Patents Issued in February 6, 2024
  • Patent number: 11892693
    Abstract: A device includes a die stack including a first die including a quantum circuit and a second die including an electronic circuit. The second die and the first die face each other. The device also includes a first interconnect between the quantum circuit and the electronic circuit and a second interconnect between the quantum circuit and the electronic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Psiquantum, Corp.
    Inventors: Gabriel J. Mendoza, Matteo Staffaroni, Albert Wang, John Eugene Berg, Ramakanth Alapati
  • Patent number: 11892694
    Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber ribbon capable of achieving higher density and reduction in diameter and accurately placing optical fibers in V-shape grooves in a fusion machine without failure. The optical fiber ribbon 1 includes three or more of optical fibers 2 arranged in parallel and connecting portions 3 connecting adjacent two optical fibers 2 together, the connecting portions 3 being intermittently provided in each of a ribbon longitudinal direction and a ribbon width direction. The connecting portions 3 are each formed in such a manner as to fill resin into a gap S formed between adjacent two optical fibers 2, and both surfaces of the respective connecting portions 3 are each formed into a recess having a concave shape curved toward a center of the gap S to separate from lines 4,5 each connecting contact points of the optical fibers 2 when being placed on a horizontal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: FUJIKURA LTD., NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Namazue, Ken Osato, Naoki Okada, Yusuke Yamada, Daisuke Kakuta, Hisaaki Nakane, Shinya Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11892695
    Abstract: A cable comprises a protective jacket and a plurality of conductor bundles symmetrically arranged within the protective jacket. The cable comprises optical fibers arranged within the protective jacket relative to the plurality of conductor bundles such that an orthogonal mode electrical field symmetry for the plurality of conductor bundles is retained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Laureto Maida, Sudhir Kumar Gupta, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Arabinda Misra, Ramon Hernandez Marti
  • Patent number: 11892696
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sealed closure having modular components, enhanced cable sealing, modular connection interfaces, enhanced cable anchoring and enhanced fiber management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Johan Geens, Philippe Coenegracht, Pieter Doultremont, William B. Bryan, William Alan Carrico, Eddy Luc Cams, Erik David Bishop, Thomas Ross Marmon, Bart Mattie Claessens, Alan Armando Garcia Gonzalez, Roel Modest Willy Bryon, Roger Alaerts, Conny Van De Velde, Jos Brants, El Moïz Mohammed Michel Ghammam, Jozef Christiaan Mathieu Versleegers, Marc Eugène Willem Bervoets, Barry Wayne Allen, Maarten Aerts
  • Patent number: 11892697
    Abstract: There is disclosed a fiber optic cassette cabinet assembly comprising a plurality of trays, each tray comprising a flat surface for receiving fiber optic cassettes arranged side by side, a second flat surface positioned in front of the cassettes received on the tray and pivotally mounted about a first axis between the forward ends and a label holder positioned above the second flat surface and pivotally mounted about a second axis between the forward ends. The tray is moveable between one of a retracted position, where the cassettes are completely within the tray receiving space, and an extended position where the cassettes extend at least partially in front of the cabinet opening. In the extended position a forward edge of the second surface is tiltable downwards about the first axis and a forward edge of the transparent label holder is tiltable upwards about the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BELDEN CANADA ULC
    Inventors: Christian Roa-Quispe, Oscar Alberto Lazarte Barrios
  • Patent number: 11892698
    Abstract: An assembly for guiding an optic fiber cable comprising a tray configured to move between a first position and a second position and a guide. A first end portion of the guide is configured to move relative to the tray during operation and a second end portion is configured to move with the tray during operation. The guide comprises a bend limiting passage configured to follow a curve shape having a radius that is greater than a predetermined minimum bend radius and such that an optic fiber that is received between the first end portion of the guide and the second end portion of the guide follows the curve shape so as to prevent the optic fiber from becoming snagged on the tray, hindering movement of the tray or becoming overly bent during operation of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BELDEN CANADA ULC
    Inventors: Vincent Pilon, Olivier Kedzierski
  • Patent number: 11892699
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable and a cable mounting clamp. The cable mounting clamp includes a base removably connectable to a surface. The base may include a tab removably insertable into an aperture defined in the surface and a lock releasably connectable to the surface. The base further includes an outer body which defines an inner channel and a support ramp disposed within the inner channel, the inner channel extending along a longitudinal axis. The cable mounting clamp further includes a cap connectable to the base to further define the inner channel therebetween. The cable mounting clamp further includes a roller tube disposed within the inner channel and rotatably mounted on the support ramp, the roller tube rotatable about the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLC
    Inventors: Wilfred J. Courchaine, Shirley Ball
  • Patent number: 11892700
    Abstract: An optical fiber unit includes: an optical fiber ribbon in which a plurality of optical fibers are arranged in parallel and connected to each other; a colored bundle tape longitudinally wrapped around an optical fiber ribbon bundle in which a plurality of the optical fiber ribbons are stranded together; and a colored bundle yarn spirally wound around the optical fiber ribbon bundle and the bundle tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihisa Watanabe, Masakazu Takami, Fumiaki Sato
  • Patent number: 11892701
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have optical modules that present images to the user's left and right eyes. The optical modules may move with respect to each other to accommodate different user interpupillary distances. Each optical module may have a lens barrel, a display coupled to the lens barrel that generates an image, and a lens mounted to the lens barrel through which the image is viewable from an eye box. The lens may be a multi-element lens formed from molded lens elements such as molded polymer lens elements. A lens element may be provided with protrusions that form lens tabs. The lens tabs may have coplanar lens tab surfaces that mate with corresponding coplanar mounting surfaces in the lens barrel. Alignment marks may be formed on the protrusions and/or other portions of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Forrest C. Wang, Jan K. Quijalvo, John N. Border, Steven M. Scardato, Wey-Jiun Lin
  • Patent number: 11892702
    Abstract: An optical device comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising an image capture electronic circuit, a lens holder and a heating element. The lens holder extends along the optical axis of the optical device from its top to bottom extremities and comprises a top optical element arranged on its top extremity. The lens holder is mounted on the PCB so as to align, along the optical axis, the image capture electronic circuit and the top optical element. The heating element comprises a heating part arranged in contact with the top optical element and first and second electrical conductive wires. Each wire extends from the heating part to their bottom extremity which is directly attached in electrical contact with the PCB. The optical device also comprises first and second wire insertion guide elements. The first and second wires are respectively arranged in the first and second guide elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Arkadiusz Rafalowski, Miroslaw J. Zurowsk, Witold Poreda
  • Patent number: 11892703
    Abstract: A haptic feedback system is provided, including a sensing unit, a haptic feedback module, and a circuit assembly. The sensing unit is configured to detect contact with an object. The haptic feedback module is configured to transfer the contact force to the sensing unit. The circuit assembly is electrically connected to the sensing unit and the haptic feedback module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Yi-Ho Chen, Ying-Jen Wang, Ya-Hsiu Wu
  • Patent number: 11892704
    Abstract: A lens device including a lens barrel, a lens, a linear reciprocating motion mechanism, and a power machine is provided. The lens is disposed in the lens barrel. The linear reciprocating motion mechanism includes a first movable part and a second movable part. The first movable part is coupled to the lens barrel. The second movable part is coupled to the first movable part. The power machine is coupled to the second movable part to drive the second movable part to rotate, thereby driving the first movable part, and the first movable part drives the lens barrel to perform a linear reciprocating motion, wherein when the second movable part is rotated by N turns, the first movable part is rotated by one turn, and N is greater than or equal to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Young Optics Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Feng Yen, Chia-Chang Lee
  • Patent number: 11892705
    Abstract: An optical unit includes an optical element, a holder, a support portion, a swing mechanism, and an elastic portion. The optical element changes the traveling direction of light. The holder holds the optical element. The support portion supports the holder swingably about a swing axis. The swing mechanism swings the holder with respect to the support portion about the swing axis. The elastic portion connects the holder and the support portion. The support portion has a pair of side surface portions on both sides of the holder along the swing axis, and a connection portion connecting the side surface portions with the elastic portion between the holder and the side surface portions. The elastic portion has a convex or concave portion that comes into contact with a concave or convex portion of at least one of the holder and the support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Iwase, Tomohiro Egawa
  • Patent number: 11892706
    Abstract: An observation device captures images at focal positions inside a sample container with an optical system that includes an objective lens; an objective lens actuator; an irradiation unit; a reflection light intensity detector; a focus controller that positions the focal point of the objective lens on a reflection surface imparting a peak in the reflected light intensity; and a counting unit. The focus control unit drives the objective lens actuator and positions the focal point on a reflection surface when a peak is detected in the reflected light intensity; and the counting unit counts the reflection surface when the focus control unit has positioned the focal point on the reflection surface. The computation unit determines whether or not the focal point is positioned at the focal position, and causes the optical system to capture images if the focal point is positioned at the focal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Masuya, Tadao Yabuhara, Hiroko Fujita
  • Patent number: 11892707
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly of an optical verification system with a FOV greater than 120 degrees, and includes optical lenses from an object side to an image side. The one of the optical lens being the closest to the object side includes: an object side surface and an image side surface of an optical zone; an object side surface of a non-optical-zone surrounding the object side surface of the optical zone; an image side surface of a non-optical zone surrounding the image side surface of the optical zone; and a first connection portion disposed between the image side surface of the optical-zone and the image side surface of the non-optical zone, wherein a first angle between a tangential direction of a surface of the first connection portion and the radial direction is in a range of 15 to 50 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Chi Tsai, Sheng-An Wang
  • Patent number: 11892708
    Abstract: A stereoscopic optical system includes two parallel optical systems that each include, in order from an object side to an image side, a front unit having a negative refractive power, an intermediate unit having two reflective surfaces, and a rear unit. A distance between optical axes of rear units is smaller than that between optical axes of front units in the two optical systems due to bending of an optical path by the two reflective surfaces. At least one of the intermediate unit and the rear unit has a positive refractive power. The front unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first subunit consisting of one or more negative lenses disposed on the object side of a positive lens closest to an object in the front unit, and a second subunit having a positive power. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Yokoyama, Kentaro Mori
  • Patent number: 11892709
    Abstract: A type of fragrant eyeglasses is revealed. The fragrant eyeglasses include an eyeglass body and a nose bridge which is arranged at the eyeglass body and provided with a mounting space for mounting fragrance tablets. At least one air inlet and at least one air outlet for guiding air flows are disposed on a front side and a rear side of the mounting space respectively. Thereby the fragrance tablet mounted in the nose bridge is just adjacent to the user's nose when the eyeglasses are fitted on bridge of user's nose by the nose bridge. Thus the user smells scents emanated from the fragrance tablet and feels refreshing and soothing. The air inlet and the air outlet not only help emanation of scents from the fragrance tablet, but also guide the scents to spread along with air flows induced by movements of people who while walking or riding bicycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: AD GLOBAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-Chang Huang
  • Patent number: 11892710
    Abstract: A system comprises an eyewear device that includes a frame, a temple connected to a lateral side of the frame, a fingerprint sensor, and a sensing circuit. The fingerprint sensor includes an input surface to receive input of a finger skin surface. The sensing circuit is configured to track a pattern of fingerprint ridges of the finger skin surface on the input surface. Execution of programming by a processor configures the system to perform functions to track, via the sensing circuit, the pattern of fingerprint ridges of the finger skin surface on the input surface; generate a fingerprint image having the tracked pattern of fingerprint ridges; extract fingerprint features from the fingerprint image; and authorize the user to utilize the eyewear device based on the extracted fingerprint features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Julio Cesar Castañeda, Rajeev Ramanath
  • Patent number: 11892711
    Abstract: A method implemented by a computer for determining a single vision ophthalmic lens that is adapted to a wearer, the method including a wearer prescription data providing step during which wearer prescription data indicative at least of the prescribed optical power of the wearer are provided, a wearing data providing step during which wearing data indicative of the wearing parameters of the single vision ophthalmic lens by the wearer are provided, a single vision ophthalmic lens determining step during which the single vision ophthalmic lens is determined so that in wearing conditions corresponding to the wearing parameters, the single vision ophthalmic lens provides to the wearer the prescribed optical power in at least a first gazing direction when gazing at a first distance and second gazing direction when gazing at a second distance, wherein the first and second distances are different and the first and second gazing directions are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventors: Laurent Calixte, Matthieu Guillot, Carlos Rego
  • Patent number: 11892712
    Abstract: A progressive spectacle lens has a front face and a rear face and a uniform substrate with a locally varying refractive index. The front face and/or the rear face of the substrate is formed as a free-form surface and carries only functional coatings, if any. The refractive index varies (a) only in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and is constant in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (b) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (c) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index not being point-symmetrical or axis symmetrical at all.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kelch, Christoph Menke, Helmut Wietschorke
  • Patent number: 11892713
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens includes an optic comprising an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and an optical axis. At least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface has a surface profile including a base curvature and a plurality of morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures. The base curvature may correspond to a base optical power of the ophthalmic lens, and the morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures may be configured to extend depth of focus of the ophthalmic lens at intermediate or near viewing distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Hong, William Andrew Maxwell, Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 11892714
    Abstract: An article includes a first ophthalmic lens including a first spectral filter (e.g., a reflective or absorptive spectral filter), and a second ophthalmic lens including a second spectral filter (e.g., a reflective or absorptive spectral filter). The first spectral filter substantially blocks visible light having wavelengths corresponding to a first portion of a spectral sensitivity range of a first type of cone (e.g., S, M, or L cone) and substantially passes visible light having wavelengths in a second, non-overlapping portion of the spectral sensitivity range. The second spectral filter substantially blocks visible light having wavelengths in the second portion of the spectral sensitivity range and substantially passes visible light having wavelengths in the first spectral sensitivity range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WaveShift LLC
    Inventor: Thomas W. Chalberg, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11892715
    Abstract: An electro-optic device includes a substrate and a waveguide on the substrate. The waveguide includes a layer stack including a plurality of electro-optic material layers interleaved with a plurality of interlayers and a waveguide core adjacent to the layer stack. The waveguide may include a pair of electrodes in electrical contact with the plurality of electro-optic material layers. The plurality of interlayers maintains a first lattice structure at room temperature and a cryogenic temperature. The plurality of electro-optic material layers maintains a second lattice structure and crystallographic phase at the room temperature and the cryogenic temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Psiquantum, Corp.
    Inventors: Yong Liang, Mark G. Thompson, Chia-Ming Chang, Vimal Kumar Kamineni
  • Patent number: 11892716
    Abstract: An optical device includes a substrate, a layered structure provided on the substrate and including an intermediate layer, an optical waveguide formed of a thin crystal film having an electro-optic effect, and a buffer layer stacked in this order, and an electrode provided on or above the buffer layer and configured to apply a direct current voltage to the optical waveguide. The resistivity of the intermediate layer is higher than the resistivity of the buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11892717
    Abstract: A switchable privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator with output polariser, a reflective polariser, a polar control liquid crystal retarder and an additional polariser. The electrodes of the polar control liquid crystal retarder are patterned with a mark. In wide angle and narrow angle operational modes, the electrodes of the liquid crystal retarder are driven such that the mark is not visible. In a mark display state, the electrodes are driven to provide visibility of the mark in reflected light to an off-axis observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: RealD Spark, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Harrold, Graham J. Woodgate, Michael G. Robinson, Robert A. Ramsey, Ben Ihas
  • Patent number: 11892718
    Abstract: A dual view display for an automotive vehicle comprises a spatial light modulator and a polar control retarder comprising a switchable liquid crystal retarder arranged between a first pair of polarisers. The switchable liquid crystal retarder comprises a polarisation-switch retarder and a polar control retarder with an average director that is directed towards an off-axis viewing location. In a first temporal phase of operation, the spatial light modulator and polar control retarder are arranged to direct light comprising a first image towards a first direction and in a second temporal phase of operation to direct light comprising a second image towards a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: RealD Spark, LLC
    Inventors: Graham J. Woodgate, Michael G. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11892719
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first substrate, and the first substrate includes a glass substrate. A first metal layer, an insulating layer, a second metal layer, and a passivation protective layer are sequentially formed on a surface of the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huiping Wang
  • Patent number: 11892720
    Abstract: Electrical shield line systems are provided for openings in common electrodes near data lines of display and touch screens. Some displays, including touch screens, can include multiple common electrodes (Vcom) that can have openings between individual Vcoms. Some display screens can have an open slit between two adjacent edges of Vcom. Openings in Vcom can allow an electric field to extend from a data line through the Vcom layer. A shield can be disposed over the Vcom opening to help reduce or eliminate an electric field from affecting a pixel material, such as liquid crystal. The shield can be connected to a potential such that electric field is generated substantially between the shield and the data line to reduce or eliminate electric fields reaching the liquid crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibing Ge, Cheng-Ho Yu, Young-Bae Park, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Shih-Chang Chang, Cheng Chen, Marduke Yousefpor, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 11892721
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a liquid crystal layer comprising a first region and a second region. The first region comprises a first plurality of liquid crystal molecules in a first state and the second region comprises a second plurality of liquid crystal molecules in a second state different from the first state. The apparatus also includes a camera positioned to receive light propagating through the second region, a first driver circuit configured to apply a first set of voltages to a first set of electrodes in the first region, and a second driver circuit configured to apply a second set of voltages to a second set of electrodes in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Xun
  • Patent number: 11892722
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate including a first end portion and a second end portion located at a position different from the first end portion, a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a light source device located above the first substrate and disposed along the first end portion, and a light-shielding member disposed on at least a part of the second end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yudai Numata, Kentaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 11892723
    Abstract: An electronic device and a driving method therefor. Thicknesses of color resist and a black matrix in a first area, at a corresponding position of a light-transmitting area, of a color film substrate are smaller than the thicknesses of color resist and a black matrix outside the first area, a backlight module is defined with a through hole corresponding to the light-transmitting area, and a photographing module (30) is disposed corresponding to the through hole, so that external light rays can be obtained by means of the through hole and the light-transmitting area, thus under-screen photographing is achieved, and 100% full-screen design is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: JRD COMMUNICATION (SHENZHEN) LTD.
    Inventors: Junjie Zhang, Zhiwen Sun
  • Patent number: 11892724
    Abstract: There are provided a display substrate, a method for manufacturing a display substrate, and a liquid crystal display panel, the display substrate includes: a color filter layer disposed on a base; at least one cover layer positioned on a side of the color filter layer away from the base and including a first cover layer which is in contact with the color filter layer; at least one optical compensation layer, where each optical compensation layer is positioned on a side of the first cover layer away from the base and is configured to compensate a phase delay of light emitted from a liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal display panel; and a spacer positioned on the side of the first cover layer away from the base and being in contact with one of the at least one cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yajun Li, Tao Yang
  • Patent number: 11892725
    Abstract: The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes sub-pixels with multiple colors and upper polarizing units with various structures. The upper polarizing units with the various structures are disposed one-to-one correspondence with the sub-pixels with the multiple colors to increase transmittance of transmitted light of each color through the upper polarizing units corresponding to the sub-pixels whose color is the same as the color of the upper polarizing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pengfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11892726
    Abstract: In an image display method, a backlight is divided into first areas in a first direction. Each of the first areas includes light-emitting regions. A liquid crystal panel is divided into second areas in the first direction. In the method, a first operation to cause light to be emitted from the light-emitting regions at respective intensity in accordance with frame image data is performed sequentially with respect to each of the first areas. Further, a second operation to apply voltages to the pixels at respective levels in accordance with the frame image data is performed sequentially with respect to each of the second areas. A timing at which the first operation with respect to each of the first areas is started is delayed from a timing at which the second operation with respect to a corresponding one of the second areas is started by a predetermined interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nichia Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Monomoshi
  • Patent number: 11892727
    Abstract: An illumination unit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of first light-emission blocks, a plurality of second light-emission blocks, and a light-emission controller. The first light-emission blocks each include a plurality of first light-emitting devices arranged in a first direction. The second light-emission blocks are partially overlapped with the respective first light-emission blocks, and each include a plurality of second light-emitting devices arranged in a second direction different from the first direction. The light-emission controller performs light-emission control of the first light-emitting devices for each of the first light-emission blocks, and performs the light-emission control of the second light-emitting devices for each of the second light-emission blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Hiroaki Matsui, Takashi Ikuta
  • Patent number: 11892728
    Abstract: A device comprises a display that includes an aperture layer, a plurality of light sources, and a piezo material. The aperture layer includes a plurality of apertures. The plurality of light sources is arranged to correspond to the plurality of the aperture. The piezo material is coupled to the light sources and is configured to alter a distance between the light sources and the corresponding apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hsing-Hung Hsieh, Kuan-Ting Wu, Chi-Hao Chang
  • Patent number: 11892729
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes: a backplane, a bezel, a protrusion and a plurality of dimming film layers, wherein the bezel is connected to the backplane and includes: a fixing structure and a plurality of bezel sidewalls on which the fixing structure is disposed, the fixing structure has an orthographic projection on the backplane located within an orthographic projection of the bezel sidewalls on the backplane, the plurality of bezel sidewalls and the backplane define an accommodation space in which the dimming film layers are provided, and the protrusion is fixedly disposed on a side surface of at least one of the dimming film layers and fixed to the bezel sidewalls via the fixing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: K-Tronics (Suzhou) Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ronghui Lin
  • Patent number: 11892730
    Abstract: A backlight module, a display device, and a method of assembling a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a backplate, a middle frame, and a bonding adhesive. The middle frame is disposed on the backplate. A first adhesive holding slot is disposed between the backplate and the middle frame. At least one adhesive passage hole is defined in the middle frame. One end of the at least one adhesive passage hole is connected to the first adhesive holding slot, and another end of the at least one adhesive passage hole defines an opening at a top of the middle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaohui Yang, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11892731
    Abstract: Backlight modules, display panels and display apparatuses are provided. A backlight module includes: a flexible light board, provided with a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged at intervals, and provided with a first wire at an edge thereof; a back cover including a base plate, the flexible light board being provided on the base plate, and the base plate being provided with a second wire located on a same side as the first wire; and a controller configured to control a direction of an electric current flowing through the first wire and a direction of an electric current flowing through the second wire, to generate an attractive force or a repulsive force between the first wire and the second wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaojie Zhang, Sijun Lei, Yansheng Sun, Zhi Li, Bowen Xiong, Qiong Yuan, Jing Yu, Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 11892732
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is formed by arraying a plurality of pixels 10, and the pixel 10 includes a first substrate 20, a second substrate 50, a first electrode 120 formed on the first substrate 20, a second electrode 52 formed on the second substrate 50, and a liquid crystal layer 60. A pretilt angle is provided to a liquid crystal molecule 61, and the first electrode 120 is formed of a transparent conductive material layer and a foundation layer 150 including a plurality of projecting portions 130 and recessed portions 140. A first transparent conductive material layer 135 connected to a first power feeding unit is formed on a projecting portion top surface 151 of the foundation layer 150, and a second transparent conductive material layer 145 connected to a second power feeding unit is formed on a recessed portion bottom surface 152 of the foundation layer 150.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Shunichi Suwa, Masashi Miyakawa, Chikashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11892733
    Abstract: Purpose is to realize a display device of high definition and high response speed. The structure is as follows. A liquid crystal display device including: scanning lines extending in a first direction and being arranged in a second direction, video signal lines extending in the second direction and being arranged in the first direction, and a pixel being surrounded by the scanning lines and the video signal lines, in which a pixel electrode is formed in the pixel, the pixel electrode includes a first portion including comb electrode, a second portion including contact portion to receive electrical signal, and a third portion, the third portion protrudes toward an adjacent pixel electrode compared with the first portion and the second portion, and a normal of a side toward the adjacent pixel electrode of the third portion intersects with the first direction and the second direction with an angle other than 0 and 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Masateru Morimoto, Satoru Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11892734
    Abstract: Provided is a display panel. The display panel comprises an array substrate and a color filter substrate, wherein the color filter substrate comprises a second substrate and a black matrix pattern, wherein the black matrix pattern comprises a body, via hole shielding parts, and compensation shielding parts, the via hole shielding parts being disposed within first domains of part of plurality of sub-pixel regions, the compensation shielding parts being disposed within second domains that are adjacent in first direction to the first domains where the via hole shielding parts are disposed, and at most one of the via hole shielding part and the compensation shielding part being disposed in one sub-pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tingting Zhao, Tong Yang, Yongcan Wang, Xianjie Shao
  • Patent number: 11892735
    Abstract: An array substrate, a light control panel and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes first and second signal lines. The first signal line includes bending-line structures including first to third wire portions; a center lines of the first wire portion intersects with a center line of the second wire portion to form a first angle; the second wire portion includes first and second sides; sides of the first and third wire portions closer to the second signal line respectively intersect with the first side at first, and second positions; sides of an orthographic projection of the second signal line on an electrode layer where the first signal line is located are intersected with the first side at third and fourth positions; a length of a line segment between first and second position is greater than a length of a line segment between third and fourth position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruifeng Zhang, Jincheng Gao, Tao Jiang, Guanyong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11892736
    Abstract: An array substrate and a display panel are disclosed. A common electrode layer on the array substrate includes a common electrode trunk and multiple common electrode branches. A pixel electrode layer includes multiple interconnected pixel electrode branches, each of which includes a branch body and a branch end connected therewith. The branch end includes a first side opposite to the common electrode trunk to form a first gap, and a second side and a third side respectively disposed opposite to the corresponding common electrode branches to form a second gap and a third gap. A fourth gap is formed between the branch body and the common electrode branch. Of the first, the second and the third gaps, the width value corresponding to at least one gap is smaller than the width of the fourth gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Xinglong Zheng, Jiheng Feng
  • Patent number: 11892737
    Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to control methods, window controllers, and uninterruptible power supplies for determining tinting instructions for optically switchable windows to reduce power usage at a site during a reduced power event. In some cases, reduced power operations are initiated by a window controller upon receipt of a trigger signal from an uninterruptible power supply sent when it detects a power loss. In some cases, tinting instructions are based on the remaining charge left on the uninterruptible power supply. In some cases, reduced power operations are delayed for a period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhairya Shrivastava, Rao P. Mulpuri, Stephen Clark Brown
  • Patent number: 11892738
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 11892739
    Abstract: A method for making electrophoretic displays layers including various thin films that are deposited directly onto a layer of microcapsules of electrophoretic media. In an embodiment, a thin film of a light-transmissive conductive material is deposited to create a clear front electrode for an electrophoretic display. In some embodiments, both a dielectric layer and a thin film of a light-transmissive conductive material will be deposited onto the microcapsules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Nishit Murari, Pavel Kamaev, David Darrell Miller, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Jay William Anseth
  • Patent number: 11892740
    Abstract: Provided herein is an electro-optic display having a layer of electrophoretic material, a first conductive layer, and a piezoelectric material positioned between the layer of electrophoretic material and the first conductive layer, the piezoelectric material overlaps with a portion of the layer of electrophoretic material, and a portion of the first conductive layer overlaps with the rest of the electrophoretic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Haiyan Gu, Hongmei Zang, Craig Lin, Abraham Berhane
  • Patent number: 11892741
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a front housing, a display panel, a circuit board, a middle frame, a battery module, and a rear housing; wherein the front housing and the middle frame are connected to form an accommodation space, wherein the display panel and the circuit board are disposed in the accommodation space, a battery accommodation portion is disposed on the circuit board, wherein the battery module is disposed in the battery accommodation portion, and the rear housing covers the circuit board and is snap-fit to the middle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Cao, Junmin Sun, Jinggang Wei, Wenbin Wang, Zifeng Wang, Yan Ren, Yunpeng Wu
  • Patent number: 11892742
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for calibrating controllable phase shifters in a multi-stage staggered Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure on an optical chip, aiming to solve the problem of calibrating the controllable phase shifters in a configurable optical network of the multi-stage staggered Mach-Zehnder interferometers. The technical solution is to calibrate the controllable phase shifters that can be calibrated in the optical network; and then to constitute calibration conditions for and calibrate inner phase shifters that has not been; and finally to constitute calibration conditions for and calibrate outer phase shifters that is not calibrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Junjie Wu, Yang Wang, Xiaogang Qiang, Ping Xu, Jiangfang Ding, Mingtang Deng, Anqi Huang, Xiang Fu