
    Abstract: A method of assembling a display device is proposed. The method includes: arranging an alignment imaging device over the lens layer, aligning a first alignment target of the display panel and a first alignment target of the lens layer, controlling the display panel to emit and obtaining the light passing through the lens layer with the alignment imaging device to form bright and dark stripes, arranging one or more second alignment targets on the display panel and adjusting the position of the lens layer so as to align the central line of a bright stripe in the bright and dark stripes to the second alignment targets, and adhering the display panel to the lens layer. By using the present disclosure, the precise alignment of the display panel and the lens layer is reflected rapidly. The yield rate increases. The three-dimensional display effect of the display device improves as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongqing CUI, Guowei ZHA
  • Publication number: 20170371171
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus and a three-dimensional display method thereof. A via hole at least passing through a base substrate is formed in an array substrate of a liquid crystal display panel, and a signal line on a upper surface of the array substrate can be connected with a driving chip bonded onto an electroluminescent display substrate, through to the via hole on a lower surface of the array substrate and through a conductive material in an optical clear adhesive. A signal line on the electroluminescent display substrate also can be connected with a driving chip bonded onto an upper surface of the array substrate, through the conductive material in the optical clear adhesive on a lower surface of the array substrate and through the via hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicants: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Xu, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Ming Yang, Pengcheng Lu, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu
  • Publication number: 20170371172
    Abstract: A drive system for a projection screen in a swept surface volumetric 3D display is disclosed. The drive system causes the projection screen to reciprocate through an excursion distance at a screen reciprocating frequency relative to a projection system. The drive system includes an actuator arrangement for generating an input reciprocating force substantially at the screen reciprocating frequency through an input excursion distance and a support structure for the projection screen. The support structure includes a resonant mounting arrangement for the projection screen. The resonant mounting arrangement is operably connected to the actuator arrangement and configured to allow the projection screen to reciprocate through the excursion distance. The resonant mounting arrangement is configured to have a resonant frequency substantially equivalent to the screen reciprocating frequency on actuation of the actuator arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Sean Frederick Keane, Alan Jackson, Gavin Finlay Smith, William Joseph Tamblyn, Ken Silverman
  • Publication number: 20170371173
    Abstract: Speckle artifacts as viewed in images projected on a display surface by a projector can be reduced. At least one spatial light modulator, illuminated by one or more light sources, can be imaged to a screen by a projection lens. A deflector subsystem can be provided in image space, proximate to the lens, where the image light emerges. In this location, image light directed to any given field point on the display surface is convergent, but can appear collimated. The deflector subsystem can include a tilted optical plate that is rotated in a plane along an axis. As the deflector subsystem is temporally rotated, the image light to any given field point traverses different optical paths, varying the angular diversity to reduce perceivable speckle by changing at least the angle of incidence to the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Joseph R. Bietry, Andrew F. Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20170371174
    Abstract: An optical device includes: a piezoelectric element of a sheet shape; a restriction section attached to the piezoelectric element, the restriction section configured to restrict a movable area in the piezoelectric element to a polygonal predetermined region; an optical element attached to the movable area of the piezoelectric element; and a plurality of electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric element, the plurality of electrodes configured to be applied with voltage independently, wherein: the electrodes are disposed at adjacent two comers in the movable area; and the piezoelectric element expands and contracts based on voltage applied to the electrodes in a manner that a periphery of the corner where the electrode is disposed in the movable area expands and contracts in multiple directions including two directions along two sides forming the corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Kazumasa BABA, Hiromitsu TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170371175
    Abstract: An optical device includes: an optical element; a housing unit configured to accommodate the optical element; a support part configured to pivotally support the optical element to be tiltable with respect to the housing unit; a piezoelectric element configured to connect the optical element and the housing unit to each other; and an electrode arranged at the piezoelectric element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Kazumasa BABA, Hiromitsu TAKEUCHI, Yuji YONEHARA
  • Publication number: 20170371176
    Abstract: A device for measuring an aberration has an image sensor, projection optics for optically projecting onto the image sensor, an optical unit for influencing the optical projection onto the image sensor so that the result on the image sensor is a multiple image of a plurality of sub-images, wherein the optical unit has at least one region per sub-image, wherein the regions influence different lateral portions of a wavefront incident on the projection optics in different ways, and an evaluator configured to determine information relating to the aberration based on the multiple image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: René BERLICH, Claudia REINLEIN
  • Publication number: 20170371177
    Abstract: An eyewear retention device that comprises two retaining devices, each meant to be positioned on a temple member of a pair of eyeglasses. The retainer devices are meant to be positioned between the concha and pinna of the ear so that hold the eyeglasses on the nose of the wearer securely at the wearer's desired portion without any slippage of the eyeglasses along the nose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Richard J. Yribarren
  • Publication number: 20170371178
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for recommending ophthalmic lens parameters. The method includes receiving user data from a plurality of lens wearers, receiving lens configuration information, and receiving satisfaction information for a plurality of lens wearers. The user data and satisfaction information are analyzed to identify and/or determine lens features based on correlations in the user data and the satisfaction information, including repeating the analyzing when additional user data and additional satisfaction information is received and/or on a regular basis. When new wearer information including a lens prescription for a new wearer and user data for the new wearer is received, lens parameters are produced for the new wearer including evaluating lens manufacturing characteristics based on the analyzing in correlation with the new wearer information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel Crespo, José Alonso, Eduardo Pascual, Juan Antonio Quiroga
  • Publication number: 20170371179
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining a filter for an ophthalmic lens to be placed in front of the eye of the wearer, the filter being able to improve or maintain the visual comfort and/or the visual performances of the wearer. The determination method includes: a step of measuring a variable representative of sensitivity of the eye or both eyes of the wearer to a characteristic light flow, and a step of determining at least one optical characteristic of the filter according to the representative variable measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Anne-Catherine SCHERLEN, Adele LONGO
  • Publication number: 20170371180
    Abstract: A lens comprises an internal cavity structure formed by dissolution of a soluble insert material. The internal soluble material may dissolve through a body of a lens such as a contact lens in order to form the cavity within the contact lens. The cavity within the lens can be shaped in many ways, and corresponds to the shape of the dissolved material, such that many internal cavity shapes can be readily fabricated within the contact lens. The insert can be placed in a mold with a pre-polymer material, and the pre-polymer material cured with the insert placed in the mold to form the lens body. The polymerized polymer may comprise a low expansion polymer in order to inhibit expansion of the lens when hydrated. The polymer may comprise a hydrogel when hydrated. The soft contact lens material comprises a sufficient amount of cross-linking to provide structure to the lens and shape the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Adam HARANT, Amelia DAVENPORT, Neil CRAMER, Steve WAITE, Amitava GUPTA, William J. LINK, Gamil ALHAKIMI, Lisa STUDNICKI, Musa ALHAKIMI
  • Publication number: 20170371181
    Abstract: A pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision. In each of the pair of spectacle lenses for binocular vision, when an inner horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward the nose of a user who wears the spectacle lenses, and an outer horizontal direction of each of the spectacle lenses is a direction toward an ear of the user, a portion for viewing an object at finite distance is provided and a shape of a base out prism is formed in the position such that a line of sight of a user viewing an object through the portion is directed to a direction that is different from a direction from the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi KAGA, Ayumu ITO, Kazuma KOZU
  • Publication number: 20170371182
    Abstract: An actuator assembly for an adjustable fluid-filled lens is provided. In some embodiments, the actuator assembly includes a clamp configured to adjust the optical power of the fluid lens module when the clamp is compressed. In some embodiments, a magnetic element is configured to adjust the optical power of the fluid-filled lens. In some embodiments, a plunger changes the optical power of the fluid lens module. In some embodiments, a reservoir is configured such that deformation of the reservoir changes the optical power of the fluid-filled lens. In some embodiments, a balloon is configured to deform the reservoir. In some embodiments, an adjustable fluid-filled lens includes a septum configured to be pierceable by a needle and automatically and fluidly seal a fluid chamber after withdrawal of the needle. In some embodiments, a thermal element can heat fluid within a fluid chamber to change an optical power of the lens module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: William Egan, Karim Haroud, Lisa Nibauer, Matthew Peterson, Urban Schnell, Daniel Senatore
  • Publication number: 20170371183
    Abstract: A method including receiving information indicative of a first light preference profile, receiving information indicative of a second light preference profile, determining that the first light preference profile differs from the second light preference profile, determining a first light control setting based on the first light preference profile, determining a second light control setting based on the second light preference profile, determining a periodic light source actuation directive, causing sending of the periodic light source actuation directive to the light source, determining a first shutter control directive for the first near eye apparatus, causing sending of the first shutter control directive to the first near eye apparatus, determining a second shutter control directive for the second near eye apparatus, and causing sending of the second shutter control directive to the second near eye apparatus is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Kimmo ROIMELA, Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Jussi LEPPANEN
  • Publication number: 20170371184
    Abstract: Current invention propounds a novel active contact lens device, system, as well as, a corresponding method of operation of such contact lens with an embedded orientation determination mechanism. The system, furthermore, utilizes an onboard, integrated orientation and gaze sensing component to determine eye orientation, in 3D (x,y,z) dimension corresponding to the direction of eye gaze, or in 2D (x,y) dimension, denoting orientation relative to the horizontal or vertical line of the eye, also known as, the horizontal or vertical meridian of the eye. Such a system may be used to provide rich augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) experience to its user/wearer. Hereby, we propose to incorporate several electronic, electro-optical, optical or other types of components into the contact lens substrate and interconnect them to form such an innovative AR/VR enabled active contact lens system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: RaayonNova LLC
    Inventor: Aleksandr Shtukater
  • Publication number: 20170371185
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a structure for a curved display device. The structure for a curved display device includes: a plurality of unit body parts each comprising a sheet bent into an arcuate shape; and at least one bent part through which adjacent ones of the unit body parts are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Jae Sang LEE, So Jeong LA, Su Chang RYU, Lu Ly LEE
  • Publication number: 20170371186
    Abstract: An optical switching device comprising a polarisation layer and a switching layer which comprises a liquid-crystalline material and a dye compound. Use of the optical switching device for the regulation of the passage of light through an area element. A window element which has the optical switching device therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Michael JUNGE, Andreas BEYER, Mila FISCHER
  • Publication number: 20170371187
    Abstract: To provide a display device with high visibility or low power consumption. The display device includes a self-luminous display element and a reflective display element. The reflective display element includes a light-reflective layer and a layer containing a liquid crystal material. The self-luminous display element transmits visible light. The layer containing the liquid crystal material includes a region located between the light-reflective layer and the self-luminous display element. The display device further includes a polarizing plate, and the polarizing plate preferably includes a region located between the layer containing the liquid crystal material and the self-luminous display element. Alternatively, the self-luminous display element preferably includes a region located between the layer containing the liquid crystal material and the polarizing plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hajime Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170371188
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel and a method of fabricating the same are described. For the liquid crystal panel, an optical alignment treatment is performed to irradiate a polarized ultraviolet light to an optical alignment layer in advance. Thus, when a polymerizing step is performed, tilting directions of the liquid crystal molecules can be made uniform, thereby solving the problem of reducing an optical transmittance existing in the conventional technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Xingwu Chen, Xiaolong MA
  • Publication number: 20170371189
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate has a display area and the second substrate is arranged opposite to the first substrate. The display panel further includes a display layer. The display layer is positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display panel also includes a sealant. The sealant is positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate and outside the display area. The sealant has an outline, and at least one portion of the outline is wavy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Chung-Wen YEN, Chao-Hsiang WANG, Shih-Hsiung WU, Huan-Kuang PENG, Jui-Chu LAI
  • Publication number: 20170371190
    Abstract: A highly reliable display device is provided. In a flexible display device including at least a first display region and a second display region, at least a portion of a wiring provided in the first display region or the second display region has a meandering shape or a chain-like shape. Since the wiring has a meandering shape or a chain-like shape, a short-circuit, a disconnection, or the like of the wiring due to curving or bending of the display device does not occur easily. The wiring having a meandering shape or a chain-like shape can prevent defective operation, lowered reliability, or the like of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Daisuke KUBOTA, Hideki UOCHI
  • Publication number: 20170371191
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display apparatus are provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and a second substrate, and the second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate. The second substrate includes a second base, a lower polarizing film positioned under the second base; and a wave plate positioned under the lower polarizing film, and used to reduce ambient light reflected by a reflection film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Xinhui ZHONG
  • Publication number: 20170371192
    Abstract: A 3D image pixel in a spatially multiplexed stereo 3D display includes a first left-eye subpixel and a second left-eye subpixel that are both driven when displaying the left-eye image. The 3D image pixel also includes a first right-eye subpixel and a second right-eye subpixel that are both driven when displaying the right-eye image. The subpixels may all have a square shape. Single color emitters in the subpixels of the same eye may be driven by the same electronics. A 3D image pixel in a second spatially multiplexed stereo 3D display includes a left-eye pixel driven when displaying the left-eye image and a right-eye pixel driven when displaying the right-eye image. The pixels may all have a rectangular shape, and the horizontal measurement of the pixels may be greater than the vertical measurement of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: David A. Coleman, Peter Ludé
  • Publication number: 20170371193
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels each including a pixel capacitor and a pixel transistor, a scanning line that is coupled to the respective pixels and is configured to receive a scan signal, and a video signal line that is coupled to the respective pixels and is configured to receive a video signal; and a driver configured to drive the display panel. The pixel transistor includes: at least one N-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor coupled between the video signal line and the pixel capacitor; and a P-channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor coupled in parallel with the NMOS transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Tadayoshi KATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20170371194
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a first area and a second area, the first area including a display area where pixels are arranged, and the second area being adjacent to the first area and where wirings are arranged, wherein the wirings are covered with a protection layer, the second area includes a peripheral area and a central area in an arrangement direction of the wirings, and a thickness of at least one of the first substrate and the protection layer varies between the peripheral area and the central area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi TOMIOKA, Hajime YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170371195
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate and an external circuit, the first substrate including a first area, a second area, and wirings, the first area including a display area in which pixels are arranged the external circuit being mounted on the second area. The wirings are electrically connected to the external circuit, provided in the first area and the second area, and arranged in the first direction. At least one of the wirings is inclined with respect to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction in a first portion of the second area. The first substrate is bent in the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi TOMIOKA, Hajime YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170371196
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a plastic frame, used to install a liquid crystal display panel. A color of the plastic frame changes from white to black, from a side close to the liquid crystal layer to a side far from the liquid crystal layer, to prevent light leaking. The color of the plastic frame changes gradually from white to black from inside to outside, so as to reduce a thickness of the plastic frame while preventing light leaking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Shihhsiang CHEN, Pengbo XU
  • Publication number: 20170371197
    Abstract: A display device includes: a panel including a display screen and a side face that extends along a periphery of the display screen; a backlight located on a side of the panel opposite to the display screen to radiate light on the panel; a case, for containing the backlight, including a bottom that faces the panel with the backlight in between and a side wall that stands at a periphery of the bottom and faces the side face of the panel; and a combining member provided between the side face of the panel and the side wall to combine the panel and the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Ken Hirabayashi