Patents Issued in December 15, 2020
  • Patent number: 10866375
    Abstract: A light source device and an electronic apparatus are provided. The light source device includes a substrate, an electrode layer and a surrounding frame disposed on the substrate, a light emitter and a light detector mounted on the electrode layer and located inside of the surrounding frame, and a light permeable member disposed on the surrounding frame and covering the light emitter and the light detector. When the light emitter receives a predetermined current so as to emit an invisible light toward the light permeable member, the light detector receives a reflected part of the invisible light to generate an initial photocurrent. When the light emitter receives a manipulation current so that a detection photocurrent generated from the light detector is less than a first proportion of the initial photocurrent or greater than a second proportion of the initial photocurrent, the light emitter stops receiving the manipulation current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: LITE-ON OPTO TECHNOLOGY (CHANGZHOU) CO., LTD., LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsin-Wei Tsai, I-Ju Chen, Hou-Yen Tsao, Shu-Hua Yang, Yu-Hung Su
  • Patent number: 10866376
    Abstract: A method and system of co-packaging optoelectronics components or photonic integrated circuit (PIC) with application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are disclosed and may include package substrate, several electronics die, passive components, socket assembly, and heat sinks. The said method converts ASIC high speed signals to optical signals by eliminating intermediary electrical interface between the ASIC and conventional optical modules. The method described provides many advantages of pluggable optical modules such as configurability, serviceability, and thermal isolation from the ASIC heat, while eliminating bandwidth bottlenecks as result of the ASIC package, host or linecard printed circuit board (PCB) traces, and the optical module connector. The high-power consumption ASIC is mounted below the package substrate, but sensitive optoelectronics and PIC components are mounted on top of the package substrate assembly for thermal isolation and serviceability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Ali Ghiasi
  • Patent number: 10866377
    Abstract: An enclosure (10) includes a base (38) defining a splice region (148) and a cover (40) coupled to the base (38) to move between a closed position and an open position. A plurality of ruggedized adapters (26) are on the cover (40), each adapter having an inner port (64) and an outer port (66). A removable module (32) is disposed on the cover (40), at least one input fiber (12) being routed from the splice region (148) of the base (38) to the removable module (32), wherein the at least one input fiber (12) is output from the module as a pigtail (28) having a connectorized end that is connected to an inner port (64) of a ruggedized adapter (26). A cable input location (16) receives an input cable (14/20) including at least one tube (138) surrounding at least one fiber (12) that carries the same signal as the at least one input fiber (12) being routed from the splice region (148) to the removable module (32). The input cable (14/20) is anchored to the base (38) at the cable input location (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA
    Inventors: Bart Mattie Claessens, Dirk Kempeneers, Erwin Beckers, Peter Claes, Emilie De Groe, Ronnie Rosa Georges Liefsoens, Roel Modest Willy Bryon, Thierry Janssens
  • Patent number: 10866378
    Abstract: A cabinet having a framework for mounting telecommunications equipment includes a framework and telecommunications equipment mounted to the framework. The equipment may include splitter modules. Spools are mounted within the cabinet to manage overlength slack in fiber optic cables within the cabinet. A patch panel is mounted within the cabinet and define a plurality of cable termination locations for receiving at least some of the fiber optic cables. The patch panel is mounted on a pivotable frame between a storage position and an access position. The plurality of spools are positioned intermediate the telecommunications equipment and the patch panel. A splice area is mounted within the cabinet and is accessible when the pivotable frame is in the access position. The splice area receives fiber optic cables from the patch panel for splicing to additional cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventors: Johan Geens, Pieter Vermeulen, Rudi Verbruggen, Eric Marcel M. Keustermans
  • Patent number: 10866379
    Abstract: A flexible cable guide and enclosure is disclosed for guiding one or more optic fiber cables between an outside of the enclosure and a moveable tray inside the enclosure on which devices terminating the one or more are mounted. A first end of the cable guide is secured to an outside of the enclosure and a second end is secured to the tray for movement therewith. The flexible cable guide ensures that the optic fiber cables transition smoothly from the outside of the enclosure to the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventors: Vincent Pilon, Olivier Kedzierski
  • Patent number: 10866380
    Abstract: A method for adhering a tubular body onto a surface that includes smoothing a portion of the surface to create a smoothed segment of the surface and applying a tubular body directly onto the smoothed segment of the surface after the smoothing of the portion of the surface. The surface at the smoothed segment is smoother than the remainder of the surface. The method further includes applying an uncured protectant onto the tubular body while the tubular body is on the smoothed segment of the surface and curing the uncured protectant into a cured protectant while the uncured protectant is on the tubular body on the smoothed segment of the surface. The cured protectant protectively encases and adheres the tubular body to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TRAXyL, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel R. Turner
  • Patent number: 10866381
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a lens including an optical portion refracting light and a flange portion extended along a periphery of at least a portion of the optical portion, and a lens barrel accommodating the lens. The lens includes a first D-cut portion on one side surface of the flange portion spaced apart from the lens barrel and a second D-cut portion on another side surface of the flange portion spaced apart from the lens barrel, wherein the first D-cut portion and the second D-cut portion each include first inclined surfaces, and the first inclined surfaces are spaced apart from respective ends of the first D-cut portion and the second D-cut portion by a predetermined interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Shin Yang, Jong Gill Lee, Hwan Soo Park, Ju Sung Park, Sot Eum Seo
  • Patent number: 10866382
    Abstract: A miniature camera having an image sensor; an actuator which includes conductive components capable of conducting a pulse width modulation drive signal for driving the actuator; and a screening component located between the conductive components of the actuator and the image sensor, the screening component being electrically isolated from the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
    Inventors: James Howarth, Andrew Benjamin David Brown, Igor Gotlibovych, Robin Eddington, Ian Edward Charles Rogers, Nicholas Henry Reddall
  • Patent number: 10866383
    Abstract: One embodiment comprises: a housing; a bobbin, which is arranged inside the housing and is for mounting a lens; first coils arranged around the outer peripheral surface of the bobbin; a first magnet arranged in the housing; a second magnet arranged at the bobbin and spaced from the first coils; and a first position sensor arranged in the housing and sensing the intensity of a magnetic field of the second magnet, wherein the length of the second magnet in the direction of an optical axis is shorter than the length of thereof in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Wook Son, Sang Ok Park
  • Patent number: 10866384
    Abstract: A lens assembly driving apparatus includes a holder, a metal yoke, a carrier, a lens assembly, a magnet set, a coil and at least one elastic element. The metal yoke is coupled with the holder. The carrier is movably disposed in the metal yoke. The carrier includes an object-side portion and at least three inner surfaces. The object-side portion has an object-side central hole. The lens assembly has an optical axis. The optical axis is corresponding to the object-side central hole. The lens assembly is coupled in the carrier. A movement of the lens assembly relative to the holder is according to a movement of the carrier. The magnet set includes only two magnets. The coil surrounds and is fixed at an exterior of the carrier. The elastic element is coupled with the carrier and the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: LARGAN DIGITAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Yi Lu, Te-Sheng Tseng, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 10866385
    Abstract: An optical system is provided and includes a fixed part, a first optical member holder, a second optical member holder and a first driving assembly. The first optical member holder is configured to hold a first optical member and is disposed over the fixed part. The second optical member holder is configured to hold a second optical member and is movably connected to the first optical member holder. The first driving assembly is configured to drive the first optical member holder to move relative to the fixed part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TDK Taiwan Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Chih-Wei Weng, Shao-Kuang Huang, Sin-Jhong Song
  • Patent number: 10866386
    Abstract: A lens control apparatus having an imaging optical system including a focus lens includes a lens control unit configured to control a position of a lens of the imaging optical system based on a control driving amount of the lens, an acquisition unit configured to acquire driving information including an actual driving amount of the lens controlled by the lens control unit, and a first correction unit configured to correct the position of the lens based on a difference between the control driving amount and the actual driving amount. The first correction unit corrects the position of the lens by adding or subtracting an amount of correction to or from the control driving amount when the lens control unit next performs the control of the position of the lens, such that the difference decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shunsuke Chino, Toshiyuki Dobashi
  • Patent number: 10866387
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes a first lens having a concave image side surface and a negative refractive power; a second lens having a convex object side surface and a positive refractive index; a third lens having a concave object side surface and a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a convex image side surface and a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having a convex object side surface and a positive refractive power in the order from the object side to the image side, optionally includes a lens on the image side of the fifth lens. The imaging optical system satisfies conditional expressions [1] 1.94<n2<2.20 and [2] 15.0<?2<20.0, where ?2 and n2 represents an Abbe number and a refractive index of a lens material of the second lens L2 at d-line, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuyasu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10866388
    Abstract: A lens assembly comprises sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. The first lens is with negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side and a concave surface facing the image side. The second lens is with refractive power. The third lens is a biconvex lens with positive refractive power. The fourth lens is with refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The fifth lens is a biconvex lens with positive refractive power. The sixth lens is with negative refractive power and includes a concave surface facing the object side. The seventh lens is a meniscus lens with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Bo-Yan Chen, Hsi-Ling Chang
  • Patent number: 10866389
    Abstract: An optical image capturing module includes a lens assembly and a circuit assembly including a circuit substrate having a through hole and an image sensing component. A lower surface of the circuit substrate has multiple circuit contacts. A sensing surface of the image sensing component has multiple image contacts. Each image contact is electrically connected to one of the circuit contacts via a signal transmission element, thereby the sensing surface directly faces the through hole. The lens assembly includes a fixed base disposed on an upper surface of the circuit substrate, a movable base disposed in a focusing hole, and a lens group disposed in the movable base. The fixed base has the focusing hole penetrating through two ends thereof. The lens group includes at least two lenses having refractive power, thereby light could pass through the lens group and the through hole and project onto the image sensing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeong-Ming Chang, Chien-Hsun Lai, Yao-Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 10866390
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first lens unit having positive refractive power, and a second lens unit. The first lens unit includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a positive lens, a positive lens, a positive lens, a negative meniscus lens having a concave surface on the image side, a diaphragm SP, and at least one lens. The second lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens. At the time of focusing from infinity to close range, the first lens unit moves to the object side to change a distance on the optical axis between the first lens unit and the second lens unit. The optical system satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kentaro Mori
  • Patent number: 10866391
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an imaging lens assembly. The imaging lens assembly includes, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The object-side surface of the first lens is a concave surface, and the image-side surface of the fourth lens is a concave surface. The second lens has a positive refractive power. At least one of the first lens, the third lens, or the fourth lens has a negative refractive power. An effective focal length f3 of the third lens and an effective focal length f4 of the fourth lens satisfy: f3/f4>0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lin Huang
  • Patent number: 10866392
    Abstract: An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10866393
    Abstract: An optical imaging system is described including first to sixth lenses sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side, and an image sensor configured to convert incident light reflected from a subject, having passed through the first to sixth lenses, into an electrical signal. One of the first to sixth lenses includes a spherical object-side surface and another of the first to sixth lenses includes corresponding aspherical object-side surfaces. The first to sixth lenses include corresponding aspherical image-side surfaces, and a lens of the first to sixth lenses that is closer to the object side than the one of the first to sixth lenses including the spherical object-side surface, has a highest refractive index among the first to sixth lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Hui Ko
  • Patent number: 10866394
    Abstract: An optical system is provided, including a first optical module, a second optical module, and an optical path adjusting mechanism. The first and second optical modules are respectively configured to sustain a first optical element and a second optical element which respectively have a first optical axis and a second optical axis perpendicular to each other. The first optical module has a first electromagnetic driving assembly. The optical path adjusting mechanism, disposed between the first and second optical modules, allows light to enter the second optical module which includes an optical path adjusting unit and a second electromagnetic driving assembly which are arranged in the incident direction of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TDK Taiwan Corp.
    Inventors: Cheng-Kai Yu, Liang-Ting Ho, Shu-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 10866395
    Abstract: Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Peter Hodges Gregson
  • Patent number: 10866396
    Abstract: An illumination arrangement for a light sheet microscope, in which a sample is illuminated using an illumination light beam that is formed as a light sheet in a region of the sample, includes an illumination objective, a tube lens and astigmatic optics. The astigmatic optics are designed in such a way and arranged between the tube lens and the illumination objective in such a way that the illumination light beam exiting from the illumination objective is focused both in a sagittal plane and in a meridional plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Fahrbach, Werner Knebel, Joachim Bradl
  • Patent number: 10866397
    Abstract: A microscope apparatus including an electromagnetic wave source configured to generate an illuminating electromagnetic wave. The microscope apparatus includes a first beam splitter configured to split the illuminating electromagnetic wave into a first component along a first path and a second component along a second path. The microscope apparatus includes a movable reflector module configured to adjust the second path. The microscope apparatus includes a second beam splitter configured to recombine the first component and the second component. The microscope apparatus includes an observing device arranged along the first path and configured to receive the recombined first component and second component. The microscope apparatus is configured to acquire, from the observing device, a phase image based on positioning of the movable reflector module and representative of an electric field distribution near an object located along the first path between the first beam splitter and the second beam splitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Fu-Sheng Chu, Chih-Shiang Chou, Yu-Po Tang, Yan-Ying He
  • Patent number: 10866398
    Abstract: Device for observing a sample, comprising: a light source configured to emit an incident light wave in a first spectral band and in a second spectral band, the first spectral band being different from the second spectral band; an image sensor comprising a first group of pixels, which are sensitive to the first spectral band, and a second group of pixels, which are sensitive to the second spectral band; a holder configured to hold the sample in a holder plane, the holder plane lying between the light source and the image sensor, such that when the sample is held by the holder, under the effect of its illumination by the incident light wave, a light wave of interest propagates to the image sensor; the device being configured to direct, to the image sensor, a first component of the light wave of interest, in the first spectral band, and a second component of the light wave of interest, in the second spectral band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Ondrej Mandula
  • Patent number: 10866399
    Abstract: A 3D medical microscope contains: a control unit, a casing, a first lens, a second lens, a reflection unit, and a drive unit. The control unit is configured to control the 3D medical microscope, and the casing includes an accommodation chamber. The first lens is accommodated in the accommodation chamber and is electrically connected with the control unit. The second lens is accommodated in the accommodation chamber and is electrically connected with the control unit, and the first lens and the second lens are located on a horizontal axis. The reflection unit includes a first reflective face and a second reflective face. The drive unit is electrically connected with the control unit and includes a drive motor configured to drive the reflection unit so that the first reflective face and the second reflective face of the reflection unit synchronously move in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Innostar service Inc.
    Inventor: Chih-Meng Wu
  • Patent number: 10866400
    Abstract: Provided is a data recovery device, having: an acquiring unit that acquires photon detection number distribution of an image acquired from an imaging optical system; a recovering unit that acquires an estimated image from the photon detection distribution using a predetermined IPSF (an inverse function of a point spread function PSF); an evaluation value calculating unit that calculates, in relation to each of the estimated image and a plurality of images similar to the estimated image, an evaluation value indicating a likelihood that the image is an actual image; and an outputting unit that generates and outputs a physical parameter with which the evaluation value is at least a significance level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: RIKEN
    Inventors: Daisuke Miyashiro, Akihiko Nakano
  • Patent number: 10866401
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reflection correction method for correcting digital microscopic images. Here, the reflection correction method comprises: illuminating an object, the illuminating of the object having at least two illumination patterns. Creating an illumination pattern image of the object for each illumination pattern. Calculating at least one partial reflection image, in each case by means of a combination of corresponding two illumination pattern images. Calculating a reflection-corrected image of the object by means of a suitable combination of at least one illumination pattern image and at least one partial reflection image. And, in this case, each illumination pattern as at least one active illumination source, and each illumination pattern is different from all others. Furthermore, the invention relates to an associated reflection-correcting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GMBH
    Inventors: Lars Stoppe, Thomas Milde, Johannes Winterot
  • Patent number: 10866402
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic having an integrated display system. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic having an integrated display system for generating images that are projected into the first focal plane of an optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SHELTERED WINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Calen Havens, Will Lowry, Ian Klemm, Samuel Hamilton, Garrison Bollig, Craig Schultz, Andrew Carlson, Jason Lyle, David M. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 10866403
    Abstract: A three-aspherical-mirror anastigmat telescope comprises means for moving the third mirror linearly along the optical axis of the telescope so as to make the focal length of the telescope change to a plurality of focal lengths between at least a minimum focal length and a maximum focal length, a plurality of aspherical optical components respectively associated with the plurality of focal lengths, the third mirror having a new conicity determined from an initial conicity, the new conicity being determined so that the telescope has, in the absence of the aspherical components and for the minimum and maximum focal lengths, aberrations that are compensable by the aspherical components, the position and the form of the surface of each aspherical component being determined so as to correct the compensable aberrations of the telescope for the associated focal length and to optimize image quality in the first focal plane of the telescope according to a preset criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventor: Nicolas Tetaz
  • Patent number: 10866404
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an electrowetting device in which a sealing material is formed with satisfactory precision while maintaining a good adhesive property between both substrates. In a first hydrophobic layer (12) and a second hydrophobic layer (5), opening patterns (12a, 12b, 5a, and 5b) are provided, and an active substrate (7) and a common electrode substrate (2) are bonded together with a sealing material (14) provided in the opening patterns (12a, 12b, 5a, and 5b) such that a space is formed between the active substrate (7) and the common electrode substrate (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Hara, Akihiko Shibata
  • Patent number: 10866405
    Abstract: An optical shutter apparatus for controllably blocking an aperture, the shutter apparatus having a rotary actuator configured to rotate a shaft about an axis from a closed-shutter angular position toward an open-shutter angular position and a shutter blade coupled to the shaft and extending along a plane that is in parallel with the axis of rotation, wherein a surface of the shutter blade is reflective. There is a ferromagnetic collar coupled to the shaft and having a protruding portion extending orthogonally from the shaft with respect to the axis. A stationary magnet is disposed to attract the protruding portion of the collar and urge the shaft toward the closed-shutter angular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX Health & Science, LLC
    Inventor: Stanley W. Stephenson
  • Patent number: 10866406
    Abstract: An active thin film (coating) that enables dynamic modification of a reflective surface for wavefront control. The embodied active coatings are photonic devices comprising an optically thin layer of photosensitive polymer disposed between a substrate and a reflective optical coating. The polymer volume can be controlled from molecular to microscopic (sub-nanometer to micrometer) levels when light of a specific polarization and wavelength is applied from the backside of the coating surface (i.e., through a transmissive substrate for the stimulating light). As a result of the polymer volume change, the coating exhibits localized thickness changes (realized as dips/bumps that function as localized actuators) that modify the phase of incident light on the reflective surface. The size and shape of these photonic dip/bump actuators can be adjusted by design and can be placed on both flat and curved optical surfaces. Resolution and dynamic range can be controlled by the light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventors: Emily Finan, Eduardo Bendek, Thomas Milster
  • Patent number: 10866407
    Abstract: A micromechanical component includes a micromirror connected to a mounting support via at least one spring such that the micromirror is adjustable about at least one axis of rotation relative to the mounting support, where the micromirror includes a reflective surface developed at least partially on a first diaphragm surface of a mounted diaphragm of the micromirror, the diaphragm including a second diaphragm surface that faces away from the first diaphragm surface and that is mounted in air or vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Maier, Joerg Muchow, Corinna Koepernik, Helmut Grutzeck, Rainer Straub, Stefan Mark, Thorsten Balslink
  • Patent number: 10866408
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes: a mirror that has an optical reflection surface; a mirror support unit configured to support the mirror; a pair of drive beams arranged on both sides of the mirror support unit and connected such that the mirror support unit is swingable; a drive source provided on the drive beams and configured to swing the mirror support unit, the drive source including a stack structure of a plurality of piezoelectric thin films; and a piezoelectric sensor formed on a connection beam connected to the drive source or the drive beams, a number of piezoelectric thin films included in the piezoelectric sensor being less than a number of the piezoelectric thin films included in the drive source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisamichi Sekine, Maiko Nagawatari, Seiya Sato
  • Patent number: 10866409
    Abstract: A light deflecting device includes a rotary polyhedron and a cover that covers the rotary polyhedron. The cover includes an opening facing a peripheral surface of the rotary polyhedron. Light beam is irradiated to the peripheral surface of the rotary polyhedron through the opening of the cover, and the rotary polyhedron allows the light beam to be deflected and scanned with respect to an object to be irradiated while rotating about an axial center thereof. When an opening angle of the opening centered on the axial center of the rotary polyhedron is ? and n is set as a natural number, ? satisfies the following Equation (1) ?>((360°/the number of surfaces of the rotary polyhedron)×n)×0.83 . . . (1) and Equation (2) ?<((360°/the number of surfaces of the rotary polyhedron)×n)×1.17 . . . (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Shingo Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10866410
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second light sensors positioned in a laser scanning system of at least one color, such that scanned light is detected by the first light sensor and then by the second light sensor and light sensing surfaces of the first and second light sensors are not parallel, and a control unit connected to the first and second light sensors and configured to determine a time difference in the timing of light detection by the first and second light sensors and to execute a color position shift operation upon determining that the time difference is greater than a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Masuda
  • Patent number: 10866411
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a lens cover configured to cover an object lens of a camera provided in a machining area of a machine tool, the lens cover being transparent; a motor configured to rotate the lens cover; and a wiping member configured to, when the lens cover rotates, wipe at least an adhering substance that has adhered to a region of the lens cover in an angle-of-view of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Adachi, Yasuhiko Kurosumi, Yoshihiko Tarui
  • Patent number: 10866412
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) system includes an optical arrangement; a first image panel, wherein the optical arrangement directs image light from the first image panel along a first optical pathway; a second image panel, wherein the optical arrangement directs image light from the second image panel along a second optical pathway different from the first optical pathway; and a third image panel and a fourth image panel, wherein the third and fourth image panels are spaced apart from each other and the optical arrangement directs light from the third image panel and the fourth image panel along different optical pathways. The optical arrangement is configured such that light from the first image panel and the third image panel are emitted from the HMD system in a combined fashion in a first eye direction, and light from the second image panel and the fourth image panel are emitted from the HMD system in a combined fashion in a second eye direction different from the first eye direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ka Ho Tam, David James Montgomery, Scott Wells
  • Patent number: 10866413
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an electronic assembly includes a flexible circuit board formed into a curved shape that is configured to be substantially concentric with a viewer's eye. The electronic assembly further includes a plurality of facets coupled to a side of curved shape of the flexible circuit board that is configured to face the viewer's eye. Each facet has a planar face, one or more emitters configured to emit light towards the viewer's eye, and one or more receptors configured to detect the emitted light after it has been reflected back towards the electronic assembly from a retina of the viewer's eye. Each face is normal to a line pointing towards a center area of the viewer's eye when the curved shape is substantially concentric with the viewer's eye. Each facet is individually addressable such that the plurality of facets are configurable to detect a center of gaze of the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Lamkin, Kyle Martin Ringgenberg, Jordan David Lamkin
  • Patent number: 10866414
    Abstract: A vehicle may have a head-up display that produces a display output allowing a viewer in the vehicle to observe two-dimensional or three-dimensional content. The head-up display may include a display unit that produces the display output and an optical combiner on a vehicle window that directs the display output towards the viewer. The optical combiner may be a holographic or diffractive optical element or may be an array of angled reflectors such as micromirrors embedded in an index-matching material. Optical combiners formed from holographic elements may be configured to reflect light at an angle of reflection that is different than the angle of incidence, thereby allowing light to reach a viewer's eyes even when the head-up display reflects light off of a side window on a vehicle door. A holographic optical element may include volume holographic media such as photopolymers or holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Y. Zhang, Graham B. Myhre, Hyungryul J. Choi, Matthew E. Last
  • Patent number: 10866415
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus displays a virtual image suitably overlapped with actual scenery in accordance with a running condition of a vehicle. The head-up display apparatus acquires various kinds of vehicle information which can be detected by a vehicle and the display of the video image is based on the vehicle information. A mirror is configured to reflect the video image formed by the video image display to project onto the windshield. A mirror driver is configured to change an angle of the mirror and a display distance adjusting mechanism is configured to adjust a display distance of the virtual image with respect to the driver. The angle of the mirror is adjusted via the mirror driver based on the vehicle information such that the virtual image can be displayed with respect to the driver to be overlapped with the scenery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nagano, Takumi Nakada, Maki Hanada, Akio Misawa, Souta Sato
  • Patent number: 10866416
    Abstract: A display control device configured to control a head-up display that projects an image onto an area ahead of a driver to display the image such that the image that is a virtual image is superimposed on an actual view. The display control device includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute control such that a highlighting image that highlights a specific object present ahead of a vehicle is displayed when a warning against the specific object is given to the driver. The specific object is detected based on traveling situation information regarding a traveling situation of the vehicle. The traveling situation information based on an output from a vehicular sensor including an on-board camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Rie Murai
  • Patent number: 10866417
    Abstract: A see-through type display apparatus includes a see-through type optical system configured to transmit a first image via a first-path light, which is light traveling on a first path, to an ocular organ of a user, and a second image via a second-path light, which is light traveling on a second path, to the ocular organ of the user; and an incident light-dependent lens unit provided between the see-through type optical system and the ocular organ of the user and having different refractive powers according to characteristics of incident light, where the incident light-dependent lens unit has a positive first refractive power with respect to the first-path light and has a second refractive power different from the first refractive power with respect to the second-path light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Geeyoung Sung, Hongseok Lee, Byoungho Lee, Changkun Lee, Seokil Moon, Jongyoung Hong
  • Patent number: 10866418
    Abstract: A multiplanar head mounted display (HMD) includes two or more artificial display planes for each eye located at optical distances that can be dynamically adjusted based on a location within a scene presented by the HMD that the user views. For example, a scene is presented on two or more electronic display elements (e.g., screens) of the HMD. A focal length of an optics block that directs image light from the electronic display elements towards the eyes of a user is adjusted using a varifocal system (e.g., an element that mechanically changes a distance between a lens system in the optics block and the electronic display element, an element that changes shape of one or more lenses in the lens system in the optics block, etc.) based on a location or object within the scene where the user is looking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Robert Lanman, William Aaron Nicholls, Marina Zannoli, Kevin James MacKenzie, James Hillis, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Olivier Mercier
  • Patent number: 10866419
    Abstract: An optical combiner including an array of pairs of resonating waveguide gratings. The waveguiding layer of the array, which includes the resonating waveguide gratings, is configured to guide at most ten guided light modes in the visible wavelength range. At least a portion of the resonating waveguide grating array is configured to incouple a portion of incident light on the array and to outcouple a fraction of that incident light. The outcoupled fraction has a predetermined wavelength ? in the visible and near-infrared wavelength range and has a predetermined spectral width ??. The optical combiner is preferably configured to be used in a near-eye display apparatus. The invention is also achieved by a near-eye display apparatus that is adapted to combine projected images provided by a light emitter with light provided by a scene observed by an observer looking through the optical combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA—RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT
    Inventors: Guillaume Basset, Giorgio Quaranta
  • Patent number: 10866420
    Abstract: Embodiments include a head-worn display including a display panel sized and positioned to produce a field of view to present digital content to an eye of a user, and a processor adapted to present the digital content to the display panel such that the digital content is only presented in a portion of the field of view, the portion being in the middle of the field of view such that horizontally opposing edges of the field of view are blank areas. The processor is adapted to shift the digital content into one of the blank areas to adjust the convergence distance of the digital content and thereby change the perceived distance from the user to the digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: John N. Border, Joseph Bietry, John D. Haddick
  • Patent number: 10866421
    Abstract: Architectures are provided for selectively outputting light for forming images, the light having different wavelengths and being outputted with low levels of crosstalk. In some embodiments, light is incoupled into a waveguide and deflected to propagate in different directions, depending on wavelength. The incoupled light then outcoupled by outcoupling optical elements that outcouple light based on the direction of propagation of the light. In some other embodiments, color filters are between a waveguide and outcoupling elements. The color filters limit the wavelengths of light that interact with and are outcoupled by the outcoupling elements. In yet other embodiments, a different waveguide is provided for each range of wavelengths to be outputted. Incoupling optical elements selectively incouple light of the appropriate range of wavelengths into a corresponding waveguide, from which the light is outcoupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Dale Tekolste, Michael Anthony Klug, Brian T. Schowengerdt
  • Patent number: 10866422
    Abstract: MicroLED arrays offer a small form factor solution for the HMD image sources since they do not need a separate illumination optics. Features of the present disclosure implement a MicroLED display system that incorporate a plurality of monochrome projectors (e.g., three MicroLED projectors) to generate three monochrome images (e.g., red, blue, and green images) that are separately input into a single waveguide of the HMD and combined to form an image that is displayed to the user. By utilizing a single waveguide that includes a plurality of spatially separated input regions (e.g., a region for inputting blue light, a region for inputting red light, a region for inputting green light), the MicroLED display system of the present disclosure may reduce the form factor of the HMD device because of the reduced number of plates that may be required to combine the three monochrome images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pietari Tuomisto, William Cummings, Dmitry Reshidko, Tuomas Vallius, David Douglas Bohn
  • Patent number: 10866423
    Abstract: A method operates a display system having a pair of data glasses in a motor vehicle. The method transmits brightness information, especially supplied by a driver assistance system, to the data glasses, and adapts, depending on the transmitted brightness information, an aperture opening and/or an exposure time of a data glasses camera which is used to recognize a position and orientation of the data glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Matthias Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 10866424
    Abstract: An image display device of the present disclosure includes an image light generating device, a first, a second, a third, and a fourth optical unit. A first intermediate image is formed between the first and the third optical unit. A pupil is formed between the second and the fourth optical unit. A second intermediate image is formed between the third and the fourth optical unit. An exit pupil is formed at an opposite side of the fourth optical unit from the third optical unit. The image light generating device includes a first, a second, a third light emitting panel, and a color synthesis element. The color synthesis element is constituted of a cross dichroic prism including a first and a second dichroic film that intersect with each other. Each of the first and the second dichroic film does not have a polarization separation characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Fukase, Mitsutaka Ide, Toshiyuki Noguchi