Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
359316000 | Plural modulation cells | 24 |
20090015905 | Picture display unit - A picture display device includes display elements reflecting specific wavelengths of visible light; and shape deformation portions for inducing elastic deformation of the display elements. The individual display elements have colloidal particles arrayed at regular spacing, and an elastically deformable filler material intervening between the colloidal particles. The shape deformation portion includes a shape retention component formed of a material capable of reversible plastic deformation by external force. | 01-15-2009 |
20090128890 | Spatial light modulator and mirror array device - The present invention provides a spatial light modulator, comprising: a pixel array comprises a plurality of pixel units. Each of the pixel units comprises a memory cell. A plurality of word lines and a plurality of plate lines to electrically communicate with the pixel units. A plurality of bit line sets wherein each of the sets includes a pair of bit lines each connected to a memory cell, wherein at least one pair of the memory cells connected to the pair of bit lines are on a same row connected to a same word line. | 05-21-2009 |
20090201572 | METAMATERIAL GRADIENT INDEX LENS - Examples of the present invention include a gradient index element formed from a material such as a metamaterial, the material having an index profile and an index gradient profile, where the index profile includes at least one discontinuity and the index gradient profile is substantially continuous. | 08-13-2009 |
20100039698 | Autostereoscopic display system with efficient pixel layout - The present disclosure is directed to autostereoscopic display systems operable to provide increased number of views and related methods. One embodiment of the display systems comprises a light-modulating display panel comprising a first set of colored subpixels and a second set of colored subpixels, and the number of subpixels in the first set of colored subpixels is greater than the number of subpixels in the second set of colored subpixels. The display system further comprises a lenticular sheet disposed in light paths of the colored subpixels of the display panel. | 02-18-2010 |
20100110532 | ELECTRO-WETTING APPARATUS, VARIFOCAL LENS, OPTICAL PICK-UP APPARATUS, OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, DROPLET OPERATING APPARATUS, OPTICAL DEVICE, ZOOM LENS, IMAGING APPARATUS, LIGHT MODULATOR, DISPLAY APPARATUS, STROBE APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DRIVING ELECTRO-WETTING APPARATUS - An electro-wetting apparatus includes a liquid having conductivity or polarity and a first electrode and a second electrode that apply voltage to the liquid. The electro-wetting apparatus also includes a dielectric layer provided between the liquid and the first electrode. The electro-wetting apparatus further includes a voltage-applying unit that applies a voltage signal between the first electrode and the second electrode, where the voltage signal is periodically changed between a first voltage of zero (0) volt or more and a second voltage of larger than the first voltage. | 05-06-2010 |
20100157413 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A DECORATIVE SURFACE - A decorative housing ( | 06-24-2010 |
20100165451 | OPTICAL DEFLECTOR AND OPTICAL DEFLECTING BOARD - An optical deflector includes a substrate, an electrode layer on the substrate, an insulating layer at a predetermined peripheral region on the electrode layer, exposing the central region of the electrode layer. First electrode sandwiched wall is on the insulating layer. Second electrode sandwiched wall is on the insulating layer corresponding to the first electrode sandwiched wall. A pair of insulating walls is between the first electrode sandwiched wall and the second electrode sandwiched wall in enclosing to form an inner space. An outer wall encloses the pair of insulating layers, the first and the second electrode sandwiched walls at outside. A cap layer covers on the outer wall. A first liquid is filled into the inner space in contact with the electrode layer. A second liquid is filled into the inner spacer without solving to each other and forms a liquid interface. | 07-01-2010 |
20100195190 | LENS ARRAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A lens array device and an image display device using the lens array device, which allow a lens effect characteristic different from that of a single variable lens array to be easily obtained, are provided. The lens array device includes a variable lens array and a fixed lens array. The variable lens array includes a plurality of variable lenses each having electrically-adjustable refracting power. The fixed lens array includes a plurality of fixed lenses each provided in correspondence to each of the plurality of variable lenses. Each of the fixed lenses has a refracting power which, once a corresponding variable lens has come to have a first refracting power, allows the first refracting power to be cancelled out. | 08-05-2010 |
20100253996 | ELECTROOPTIC DEVICE - An electrooptic device having a simple structure that can efficiently increase deflection of a beam is provided. The device includes: an electrooptic crystal ( | 10-07-2010 |
20110141551 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device is provided and includes: a light guide member; a light source provided on one or more side faces of the light guide member; and a light modulating element including a pair of transparent substrates disposed to oppose each other with a gap therebetween, a first electrode provided on a surface of one of the transparent substrates, a second electrode provided on a surface of the other of the transparent substrates, and a light modulation layer provided in the gap and expressing a scattering property or a transparency to light from the light source in accordance with a magnitude of an electric field. The first electrode, the second electrode, or both thereof is patterned, and a density of pattern of the first electrode, the second electrode, or both thereof to which the patterning is applied is varied depending on a distance from the light source. | 06-16-2011 |
20120182600 | ELECTROOPTIC DEVICE - An electrooptic device having a simple structure that can efficiently increase deflection of a beam is provided. The device includes: an electrooptic crystal ( | 07-19-2012 |
20130038922 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, OPTICAL ELEMENT ARRAY, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed is an optical element including a first electrode and a second electrode disposed to face each other; an insulating film covering a surface of the first electrode facing the second electrode, the insulating film including a dielectric layer, an ion barrier layer, and a water repellent layer laminated in order; and a polar liquid and a non-polar liquid enclosed between the insulating film and the second electrode and having refractive indices different from each other. The dielectric layer has a larger permittivity than that of the ion barrier layer, the ion barrier layer suppresses permeation of an ion contained in the polar liquid, and the water repellent layer is located in an uppermost layer of the insulating film and exhibits an affinity for the non-polar liquid. | 02-14-2013 |
20130050807 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A 3D image display device with high resolution is disclosed. The device may deflect left and right eye images to a left and right eye of a viewer, respectively. As such, the viewer may see 3D images. The 3D image display device includes a plurality of electrically switchable light modulating cells containing two incompatible light modulating mediums. When a voltage is applied to electrodes of the electrically switchable light modulating cell, the interface between the incompatible light modulating mediums non-horizontally deforms corresponding to the electrowetting or electrostatic concept. The geometrical shape, size, and material of partition walls in the electrically switchable light modulating cells may reduce or eliminate misplacement of incompatible light modulating mediums while voltages are applied thereto. In addition, the method of manufacturing the 3D image display device is also disclosed. | 02-28-2013 |
20130077154 | Autostereoscopic display - An autostereoscopic display is provided comprising a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM), an illuminator, and first and second light redirecting grids. The light directing grids comprise vertical bar-shaped electrically switchable diffractive elements. The light redirecting grids direct light from the illuminator through the SLM towards left and right eye positions. | 03-28-2013 |
20130135709 | ACTIVE OPTICAL DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An active optical device and a display apparatus including the same are provided. The active optical device includes: first to third electrodes that are sequentially disposed spaced apart from one another; a first refractive index change layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and in which a refractive index is changed by an electric field; and a second refractive index change layer disposed between the second electrode and the third electrode and in which a refractive index is changed by an electric field. | 05-30-2013 |
20140153082 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A DISPLAY - A method of displaying an image includes alternating an active state of each of a plurality of light sources. The light sources each generate a light beam when active. The alternating includes deactivating an active light source before an output of a light beam from the active light sources falls below a first predetermined threshold. The alternating further includes activating a deactivated light source only after an output of the inactive light source reaches a second predetermined threshold. The method further includes receiving each of the light beams at a spatial light modulator. | 06-05-2014 |
20140168754 | DISPLAY INCLUDING ELECTROWETTING PRISM ARRAY - A display including an electrowetting prism array is provided. The display includes: a light source, a | 06-19-2014 |
20140204455 | WEARABLE DATA DISPLAY - A transparent wearable data display having a source of collimated light a deflector for deflecting the collimated light into a scanned beam, and a first array including one column and integer N rows of switchable grating elements sandwiched between first and second parallel transparent substrates. The substrates together functioning as a first light guide, and a second array including M columns and N rows of switchable grating elements sandwiched between third and fourth parallel transparent substrates which together function as a second lightguide. Transparent electrodes are applied to opposing substrates. A first coupling for directing the scanned beam into a first TIR light path of the first lightguide along the first array column; and a second coupling for directing the first TIR light into a second TIR path of the second lightguide along a row of elements of the second array. | 07-24-2014 |
20150062691 | TUNABLE OPTICAL METAMATERIAL - A tunable metamaterial has a two dimensional array of resonant annular ring elements; and a plurality of voltage controllable electrical tuning elements disposed in or adjacent openings in each of said ring elements, each of said voltage controllable electrical tuning element ohmically contacting portions of only one of said ring elements. The voltage controllable electrical tuning elements may comprise highly doped semiconductor tunnel diodes, or the charge accumulation layer at the semiconductor/insulator interface of a metal-insulator-semiconductor structure, or nanoelectromechanical (NEMs) capacitors. The tunable metamaterial may be used, for example, in an optical beam steering device using the aforementioned tunable optical metamaterial in which a free-space optical beam is coupled into a receiving portion of a plane of the optical metamaterial and is steered out of a transmitter portion of the plane of the optical metamaterial in controllable azimuthal and elevational directions. The tunable metamaterial additionally has other applications. | 03-05-2015 |
20150131142 | BEAM EXPANDER - A beam expander includes a first lens unit including one of an SLM or a VFL, a second lens unit being optically coupled to the first lens unit and including one of an SLM or a VFL, and a control unit controlling focal lengths of the first and second lens units. A distance between the first and second lens units is invariable. The control unit controls the focal lengths of the first and second lens units such that a light diameter D | 05-14-2015 |
20150338631 | LIGHT MODULATING DEVICE - A light modulating device | 11-26-2015 |
20160004067 | DISPLAY PANEL, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides display panel and manufacturing method thereof, and display device comprising the display panel. The display panel comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate provided opposite to each other, each of which comprises a plurality of photic areas and a plurality of shading areas; a plurality of pixel units formed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a plurality of control units corresponding to the plurality of pixel units, respectively. In each pixel unit, a projection of the shading area of the first substrate on the second substrate completely covers the photic area of the second substrate. On a side of the first substrate opposite to the second substrate, a first reflective layer which is bendable is provided on each of the shading areas of the first substrate, and on a side of the second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a second reflective layer is provided on each of the shading areas of the second substrate. The first reflective layers, in a bent state, reflect light reaching the first reflective layers to the second reflective layers, and the second reflective layers reflect the light reflected thereto to the photic areas of the first substrate. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004090 | WEARABLE DATA DISPLAY - A transparent wearable data display having a source of collimated light, a deflector for deflecting the collimated light into a scanned beam, and a first of switchable grating elements sandwiched between first and second parallel transparent substrates, which together functioning as a first light guide. A first coupling is provided for directing the scanned beam into a first total internal reflection (TIR) light path of the first light guide along the first array column. The grating elements having diffracting and non-diffracting states, in their diffracting state deflecting light out of said light guide. The grating elements are switchable into their diffracting states one group of elements at a time. | 01-07-2016 |
20160131918 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND DISPLAY - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a stereoscopic imaging apparatus and method, and a display. The stereoscopic imaging apparatus includes: a display panel, which includes multiple pixel units, and is configured to display images in a time division multiplexing scheme; and an electro-optic modulation layer, which includes multiple electro-optic modulation units respectively arranged at positions corresponding to the multiple pixel units, and is configured to alternately deflect light rays of the images displayed on the multiple pixel units into different projection directions under the effect of electric fields that change in a time division multiplexing scheme, where the electric fields that change in a time division multiplexing scheme change synchronously with the images displayed in a time division multiplexing scheme. The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure can improve resolution of auto-stereoscopic display. | 05-12-2016 |