Patents Issued in September 25, 2018
  • Patent number: 10082679
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is disclosed that includes a lens substrate and a coating that is applied onto the lens substrate. The coating has a first reflectivity of at least 20% for near infrared light at a first wavelength ?NIR, which impinges on the coating at an angle of incidence of 0°, and a second reflectivity for near infrared light at the first wavelength ?NIR, which impinges on the coating at an angle of incidence of 35°, the second reflectivity being reduced by at least 10% in relation to the first reflectivity. The present disclosure further relates to a computer-implemented or experimental method for designing such a spectacle lens and a corresponding method for producing a spectacle lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Gloege, Michael Krause, Christian Lappe
  • Patent number: 10082680
    Abstract: Spectacles with an illuminating light having a quick-release structure are provided. A clip piece of a clip member is inserted through a through hole of a temple, and the clip member can be rotated and operated. The clip piece is adapted to clip an inner surface of the temple and a buckle hole of the clip piece is engaged with an engaging protrusion on the inner surface of the temple, such that the illuminating light is secured on the temple. On the contrary, the illuminating light can be quickly removed from the temple. The overall structure can effectively enhance the convenience of the use of the spectacles for the installation of the illuminating light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Inventor: Hsi-An Chung
  • Patent number: 10082681
    Abstract: A wearable electronic communication device includes a neck loop with a first electrical connector; a frame comprising a second electrical connector, a front bar with nose pads, and two temples, wherein each temple is connected to one of two lateral ends of the front bar; a first wire connected to one of the lateral temples; and a second wire connected to the other lateral temple. The first or second wire is electrically connected to the second electrical connector, and the other end of the same wire is electrically connected to the first electrical connector. The first and second wires are connected to the neck loop close to each other and form a dorsal wire node on the neck. The first and second wires are mechanically connected to each other between the frame and the dorsal wire node to form a suboccipital wire node below an occiput of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Inventor: Alexey Leonidovich Ushakov
  • Patent number: 10082682
    Abstract: Methods and systems include using a digital camera module for capturing a plurality of digital images of a tested subject at a plurality of perspective views. The tested subject is not required to move their head position or viewing direction during the capturing of images. A motion control module I) rotates the camera module with its optical axis pointing at a rotation center to correct any orientation error in capturing the perspective views, and II) positions the camera module to adjust the rotation center for accommodating different head positions of the tested subject. A computer module processes and stores the plurality of digital images to fit an eyeglass frame to the tested subject or to acquire data for fitting prescription lenses into the eyeglass frame. The computer module can provide an augmented reality of different styles of eyeglasses, and obtain 3D measurements for fitting eyeglass frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: PERFECT VISION TECHNOLOGY (HK) LTD.
    Inventor: Junzhong Liang
  • Patent number: 10082683
    Abstract: An optical modulator includes: a ferroelectric substrate in which an input optical waveguide, a pair of branched optical waveguides, and an output optical waveguide are formed; a signal electrode that is formed in a vicinity of at least one of the pair of branched optical waveguides; a first protection member that is attached to an input end of the ferroelectric substrate in which the input optical waveguide is formed; and a second protection member that is attached to an output end of the ferroelectric substrate in which the output optical waveguide is formed. The first protection member and the second protection member have a Mohs hardness that is less than or equal to a Mohs hardness of the ferroelectric substrate, and are formed of a glass material that does not have a pyroelectric effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yoshida, Masaharu Doi, Yoshinobu Kubota
  • Patent number: 10082684
    Abstract: A high contrast grating optical modulation includes an optical modulator at a front surface of a substrate to modulate received light. The high contrast grating optical modulation further includes a high contrast grating (HCG) lens adjacent to a back surface of the substrate opposite to the front surface to focus incident light onto the optical modulator. The substrate is transparent to operational wavelengths of the focused incident light and the modulated light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Sagi Varghese Mathai, David A. Fattal, Michael Renne Ty Tan, Wayne Victor Sorin
  • Patent number: 10082685
    Abstract: An optical system can automatically lock an adjustable spectral filter to a first wavelength of an incoming light signal, and can automatically filter an additional incoming light signal at the first wavelength. A tunable filter can have a filtering spectrum with an adjustable peak wavelength and increasing attenuation at wavelengths away from the adjustable peak wavelength. The tunable filter can receive first input light, having a first wavelength, and can spectrally filter the first input light to form first output light. A detector can detect at least a fraction of the first output light. Circuitry coupled to the detector and the tunable filter can tune the tunable filter to maximize a signal from the detector and thereby adjust the peak wavelength to match the first wavelength. The tunable filter further can receive second input light and spectrally filter the second input light at the first wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Aurrion, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Silvio Guzzon
  • Patent number: 10082686
    Abstract: A novel phase shifter design for carrier depletion based silicon modulators, based on an experimentally validated model, is described. It is believed that the heretofore neglected effect of incomplete ionization will have a significant impact on ultra-responsive phase shifters. A low V?L product of 0.3 V·cm associated with a low propagation loss of 20 dB/cm is expected to be observed. The phase shifter is based on overlapping implantation steps, where the doses and energies are carefully chosen to utilize counter-doping to produce an S-shaped junction. This junction has a particularly attractive V?L figure of merit, while simultaneously achieving attractively low capacitance and optical loss. This improvement will enable significantly smaller Mach-Zehnder modulators to be constructed that nonetheless would have low drive voltages, with substantial decreases in insertion loss. The described fabrication process is of minimal complexity; in particular, no high-resolution lithographic step is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Elenion Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Baehr-Jones, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 10082687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an Electro-Optical (E-O) crystal elements, their applications and the processes for the preparation thereof more specifically, the present invention relates to the E-O crystal elements (which can be made from doped or un-doped PMN-PT, PIN-PMN-PT or PZN-PT ferroelectric crystals) showing super-high linear E-O coefficient ?c, e.g., transverse effective linear E-O coefficient ?Tc, more than 1100 pm/V and longitudinal effective linear E-O coefficient ?lc up to 527 pm/V, which results in a very low half-wavelength voltage Vl? below 200V and VT? below about 87V in a wide number of modulation, communication, laser, and industrial uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Inventor: Pengdi Han
  • Patent number: 10082688
    Abstract: An optical alignment device for a plurality of liquid crystal display panels is disclosed, and has a panel carrying stage, a UV lamp, and a plurality of irradiation masks. The panel carrying stage is used for placing the liquid crystal display panels, the UV lamp is used for applying a UV irradiation to the liquid crystal display panels on the panel carrying stage so that liquid crystals in each of the liquid crystal display panels have pretilt angles, and the irradiation masks are disposed between the UV lamp and the liquid crystal display panels for changing an irradiation intensity of the UV irradiation on the crystal display panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rentang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10082689
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a glass substrate and a driver chip. The liquid crystal display further includes a testing line formed in the glass substrate and extending close to an edge of the glass substrate. The driver chip includes an input pin and an output pin, and two ends of the testing line are separately connected to the input pin and the output pin to form a closed loop. Whether the glass substrate has a crack is determined by measuring whether the testing line is in a closed circuit. The present invention further provides an electronic apparatus and a liquid crystal display testing method. In the present invention, whether a glass substrate has a crack is determined by detecting whether a testing line is in a closed circuit, so as to implement automatic detection without disassembling, thereby increasing detection efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Device (Dongguan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Li, Dongjie Wang, Yi Yang
  • Patent number: 10082690
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate including: a display area in which an image is displayed, and a non-display area in which an image is not displayed and a signal line is disposed to transmit or receive an electrical signal to or from the display area of the first substrate; a second substrate coupled to the first substrate and exposing the non-display area of the first substrate; and a sealing member which is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and couples the first substrate and the second substrate to each other. The sealing member between the first substrate and the second substrate extends to overlap the signal line in the exposed non-display area of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyo Chul Lee, Hyun Seok Hong
  • Patent number: 10082691
    Abstract: A display device may include a display panel, a light source configured to provide light to the display panel, a bottom chassis in which the light source is located, a top chassis coupled to the bottom chassis and covering an edge of the display panel, and a conductive tape attached to the bottom chassis and the top chassis. The conductive tape may have an uneven pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Woo Kim, Dong In Kim, Hyun Seok Hong
  • Patent number: 10082692
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwangsun You, Keunho Lee
  • Patent number: 10082693
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus which facilitates minimized thickness by innovatively removing a case and some portions of a set cover, which have been regarded as indispensable structures for the display apparatus, and simultaneously facilitates good aesthetic exterior appearance of the display apparatus by a novel design. The display apparatus comprises a set cover exposed externally to have a storage space; a support cover placed onto the storage space and formed to have a supporting space; a backlight unit received in the supporting space; a guide frame connected to the support cover while being supported by the support cover, and received in the storage space; and a liquid crystal display panel placed onto the guide frame, wherein the liquid crystal display panel displays images by adjusting transmittance of light emitted from the backlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam Do Son, Song Ryol You, Kyeong Tak Baek, Seong Rok Kim, Dong Yong Kim, Ki Nam Jean
  • Patent number: 10082694
    Abstract: The described technology relates generally to a display device, and the display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a main panel; an auxiliary panel positioned at two opposing edges of the main panel; and a cover glass covering a front surface of the main panel and the auxiliary panel, wherein the auxiliary panel has a curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nak Cho Choi, Su Wan Woo, Suk Choi
  • Patent number: 10082695
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, which face each other, and each of which includes a display area and a non-display area disposed outside the display area, a first light-blocking layer disposed in the non-display area, and a dummy color layer, in which a boundary dividing the display area and the non-display area is defined, and which is disposed in the non-display area of the first substrate to be adjacent to the boundary, where the dummy color layer includes a section in which a distribution density of the dummy color layer is decreased from the boundary to the outside of the non-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Woong Baek, Wan Soon Im, Jang Bog Ju, Seung Hwan Kim, Hyo Seop Kim, Seung Ho Lee, So Mi Jung, Kang Wook Heo
  • Patent number: 10082696
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a liquid crystal panel, including an array substrate and a color filter substrate formed oppositely to the array substrate and a LC layer sandwiched between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, and a seal formed around the LC layer. A wall is formed on a position of the array substrate next to the seal and toward the LC layer. Multiple color resister units are sequentially connected on a coplanar face to form the wall. The color resister A is formed by more than three color resisters sequentially arranged and the adjacent color resisters the two color resister units A are different. The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shin-Hsun Lo, Jinbo Guo, Jinjie Wang
  • Patent number: 10082697
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a display panel, a plurality of light sources disposed in upper and lower side directions and in left and right side directions at a rear side of the display panel while spaced apart from one another, a reflective sheet to reflect light generated from the plurality of light sources to the display panel, and a middle holder to support a periphery of the reflective sheet, wherein the middle holder includes a plurality of concave parts each provided at a position corresponding to each of the light sources that is positioned at an outer side among the plurality of the light sources. Most of the light incident from the light sources positioned at the outer side toward the middle holder is reflected while diffused by an inner surface of the concave part, and thus occurrence of a light portion and a dark portion at a periphery of a display panel can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Bin Kim, Jeong Shan Na
  • Patent number: 10082698
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a reflection plate, and a light emitting diode light source, the display panel including a lower substrate including a lower base substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed on the lower substrate, and a light source driving electrode disposed on a lower surface of the lower base substrate where the reflection plate is disposed under the display panel, and the light emitting diode light source is disposed on the lower surface of the lower base substrate, connected to the light source driving electrode, and emits a light to the reflection plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungyong Kang, Haksun Kim, Taegil Kang
  • Patent number: 10082699
    Abstract: A display device includes a display member and a lighting device that illuminates a display surface of the display member. The lighting device includes a light transmissive substrate arranged opposite to the display surface of the display member and a light source that emits light source light toward between the display member and the light transmissive substrate. A correction member that corrects an incident range of light, which proceeds from the light source to the light transmissive substrate, of the light source light is provided between the light transmissive substrate and the light source. A reflection member that reflects a part of light, which proceeds from the light source to the display member, of the light source light to the light transmissive substrate is provided between the display member and the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hidekazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10082700
    Abstract: An antireflection film includes a polarizer, a first phase delay layer, and a second phase delay layer, where at least one of the first phase delay layer and the second phase delay layer includes a liquid crystal layer, and the liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystals oriented in a direction tilting obliquely with respect to a surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohyama, Koh Kamada, Eun Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 10082701
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes an opposing substrate, an array substrate, and a sealant. A limiting portion surrounding a display region is disposed in a non-display region of the opposing substrate. A non-display region of the array substrate includes a loosely-arranged wire region surrounding a display region and a densely-arranged wire region surrounding the loosely-arranged wire region. The layer height of the array substrate in the densely-arranged wire region is greater than that of the array substrate in the loosely-arranged wire region. The projection of the sealant on the opposing substrate is located outside the limiting region and the projection of the sealant on the array substrate is located in the densely-arranged wire region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanming Feng, Ni Jiang, Junrui Zhang
  • Patent number: 10082702
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of rectangular pixels. Each pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode. A slit region and a concave and convex portion are formed in the first electrode. It further includes a control circuit. The plurality of pixels are constituted of a first pixel group and a second pixel group. First data lines and for applying a voltage on the first electrode are provided closer to the first substrate than the first electrode. In each pixel that constitutes the first pixel group, a second data line extension extending from a second data line is provided adjacent to a first data line. In each pixel that constitutes the second pixel group, a first data line extension extending from the first data line is provided adjacent to the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Chikashi Kobayashi, Shunichi Suwa, Masashi Miyakawa, Yoji Nagase, Sumito Shiina, Seiji Shibahara, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiromasa Mitani, Kunihiko Nagamine, Koji Hidaka, Masahiko Mizuki
  • Patent number: 10082703
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display panel, and a composite substrate and a method for fabricating the composite substrate. The composite substrate includes: a substrate, a carbon nanotube layer and a photoalignment matrix material. The carbon nanotube layer is adhered to a surface of the substrate with the photoalignment matrix material; the carbon nanotube layer includes multiple carbon nanotubes extending in a same direction. Multiple grooves arranged in parallel may be formed between carbon nanotubes since the extending direction of the carbon nanotube is the same, and the groove may be used for an initial alignment of liquid crystal molecules, hence the carbon nanotube layer may serve as an alignment layer. In addition, the carbon nanotube has a polarizing feature to serve as a polarizing layer. Therefore, the composite substrate may serve as both the alignment layer and the polarizing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sifan Wei
  • Patent number: 10082704
    Abstract: A liquid crystal alignment agent which is capable of forming a liquid crystal alignment film with excellent ultraviolet reliability, the liquid crystal alignment film, and a liquid crystal display element having the same are provided. The liquid crystal alignment agent includes a polymer composition (A) and a solvent (B). The polymer composition (A) is obtained by reacting a mixture, wherein the mixture includes a tetracarboxylic dianhydride component (a) and a diamine component (b). The tetracarboxylic dianhydride component (a) includes a tetracarboxylic dianhydride compound (a-1) represented by formula (1). The diamine component (b) includes a diamine compound (b-1) represented by formula (2) and a diamine compound (b-2) containing the structure represented by formula (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Chi Mei Corporation
    Inventors: Shin-Rong Chiou, Tsung-Pei Tsai
  • Patent number: 10082705
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing new liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Firstly, an alignment film is formed on a substrate. The alignment film is divided into a first alignment film formed using, as a precursor, liquid-state polyimide that contains a photodecomposition substance and a second alignment film formed using, as a precursor, a polyamic acid that does not contain a photodecomposition substance. UV light is irradiated to the alignment film, and decomposed substances formed by irradiation of the UV light is removed by an at least two-step removing process. By the method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, bright spots are minimized in pixels and a brightness of black is lowered, so that a liquid crystal display device with a high contrast ratio can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeungRyull Park, HyunJin Park, JinPil Kim, Han Jin Ahn, Hanseok Lee, Su-Bin Lee
  • Patent number: 10082706
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer, a first signal line including a 1-1st signal line and a 1-2nd signal line extending in a first direction, a second signal line extending in a second direction, a pixel electrode in a pixel region of the first substrate, a first seat part on the first substrate and in a first region between the 1-1st signal line and the 1-2nd signal line and at least partially overlapping the second signal line, a second seat part on the first seat part and overlapping at least a part of the first seat part, and a column spacer disposed on the second substrate and including a seating surface at least partially overlapping the second seat part, where the pixel electrode is disposed outside a region between the 1-1st signal line and the 1-2nd signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Hyun Kwon
  • Patent number: 10082707
    Abstract: A pixel structure including a scan line, a data line, an active device, a first protruding structure, a second protruding structure, a first electrode and a second electrode is provided. The first protruding structure has a first top surface, a first bottom surface and first side surfaces located on both sides of the first top surface and the first bottom surface. A first acute angle ?1 is formed between the first top surface and the first side surfaces. The second protruding structure has a second top surface, a second bottom surface and second side surfaces located on both sides of the second top surface and the second bottom surface. A second acute angle ?2 is formed between the second top surface and the second side surfaces. The first electrode is disposed on the first top surface, and the second electrode is disposed on the second top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tzu-Yi Tsao, Fang-Cheng Yu, Wei-Ting Lee, Cheng-Yeh Tsai
  • Patent number: 10082708
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal device. The liquid crystal panel includes a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate and a color filter (CF) substrate opposite to each other. Each of sub-pixel areas of the TFT substrate is configured with a first conductive film, and each of sub-optical-filter areas of the CF substrate is configured with a second conductive film opposite to the first conductive film, the first conductive film and the second conductive film are rectangular. A central point of the first conductive film projects on the central point of the second conductive film. A dimension of the second conductive film is greater than the dimension of the first conductive film, and a ring-shaped conductive film is formed in an area of the first conductive film not covered by the second conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Li Zhao, Bangyin Peng
  • Patent number: 10082709
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing each other and including a plurality of pixels; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates and including a liquid crystal mixture. The first substrate includes a pixel electrode in each pixel. The pixel electrode includes a stem electrode extending in a first direction and a second direction in a cross shape and dividing the pixel into first to fourth domains; and branch electrodes disposed in the first to fourth domains and extending from the stem electrode in a tilted direction to the first and second directions. The branch electrodes disposed in two adjacent domains extend to have angles different from each other with respect to the first direction and the second direction. The liquid crystal mixture includes liquid crystals, and a dopant which adjusts a pitch of the liquid crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Chul Shin, Dong Han Song, Ki Chul Shin, Ho Kil Oh
  • Patent number: 10082710
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a gate line extending in a first direction on the first substrate; a data line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction on the first substrate; a first electric field generating electrode on the first substrate; and a second electric field generating electrode on the first substrate, wherein the second electric field generating electrode includes a stem electrode extending in parallel to the data line and branch electrodes extending from the stem electrode forming a predetermined angle with respect to the gate line, and an interval between the stem electrode and a data line adjacent thereto differs from an interval between the branch electrodes and a data line adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wonho Kim, Sungman Kim, Yeonmun Jeon, Youngje Cho, Taehyung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10082711
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions. The first regions and the second regions are formed on the first substrate and the second substrate. In a narrow viewing mode, the luminous flux of the first regions along a first viewing direction is different from that of the first regions along a second viewing direction opposite to the first viewing direction, and the luminous flux of the second regions along the first viewing direction is substantially different from that of the first regions along the first viewing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Wei Yeh, Chien-Huang Liao, Wen-Hao Hsu, Tien-Lun Ting, Chao-Yuan Chen, Jenn-Jia Su
  • Patent number: 10082712
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display apparatus. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes: a pixel area including a pixel array disposed on a first substrate; a peripheral area including a gate driver disposed outside the pixel array and a common voltage supply unit including openings disposed outside the gate driver; an overcoating layer disposed on the pixel array and the gate driver; a pixel electrode disposed on the overcoating layer and connected to the pixel array; a common electrode structure disposed on the overcoating layer, overlapped with the pixel electrode, and electrically connected to the common voltage supply unit; and a sealing member surrounding a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate, supporting the first substrate and the second substrate, and overlapped with the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: JinHyung Jung
  • Patent number: 10082713
    Abstract: Related to is a thin film transistor and a liquid crystal display device. The thin film transistor comprises a substrate, and a conductive laminate and a light-shielding layer that are both arranged on the substrate, wherein the light-shielding layer is located below and directly opposite to the conductive laminate. The thin film transistor is provided therein with the light-shielding layer for shading light from irradiating the conductive laminate, thereby effectively preventing unfavorable influences imposed on the electrical properties of oxides by illumination, and thus improving the electrical properties of the thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ting Hao Lu
  • Patent number: 10082714
    Abstract: A thin-film transistor substrate manufacturing method includes sequentially forming, on a backing, a gate electrode, a gate insulation layer, a source electrode and an active layer, a passivation layer, a drain electrode, and a pixel electrode. Orthogonal projections of the gate electrode, the gate insulation layer, the source electrode and the active layer, the passivation layer, the drain electrode, and the pixel electrode on the backing that are concentric centro-symmetric patterns. Also provided re a thin-film transistor substrate and a liquid crystal panel including the thin-film transistor substrate. The thin-film transistor substrate manufacturing method, the thin-film transistor substrate and the liquid crystal panel including the thin-film transistor substrate allow electrical property of a thin-film transistor consistent in all bending directions and make the thin-film transistor not easily subjected to stress damage during bending so as to improve the reliability of the thin-film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Jiangbo Yao
  • Patent number: 10082715
    Abstract: A conductive element includes: a first conductive film; a second conductive film connected to the first conductive film; a first insulating film covering the first conductive film and disposed in a layer below the second conductive film, the first insulating film having a contact hole exposing at least an edge face of the first conductive film and thereby connecting the second conductive film to the first conductive film; a second insulating film disposed in a layer above the second insulating film so as to straddle the contact hole; and a third conductive film disposed in a layer above the second conductive film with the second insulating film between the second and third conductive films, the third conductive film having a conductive film opening that contains a location overlapping the edge face of the first conductive film in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki Okada, Seiichi Uchida
  • Patent number: 10082716
    Abstract: A composite panel with electrically switchable optical properties, having: an outer panel and an inner panel which are connected to one another over the entire length thereof via an interlayer; within the interlayer, a switchable functional element with at least one active layer; and an infrared protective coating arranged between the outer panel and the active layer over the entire length thereof, wherein the infrared protective coating contains at least three functional layers with reflecting properties for the infrared range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Julius Mennig, Franz Penners
  • Patent number: 10082717
    Abstract: A communications device may include a local device, a remote device, and a multi-mode optical fiber coupled between the local device and the remote device. The local device may include a local spatial optical mux/demux coupled to the multi-mode optical fiber and having first and second local optical outputs and first and second local optical inputs, and a local electro-optic E/O modulator coupled to the second local optical input. The remote device may include a remote spatial optical mux/demux coupled to the multi-mode optical fiber, and a remote E/O modulator configured to generate a modulated signal onto a first remote optical output based upon modulating the first optical carrier signal from a first remote optical input responsive to a radio frequency (RF) electrical input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: HARRIS CORPORATION
    Inventors: John R. DeSalvo, Catheryn D. Logan, Charles F. Middleton, Elliott J. Grafer
  • Patent number: 10082718
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for non-blocking Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) arm imbalance monitoring and control through tones are disclosed herein. An optical transmitter may include an MZM to supply a first portion of light to an in-phase arm and a second portion to a quadrature arm of the MZM. The optical transmitter may apply modulator arm adjustments and dither signals to the two portions. Then, the MZM may combine the two portions into an optical output signal. The optical transmitter may tap the optical output signal to provide a first portion of the optical output signal and transmit a second portion. Also, the optical transmitter may obtain first error signals, based on the first dither signal, and second error signals, based on the second dither signal, of the first portion of the output signal. The optical transmitter may change the modulator arm adjustments based on the error signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventor: Rene Marcel Schmogrow
  • Patent number: 10082719
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a liquid crystal lens, including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a spacer, the liquid crystal layer and the spacer are disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. A surface of the spacer is coated with a first antireflection film and a second antireflection film in turn. An index of refraction of the liquid crystal layer is n0. An index of refraction of the first antireflection film is n2, a thickness of which is d2. An index of refraction of the second antireflection film is n1, a thickness of the second antireflection film is d1. An index of refraction of the spacer is n3, and n 1 = n 0 2 3 ? n 3 1 3 , n 2 = n 0 1 3 ? n 3 2 3 , n1d1=n2d2=?/6, where ? is a wavelength of light. The liquid crystal lens and the 3D display can reduce light intensity of the reflective rays on the spacer and increase contrast of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chang Xie
  • Patent number: 10082720
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion element includes a crystal having a periodically poled structure in which polarization is inverted with an inversion period ? along a z-axis which is an input axis of a light pulse. The wavelength conversion element is configured to generate an output the inversion period ?(x) at each position x by change of the inversion period ? according to the position x, and when a target frequency linearly changing with the position x is set to fT(x)=b+ax, a frequency width of the output frequency is set to ?f(x), and the output frequency is set to f(x)=fT(x)+?(x), the output frequency is set to coincide with the target frequency within a range satisfying a condition |?(x)|??f(x).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Hisanari Takahashi, Yoichi Kawada, Takashi Inoue, Koyo Watanabe, Koji Takahashi, Hironori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10082721
    Abstract: The present application discloses a nonlinear optical crystal material, preparation method and application of the nonlinear optical crystal material. A nonlinear optical crystal material, whose molecular formula is Ga2Se3; wherein the crystal structure of said nonlinear optical crystal material belongs to trigonal system, space group R3 with the lattice parameters of a=b=3˜4.2 ?, c=9˜10 ?, ?=?=90°, ?=120° and Z=1. The nonlinear optical crystal material has an excellent infrared nonlinear optical performance, whose frequency-doubling intensity can reach 9.3 times of AgGaS2 with the same particle size, and it meets type-I phase matching; and its laser damage threshold can reach 7.5 times of AgGaS2 with the same particle size. The nonlinear optical crystal material has important application value in the frequency-converters which can be used for frequency doubling, sum frequency, difference frequency, optical parametric oscillation of laser in mid and far infrared waveband, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Mingjian Zhang, Guocong Guo, Huiyi Zeng, Binwen Liu, Yong Liu, Bingxuan Li
  • Patent number: 10082722
    Abstract: A system includes an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) device. The OPO device has an optical resonator, a first nonlinear optical element (NLO) and a second non-linear optical element (NLO). The first NLO can produce, via OPO of a first pump beam, a first output with a first frequency and a second output with a second frequency. The second frequency is lower than the first frequency. The second NLO can produce, via OPO of a second pump beam (with a higher frequency than the first), a third output with a third frequency and a fourth output with a fourth frequency. The fourth frequency is lower than the third frequency. The first frequency is the same, or at least substantially the same, as the fourth frequency. The OPO device is configured to resonate at the first frequency and the fourth frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Frank Mueller, Arne Härter
  • Patent number: 10082723
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided capable of recording an appropriate HDR still image when shooting a still image during HDR video recording. An HDR video frame having a high dynamic range is generated by generating video frames from frames of different exposure conditions and composing the video frames, and the HDR video frame is recorded in a recording medium as an HDR video. When a still image shooting instruction is accepted during the generation of the HDR video frame, an HDR still image frame having a high dynamic range is generated by generating still image frames of different exposure conditions during the generation of the HDR video frame and composing the still image frames, and the HDR still image frame is recorded in the recording medium as an HDR still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10082724
    Abstract: A system for evenly-scattered adaptable subject lighting for mobile device photography, comprising a case configured to enclose and securely fasten a mobile device and an illuminating portion, the illuminating portion configured to produce light based on input received from a plurality of sensors. The system further comprising a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a network-connected computing device, and configured to direct the operation of the illuminating portion comprising at least a sensor processor and an image capture device, wherein the sensor processor adjusts the illuminating portion based on preconfigured thresholds to provide evenly-scatter lighting for capturing images of subjects via the image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SMPL Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Hennings, Jeremy Cox
  • Patent number: 10082725
    Abstract: A universal optical lighting accessory is described for use with different types of handheld mobile devices in photography or videography applications. Each of the different types of handheld mobile devices includes at least a rear-facing camera and a light source having different placement configurations. The universal optical lighting accessory includes at least a body, an attachment member for coupling and securing the body to the backside of each of the different types of handheld mobile devices, a guide rail coupled to body, an optical housing having an attachment and sliding mechanism, and a light filter element, the universal optical lighting accessory configured to adapt to each light source having different placement configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: iP TECH PROS Inc.
    Inventors: Ronaldo Green Penaflor, Ronaldo Narvaza Penaflor
  • Patent number: 10082726
    Abstract: A ball joint arranged to couple an attachment part to a base part is provided. The ball joint comprises: a ball associated with said attachment part and provided with a groove having ends; a ball socket formed in the base part and provided with a recess; and a coupling element. The recess and the groove are arranged such that a respective part of a coupling element is allowed to move therein. The combined arrangement of the recess, the groove, and the coupling element allows the ball to move from a first end position to a second end position by a rotational movement of at least 360 degrees. The recess is larger than the part of the coupling element located therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Axis AB
    Inventor: David Fagerkvist
  • Patent number: 10082727
    Abstract: An apparatus has a receptacle configured to receive an image capture computing device. Further, the apparatus has a first handle having a first handle top portion that is operably connected to the receptacle and a first handle bottom portion that is operably connected to the receptacle. In addition, the apparatus has a first retraction device that retracts the first handle inwardly toward the receptacle and extends the first handle outwardly away from the receptacle. The apparatus has a second handle having a second handle top portion that is operably connected to the receptacle and a second handle bottom portion that is operably connected to the receptacle. Further, the apparatus has a second retraction device that retracts the second handle inwardly toward the receptacle and extends the second handle outwardly away from the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: iOgrapher, LLC
    Inventors: David Basulto, Jason Ivey
  • Patent number: 10082728
    Abstract: A device for holding a gaze-attracting object in a position adjacent to an electronic photographic device such as a digital camera or smart phone is provided. The device includes a body having one or a plurality first projecting members extending across a gap from a secondary projecting member. The device is positionable to an as-used position with a digital camera or smartphone engaged within the gap. Holding members projecting from the body opposite the gap, maintain an object therebetween and adjacent to the lens of the camera or smartphone or other digital photo device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Inventor: Jason Hernandez