Optical Means Interposed In Viewing Path (e.g., Filters, Lens, Etc.) Patents (Class 345/32)
  • 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: 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
  • Patent number: 10643889
    Abstract: A method of improving selectivity of a metal in a selective deposition process. A pre-treatment process for the metal modifies the metal surface, and includes first reducing the metal to remove organic contamination from the metal followed by oxidation of the metal to allow a monolayer of a metal oxide to grow on the surface. This modification of the metal allows inhibitor molecules to adsorb on the metal oxide monolayer to improve selectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Lam Rasearch Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis Hausmann, Elham Mohimi, Pengyi Zhang, Paul C. Lemaire, Kashish Sharma, Alexander R. Fox, Nagraj Shankar, Kapu Sirish Reddy, David Charles Smith
  • Patent number: 10620427
    Abstract: An optical magnifying combination lens, a head-mounted optical display system and a virtual reality display device are provided, wherein the optical magnifying combination lens is for utilization in a head-mounted virtual reality display device, comprising: a central area (A) and a peripheral area (B), wherein the central area (A) is a convex lens or a combination convex lens, and the peripheral area (B) is a focusing thin optical element; the central area (A) corresponds to main visual field imaging, and the peripheral area (B) corresponds to peripheral visual field imaging. The optical magnifying combination lens guarantees center image quality and enlarges edge view of human eyes, so as to enhance user immersion feelings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Chengdu Lixiang Zhimei Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qinhua Huang, Haitao Song, Zhaoquan Ren
  • Patent number: 10621400
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit that controls formation of a graphical code image in air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 10580353
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an emissive display configured to operate in a day mode and a night mode. The emissive display comprises a day pixel configured to operate in the day mode. The emissive display also comprises a night pixel configured to operate in the night mode, wherein the night pixel is not operational in the day mode. The emissive display also comprises a common pixel configured to operate in both the day mode and the night mode. The emissive display also comprises a detector configured to selectively change an operating mode of the display between the day mode and the night mode based on a detected indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sanjay Tripathi
  • Patent number: 10568516
    Abstract: A method for measuring the activity of one or more excitable cells, such as neurons, in a target tissue is provided. The present method may include measuring the activity of individual, selected excitable cells by projecting one or more three dimensional (3D) multi-focal laser light patterns into a target tissue containing excitable cells adapted to emit cellular electrical activity—sensitive fluorescence, to generate a multiplexed 2D diffraction pattern of fluorescence emitted by the neurons, and resolving the multiplexed 2D diffraction pattern. Also provided herein is a system configured to perform the present method, the system including a microscope configured to project one or more 3D multi-focal laser light patterns into a target tissue using a spatial light modulator and a mirror galvanometer, and a microlens array and an image detector to record individual and multiplexed 2D diffraction patterns of light emitted from the target tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Samuel Yang, Karl A. Deisseroth, William E. Allen, Isaac V. Kauvar, Aaron S. Andalman
  • Patent number: 10554938
    Abstract: A light source system including: a light source device emitting excitation light; an light output device receiving the excitation light and converting it into converted light, wherein the light output device includes at least two different wavelength conversion materials, the converted light of at least one wavelength conversion material being a multi-color light; a light splitting and combining device splitting the multi-color light into a first and a second color light propagating respectively along a first and a second optical channel, wherein the first and second color lights have different wave spectrum coverage ranges; and a first and a second light modulation device respectively modulating the light propagating over the first and second optical channels, wherein the light of three primary colours can be allocated to two DMDs for processing. This results in improved colour gamut of the light source and the light efficiency and reliability of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Zuqiang Guo, Zeqin Wang
  • Patent number: 10553654
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display unit of a display device. The display unit emits an output light under an operation of the highest gray level, the output light having an output spectrum, an intensity integral of the output spectrum from 380 nm to 470 nm defines as a first intensity integral, an intensity integral of the output spectrum from 580 nm to 780 nm defines as a second intensity integral, a ratio of the first intensity integral over the second intensity integral defines as a first ratio, and the first ratio is greater than 0% and less than or equal to 2.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Lang Lin, Jui-Jen Yueh, Kuan-Feng Lee, Jia-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10544918
    Abstract: Provided is a Fresnel lens which has excellent heat resistance and which can covert light even from a poor-quality semiconductor light sources into uniform, high-quality light and can disperse the resulting light without lowering the central illuminance. The Fresnel lens according to the present invention includes two or more sawtooth prisms in a surface thereof and is made of a cured product of a curable composition containing an epoxy compound (A). Of the sawtooth prisms, a sawtooth prism having a longest inclined side in a cross section has a roughened surface, where the cross section is given by cutting the Fresnel lens in a plane which passes through the center of the Fresnel lens and which is perpendicular to a reference plane of the Fresnel lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujikawa, Sadayuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 10510970
    Abstract: An opposite substrate, a method for manufacturing the opposite substrate, an organic light-emitting display panel and a display device are provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure. The opposite substrate includes a base substrate, an auxiliary electrode on the base substrate, a planarization layer on a side of the auxiliary electrode facing away from the base substrate, a spacer on a side of the planarization layer facing away from the base substrate, and a conductive layer on a side of the spacer facing away from the base substrate. The conductive layer at least covers a surface of the spacer facing away from the base substrate, and the conductive layer is electrically connected with the auxiliary electrode through a via hole structure passing through the planarization layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiangnan Lu, Shi Shu, Chuanxiang Xu
  • Patent number: 10499030
    Abstract: A video providing system includes a predetermined space surrounded by surfaces with a single color; a video display apparatus mounted on the head of a user, and including two imaging devices disposed to be separated from each other by a gap corresponding to both of human eyes and perform imaging in a front direction of the user when the user wears the video display apparatus; and a specifying device that specifies a position and a direction of the video display apparatus in the predetermined space, wherein the video display apparatus displays a video prepared in advance at a location where the single color is imaged by the two imaging devices, and displays a video based on videos captured by the two imaging devices at a location where the single color is not imaged, according to a direction and a position in the predetermined space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Tyffon Inc.
    Inventor: Ken Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 10491891
    Abstract: A display system and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the display system comprises a swept volume display operable to produce a displayed swept volume and a re-imaging glass to re-image the displayed swept volume that appears on a first side of the re-imaging glass to a second side of the re-imaging glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seth E. Hunter
  • Patent number: 10488684
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel and a display panel driver. The display panel includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing the lower substrate. The lower substrate includes a first base substrate and a flexible substrate. The flexible substrate has an area larger than an area of the first base substrate. The display panel driver includes a gate driver configured to apply a gate signal to a gate line of the display panel and a data driver configured to apply a data voltage to a data line of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: A-Ram Song, Joon-Chul Goh, Soo-Yeon Lee
  • Patent number: 10475163
    Abstract: There are several types of plenoptic devices having a proprietary file format. At present, there is no standard supporting the acquisition and transmission of multi-dimensional information for an exhaustive over-view of the different parameters upon which a light-field depends. As such, acquired light-field data for different cameras have a diversity of formats. The notion of pixel beam, which represents a volume occupied by a set of rays of light in an object space of an optical system of a camera is introduced. The method according to the invention enables to provide data representative of a bokeh associated to a pixel beam. Such data representative of bokeh associated to a pixel beam enables the displaying of an image with good bokeh properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Guillaume Boisson, Laurent Blonde, Benoit Vandame
  • Patent number: 10471758
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an optical information medium having a colored glossy effect which is single- or multi-colored in regions where a reflective layer is present, but colorless in regions where the reflective layer is absent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Harada, Kazuhiro Yashiki
  • Patent number: 10466471
    Abstract: Three-layer full-color dynamic electronic paper, comprising a substrate, a controller, a first EWOD display layer, a second EWOD display layer and a third EWOD display layer, wherein each of the first, second and third EWOD display layer is comprised of an upper transparent electrode plate, a hydrophobic insulating layer, pixel walls, colored ink, colorless liquid, a lower transparent electrode plate, an encapsulation adhesive, and a driving chip connected to the upper transparent electrode plate and the lower transparent electrode plate respectively; the lower transparent electrode plate of the third EWOD display layer is located above the substrate; the colored ink filled in the first, second and third EWOD display layer is cyan ink, magenta ink and yellow ink, respectively; and, the controller controls voltage waveforms of the three driving chips according to a subtractive color mixture principle of three primary colors for printing, so as to realize full-color displaying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: Shenzhen Guohua Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., Academy of Shenzhen Guohua Optoelectronics, South China Normal University
    Inventors: Guofu Zhou, Fangchao Tian, Zhijie Luo, Weinan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10462385
    Abstract: A vehicle display apparatus includes a display control unit. The display control unit causes a video image to be displayed such that each time two (an LWC switch and an MVC switch) or more of a plurality of switch units (a switch group) successively allow switching to an ON state to generate successive interruption processes, switching between display modes is successively performed in response to the successive interruption processes. When any of the two or more switch units allows switching from the ON state to an OFF state, the display control unit causes a video image displayed just before start of the successive interruption processes to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsugu Tosa, Hiroshi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 10440308
    Abstract: A dynamic display projection lamp of the present invention includes plural projection units fixed to a fixing assembly. The fixing assembly includes a lens holder and a film holder for fixing a film. A plurality of penetrating holes are defined in the lens holder, and clamping grooves for clamping plural lenses of plural lens groups are formed in inner walls defining the penetrating holes. The film holder is fixed in the lens holder or at least a portion of the film holder is inserted between the lenses through an opening of the lens holder. All the projection units disposed in a single row or two rows up and down are fixed by using the lens holder and the film holder. The projection units are allowed to project patterns in sequence by using a controller, thus producing a dynamic pattern projection effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG YUHAO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Xi
  • Patent number: 10430994
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure can facilitate determining a three-dimensional surface representation of an object. In some embodiments, the system includes a computer, a calibration module, which is configured to determine a camera geometry of a set of cameras, and an imaging module, which is configured to capture spatial images using the cameras. The computer is configured to determine epipolar lines in the spatial images, transform the spatial images with a collineation transformation, determine second derivative spatial images with a second derivative filter, construct epipolar plane edge images based on zero crossings of second derivative epipolar planes image based on the epipolar lines, select edges and compute depth estimates, sequence the edges based on contours in a spatial edge image, filter the depth estimates, and create a three-dimensional surface representation based on the filtered depth estimates and the original spatial images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Inventor: Henry Harlyn Baker
  • Patent number: 10409221
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying and capturing holographic true 3D images. The system comprises elements which may form both a wide viewing angle holographic true 3D display and a holographic true 3D video camera. The system mainly comprises a light source, a spatial light modulator or an electro-optical capturing device in different embodiments of the invention, a phase plate, a computer and an opaque mask in some embodiments of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Inventor: Levent Onural
  • Patent number: 10381805
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a VCSEL regular lattice-based laser speckle projector, comprising a VCSEL regular light-emitting lattice, a collimator, a diffractive optical element, an X-Y direction driving circuit, and a lattice display control module; multiple frames of different coded patterns are outputted by driving the light-emitting particles on the VCSEL regular light-emitting lattice to thereby implement a time-space labeling to the target object or projection space, and finally three-dimensional depth measurement of the target object is implemented through a depth decoding algorithm. Compared with the traditional structured-light space coding technology, the projector of the present disclosure facilitates implementation of time-space coding, such that a higher precision, robustness, and antijamming capability may be achieved during the process of depth decoding for the three-dimensional measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NINGBO YINGXIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chenyang Ge, Huimin Yao, Yanhui Zhou
  • Patent number: 10353463
    Abstract: A smart contact lens system is provided. The contact lens system comprises a contact lens substrate, an embedded display, and an onboard, embedded or off board, remote processor. The embedded display may form a part of the contact lens substrate. The embedded display is configured for outputting variety of UI components to the user. 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 and select UI component and optionally trigger it; thereby generating appropriate system event. Hence the entire system operation may be controlled with the eye(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: RaayonNova LLC
    Inventor: Aleksandr Shtukater
  • Patent number: 10356293
    Abstract: Provided is an image sensor having a pixel region including a plurality of pixel blocks disposed in a matrix form, outer address markers around the pixel region, interspaces between the plurality of pixel blocks, and inner address markers disposed in the interspaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Eun Kim, Namil Kim, Dae-Woo Kim, Changsu Park, Dong-Hyun Woo
  • Patent number: 10345685
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a resolution reducer, a detector, and a corrector. The resolution reducer generates, from an input image, low resolution images for pixel shift display being lower in resolution than the input image. The detector detects portions of the low resolution images corresponding to a specific pattern in which image quality degradation may occur. The corrector performs specific correction processing to reduce the image quality degradation on the portions of the low resolution images corresponding to the specific pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriko Miyagi, Satoshi Ouchi, Takuji Kamada
  • Patent number: 10324303
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device is provided. The stereoscopic display device includes: a display panel, including a plurality of first display units and a plurality of second display units arranged alternately; a grating, disposed on a light exiting side of the display panel and including a plurality of light-transmitting regions and a plurality of light-shielding regions, wherein the display device includes a lens with a light convergence action at a position corresponding to each of the light-transmitting regions of the grating. In this way, while reducing a distance from the grating to the display panel, it is possible to ensure a 3D displaying effect be obtained at a longer distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Wei
  • Patent number: 10304387
    Abstract: An AMOLED pixel driving circuit and an AMOLED pixel driving method are provided. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit utilizes a 6T1C circuit in conjunction with a simple driving timing. A threshold voltage of a driving transistor can be effectively compensated, so that a current flowing through an organic light emitting device is not affected by the threshold voltage. Display uniformity of a panel can be increased. Furthermore, the structure of the AMOLED pixel driving circuit is simplified, and benefit is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaolong Chen
  • Patent number: 10304368
    Abstract: A projector, an image projection method, and a recording medium storing a program. The projector includes a color wheel configured to divide light by time into light rays of a plurality of colors including at least a first color and a second color, the light forming an image to be projected, an image generator configured to generate the image including a plurality of pixels from the light rays divided by time by the color wheel, a shifting member configured to shift the plurality of pixels of the image formed by the first color and the second color, with varying shifting speeds, a color-wheel controller configured to control the color wheel, a shifting controller configured to control the shifting member, and a timing controller configured to generate a first timing signal for controlling timings of the color wheel and a second timing signal for controlling timings of the shifting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki Nose
  • Patent number: 10229591
    Abstract: A traffic sign board easily identifiable during day and night is provided. The traffic sign board which is easily identified at night includes a flickering operation of a backlight installed inside a frame, and easily identified by a driver during day even on a secluded country road or a deserted road due to flickering of light emitting diode (LED) light projected to a front side through a reflective sheet while the backlight is switched off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Kidong Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Woon-Hoi Baek
  • Patent number: 10215632
    Abstract: A method and spectral light-based apparatus with an embedded (built-in) spectral calibration module for acquiring multi-spectral reflectance images from a digital camera are disclosed. The apparatus may be an attachment device, which may be integrated with a consumer digital camera (such as smartphone camera), and may measure and/or estimate spectral reflectance and true color values for an object recorded by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Zycor Labs Inc.
    Inventor: Yasser Fawzy
  • Patent number: 10209510
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide scanners with a modular construction that includes a separately formed scan plate coupled to a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) flexure structure. Such modular scanners, when incorporated into laser scanning devices, reflect laser light into a pattern of scan lines. In general, the modular scanner includes a scan plate that is formed separately from the flexure structure. The scan plate and flexure structure each include coupling features that serve to couple the scan plate to the flexure structure. The flexure structure includes flexure arms that facilitate rotation of the scan plate to reflect laser light into a pattern of scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Microvision, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Ellis, Jason B. Tauscher
  • Patent number: 10175490
    Abstract: Exemplary light control devices and methods provide a regional variation of visual information and sampling (“V-VIS”) of an ocular field of view that improves or stabilizes vision, ameliorates a visual symptom, reduces the rate of vision loss, or reduces the progression of an ophthalmic or neurologic condition, disease, injury or disorder. The V-VIS devices and methods may optically move, at a sampling rate between 50 hertz and 50 kilohertz, one or more apertures anterior to a retina between one or more positions anterior to the retina that are non-coaxial with a center of a pupil and a position anterior to the retina that is coaxial with the center of the pupil. Certain of these V-VIS devices and methods may be combined with augmented or virtual reality, vision measurement, vision monitoring, or other therapies including, but not limited to, pharmacological, gene, retinal replacement and stem cell therapies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Aperture In Motion, LLC
    Inventors: Olivia Serdarevic, Edward Yavitz
  • Patent number: 10170077
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-projector system including: projectors; an image outputting apparatus; and an adjusting apparatus to adjust images. Each of the projectors includes: a light-emitting unit to emit the modulated light; and a color adjusting unit to adjust colors of the projected image. The image outputting apparatus includes an outputting unit to output the first adjustment image and the second adjustment image as the input images of the projectors. The adjusting apparatus includes: an imaging unit to take a projected image and to output a captured image; an analyzing unit to analyze an image of the overlapping area from the captured image so as to determine a color component; and a controller for controlling the color adjusting unit of the first projector so that the color of the overlapping area is an achromatic color in accordance with the color component determined as a result of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Okamoto, Ryosuke Nakagoshi
  • Patent number: 10168595
    Abstract: An electrodeposition element is provided which includes a first substrate including a first member and an electrode arranged above the first member, a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate and including an electrode, and an electrolyte layer arranged between the electrodes of the first substrate and the second substrate, and including an electrodeposition material that contains silver. When a voltage is applied between the electrodes of the first substrate and the second substrate such that the first substrate side is negative and the second substrate side is positive, a reflective surface made of a silver thin film and reflecting light, which is incident from a direction normal to the first and second substrates, in a direction not parallel to the incident direction of the light is formed above the electrode of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yasuo Toko, Manabu Yatabe, Norihisa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10156895
    Abstract: A portable healthcare device and a method of operating the same are provided. The portable healthcare device detects biometric information of a user; obtains health state information of the user from the biometric information; and projects an image of the health state information, on a projection surface, in parallel with a reference axis, regardless of an orientation angle of the portable healthcare device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaemin Kang, Yongjoo Kwon, Sunkwon Kim, Younho Kim, Sangyun Park
  • Patent number: 10154249
    Abstract: A system for capturing horizontal disparity stereo panorama is disclosed. The system includes a multi surface selective light reflector unit, a secondary reflector and a computing unit. The multi surface selective light reflector unit (a) obtains light rays from a 3D scene of outside world that are relevant to create (i) a left eye panorama and (ii) a right eye panorama and (b) reflects the light rays without internal reflections between the light rays. The secondary reflector (a) obtains the reflected light rays from the multi surface selective light reflector unit and (b) reflects the light rays through the viewing aperture. The computing unit captures (i) the reflected light rays from the secondary reflector and (ii) the upper part of the 3D scene from a concave lens as a warped image and processes the warped image to (a) the left eye panorama and (b) the right eye panorama.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventors: Anoop M Namboodiri, Rajat Aggarwal, Amrisha Vohra
  • Patent number: 10141160
    Abstract: A secondary projection imaging system in a multi-beam apparatus is proposed, which makes the secondary electron detection with high collection efficiency and low cross-talk. The system employs one zoom lens, one projection lens and one anti-scanning deflection unit. The zoom lens and the projection lens respectively perform the zoom function and the anti-rotating function to remain the total imaging magnification and the total image rotation with respect to the landing energies and/or the currents of the plural primary beamlets. The anti-scanning deflection unit performs the anti-scanning function to eliminate the dynamic image displacement due to the deflection scanning of the plural primary beamlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: HERMES MICROVISION, INC.
    Inventors: Weiming Ren, Xuedong Liu, Xuerang Hu, Zhongwei Chen
  • Patent number: 10126639
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image display method and an image display system. The image display system includes a light source, a light-splitting device and n display devices, where n is greater than or equal to 2. The light source is configured to generate an initial light beam and project the initial light beam to the light-splitting device. The light-splitting device is configured to split the initial light beam into n light beams with an identical light intensity and project each light beam to a respective one of the display devices. Each display device is configured to modulate the light beam projected from the light-splitting device, so as to display a predetermined region of a target image. The predetermined regions displayed by the n display devices are combined into the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hui Dong
  • Patent number: 10108832
    Abstract: An exemplary augmented reality vision barcode scanning system for use with a human visual system includes at least one scanning contact lens, wireless enabled companion eyewear, and a remote barcode decoder. A related, exemplary method includes scanning and displaying barcodes with the augmented reality vision barcode scanning system in conjunction with a human visual system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Dwight Linwood Franz
  • Patent number: 10046359
    Abstract: An oriented film includes first to fourth regions having first to fourth orientation angles. First polarized light having a first intensity is radiated onto the first and second regions of a photosensitive film. Second polarized light having a second intensity is radiated onto the second and third regions of the photosensitive film. Third polarized light having a third intensity is radiated onto the first to fourth regions of the photosensitive film. The polarization angles of the first to third polarized light are different from each other. The second polarization angle is larger than the first polarization angle. The third polarization angle is larger than the second polarization angle. The polarization angle of the second or third polarized light radiated onto the third region is less than the third alignment angle. The third intensity is lower than the first intensity and the second intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mihoko Okawa, Hideki Ochiai, Kota Aono, Yuki Kotegawa