Specific Light Source (e.g., Leds Assembly) Patents (Class 347/238)
  • Patent number: 11910661
    Abstract: A display substrate includes: a base substrate having a first side and a second side opposite to each other; a transmitter arranged on the first side of the base substrate, and configured to convert a first display electrical signal into a conduction signal; a first light-emitting element arranged on a side of the transmitter away from the base substrate, wherein the first light-emitting element emits light under a driving action of the first display electrical signal; a receiver arranged on the second side of the base substrate, and configured to receive the conduction signal and convert the conduction signal into a second display electrical signal; and a second light-emitting element arranged on a side of the receiver away from the base substrate, wherein the second light-emitting element emits light under a driving action of the second display electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chenyu Chen, Yuhsiung Feng
  • Patent number: 11893940
    Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting panel including a first light-emitting diode, a second light-emitting diode, a third light-emitting diode, and transistors. The display device includes a color panel disposed on the light-emitting panel and including a first color area, a second color area, a third color area, and a light-shielding area. The light-emitting panel includes a scan line extending in a first direction; data lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and storage capacitors disposed adjacent to one another in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kangmoon Jo, Ansu Lee
  • Patent number: 11847974
    Abstract: A display panel sets a focus area per frame, based on focus area setting information and focus area reference line information received from the outside, control the number of gate lines simultaneously driven according to the focus area, and display a rendered image per focus area, thereby preventing the quality degradation of the image perceived by the user and increasing the frame rate of the display panel, and enhancing the quality of the virtual reality experience provided by the virtual reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungjin Jang, HyeonSik Kim, UnSang Yu, Kwangdug Choi, JinBong Chung, Sunkyung Shin, Sojung Jung, Beom-Jin Kim, Bongchoon Kwak
  • Patent number: 11710445
    Abstract: The disclosure describes various aspects of backplanes, including unit cells, architectures, and operations. In an aspect, a backplane unit cell is described that includes first and second switches, a storage element, a comparator, a source (e.g., a current or voltage source), where the source generates a drive signal to control light emission of a selected one of the light emitting elements in a display, and where the drive signal is based on a power signal selected by the second switch. In another aspect, a device is described that includes a backplane configured in an active matrix topology including multiple data columns and multiple row selects; and a set of electrical contacts associated with the active matrix topology and configured to electrically couple the backplane with the display, the display having multiple light emitting elements configured in a passive matrix topology. Methods of operation of the backplane are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Gang He
  • Patent number: 11584086
    Abstract: A particle and a method for producing the same is disclosed. For example, the particle includes a polymer resin that is compatible with a three-dimensional (3D) printing process to print a three-dimensional (3D) object and a marking additive that allows selective portions of the 3D object to change color when exposed to a light, wherein the marking additive is added to approximately 0.01 to 25.00 weight percent (wt %).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Nan Xing Hu, Yulin Wang
  • Patent number: 11545472
    Abstract: A bi-directional optical module includes a substrate, at least one first light-emitting diode (LED), and at least one second LED. The first LED is disposed on a surface of the substrate. The first LED has a first reflection surface and a first light-outlet surface that are opposite to each other, and the first light-outlet surface is away from the substrate relative to the first reflection surface. The second LED is disposed on the same surface of the substrate. The second LED has a second reflection surface and a second light-outlet surface that are opposite to each other, and the second light-outlet surface is close to the substrate relative to the second reflection surface. The substrate has at least one light-transparent area that is not occupied by the first LED and the second LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ting-Wei Guo, Chen-Chi Lin, Pin-Miao Liu, Cheng-Chieh Chang, Ho-Cheng Lee, Wen-Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 11545647
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus includes an insulating layer including a light-emitting region including a light-emitting element, and a groove provided in the insulating layer. The groove is provided in a portion between the light-emitting region and an end of the insulating layer, and has a zigzag pattern or a wrapping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Patent number: 11516364
    Abstract: A power switching device for switching power between translational motion and rotational motion includes an active gear, a transmission mechanism, a translation mechanism, a functional gear, and a reset mechanism. The active gear can rotate in a first direction or a second direction opposite the first direction. The translation mechanism includes a runner and a pushing member. The active gear can switch between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the active gear meshes with the runner and rotates in the first direction or the second direction to drive the runner to rotate. In the second position, the active gear meshes with the transmission gear and rotates in the second direction to drive the functional gear to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (WuHan) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Hung Chung, Hsiu-Hao Cheng
  • Patent number: 11480888
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an exposure head including a first light emitting chip, a second light emitting chip, a first lens fixed to a housing at a position facing the first light emitting chip, and configured to form an image of light emitted from a plurality of light emitting portions included in the first light emitting chip on a photoreceptor, and a second lens provided separately from the first lens, fixed to the housing at a position facing the second light emitting chip, and configured to form an image of light emitted from a plurality of light emitting portions included in the second light emitting chip on the photoreceptor; and a controller capable of controlling application of a voltage to each of a plurality of electrodes of the first light emitting chip and a plurality of electrodes of the second light emitting chip so as to form one pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichiro Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11387384
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) transferring method is provided. The LED transferring method includes disposing a transfer substrate, on which a plurality of LEDs of different colors are sequentially arranged in at least one row or at least one column, between a target substrate and a laser oscillator, and simultaneously transferring the plurality of LEDs from the transfer substrate to predetermined points of the target substrate by radiating a laser beam toward the target substrate from the laser oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangmoo Park, Minsub Oh, Doyoung Kwag, Byungchul Kim, Eunhye Kim, Dongyeob Lee, Yoonsuk Lee
  • Patent number: 11294297
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an exposure head having an odd number of chips in each of which a plurality of light emitting elements configured to expose a photosensitive member are arrayed at intervals corresponding to a first resolution in an intersecting direction intersecting with a rotation direction of the photosensitive member. An even number of chips of the odd number of chips are arranged on one side of the printed circuit board in the rotation direction, and a remaining odd number of chips of the odd number of chips are arranged on another side of the printed circuit board. A center of an intensity of a light amount of the odd number of chips in the rotation direction is shifted to a side of the even number of chips with respect to a center of the printed circuit board in the rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirotaka Seki
  • Patent number: 11289359
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a device includes: —a) a first step for the formation of a temporary structure that comprises electroluminescent structures separated by trenches and comprising an electroluminescent face, the electroluminescent structures being bonded by means of a bond layer on a temporary substrate; b) an assembly step bringing the electroluminescent structures into contact with a host face of a host substrate; and c) a step for removal of the temporary substrate; wherein the bond layer, that comprises an electrically conducting organic polymer material at least partially transparent to light radiation, is at least partly kept after step c) and forms an electrode common to the light emitting faces, with a thickness of more than 20 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Bertrand Chambion
  • Patent number: 11270646
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a display panel, a display device, and a driving method. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a driving transistor, a light emitting control circuit, a reset circuit, a threshold compensation circuit, a first data write circuit, and an initializing circuit. The reset circuit includes a first transistor, the first data write circuit includes a third transistor, and a channel length-width ratio of the first transistor is greater than a channel length-width ratio of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Kai Zhang, Minghua Xuan, Young Yik Ko, Lujiang Huangfu
  • Patent number: 11266301
    Abstract: An inserting apparatus of the present invention includes a base provided in an insertion section, a first recess provided in the base, an opening forming surface formed around the first recess, a movable member configured to move in the first recess, a tabular lid member configured to close an opening of the first recess, a second recess provided in the lid member, a wall surface provided on the base, and opposed to at least a part of a side surface of the lid member in a state in which the contact surface is in contact with the opening forming surface, a fixing resin fixing the lid member to the base, and one or a plurality of protrusions provided on the side surface, having thickness smaller than thickness in the side surface of the lid member, and projecting toward the wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumitoshi Hayakawa, Akihiro Kato, Kazuki Minamimoto
  • Patent number: 11215938
    Abstract: An optical writing device includes: an image carrier; an exposer that exposes a curved surface of the image carrier; and a control circuit that controls the exposer, wherein the exposer includes a plurality of light-emitting element groups having different positional relationships from one another with the image carrier, and has a configuration that is adjusted in accordance with at least one of an angle at which light reaching the curved surface of the image carrier from each light-emitting element group enters the image carrier, and a distance of each light-emitting element group from the image carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Hasegawa, Takahiro Matsuo, Hajime Taniguchi, Atsushi Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 11196889
    Abstract: A reading apparatus includes: a light-shielding member having a thickness T in which plural through-holes having a diameter D through which light reflected from a document passes are formed at an interval P; an optical member that includes a surface separated from and facing the light-shielding member and including lenses formed at positions facing the through-holes, in which a light-shielding film is formed on at least the surface other than a lens surface of the lens, and a distance L from the light-shielding member in an optical axis direction of the lens satisfies 0<L?T (P/D?1); and a substrate that includes an element that receives light passing through the optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sawada
  • Patent number: 11142956
    Abstract: An example system includes a laser tool configured for downhole movement. The laser tool includes an optical assembly configured to shape a laser beam for output. The laser beam may have an optical power of at least one kilowatt (1 kW). A housing contains the optical assembly. The housing is configured for movement to direct the output laser beam within a wellbore. The movement includes rotation of the laser tool around a longitudinal axis of the housing and tilting the housing relative to a longitudinal axis of the wellbore. A control system is configured to control at least one of the movement of the housing or an operation of the optical assembly to direct the output laser beam within the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Sameeh Issa Batarseh
  • Patent number: 11139248
    Abstract: A mounting substrate according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: a wiring substrate (30); a fine L/S layer (40) formed in contact with a top surface of the wiring substrate; and a plurality of elements (12, 13) arranged in a matrix on a top surface of the fine L/S layer. The wiring substrate includes a plurality of first wiring lines (SigB1, Gate2), and a plurality of vias (14) arranged at a period corresponding to an integral multiple of an arrangement period of the plurality of element, and two or more of the vias are provided for each of the first wiring lines. Two or more adjacent ones of the elements on the fine L/S layer are electrically coupled to common one of the vias through one or more second wiring lines (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Akiyoshi Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 11106087
    Abstract: A plurality of LEDs (light sources) 16 that are arranged to form a column, each of which includes a electrode 20 for power supply, a plurality of first wires 21 that are connected to the electrode 20 in the plurality of LEDs 16, and a second wire 22 that is connected with each of the plurality of first wires 21 and is pulled out toward one end side in an array direction of the plurality of LEDs 16 are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hisashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11043530
    Abstract: A light-emitting component includes a light-emitting element, a driving thyristor, and a light-absorbing layer. The light-emitting element emits light of a predetermined wavelength. The driving thyristor causes the light-emitting element to emit light or causes an amount of light emitted by the light-emitting element to increase, upon entering an on-state. The light-absorbing layer is disposed between the light-emitting element and the driving thyristor such that the light-emitting element and the driving thyristor are stacked, and absorbs light emitted by the driving thyristor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Takashi Kondo
  • Patent number: 10946671
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for marking eggs by stamping and printing thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Israel Sar-El, Viktor Kurmis
  • Patent number: 10930813
    Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor light-emitting array and a method of manufacturing the same. The manufacturing method includes forming a plurality of grooves in a region of a substrate and sequentially growing a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the substrate to form a light-emitting structure layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junghun Park, Junhee Choi
  • Patent number: 10833484
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus including a plurality of first light emitters and a plurality of second light emitters that differ from the first light emitters in terms of resonance wavelength, in which the second light emitters are each disposed between each adjacent pair of the first light emitters, first light that resonates in the plurality of first light emitters is in phase, and second light that resonates in the plurality of second light emitters is in phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Sophia School Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Nishioka, Katsumi Kishino
  • Patent number: 10790637
    Abstract: A QCL may include a substrate, an emitting facet, and semiconductor layers adjacent the substrate and defining an active region. The active region may have a longitudinal axis canted at an oblique angle to the emitting facet of the substrate. The QCL may include an optical grating being adjacent the active region and configured to emit one of a CW laser output or a pulsed laser output through the emitting facet of substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventor: Arkadiy Lyakh
  • Patent number: 10775663
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises first to sixth opening portions and first to third light-shielding portions, the first light-shielding portion being adjacent to the first and second opening portions, the first opening portion having an area larger than an area of the second opening portion, the second light-shielding portion being adjacent to the third and fourth opening portions, the third and fourth opening portions each having substantially an equal area to the first opening portion, the third light-shielding portion being adjacent to the fifth and sixth opening portions, the fifth and sixth opening portions each having substantially an equal area to the second opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 10753735
    Abstract: A laser source for use in a structured light projector includes a substrate, one or more first VCSELs on the substrate, and one or more second VCSELs on the substrate. The one or more first VCSELs each have a first aperture width and each separately extend above a surface of the substrate. The one or more second VCSELs each have a second aperture width different from the first aperture width, and each separately extend above a surface of the substrate. Using an array of VCSELs with different aperture widths provides emitted radiation having different wavelengths, thus providing different speckle patterns. When the different speckle patterns are averaged upon being received at the detector, speckle noise is reduced. The VCSEL can also include a plurality of subwavelength structures to steer the light output. Such subwavelength structures can also be used on the surface of other VCSELs, including standard VCSELs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Khaled Ahmed
  • Patent number: 10740695
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tuning hyperparameters of a model includes: receiving a multi-criteria tuning work request for tuning hyperparameters of the model of the subscriber to the remote tuning service, wherein the multi-criteria tuning work request includes: a first objective function of the model to be optimized by the remote tuning service; a second objective function to be optimized by the remote tuning service, the second objective function being distinct from the first objective function; computing a joint tuning function based on a combination of the first objective function and the second objective function; executing a tuning operation of the hyperparameters for the model based on a tuning of the joint function; and identifying one or more proposed hyperparameter values based on one or more hyperparameter-based points along a convex Pareto optimal curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SigOpt, Inc.
    Inventors: Bolong Cheng, Olivia Kim, Michael McCourt, Patrick Hayes, Scott Clark
  • Patent number: 10739695
    Abstract: Certain examples described herein relate to an optical controller (140) for an exposure unit (115, 215) of a printer. In certain examples, memory (150) stores a plurality of data structures each comprising adjustment factors useable to adjust a plurality of optical elements (216) of the exposure unit. Different data structures correspond to different gray coverages in an image generated by the printer. In certain examples, a processor (160) determines gray levels for different image regions in input image data. In certain cases, the processor links the determined gray levels to corresponding data structures within the plurality of data structures to obtain adjustment factors for the different image regions. In certain cases, the processor adjusts the optical elements for each image region using the corresponding obtained adjustment factors to enable the generation of an exposed image using the exposure unit based on the input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.
    Inventors: Oron Ambar, Craig Breen, Yuval Yunger, Haim Vladomirski
  • Patent number: 10672346
    Abstract: A double-sided display comprises: a first data driver that is connected to one end of the data lines and applies a data signal of a first image to the data lines; and a second data driver that is connected to the other end of the data lines and applies a data signal of a second image to the data lines. The first data driver supplies a first pixel data signal of the first image to a first data line and an nth pixel data signal of the first image to an nth data line, and the second data driver supplies a first pixel data signal of the second image to the nth data line and an nth pixel data signal of the second image to the first data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Minhyung Kang
  • Patent number: 10621514
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tuning hyperparameters of a model includes: receiving at a remote tuning service a multi-criteria tuning work request for tuning hyperparameters of the model of a subscriber, wherein the multi-criteria tuning work request includes: a first objective function of the model to be optimized by the remote tuning service; a second objective function to be optimized by the remote tuning service, the second objective function being distinct from the first objective function; computing a first conditionally constrained joint function for the model based on subjecting the first objective function to the second objective function; a second conditionally constrained joint function for the model based on subjecting the second objective function to the first objective function of the model; executing a tuning operation of the hyperparameters for the model; and identifying proposed hyperparameter values based on one or more hyperparameter-based points along a non-convex Pareto optimal curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SigOpt, Inc.
    Inventors: Bolong Cheng, Olivia Kim, Michael McCourt, Patrick Hayes, Scott Clark
  • Patent number: 10621912
    Abstract: A display device includes first pixels which displays a front image, second pixels which displays a rear image, scan lines extending in a first direction and connected to the first and second pixels, and data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and connected to the first and second pixels. The data lines extend via the second pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-hyun Park, Seongkweon Heo
  • Patent number: 10554846
    Abstract: A light-emitting component includes an insulating substrate, plural light-emitting elements, and plural thyristors. The plural light-emitting elements are disposed on the substrate and constituted by a first stacked semiconductor layer, the first stacked semiconductor layer being obtained by stacking plural semiconductor layers. The plural thyristors are constituted by a second stacked semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate such that the light-emitting elements and the thyristors are arranged side by side, connected to the plural light-emitting elements, respectively, and turn on to drive the light-emitting elements to emit light or to increase an emitted light amount, the second stacked semiconductor layer being obtained by stacking plural semiconductor layers that are different from the semiconductor layers of the first stacked semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Kondo
  • Patent number: 10530131
    Abstract: Disclosed are a light source system and a laser light source (300). The laser light source includes two groups of laser groups (20a, 20b), wherein at least one group of laser groups includes at least two lasers (21a, 21b, 21c, 21d), and the light beams (L1) generated by the two groups of laser groups are in the same direction and parallel to each other. The first projections of the two groups of laser groups on the cross section of the light beams formed by the respective emergent light rays thereof are partially overlapped with the second projections in a first direction, which first direction is the connection direction of at least two laser centres of a group of laser groups. The laser light source has the effects of being able to effectively increase the light power density and at the same time reduce the volume of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Appotronics Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Jiayi Yang
  • Patent number: 10444672
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus is described that includes a photosensitive imaging plate, an intermediate transfer member, and a heating unit. The photosensitive imaging plate attracts a layer of printing fluid. The intermediate transfer member contacts the photosensitive imaging plate and receives the layer of printing fluid from the photosensitive imaging plate. The heating unit includes an array of individually addressable heating elements and heats the intermediate transfer member in a manner that is spatially selective along two axes; a first axis in a direction of a width of the intermediate transfer member and a second axis in a direction of a rotation of the intermediate transfer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.
    Inventors: Shai Lior, Mark Sandler, Peter Nedelin, Guy Hamou
  • Patent number: 10436909
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to compressive line sensing imaging. Initially, a codebook is configured with a pattern sequence for a series of illumination patterns. Each light element in an individually addressable laser diode array (IALDA) is independently controlled to project the series of illumination patterns onto a target. Next, measurements of the target are acquired based on the series of illumination patterns. The codebook is then used to decode the measurements to create an image of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Bing Ouyang, Weilin Hou, Fraser Dalgleish, Cuiling Gong, Frank Caimi, Anni Dalgleish
  • Patent number: 10345730
    Abstract: A light emitting device configured to cause a series circuit in which an OLED is connected to a thin film transistor to emit light by applying a predetermined voltage to the thin film transistor includes: a forward direction voltage estimating unit configured to estimate a forward direction voltage in a case where the OLED is caused to emit light at a set light quantity; a driving current amount estimating unit configured to estimate a driving current amount required for causing the OLED to emit light at the set light quantity; a source-drain voltage calculating unit configured to calculate a source-drain voltage applied to the thin film transistor from the predetermined voltage and the forward direction voltage; and a gate-source voltage determining unit configured to determine a gate-source voltage of the thin film transistor corresponding to the source-drain voltage in a case where the driving current amount is a drain current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: So Yano, Masayuki Iijima, Takahiro Matsuo, Takaki Uemura, Akira Taniyama
  • Patent number: 10276606
    Abstract: A method for making an array substrate includes the following steps: forming a poly-silicon semiconductor layer on a substrate; forming a buffer layer on the substrate; depositing a first metal layer, and patterning the first metal layer to form gate electrodes for a driving TFT, a switch TFT, and a poly-silicon TFT; forming a first gate insulator layer; forming a second gate insulator layer; defining through holes passing through the buffer layer, the first gate insulator layer, and the second gate insulator layer to expose the poly-silicon semiconductor layer; depositing a metal oxide layer to form a first metal oxide semiconductor layer; and depositing a second metal layer to form source electrodes and drain electrodes for the driving TFT, the switch TFT, and the poly-silicon TFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hua Lin, Yi-Chun Kao
  • Patent number: 10257385
    Abstract: An optical print head comprises a first light emitting element row, a second light emitting element row, a lens array, a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit. The first light emitting element row includes the arrangement of first light emitting elements. The second light emitting element row includes second light emitting elements arranged in parallel with the first light emitting element row. The lens array concentrates light emitted by the first light emitting elements and the second light emitting elements. The first drive circuit drives each first light emitting element with an identical first current value. The second drive circuit drives each second light emitting element with an identical second current value different from the first current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishikawa, Koji Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 10126933
    Abstract: A portable appliance has a display screen on a first surface and a user interface device on a second surface different from the first surface. The device includes a photon detector array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, ISORG
    Inventor: Jean-Yves Gomez
  • Patent number: 10088774
    Abstract: In one example, a toner container has an interior volume defined by a body and a pair of wings extending up and out from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Dean J. Richtsmeier, Robin Pierce Yergenson, Richard L. Swantner
  • Patent number: 10036955
    Abstract: A portable image-forming device includes a housing, an exposure member for exposing an instant film disposed inside of the housing by means of a light radiating from the screen of a portable display device, a shading member linked in movement with the exposure member so as to shade the instant film, a traction member connected to the exposure member so as to move the exposure member to a pre-exposure position, and a developing-agent-spreading member for spreading a developing agent, which is provided on the instant film, over the entire instant film. The traction member and the developing-agent-spreading member are manually operated by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-bit Kwak, Yong-shik Park, Ho-jun Jang, Song-baik Jin, Kwang-hyuck So, Sang-in Lee
  • Patent number: 10038819
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing apparatus that enables an image reading apparatus to perform higher speed processing of reading a document image. A signal processing unit is configured to convert six analog image signals obtained from a line sensor into six first signals, each of which is a 10-bit digital image signal, respectively, and to write the six first signals into a RAM at a first speed that is the same as a frequency of the analog image signals. The signal processing unit is configured to cause a serialization unit to read out from the RAM the six first signals as four second signals, each of which is a 10-bit digital image signal, at a second speed higher than the first speed, respectively, and to serialize the four second signals to generate six 7-bit serial signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazunori Togashi
  • Patent number: 10020280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a carrier tape, wherein a TAB tape including a base film having a central area and edge areas at both directions of the central area, a wiring pattern formed at the central area of the base film, a transfer area formed at the edge area of the base film and exposed by the base film, a plurality of sprocket holes arranged in a row on the transfer area and a metal pattern discretely formed from the wiring pattern, and formed at the edge areas of the base film, wherein the metal pattern is formed with a paired structure formed at both sides of the plurality of sprocket holes, such that the present invention has an advantageous effect in that no Cu layer or a metal layer exists at a portion of the sprocket holes from which friction is generated by a driving roller during assembly work between a drive IC and chips/drive IC and panel to dispense with generation of foreign objects such as Cu particles, thereby enhancing reliability of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Ki Hong, Dong Guk Jo, Han Mo Koo, Jun Young Lim, Ki Tae Park, Sang Ki Cho, Dae Sung Yoo, Nak Ho Song, Joo Chul Kim, Jae Sung Jo
  • Patent number: 9971273
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning unit including a rotatable polygonal mirror, a detecting portion, and a slit; and a controller. The slit includes a first portion where a slit width is a first width with respect to a main scan direction and a second portion, different in position from the first portion with respect to a sub-scan direction, where the slit width is a second width different from the first width with respect to the main scan direction. The controller identifies one of reflecting surfaces of the rotatable polygonal mirror as a reference surface on the basis of a plurality of detected signals acquired by detecting a plurality of light beams which are deflected by the respective reflecting surfaces and which pass through the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Fumihiko Yamaya
  • Patent number: 9948818
    Abstract: A method for processing data of a parameter counter for an image forming process includes providing a cumulative data structure for storing at least one record for recording for a predetermined accrual period a cumulative total for a parameter counter for an image forming process, providing data of a parameter counter for a time period, determining whether or not the time period corresponds to a predetermined accrual period for which an existing cumulative total is recorded in the cumulative data structure, and updating the cumulative data structure based on the data of the parameter counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Alexei Skvirski
  • Patent number: 9933120
    Abstract: An LED screen display unit and production method therefor. The LED screen display unit comprises a circuit board (1), a driving IC (2) and LEDs (3); a first face of said circuit board (1) is provided with a contact pad matrix (41); the driving IC (2) is arranged on the circuit board (1) and is in electrical connection with contact pads (4) of said contact pad matrix (41); the pins (31) of the LEDs (3) are soldered to contact pads (4) of the contact pad matrix (41). The present display unit can ensure a higher permeability rate for LED display screens produced having high pixel density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Inventor: Shuling Li
  • Patent number: 9917971
    Abstract: A laser scanning device includes a light source, a deflection portion, an image forming lens, and a light source control portion. The light source emits a light beam. The deflection portion causes the light beam emitted from the light source to scan a scanned surface by deflecting the light beam at a predetermined deflection angle. The image forming lens condenses the deflected light beam on the scanned surface, and causes the light beam to be scanned on the scanned surface in a scanning direction at an equal speed. The light source control portion controls the light source to irradiate the light beam to at least one section area among a plurality of section areas sectioned from each other in the scanning direction on the scanned surface, at a plurality of irradiation timings determined based on a position of the at least one section area in the scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Ishida, Yuji Toyota, Hideji Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9902150
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a first substrate in which a piezoelectric element is provided; and a second substrate on which the first substrate is connected to a first surface, in which the second substrate is provided with a penetration hole, which penetrates through the second substrate in a plate thickness direction, and penetration wiring, which is formed from a conductor that is formed in an inner portion of the penetration hole, the penetration wiring is formed from a first end portion, which is provided on a first surface side, a second end portion, which is provided on a second surface side, which is a surface that is on an opposite side to the first surface, and connection wiring, which connects the first end portion and the second end portion, and a cross-sectional area of the connection wiring in a planar direction of the first surface is smaller than cross-sectional areas of the first end portion and the second end portion in the planar direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsumoto, Shuichi Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Yoda, Naohiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9855766
    Abstract: Provided is a rod lens array that includes: a plurality of lenses; and a pair of side plate sections interposing side surfaces of the respective lenses in between to hold the lenses, and each including a first side plate provided adjacent to the lenses, and a second side plate provided on outer side of the first side plate, and having machinability lower than machinability of the first side plate, and a linear expansion coefficient smaller than linear expansion coefficient of the first side plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Takahito Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9804526
    Abstract: In one example, a toner container has an interior volume defined by a body and a pair of wings extending up and out from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Dean J. Richtsmeier, Robin Pierce Yergenson, Richard L. Swantner