Polarizer Or Special Ray Transmission (e.g., Filter) Patents (Class 313/112)
  • Patent number: 10157561
    Abstract: A display may have a first stage such as a color liquid crystal display stage and a second stage such as a monochromatic liquid crystal display stage that are coupled in tandem so that light from a backlight passes through both stages. The pixel pitch of the second stage may be greater than the pixel pitch of the first stage to ease alignment tolerances and reduce image processing complexity. The first stage may be provided with straight black masking strips, whereas the second stage may be provided with angled zigzagging black masking strips. The angle of the zigzagging black masking strips and the ratio of the pixel pitch of the second stage to that of the first stage may be selected to maximize optical transmittance while minimizing Moire effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Yan, Young Cheol Yang, Jun Jiang, Hao-Lin Chiu, Young-Jik Jo, Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 10119680
    Abstract: An LED fixture apparatus has a base plate, a light directing fixture, a low transparency lens, a light source assembly, two white optics reflectors, a sagittal plane and a plurality of feet. The light source assembly and the light directing fixture are mounted onto the base plate. The two white optics reflectors are mounted within the light directing fixture. The sagittal plane symmetrically traverses through the base plate, the light directing fixture, the light source assembly and the low transparency lens. The two white optics reflectors each is oriented at an acute angle with respect to the sagittal plane. The low transparency lens and the base plate are located parallel to each other. The plurality of feet are peripherally connected with the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventor: Gary Wayne Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 10090334
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first base substrate defining: an outer edge thereof at which a side surface is exposed, and an upper surface thereof connected to the outer edge; first and second guiding dams on the upper surface and extending from an inside of the first base substrate to the outer edge; a first signal line on the upper surface and extending between the first and second guiding dams from the inside of the first base substrate to the outer edge thereof; and a first side pad connected to the first signal line. The first side pad includes a first horizontal portion on the upper surface and extending between the first and second guiding dams, in a top plan view, and the first horizontal portion extending to define a first vertical portion which is disposed on the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-hwan Bae, Seunghee Oh, Joonhyeong Kim, Younggoo Song
  • Patent number: 10057979
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a conductive structure body that comprises a darkening pattern layer having AlOxNy, and a method for manufacturing the same. The conductive structure body according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention may prevent reflection by a conductive pattern layer without affecting conductivity of the conductive pattern layer, and improve a concealing property of the conductive pattern layer by improving absorbance. Accordingly, a display panel having improved visibility may be developed by using the conductive structure body according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Beom Mo Koo, Ji Young Hwang, Song Ho Jang, Jin Woo Park, Chung Wan Kim, Seung Heon Lee
  • Patent number: 9991325
    Abstract: There are provided a display unit and an electronic apparatus that are capable of preventing color mixture in adjacent color pixels, and improving color reproducibility and chromaticity viewing angle. The display unit includes: a drive substrate having a plurality of pixels with a partition therebetween; and a first light shielding film provided on the partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke Negishi, Shinichi Teraguchi, Shuji Kudo
  • Patent number: 9933121
    Abstract: A method of making a LED light bulb with the Graphene filament contains steps of: A. providing a flexible substrate, wherein the flexible substrate is flexible printed circuit board (PCB); B. coating graphene-based heat dissipation ink on a back side of the flexible substrate; C. cutting the printed circuit board (PCB) on which a graphene-based heat dissipation film is coated to form plural Graphene filaments; D. fixing the plural Graphene filaments into a light bulb. The flexible substrate has copper lines formed on both sides thereof for electronic circuits and heat conduction, and LED chips are mounted on a front side of the flexible substrate. The graphene-based heat dissipation ink is coated on the back side of the flexible substrate before or after LED chips/phosphor molding and then is dried. In addition, the Graphene filaments are fixed in a bended or arched position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Inventor: Chung-Ping Lai
  • Patent number: 9927094
    Abstract: A plasma cell for use in a laser-sustained plasma light source includes a plasma bulb configured to contain a gas suitable for generating a plasma, the plasma bulb being transparent to light from a pump laser, wherein the plasma bulb is transparent to at least a portion of a collectable spectral region of illumination emitted by the plasma. The plasma bulb of the plasma cell is configured to filter short wavelength radiation, such as VUV radiation, emitted by the plasma sustained within the bulb in order to keep the short wavelength radiation from impinging on the interior surface of the bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Ilya Bezel, Anatoly Shchemelinin, Eugene Shifrin, Matthew Panzer, Matthew Derstine, Jincheng Wang, Anant Chimmalgi, Rajeev Patil, Rudolf Brunner
  • Patent number: 9905617
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device that can display an image with a wide color gamut or a novel light-emitting element. The light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements each of which includes an EL layer between a pair of electrodes. Light obtained from a first light-emitting element through a first color filter has, on chromaticity coordinates (x, y), a chromaticity x of greater than 0.680 and less than or equal to 0.720 and a chromaticity y of greater than or equal to 0.260 and less than or equal to 0.320. Light obtained from a second light-emitting element through a second color filter has, on chromaticity coordinates (x, y), a chromaticity x of greater than or equal to 0.130 and less than or equal to 0.250 and a chromaticity y of greater than 0.710 and less than or equal to 0.810. Light obtained from a third light-emitting element through a third color filter has, on chromaticity coordinates (x, y), a chromaticity x of greater than or equal to 0.120 and less than or equal to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Ryohei Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 9901653
    Abstract: A UV lamp including a filter material of doped quartz glass is provided that effects a transparency as high as possible for operating radiation in the ultraviolet spectral range above 210 nm together with low transparency in the wavelength range below about 190 nm. The filter material of doped quartz glass includes at least 99 wt. % of SiO2 and Al2O3, wherein the Al2O3 portion is in the range of 2 wt. % to 4 wt. The filter material has an edge wavelength at a wavelength below 190 nm and a spectral transmission of 80% mm?1 or higher at a wavelength of 210 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co. KG, Heraeus Noblelight GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Stamminger, Christoph Söller, Franz-Josef Schilling, Erich Arnold, Gerhard Schötz, Mario Such, Andreas Langner, Björn Roos, Klaus Zoltner
  • Patent number: 9900472
    Abstract: A color conversion table creation device includes: an image reading unit that reads a target printed matter and a printed matter printed by a printing device to acquire read image data indicating a read image of each of the target printed matter and the printed matter; a first color conversion unit that converts, using a first color conversion table indicating a correspondence relationship between a signal value in a first color space acquired by the image reading unit and a chromaticity value in a second color space which is a device-independent color space, the signal value in the first color space into the chromaticity value in the second color space; and a second color conversion unit that color-converts document image data into print image data using an input color conversion table and an output color conversion table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuhei Horita, Takahiro Mishima
  • Patent number: 9875672
    Abstract: A light shielding layer (200) is located between a plurality of light-emitting regions (101) when seen in a direction perpendicular to a substrate (100). The light shielding layer (200) includes a light reflection layer (202) and a light absorbing layer (204). The light absorbing layer (204) is located closer to the substrate (100) side in a thickness direction than the light reflection layer (202), and has a light reflectance lower than that of the light reflection layer (202). Further, when seen in the direction perpendicular to the substrate (100), an end of the light reflection layer (202) is located further inside of the light shielding layer (200) than an end of the light absorbing layer (204).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Fujita
  • Patent number: 9869450
    Abstract: Lighting system including light source having semiconductor light-emitting device configured for emitting light having first spectral power distribution along central axis. System includes volumetric lumiphor located along central axis configured for converting some light emissions having first spectral power distribution into light emissions having second spectral power distribution. System may include visible light reflector having reflective surface and being spaced apart along central axis with volumetric lumiphor between semiconductor light-emitting device and visible light reflector. Reflective surface may be configured for causing portion of light emissions to be reflected by visible light reflector. Exterior surface of volumetric lumiphor may include concave exterior surface configured for receiving a mound-shaped reflective surface of visible light reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: ECOSENSE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Paul Pickard, Raghuram L. V. Petluri
  • Patent number: 9841644
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display having an outer layer such as a thin-film transistor layer and an inner layer such as a color filter layer may be mounted in a metal device housing. Transparent conductive coating material may be formed on display layers. The transparent conductive coating material may include a layer on the upper surface of the thin-film transistor layer, a layer on the lower surface of the color filter layer, and an edge coating that extends between the upper surface layer and lower surface layer. Electrostatic discharge protection structures for the display may include a conductive elastomeric gasket that couples the upper surface layer to an inner surface of the housing, a conductive tape that couples the lower surface layer to the inner surface, and a conductive material on the inner surface that contacts the edge coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kwang Soon Park, Byung Duk Yang, Kyung-Wook Kim, Shih-Chang Chang, Yong Kwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9810821
    Abstract: An infrared ray cutoff filter including two or more high refractive index layers with a refractive index ranging from 1.65 to 2.00 and two or more low refractive index layers with a refractive index ranging from 1.20 to 1.45. At least one layer of the two or more high refractive index layers and the two or more low refractive index layers contains a dye having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 600 nm to 820 nm, and the two or more low refractive index layers are a plurality of kinds of layers which have different film thickness within a range of 50 nm to 250 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihide Ezoe, Kazuto Shimada, Shinichiro Sonoda
  • Patent number: 9804308
    Abstract: The near-infrared reflective film has, on a base material, a high refractive layer containing a water-soluble polymer and a metal oxide particle having a refractive index higher than the refractive index of the water-soluble polymer, and a low refractive layer containing a water-soluble polymer and a metal oxide particle having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the water-soluble polymer are alternately laminated individually in two or more layers. The total number of the layers of the high refractive layer and the low refractive layer is n. The total film thickness of the component layers from the region of n/2 to the base material is ?d1, and the total film thickness of the component layers from the region of n/2 to the outermost layer is ?d2. The film thickness ratio ?d1/?d2 is from 1.05 to 1.80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Akihisa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9799809
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) package includes a light-emitting structure, an optical wavelength conversion layer on the light-emitting structure, and an optical filter layer on the optical wavelength conversion layer. The light-emitting structure includes a first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and a second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer on the active layer, and emits first light having a first peak wavelength. The optical wavelength conversion layer absorbs the first light emitted from the light-emitting structure and emits second light having a second peak wavelength different from the first peak wavelength. The optical filter layer reflects the first light emitted from the light-emitting structure and transmits the second light emitted from the optical wavelength conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ha-nul Yoo, Yong-il Kim, Nam-goo Cha, Wan-tae Lim, Kyung-wook Hwang, Sung-hyun Sim, Hye-seok Noh
  • Patent number: 9793450
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting device on a substrate; an encapsulation layer covering the light emitting device; and a texture layer on the encapsulation layer. A surface of the texture layer has a ridge structure. A radial cross section of the ridge structure has a triangular shape with a distal vertex relative to the encapsulation layer surface. The distal vertex has one or more altitude angles, and the one or more altitude angles are less than or equal to 40 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukika Yamada
  • Patent number: 9780263
    Abstract: An optoelectronic semiconductor component includes a luminescent diode chip including a radiation passage face through which primary electromagnetic radiation leaves the luminescent diode chip when in operation, and a filter element that covers the radiation passage face of the luminescent diode chip at least in places, wherein the filter element prevents passage of some of the primary electromagnetic radiation in the UV range, and the filter element consists of a II-VI compound semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Ivar Tångring, Andreas Plöβl
  • Patent number: 9715142
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The disclosed display device includes: a frame having a display panel; a back surface cover for covering the back surface of the frame; a glass part for covering the front surface of the frame; and an edge light part, included in the frame, for irradiating light to the front surface and the back surface of the edge of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: KORTEK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gun Ho Lee, Yong Hun Park
  • Patent number: 9647239
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electroluminescent device (10) comprising a layer system with a substrate (40) and on top of the substrate (40) a substrate electrode (20), a counter electrode (30) and an electroluminescent layer stack with at least one organic electroluminescent layer (50) arranged between the substrate electrode (20) and the counter electrode (30), characterized in that at least one optical transparent outcoupling body (71) is provided on top of the substrate electrode (20) to increase the outcoupling of light generated by the at least one organic electroluminescent layer (50) at least partly covering the optical transparent outcoupling body (71). The invention further relates to a method to manufacture such a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Dietrich Bertram
  • Patent number: 9638394
    Abstract: A system and method according to various embodiments can include a lighting fixture comprising a light source. A multilayer thin film coated reflector is applied to an outer light emitting surface of the lighting fixture. A top layer of the multilayer thin film coated reflector comprises a material including an anatase TiO crystal structure that exhibits antimicrobial properties when activated by the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: GE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Dengke Cai, Matthew A. Bugenske, Michael Vincent Yee, Cherian Jacob, Koushik Saha, Mark Edward Kaminski, Benjamin James Ward
  • Patent number: 9639190
    Abstract: A display for a refrigerator, which can uniformly form a diffusing area, is provided. The display includes a process unit receiving a variety of operation signals for operating the refrigerator, a front cover provided in front of the process unit and including a pushing portion displaying an input location of a user and a light transmission portion transmitting light, and a diffusion sheet provided in rear of the front cover and uniformly diffusing the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Seung-Min Ok
  • Patent number: 9620737
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a pixel region, a first electrode on the substrate, a second electrode on the first electrode, an organic light emission layer between the first and second electrodes to emit light, a plurality of layers on the second electrode, and a light compensation pattern on the second electrode and overlapping the pixel region, the light compensation pattern including a plurality of protrusion patterns having progressively decreasing widths as a distance from a center of the pixel region increases, and a plurality of grooves separating the protrusions in a direction parallel to the substrate from the center of the pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyesog Lee, Chi-o Cho
  • Patent number: 9599292
    Abstract: A light emitting module includes at least one LED mounted on a reflective base and surrounded by reflective walls to form a cavity. A partially diffusive layer containing a phosphor is mounted above the LED with a gap therebetween. Some of the light emitted by the phosphor is backscattered toward the LED, base, and walls. The LED absorbs a significant amount of the light, while the reflective base and walls efficiently reflect over 90% of the light back toward the phosphor layer for exiting the module. Various equations are provided that allow the designer to select an optimal gap between the LED and the partially diffusive layer to maximize light extraction efficiency out of the diffusive layer. The optimal gap range for maximizing light extraction efficiency is a product of LED largest linear length, LED surface area, base area, wall area, and reflective coefficients of the various elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik Johannes Boudewijn Jagt, Olexandr Velentynovych Vdovin, Coen Adrianus Verschuren, Durandus Kornelius Dijken, Christian Kleijnen, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn
  • Patent number: 9589784
    Abstract: The invention relates to an illuminant having a gas volume and a coaxial HF energy coupling device for the excitation thereof using surface waves. It is provided in this case that the coaxial HF energy coupling device (3) has a central conductor (4) guided in the gas volume (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FOR TECHNOLOGIE
    Inventor: Christoph Kaiser
  • Patent number: 9559272
    Abstract: Broadband solid state light sources include remote phosphor LED(s), short-wavelength direct emitting LED(s), and long-wavelength direct emitting LED(s). A diffuse or clear cover member covers these LEDs. Each remote phosphor LED includes an LED, a phosphor layer, and a dichroic reflector. The light sources can provide a broadband output light over a wide color range, and can do so efficiently while energizing a high percentage or proportion of the total number of LEDs in the system. The broadband output may for example exhibit a color difference of at least 0.2 in CIE chromaticity units, and/or a correlated color temperature difference of at least 4000 or 5000 Kelvin, while energizing more than half, or at least 60%, or at least 70%, of the total number of LEDs. Numbers of LEDs can be replaced with effective numbers of LEDs if LEDs of substantially different sizes are included in the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Andrew J. Ouderkirk
  • Patent number: 9546765
    Abstract: A diffuser component for a solid-state (LED) light emitting device comprises a light scattering material, wherein the light scattering material has an average particle size that is selected such that the light scattering material will scatter excitation light from a solid-state excitation source relatively more than the light scattering material will scatter light generated by at least one photoluminescence material (phosphor) in a wavelength conversion component. The diffuser component is separately manufactured from the wavelength conversion component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Intematix Corporation
    Inventors: Bing Dai, Xianglong Yuan, Gang Wang, Charles Edwards
  • Patent number: 9538095
    Abstract: A welding camera (1) is constructed with: a lens (11) for focusing incident light; an optical filter (12) that comprises a neutral density filter for reducing the amount of the incident light, an ultraviolet cut filter for cutting ultraviolet rays, and a green band-pass filter for transmitting green light; a CMOS imaging unit (13) that has a wide dynamic range function, and detects the light which has passed the optical filter (12); a video signal processing unit (14) that has an automatic gain control function and a digital signal processor, and outputs an image signal, which covers a range of a low-intensity dark part to high-intensity arc light, to a display unit on the basis of an electric signal that is input from the CMOS imaging unit (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Suda, Tomoaki Wakayama, Motohiro Itotani, Hiroshi Yatabe, Shin-ichi Imayoshi
  • Patent number: 9520416
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an array substrate includes applying a first color filter and a second color filter over a first and second pixel regions respectively and the color filters have an overlapped portion in wiring region; and forming a contact hole, which partially exposes the drain electrode therethrough, by etching at least one of the overlapping first and the second color filters, and the forming the contact hole includes selectively etching an upper part of the overlapped portion during etching a photoresist layer covering the overlapped portion, the overlapped portion of first and second color filters is etched without requiring an additional masking process, preventing a decrease of liquid crystal margin due to large height difference of the overlapped color filters, preventing misalignment of color filters and mixing of colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Seok Lee, Su Wan Woo, Do Yeong Park, Chang Il Tae, Sang Woo Whangbo
  • Patent number: 9513551
    Abstract: A process is provided for printing a high resolution pattern on a photopolymeric surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: DIGIFLEX LTD.
    Inventors: Moshe Frenkel, Yaacov Mazuz, Oleg Berezin, Natalia Ivanova
  • Patent number: 9483153
    Abstract: A touch panel and a display device are disclosed. The shapes of a plurality of cells formed by crossing of silver fine wires that constitute a first electrode or a second electrode are different from each other and do not have regularity (uniformity). In other words, the cells are random. On the first electrode and/or the second electrode shaped as above, an adhesive (OCA) having a loss factor (tan ?) of 0.13 or more at 140° C. and 1 Hz and a storage elastic modulus of 8.9×104 Pa or less at 25° C. and 1 Hz is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Kazuchika Iwami
  • Patent number: 9470402
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus includes a substrate warped as a whole of which a central portion is most highly raised; a light-emitting device mounted on the central portion of the substrate; a support member disposed on the substrate so as to surround the light-emitting device; and a frame body disposed on the support member so as to surround the light-emitting device, the frame body including part connected to the support member and part not connected to the support member, the part not connected to the support member being left spaced from an upper surface of the substrate. Moreover, the light-emitting apparatus is constituted so that a level of a lower surface of the light-emitting device is higher than a level of a lower surface of the frame body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 9445062
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: a filter formed of four different filter regions with four different spectral transmittances that three different spectral transmittances having characteristics of a color matching function and a spectral transmittance for extracting metallic black have been linearly transformed thereinto by a linear transformation matrix; and an imaging unit that takes an image of light which has come out from a subject, and has been collected by an optical system, and then has passed through the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Satoh, Yasufumi Yamada, Hiroaki Kotera
  • Patent number: 9419060
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including first and second substrates having an emission region and a transparent region and disposed to face each other, a light emission layer formed on the emission region of the first substrate, a barrier formed to cover the light emission layer and a variable light shield layer formed in the barrier within the transparent region of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Seok Kim, Hyun Jin An, Go Eun Jung
  • Patent number: 9406498
    Abstract: A lighting assembly (100) includes an electronic driver circuit (110) and a discharge lamp (10). The discharge lamp (10) is driven with a steady-state average power of 20-30 W. It includes a discharge vessel (20) of a maximum inner dimension ID of less than 3 mm with two electrodes (24). A discharge vessel filling comprises a rare gas and a metal halide composition provided in an amount per volume of the discharge vessel (20) of less than 13.2 ?g/?l. Electrical energy is supplied as an alternating current IL where pulses (150a-150d) are superimposed. The pulses occur in a time interval of 20% of a half-cycle time before or after a polarity change of the alternating current IL. During the pulses the current IL reaches the current value of at least 1.2 times the RMS value of the current IL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Michael Haacke, Lars Dabringhausen
  • Patent number: 9335531
    Abstract: LED lighting using optical elements with spectral notching is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide an optical element and LED devices and systems using such an optical element, where spectral notch filtering introduced by the optical element improves the color rendering index (CRI) of emitted light. In some embodiments of the invention, the optical element is made to act as a notch filter by including a rare earth compound such as neodymium oxide in or on the material of which the optical element is made. A color pigment can also be used to impart notch-filtering properties to an optical element. An optical interference film can also be used. The optical element may be included in an LED device such as a multichip component or may be used as an enclosure or reflector for an LED lighting system such as a lamp or fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventors: Praneet Athalye, Gerald H. Negley, Antony Paul van de Ven
  • Patent number: 9306129
    Abstract: A light-emitting element unit which can improve color purity of light emitted from a color filter is provided. A display device with high color purity and high color reproducibility is provided. The light-emitting element unit includes a wiring board, a light-emitting element chip provided over the wiring board, a micro optical resonator provided over the wiring board and at the periphery of the light-emitting element chip, and a phosphor layer covering the light-emitting element chip and the micro optical resonator. The display device includes a display panel having a coloring layer and a backlight module having the light-emitting element unit. Examples of the display panel include: a liquid crystal panel; and a display panel including an opening portion provided over a first substrate, MEMS moving over the opening portion in the lateral direction, and a second substrate provided with a coloring layer in a portion corresponding to the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Patent number: 9299938
    Abstract: A white light emitting device having an anode and a cathode and therebetween an organic electroluminescent layer which emits white light on the provision of a current between the anode and the cathode, said organic electroluminescent layer including a plurality of electroluminescent zones in laterally separated arrangement, the first of said electroluminescent zones including a first polymer and the second of said electroluminescent zones including a second polymer, wherein the first polymer includes a fluorescent blue light emitting species and the second polymer includes a fluorescent green light emitting species, said first and/or second zones further including a phosphorescent red light emitting species, such that together with the blue emitting species results in the emission of white light, said first and second polymers being physically incompatible so that separation of the zones pertains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited, Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Martin Humphries, Martina Pintani, Ilaria Grizzi, Clare Foden, Richard J. Wilson, Martial Berry
  • Patent number: 9202850
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a first emission portion and an optical member. The first emission portion emits light of a first color, and includes a first intermediate layer, a first electrode that is disposed on one surface of the first intermediate layer and transmits light emitted from the first intermediate layer, and a second electrode that is disposed on another surface of the first intermediate layer facing the one surface of the first intermediate layer and transmits the light emitted from the first intermediate layer. The optical member is disposed on one surface of the first emission portion and selectively reflects light of particular colors including at least the first color light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Ho You, Myung-Im Kim, Seung-Won Park, Lei Xie, Moon-Gyu Lee, Su-Mi Lee
  • Patent number: 9142732
    Abstract: A lighting device 100 includes a light source 101, a first phosphor layer 102 disposed directly or indirectly on top of the light source 101, a first quantum dots layer 103 disposed directly on top of the first phosphor layer 101, and a second phosphor layer 104 disposed directly on top of the first quantum dots layer 103. The first quantum dots layer 103 includes a population of quantum dots 106 dispersed in a first matrix material 107. Each of the first and second phosphor layers 102, 104 includes a population of conventional phosphor particles 105. Another embodiment is a lighting device 400 that includes a light source 401 and a wavelength-shifting phosphor layer 402 disposed on top of the light source 401. The wavelength-shifting phosphor layer 402 includes a population of quantum dots 404 and a population of phosphor particles 403 both dispersed in a matrix material 405.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Hong Luo, Shiyong Zhang, Yiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 9115864
    Abstract: A multilayer coating systems suitable for use as optical interference filters in lighting systems, for example, halogen lamps. Such an optical interference filter contains alternating layers of a high refractive index material and a low refractive index material. The high refractive index material consists of niobia, titania, and incidental impurities and contains either about 25 to less than 50 mol % titania and the balance niobia and incidental impurities, or contains about 60 to about 80 mol % titania and the balance niobia and incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter William Brown, Tianji Zhao, Benjamin James Ward
  • Patent number: 9119237
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a lighting lamp (10), is used for emitting a plurality of lights with different color temperatures, and color rendering indexes of all the lights are larger than 90. The lighting lamp (10) includes a combination (100) of light sources and a driving module (200). The combination (100) of the light sources includes four LEDs with specific wavelengths. The driving module (200) is utilized to drive the LEDs to illuminate and to control energy distribution of luminous energy for the first, second, third and fourth LEDs, thereby dynamically adjusting to show the light with 9000K, 12000K and eight color temperatures defined by the ENERGY STAR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Neng-chung Hu, Chin-chuan Wu, Wei-zhen Wu
  • Patent number: 9086531
    Abstract: The plastic polarized lens (10) of the present invention contains a polarized film (12) and layers (resin layers) (14a and 14b) comprising a thiourethane-based resin stacked over both surfaces of the polarized film (12), and the polarized film contains an organic coloring compound represented by the following general formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Akinori Ryu, Seiichi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kamio, Yoshiharu Kobayashi, Mitsuru Sakai, Yoshimitsu Aiiso
  • Patent number: 9072521
    Abstract: A device including a combined energy applicator including RF electrodes spaced apart that are operable in a bipolar mode for application of RF energy, one or more thermal energy elements for application of thermal energy, and one or more optical energy elements for application of light energy, a temperature sensor assembled in the combined energy applicator for detecting a temperature generated to a skin of a patient, and control circuitry programmed to select which of the RF energy, optical energy and thermal energy is applied to the skin, the temperature sensor being operative in a control loop with the control circuitry to control the energies in accordance with sensed feedback temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: HOME SKINOVATIONS LTD.
    Inventors: BenZion Levi, Moshe Mizrahy
  • Patent number: 9064979
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an LED includes preparing a plurality of different kinds of slurries with a plurality of different kinds of phosphors, a binder, and a solvent, with prescribed weight ratios and viscosities; applying at least one slurry to a substrate LED while vaporizing the solvent instantaneously to form at least one thin layer; transferring the substrate LED to a drying device and drying the substrate LED; forming laminated layers of the plurality of kinds of slurries on the substrate LED; and finally drying and curing the binder to form a dried multilayer coating composed of thin layers of the plurality of kinds of slurries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Mtek-smart Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 9040976
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display panel includes a substrate, an organic light emitting diode disposed on a first side of the substrate, and a first light scattering layer disposed on a second side of the substrate opposite to the first side of the substrate, where the first light scattering layer includes a transparent thin layer including an indium, and a plurality of first micro-lenses is disposed on a plasma-treated side of the first light scattering layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myoung-Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 8999467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cured coatings comprising: at least one filler, a polyalkoxysilane matrix, and at least one cured aminosilane in an amount between 5.5 to 40.0 wt % of the total weight of the cured coating. These cured coatings can be used in optics or electronics, and in devices such as lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Nicolas Chechan, Matthieu Dhenaut, Virginie Mercier, Marcel Rene Bohmer
  • Patent number: 8988599
    Abstract: A controllable lighting system may include a plurality of light source groups, a group controller for each light source group, a master controller, and a network communication system. Each group controller may be configured to control the light sources in its light source group based on a group control command. The master controller may be configured to receive a master control command relating to the light sources and to issue a group control command to each of the group controllers that collectively effectuate compliance with the master control command. The network communication system may be configured to communicate the group control commands from the master controller to the group controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Paul Debevec, Xueming Yu, Mark Bolas, Graham Fyffe, Jay Busch, Pieter Peers, Abhijeet Ghosh
  • Patent number: 8952600
    Abstract: A circularly polarizing plate has a polarizer and two ?/4 plates (T1, T2) bonded respectively onto both sides of the polarizer so as to face each other, the circularly polarizing plate is characterized in that the in-plane retardation values Ro of the ?/4 plates (T1) and the ?/4 plates (T2) satisfy (a) to (c) below in an environment with a temperature of 23° C. and RH of 55%. (a) The in-plane retardation value Ro of the ?/4 plates (T1), when measured within the range of 450 to 650 nm, is 3.0 to 20.0 nm smaller than the in-plane retardation value Ro of the ?/4 plates (T2). (b) The in-plane retardation value Ro of the ?/4 plates (T1) (450) falls within the range of 110 to 140 nm. (c) The in-plane retardation value Ro of the ?/4 plates (T2) (650) falls within the range of 145 to 165 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Rieko Ren, Koji Tasaka, Kouji Tashiro
  • Patent number: RE45442
    Abstract: A multiple wavelength light emitting device is provided wherewith the resonance strength and directivity between colors can be easily adjusted for balance. This light emitting device comprises a light emission means 4 for emitting light containing wavelength components to be output, and a semi-reflecting layer group 2 wherein semi-reflecting layers 2R, 2G, and 2B that transmit some light having specific wavelengths emitted from the light emission means and reflect the remainder are stacked up in order in the direction of light advance in association with wavelengths of light to be output. Light emission regions AR, AG, and AB are determined in association with the wavelengths of light to be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shimoda, Tomoko Koyama, Takeo Kaneko, Jeremy Henley Burroughes