With Multipart Element Patents (Class 359/741)
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Patent number: 12222751Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes a first display region and a second display region. The second display region includes a plurality of light-transmitting hole combination regions. At least one light-transmitting hole group is disposed at each light-transmitting hole combination region; each light-transmitting hole group includes a plurality of light-transmitting holes; a boundary line of each light-transmitting hole is a closed arc; and centers of all light-transmitting holes in each light-transmitting hole group are distributed along a ring shape. The second display region further includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of pixel drive circuits. Pixel drive circuits used for driving pixels in the light-transmitting hole combination region are first pixel drive circuits, and at least a portion of the first pixel drive circuits is at a region outside the light-transmitting hole combination region.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Suli Hu, Yangzhao Ma, Zhiqiang Xia, Ruiyuan Zhou
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Patent number: 12181689Abstract: A display unit of the disclosure includes a display panel and a light-distribution adjustment sheet. The light-distribution adjustment sheet is provided on the display panel, and includes a protrusion that protrudes toward the display panel. The protrusion includes a first region including a curved surface, and a second region including a flat surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Norimasa Furukawa, Mitsuhiko Taki, Ichiro Utsumi, Kenichi Nakaki
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Patent number: 12158605Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for methods of forming optical device structures. The methods utilize rotation of a substrate, to have the optical device structures formed thereon, and tunability of etch rates of a patterned resist disposed over the substrate and one of a device layer or the substrate to form the optical device structures without multiple lithographic patterning steps and angled etch steps.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2024Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Levent Colak, Ludovic Godet, Andre P. Labonte
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Patent number: 12013566Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for methods of forming optical device structures. The methods utilize rotation of a substrate, to have the optical device structures formed thereon, and tunability of etch rates of a patterned resist disposed over the substrate and one of a device layer or the substrate to form the optical device structures without multiple lithographic patterning steps and angled etch steps.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Inventors: Levent Colak, Ludovic Godet, Andre P. Labonte
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Patent number: 11994695Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fly-eye lens module, a lighting device, and a DLP optical engine. The fly-eye lens module includes a first plastic fly-eye lens, a second plastic fly-eye lens, and a glass triangular prism structure. The first plastic fly-eye lens is provided on a surface thereof with a first circular region, and the second plastic fly-eye lens is provided on a surface thereof with a second circular region. The first and the second circular regions are both configured as a fly-eye structure having a concave-convex structure, and are respectively fixed to two sides of the cuboid glass structure by a bonding agent. The second and the first plastic fly-eye lenses are disposed such that the light spot emitted from the point light source is incident to the fly-eye lens module via the first plastic fly-eye lens, and is emitted from the second plastic fly-eye lens.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: IVIEW DISPLAYS (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Yexin Xia, Liang Mei, Mingnei Ding, Steve Yeung, Zhiqiang Gao
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Patent number: 11960103Abstract: The micro-lens array is a micro-lens array in which a plurality of micro-lenses are arranged in a matrix in a plan view, wherein each of the plurality of micro-lenses has four main sides in a plan view, and each of the four main sides is inclined with respect to a row virtual line parallel to a row direction or a column virtual line parallel to a column direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Shibuya, Shunsuke Kanasugi, Mitsuo Arima, Naoki Hanashima
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Patent number: 11940664Abstract: A lens unit includes a jointed lens having a first optical member, a second optical member disposed on an optical axis of the first optical member, and a jointing member having a light transmissive property and disposed between the first optical member and the second optical member, and a holding mechanism configured to hold the first and second optical members. The holding mechanism holds the first and second optical members so that a distance along an optical axis direction between a first lateral surface at an opposite side to a second optical member side in the first optical member and a second lateral surface at an opposite side to a first optical member side in the second optical member becomes a preset distance. The jointing member adheres to the first optical member and the second optical member so that the distance becomes the preset distance.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Hirotaka Yanagisawa
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Patent number: 11899223Abstract: An optical device is provided. The optical device has a central region and a first-type region surrounding the central region. The first-type region includes a first sub-region and a second sub-region between the central region and the first sub-region. The optical device includes a substrate. The optical device also includes a meta-structure disposed on the substrate. The meta-structure includes first pillars in the first sub-region and second pillars in the second sub-region. In the cross-sectional view of the optical device along the radial direction of the optical device, two adjacent first pillars have a first pitch, two adjacent second pillars have a second pitch, and the second pitch is greater than the first pitch.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Kuo-Feng Lin, Yu-Ping Tseng, Chin-Chuan Hsieh
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Patent number: 11768318Abstract: A display unit of the disclosure includes a display panel and a light-distribution adjustment sheet. The light-distribution adjustment sheet is provided on the display panel, and includes a protrusion that protrudes toward the display panel. The protrusion includes a first region including a curved surface, and a second region including a flat surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Norimasa Furukawa, Mitsuhiko Taki, Ichiro Utsumi, Kenichi Nakaki
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Patent number: 11681128Abstract: A composite optical element comprises a first base member, an optical resin layer, a bonding layer, and a second base member which are sequentially laminated such that the optical resin layer and the bonding layer are sandwiched between light entering/exiting surfaces of the first base member and the second base member. The thickness of the bonding layer changes along a straight line extending from the center toward the outer periphery of the bonding layer. Specifically, the thickness along the straight line is greater at an intermediate position between a first position and a second position than either of the thicknesses at the first position and at the second position. The first position is apart from the center by 0.8 times of half the diameter of the optical resin layer, and the second position corresponds to the outer periphery of the bonding layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideo Genda
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Patent number: 11570346Abstract: A multi-aperture imaging device includes an image sensor, an array of optical channels, each optical channel including an optic for imaging a partial field of view of a total field of view onto an image sensor region of the image sensor, and a beam-deflector switchable between a first rotational position and a second rotational position by executing a switching movement, and configured to deflect, in a first rotational position, optical paths of the optical channels into a first viewing direction, and to deflect, in a second rotational position, the optical paths of the optical channels into a second viewing direction. The array is configured to execute, based on the switching movement, an adjustment movement for adjusting an orientation of the array with respect to the beam-deflector.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Frank Wippermann, Nico Hagen, Andreas Reimann
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Patent number: 11506873Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes at least one lens element, which is a dual molded lens element. The dual molded lens element includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light absorbing portion is annular and surrounds a central axis, wherein a plastic material and a color of the light absorbing portion are different from a plastic material and a color of the light transmitting portion, the dual molded lens element is made by an injection molding method and formed integrally, the light absorbing portion includes a plurality of second inner strip-shaped structures, the second inner strip-shaped structures are regularly arranged along a circumferential direction of the central axis, and the second inner strip-shaped structures are disposed correspondingly to and connected to a plurality of first inner strip-shaped structures.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventor: Ming-Ta Chou
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Patent number: 11493756Abstract: Reduction or elimination of negative consequences of reflected stray light from lens surfaces is achieved by propagating a laser beam through an eccentric pupil that excludes the optical axis of the system, which is rotationally symmetric. In such systems, stray light reflections eventually are focused onto the unique optical axis of the system, in either a real or virtual focal region. By using an eccentric pupil, all damage due to focusing of the stray light lies outside of the beam. These focal regions can, e.g., be physically blocked to eliminate beam paths that lead to optical damage, re-pulse beams and parasitic lasing.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Lynn G. Seppala, Alvin C. Erlandson
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Patent number: 11456010Abstract: Systems and methods, e.g., optical apparatuses, for digital optical information storage systems that improve the speed, signal to noise, controllability, and data storage density for fluorescent and reflective multilayer optical data storage media. The systems and methods include an optical system for a reading beam of a data channel from a moving single or multi-layer or otherwise 3-dimensional optical information storage medium that comprises at least one optical element characterized by restricting the field of view (FOV) of the reading beam on an associated image plane to 0.3 to 2 Airy disk diameters in a first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Folio Photonics Inc.Inventors: Kenneth D. Singer, Irina Shiyanovskaya, Asher Sussman, Thomas Milster, Young Sik Kim
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Patent number: 11333864Abstract: A plastic optical lens assembly includes a first lens element, a second lens element and a cementing glue coating. A first spacing section is located between a first optical effective portion and a first engaging structure. A second optical effective portion is disposed correspondingly to the first optical effective portion. A second spacing section is located between the second optical effective portion and a second engaging structure. The first engaging structure is engaged with the second engaging structure. A reference space is between the first and the second spacing section. The cementing glue coating is at least disposed between the first and the second optical effective portions, and the first and the second lens elements are cemented by the cementing glue coating.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventors: Hsuan-Chin Huang, Hsiang-Chi Tang, Ming-Ta Chou
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Patent number: 11271045Abstract: An electroluminescent display device includes: a substrate including: a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel, a first electrode in each of the first to third subpixels, an emission layer on the first electrode and including: a first stack emitting first-colored light, and a second stack emitting second-colored light, the second stack being on the first stack, a second electrode on the emission layer, and a light-absorbing layer on the second electrode, wherein the first subpixel emits: light with a red wavelength range, and light with a cyan wavelength range, wherein the second subpixel emits light with a green wavelength range, wherein the third subpixel emits light with a blue wavelength range, and wherein the light-absorbing layer includes a cyan-absorbing material absorbing the light with the cyan wavelength range.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yeonsuk Kang, YoungMi Kim
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Patent number: 11145969Abstract: An antenna structure as an example of a structure including a transparent conductor includes: an antenna as an example of the transparent conductor; a film transmitting a visible light; a positioning structure configured to position the film from an invisible side of a ceiling as an example of a facility; and a flange transmitting the visible light and configured to position the film from a visible side of the ceiling and including a lens part at a position facing the positioning structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: NIHON DENGYO KOSAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Maruyama, Yukio Sato, Hiroki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 11018476Abstract: Laser modules and systems are provided that are smaller, lighter, and less complex and while more reliably generating collimated laser beams having limited divergence.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: LMD Applied Science, LLCInventors: Kenneth R. Vorndran, Brian L. Olmsted, Daniel J. Balonek
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Patent number: 11009742Abstract: A multi-display includes a display panel array with the display panels arranged, and a protective plate disposed over a surface of the display panel array where light is emitted, so as to cover the display panel array. The protective plate has an optical refractive device of groove shape disposed in a position corresponding to a joint between the adjacent display panels of the display panel array, so as to extend along the joint. The optical refractive device refracts the light from the display panels. Each display panel has a display surface having sub-pixels constituting individual pixels. The sub-pixels are arranged in such a manner that the sub-pixels of two or more different display colors are disposed between the sub-pixels of the same display color. The sub-pixels of the display panels adjacent to each other via the joint are arranged in such a manner that color arrangements are different from each other at panel ends facing each other via the joint.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Okumura, Naoko Iwasaki, Toshiaki Fujino
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Patent number: 10935800Abstract: A light spreading complex lens through which light is irradiated and transmitted from a rear side toward a front side of the lens is provided. The lens includes a main body that has a predetermined thickness and is formed with an aperture that is penetrated in a vertical direction. A refraction lens part protrudes toward the rear side of the lens from a first surface near to the front side of the lens in the inner surfaces of the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Chan Hee Kang, Seok Jun Kim
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Patent number: 10921493Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a virtual curved surface display panel, a display device and a displaying method. The virtual curved surface display panel includes: a display panel having a plurality of pixels; and a plurality of imaging lens arrays disposed at a light emitting side of the display panel and arranged to image light from the plurality of pixels such that imaging trajectories for the plurality of pixels are located in a same virtual curved surface, thereby enabling a virtual curved surface display effect on a flat display panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jian Gao, Xiaochuan Chen, Yafeng Yang
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Patent number: 10890695Abstract: Provided are a compound lens and a display device including the same. The compound lens may improve image quality by providing a higher resolution in a central image region and a lower resolution in a peripheral image region. The compound lens includes a central lens portion and at least one peripheral lens portion, the at least one peripheral lens portion surrounds the central lens portion, the central lens portion has a first focal length, the at least one peripheral lens portion has a second focal length, and the first focal length is greater than the second focal length.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dmitriy Evgenievich Piskunov, Nikolay Viktorovich Muravev, Jae-yeol Ryu
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Patent number: 10746972Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes at least one lens element, which is a dual molded lens element. The dual molded lens element includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light absorbing portion is annular and surrounds a central axis, wherein a plastic material and a color of the light absorbing portion are different from a plastic material and a color of the light transmitting portion, the dual molded lens element is made by an injection molding method and formed integrally, the light absorbing portion includes a plurality of second inner strip-shaped structures, the second inner strip-shaped structures are regularly arranged along a circumferential direction of the central axis, and the second inner strip-shaped structures are disposed correspondingly to and connected to a plurality of first inner strip-shaped structures.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.Inventor: Ming-Ta Chou
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Patent number: 10620347Abstract: A display unit of the disclosure includes a display panel and a light-distribution adjustment sheet. The light-distribution adjustment sheet is provided on the display panel, and includes a protrusion that protrudes toward the display panel. The protrusion includes a first region including a curved surface, and a second region including a flat surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Norimasa Furukawa, Mitsuhiko Taki, Ichiro Utsumi, Kenichi Nakaki
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Patent number: 10501013Abstract: The present disclosure describes a lighting system for vehicle interiors, comprising a light source that emits visible light and a component arranged relative to the light source in such a manner that light emitted from the light source passes through it. The lighting system further comprises a transparent substrate with a surface area through which light emitted from the light source passes, and a lenticular screen structure having a plurality of regularly arranged lens elements and being formed on the surface area of the transparent substrate. The present disclosure also describes using the lighting system and its component to illuminate the interior of vehicles, wherein generated three-dimensional lighting effects can be perceived differently by a viewer/occupant in the interior space, depending on the angle of viewing.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2015Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Lisa Draexlmaier GmbHInventors: Markus Wimmer, Josef Lang, Alexandr Zaviyalov
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Patent number: 10459152Abstract: An imaging directional backlight apparatus including a waveguide, a light source array, for providing large area directed illumination from localized light sources. The waveguide may include a stepped structure, in which the steps may further include extraction features optically hidden to guided light, propagating in a first forward direction. Returning light propagating in a second backward direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide discrete illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the waveguide. In operation, luminance streaks and bright illumination regions may be formed due to undesirable imaging characteristics from the structure of the Fresnel mirror. Fresnel mirror draft facets and reflective facet microstructures are provided that achieve reduction of visibility of light streaks and bright illumination regions.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: RealD Spark, LLCInventors: Michael G. Robinson, Graham J. Woodgate
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Patent number: 10338338Abstract: A lens module includes a first lens, a second lens, and a distance maintenance member disposed between the first lens and the second lens, the distance maintenance member having a hole for adjusting an amount of light. An inner circumferential surface of the hole includes a plurality of inclined surfaces that are respectively inclined at predetermined angles with respect to an optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Duck Hun Kim
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Patent number: 10183375Abstract: A method for fabrication of diffractive optics by batch processing is disclosed, having applicability to high resolution ultra-high aspect ratio Fresnel Zone Plates for focusing of X-rays or gamma-rays having energies up to hundreds of keV. An array of precursor forms is etched into a planar substrate. Sidewalls of the forms are smoothed to a required surface roughness. A sequence of alternating layers of different complex refractive index, for binary or higher order diffractive optics, are deposited on the precursor forms by atomic layer deposition (ALD), to provide diffractive line patterns. Thinnest layers may have nanometer thicknesses. After front surface planarization and thinning of the substrate to expose first and second surfaces of the diffractive line patterns of the diffractive optic, the height h in the propagation direction provides a designed absorption difference and/or phase shift difference between adjacent diffractive lines.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Alcorix Co.Inventor: Nicolaie A. Moldovan
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Patent number: 9910239Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention provides a wafer level optical assembly comprising a first wafer level optical element, the first wafer level optical element comprising a first alignment structure and a second wafer level optical element, the second wafer level optical element comprising a second alignment structure, wherein the first alignment structure contacts the second alignment structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: FLIR Systems Trading Belgium BVBAInventors: David Ovrutsky, William Hudson Welch, Roman C. Gutierrez, Robert J. Calvet
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Patent number: 9696514Abstract: A lens module, including: a first lens including a first conical surface based on an optical axis and a first flat surface extending in a vertical direction with respect to the optical axis; and a second lens including a second conical surface based on an optical axis and a second flat surface extending in a vertical direction with respect to the optical axis, wherein the first conical surface and the first flat surface are connected by a first curved surface having a first radius, and the second conical surface and the second flat surface are connected by a second curved surface having a second radius.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Duck Hun Kim
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Patent number: 9486950Abstract: A display device includes preparing a high hardness film. In the high hardness film, a first supporting member, a silsesquioxane film, and a second supporting member are deposited. The high hardness film is pre-treated, forming a pre-window. A transparent member is formed on a surface of the pre-window through an injection process. The transparent member is formed of polycarbonate. The first supporting member and the second supporting member are formed of polyethylene terephthalate or polyethylene naphthalate.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seong-Jin Hwang, Kwan-Young Han, Hyoung-Suk Roh, Mikiya Itakura, Yuki Hongo, Hun-Kyo Kim
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Patent number: 9395517Abstract: Disclosed are a lens assembly and a camera module. The lens assembly includes a lens unit and a spacer provided at an upper portion or a lower portion of the lens unit. The spacer includes polymer having the glass transition temperature of about 140° C. to about 500° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Kee Tae Um
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Patent number: 9128279Abstract: A wavelength-tunable interference filter comprising a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a first reflective film provided on the first substrate, a second reflective film provided on the second substrate, the second reflective film facing the first reflective film, a first electrode provided on the first substrate, and a second electrode provided on the second substrate, the second electrode facing the first electrode, wherein the first electrode includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer, the first electrode layer has a first in-plane internal stress which is compressive, and the second electrode layer has a second in-plane internal stress which is tensile.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Akira Sano
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Patent number: 9042040Abstract: There is provided a lens module including: a first lens including a first conical surface based on an optical axis and a first flat surface extending in a vertical direction with respect to the optical axis; and a second lens including a second conical surface based on an optical axis and a second flat surface extending in a vertical direction with respect to the optical axis, wherein the first conical surface and the first flat surface are connected by a first curved surface having a first radius, and the second conical surface and the second flat surface are connected by a second curved surface having a second radius.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Duck Hun Kim
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Patent number: 9007693Abstract: An exemplary video wall includes two display panels and a polygonal mullion elimination lens. Each of the display panels includes a main body and a bezel surrounding the main body. The polygonal mullion elimination lens includes a central first concave surface configured to reflect internal light incident thereon, two flat surfaces respectively attached to the main bodies of the display panels, a central second concave surface opposite to the first concave surface, and two lateral surfaces each connecting between a corresponding one of the flat surfaces and the second concave surface. Portions of light emitted by the main bodies of the display panels can enter the mullion elimination lens via the flat surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Han-Lung Lee, Shan-Fu Huang, Ho-Chiang Liu
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Patent number: 8934183Abstract: An optical element is provided, which is small in distortion when at least three optical members including a resin layer sandwiched by the optical members are cemented together, has a high environmental resistance and optical performance, and has an excellent chromatic aberration correction effect. In the optical element, the resin layer is formed on one of light incident/exit surfaces of a first optical member, and a second optical member is cemented to the resin layer by a bonding material. A condition of ?g<?r is satisfied where ?r indicates an outer diameter of the resin layer and ?g indicates an effective region diameter of a surface of the second optical member which is cemented to the resin layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2009Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Satoshi Maetaki
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Patent number: 8879170Abstract: Provided is a condensing lens condensing a light from a light source, and a lighting device equipped with the condensing lens. The condensing lens may enable a light to be selectively incident upon a plurality of first incident portions based on an emission angle, may totally-reflect, using a second incident portion, the light refracted by the plurality of first incident portions, and may refract the totally-reflected light using a third incident portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Mo Lee, Chang Sub Lee, Kyeong Ik Min, Sang Ho Yoon, Hyung Jin Kim, Jung Kyung Kim
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Publication number: 20140313601Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical device for a display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus include a display surface having a pixel area composed of a plurality of pixels, and a frame area that surrounds the pixel area. The optical device includes a lens array facing a plurality of pixels adjacent to at least a part of the frame area; and a lens facing at least a part of the frame area and a plurality of pixels adjacent to the lens array.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yoshiharu Momonoi, Tatsuo Saishu
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Patent number: 8848177Abstract: An in-line laser beam waist analyzer system includes an optical prism that picks off a portion of a second surface reflection from either a laser processing focus lens or a protective debris shield for the processing lens and directs that focused light to a pixelated detector. This provides real time monitoring of the focused laser beam while it is processing material by welding, cutting, drilling, scribing or marking, without disrupting the process.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Haas Laser Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Michael J. Scaggs
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Patent number: 8848179Abstract: An in-line laser beam waist analyzer system includes an optical prism that picks off a portion of a second surface reflection from either a laser processing focus lens or a protective debris shield for the processing lens and directs that focused light to a pixelated detector. This provides real time monitoring of the focused laser beam while it is processing material by welding, cutting, drilling, scribing or marking, without disrupting the process.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Haas Laser Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Michael J. Scaggs
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Patent number: 8848178Abstract: An in-line laser beam waist analyzer system includes an optical prism that picks off a portion of a second surface reflection from either a laser processing focus lens or a protective debris shield for the processing lens and directs that focused light to a pixelated detector. This provides real time monitoring of the focused laser beam while it is processing material by welding, cutting, drilling, scribing or marking, without disrupting the process.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Haas Laser Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Michael J. Scaggs
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Patent number: 8848295Abstract: Gradient index lenses with no aberrations and related methods for making such lenses are described. In one aspect, a gradient index lens can be a substantially spherically-shaped lens that has at least one side that is flattened such that a locus of focal points resides on a plane. A method for making a gradient index lens can include forming material layers, each of the material layers defining an effective refractive index, and laminating the material layers together to form a substantially spherically-shaped lens having at least one side that is flattened to a substantially planar surface. The material layers can have a gradient refractive index distribution such that a locus of focal points resides on the substantially planar surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Duke UniversityInventors: David R. Smith, Nathan B. Kundtz
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Patent number: 8842376Abstract: This invention provides an injection-molded plastic optical lens comprising from a center to an edge thereof an optical effective portion, a connecting portion and a peripheral portion that are concentrically formed. The plastic optical lens has an outer diameter D. The optical effective portion has an edge thickness ET1 and a central thickness CT, the connecting portion has a minimum thickness ET2, and the plastic optical lens satisfies the following relations of CT?0.30 mm and ET2/ET1<1.0. At least one lens element with refractive power can be disposed at each of the object side and the image side of the plastic optical lens of the present invention to form an optical lens assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Largan Precision Co., LtdInventors: Sheng-Yu Yang, Yeo-Chih Huang
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Patent number: 8824066Abstract: This invention provides an injection-molded plastic optical lens comprising: an optical effective region and a peripheral region that are concentrically formed. An outer edge of the peripheral region comprises an indentation section, and an accommodation space surrounded by the indentation section of the outer edge of the peripheral region and an extending line extending from the non-indented section of the outer edge of the peripheral region. The accommodation space confines a flash generated during the injection-molding process of the plastic optical lens so that the assembling of the present plastic optical lens will not be affected. The present invention employs a mold having an air duct connected to an indentation configuration of the mold. The indentation section of the plastic optical lens is formed through a mold replication of the indentation configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wei-Hung Weng
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Patent number: 8810928Abstract: A collecting lens comprises a first surface and a second surface. Said first surface lens is defined as an opposite surface of said collecting lens from said second surface. Said second surface has a lens surface. Said lens surface includes a plurality of lens function surfaces. Each of said lens function surfaces is defined as part of a side surface of corresponding one of elliptical cones. A particular normal line which is arbitrarily selected from normal lines at respective points on said first surface and crosses one of said lens function surface is not parallel to a central axis of the elliptical cone corresponding to said lens function surface crossed by said particular normal line. Said central axes of the elliptical cones are not parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kana Oi, Takayuki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 8794770Abstract: A projection display includes at least one light source, at least one reflective image generator configured to represent frames in a two-dimensional distribution of subareas of same, a projection optics arrangement having a two-dimensional arrangement of optical projection elements and being configured to image an associated subarea of the at least one image generator onto an image plane in each case, so that images of the frames superimpose within the image plane to form an overall picture, and at least one beam splitter arranged within an optical path between the at least one reflective image generator and the two-dimensional arrangement of optical projection elements, on the one hand, and the optical path between the at least one light source and the at least one reflective image generator, on the other hand.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Marcel Sieler, Peter Schreiber, Erik Foerster
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Publication number: 20140168622Abstract: This microlens array comprises hexagonal field diaphragms in inverted-image-forming positions, i.e., microlenses, a plurality of which are arranged in the direction perpendicular to a direction of scanning, and from which rows of microlenses are configured. Further, for three rows of microlenses, microlens rows are arranged with offset by (a length S) in a direction perpendicular to the direction of scanning such that triangular portions of the hexagonal field diaphragms overlap in the direction of scanning. Furthermore, microlens row groups, which are configured from three microlens rows, are arranged with offset in the direction perpendicular to the direction of scanning in increments of a minute amount of shifting F (for example, 2 ?m). Thereby, this scanning exposure device using a microlens array is capable of preventing exposure ununiformity even in the direction perpendicular to the direction of scanning.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: V Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michinobu Mizumura, Yoshio Watanabe
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Patent number: 8749891Abstract: The collimating optical element includes a light incident surface and a light emission curved surface. The light incident surface receives a light emitted by a light source. The light emission curved surface and a first plane are intersected to form a first curve. The first curve has a plurality of first curve segments, and each first curve segment includes at least three first tangent points. After passing each first tangent point along a connecting line of the light source and each first tangent point, the light exits along a first collimation axis, and an included angle formed between the first collimation axis and an optic axis is greater than ?15° and smaller than ?15°. Thus, the light after passing the collimating optical element forms a one-dimensional collimating light.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Hui-Hsiung Lin, Wen-Hsun Yang, Chin-Ju Hsu, Yu-Nan Pao
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Patent number: 8743481Abstract: A lens plate includes at least one lens row including a plurality of lenses aligned in a first direction, each lens including a lens surface that includes perimeter portions extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction such that two adjacent lenses are contiguous with each other at the perimeter portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Oki Data CorporationInventor: Akihiro Yamamura
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Patent number: 8711343Abstract: An in-line laser beam waist analyzer system includes an optical prism that picks off a portion of a second surface reflection from either a laser processing focus lens or a protective debris shield for the processing lens and directs that focused light to a pixelated detector. This provides real time monitoring of the focused laser beam while it is processing material by welding, cutting, drilling, scribing or marking, without disrupting the process.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Haas Laser Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Michael J. Scaggs