Optical Means Interposed In Viewing Path (e.g., Filters, Lens, Etc.) Patents (Class 345/32)
  • Patent number: 11636816
    Abstract: A display device incudes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a dimming panel that is disposed between the display panel and a light source of light to be emitted to the display panel and includes a plurality of dimming pixels. When one of the pixels produces an output at highest luminance and the other pixels produce an output at lowest luminance to the display panel, the light is transmitted through a predetermined one of the dimming pixels located on an optical axis of the light that is emitted to the one of the pixels and through the other dimming pixels arranged around the predetermined dimming pixel. A degree of transmission of the light through the other dimming pixels decreases as the light is away along one direction from the predetermined dimming pixel, and there are a plurality of directions having different degrees of the decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishihara, Junji Kobashi
  • Patent number: 11607840
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for layer-wise instruction of a shaped body by stereolithography in subsequent layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Jörg Ebert, Stefan Geissbühler
  • Patent number: 11604357
    Abstract: Displays and eyewear devices incorporating displays are disclosed. One display includes a light source, a first display region, and a second display region. The first display region includes a first contiguous array of pixels. The first contiguous array of pixels includes a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels interspersed with the first group of pixels. The first group of pixels is adapted to emit light from the light source in only a first wavelength band and the second group of pixels is adapted to emit light from the light source in only a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band. The second display region consists essentially of a second contiguous array of pixels. The second contiguous array of pixels is adapted to emit light from the light source in a predetermined wavelength band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II
  • Patent number: 11573363
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a display apparatus, including: a display panel; a frame, provided at a side part of the display panel and including a light-transmitting area; a plurality of light guide structures spaced apart from each other, one end of each light guide structure having a photosensitive area, the photosensitive area being provided opposite to the light-transmitting area so that light is irradiated on the photosensitive area through the light-transmitting area; and an optical device provided at an end of each light guide structure away from the photosensitive area, wherein each of the light guide structures is configured to transmit the light irradiated on the photosensitive area to the optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangxiang Zou, Xinxin Mu
  • Patent number: 11562701
    Abstract: In a data processing system that includes a field sequential colour display, when displaying a frame that is to be transformed based on a predicted view orientation on the field sequential colour display, each colour field to be displayed on the display for the frame is transformed based on a predicted view orientation for that particular colour field, such that each colour field will be subjected to a different view orientation transformation to the other colour fields for the frame. The so-transformed colour fields are then displayed sequentially on the display to display the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Samuel Martin, Damian Piotr Modrzyk
  • Patent number: 11487997
    Abstract: A method for local approximation of a predictive model may include receiving unclassified data associated with a plurality of unclassified data items. The unclassified data may be classified based on a first predictive model to generate classified data. A first data item may be selected from the classified data. A plurality of generated data items associated with the first data item may be generated using a generative model. The plurality of generated data items may be classified based on the first predictive model to generate classified generated data. A second predictive model may be trained with the classified generated data. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Liang Gou, Junpeng Wang, Wei Zhang, Hao Yang
  • Patent number: 11483545
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a controller coupled to a stereoscopic image viewer. The stereoscopic image viewer includes a viewing lens, an image capture unit, and a plurality of light sources. The image capture unit is configured to capture image frames. The controller receives the captured image frames. The controller is configured to switch light output from one of the plurality of light sources to another one of the plurality of light sources if a corneal reflection in a captured image frame intersects a fixed reflection in the captured image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Heath Feather, Randal P. Goldberg, Alexandre V. Matveev
  • Patent number: 11475117
    Abstract: A system includes at least one data processor and memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one data processor, configures the at least one data processor to: provide, via a display, a visual stimulus including an animation containing at least a first object and a second object, the visual stimulus prompting for user input for authentication to a virtual domain; monitor movement of a user while providing the visual stimulus; identify, based on the monitoring, a sequence of dwell times of a characteristic of the user's movement with respect to the first object and the second object; compare the identified sequence of dwell times to a stored sequence of dwell times; and provide the comparison to enable authentication of the user in the virtual domain. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Thierry Duchastel
  • Patent number: 11455965
    Abstract: A display device and a driving method thereof, a display system and a display method thereof are provided, including a display panel, which includes a plurality of pixel units; a first optical film sheet provided on the plurality of pixel units. At least one of the pixel units includes a sub-pixel unit of a first color, and the sub-pixel unit of the first color includes at least a display sub-pixel unit of the first color and a disturbing sub-pixel unit of the first color. The first optical film sheet includes a first sub-optical-film unit to allow transmission of light emitted by the display sub-pixel-unit of the first color and a second sub-optical-film unit to allow transmission of light emitted by the disturbing sub-pixel unit of the first color, and polarization states of lights emitted from the first sub-optical film unit and the second sub-optical film unit differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., Beijing Boe Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yakun Li, Mingchao Wang, Bin Feng, Peng Sun
  • Patent number: 11422375
    Abstract: An optical assembly a substrate having a first surface and a second surface that is opposite to and substantially parallel with the first surface. The first surface has a first curved profile and the second surface has a second curved profile. The optical assembly also includes a beam splitter on the first surface and a reflector on the second surface. The optical assembly is configured to transmit image light received at the first surface in an optical path that includes reflection at each of the reflector and the beam splitter before the image light is output from the second surface. The optical assembly is also configured to transmit ambient light received at the first surface such that the second light is output from the second surface without undergoing reflection at either the reflector or the beam splitter. A method of transmitting light through the optical assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ying Geng, Brian Wheelwright, Jacques Gollier, Babak Amirsolaimani, Weichuan Gao, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai
  • Patent number: 11412206
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel, a barrier panel, and a controller. The display panel is configured to be able to form a first display region, to be able to display a right-eye image in a right-eye visible region of the first display region and display a left-eye image in a left-eye visible region of the first display region. The barrier panel is configured to be able to form a first barrier region and to form a light-transmitting portion and a dimming portion in the first barrier region. The controller is configured to display a portion located in the first display region as one parallax image frame including two sub-frames. The controller is configured to form the dimming region in the entire first barrier region during a frame change period including a timing of changing a display from the parallax image frame to a new parallax image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kaoru Kusafuka
  • Patent number: 11385713
    Abstract: Image viewing in digital pathology using eye-tracking. In an embodiment, a position of a user's gaze on a graphical user interface, comprising at least a portion of a digital slide image within a macro view, is repeatedly detected based on an output from an eye-tracking device. After detecting a change of the user's gaze from a first position to a second position on the graphical user interface, a view of the digital slide image within the macro view is automatically panned based on the second position, so as to move a position on the digital slide image that corresponds to the second position on the graphical user interface toward a center of the macro view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Olson, Kiran Saligrama
  • Patent number: 11333885
    Abstract: A light diffusion member constituting a head-up display device includes multiple micro-lenses and has a curved base surface. The edge angle is larger than the base surface angle change amount. The edge angle is an angle formed by one of tangent lines of two micro-lenses and the other of the tangent lines passing through a boundary between two adjacent micro-lenses on a cross section orthogonal to the base surface. A reference line has a constant direction on the cross section, and a normal line passes at an arbitrary position on the base surface. The maximum value is ?max and the minimum value is ?min among angles between the normal line and the reference line. The base surface angle change amount is the absolute value of the difference between ?max and ?min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Onda, Hiroshi Ando
  • Patent number: 11333902
    Abstract: A contact lens system is provided. The contact lens includes a contact lens substrate, an embedded display, and a processor. The embedded display may form a part of the contact lens substrate. The processor is configured to shift at least a part of an image to a central position of the embedded display to bring the part of the image into focus on the embedded display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: RaayonNova LLC
    Inventor: Aleksandr Shtukater
  • Patent number: 11297290
    Abstract: A projector is provided that includes a light source configured to radiate light, an electro-optical panel including a pixel circuit configured to receive light from the light source and emit the light, and an optical axis shifting element configured to shift an optical axis of the light emitted from the pixel circuit, with the projector being configured to display a pixel on a projection surface, based on the light emitted from the pixel circuit via the optical axis shifting element. When shifting a position of the pixel on the projection surface from a first position to a second position in a first direction, the optical axis shifting element shifts an optical axis of the light emitted from the pixel circuit using a path different from a shortest path from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosaka, Tetsuro Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11276843
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a preparation method thereof, the OLED display panel includes an OLED device layer, a light emitting layer, an encapsulation layer and a color film layer which are disposed layer by layer. The light emitting layer includes a first light emitting area and a second light emitting area which are spaced apart, and a pixel defined layer (PDL) area is disposed between the first light emitting area and the second light emitting area. The color film layer includes a first color film area and a second color film area which are spaced apart, and a black matrix (BM) area is disposed between the first color film area and the second color film area. A reflection layer is disposed between the color film layer and the light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 11252383
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display system for displaying image data. The display system comprises a light source; a spatial light modulator including a plurality of controllable reflective elements; a light source controller, configured to control the light source to emit, in each of a plurality of time intervals, light with a different illumination power level, wherein the time intervals have the same length; and a spatial light modulator controller, configured to activate, based on received image data, the plurality of controllable elements for at least one of the time intervals for directing the light from the light source for display the image data. Accordingly, the frame rate and bandwidth of the display system are increased significantly so as to be suitable for the light filed applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Cambridge Enterprise Limited
    Inventors: Jhensi Chen, Jia Jia, Daping Chu, Qing Zhang, Tao Lin
  • Patent number: 11216962
    Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to an integrated circuit and computer-implemented method for estimating a depth map from an image using a joint bilateral filter at reduced computational complexity. For that purpose, image data of an image is accessed as well as depth data of a template depth map. A joint bilateral filter is then applied to the template depth map using the image data as a range term in the joint bilateral filter, thereby obtaining an image-adapted depth map as output. The applying of the joint bilateral filter includes initializing a sum-of-weighted-depths volume and a sum-of-weights volume as respective empty data structures in a memory, performing a splatting operation to fill said volumes, performing a slicing operation to obtain an image-adapted depth volume, and performing an interpolation operation to obtain an image-adapted depth value of the image-adapted depth map for each pixel in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ULTRA-D COÖPERATIEF U.A.
    Inventors: Abraham Karel Riemens, Bart Gerard Bernard Barenbrug
  • Patent number: 11204503
    Abstract: An image display system can include a plurality of light sources configured to emit uncollimated light, and an eyepiece waveguide having an input port configured to receive beams of light at differing angles. The image display system also includes a scanning mirror having a surface with positive optical power configured to receive light emitted by the plurality of light sources. The surface with positive optical power is configured to collimate light emitted by the plurality of light sources to form a plurality of collimated light beams and direct the plurality of collimated light beams to the input port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Barak Freedman, Asaf Pellman, Ori Weinstein
  • Patent number: 11194402
    Abstract: An interactive method using a floating image display and a system thereof are provided. The method is performed in the display apparatus. The display apparatus links to a computer system that executes a driver for establishing a communication interface there-between. In the method, the display apparatus receives image data from the computer system and floating image data can be obtained therefrom. The floating image display apparatus displays a floating image via a display panel after a conversion process. After that, a user can manipulate directly on the floating image by gesture. A procedure running in the display apparatus can determine an interactive instruction according to variations of three-dimensional coordinates. When the interactive instruction is transmitted to the computer system, a new image data is formed in response to the interactive instruction. The display apparatus then displays a new floating image after receiving new data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Lixel Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Hsiang Yang, Kai-Chieh Chang, Chih-Hung Ting
  • Patent number: 11145112
    Abstract: In a method of producing images of a stored three-dimensional model of the surroundings of a vehicle, the images are corrected for perspective. A camera picture is produced by a camera device of the vehicle, and is projected onto a projection surface in the surroundings model. A region relevant for driving is marked in the surroundings model and is projected onto a corresponding projection surface area of the projection surface. An image of the projection surface including the driving-relevant region projected onto the projection surface area is produced and output by a virtual camera that can move freely in the surroundings model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Milz, Georg Arbeiter
  • Patent number: 11138801
    Abstract: An augmented reality system includes a first scene and a second scene. Further, the augmented reality system includes a partially reflective surface positioned relative to the first scene, the second scene, and an audience to facilitate viewing of one of the first scene or the second scene through the partially reflective surface and to facilitate reflection of the other of the first scene or the second scene toward the audience as augmented reality imagery. A sensor of the augmented reality system is designed to detect and generate data indicative of a characteristic of the first scene, and a correlative effect system is operable to receive the data and adjust the second scene based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventor: Akiva Meir Krauthamer
  • Patent number: 11114001
    Abstract: A projector configured to generate a first image and a second image to be displayed by a projection section, the projection section displaying first pixels constituting the first image and second pixels constituting the second image so that the second pixels are shifted with respect to corresponding ones of the first pixels, includes a filter processing circuit configured to execute a filter process of limiting a frequency band of an image signal of an input image with a one-dimensional filter to generate an intermediate image, an image expanding circuit configured to expand the intermediate image to generate a second expanded image, and an image dividing circuit configured to divide some of second expanded pixels constituting the second expanded image into the first image and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO ESPON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Saigo
  • Patent number: 11106049
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed for enabling a user to experience a 3D perception when visual information is presented by the display apparatus. The display apparatus has an image forming unit having a two-dimensional array of image subpixels arranged to emit light for presenting associated visual information, and an optical system having an array of diffractive optical elements associated with respective ones of the array of image subpixels. Each diffractive optical element is arranged to diffract light from the associated image subpixel into a diffraction pattern with a plurality of diffraction orders to provide the visual information from the associated image subpixel to a plurality of directional viewing regions associated with the plurality of diffraction orders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ULTRA-D COÖPERATIEF U.A.
    Inventors: Waltherus Antonius Hendrikus Roelen, Herman Geert Marsman
  • Patent number: 11094917
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a cover plate for an organic electroluminescent display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The cover plate for the organic electroluminescent display device includes: an auxiliary electrode disposed on a substrate to be electrically connected to an electrode of the organic electroluminescent display device; and a light reflection suppression structure disposed on the auxiliary electrode and configured to suppress reflection of light from a surface of the auxiliary electrode. The present disclosure further proposes an organic electroluminescent display device and a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chuni Lin
  • Patent number: 11095862
    Abstract: An optical module includes a light modulator that modulates light and includes a plurality of pixels, and a pixel shift mechanism. The pixels of the light modulator each include a first sub-pixel on which a first or a second color light flux is incident, a second sub-pixel on which a color light flux different from the color light flux incident on the first sub-pixel out of the first and the second color light flux is incident, and a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel on which a third color light flux is incident. The pixel shift mechanism transition to a first state in which the third sub-pixel is located on a first position and the fourth sub-pixel is located on a second position, or a second state in which the third sub-pixel is located on a third position and the fourth sub-pixel is located on a fourth position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norio Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11056040
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may determine that a target grayscale value for a frame falls within a predetermined grayscale range. The system may compute, based on the target grayscale value, barycentric weights for a predetermined barycentric coordinate system associated with vertices that each represents a subframe combination of zero or more subframe identifiers. The system select, using the barycentric weights and threshold values associated with respective dots in a dithering mask, a set of non-overlapping dot patterns from the dithering mask corresponding to the vertices of the barycentric coordinate system. The dots in the dithering mask may satisfy a spatial stacking constraint. The system may generate subframes to represent the frame based on the set of non-overlapping dot patterns and the subframe combination represented by each of the vertices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Buckley
  • Patent number: 11044447
    Abstract: A projection display system includes a control assembly, an optical path changing device, a light source assembly, a digital micromirror device, and a projection lens. The control assembly is configured to determine whether a resolution of an image to be projected is greater than a preset resolution. If the resolution of the image to be projected is greater than the preset resolution, the control assembly divides the image to be projected into N sub-images, wherein N is greater than or equal to 2. For each sub-image: the control assembly is further configured to determine a first signal, a second signal, and a third signal according to the sub-image, send the first signal to the light source assembly, send the second signal to the digital micromirror device, and send the third signal to the optical path changing device. The projection lens is configured to project the N sub-images at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: HISENSE LASER DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jichen Xiao, Chao Wu
  • Patent number: 11036987
    Abstract: This disclosure describes an artificial reality system that presents artificial reality content in the context of a physical environment that includes a mirror or other reflective surface. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes capturing capture data representative of a physical environment, wherein the physical environment includes a reflective surface and a plurality of objects, determining a pose of the HMD, determining a map of the physical environment, wherein the map includes position information about the reflective surface and position information about each of the plurality of physical objects in the physical environment, identifying a visible object from among the plurality of physical objects, and generating artificial reality content associated with the visible object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chad Austin Bramwell, Caryn Vainio, Charlene Mary Atlas, Mark Terrano
  • Patent number: 10983494
    Abstract: A modular field device comprising a housing, sensor and an electronics unit arranged in the housing, and comprising a display and/or operating unit that can be releasably connected to the electronics unit, said display and/or operating unit having a radio module for wireless communication with at least one other unit and an internal power supply, particularly a battery or rechargeable battery for at least partially supplying power to the radio module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KG
    Inventors: Volker Allgaier, Holger Staiger
  • Patent number: 10948138
    Abstract: A filter lens, an LED lamp with the filter lens, and an illumination system, the illumination system comprises an LED lamp with a filter lens, and an illuminated surface. The LED lamp with a filter lens comprises a light-emitting module, a collimating lens, and a filter lens, the filter lens comprises a light incident surface, and a light-emitting surface disposed on an opposite side of the light incident surface. The light incident surface comprises a plurality of irregular slot arranged end to end. Since the illumination system uses the LED lamp with a filter lens, and the filter lens of the LED lamp with the filter lens comprises the above-mentioned irregular slot, to adjust the positional relationship between the LED lamp with a filter lens and the illuminated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Seif Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10937219
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a virtual character being presented to a user within a real-time immersive environment. A first animation to be applied to the virtual character is determined. A nonverbal communication animation to be applied to the virtual character simultaneously with the first animation is determined. The virtual character is animated in real-time based on the first animation and the nonverbal communication animation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Baobab Studios Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Christopher Dirksen, Michael Scott Hutchinson, Eric Richard Darnell, Lawrence David Cutler, Daniel Tomas Steamer, Apostolos Lerios
  • Patent number: 10900815
    Abstract: A color wheel phase detection method and a projector using the same are provided. Firstly, a projector, including a light source, a color wheel, a motor, an indication signal generator and a controller, is provided, wherein the motor drive having n pairs of magnetic polarities drives the color wheel, including n color block groups of the same kind, to rotate, wherein n is a positive integer ?1. Then, the color wheel is driven to rotate by the motor. Then, a light is projected on the n color block groups by the light source. Then, a phase signal having 2n zero-crossing points is generated by the motor. Then, an indication signal including n pulses corresponding to n zero-crossing points is generated by the indication signal generator according to the 2n zero-crossing points. Then, the phase of the color wheel is detected by the controller according to the indication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Chun Chang, Chun-Kun Yu, Chien-Wei Sung
  • Patent number: 10884376
    Abstract: A holographic display apparatus capable of steering a location of a viewing window according to a location of an observer is disclosed. The holographic display apparatus includes a light source; a spatial light modulator configured to modulate incident light and thereby reproduce the holographic image; a spatial filter configured to transmit only the holographic image; an eye tracker configured to track a pupil location of an observer; and a controller configured to adjust locations of the light source and the spatial filter in response to a change in the pupil location of the observer received from the eye tracker. The controller is configured to move the light source and the spatial filter simultaneously in the same direction by the same distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Geeyoung Sung, Joonku Hahn, Wontaek Seo, Hongseok Lee
  • Patent number: 10883708
    Abstract: The current invention make a big improvement than conventional market available all kind of LED bulb which only can offer near-by areas illumination not like the current invention can use one LED bulb to offer near-by and far-away illumination or image or both or any combination with other light effects and digital data display images. Also, The current invention may has more than one light beam emit out from LED bulb which under more than one control means for the one of the light beam may selected from power failure, remote control, Infra red controller, blue-tooth with mobile phone, motion sensor to trigger at least one of the light beam to offer the light beam for illumination or image to area(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventor: Tseng-Lu Chien
  • Patent number: 10868083
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image. The display panel has a folding axis extending in a first direction. An optical film is disposed over the display panel. The optical film includes a circular polarizer including at least two phase retarders and one polarizer. Slow axes of each of the at least two phase retarders are located in the same quadrant of four quadrants of the optical film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongwook Choi, Taeeun Kim, Heeyoung Lee, Dukjin Lee, Woosuk Jung
  • Patent number: 10860100
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content, wherein the eyepiece includes predictive control of external device based on an event input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse
  • Patent number: 10859900
    Abstract: Provided is an LCD projector. The LCD projector includes including a first LCD (liquid crystal display) light valve module and a second LCD light valve module. The first LCD light valve module simultaneously provides a red field image and blue field image in space, and the second LCD light valve module provides complete green field image. The red field pixel of the first LCD light valve module and the corresponding pixel of the second LCD light valve module coincide in space to generate a yellow image. The blue field pixel of the first LCD light valve module and the corresponding pixel of the second LCD light valve module are coincided in space to generate a cyan image. White and full-color images are reproduced by yellow and cyan lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Hanwen Guo
  • Patent number: 10863152
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source apparatus, light modulator, projection optical apparatus, exterior enclosure, and heat sink. The light source apparatus includes a substrate having first and second substrate surfaces, light emitters at the side facing the first substrate surface, a frame at the side facing the first substrate surface surrounding the light emitters, and a lid facing the first substrate surface. The light emitters are in an accommodation space formed by the substrate, frame, and lid. The exterior enclosure has a first surface, a second surface that intersects the first surface, and a third surface that intersects the first and second surfaces, and the area of the first surface is greater than the areas of the second and third surfaces. The first or second substrate surface faces the first surface, and the lengthwise direction of the heat dissipation fin extends along the first surface of the exterior enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Egawa
  • Patent number: 10838232
    Abstract: An augmented reality system may include an electronic contact lens and a power source. In order to enable the wireless transfer of power and data between the contact lens and the power source, one or both of the contact lens and the power source may contain solenoids. When current is driven through an embedded solenoid of the power source, the solenoid can produce a time-varying magnetic field. Likewise, when an embedded solenoid of the contact lens is in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, a current is induced within the solenoid that may be used to power electronic components within the contact lens. Multiple solenoids may be embedded within the power source or the contact lens at positions and orientations that enable the contact lens to wirelessly receive power from a magnetic field produced by the power source at a variety of orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Tectus Corporation
    Inventors: Ramin Mirjalili, Thomas Llewellyn Owens
  • Patent number: 10809829
    Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same to reduce thickness and weight. The organic light emitting display device with a touch sensor removes the necessity of an additional adhesion process by directly forming a touch sensing electrode and a touch driving electrode arranged in parallel and a color filter on an encapsulation layer covering a light emitting device, thereby simplifying a manufacturing process and reducing manufacturing costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Won Lee, Seung-Hee Nam, Min-Joo Kim, Kwon-Shik Park, Jae-Young Oh, Deuk-Su Lee, Bu-Yeol Lee, Eun-Hye Lee
  • Patent number: 10795064
    Abstract: The present disclosure, belonging to the field of display technology, provides a grating assembly, a light source apparatus and a driving method thereof, which can solve a problem that an existing light source cannot provide light with a controllable direction. The grating assembly of the present disclosure comprises: a diffraction grating divided into a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel being divided into a plurality of regions, the diffraction grating being configured to change light transmitted through each region into parallel light and cause light transmitted through different regions of a same sub-pixel to have different directions; and a selector divided into a plurality of sub-pixels corresponding to sub-pixels of the diffraction grating, each sub-pixel being divided into a plurality of regions corresponding to the regions of the sub-pixel of the diffraction grating, the selector being configured to control whether each region thereof transmits light or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qian Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Rui Xu, Lei Wang, Ming Yang, Pengcheng Lu, Jian Gao, Xiaochen Niu
  • Patent number: 10788661
    Abstract: A projector configured to be embedded into a portable device and to project an image towards a surface reflecting light towards an eye of a user, the projector including: a linear array of light sources emitting a light beam, the linear array of light sources emitting at least a first wavelength and extending in a first direction; a scanner configured to move the light beam on a second direction transverse to the first direction to display the image; a controller controlling the scanner and the light sources of the linear array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Essilor International
    Inventor: Denis Rousseau
  • Patent number: 10778962
    Abstract: A precision multi-view (MV) display system can accurately and simultaneously display different content to different viewers over a wide field of view. The MV display system may include features that enable individual MV display devices to be easily and efficiently tiled to form a larger MV display. A graphical interface enables a user to graphically specify viewing zones and associate content that will be visible in those zones in a simple manner. A calibration procedure enables the specification of content at precise viewing locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Misapplied Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Han Ng, Paul Henry Dietz, William Jerry Duncan, Matthew Steele Lathrop, David Steven Thompson
  • Patent number: 10770514
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel, a display method and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a display function layer and at least two image motion units. The display function layer is disposed on one side of the substrate and includes a plurality of sub-pixels. The at least two image motion units are disposed on a light-emitting side of the display panel and sequentially arranged in a direction perpendicular to a plane where the substrate is located. The display panel requires a frame unit to display a display picture, and the frame unit includes at least three subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jialing Li
  • Patent number: 10739667
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source module and an optical engine. The light source module provides an illumination beam. The optical engine includes a light valve, a projection lens, and a pixel offset device. The light valve has an active surface, and the active surface converts the illumination beam into an image beam and reflects the image beam. The projection lens projects the image beam from the projector. The pixel offset device is located between the light valve and the projection lens and includes a frame and a transparent panel, the transparent panel is disposed in the frame and includes a transparent surface, the transparent panel is disposed on the transmission path of the illumination beam and the transmission path of the image beam, the frame is configured to drive the transparent panel to vibrate, and the transparent surface is tilted with respect to the active surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Hao Chen, Chun-Hsin Lu, Tsung-Hsin Liao
  • Patent number: 10690929
    Abstract: A head-mounted display includes an electronic display configured to output image light, an optics assembly configured to direct image light in a first band from the electronic display to an eye box, an eye tracking unit configured to generate eye tracking information, and a beamsplitter configured to redirect light in a second band reflected from the eye box toward the eye tracking unit and transmit the image light in the first band. The beamsplitter includes a first region and a second region, and a first portion that joins the first region and the second region is curved such that an angle between the first region and the optical axis is larger than an angle between second region and the optical axis, and the beamsplitter is positioned along the optical axis between the optics assembly and the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Brian Wheelwright, Jacques Gollier, Alexander Sohn
  • Patent number: 10686022
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display is discussed. The organic light emitting diode display can include a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate. The first substrate includes an auxiliary electrode, a bank having an opening exposing at least a portion of the auxiliary electrode, a barrier disposed on the exposed auxiliary electrode, a spacer disposed on the bank and protruding toward the second substrate, a cathode included in an organic light emitting diode and divided by the barrier, one end of the cathode directly contacting the auxiliary electrode, a contact electrode disposed on the cathode and divided by the barrier, one end of the contact electrode directly contacting the auxiliary electrode, and a protective layer interposed between the cathode and the contact electrode. The contact electrode and a power line directly contact each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaesung Lee, Sejune Kim, Joonsuk Lee, Dohyung Kim
  • Patent number: 10672319
    Abstract: Provided is a method of converting relative luminance data of a picture frame into relative luminance data of a display panel. The picture frame includes a region composed of a plurality of frame unit regions arranged in a matrix. The frame unit region is composed of six pixels. The display area of the display panel includes a region composed of a plurality of panel unit areas arranged in a matrix. The panel unit area is composed of twelve sub-pixels arranged in a delta-nabla position. The relative luminance value of each pixel is assigned to one or two subpixels of each of the three color subpixels. The relative luminance value of each subpixel is determined from the relative luminance value of the corresponding two adjacent pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TIANMA JAPAN, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kimura, Yojiro Matsueda
  • Patent number: 10651412
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an OLED display panel, including a TFT array substrate and a plurality of anodes disposed in an array on the TFT array substrate, the TFT array substrate has a pixel defining layer disposed thereon, the pixel defining layer includes opening portions and spacing portions, and each opening portion corresponds to one sub-pixel area; wherein, the pixel defining layer has a first common layer, a second common layer and a cathode layer sequentially disposed thereon, and a light emitting material is disposed between the first common layer and the second common layer corresponding to each sub-pixel area; wherein, a hole blocking portion is further disposed above the spacing portion, and the hole blocking portion spaces the first common layer between two adjacent sub-pixel areas. The present disclosure further discloses a method for manufacturing the OLED display panel as mentioned above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Yang, Ming Zhang