Multicolor Picture Patents (Class 353/31)
  • Patent number: 10621694
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of first images that correspond to a plurality of spatial frequencies on a one-to-one basis; and a generation unit that generates a second image by synthesizing the first images acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Kikuchi, Kiichiroh Saitoh
  • Patent number: 10617290
    Abstract: A light source apparatus for endoscope includes: a housing including an intake port; a first heat radiating portion connected to a first light source and cooled by gas taken in from the intake port; a third heat radiating portion connected to a third light source, and cooled by gas taken in from the intake port; and a second heat radiating portion including a lower necessary cooling amount than the first heat radiating portion and the third heat radiating portion connected to a second light source provided in a flow path in which a flow path of the gas that passes through the first heat radiating portion and a flow path of the gas that passes through the third heat radiating portion are merged together, and cooled by merged gas merged on a merged flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yoshida, Masaaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10620517
    Abstract: A projector includes a light emitting device and a light modulator. The light emitting device includes first and second semiconductor layers respectively electrically connected to first and second electrodes, a light emitting layer generating light by having a current injected thereinto, and a third electrode connected to the second electrode. The second electrode transmits the light generated in the light emitting layer. The third electrode has less resistivity than the second electrode, and includes first conductive sections arranged in a first direction. The light modulator includes pixels, and adjacent pixels are spaced apart by gaps. The arrangement pitch of the first conductive sections in the first direction is a multiple of the arrangement pitch of the gaps in the first direction. The shadows of the first conductive sections generated by the light emitted from the light emitting device are cast onto the gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kaseya
  • Patent number: 10606155
    Abstract: A light source device including a plurality of solid-state light sources, and a cooling member having a plurality of cooling surfaces, the cooling member being configured to cool the plurality of solid-state light sources provided on the respective cooling surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiro Asano
  • Patent number: 10606159
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a projector are provided. A specific embodiment of the method includes: determining position information of a target position in a to-be-projected area; determining a scanning power of scanning the target position based on a pre-generated scanning power table and the position information of the target position, the scanning power table used for characterizing a corresponding relationship between the scanning power and the position information; adjusting a tilt angle of a reflector to change the tilt angle of the reflector, and to enable a light beam incident onto the reflector to be reflected to the target position; and controlling a light source to emit the light beam to the reflector at the determined scanning power. The embodiment has achieved scanning a to-be-projected area at an adjustable scanning power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chen Zhao
  • Patent number: 10602101
    Abstract: A light source module includes an excitation light source providing an excitation light beam; a light guiding apparatus disposed on a light path of the excitation light beam and; a light collecting element disposed on a first transmission path and a second transmission path; a light homogenizing element disposed on the first transmission path; and a wavelength conversion element disposed on the second transmission path. The light guiding apparatus swings sequentially along a reference axis of the light path. Through the swinging action, the excitation light beam is transmitted along the first transmission path and the second transmission path at a first timing and a second timing, respectively. Then, the excitation light beam passes through the light collecting element. The light homogenizing element receives the excitation light beam. The wavelength conversion element converts the excitation light beam passing through the light collecting element into an excited light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Hsuang Weng, Chih-Hsien Tsai, Haw-Woei Pan
  • Patent number: 10587851
    Abstract: A projector includes a projection section having a light source, a light modulation device and a projection lens, and modulating light emitted from the light source with the light device, and then projecting the light modulated through the projection lens to project a projection image on a screen, a projection optical system drive section for changing a projection position of the projection image, a projection control section for making the light device display a reduced input image, and a shift control section for controlling the projection optical system drive section wherein the projection position of the projection image when displaying the reduced input image at a central display position and at a shift display position become the same when the projection control section changes the display position of the reduced input image from the central display position to the shift display position in a display area of the light device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 10578958
    Abstract: A first laser module generates a first light beam along a first light path. A second laser module generates a second light beam along a second light path. A light-guiding module reflects the first light beam to generate a first reflected light beam along a third light path and reflects the second light beam to generate a second reflected light beam along a fourth light path. A wavelength conversion layer of the wavelength conversion device is stimulated by the first reflected light beam to generate a stimulated light beam against the first reflected light beam. The light-guiding module directs the stimulated light beam to the fourth light path. A light rod integrates the stimulated light beam and the second reflected light beam to generate an integrated light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Tien-Hsueh Wu, Ching-Shuai Huang
  • Patent number: 10578866
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a polarization separation element which transmits first polarized light, and reflects second polarized light, a first optical modulation unit which displays a first image by using transmitted light, a second optical modulation unit which displays a second image by using reflected light, and a projector which projects the first image onto a first projection area of a projection plane, and projects the second image onto a second projection area different from the first projection area of the projection plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yata, Naoyuki Takasaki
  • Patent number: 10571792
    Abstract: A projection device for forming an image frame on a projection screen includes a first illumination system for emitting an illumination beam, a second illumination system for emitting an ultraviolet beam, a first light valve located on a transmission path of the illumination beam and for converting the illumination beam into a visible image beam, a lens located on a transmission path of the visible image beam and the ultraviolet beam and for projecting the visible image beam onto the projection screen to form an image frame area and projecting the ultraviolet beam onto the projection screen to form an opaque area, and a processor electrically connected to the first illumination system and the second illumination system and for controlling the first illumination system to emit the illumination beam and controlling the second illumination system to emit the ultraviolet beam. The image frame area partially overlaps the opaque area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Haw-Woei Pan, Chih-Hsien Tsai, Yi-Hsuang Weng, Chi-Tang Hsieh, Jo-Han Hsu
  • Patent number: 10571332
    Abstract: A light filter includes a plurality of spectrum modulation portions, each having a different thicknesses or a different mixing ratio of materials thereof. Each of the plurality of spectrum modulation portions has a different transmittance spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyungsang Cho, Chanwook Baik
  • Patent number: 10564536
    Abstract: A projection screen for receiving a visible image beam and an ultraviolet beam from a projection device is provided. The projection screen includes a substrate, an anti-reflection layer and an anti-ultraviolet layer. The substrate includes a first surface adjacent to the projection device, a second surface away from the projection device and opposite to the first surface, a scattering reflection layer disposed between the first surface and the second surface, and an ultraviolet absorption layer disposed between the first surface and the second surface. The scattering reflection layer scatters and reflects the visible image beam. The ultraviolet absorption layer absorbs the ultraviolet beam so as to be changed from a transparent state to an opaque state. The anti-reflection layer is disposed on the first surface. The anti-ultraviolet layer is disposed at the second surface. The ultraviolet absorption layer is located between the scattering reflection layer and the anti-ultraviolet layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Haw-Woei Pan, Chih-Hsien Tsai, Yi-Hsuang Weng, Chi-Tang Hsieh, Jo-Han Hsu
  • Patent number: 10560250
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for communicating within a communication system when re-configured from a source to a target uplink/downlink configuration. The invention is also providing mobile station for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the mobile station to perform the methods described herein. Specifically, the invention suggests to perform PUSCH transmissions in response to Downlink Control Information, DCI, transmissions such that the source uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received up to and including subframe N?6, a predefined uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received during subframes N?5 to N?1; and the target uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received from subframe N onward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 10542599
    Abstract: LED driver (1) comprising a switched-mode power converter (10) for providing power to an LED arrangement (100) connected across output terminals of the converter (10), and wherein the converter (10) comprises a number of energy storage elements (L, C) and a first semiconductor switch (Q1); a second semiconductor switch (Q2) connected in series with the LED arrangement (100); a control means (11) realized to generate a second control signal (G2) for the second semiconductor switch (Q2), such that a transition of the second control signal (G2) is delayed relative to a corresponding transition of a first control signal (G 1) for the first semiconductor switch (Q 1). The invention further describes a projection arrangement (2); and a method of driving an LED arrangement (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Andrew Ulrich Rutgers
  • Patent number: 10527915
    Abstract: A laser light source includes; a plurality of laser devices that emit respectively different colors of laser light; a plurality of optical sensors that respectively detect the brightness of the plurality of colored lights; and a control unit that controls the brightness of each of the plurality of colored lights so that the detected values from the plurality of optical sensors become detection target values of brightness of the plurality of colored lights respectively corresponding to the brightness of synthesized light that is obtained by synthesizing the plurality of colored lights. If at least one of the detected values of the plurality of optical sensors cannot be controlled to be the detection target value, the control unit modifies all of the detection target values at the same proportion and controls the brightness of each of the plurality of colored lights to become the detection target values that were modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kaji
  • Patent number: 10520800
    Abstract: A phosphor wheel includes a first face that has a phosphor layer, a second face located on an opposite side to the first face, a first blade provided to project from one of the first face and the second face, and a passage that sends air to the second face from the first face. The first blade is provided to send air on a side of the first face to a side of the second face through the passage during rotation of the phosphor wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Ikeo
  • Patent number: 10523365
    Abstract: The procedure includes generating an image to represent a photographing range including at least a part of a range irradiated by light emitted from a light source, information to be transmitted being superimposed on the light, specifying a region where the information is decoded, on the image, and discriminating which of the light source and an object reflecting the light is photographed in the region, based on a similarity between a color of the region and a color of the light emitted from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Keizo Kato, Kensuke Kuraki, Ryuta Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10520721
    Abstract: An optical beam scanning system having a synthetic center of beam rotation. A front, primary intermediate and back mirrors having respective motors are provided to receive and redirect an optical beam. A controller is connected to orient the front, primary intermediate and back mirrors so that a beam received by the front mirror from a given direction is directed toward the primary intermediate mirror, by the primary intermediate mirror toward the back mirror, and by the back mirror so as to pass through a selected point spaced apart from the back mirror in one of a plurality of selectable different directions. A secondary intermediate mirror may be provided so as to receive the beam from the primary intermediate mirror and redirect it toward the back mirror. The beam may be directed thereby through a synthetic center of beam rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: THE BRAIN WINDOW, INC.
    Inventor: Andreas G. Nowatzyk
  • Patent number: 10520801
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wavelength conversion element including a wavelength conversion layer having a first surface including an excitation light irradiated region irradiated with excitation light and a second surface being opposed to the first surface, the wavelength conversion layer wavelength-converting the excitation light into converted light having a wavelength different from the wavelength of the excitation light, a reflection member provided on a portion of the second surface, the reflection member including an inorganic oxide layer and reflecting the excitation light and the converted light, a first layer disposed in a first region that faces the reflection member and in a second region that does not face the reflection member on the second surface of the wavelength conversion layer, a bonding material so provided as to face the first layer, and a base bonded to the first layer via the bonding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunihiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 10509303
    Abstract: For a laser projection device, a dichroic component is disposed on a light emitting path of a laser array for receiving a first blue polarized light from the laser array. A 1/4 wave plate is disposed between a reflective component and the dichroic component and configured to receive the first blue polarized light from the dichroic component, generate a second blue polarized light, and emit the second blue polarized light to the reflective component; and further configured to receive the second blue polarized light reflected by the reflective component, generate a third blue polarized light, and emit the third blue polarized light to the dichroic component. The dichroic component is further configured to receive the third blue polarized light from the 1/4 wave plate and fluorescent light from a reflective fluorescent wheel, and output the third blue polarized light and the fluorescent light in a same light emitting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Qingdao Hisense Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Li
  • Patent number: 10495959
    Abstract: A projector and an illumination system are provided. A first light source module and at least one second light source module of the illumination system provide the first color beams and the second color beams respectively. The first light source module includes a first integrating element, a second integrating element, a plurality of first light emitting elements for providing a plurality of first sub-beams, a plurality of second light emitting elements for providing a plurality of second sub-beams, and a plurality of third light emitting elements for providing a plurality of third sub-beams. Each integrating element has a plurality of light reflecting regions and a plurality of light transmitting regions. The light transmitting regions of each integrating element are alternately arranged between the light reflecting regions of the corresponding integrating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chang-Hsuan Chen, Chien-Chung Liao
  • Patent number: 10495963
    Abstract: A light source device includes first and second laser light source units, a first reflective member, and a returning reflective member. The first and second laser light source units are disposed face-to-face, each of the first and the second laser light source units comprising a plurality of laser light sources arranged in an array. The first reflective member is disposed diagonally with respect to the light emitted from the first and second laser light source units, the first reflective member reflecting the light. The returning reflective member reflects the light emitted from the second laser light source unit and reflected by the first reflective member. The light emitted from the first laser light source unit and reflected by the first reflective member is parallel to, and in a same direction of travel as, the light emitted from the second laser light source unit and reflected by the returning reflective member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Yamagata, Hiroki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10481020
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for establishing residual stresses in objects, in particular in coated objects, and to a method and an apparatus for coating objects. The method comprises: impinging a surface (8) of the object (5) with laser light and generating a hole or a pattern of holes and/or locally heated points in the object (5); establishing the surface deformations by an optical deforming measuring method after the object (5) is impinged by laser light; establishing the residual stresses present in the object (5) from the measured surface deformations, wherein the generation of the hole pattern is carried out by an optical scanning apparatus which comprises an optical deflection and/or modulation arrangement for controllable deflection and/or modulation of the laser light, and/or a focusing arrangement for controllable focusing of the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Universität Stuttgart
    Inventors: Wolfgang Osten, Giancarlo Pedrini, Rainer Gadow, Klaus Körner
  • Patent number: 10481474
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion filter module and an illumination system are provided. The wavelength conversion filter module includes a carrier and a wavelength conversion filter unit. The wavelength conversion filter unit is located in a wavelength conversion filter region of the carrier, and the wavelength conversion filter unit includes a filter reflective device, a wavelength conversion device, and a first filter device disposed on the carrier in order. The first filter device is suitable for allowing the excitation beam to pass through. The wavelength conversion device is suitable for converting the excitation beam into a conversion beam. The conversion beam includes a specific color beam and a color beam other than the specific color beam. The filter reflective device is suitable for reflecting the specific color beam and absorbing the color beam other than the specific color beam. The reflected specific color beam passes through the first filter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventor: Chien-Chung Liao
  • Patent number: 10474023
    Abstract: A light source apparatus, an illuminator, and a projector that output a reduced light beam flux in a direction roughly the same as the direction of the optical axis of an incident light beam flux. The light source apparatus includes a light source unit that outputs a light beam flux and a reduction system that includes a plurality of optical elements and reduces the cross section of the light beam flux. The optical elements each have first and second surfaces and first and second reflection surfaces and allow a corresponding light beam of the light beam flux to pass through the first surface, to be incident on the first reflection surface, to be sequentially reflected off the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface, and then to exit through the second surface to shift the optical path of the light beam in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Akiyama, Takayuki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 10466579
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a light source section that outputs first and second light beam fluxes, first and second polarization separation elements, a rotary diffuser plate that diffuses the first light beam flux and the second light beam flux, a first retardation film that converts the incident second light beam flux polarized in a first direction into the second light beam flux polarized in a second direction, and a wavelength conversion element on which the first light beam flux polarized in the first direction and the second light beam flux polarized in the second direction, are incident and which converts the first and second light beam fluxes into a third light beam flux that belongs to a wavelength band different from the wavelength band to which the first and second light beam fluxes belong. The third light beam flux passes through the first and second polarization separation elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 10466580
    Abstract: A projection system includes a light source system that has a first light source for emitting first light, and a rotating color wheel that has at least a first fluorescent color band to absorb the first light and generate second light, and a second fluorescent color band to absorb the first light and generate compensation light. A light splitting device sequentially splits the first and second lights into light travelling along first and second light paths respectively. A first light modulation device modulates the light travelling along the first light path, and a second light modulation device for modulating the light travelling along the second light path. The first light is a primary light, the second light is a wide-spectrum light comprising at least two kinds of primary light, and a combined light of the first light and the second light comprises light of three primary colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Appotronics Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Zuqiang Guo, Zeqin Wang
  • Patent number: 10459305
    Abstract: A method includes sequentially transmitting, through a beam steering device, light of a first color and light of a second color that is distinct from the first color. The method also includes applying a first voltage to the beam steering device for transmission of the light of the first color through the beam steering device; and applying a second voltage to the beam steering device for transmission of the light of the second color through the beam steering device. A device configured to perform the method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jianru Shi, Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Patent number: 10440335
    Abstract: An optical device is provided including a light-imaging component configured to focus light fed to the light-imaging component in at least one focusing spot, wherein the light fed includes at least one predefinable wavelength; and a conversion apparatus including at least one phosphor which is designed to convert light having the at least one predefinable wavelength into conversion light, wherein the conversion apparatus is arranged in such a way that the at least one phosphor is arranged in the focusing spot of the light-imaging component. The light-imaging component is configured to generate at least two focusing spots, and the conversion apparatus is arranged in such a way that the at least two focusing spots are positioned on the at least one phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Hadrath
  • Patent number: 10432898
    Abstract: There is provided a projector including a plurality of laser diodes and a rectangular display device on to which light emitted from the plurality of laser diodes is shone, wherein the display device is disposed so that a direction of a major axis of an elliptic section of light emitted from each of the plurality of laser diodes becomes substantially parallel to a direction of longer sides of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyo Yamamoto, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10416547
    Abstract: In described examples, one or more devices include: a light source to generate a beam of light; and optics to generate a spot of light in response to the beam of light. A color wheel revolves in a direction of rotation about an axis, so the spot of light illuminates an area of the color wheel. The spot of light has: a first width; and a second width wider than the first width and orthogonal to the first width. The first width is aligned tangential to the direction of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Vikrant R. Bhakta, Steven Paul Krycho
  • Patent number: 10401561
    Abstract: Disclosed wherein is an electrical faceplate, such as a cover for a wall outlet or light switch, that uniformly illuminates by receiving light into a transparent lightguide, homogenizing the light within the lightguide and scattering the homogenized light preferentially through a front surface. In one embodiment a faceplate comprises a substrate operable to cover an interface between an electrical junction box and a wall. The faceplate further comprises a light receiving surface operable to receive light from a light generation component (e.g. an LED) and transmit the light substantially parallel to a front surface, thereby promoting reflection at the front surface that homogenizes the light intensity within the faceplate and a portion operable to scatter light through the front surface. Several embodiments provide a faceplate with a lightguide to homogenize light through a process of total internal reflection to provide uniform illumination of the faceplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Inventor: James Thomas O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 10401719
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a light source, a disk held to be rotatable about a rotation axis, a wavelength conversion member arranged on the disk and configured to convert a wavelength of light from the light source, and a storage member configured to store the disk, wherein, inside of the storage member, a plurality of circumferential wall portions centering on the rotation axis is arranged integrally with the storage member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Noda
  • Patent number: 10395619
    Abstract: A profile adjustment system displays, in a display device 115, an input field of a coordinate of an adjustment point P0 disposed on a color space, and includes an adjustment coordinate reception unit U1, an adjustment influence range reception unit U3, a linking configuration reception unit U4, a linking configuration display processing unit UA, an adjustment coordinate configuration unit U5, an adjustment influence range configuration unit U6, a whole adjustment influence range display processing unit UB configured to display, in the display device 115, a whole adjustment influence range including U3, U4, U5, and U6, and a profile adjustment unit U7 configured to adjust a profile based on all adjustment points P0 configured in the adjustment coordinate reception unit U1 and an adjustment point Qx added by the adjustment coordinate configuration unit U5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10394039
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for reducing blue light hazard, including: a blue light source and a control module. The control module regulates the blue light source to emit a blue intermittent illumination in a fixed frequency, and a user who looks into the blue light source may perceive visual persistence effect via the blue intermittent illumination. On the other hand, the present invention also provides apparatus for reducing blue light hazard that utilizes a polarizer or a phase adjusting device. Further, various methods for reducing blue light hazard are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Inventor: Po-Kang Lin
  • Patent number: 10386707
    Abstract: An illuminating unit of the disclosure includes a light source, a plurality of optical members for illumination that guide light from the light source to a predetermined optical path, and a polarization split element that transfers, to a predetermined illuminating position, a first polarized component included in the light guided to the predetermined optical path. One or more of the plurality of optical members for illumination have optical properties, for the light at a predetermined wavelength band outputted from the light source, of guiding the first polarized component to the predetermined optical path, and guiding a second polarized component that is different from the first polarized component toward a direction deviated from the predetermined optical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 10378728
    Abstract: An method for making a shielding assembly includes the steps of: forming a plurality of active layers, wherein each active layer of the plurality of active layers includes a base material and a fluorescent molecule; and forming a multi-layer laminate including the plurality of active layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Dallas S. Scholes, Eric P. Oman, Jason D. Habedank, David J. Meyer
  • Patent number: 10372081
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are described including providing infrared (IR) laser radiation to a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) array and using the DMD array to spatially modulate the IR laser radiation. The spatially modulated IR laser radiation may then be projected to form a voxel array where each voxel of the array represents to a volume of air wherein the IR laser radiation has been focused sufficiently to cause air to ionize. The voxel array may then be spatially rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Kapil Kanugo
  • Patent number: 10372028
    Abstract: A light source device for a projection display apparatus includes a phosphor, an excitation light source, a surface-curved dichroic mirror, and a converging lens. The excitation light source is configured to output excitation light for exciting the phosphor. The surface-curved dichroic mirror has a curved surface and is configured to cause one of the excitation light from the excitation light source and fluorescence from the phosphor to pass through the curved surface and to cause the other of the excitation light and the fluorescence to be reflected on the curved surface. The surface-curved dichroic mirror is configured to cause the one of the excitation light and the fluorescence that passes through, neither to substantially converge, nor to substantially diverge, but converge the other of the excitation light and the fluorescence that is reflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: LIGHT SHOW TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamakage, Yufei Mei
  • Patent number: 10372027
    Abstract: An illuminator includes first and second light emitting devices that emit first and second light beams, respectively, first and second lens arrays, a light ray combining element that combines at least parts of the first and second light beams having passed through the first and second lens arrays with each other to produce a combined light ray flux, a light collection lens, and a diffused light producing element on which the combined light ray flux having passed through the light collection lens is incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 10372269
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus of the disclosure includes: a light valve (21) that modulates illuminating light (L1) on the basis of image data to output the modulated light; an illuminating unit (1) including a light source, and a plurality of optical members for illumination that generate the illuminating light (L1) on the basis of light from the light source to guide the illuminating light (L1) to the light valve (21); a projection lens (24) that projects the modulated light from the light valve (21) on a projection surface (30A), and allows detection light to enter from a direction opposite to a travelling direction of the modulated light; and an imaging device (22) that is disposed at a location optically conjugated with the light valve (21), and allows the detection light to enter through the projection lens. One or more of the plurality of optical members for illumination have optical property of reducing a noise component that affects the detection light and arises inside the illuminating unit (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 10368043
    Abstract: A projector includes an illumination system, an optical engine module and a projection lens. The illumination system includes an excitation light source group, a wavelength conversion element and a light combining element. A first light emitting element provides a first beam. The wavelength conversion element has a reflective area and a wavelength conversion area, which cut into the transmission path of the first beam by turns. The light combining element is disposed between the excitation light source group and the wavelength conversion element and has at least one first dichroic portion, at least one first reflective portion, and a first light combining surface facing the first light emitting element. The first dichroic portion and the first reflective portion correspond to the first and the third quadrant of the first light combining surface respectively. The projector and the illumination system have the advantages of lower cost and smaller size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Hao-Wei Chiu, Chien-Chung Liao
  • Patent number: 10364962
    Abstract: A laser-activated remote phosphor (LARP) target with a first layer having a first index of refraction and a phosphor dispersed within the first layer. A second layer which has a second index of refraction different from the first index of refraction and adjoins the first layer at an interface. The first index of refraction is higher than the second index of refraction such that the interface is configured to at least partially reflect light emitted from the phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: OSRAM GmbH, OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
    Inventors: Joerg Sorg, Alan L. Lenef, Dennis Sprenger
  • Patent number: 10359691
    Abstract: An illuminator includes a light source that emits light containing a predetermined polarized light component, an optical element that transmits the light emitted from the light source, a polarization separation element on which the light having passed through the optical element is incident and which performs polarization separation on the incident light, and a temperature adjuster that adjusts the temperature of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Egawa
  • Patent number: 10341624
    Abstract: A projection image display apparatus of the present disclosure is provided with a plurality of light sources, a light combiner combining light rays emitted from the light sources, a light modulation element modulating light emitted from the light combiner, and a projection optical system projecting an image emitted from the light modulation element. The light sources are each controlled by pulse width modulation signals, and duty ratios of the pulse width modulation signals to the light sources differ from each other at least in a part of a set range of an amount of light combined by the light combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teruto Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10324361
    Abstract: A free-form lens (for example a phase modulator, lens or deformable mirror) may be made to reproduce a light pattern specified by image data. Source regions on the free-form lens are mapped to target regions areas on an image. Areas of the source regions are adjusted to vary the amount of light delivered to each of the target regions. Adjustment of the source areas may be achieved using a L-BFGS optimization which preferably incorporates smoothness and curl regularizers. Embodiments apply parallel processing to obtain control values for a free form lens in real time or near real time. Apparatus may process image data and display an image by controlling a dynamically variable free form lens using the processed image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: MTT Innovation Incorporated
    Inventors: Gerwin Damberg, Anders Ballestad, Raveen Kumaran, James Gregson
  • Patent number: 10321107
    Abstract: A system for illuminating a spatial augmented reality object includes an augmented reality object including a projection surface having a plurality of apertures formed through the projection surface. The system further includes a lenslets layer including a plurality of lenslets and conforming to curved regions of the of the projection surface for directing light through the apertures. The system further includes a camera for measuring ambient illumination in an environment of the projection surface. The system further includes a projected image illumination adjustment module for adjusting illumination of a captured video image. The system further includes a projector for projecting the illumination adjusted captured video image onto the projection surface via the lenslets layer and the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Henry Fuchs, Gregory Welch
  • Patent number: 10310365
    Abstract: An illumination unit includes: a light source section including a laser light source; an optical-path branching device outputting light incident from the light source section, by branching the light into an outgoing optical path of illumination light and other optical path; a photodetector receiving a light flux that travels on the other optical path; a control section controlling an emitted light quantity in the laser light source, based on a quantity of the light flux received by the photodetector; and a light-quantity-distribution control device disposed between the optical-path branching device and the photodetector on the other optical path, the light-quantity-distribution control device controlling a light quantity distribution in the light flux to be incident upon the photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazumasa Kaneda
  • Patent number: 10308164
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile object including an imaging unit configured to capture a perimeter of the mobile object, a speaker configured to be capable of controlling directivity, a determination unit configured to determine whether the mobile object is in a driving mode, and a speaker control unit configured to control the speaker in the driving mode in a manner that predetermined audio is output toward a warning target that is recognized based on a captured image captured by the imaging unit, and to control the speaker in a non-driving mode in a manner that the predetermined audio is output in a non-directional way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Hiroshi Okada, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Hirofumi Yuchi, Kohei Asada
  • Patent number: 10291385
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for communicating within a communication system when re-configured from a source to a target uplink/downlink configuration. The invention is also providing mobile station for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the mobile station to perform the methods described herein. Specifically, the invention suggests to perform PUSCH transmissions in response to Downlink Control Information, DCI, transmissions such that the source uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received up to and including subframe N?6, a predefined uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received during subframes N?5 to N?1; and the target uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received from subframe N onward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang