Patents Issued in February 13, 2018
  • Patent number: 9891423
    Abstract: A procedure for the correction of spherical aberration in microscopic applications, wherein various recordings of a specimen to be observed are taken and evaluated for the purpose of changing the setting values of the optical system. The correction values are stored in a correction matrix as a function of the recording position, the recording time, the wavelength, and the temperature, wherein the determination and storage of the correction values are carried out in each recording position in the x, y, and z coordinates, and/or the correction values are determined after a selection of grid points by interpolation, so that the correction values of the interpolated correction matrix are the starting values for the subsequent exact determination by measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Kues, Ralf Steinmeyer
  • Patent number: 9891424
    Abstract: An actuator drive system includes electrostatic actuators and a voltage controller that applies drive voltages to the electrostatic actuators, and the voltage controller includes a digital control device that splits an 8-bit drive variable corresponding to an overall displacement amount provided by the electrostatic actuators into 4-bit individual drive variables, a first DAC that produces a first drive voltage signal based on a first individual drive variable, and a second DAC that produces a second drive voltage signal based on a second individual drive variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Hirokubo, Akira Sano
  • Patent number: 9891425
    Abstract: An optical filter device may include an optical waveguide having an input and an output, and a plurality of first optical resonators optically coupled to the optical waveguide along a length thereof between the input and the output. The optical filter device may further include at least one second optical resonator optically coupled to the plurality of first optical resonators opposite the optical waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: HARRIS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arthur C. Paolella, Erin K. Sharma, Charles F. Middleton, Evan L. Atwood, Stephen Rego
  • Patent number: 9891426
    Abstract: A dimmer unit is equipped with a first light detection unit that modulates the light intensity of composite laser light emitted from a composite laser light emission unit and detects the light intensity of the composite laser light before entering the dimmer unit, and a second light detection unit that detects the light intensity of the composite laser light after entering the dimmer unit. The light intensity characteristic for each color in the composite laser light emission unit is calculated on the basis of the light intensity detected by the first light detection unit, and the white balance of each color in the composite laser light emission unit is adjusted on the basis of the light intensity detected by the second light detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamakawa, Shun Sekiya
  • Patent number: 9891427
    Abstract: Various embodiments include systems and methods to provide selectable variable gain to signals in measurements using incident radiation. The selectable variable gain may be used to normalize signals modulated in measurements using incident radiation. The selectable variable gain may be attained using a number of different techniques or various combinations of these techniques. These techniques may include modulating a modulator having modulating elements in which at least one modulating element acts on incident radiation differently from another modulating element of the modulator, modulating the use of electronic components in electronic circuitry of a detector, modulating a source of radiation or combinations thereof. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Perkins, Christopher Michael Jones, Michael T. Pelletier, Li Gao, Robert Atkinson, William Soltmann
  • Patent number: 9891428
    Abstract: An optical measurement system including a two-dimensional sine wave annuls grating and a measurement unit is provided. The two-dimensional sine wave annuls grating includes a rotary shaft and a plurality of sine wave structures surrounding the rotary shaft and continuously arranged. The measurement unit is adapted to output a light beam towards the two-dimensional sine wave annuls grating, wherein each of the sine wave structures is adapted to reflect the light beam from the two-dimensional sine wave annuls grating back to the measurement unit. A measurement method for errors of a rotating platform and a two-dimensional sine wave annuls grating are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Metal Industries Research & Development Centre
    Inventors: Hsiu-An Tsai, Nai-Chun An
  • Patent number: 9891429
    Abstract: A controllable polymer actuator (1) comprising a dielectric elastomeric film (2); a first (3) and a second (4) deformable electrode arranged on opposite sides of the dielectric elastomeric film such that application of a voltage between the electrodes causes an active portion (7) of the controllable polymer actuator to change topography. The controllable polymer actuator (1) further comprises a deformation controlling layer (5, 6) connected to the dielectric elastomeric film. The deformation controlling layer at least locally has a higher stiffness than the dielectric elastomeric film, and exhibits a spatially varying stiffness across the active portion (7). This may enable surface topographies that could not at all be achieved using previously known controllable polymer actuators and/or may enable a certain surface topography to be achieved with a simpler electrode pattern and/or fewer individually controllable electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Wiebe Wagemans, Dirk Brokken, Floris Maria Hermansz Crompvoets
  • Patent number: 9891430
    Abstract: A laser projector includes a laser source module for generating an input light beam, a deflection component that deflects the input light beam to mutually orthogonal first and second scanning directions to form a scanning light beam, a first prism and a second prism both used for allowing the scanning light beam to pass therethrough for performing two-dimensional scanning on an imaging surface and formation of an image. By adjustment of the angle between the first prism and the second prism, various conditions are satisfied to achieve image distortion correction and image lift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Opus Microsystems Corporation
    Inventors: Chang-Li Hung, Feng-Chun Yeh, Yu-Sheng Liou
  • Patent number: 9891431
    Abstract: An optical device includes: an optical portion that has a light incident surface on which light is incident; a movable portion that includes a disposition surface on which the optical portion is disposed and a concave disposition portion; and a shaft portion that supports the movable portion so that the movable portion is oscillatable, wherein a portion in which the disposition surface is not formed is included between the optical portion and the shaft portion in a plan view in a normal line direction of the light incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hisako Kojima, Yasushi Mizoguchi, Makiko Hino
  • Patent number: 9891432
    Abstract: An object detection device includes: a light projection unit that includes a light source having a plurality of light emitting units that are arranged along at least one direction; a light scanning unit that scans light emitted from the light projection unit along the one direction; a light receiving unit that receives light emitted from the light scanning unit and reflected on an object; and a control unit that determines a light emitting unit to be turned on among the light emitting units, according to a direction of travel of light scanned by the light scanning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kohji Sakai
  • Patent number: 9891433
    Abstract: The virtual image generation device which visualizes images formed by an image forming unit as virtual images includes: a first optical element and a second optical element arranged opposite to each other along a travelling direction of an image light corresponding to the images. The first optical element and the second optical element have a characteristic of reflecting the light having a wavelength corresponding to the image light in accordance with an incident angle of the light and transmitting the light having the wavelength other than the wavelength corresponding to the image light, and give a predetermined optical effect only to the image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuma Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 9891434
    Abstract: An image display system includes a projector, a transparent screen, and a polarization adjuster. The projector projects image light. The transparent screen diffuses the image light that has been projected, to display an image. The polarization adjuster adjusts the image light that is to enter the transparent screen so that the image light is p-polarized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 9891435
    Abstract: An apparatus, methods and systems to provide a personal viewing device configured to display an image. The personal viewing device configured to be worn by a user. At least one sensor coupled to the personal viewing device. At least one camera coupled to the personal viewing device and facing outwardly with respect to the personal viewing device. A processor configured for interaction analysis. The processor in communication with the personal viewing device, the at least one sensor and the at least one camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Sensics, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuval Boger, Meir Machlin, Yosef Korakin
  • Patent number: 9891436
    Abstract: A near eye or heads up display system includes a display engine, at least two optical waveguides, and a respective coating on at least one of the major surfaces of at least one of the waveguides. At least one such coating has a low reflectance for light within a specific wavelength range for the waveguide and incident on a major surface of the waveguide on which the coating is located at an angle below a low threshold angle relative to a normal, and has a high reflectance for light within the specific wavelength range for the waveguide that is incident on the major surface on which the coating is located at an angle above a high threshold angle relative to the normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: R. Andrew Wall, Tuomas Vallius, Pasi Pietila, Keita Oka
  • Patent number: 9891437
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light output part that outputs modulated lights and a light scanning part that performs scanning with the modulated lights in first directions and second directions. Scanning with the respective modulated lights is performed only in ones of outward paths and return paths in the first directions, in an image plane, irradiated points of the modulated lights are arranged side by side in directions crossing the first directions, the scanning of the modulated lights is performed in the second directions for two scanning lines extending in the first directions at a time, and one of the irradiated points at a certain time is located in a position different from those of scanning tracks of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9891438
    Abstract: Disclosed is a video processor for a magnifier camera. In particular, the disclosure relates to a video processor that eliminates the use of a frame buffer. This, in turn, reduces the latency otherwise present in the video signal. The disclosed video processor also allows selected portions of the display to be shaded. This highlights the non-shaded portions of the display while at the same time allowing the entire object to be perceived by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Murphy, Todd Conard, Douglas J. Glazar
  • Patent number: 9891439
    Abstract: A light source comprises a light combining device for guiding incident light from a first light emitting source (310) and incident light from a second light emitting source (340) with different incident directions to combine two paths of incident light into one path of emission light emitted from a first optical path. The light combining device comprises a guide part (330), for guiding light from the second light emitting source (340) to converge into the first optical path, and hindering a part of light from the first light emitting source (310) from entering the first optical path, the luminous flux of the hindered part of the light being less than the luminous flux of light from the first light emitting source (310) entering the first optical path. This light source can effectively reduce the cost and achieve a better heat dissipation effect and is especially suitable for a projection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 9891440
    Abstract: Provided are infrared interactive remote control devices and projection systems using same, which can distinguish an indication state and an interactive control state. A pattern disc rotatable around a rotating shaft is provided in the infrared interactive remote control device. In a normal state, a visible light source works independently, and indication pattern holes in the pattern disc are positioned on an optical path to allow visible light to pass through, so that indication light spots corresponding to the indication pattern holes are formed. When a control button is pressed down, the visible light source and an infrared light source work together, and the pattern disc is driven to rotate, so that the control pattern holes are positioned on the optical path to allow the visible light to pass through, and control light spots corresponding to the control pattern holes are formed to indicate an interactive control state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: PIQS TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) LIMITED
    Inventors: Qinglin Na, Yan Huang, Haohuang Mai, Haixiang Wang
  • Patent number: 9891441
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stereoscopic display device, comprising: a display panel and a lens grating, wherein further comprising: a waveform lens disposed between said display panel and said lens grating; the wave crest of said waveform lens corresponds to the black matrix area of said display panel, the wave trough of said waveform lens corresponds to the pixel area of said display panel. In the solution of the present invention, by employing the waveform lens disposed in front of the display panel, the crosstalk between images can be decreased and the stereoscopic image display effect can be improved while the luminance of the display panel does not become darken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heecheol Kim, Chunfang Zhang, Yan Wei, Chao Xu
  • Patent number: 9891442
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel displaying an image and having a first radius of curvature, a distance measuring unit measuring a user distance, the user distance being a distance between the display panel and a user, and a curvature radius changing unit receiving the measured user distance from the distance measuring unit, to change the first radius of curvature of the display panel to a second radius of curvature different from the first radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bon-Seog Gu, Nam-Gon Choi
  • Patent number: 9891443
    Abstract: An optical device may include a movable part including a lens; a holding part to hold the movable part; and a drive mechanism to drive the movable part. The holding part may include a case body. The drive mechanism may include a plurality of drive magnets; a plurality of sheet-shaped coils including a coil part; and a flexible printed circuit board including a coil attaching part. A plurality of the sheet-shaped coils may be attached to one face of the coil attaching part. A thickness of the coil attaching part is thinner than the sheet-shaped coil. A width of the coil attaching part may be narrower than a width of the sheet-shaped coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hamada, Shinroku Asakawa, Tatsuki Wade, Shinji Minamisawa
  • Patent number: 9891444
    Abstract: An optical unit may include an optical module; a fixed body including a body part surrounding the optical module; a gimbal mechanism swingably supporting the optical module around a first axial line and a second axial line intersecting the optical axis direction and the first axial line; a shake correction drive mechanism including a coil and a magnet between a side face of the optical module and a side face of the body part; and a plate-shaped spring which is connected with the optical module and the fixed body to determine posture of the optical module when the shake correction drive mechanism is set in a stopped state. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, the gimbal mechanism and the plate-shaped spring may be provided at positions overlapping with the shake correction drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Minamisawa
  • Patent number: 9891445
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an optics assembly housing an optics component. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is configured to move within the apparatus. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is suspended by a plurality of wires on a base component of the apparatus. In some embodiments, one or more passive dampers disposed around the plurality of wires. In some embodiments, the passive dampers are configured to passively dampen motions of the optics assembly within the apparatus, and each of the one or more passive dampers radially surrounds a portion of a length of a respective one of the plurality of wires over a portion of the length of the respective one of the plurality of wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott W. Miller, Aurelien R. Hubert, Ryan J. Dunn, Douglas S. Brodie
  • Patent number: 9891446
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects accelerations in directions of three orthogonal axes; a generation unit that, in a case in which a difference between the magnitude of a resultant vector of the accelerations in the directions of the three orthogonal axes and the magnitude of the acceleration of gravity is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, generates a reference vector using the resultant vector; and a correction unit that corrects an image blur caused by translational shakes in directions of two orthogonal axes perpendicular to at least an optical axis of an imaging optical system, using the reference vector, on the basis of the accelerations in the directions of the three orthogonal axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Wada
  • Patent number: 9891447
    Abstract: A pair of progressive ophthalmic lenses (1, 2) meets special conditions for improving binocular vision of a wearer, while avoiding discomfort for peripheral vision. A first one of the conditions relates to height values of far vision fields, intermediate vision fields and/or proximate vision fields, for indicating that the fields are different enough in height between both lenses. A second one of the conditions sets a maximum value for the relative difference in mean refractive power gradient between both lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)
    Inventors: Aude Contet, Benedicte Deldalle, Cyril Guilloux, Farid Karioty
  • Patent number: 9891448
    Abstract: A tinted polarized lens for attenuating ambient light reducing glare and improving color discrimination for a user is disclosed. In some embodiments, the lens has uniform transmittance across the visible spectrum with selective filtering of light at 480 nm and 580 nm. In some embodiments, the lens may reduce light in the blue region of the spectrum while maintaining color discrimination. In some embodiments, the level of attenuation provided by the lens may vary based on the intensity of light present while maintaining selective filtering at 480 nm and 580 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Smith Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Carlson, Scott MacGuffie
  • Patent number: 9891449
    Abstract: This invention provides a clip-on member 1 includes a lens mounting rod 2 to which clip-on lenses are mounted, and a pair of upper clipping arms 4 and another pair of lower clipping arms 5 made of elastic members for attachment to the eyeglass frame. The upper clipping arms 4 include an upper hooking part 4a and another upper hooking part 4b with which the upper clipping arms 4 are fitted and mounted to the brow part of the spectacle frame from above. The lower clipping arm 5 includes an arm part 7a, an arm part 7b, and a pinching part 8. The arm parts 7a and 7b have left engagement part Sa and right engagement part Sb respectively held by the holding parts 6a and 6b, and placed at the nasal area of the spectacle frame between its right and left lenses. The lower left and right hooking parts 7a and 7b, as an extension of the clipping arms 7aand 7b, exercise theft elastic force towards the opposite sides, thus moving away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SUN-RAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Munakata, Chiharu Ishibe
  • Patent number: 9891450
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS
    Inventors: Charles Baudot, Maurin Douix, Frédéric Boeuf, Sébastien Cremer
  • Patent number: 9891451
    Abstract: A ring optical modulator includes a SOI substrate, including at least first and second top silicon layers, and a silicon-based ring resonator formed on the SOI substrate. The silicon-based ring resonator includes first and second top silicon layers, a thin dielectric gate layer disposed between the top silicon layers, first and second electric contacts, and first rib-type waveguide and ring-shape rib-type waveguide formed on the second top silicon layer. The thin dielectric layer includes a first side in contact with the first top silicon layer and a second side in contact with the second top silicon layer. With electric signals applied on the electric contacts, free carriers accumulate, deplete or invert within the top silicon layers on the first and second sides of the thin dielectric gate layer beneath the ring-shape rib-type waveguide, simultaneously, and a refractive index of the ring-shape rib-type waveguide confining optical fields is modulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SIFOTONICS TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tuo Shi, Tzung-I Su, Yongbo Shao, Dong Pan
  • Patent number: 9891452
    Abstract: Provided is a magneto-optical material which does not absorb fiber laser light in a wavelength range of 0.9-1.1 ?m and does not cause a thermal lens, while having a larger Verdet constant than TGG crystals, and which is suitable for constituting a magneto-optical device such as an optical isolator. This magneto-optical material is formed of a single crystal of a rare earth oxysulfide that is represented by formula (1) or a transparent ceramic which contains, as a main component, a rare earth oxysulfide that is represented by formula (1), and this magneto-optical material has a Verdet constant of 0.14 min/(Oe·cm) or more at the wavelength of 1,064 nm. (TbxR1-x)2O2S??(1) (In the formula, x is 0.3 or more but less than 1; and R represents at least one rare earth element that is selected from the group consisting of yttrium, lutetium, gadolinium, holmium, scandium, ytterbium, europium and dysprosium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Ikari
  • Patent number: 9891453
    Abstract: The present invention describes a planar waveguide-type integrated non-reciprocal polarization rotator. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the planar waveguide-type non-reciprocal 90° polarization rotator includes optical waveguide-type input and output ports, a reciprocal 45° polarization rotator based on an asymmetric optical waveguide structure, a non-reciprocal 45° polarization rotator based on an optical waveguide with a clad layer of magneto-optic material, and a phase compensator placed between the above reciprocal 45° polarization rotator and non-reciprocal 45° polarization rotator compensating the phase difference between two polarization modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: INHA-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kyong Hon Kim, YuDeuk Kim, Dong Wook Kim, Moon Hyeok Lee
  • Patent number: 9891454
    Abstract: A multiple glazing with variable scattering by liquid crystals can have first and second flat float glass sheets held on the edge of their internal faces by a joint made of a given joint material. In some examples, the glazing also includes first and second electrodes and a layer of liquid crystals with an average thickness E between 5 and 15 ?m. The thickness of each of the first and second glass sheets may be less than or equal to 6.5 mm and each of the internal faces coated with the first and second electrodes may have a dioptric defect score, expressed in millidiopters, of less than or equal to 2+2E/3, where the thickness E of the liquid crystals is in ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Cardinal IG Company
    Inventors: Jingwei Zhang, Patrick Gayout
  • Patent number: 9891455
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit, a parallax adjuster that includes a plurality of unit areas, a controller that detects positions of a right eye and a left eye of a user, determines a pixel display of pixels of a right eye image and a left eye image, and sets a light transmission state to the unit areas in accordance with the positions of the right eye and the left eye and the pixel display; a plurality of conductors that are provided corresponding to the respective unit areas and each of which applies a signal to set the light transmission state of the unit area to the corresponding unit area; and a coupling unit that electrically couples the conductors together, the coupling unit providing a certain resistance value between the conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Kaneko, Hiroki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Inamura
  • Patent number: 9891456
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate arranged to be opposed to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first electrode arranged for each of a plurality of pixels that are arranged in a matrix; a second electrode arranged at a position opposed to the first electrode; a plurality of first areas in which light transmission is suppressed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first areas extending in at least one direction to traverse the pixels; and a second area in which liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are rotated according to an electric field acting between the first electrode and the second electrode, the second area being sandwiched between the first areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiharu Matsushima
  • Patent number: 9891457
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and an LCD apparatus including the same, may include a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate including a touch electrode and a switching transistor that is disposed over a color filter (CF) substrate including a color filter, such that the TFT substrate is exposed to an outside of the LCD panel or LCD apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinseong Kim, CheolSe Kim, JuHan Kim, YongChan Park, Seungkyeom Kim
  • Patent number: 9891458
    Abstract: An input-cable display device is provided including a first substrate on which a pair of electrodes that drive a liquid crystal layer are provided; a second substrate wherein the liquid crystal layer is formed within an inner surface of the second substrate between the first substrate and the second substrate; a detection electrode and a dielectric film that are laminated on an outer surface of the second substrate; a detector; a light shielding film; and a color filter layer, wherein the pair of electrodes provided on the first substrate comprises a pixel electrode and a common electrode, and the light shielding film and the color filter layer are laminated on the inner surface of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Sumio Utsunomiya, Takeshi Koshihara, Takeyoshi Ushiki, Yoichi Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 9891459
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that is not influenced by a noise in obtaining positional information can be provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a pixel electrode and a common electrode with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. The pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other. The liquid crystal display device further includes a second substrate provided with a pair of electrodes, a resin film covering the pair of electrodes, and a conductive film on the resin film. The pair of electrodes partly overlap with each other with a second insulating film interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display device further includes a liquid crystal layer between the conductive film on the second substrate side and the pixel electrode and the common electrode on the first substrate side. A predetermined potential is supplied to the conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Tanabe, Takahiro Fukutome, Koji Moriya, Daisuke Kurosaki, Masakatsu Ohno
  • Patent number: 9891460
    Abstract: A substrate for display, a display panel and a display device are provided. The substrate for display comprises a base comprising an upper surface and a lower surface which are opposite to each other. The lower surface of the base is formed with scattering microstructures, and the upper surface of the base is formed with a layer structure for display, thereby achieving ultrathin appearance and low cost of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanbing Wu, Dongsheng Wang, Youmei Dong
  • Patent number: 9891461
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel comprises a base substrate, an opposite substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a plurality of original sub-pixels on at least part of which conversion sub-pixels are provided, and an upper water layer is provided on each of the conversion sub-pixels. The conversion sub-pixel is configured to, when an electric field is generated between the first and second electrodes, shrink to one side of the original sub-pixel so that the upper water layer covers the original sub-pixel from above, and, when no electric field is generated between the first and second electrodes, cover the original sub-pixel located under the conversion sub-pixel from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haifeng Zhou, Zhuo Zhang, Xuelan Wang
  • Patent number: 9891462
    Abstract: A color filter substrate includes a color material layer that transmits light to generate colors of an image, and a change layer that is formed on a surface of the color material layer on which light is incident or on a surface of the color material layer from which light is emitted, and that has a characteristic in which a portion irradiated with laser light changes into black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Minowa
  • Patent number: 9891463
    Abstract: A mask for forming color filter layer, a method for fabricating a color filter substrate and a color filter substrate are provided. A light regulating structure is disposed in a portion of a transparent region of the mask for forming color filter layer, and the light regulating structure is disposed at a position corresponding to a base of a columnar spacer above the color filter layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingjing Jiang, Min Li, Hongjiang Wu, Yu Xiao
  • Patent number: 9891464
    Abstract: The present invention provides a color resist mask sheet and a method of use thereof. The color resist mask sheet includes an align coat mark region and an align test mark region. The align coat mark region includes a plurality of equally spaced align coat marks of coat color resist; the align test mark region includes a plurality of equally spaced align test marks for coating the test color resist, wherein each align test mark corresponds to each align coat mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuan Xiong
  • Patent number: 9891465
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus including: a first substrate including a first region realizing an image and a second region which transmits external light; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first polarizer arranged on a surface of the first substrate; and a second polarizer arranged between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer and comprising a first polarization region positioned in the first region and a second polarization region positioned in the second region and having a polarization axis different from a polarization axis of the first polarization region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joonggun Chong, Hyungjune Kim, Hyoungcheol Lee, Wansoon Im, Jonghak Hwang
  • Patent number: 9891466
    Abstract: A display panel includes a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate arranged opposite to the first transparent substrate, and multiple sub-regions arranged in an array, including a first sub-region and an adjacent second sub-region. The display panel also includes a first organic film layer configured on the first transparent substrate and a second organic film layer configured on the second transparent substrate. The first organic film layer and the second organic film layer comprise a polymer doped with a dichroic organic dye. The display panel also includes a first alignment layer configured on the surface of the first transparent substrate facing the second transparent substrate, and a second alignment layer configured on the surface of the second transparent substrate facing the first transparent substrate; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shulin Yao, Long Zhang, Ting Zhou, Poping Shen, Zhaokeng Cao
  • Patent number: 9891467
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight that emits unpolarized blue light, a reflective polarizing layer which is provided on an emission side of the backlight and converts blue light to linearly polarized light, a quantum rod layer which is provided on a blue linearly polarized light emission side of the reflective polarizing layer and converts blue linearly polarized light to red linearly polarized light and green linearly polarized light using multiple quantum rods, and a liquid crystal panel disposed on a red linearly polarized light and green linearly polarized light emission side. In the quantum rod layer, a polarization direction of the blue linearly polarized light emitted from the reflective polarizing layer and a long axis direction of the quantum rods are parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yujiro Yanai, Yukito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 9891468
    Abstract: A reflective LCD panel includes a first and second substrates spaced apart from each other, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates, a common electrode layer disposed on the side of the first substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, a scattering layer disposed on the side of the common electrode layer facing the liquid crystal layer, a specular reflector disposed on the side of the second substrate facing the liquid crystal layer. The present invention also proposes a display device. Through this arrangement, the light inputted from the first substrate and common electrode layer scatters when passing through the scattering layer, and produces specular reflection when it further inputted into the specular reflector through the liquid crystal layer. The present invention delivers diffuse reflection effect through the scattering layer and specular reflector, effectively lowering the production cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang Xie
  • Patent number: 9891469
    Abstract: An array substrate, a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate (10) includes a base substrate (100) and a plurality of subpixels (103) disposed on the base substrate (100), wherein an area of each of the subpixels (103) includes a plurality of transmissive regions (105) and a plurality of reflective regions (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yingtao Wang
  • Patent number: 9891470
    Abstract: A reflector sheet, a backlight module and a display apparatus, which relate to the display technical field, are provided. They can reserve a space for deformation during thermal expansion of the reflector sheet and prevent the reflector sheet from being deformed, thereby avoiding uneven light. The reflector sheet comprises a reflector sheet body and apertures located in the reflector sheet body and configured for allowing a luminous body to pass therethrough, the apertures comprising first apertures and second apertures, wherein each of the first apertures is configured for relatively fixing a luminous body passing therethrough and the reflector sheet body, and each of the second apertures is configured for reserving a gap between a luminous body passing therethrough and the reflector sheet body. Also disclosed is use of the reflector sheet for manufacturing a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongchun Lu, Yong Qiao, Hongfei Cheng, Jianbo Xian, Yongda Ma, Jian Xu
  • Patent number: 9891471
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes: a substrate; and at least one light assembly separately located on the substrate, wherein the light assembly includes: a light source; and a lens configured to shield an upper surface and a side surface of the light source, wherein the lens includes: a refraction portion separately located on the upper surface of the light source; and a reflection portion separately located at the side surface of the light source. Thereby, the lens includes a reflection portion located at a side surface of the light source, thereby improving light efficiency of a backlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehyeok Kim, Eunseok Kim, Dohan Park, Dawoon Jung, Wondo Kee, Minho Kim, Jaehyung Jeon
  • Patent number: 9891472
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a light guide plate, a backlight unit, a display device and a display control system. The light guide plate has a first operation state and a second operation state. In the first operation state, an upper surface of the light guide plate is a surface where light comes out, and in the second operation state, the upper surface of the light guide plate includes a light exiting region and a non-light exiting region. In the technical solution of the present disclosure, when the display device performs a regional displaying, the light guide plate operates in the second operation state, here the upper surface of the light guide plate includes the light exiting region and the non-light exiting region; light emitted by a light source finally comes out from the light exiting region of the light guide plate after reflections inside the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Long Yan, Lin Lin, Jun Zhang, Zhengyuan Zhang, Zhiyu Qian