Patents Issued in January 9, 2024
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Patent number: 11867980Abstract: A slip-resistant eyewear system comprising an angular adjustment screw configured to couple to a first hinge of an eyewear frame such that an angle of the eyewear frame is adjustable relative to a first bow and a unitary eyewear retainer comprising a first end configured to couple to the first bow and a second end configured to couple to a second bow such that a tension is maintained on the unitary eyewear retainer when the unitary eyewear retainer extends around a back of a head of a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LooLoops, LLCInventors: Kent Chill Loo, Joseph Pepe Elijio Velasquez, Robert James Fulbright
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Patent number: 11867981Abstract: An exemplary system, method, and device are disclosed that facilitate a modular eyewear system with modular components (e.g., lenses, frames, speakers, cameras, lights, etc.) that can be interchanged. The modular components can be interchanged using components that are reversibly attachable/releasable (e.g., magnets at both male-female connectors). This can allow a wearer of the eyewear to quickly reconfigure the eyewear for different purposes, readjust the fit of the eyewear, repair damage to the eyewear, and/or customize the appearance of the eyewear.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Maurice Matthew Trentel
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Patent number: 11867982Abstract: A nose pad for the nosepiece of a pair of eyeglasses, which is made of material that is at least partially transparent and defines a resting surface which can be rested directly on the nose of a user includes a connecting portion, which is fixed to the nose pad and is provided with a through hole for connection to a supporting pin which is integral with the frame of the pair of eyeglasses. The nose pad also includes an insert, which is at least partially embedded within the nose pad and is visible from the outside through a transparent portion of the resting surface of the nose pad.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LUXOTTICA S.R.L.Inventors: Alessandro Donoli, Fabio Borsoi
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Patent number: 11867983Abstract: Provided are electronic eyeglasses including a power supply unit that is less likely to be unfastened and is easily attachable and detachable. A power supply unit is detachably attached to an accommodating chamber in a distal end portion of a temple. The power supply unit includes, from a front end toward a rear end, an electrical connection terminal; a first housing unit that holds a first battery, and that has a side surface having an arc shape in a plan view; a narrow portion that is connected to the arc-shaped side surface, and that has a side surface narrower than the side surface; and a second housing unit that has a side surface connected to the narrow side surface, and that hold a second battery. The accommodating chamber has a protruding portion that is elastically deformed so as to be fitted to the narrow portion of the power supply unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Masayoshi Hino, Ryuki Kan
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Patent number: 11867984Abstract: A method for determining a near point and a near point distance of a person is disclosed, as well as methods for determining a spherical refractive power. In one implementation, optotypes are displayed on a mobile terminal and the person is asked to move the mobile terminal to the near point of the person. The position of the mobile terminal is determined on the basis of images of the surroundings and measurements of an acceleration of the mobile terminal. The near point distance can then be determined from the position of the mobile terminal at the near point and a position of the eyes of the person. Corresponding computer programs and corresponding mobile terminals are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Claudius Weimann
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Patent number: 11867985Abstract: A contact lens includes a central region, an annular region and a peripheral region. The central region includes a central point of the contact lens. The annular region symmetrically surrounds the central region. The peripheral region symmetrically surrounds the annular region. The peripheral region includes at least one color pattern portion. The annular region includes at least one power of critical point.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LARGAN MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: En-Ping Lin, I-Wei Lai, Chun-Hung Teng
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Patent number: 11867986Abstract: There is provided an optical insert for transforming conventional eyewear into eyewear having an additional purpose. The optical insert comprises an extender portion which holds a lens on a first end and a mounting assembly on a second end opposite the first end. The mounting assembly comprises a profile which matches the profile of the conventional eyewear lens retainer. The lens of the conventional eyewear is configured to be removed and replaced with the optical insert. In one embodiment, the lens of the optical insert can comprise dark lenses which can be useful, for example, to transform conventional eyeglasses into prescription sunglasses.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Brent Sheldon
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Patent number: 11867987Abstract: A heterodyne phase-controlled beam-combiner system includes a laser source, a first beam splitter, a plurality of phase modulators, a tiled array and an optical mixer. The laser source generates a light beam, and the first beam splitter splits the light beam into multiple beamlets. A phase modulator tags each beamlet with an arbitrary phase dither signal corresponding to an arbitrary phase setpoint or offset, and a tiled array, including a number of lenslets, combines the tagged beamlets and directs the combined light to a second beam splitter. The optical mixer generates a heterodyne light including tagging information. A first output light of the second beam splitter is a target light directed to a target, and the arbitrary phase offset enables achieving a nonflat phase profile for beamlets to obtain the desired on-axis far-field intensity of the target light.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONInventors: Bruce G. Tiemann, Philip Gatt
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Patent number: 11867988Abstract: A layered structure including a transparent substrate; a photoluminescent layer disposed on the transparent substrate and a pattern of a quantum dot polymer composite; and a capping layer disposed on the photoluminescent layer and including an inorganic material, a method of producing the same, a liquid crystal display including the same. The quantum dot polymer composite includes a polymer matrix; and a plurality of quantum dots in the polymer matrix, the pattern of the quantum dot polymer composite includes at least one repeating section and the repeating section includes a first section configured to emit light of a first peak wavelength, the inorganic material is disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the repeating section, and the inorganic material includes a metal oxide, a metal nitride, a metal oxynitride, a metal sulfide, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Deukseok Chung, Shin Ae Jun, Tae Won Jeong, Yong Seok Han
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Patent number: 11867989Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel including a substrate and a plurality of scan lines disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, a backlight module disposed under the display panel, and an optical film disposed above the backlight module and including a plurality of light-blocking portions and a plurality of light-transmission portions which are arranged alternately. The light blocking portions extend in a second direction, and the first direction and the second direction are not parallel.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Hong-Sheng Hsieh, Hao-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 11867990Abstract: An electronic device including a panel and a light control unit is provided. The panel includes a first light-emitting region and a transparent region disposed adjacent to the first light-emitting region. The light control unit is disposed on the panel, wherein the light control unit is overlapped with the first light-emitting region.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Innolux CorporationInventors: Yu-Chia Huang, Jui-Jen Yueh, Tsung-Han Tsai, Kuan-Feng Lee
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Patent number: 11867991Abstract: An optical scan device includes an optical waveguide array, including a plurality of optical waveguides each of which propagates light along a first direction, that emits a light beam, the plurality of optical waveguides being arranged in a second direction that intersects the first direction, a phase shifter array including a plurality of phase shifters connected separately to each of the plurality of optical waveguides, a control circuit that controls a phase shift amount of each of the plurality of phase shifters and/or inputting of light to each of the plurality of phase shifters and thereby controls a direction and shape of the light beam that is emitted from the optical waveguide array, a photodetector that detects the light beam reflected by a physical object, and a signal processing circuit that generates distance distribution data on the basis of output from the photodetector.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhisa Inada, Atsushi Ishikawa, Yumiko Kato
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Patent number: 11867992Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a front surface panel; a plurality of display units disposed at different positions on a back of the front surface panel; and a main frame supporting side parts of a first display unit and a second display unit adjacent to each other among the plurality of display units, and fixed to a back surface of the front surface panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Takuya Nishimoto
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Patent number: 11867993Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device having a fingerprint recognition function. The display device includes: a light source; a fingerprint recognition component including a finger contact substrate, the light source and the finger contact substrate having a gap therebetween; and a light guiding layer at least partially filling the gap and configured to guide light emitted by the light source towards the finger contact substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiaoquan Hai
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Patent number: 11867994Abstract: A display module includes: a heating circuit, a gating circuit and a plurality of heating lines. The heating circuit includes a first type of heating signal output terminal and a second type of heating signal output terminal, and the gating circuit includes a gating unit. The first type of heating signal output terminal is electrically connected to a first type of signal input terminal of the gating unit, and a first type of signal output terminal of the gating unit is electrically connected to a first terminal of a heating line; and/or the second type of heating signal output terminal is electrically connected to a second type of signal input terminal of the gating unit, and a second type of signal output terminal of the gating unit is electrically connected to a second terminal of the heating line.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Shanghai AVIC OPTO Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiangchun Wang, Xiaoyuan Ding, Guanzhong Xiong, Jian Zhao
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Patent number: 11867995Abstract: A display device is provided and includes display panel including first substrate, lower electrode on first substrate, lower alignment layer with first alignment direction on lower electrode, second substrate, upper electrode on second substrate, upper alignment layer with first alignment direction on upper electrode, and liquid crystalline polymers with striped structure and liquid crystal molecules which are aligned in first alignment direction, and which are disposed between first and second substrates; light source unit disposed at side of display panel and configured to emit incident light which is not polarized; and light guided structure disposed between side of display panel and light source unit, wherein light source unit is disposed in parallel to first alignment direction and light which is emitted from display panel is polarized in first alignment direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Akira Sakaigawa
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Patent number: 11867996Abstract: A surface finishing method, an anti-glare coating, and a display device having same are provided. The surface finishing method includes adding diffusion particles which have a density less than that of a resin material, and controlling the thickness of the resin material in an anti-glare material coated on a surface of a substrate to be greater than the particle size of the diffusion particles, so that the diffusion particles are evenly dispersed in the resin layer, and a part of the volume of the diffusion particles are exposed on a surface of the resin layer. Thus, the uniformity of the surface haze of the anti-glare coating can be enhanced, and flashing points of the display device can be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Chingyuan Cheng
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Patent number: 11867997Abstract: A black matrix is formed to an edge of a counter substrate. Then, a BM slit, which is an area where the black matrix is not present, is formed in the periphery of a seal material in order to prevent water or moisture from penetrating from the interface between the counter substrate and the black matrix. Then, a light shielding metal is formed in a layer other than a lead line layer, on the side of a TFT substrate, in order to prevent light from leaking from the BM slit. With this structure, it is possible to prevent the light from leaking from the BM slit around a screen. As a result, the degradation of the contrast can be prevented in the periphery of the screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Syou Yanagisawa
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Patent number: 11867998Abstract: The present application provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. In the liquid crystal display panel, a light-shielding pattern is disposed on a side of a first substrate away from a liquid crystal layer, and the light-shielding pattern is disposed between two adjacent pixels. A difference between a width of the light-shielding pattern and a distance between the two adjacent pixels is less than or equal to a threshold value. A material of the light-shielding pattern includes an inorganic material. Therefore, an aperture ratio of the liquid crystal display panel is increased.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiaoling Zou
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Patent number: 11867999Abstract: A color filter is provided. The color filter includes a substrate, a bank formed on a substrate to partition a plurality of pixel units into each other, a plurality of first structures formed on the pixel unit, and having a width narrower than a width of the pixel unit, and a height lower than a height of the bank, and an ink film filled in the pixel unit and having a height higher than the height of the first structures.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Seok Lee, Yoon-Ok Jang, Sung Ho Kim, Kwang Jun Choi, Hyun Min Lee
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Patent number: 11868000Abstract: A first organic insulating film is arranged in a circumference area outside an active area on a first substrate. A circumference color filter is arranged in the circumference area on a second substrate. A second organic insulating film covers the circumference color filter. A seal material is arranged between the first and second organic insulating films to attach the first substrate and the second substrate. The seal material extends up to a position in which end portions of the first and second substrates overlap. A first spacer is arranged between the first and second organic insulating films in the circumference area. The first spacer is arranged on an active area side in the seal material. A second spacer is formed between the first and second organic insulating films in a position in which the end portions of the substrates overlap.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Ayumi Mori
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Patent number: 11868001Abstract: A display device includes a first display unit and a second display unit. The first display unit emits a red light having a first output spectrum corresponding to a highest gray level of the display device. The second display unit emits a blue light having a second output spectrum corresponding to the highest gray level of the display device. An intensity integral of the first output spectrum within a range from 380 nm to 780 nm is defined as a first intensity integral, an intensity integral of the second output spectrum within a range from 511 nm to 597 nm is defined as a second intensity integral, and a ratio of the second intensity integral to the first intensity integral is greater than 0% and less than or equal to 29.0%.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: InnoLux CorporationInventors: Hsiao-Lang Lin, Jia-Yuan Chen, Jui-Jen Yueh, Kuan-Feng Lee, Tsung-Han Tsai
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Patent number: 11868002Abstract: A backlight module and a display device having same are provided in the present disclosure. The backlight module includes a plurality of backplanes that are combined, where a plurality of light-emitting units are disposed. Each of the light-emitting units includes a first light-emitting unit located in the combining areas of the adjacent backplanes, and a second light-emitting unit located in the other areas of the backplanes. In at least one backplane, a first resistance between the first light-emitting unit and the corresponding power source high-potential signal input terminal is smaller than a second resistance between the second light-emitting unit and the corresponding power source high-potential signal input terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xingyi Liu
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Patent number: 11868003Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a driving backplate and a display device adopting the following solutions. The driving backplate comprises: a substrate; a first reflective layer disposed on the substrate; the first reflecting layer is provided with a plurality of first openings; an outline of the first opening comprises a plurality of first grooves; a functional element disposed within the first opening; and a dispensed portion arranged at a periphery of the functional element, and at least part of the first groove is filled by one side of the dispensed portion close to the first reflecting layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: BOE MLED TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Junjie Xie, Yezhou Tan, Zhenxing Luo, Bin Xiang, Pei Li, Pengjun Cao
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Patent number: 11868004Abstract: A backlight module for a display is provided. The backlight module includes a base, a light emitting element, a reflector layer and a fluorescence material layer. The base includes a backplane and a sidewall, and the backplane connects to the sidewall to define a space. The light emitting element is on the backplane and in the space. The reflector layer is on the sidewall. The fluorescence material layer is on the reflector layer. The sidewall and the fluorescence material layer are on opposite sides of the reflector layer. The fluorescence material layer has a length less than a length of the reflector layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Qisda CorporationInventor: Wan-Hui Chen
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Patent number: 11868005Abstract: A planar light source includes a substrate, light sources, and a partitioning member. The partitioning member defines partitioned regions arranged in a first direction and in a second direction that intersects the first direction. At least one of the light sources is arranged in a corresponding one of the partitioned regions. The partitioning member includes a plurality of first wall parts defining a plurality of first ridges extending in the first direction, and a plurality of second wall parts defining a plurality of second ridges extending in the second direction. The first wall parts define at least one first cut on at least one of the first ridges. At least one of the partitioned regions is surrounded by the first ridges and the second ridges in a plan view and includes an opposing pair of the first wall parts and an opposing pair of the second wall parts.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Koki Shibai, Yoshihiro Sho, Motokazu Yamada, Naoya Kashiwagi, Shimpei Sasaoka
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Patent number: 11868006Abstract: A liquid crystal display device and an electronic equipment are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and an adjustable diffusion sheet configured to improve a light transmissive rate of a light transmissive region. The adjustable diffusion sheet includes a first sub-section corresponding to the position of the light transmissive region. When the light transmissive region is in a transparent state, the first sub-section is in a transparent state. When the light transmissive region is in a display state, the first sub-section is in a fog state.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shaojun Hou, Quan Tang, Wei Cheng, Guanghui Liu
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Patent number: 11868007Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel includes a display module and a packaging cover plate disposed on a light-emitting side of the display module. The packaging cover plate includes a cover plate body and a first polarizer, wherein the first polarizer is disposed on a side of the cover plate body adjacent to the display module and/or on a side of the cover plate body away from the display module.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HUIZHOU CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongchen Huang, Chingyuan Cheng
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Patent number: 11868008Abstract: A display apparatus includes a backlight component, a light adjusting component, a display panel, and a first polarizing film. The backlight component is configured to generate polarized light. The light adjusting component is disposed on one side of the backlight component, and is configured to deflect or not deflect polarized light generated by the backlight component. The first polarizing film is disposed between the light adjusting component and the display panel. In the display apparatus) provided in this application, when the polarized light obtained after passing through the light adjusting component passes through the first polarizing film, if a vibration direction of the polarized light is consistent with a transmission direction of the first polarizing film, the polarized light can be transmitted. If the vibration direction of the polarized light is perpendicular to the transmission direction of the first polarizing film, the polarized light cannot be transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yiwen Chang, Chenxiang Zhao, Kang Chung Liu
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Patent number: 11868009Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a liquid crystal layer including first liquid crystal molecules, a first optical compensation layer between the liquid crystal layer and any of the first polarizer and the second polarizer, a second optical compensation layer on a same side of the liquid crystal layer as the first optical compensation layer. In a non-powered state of the liquid crystal display panel orthographic projections of optical axes of the first liquid crystal molecules on the first polarizer, which are perpendicular to an orthographic projection of an optical axis of the first optical compensation layer on the first polarizer, are parallel to any of transmission axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer that are perpendicular to each other. An optical axis of the second optical compensation layer is perpendicular to a plane where the second optical compensation layer is located.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Bowen Li, Feifei Wang, Hongming Zhan, Kaixuan Wang, Lintao Ji, Xinli Ma, Xiaofeng Yin
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Patent number: 11868010Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a method for preparing same, and a display device. The preparation method includes steps of: providing a base plate, wherein the base plate includes a display area and a binding area, and a magnetic composite structure is disposed in the base plate; disposing a magnetic probe at a position on a side of the base plate that corresponds to the binding area; and adding droplets to an upper surface of the base plate, and controlling the magnetic probe to be turned on, so as to form an alignment film having a uniform thickness on the upper surface of the base plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Shixin Zhou
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Patent number: 11868011Abstract: The present application discloses a liquid crystal display panel, which includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate, a first polarizer and a second polarizer; wherein each of the pixel units includes a pixel electrode, the pixel electrode includes a trunk electrode, the trunk electrode includes a first trunk electrode disposed along a first direction and a second trunk electrode disposed along a second direction, and an angle between the first direction and the first polarization direction is different from a right angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xingwu Chen, Yoonsung Um, Yinfeng Zhang, Xin Zhang, Lixuan Chen, Dongze Li
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Patent number: 11868012Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transparent display panel, including: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer; a light guide plate; a light source assembly; and a plurality of pixel units, wherein the plurality of pixel units includes a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit, a distance from a center of an orthographic projection of the first pixel unit on a light exit surface of the light guide plate to the light incident surface of the light guide plate is less than that of the second pixel unit, and an area of an orthographic projection of an effective modulation area of the liquid crystal layer in the first pixel unit on the light exit surface of the light guide plate is less than that in the second pixel unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Long Wang, Nanfang Jia, Yidan Peng, Jian Zhou
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Patent number: 11868013Abstract: A chip on film, a display panel, and a method of manufacturing the display panel are provided. The chip on film includes a flexible film and a driver chip. The flexible film includes at least a first group of lines and a second group of lines. M lines of the first group of lines are electrically connected to pins of the driver chip to form driver lines; and N lines of the second group of lines are not electrically connected to any pin of the driver chip, serving as nominal lines. By arranging the nominal lines, a conventional bonding machine may be applied to bond the chip on film to the display substrate. Costs for modifying the bonding machine may be reduced, and application scenarios of the chip on film may be increased.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Li Tang, Baohong Kang
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Patent number: 11868014Abstract: Provided is an array substrate, a manufacturing method for an array substrate, and a display panel. The array substrate includes a first substrate base, common electrode lines, a color filter layer, and a planarization layer; the color filter layer includes first color filters and a second color filters, forming color filter channels therebetween on the common electrode lines, so as to avoid overlapping between the first color filters and the second color filters. The width of the common electrode lines is relatively small, ensuring a high aperture rate of the array substrate. Additionally, the array substrate further includes a planarization layer filled in the color filter channels, this minimizes the color filter channels to ensure flatness between the first color filters and the second color filters, so that etching residues in the color filter channels can be avoided when forming the pixel electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Shishuai Huang, Bing Han, Baohong Kang
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Patent number: 11868016Abstract: A light-emitting electrochromic device with both electrochromic properties and light-emitting properties is disclosed. The light-emitting electrochromic device also shows multiple color-switching properties.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: AMBILIGHT INC.Inventor: Jianguo Mei
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Patent number: 11868017Abstract: An electrochromic rearview mirror contains: a first substrate, a first plating layer, a second plating layer, a packaging fringe, an electrochromic layer, a first conductive glue, a second conductive glue, at least one third plating layer, at least one fourth plating layer, a second substrate, a first electricity transmission sheet, and a second electricity transmission sheet. The first substrate includes a first face and a second face. The second substrate includes a third face and a fourth face. A respective one fourth plating layer includes a first turning extension which is rough. A respective one third plating layer includes a second turning extension which is rough. The first electricity transmission sheet includes a first conducting portion and a first contact portion. In addition, the second electricity transmission sheet includes a second conducting portion and a second contact portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Hsin-Chun Cheng
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Patent number: 11868018Abstract: Disclosed are an electrochromic element, device, and product, and a manufacturing method therefor. The electrochromic device (7) comprises: an electrochromic yarn (6), an ion storage yarn (18), and a power source (8), wherein the electrochromic yarn (6) contains a first flexible conductive yarn (5) and an electrochromic layer (4) coated on a surface layer of the first flexible conductive yarn (5); the ion storage yarn (18) contains a second flexible conductive yarn (1) and an ion storage layer (17) coated on a surface layer of the second flexible conductive yarn (1); and the first flexible conductive yarn (5) is electrically connected to a negative electrode of the power source (8), and the second flexible conductive yarn (1) is electrically connected to a positive electrode of the power source (8). The electrochromic device (7) can achieve a clear color development effect and make an electrochromic material have a good fastness.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: THE HONG KONG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL LIMITEDInventors: Edwin Yee Man Keh, Lei Yao, Yeung Yu Hui, Xinxin Huang, Yue Kit Hui, Colin Xin Chen, Derek Lai
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Patent number: 11868019Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media related to a display construct coupled to a structure (e.g., a vision window). The structure can be a supportive structure such as a fixture. The display construct is configured to facilitate media display and is at least partially transparent. The vision window may be a tintable window, e.g., a window in which its tint is electrically controllable (e.g., an electrochromic window). Various interactive capabilities with the display construct are disclosed (e.g., via a touch screen).Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Nitesh Trikha, Robert Michael Martinson, Anthony Young, Vinh N. Nguyen, Matthew Burton Sheffield, Chee Yung Chan, Todd Daniel Antes, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam
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Patent number: 11868020Abstract: An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid and first, second, third and fourth types of particles (W, Y, R, B) having four different colors. The first and third particles have charges of one polarity and the second and fourth particles charges of the opposite polarity; the first particles have a greater zeta potential or electrophoretic mobility than the third particles, and the second particles a greater zeta potential or electrophoretic mobility than the fourth particles. One particle is white (W), one non-white particle (B) is partially light-transmissive, and the remaining two non-white particles (R, Y) are light-reflective. A third light-reflective particle (G) may be added to create a five particle medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: E INK CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaolong Zheng, Craig Lin
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Patent number: 11868021Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical modulator is disclosed. The method includes a step of preparing a Mach-Zehnder modulator, a step of acquiring, based on a light transmittance in an arm waveguide, a relationship between a voltage applied to an electrode and a phase change amount of light propagating through the arm waveguide, a step of acquiring, based on the relationship, a voltage in which the phase change amount of the light propagating through the arm waveguide has a predetermined when the light is modulated, and a step of storing the voltage in a storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Ishikawa, Naoya Kono
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Patent number: 11868022Abstract: An SrB4O7 or PbB4O7 crystal is configured with a plurality of domains with respective periodically alternating polarity of the crystal axis so that the disclosed crystal is capable of quasi-phasematching (QPM). The disclosed crystal is manufactured by a method including patterning a surface of a crystal block of SrB4O7 or PbB4O7, thereby providing patterned uniformly dimensioned regions with a uniform polarity sign on the surface. The method further includes generating a disturbance on the patterned surface, thereby inverting a sign of crystal polarity of every other region to form the SrB4O7 or SrB4O7 crystal with a plurality of domains with alternating polarity enabling a QPM mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Dan Perlov, Alexander Zaytsev, Anatolii Zamkov, Nikita Radionov, Aleksandr Cherepakhin, Nikolay Evtikhiev, Andrey Sadovskiy
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Patent number: 11868023Abstract: A light-emitting device includes an optical fiber, a first light source unit, and a second light source unit. The optical fiber includes a wavelength converting portion. The wavelength converting portion is provided between a light incident portion and a light emerging portion. The wavelength converting portion contains a wavelength converting material. The wavelength converting material is excited by excitation light to produce a spontaneous emission of light having a longer wavelength than the excitation light and amplifies the spontaneous emission of light to produce an amplified spontaneous emission of light. The first light source unit makes the excitation light incident on the light incident portion. The second light source unit makes seed light, causing a stimulated emission of light to be produced from the wavelength converting material that has been excited by either the excitation light or the amplified spontaneous emission of light, incident on the light incident portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: Institute for Laser Technology, Panasonic Holdings CorporationInventors: Takanori Aketa, Kenichiro Tanaka, Noriaki Miyanaga
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Patent number: 11868024Abstract: A method of practicing the invention includes at least the following steps of generating pump laser radiation having a spectrum containing a plurality of equidistant spectral lines; passing the pump laser radiation through a non-linear medium of a singly resonant, single-frequency optical parametric oscillator, wherein the pump laser radiation is continuously a wave or is pulsed, wherein the pulse duration in the latter case is longer than the time the optical parametric oscillation requires to reach its steady state; and coupling out the non-resonant idler or signal laser radiation from the optical parametric oscillator as usable frequency converted laser radiation. Further provided is a laser device used to carry out the method of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TOPTICA Photonics, Inc.Inventors: Adam Taylor Heiniger, Matthew James Cich
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Patent number: 11868025Abstract: Apparatuses comprising cascaded or series configurations of Mach-Zehnder electrooptic modulators, where the nonlinearities of the cascaded and series configurations of Mach-Zehnder electrooptic modulators increase signal bandwidth and boost signal fidelity in electronic digital to analog converters. The Mach-Zehnder electrooptic modulators are combined with photodiode detectors that are used to convert signals from the optical domain to the electrical domain.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLCInventors: Ryan D. Muir, Vincent J. Hernandez, Brandon W. Buckley, Daniel E. Mittelberger, John E. Heebner
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Patent number: 11868026Abstract: An optical analog-to-digital (AD) converter includes, wherein the optical AD converter converts an analog signal of information included in inputted signal light into a digital signal, and is formed of N stages corresponding to a number N of bits of the digital signal, optical waveguides configured to respectively guide the signal light, base light obtained by branching local light, and reference light obtained by branching the local light, a light receiver configured to detect and compare light levels of the signal light and the reference light, and output a binary comparison result, and an optical modulator configured to variably control a light level of the base light, based on the binary comparison result, in each stage of the N stages, wherein an output variably controlled of the optical modulator is multiplexed with the reference light of a next stage.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Tomoyuki Akiyama, Takeshi Hoshida, Jun Matsui, Shinsuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 11868027Abstract: A softbox having a body with an integrated light-altering element. The light-altering element may have a body and an edge, where at least a portion of the edge of the light altering element is non-removably coupled to at least a portion of softbox body proximate to the softbox edge. The other portions of the edge may have attachment elements that couple to other portions of the distal edge of the softbox. Another light-altering element, such as a grid, may couple to the softbox by coupling to a cuff of the body of the softbox.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: MGMD BrainPower LLCInventors: Spencer Boerup, Robert Ziolkowski
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Patent number: 11868028Abstract: An accessory includes: a detection terminal; a first power supply terminal through which a first power supply voltage is supplied; a second power supply terminal through which a second power supply voltage is supplied; a ground terminal; a ready terminal; a first clock terminal; a first data terminal; a second data terminal; a second clock terminal; a third data terminal; a first circuit to which the first power supply voltage is supplied through the first power supply terminal; and a second circuit to which the second power supply voltage is supplied through the second power supply terminal, wherein: the ground terminal is used as a ground potential for the first circuit and the second circuit; and a distance between the second clock terminal and the first power supply terminal is longer than a distance between the first clock terminal and the first power supply terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Takayuki Funaoka
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Patent number: 11868029Abstract: A multi-eye interchangeable lens is disclosed. In one example, it includes a lens barrel, a movable unit, individual-eye lenses, and a light source. The movable unit is movable along an optical axis with respect to the lens barrel. The individual-eye lenses are integrally movable with the movable unit and are arranged such that emission positions of imaging lights emitted via the individual-eye lenses do not overlap with one another. The light source is movable along the optical axis integrally with the movable unit and the individual-eye lenses, and is arranged such that an emission position of a parallel light emitted to an image sensor provided in a camera body does not overlap with the emission position of the imaging light of each of the plurality of individual-eye lenses.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kengo Hayasaka, Hidenori Kushida, Katsuhisa Ito
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Patent number: 11868030Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes providing a body assembly including a first recess, a second recess, and a third recess, providing a film apple box, and selectively supporting a first end portion of the film apple box in the first recess in a first orientation. The method also includes selectively supporting a second end portion of the film apple box in the second recess in a second orientation, and selectively supporting a third end portion of the film apple box in the third recess in a third orientation.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Kevin Martin