Superimposed Or Series Patents (Class 359/890)
  • Patent number: 12032159
    Abstract: A multiplexed, synchronized active beam splitter or mirror and display providing a user or manufacturer with the ability to choose different modes of functionality of a transparent optical module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NewSight Reality, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Landau, Rick Morrison, Svetlana Samoilova
  • Patent number: 11754445
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an interferometer element for use in a spectrometer which includes a micromechanical Fabry-Perot filter element, which has at least a first mirror element, a second mirror element, and a third mirror element. Each of the first mirror element, the second mirror element, and the third mirror element are arranged in series in an optical path of the interferometer element, and at least one of a first distance between the first and second mirror elements, and a second distance between the second and third mirror elements is modifiable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Noltemeyer, Benedikt Stein, Christian Huber, Christoph Schelling, Christoph Daniel Kraemmer, Reinhold Roedel
  • Patent number: 11589464
    Abstract: A electronic component including a first protective layer covering the substrate and the conductive tract, a second protective layer covering at least a portion of the first protective layer, wherein the second protective layer includes Parylene, and a third protective layer covering at least a portion of the second protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Haralambos Cordatos, Xin Wu, Peter J. Walsh, Parag M. Kshirsagar
  • Patent number: 11320708
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a method for fabricating the same, a method for detecting alignment accuracy, and a liquid crystal display panel, wherein a dummy color resist unit is disposed on a periphery of a display area of a substrate, and a side or a center point of the dummy color resist unit is designed to be at a predetermined distance from an adjacent signal line. Therefore, it is only necessary to measure a distance between the side or the center point of the dummy color resist unit and a signal line adjacent to it, and compare the measured distance with the predetermined distance to estimate alignment accuracy of color resist units. It is not necessary to dispose detection units in a non-display area of the array substrate so that an area of the non-display area can be reduced to achieve ultra-narrow frame design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: ChingWen Yu, Junling Huang, Feihui Huang, Hua Jiang
  • Patent number: 9568362
    Abstract: A spectrometer assembly is provided having an optical transmission filter including a stack of continuous, non-patterned alternating dielectric and metal layers. Angle-dependent transmission wavelength shift of the optical transmission filter with continuous metal layers is small e.g. in comparison with multilayer dielectric filters, facilitating size reduction of the spectrometer assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Viavi Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Georg J. Ockenfuss
  • Patent number: 9448346
    Abstract: A sensor device including one or more sensor elements and one or more optical filters is provided. The one or more optical filters each include a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of metal layers stacked in alternation. The metal layers are intrinsically protected by the dielectric layers. In particular, the metal layers have tapered edges that are protectively covered by one or more of the dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Viavi Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Georg J. Ockenfuss
  • Patent number: 9347832
    Abstract: A birefringent filter includes an EM directing element in optical alignment with a first surface of the birefringent plate. A polarimetric imager includes a birefringent filter including a birefringent plate formed of a birefringent material and an EM directing element in optical alignment with a first surface of the birefringent plate. The imager further includes a detector in optical alignment with a second surface of the birefringent plate. A projection system includes an EM directing element and a birefringent filter. The filter includes (1) a birefringent plate formed of a birefringent material and having a first surface in optical alignment with the emissions source, and (2) an EM directing element in optical alignment with a second surface of the birefringent plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Bodkin Design And Engineering LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Bodkin, James T. Daly
  • Patent number: 9314877
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly and method for detecting laser radiation which hits a disc (20, 28) sealing an opening (16, 18) of an enclosure, wherein at least one sensor (22) detecting the radiation is aligned having the radiation sensitive region (24) thereof on a circumferential edge section (26) of the disc, which is designed to be radiation-conducting. In order to enable secure monitoring both of the disc and of the enclosure, without a plurality of sensors being required, according to the invention, the enclosure has two walls (12, 14) spaced apart from each other and having openings (16, 18) which are sealed by the disc (20), the disc (20, 28) is arranged between the walls at the edge and the sensor (22) is arranged having the sensitive region (24) thereof between the walls, spaced apart from the disc or within an opening of the disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignees: REIS GROUP HOLDING GMBH & CO. KG, INGENIEURBURO GOEBEL GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus R. Goebel, Matthias Miessen
  • Patent number: 9030767
    Abstract: The present invention provides a color filter and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes steps of: coating a first material layer on a substrate and patterning it to have first photoresists, first filter portions and first spacer portions; coating a second material layer on the substrate and patterning it to have second photoresists, second filter portions and second spacer portions; and coating a third material layer on the substrate and patterning it to have third photoresists, third filter portions and third spacer portions; and the first, the second, the third filter portions are correspondingly overlapped with each other, and the first, the second, the third spacer portions are correspondingly overlapped with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsiao Hsien Chen
  • Publication number: 20150077685
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide: a color material dispersion liquid which is able to form a coating film with high luminance, excellent heat resistance and excellent light resistance; a color resin composition for color filters, which is able to form a color layer with high luminance, excellent heat resistance and excellent light resistance; a color filter formed with the color resin composition for color filters; a liquid crystal display device having the color filter; and an organic light-emitting display device having the color filter. Disclosed is a color material dispersion liquid comprising a color material represented by the following general formula (I), a dispersant, and a solvent having a solubility of the color material of 0.1 (mg/10 g solvent) or less at 23° C., wherein molybdenum and tungsten are contained in a polyoxometalate anion in the color material, and a molar ratio between the molybdenum and the tungsten is 0.4:99.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Masato Okada, Daisuke Endo, Michihiro Ogura, Tomoki Murata, Hiroaki Segawa
  • Publication number: 20150070742
    Abstract: A method and system for enhanced viewing of a display device is disclosed in this application. In some implementations, a method and system for improving a perceived contrast of a screen of a display device is disclosed. Some implementations may also relate to a method and system for privately viewing content displayed on a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Noam Sorek, Larry Alan Pearlstein
  • Patent number: 8929007
    Abstract: A color filter and a manufacturing method thereof are provided, in which a stacked structure composed of several color film layers having different colors is formed in a non-transmitting partitioning region of the color filter in such a way that the stacked structure can prevent light from passing through the color filter via the partitioning region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongjiang Wu, Chongxi Wei, Yiming Chen, Seungmoo Rim, Xibin Shao
  • Patent number: 8861106
    Abstract: Systems for generating uniform monochromatic electromagnetic radiation that include an electromagnetic radiation source and a bandpass filter assembly to filter electromagnetic radiation emitted by the electromagnetic radiation source. The systems also include an optical integrating sphere to receive the filtered electromagnetic radiation and to uniformly scatter the filtered electromagnetic radiation within the optical integrating sphere, wherein the optical integrating sphere comprises an output to emit the uniformly scattered, filtered electromagnetic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: John R. Moore, Randall W. Zywicki
  • Patent number: 8842963
    Abstract: A method and structure for terminating an optical fiber are disclosed that provide an optical fiber termination structure with a small volume and very low return loss, even when the termination is in close proximity to reflective surfaces. In one example embodiment, the optical fiber termination reduces reflections into the one or more cores to a return loss of ?70 dB or less regardless of the presence of surfaces proximate the optical fiber termination. At the same time, a length of the optical fiber termination is less than 5 mm and a largest transverse dimension of the optical fiber termination is less than 325 um. The optical fiber termination is useful in fiber sensing applications in general and is particularly effective for terminating a multi-core fiber used in a distributed shape sensing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul F. Wysocki, Alan Heaney, Stephen Kreger, Mark Froggatt, Ken Walker
  • Patent number: 8736992
    Abstract: An impingement angle-independent wavelength-specific limiter includes a stack of wavelength-specific limiters configured to limit impinging light having a plurality of different wavelengths. The stack includes a plurality of wavelength-specific limiters. Each one of the plurality of wavelength-specific limiters is activated by a corresponding wavelength of the impinging light and is configured to limit the corresponding wavelength of the impinging light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: KiloLambda Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuval Ofir, Ariela Donval, Moshe Oron, Doron Nevo
  • Patent number: 8721123
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first flexible material that has a first area with a first texture that produces a first predetermined amount of diffusion of a beam of light, where the first texture produces at least some diffusion in the beam of light. The apparatus also includes a second flexible material attached to a first portion of the first area, where the second flexible material reduces the amount of diffusion of the beam of light produced by the first texture of the first portion of the first area. A light fixture includes a light fixture and the first flexible material coupled to a scrolling mechanism. The scrolling mechanism is operable to position a selected area of the first flexible material such that a beam of light from the light source passes through a first area of the first flexible material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Syncrolite, LLC
    Inventor: Jack Calmes
  • Publication number: 20140104277
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display (10) comprising a vertical stack of at least two different color absorbing layers (14) of pixels (18). The display is characterized in that the pixel resolution of at least two of the layers is different. The present invention also relates to a display system (50) comprising such a display and a method for controlling such a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Sander Jurgen Roosendaal, Martinus Hermanus Wilhelmus Maria Van Delden
  • Publication number: 20140029124
    Abstract: A decorative feature for a transparent surface is disclosed. The decorative feature for a transparent surface includes a plurality of decorative elements. Each element includes a main body having at least one substantially planar first portion or lens which at least partially allows the transmission of light. The decorative elements are interconnectable to form an assembly and the installed assembly includes a plurality of layers of lenses. The plane of each lens is substantially parallel to the plane of the transparent surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SHEEHAN PROJECTS LIMITED
    Inventors: Linda Sheehan, James Daniel Sheehan
  • Patent number: 8409727
    Abstract: A color filter array is provided that is capable of implementing full color with improved light-emitting efficiency and color coordinate values from a mixed light of blue and red, and an organic light-emitting display device using the same. A color filter array receiving a mixed light of blue wavelength light and red wavelength light to implement full color according to an embodiment of the invention comprises a red filter, a green filter, and a blue filter. The red filter includes a first color conversion material for converting the blue wavelength light into green light and red light and a green blocking material for blocking the green light. The green filter includes a second color conversion material for converting the blue wavelength light into green light and red light and a red blocking material for blocking the red light. The blue filter includes a red blocking material for blocking the red wavelength light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Gak Yang, Hee Yeon Kim, Chang Ho Lee, Jung Han Shin, Hee Joo Ko
  • Publication number: 20130038205
    Abstract: A process for producing a color conversion filter uses an ink jet recording method, which can form a color conversion layer at a desired position without the need to separately form partition walls, and a process for producing an organic EL display. The process for producing a color conversion filter includes forming a black matrix having a plurality of opening parts on a transparent substrate, forming at least two types of color filter layers independently of each other on a black matrix to which dissimilar color filter layers are adjacent, to form a partition wall, at least two of the color filter layers being superimposed on top of each other, and forming a color conversion layer by ink jet recording onto at least one of the color filter layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyo Nakamura, Naoyuki Kanai
  • Publication number: 20130027322
    Abstract: A display screen including an optical element and a chromaticity improving layer is provided. A light transmittance of the optical element to visible light having short wavelengths is lower than a light transmittance to visible light having long wavelengths. A light transmittance of the chromaticity improving layer to visible light having short wavelengths is higher than a light transmittance to visible light having long wavelengths. A display device using the display screen is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHIH HUA TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: YU-JU HSU, PO-SHENG SHIH
  • Publication number: 20120287522
    Abstract: An impingement angle-independent wavelength-specific limiter includes a stack of wavelength-specific limiters configured to limit impinging light having a plurality of different wavelengths. The stack includes a plurality of wavelength-specific limiters. Each one of the plurality of wavelength-specific limiters is activated by a corresponding wavelength of the impinging light and is configured to limit the corresponding wavelength of the impinging light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: KiloLambda Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuval Ofir, Ariela Donval, Moshe Oron, Doron Nevo
  • Patent number: 8304265
    Abstract: A process for producing a color conversion filter uses an ink jet recording method, which can form a color conversion layer at a desired position without the need to separately form partition walls, and a process for producing an organic EL display. The process for producing a color conversion filter includes forming a black matrix having a plurality of opening parts on a transparent substrate, forming at least two types of color filter layers independently of each other on a black matrix to which dissimilar color filter layers are adjacent, to form a partition wall, at least two of the color filter layers being superimposed on top of each other, and forming a color conversion layer by ink jet recording onto at least one of the color filter layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideyo Nakamura, Naoyuki Kanai
  • Patent number: 8226269
    Abstract: A color mixer for producing a colored beam of light in combination with a light source. The color mixer includes a plurality of color media configured to pass a light beam such that the color media may be repositioned relative to one another to produce a color mixing effect resulting in many available combinations of color and hue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Apollo Design Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Mateer, Keersten Nichols, Michael Wood
  • Patent number: 8220969
    Abstract: A rainbow wheel that colors light that is passed therethrough. The wheel can be formed using a photolithographic process. Another supermagenta wheel can be used to increase the number of colors that can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Production Resource Group, LLC
    Inventor: James Bornhorst
  • Publication number: 20120147492
    Abstract: A color filter includes a transparent substrate, a transparent conductive layer, a plurality of filter layers, and a plurality of bumps. The filter layers are disposed between the transparent substrate and the transparent conductive layer, and the bumps are disposed on a plane of the transparent conductive layer. A sheet resistance of each of the bumps is above 1014?/?, and an optical density (OD) of each of the bumps is above 1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Yi-Peng KUO, Wen-Jen Hsieh, Ying-Hung Chuang
  • Patent number: 8194209
    Abstract: An optical low-pass filter is constituted with a liquid crystal substrate including a layer of liquid crystal. The optical low-pass filter includes: a first liquid crystal part in which the liquid crystal is aligned along a first direction; and a second liquid crystal part in which the liquid crystal is aligned along a second direction different from the first direction. The first liquid crystal part and the second liquid crystal part are disposed in an alternately repeated fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Iwane
  • Patent number: 8120865
    Abstract: An optical apparatus which is capable of preventing degradation of image quality caused by an ND filter. The optical apparatus incorporates an aperture stop having an aperture variable in size, and an ND filter movable with respect to the aperture of the aperture stop, an actuator that drives the ND filter, and a controller that controls the actuator. The ND filter includes a part having a size that can fully cover a first aperture that is the aperture with the aperture stop being narrowed. The controller controls the actuator so that the ND filter is moved without a halt between a first position where the part is retracted with respect to the first aperture with the aperture stop being narrowed, and a second position where the part fully covers the first aperture in any stop operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuji Umezu, Harunobu Ichinose
  • Patent number: 8061874
    Abstract: A rainbow wheel that colors light that is passed therethrough. The wheel can be formed using a photolithographic process. Another supermagenta wheel can be used to increase the number of colors that can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Production Resource Group, L.L.C.
    Inventor: James Bornhorst
  • Publication number: 20110199698
    Abstract: A color filter includes a transparent support, a first color layer formed on the support, which includes stripe-shaped first color pixel formation sections and second-and-third color pixel windows arranged at predetermined intervals along a first direction, respectively, a second color layer formed to overlap with the first color layer, in which the second color layer having stripe-shaped second color pixel formation sections and first-and-third color pixel windows arranged at predetermined intervals along the first direction, respectively, and a third color layer having island-shaped third color pixel formation sections apart from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sounosuke Takahashi, Yoshikazu Sakaguchi, Shinichi Nishida, Mamoru Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20110181818
    Abstract: Disclosed a color filter for a liquid crystal display device, which exhibits a color filter contrast of 9000 or more and includes a transparent substrate, and a plurality of color layers exhibiting different color from each other and formed on the transparent substrate, wherein each of the color layers is a cured film of a color resin composition containing a polymer composition obtained through a copolymerization of styrene and an unsaturated carboxylic acid-containing monomer, a content of the styrene in the polymer composition being confined to a range of not less than 75 mol. % and less than 95 mol. %, and a retardation in a thickness direction “Rth” of each of these color layers is confined within a range of 0 nm to ?10 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Minato, Mie Shimizu, Toshihisa Watanabe, Koki Tsubaki
  • Publication number: 20110155296
    Abstract: A process for producing a color conversion filter uses an ink jet recording method, which can form a color conversion layer at a desired position without the need to separately form partition walls, and a process for producing an organic EL display. The process for producing a color conversion filter includes forming a black matrix having a plurality of opening parts on a transparent substrate, forming at least two types of color , filter layers independently of each other on a black matrix to which dissimilar color filter layers are adjacent, to form a partition wall, at least two of the color filter layers being superimposed on top of each other, and forming a color conversion layer by ink jet recording onto at least one of the color filter layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyo Nakamura, Naoyuki Kanai
  • Patent number: 7933083
    Abstract: A diaphragm device with which individual wavelengths or ranges of wavelengths in the path of a beam of spectrally dispersed light can be suppressed. Such a diaphragm device comprises at least one array of diaphragms, wherein the individual diaphragms of the array are arranged in a definite relation to each other and may be coupled in the path of the beam and each diaphragm of the array in the coupled state is arranged in a given relation to an individual wavelength or a range of wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Steinert, Thomas Mehner, Volker Gerstner
  • Patent number: 7914155
    Abstract: A display device comprises revolving coloured wheels, so as to generate a periodic coloured beam, and an imager which modulates the coloured beam as a function of a received video signal. The coloured beam (8) takes successively at each period a plurality of primary colours in synchronism with the images generated by the imager for each primary colour. By adjustment of the relative position of the coloured wheels, it is possible to modify the hue of the primary colours so as to best match them to the received video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Laurent Blondé, Khaled Sarayeddine, Jonathan Kervec
  • Publication number: 20100326955
    Abstract: A method for designing a first optical filter, exhibiting a first filter performance satisfying a first preset criterion, and a second optical filter, exhibiting a second filter performance satisfying a second preset criterion, includes providing initial first and second filter designs for the first and second optical filters, respectively, as first and second ordered stacks of layers, respectively. A pair of layers, including a first layer, characterized by a first thickness, and a second layer, characterized by a second thickness, is selected from the first and second ordered stacks of layers. The first thickness is constrained to a first constrained thickness that is a positive integer multiple of the second thickness to yield a constrained first filter design. A predicted performance of the constrained first filter design is determined and compared with the first preset criterion for one of accepting and rejecting the constrained first filter design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Lu Gao, Gary Duerksen, Paulo E.X. Silveira
  • Patent number: 7835092
    Abstract: A flexible medium for a scrolling color changer and method of making thereof. The medium is made by applying an ink using a Meyer Rod which has varying cell lengths along its length. This leaves varying size cells of ink at different locations along the length of the medium. The ink has special characteristics whereby its evaporation rate and viscosity are carefully controlled. The viscosity is such that an amount of levelling will occur will be equal to the distance between any cells, but that cell to cell levelling will not, in general, occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Production Resource Group, Inc.
    Inventor: William E. Hewlett
  • Publication number: 20100245772
    Abstract: An optical filter capable of removing an unnecessary component of incident light. The optical filter has a transparent body of a flat plate-like shape. A plurality of filtering layers, each that separate an unnecessary polarization component of incident light from a necessary polarization component, are formed within the transparent body in series and at uniform intervals with an angle inclination relative to the travel direction of incident light. A plurality of light-absorptive layers are formed within the transparent body in series and at uniform intervals between the filtering layers to absorb an unnecessary component reflected by the filtering layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: FUJINON SANO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiji KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20100208348
    Abstract: A tunable spectral filtration device comprises at least one optical filter for intersecting a first path of converging or diverging light comprising an axis at a first angle of incidence and at least one device positioned to enable a second path of the converging or diverging light to pass through the at least one optical filter at a second angle of incidence. The optical filter comprises at least one coating and is tiltable over a plurality of angles with respect to the axis. The first angle of incidence is opposite in sign to the second angle of incidence, such that the positioning of the at least one optical filter and the at least one device substantially cancels angle-of-incidence dependent spectral broadening and/or polarization dependent spectral broadening of the converging or diverging light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: CARESTREAM HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Gilbert D. Feke, Douglas L. Vizard
  • Publication number: 20100201242
    Abstract: Film stacks and displays incorporating the same are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: YuFeng Liu, Michael E. Lauters, Ade Babatunde
  • Publication number: 20100182712
    Abstract: An optical spectrum equalizer and method, for modifying the output of a source of optical radiation. One or more optical filters are arranged in series in the path of the source. At least one filter defines a spatially-varying filter function. The position of at least one filter relative to the source is adjusted so that the filters together, as a whole, equalize the source spectrum by reducing the relative power of the source output at one or more of its wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventor: Randal B. Chinnock
  • Publication number: 20100165456
    Abstract: A filter for a plasma display includes: a transparent substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a first external light shielding layer having a first pattern disposed on the first surface of the transparent substrate and having a mesh structure to shield electromagnetic waves and external light and a filter layer covering the first pattern and the first surface of the transparent substrate; a second external light shielding layer having a second pattern corresponding to the first pattern and formed on the filter layer to shield external light and an overcoating layer covering the second pattern and the filter layer; and a third external light shielding layer having a third pattern corresponding to the second pattern and formed on the overcoating layer to shield external light and a hard coating layer covering the third pattern to protect the third pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinyoung LEE, Sungyong Lee, Jaehyung Kim
  • Publication number: 20100157453
    Abstract: A display device and an electrical apparatus are disclosed. The display device comprises a first substrate, an optical enhance layer, a display layer, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixel areas. The optical enhance layer is formed on the first substrate and includes a plurality of even structures and a plurality of uneven structures, wherein for each pixel area, one of the even structures corresponds to a portion of the pixel area, and one of the uneven structures corresponds to the rest portion of the pixel area. The first electrode is formed on the optical enhance layer. The display layer is formed on the first electrode. The second electrode is formed on the display layer. The display device is applicable to the electrical apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: TPO DISPLAYS CORP.
    Inventors: Po-kun Su, Ryuji Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 7710670
    Abstract: An ND filter including an alternating layer which is composed of two films being alternately stacked and formed on a transparent substrate, the two films having different refractive indexes, wherein the alternating layer has a substrate-side reflected light attenuating multi-layered film and a transmittance adjusting multi-layered film formed on the transparent substrate in the stated order from the transparent substrate side, and the light absorption amount of the substrate-side reflected light attenuating multi-layered film is set to be 20% or more and 30% or less. Thus, an ND filter having satisfactory front surface reflection characteristics and rear surface reflection characteristics can be stably obtained while the transmittance of 4% or more and 11% or less is maintained with respect to the entire visible region (400 nm or more and 700 nm or less).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Susumu Abe, Sayoko Amano
  • Patent number: 7706090
    Abstract: A diaphragm device with which individual wavelengths or ranges of wavelengths in the path of a beam of spectrally dispersed light can be suppressed. Such a diaphragm device comprises at least one array of diaphragms, wherein the individual diaphragms of the array are arranged in a definite relation to each other and may be coupled in the path of the beam and each diaphragm of the array in the coupled state is arranged in a given relation to an individual wavelength or a range of wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microimaging GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Steinert, Thomas Mehner, Volker Gerstner
  • Publication number: 20090310131
    Abstract: A Raman spectroscopy system has a filter arrangement comprising two filters (16, 26A) in series, to reject light of the illuminating wavenumber from the scattered light of interest. The filters are tilted and have different characteristics for light of first and second different polarisation states. To counter this, the filters are arranged so that their respective effects on the respective polarisation states at least partially cancel each other out. This may for example be done by arranging their tilt axes (32, 34) orthogonally to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Renishaw PLC
    Inventors: Brian John Edward Smith, Richard William Bormett
  • Publication number: 20090296247
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for converting a monochrome night vision or other electro-optical device into one that provides a sensation of full color, including from red to blue with white and black. The method provides color images from an electro-optical device in which the image data from the electro-optical device contains brightness information of an area being viewed by the device without separate color information. Such a method includes operably coupling an optical channel system to the electro-optical device and configuring the optical channel system and arranging the optical channel system with respect to the electro-optical device so two color informational channels are provided to the viewer, whereby the two informational channels formed by said configuring and arranging of the optical channel system are such that the viewer sees a color image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Tenebraex Corporation
    Inventors: Peter W. J. Jones, Dennis W. Purcell
  • Publication number: 20090257006
    Abstract: A color filter is described, including a first color filter layer, a first light absorbing layer, a second color filter pattern and a second light absorbing pattern. The first color filter layer is disposed over a substrate. The first light absorbing layer is disposed between the substrate and the first color filter layer. The second color filter pattern covers a portion of the first color filter layer. The second light absorbing pattern is disposed between the second color filter pattern and the first color filter layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: UNITED MICRODISPLAY OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Pei-Wen Ko, Ta-Shuang Kuan, Chin-Hsia Chen
  • Publication number: 20090195900
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that include overlapping a first portion of a first piece of flexible filter material and a second portion of a second piece of flexible filter material. In these systems and methods, the first and second pieces of flexible filter material produce a desired change in a characteristic of a light beam. These systems and methods can include clamping the first portion and the second portion between a first element and a second element. In addition, these systems and methods can include producing ultrasonic vibrations in the first element that promotes a bond between the first and second piece of flexible filter material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventor: Jack Calmes
  • Publication number: 20090195773
    Abstract: A filter arrangement can transmit and/or reflect light emanating from a moving object so that the emanating light has time variation, and the time variation can include information about the object, such as its type. For example, emanating light from segments of a path can be transmitted/reflected through positions of a filter assembly, and the transmission functions of the positions can be sufficiently different that time variation occurs in the emanating light between segments. Or emanating light from a segment can be transmitted/reflected through a filter component in which simpler transmission functions are superimposed, so that time variation occurs in the emanating light in accordance with superposition of two simpler non-uniform transmission functions. Many filter arrangements could be used, e.g. the filter component could include the filter assembly, which can have one of the simpler non-uniform transmission functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Michael Bassler, Markus Beck, Peter Kiesel, Alex Hegyi, Tobias Buergel, Noble M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7557992
    Abstract: A multi-mode color filter 400 having an inner hub region 402 used to mount the color filter 400 to a motor shaft. A first track 404 and a second track 406 of color filter segments are formed on the color filter, as is an optional clear track 406. The first and second tracks each have a different set of color filters. One set of filters is chosen to improve image brightness, another set is selected to improve color saturation. Typically, the set of filters used to improve brightness includes one or more clear segments, while the set of filters selected to improve color saturation does not. Depending on the image being projected, the user or the display controller moves the color wheel to select a particular filter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael T. Davis