Glare Or Unwanted Light Reduction Patents (Class 359/601)
  • Patent number: 11676984
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of further decreasing reflectivity, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device. The solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate on which a photoelectric converting unit is formed for each of a plurality of pixels, and an antireflection structure provided on a light incident surface side from which light is incident on the semiconductor substrate in which a plurality of types of projections of different heights is formed. The antireflection structure is formed by performing processing of digging a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate in a plurality of stages with different processing conditions. The antireflection structure is the structure in which a second projection lower than a first projection is formed between the first projections of predetermined height. The present technology may be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 11642877
    Abstract: To provide a glass resin laminate of the present invention, in which the glass substrate and the resin layer containing a TFE polymer are strongly laminated, is hardly warped and is excellent in the electrical properties, a composite laminate further having a metal foil, and methods for producing them. A glass resin laminate comprising a glass substrate 10 having an uneven surface 12 with an arithmetic mean roughness of at least 5 nm, and a resin layer containing a tetrafluoroethylene polymer in contact with the uneven surface 12, wherein the uneven surface 12 has specific convex portions 21 and 22 which narrow at at least a part of the root portion as compared with the tip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Atsumi Yamabe, Kohei Yasuda, Nobuaki Ikawa
  • Patent number: 11624856
    Abstract: Gloss of a surface having a concave-convex structure is measured, and R/V, which is a ratio of a diffuse specular reflection intensity R to a sum total V of diffuse reflection intensities (in formula, the diffuse specular reflection intensity R represents a diffuse reflection intensity measured at an aperture angle of 1 degree by a variable-angle photometer in a diffuse specular reflection direction when visible light is radiated, at an angle of 45 degrees from a normal line, to the surface having the concave-convex structure of the anti-glare film, and the sum total V of diffuse reflection intensities represents a sum total of diffuse reflection intensities measured at an aperture angle of 1 degree by a variable-angle photometer for every 1 degree from ?45 degrees up to 45 degrees, including 0 degrees, with respect to the diffuse specular reflection direction when visible light is radiated, at an angle of 45 degrees from a normal line, to the surface having the concave-convex structure of the anti-glare film
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11613643
    Abstract: The antiglare film of the present invention is provided with an antiglare layer having a haze value set in a range from 0.5% to 20%, transmission image clarity at an optical comb width of 0.5 mm is a value in a range from 60% to 96%, and, in a state where the antiglare film is mounted on a surface of a display, a standard deviation of luminance distribution of the display is a value in a range from 0 to 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11609363
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a layered optical composite, in particular for use in an augmented reality device. In particular, the disclosure relates to a layered optical composite and a process for its preparation, a device comprising the layered optical composite and a process for its preparation, and the use of a layered optical composite in an augmented reality device. The present disclosure relates to a layered optical composite comprising: a. a substrate having a front face and a back face, b. a coating comprising: i. a type T layer, and ii. a type C region comprising one or more type C layers; in which the substrate has: i. a thickness tG in the range from 0.2 to 1.2 mm; ii. a refractive index nG at a wavelength ? in the range from 1.6 to 2.4; and iii. an optical absorption coefficient KG at the wavelength ? of less than 10 cm?1; in which the type C layers individually and independently have: i. a thickness tC in the range from 9 to 250 nm; ii.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Kurt Nattermann, Jens Ulrich Thomas, Frank-Thomas Lentes, Thorsten Damm, Peter Naß
  • Patent number: 11586306
    Abstract: Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jordon Thomas Boggs, Michael Timothy Brennan, Atul Kumar, Arpita Mitra, William Michael Seiderman, Yawei Sun, Wendell Porter Weeks
  • Patent number: 11588300
    Abstract: The light emitting device includes a substrate, and a laminated structure provided to the substrate, and including a plurality of columnar parts, wherein the columnar part includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer different in conductivity type from the first semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the laminated structure includes a third semiconductor layer which is connected to an opposite side to the substrate of the second semiconductor layer, and is same in conductivity type as the second semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer is disposed between the light emitting layer and the third semiconductor layer, the third semiconductor layer is provided with a recessed part, an opening of the recessed part is provided to a surface at an opposite side to the substrate side of the third semiconductor layer, and a diametrical size in a bottom of the recessed part is smaller than a diamet
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroaki Jiroku, Katsumi Kishino
  • Patent number: 11506820
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-reflective film including: a hard coating layer; and a low refractive index layer containing a binder resin containing a copolymer of a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate-based monomer, and inorganic particles dispersed in the binder resin, wherein the polyfunctional (meth)acrylate-based monomer includes a 2- to 4-functional (meth)acrylate-based monomer and a 5- to 6-functional (meth)acrylate-based monomer in a weight ratio of 9:1 to 6:4, and a polarizing plate and a display apparatus using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jinseok Byun, Kwangseok Seo, Jung Hyun Seo, Yeongrae Chang
  • Patent number: 11460612
    Abstract: A spacer, including a spacer body, a light transmissive film, and a light absorbing film, is provided. The spacer body has an outer side surface, an inner inclined surface, an object side surface, and an image side surface. The object side surface faces an object side and connects the outer side surface with the inner inclined surface. The image side surface faces an image side and connects the outer side surface with the inner inclined surface. The inner inclined surface is located between an optical axis of the spacer and the outer side surface, and includes an inner edge adjacent to the optical axis and an outer edge away from the optical axis. The inner edge forms a light through hole. The light transmissive film and the light absorbing film are disposed on the inner inclined surface. All surfaces facing the optical axis are inclined relative to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (YIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ziwen Xu, Junjiao Chen, Haibin Zhan
  • Patent number: 11454748
    Abstract: The present invention describes articles comprising a substrate including opposed front and back surfaces, wherein the front surface and the back surface each comprise surface structures that are randomly oriented on each surface, wherein the front surface and the back surface each have a surface roughness and a gloss value, and wherein the surface roughness of the front surface does not equal the surface roughness of the back surface and/or the gloss value of the front surface does not equal the gloss value of the back surface. Display system stacks utilizing the described articles are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Europtec USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren K. Huckaby, Andreas Ruefenacht, Eric S. Miller, David L. Soberanis
  • Patent number: 11454853
    Abstract: A switchable privacy display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator, a light control film, and a polar control retarder that comprises plural retarders arranged between a display polariser of the spatial light modulator and an additional polariser. The display achieves high image visibility to an off-axis user in a public mode of operation and high image security to an off-axis snooper in privacy mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: RealD Spark, LLC
    Inventors: Graham J. Woodgate, Michael G. Robinson, Jonathan Harrold, Robert A. Ramsey, Ben Ihas
  • Patent number: 11435277
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a device for removing energy from a beam of electromagnetic radiation. Typically, the device can be operatively coupled to a turbidity measuring device to remove energy generated by the turbidity measuring device. The device can include a block of material having one of a plurality of different shapes coated in an energy absorbing material. Generally, the device can include an angled or rounded energy absorbing surface where the beam of electromagnetic radiation can be directed. The angled or rounded energy absorbing surface can be configured to deflect a portion of the beam of electromagnetic radiation to a second energy absorbing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TINTOMETER, GMBH
    Inventor: Perry Palumbo
  • Patent number: 11413849
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent member having fine uneven portions, which is applied to a portable device, has a reduced thickness and improved concealment, and reduces a haze and a step caused by a print layer. The transparent member includes an attachment layer applied to a transparent substrate or an anti-scattering film. The transparent substrate or the anti-scattering film, which is translucent due to the fine uneven portions, becomes transparent due to the attachment layer that penetrates into a space between the fine uneven portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Young Su Kim
  • Patent number: 11372202
    Abstract: Provided is a supporting element having an object-side mechanical surface, an image-side mechanical surface, an inner-side connecting surface having a first and a second plane inner walls extending from at least one of the object-side and the image-side mechanical surfaces, and an outer-side connecting surface having a first and a second outer cutting surfaces respectively adjacent to the first and the second plane inner walls. The supporting element satisfies the following conditional expression. 4?R/SD?30. R represents half of a distance between the first and the second outer cutting surfaces. SD represents a smaller one of a first and a second distances, the former being the minimum distance between the first outer cutting surface and the first plane inner wall, the latter being the minimum distance between the second outer cutting surface and the second plane inner wall. A portable optical imaging lens is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wensen Chen, Ziping Li, Zhan Lin
  • Patent number: 11353639
    Abstract: An array of microstructures or frustums on a substrate for reducing glare for electronic device displays or windows. The microstructures are designed to nearly perfectly align with the pixels on the display to avoid adverse viewing effects, such as Moiré effects. Substantially all light from the environment illuminating the front side of the film containing the microstructures from all angles is not reflected to the primary viewer (often viewing at an angle normal to the film). Light illuminating the microstructure from the environment will reflect off the microstructures at angles greater than a defined threshold outside the primary viewers field of view. Thus, glare to the primary viewer is minimized while glare to other views who view from other angles than the primary viewer is increased. This increased glare for other viewers adds privacy for the viewing by the primary viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Luminit LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Ang, Casey Scott Irvin, Riberet Almeida
  • Patent number: 11353701
    Abstract: Systems and apparatus for a bezel assembly for a heads-up display (HUD) unit located in an instrument panel of a vehicle, the instrument panel being adjacent to a front windshield of the vehicle. The bezel assembly includes a bezel having a rear edge aligned with a front edge of the instrument panel and an interior border defining a bezel opening. The bezel assembly also includes a chute located beneath the bezel and above the HUD unit. The chute includes an exterior border defining a top chute opening aligned with the bezel opening, and an interior border defining a bottom chute opening aligned with a display screen of the HUD unit and having a shape corresponding to the display screen of the HUD unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA. INC.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Harvey, Jonathan Joseph Quijano
  • Patent number: 11355738
    Abstract: A display device is provided, and includes a display panel, a multi-layered polarizer layer, and a cover layer. The multi-layered polarizer layer is disposed on the display panel. The cover layer is coated on the multi-layered polarizer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Lin Wu, Kuan-Feng Lee, Jui-Jen Yueh
  • Patent number: 11347018
    Abstract: Provided is a lens module, including a lens barrel and a lens group. The lens barrel includes a first barrel wall and a second barrel wall. The lens group at least include a first lens and a second lens. The first barrel wall has an image-side surface, including a first planar surface horizontally extending from a joint between the first barrel wall and the second barrel wall towards an optical axis, a protruding portion connected to the first planar surface and protruding towards the first lens, and a second planar surface horizontally extending from the protruding portion towards the optical axis. The first lens has a first peripheral portion, including a third planar surface, a recess portion connected to the third planar surface and a fourth planar surface connected to the recess portion. The protruding portion is attached to the recess portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hailong Wang
  • Patent number: 11333918
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a backlight unit configured to emit light, a display panel positioned in front of the backlight unit, and an optical film positioned in front of the display panel. The optical film includes a base layer positioned adjacent to the display panel, a first refractive layer positioned in front of the base layer and having a pattern including a first inclined portion totally reflecting some of light waves emitted from the backlight unit, and a second refractive layer positioned in front of the first refractive layer and having a lower refractive index than the first refractive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Jun Jeong, Sei Young Kang, Min Woo Kang, Dong Jun Lee, Jae Jeong Lee, Joo Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11328530
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition device includes a first substrate and at least one photosensitive detector on the first substrate, each of the at least one photosensitive detector including a first electrode, a photosensitive layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the photosensitive layer. A side of the photosensitive layer facing away from the first electrode has a curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dapeng Xue
  • Patent number: 11307389
    Abstract: A photographing module includes an imaging lens assembly. The imaging lens assembly includes a plurality of lens elements, wherein one of the lens elements is a plastic lens element. At least one surface of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the plastic lens element includes an effective optical portion and a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion surrounds the effective optical portion, and includes a plurality of rib structures, a first fitting section and an isolation section. Each of the rib structures has a strip shape along a radial direction of an optical axis of the imaging lens assembly, and the rib structures are arranged around the effective optical portion. The first fitting section surrounds the effective optical portion, and is connected to another one of the lens elements adjacent to the surface. The isolation section is disposed between the rib structures and the first fitting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 11307401
    Abstract: A mirror magnifying attachment sheet apparatus for magnifying a portion of a mirror includes a magnifier body having a body back side, a body front side, and a body perimeter. The magnifier body is transparent and the body front side is convex to create a magnifying effect. The magnifier body is sufficiently flexible to be rolled for storage and transport. The body back side selectively engages a mirror. A storage tube has an open tube top side to receive the magnifier body. A cap is selectively engageable with the open tube top side of the storage tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventor: Sheri Volpi-Crawford
  • Patent number: 11307380
    Abstract: A lens barrel including a first main shaft and a first sub-shaft that guide the movement of a third front lens group (G3a), a second main shaft and a second sub-shaft that guide the movement of a fourth lens group (G4), a hall element that is used to detect the position of the third front lens group (G3a), and an MR sensor that is used to detect the position of the fourth lens group (G4) are disposed on a straight line passing through an optical axis in a cross section orthogonal to the optical axis. The first main shaft and the second main shaft overlap each other in a direction of the optical axis. In a drive unit for each lens group, a plurality of drive magnets are arranged symmetrically with respect to the straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Otsuka, Yukihiro Kaneko, Masahiko Miyata, Takeya Abe
  • Patent number: 11275199
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-reflective film exhibiting one or more peaks (qmax) at a scattering vector of 0.0758 to 0.1256 nm?1, in a graph showing a log value of scattering intensity to a scattering vector defined in small-angle X-ray scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Seok Byun, Jeong Kyu Lee, Boo Kyung Kim, Seok Hoon Jang, Yeong Rae Chang
  • Patent number: 11262481
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-reflective film exhibiting one or more peaks (qmax) at a scattering vector of 0.0758 to 0.1256 nm?1, in a graph showing a log value of scattering intensity to a scattering vector defined in small-angle X-ray scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Seok Byun, Jeong Kyu Lee, Boo Kyung Kim, Seok Hoon Jang, Yeong Rae Chang
  • Patent number: 11256001
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a low haze polymer film includes a polymer and a refractive index-matching nanoparticle aggregate. The polymer includes a polyimide, a polyamide imide or a polyester imide, and the refractive index-matching nanoparticle aggregate includes a first nanoparticle having a refractive index that is less than the refractive index of the polymer and a second nanoparticle having a refractive index that is greater than the refractive index of the polymer. A difference in the refractive indices of the polymer and the refractive index-matching nanoparticle aggregate is less than 0.1, and the low haze polymer film has a thickness in a range of from 1 to 150 ?m and a haze of less than 4%. In a second aspect, an electronic device includes the low haze polymer film of the first aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: DUPONT ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kostantinos Kourtakis, Gene M Rossi
  • Patent number: 11222870
    Abstract: A semiconductor device package includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged above the first substrate. A first connector is disposed on the first substrate, and a first conductor passes through the second substrate and connects to the first connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Wen-Long Lu, Min Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11195321
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect a first object located on a first direction side of a refracting surface from an image obtained by an imaging apparatus located on the first direction side, a second detection unit configured to detect a second object located on a second direction side of the refracting surface from an image obtained by an imaging apparatus located on the second direction side, an obtaining unit configured to obtain position information indicating at least either one of a positional relationship between the first and second objects and positions of the first and second objects, and an identification unit configured to identify positions of the plurality of imaging apparatuses in a common coordinate system, based on a result of detection performed by the first detection unit, a result of detection performed by the second detection unit, and the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuto Kawahara
  • Patent number: 11187868
    Abstract: A lens assembly includes a lens barrel, a lens group, a gasket, and a light shielding group. The lens group includes a number of lenses. The light shielding group includes a number of shielding sheets defining a through hole. The gasket is located between two lenses on a light exiting side of the lens assembly. An inner portion of the gasket defines an inner hole for transmitting light. An aperture of the inner hole increases from an object side of the lens assembly to an image side of the lens assembly. An aperture D1 of the through hole adjacent to the gasket and adjacent to the object side, an aperture D2 of the inner hole adjacent to the object side, and an aperture D3 of the through hole adjacent to the gasket and adjacent to the image side satisfy a relationship 0.65<D1/D2<0.85; and D3?D2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ya-Lan Feng, Chun-Cheng Ko
  • Patent number: 11187833
    Abstract: An annular optical element having an optical axis includes an outer diameter surface, an inner annular surface, an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The object-side surface includes an annular reflecting surface, an annular auxiliary surface and a connecting surface. The annular reflecting surface is inclined with the optical axis. The annular auxiliary surface is closer to the optical axis than the annular reflecting surface is to the optical axis. The connecting surface is for connecting to an optical element, wherein the connecting surface is closer to the optical axis than the annular auxiliary surface is to the optical axis. The image-side surface is located opposite to the object-side surface and includes an annular optical surface. A V-shaped groove is formed by the annular auxiliary surface and the annular reflecting surface of the object-side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Shun Chang, Cheng-Feng Lin, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 11147349
    Abstract: A mobile device case with deployable privacy screens has a plurality of deployable privacy screens connected to the lateral wall of a mobile device case. The plurality of privacy screen member is connected to the lateral wall by a connecting member, which may serve as an elastic hinge or spring which keeps the privacy screen member in a deployed position, perpendicular to the display screen of the mobile device in order to block bystanders from viewing any personal information which may be displayed on the screen. The privacy screen members may be folded into a stored position, wherein a first attachment portion connected to the privacy screen member may be removably attached to a second attachment portion connected to a back of the mobile device case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Sang-Ho Moon
  • Patent number: 11143798
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dual-molded circular optical element including an outer plastic peripheral portion and an inner sheet portion. The outer plastic peripheral portion locates at an outer annular surface of the circular optical element. The inner sheet portion is enclosed in the outer plastic peripheral portion, and the inner sheet portion forms a minimal central opening of the circular optical element. Two sides of the outer plastic peripheral portion are disposed with a flat plane, and each of the flat planes is perpendicular to a central axis of the circular optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Ta Chou, Cheng-Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 11137566
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lens module comprising a lens barrel, a lens received in the lens barrel, and a pressure ring configured for fixedly holding the lens in the lens barrel, wherein, the lens barrel comprises a primary barrel wall and a secondary barrel wall extending from a end of the primary barrel wall to an optical axis and forming a light through hole, wherein, the primary barrel wall comprises a first annular groove disposed on an inner wall adjacent to the lens, the lens fits with the first annular groove to form a pressure ring position, and the pressure ring is partly received in the pressure ring position. Compared with related art, the lens module provided by the present disclosure has higher reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuandong Wei
  • Patent number: 11124657
    Abstract: A transparent laminate including a transparent substrate and structure layer, wherein the structure layer contains protrusion portions, depression portions, or both on a surface thereof, and an average distance between the adjacent protrusion portions or between the adjacent depression portions is equal to or less than a visible light wavelength, the structure layer includes a polymerized product of an active energy ray curable resin composition, the resin composition includes a composition of a (meth)acryloyl group-containing polymerizable compound, the compound composition includes one or more from each of (A), (B), and (C): (A) a monofunctional (meth)acryloyl group-containing polymerizable compound; (B) alkylene glycol di(meth)acrylate; and (C) trifunctional or higher (meth)acrylate, the (A) satisfies certain conditions specifying a type and amount of a compound, and a ratio (E?150/E?50) of storage elastic modulus E?150 of the structure layer at 150° C. to storage elastic modulus E?50 thereof at 50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Ohta, Masayasu Kakinuma, Masaki Takenouchi, Satoshi Kawamura, Kiyoaki Tanifuji, Emi Yoshida, Kimitaka Nishimura, Shunichi Kajiya, Shigehisa Ohkawara, Maki Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11126029
    Abstract: Provided is an optical member. The optical member includes a color filter member including quantum dots and a low-refractive index layer below the color filter member and including a first hollow particle and a second hollow particle. The first hollow particle may have a particle size different from a particle size of the second hollow particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-soo Jung, Younggu Kim, Taekjoon Lee, Jongmin Ok, Sun-young Chang, Hyelim Jang, Baekkyun Jeon, Kyungseon Tak
  • Patent number: 11099302
    Abstract: Lens coatings and coated lenses which offer full-spectrum protection by reducing back-side reflection of all light spanning from the ultraviolet sub-band B (UVB) to infrared (IR-A) region are provided. The full-spectrum back-side anti-reflective coatings disclosed herein are comprised of multiple thin-film layers of high refractive index (HighIndex) and low refractive index (LowIndex) materials. In many embodiments, the penultimate layer distal from the substrate lens is a HighIndex layer, and the final layer distal from the substrate lens is a LowIndex layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: I-Coat Company, LLC
    Inventors: Hamlet Joe Avetisian, Sr., Timothy George Stephan, Arman Bernardi
  • Patent number: 11099447
    Abstract: A switchable privacy display apparatus comprises a spatial light modulator, a light control film, and a polar control retarder that comprises plural retarders arranged between a display polariser of the spatial light modulator and an additional polariser. The display achieves high image visibility to an off-axis user in a public mode of operation and high image security to an off-axis snooper in privacy mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: RealD Spark, LLC
    Inventors: Graham J. Woodgate, Michael G. Robinson, Jonathan Harrold, Robert A Ramsey, Ben Ihas
  • Patent number: 11086211
    Abstract: Masks and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The mask includes a substrate, a phase shift layer, a shading layer and a passivation layer. The phase shift layer is disposed over the substrate. The shading layer is disposed over the phase shift layer. The passivation layer is disposed over and in physical contact with the shading layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Yang, Chih-Chiang Tu, Chun-Lang Chen
  • Patent number: 11041338
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transparent materials implementing effectively transparent conductors in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a window including a first transparent layer of transparent material having a first surface and a second surface, a first plurality of triangular conductors in optical communication with the first transparent layer of glass, wherein each of the first plurality of triangular conductors includes a base side that is parallel to the first surface of the first transparent layer of glass and wherein the first plurality of triangular conductors is configured to redirect a portion of incident light, wherein the portion of incident light travels through both the first surface and the second surface of the first transparent layer of glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Rebecca Saive, Harry A. Atwater, Thomas C. R. Russell, Michael D. Kelzenberg, Lucas J. Myers
  • Patent number: 11036314
    Abstract: A cover member for an input device is disposed on a front-surface side of a display device in the input device includes recesses and protrusions on at least one principal surface. In the principal surface having recesses and protrusions, when a cutoff value for a high-pass filter ?c is set to 1.6 times the pitch of the recesses and protrusions of a measured cross-sectional curve and a cutoff value for a low-pass filter ?s is set to 25 ?m, the maximum roughness height Rz of the recesses and protrusions is 3-1000 nm and the pitch RSm of the recesses and protrusions is 50-1000 ?m, and when the cutoff value of the high-pass filter ?c is set to 25 ?m, the three-dimensional arithmetic mean height Sa of the recesses and protrusions is 1-50 nm and the pitch RSm of the recesses and protrusions is 0.01-10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Fujita, Shinsaku Nishida
  • Patent number: 11036073
    Abstract: An optical member, a polarization member, and a display device are provided. The optical member includes a substrate, and a functional layer provided on the substrate, the functional layer including a high refractive layer and a low refractive layer, wherein the high refractive layer has a higher refractive index than that of the substrate and a diffraction grating structure, and the low refractive layer has a lower refractive index than that of the high refractive layer, wherein an interface between the substrate and the high refractive layer and an interface between the high refractive layer and the low refractive layer are in states in which components of the respective layers with the respective interfaces therebetween are compatible with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomichi Kanda, Yoshihiro Yokote, Osamu Konuma, Katsutoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11016335
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, and a polarizing plate on the display panel. The flexible display device includes a folding area and a non-folding area. A first thickness of the polarizing plate in the folding area is greater than a second thickness of the polarizing plate in the non-folding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Jong Cho, Won-Ki Park
  • Patent number: 11016221
    Abstract: An annular optical component includes an inner surface, an outer surface, an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The inner surface includes a molded anti-reflective layer structure surrounding a central axis of the annular optical component. The molded anti-reflective layer structure defines a central aperture. The outer surface includes a frame structure surrounding at least a part of the molded anti-reflective layer structure. A hardness of the frame structure is larger than a hardness of the molded anti-reflective layer structure. The object-side surface and the image-side surface respectively face toward an object side and an image side of the annular optical component. The molded anti-reflective layer structure is joined with the frame structure. The molded anti-reflective layer structure includes a tapered portion adjacent to the central aperture, and the tapered portion tapers off along a direction from the outer surface toward the inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Ta Chou, Ruei-Yang Luo
  • Patent number: 10996377
    Abstract: The method for producing an optical member of the present invention includes: a step (1) of applying a lower layer resin and an upper layer resin; a step (2) of pressing a die against the lower layer resin and the upper layer resin from the upper layer resin side, so as to form a resin layer including an uneven structure on a surface thereof; and a step (3) of curing the resin layer to form the polymer layer, wherein the lower layer resin contains an amide group, the lower layer resin has an amide group concentration of 1.5 mmol/g or more and less than 5 mmol/g, and the polymer layer has a minimum storage modulus E? of 1×108 Pa or higher and 1×109 Pa or lower at a bottom temperature of 110° C. or higher and 210° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shibai, Ken Atsumo, Hidekazu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10989682
    Abstract: In a method for capturing a condition of a surface of a road on which a vehicle is travelling, wherein at least one signal produced as a result of moisture thrown up from the road is captured by means of at least one sensor apparatus arranged on the vehicle, wherein the sensor apparatus includes at least one sensor device, and wherein the captured signal is evaluated by means of at least one evaluation device attached to the vehicle, it is provided as essential to the invention that at least one physical parameter of the thrown up moisture is captured by at least one sensor device, and that a conclusion is reached regarding the salt content of the moisture which reaches the sensor apparatus on the basis of at least one captured physical parameter, and a conclusion is reached regarding the condition of the road based on the salt content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Bastian Kanning, Hauke Baumgaertel, Anatoli Bystrow, Julien Bungalski
  • Patent number: 10976475
    Abstract: The antifouling film includes a substrate, and a polymer layer disposed on a surface of the substrate and including on a surface thereof an uneven structure provided with multiple projections at a pitch not longer than a wavelength of visible light. The polymer layer is a cured product of a polymerizable composition, the polymerizable composition containing, in terms of active constituents, 15 to 40 wt % of an urethane acrylate containing six or more functional groups, 35 to 60 wt % of a multifunctional acrylate containing four or more functional groups and 3 to 15 ethylene oxide groups for each functional group, 15 to 30 wt % of a monofunctional acrylate with no ethylene oxide group, 0.5 to 10 wt % of a fluorine release agent containing a perfluoropolyether group and having a fluorine atom concentration of 50 wt % or lower, and 0.5 to 5 wt % of a polymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shibai, Ken Atsumo, Kenichiro Nakamatsu
  • Patent number: 10963010
    Abstract: A foldable light shade and privacy shade visor for electronic device screens, particularly for use on laptops, electronic tablets and devices. The light and privacy shade is constructed of three semi-rigid panels with four molded plastic and rubber clips integrated into its surface. The areas between the three panels form flexible hinges allowing the light and privacy shade to fold open when in use and fold flat for carrying. The integrated plastic and rubber clips are used to attach the visor to the edges of the device screen securely. The light and privacy shade allows the electronic device to be used in direct sunlight, artificial light and ambient light by preventing light rays and glare from diminishing the view of the screen, while also preventing the device from overheating in the warmth generated by intense light, and providing privacy by shielding the contents of the screen from the view of third parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Inventor: Alexander Benedict Griffin
  • Patent number: 10948734
    Abstract: A light control film includes a plurality of spaced apart substantially parallel first light absorbing regions arranged along a first direction, each first light absorbing region having a width and a height, the plurality of first light absorbing regions including nonoverlapping first and second sub-pluralities of the plurality of first light absorbing regions, the first sub-plurality of the plurality of first light absorbing regions having a first viewing angle, the second sub-plurality of the plurality of first light absorbing regions having a different second viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Michael J. Sykora, Robert R. Kieschke, Kenneth L. Smith, Olester Benson, Jr., Gary E. Gaides, Tao Liu, Thomas J. Blong, Gary T. Boyd
  • Patent number: 10950646
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of further decreasing reflectivity, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device. The solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate on which a photoelectric converting unit is formed for each of a plurality of pixels, and an antireflection structure provided on a light incident surface side from which light is incident on the semiconductor substrate in which a plurality of types of projections of different heights is formed. The antireflection structure is formed by performing processing of digging a light incident surface of the semiconductor substrate in a plurality of stages with different processing conditions. The antireflection structure is the structure in which a second projection lower than a first projection is formed between the first projections of predetermined height. The present technology may be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 10935832
    Abstract: An optical film including a first layer and a second layer disposed on the first layer and attached to the first layer is provided. The first layer has a plurality of micro-structures respectively extending along a first direction and arranged side by side at an interval. The micro-structures protrude toward the second layer. A first pitch exists between each micro-structure and an adjacent micro-structure in a side-by-side arrangement direction. The first pitch is greater than 10 times a wavelength of an incident light. Moreover, a display device including the foregoing optical film is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kun-Cheng Tien, Meng-Lin Tsai, Yu-Hsuan Hung, Wei-Cheng Wong, Chin-An Lin