181 |
System, apparatus and method for extracting image cross-sections of an object from received electromagnetic radiation |
US15475657 |
2017-03-31 |
US10120336B2 |
2018-11-06 |
Joseph Rosen |
An apparatus and method to produce a hologram of a cross-section of an object includes an electromagnetic radiation assembly configured to receive a received electromagnetic radiation, such as light, from the object. The electromagnetic radiation assembly is further configured to diffract the received electromagnetic radiation and transmit a diffracted electromagnetic radiation. An image capture assembly is configured to capture an image of the diffracted electromagnetic radiation and produce the hologram of the cross-section of the object from the captured image. The hologram of the cross-section includes information regarding a single cross-section of the object. |
182 |
DEVICE, A SYSTEM AND A METHOD IN HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGING |
US15936489 |
2018-03-27 |
US20180275604A1 |
2018-09-27 |
Ziduo LIN; Richard STAHL; Abdulkadir YURT |
A device in holographic imaging comprises: at least two light sources, wherein each of the at least two light sources is arranged to output light of a unique wavelength; and at least one holographic optical element, wherein the at least two light sources and the at least one holographic optical element are arranged in relation to each other such that light from the at least two light sources incident on the at least one holographic optical element interacts with the at least one holographic optical element to form wavefronts of similar shape for light from the different light sources. |
183 |
SAW Modulators and Light Steering Methods |
US15883802 |
2018-01-30 |
US20180217473A1 |
2018-08-02 |
Ian W. Frank; Steven J. Byrnes; Juha-Pekka J. Laine; Gregg E. Favalora; Joseph J. Register; Dennis M. Callahan; Michael G. Moebius |
An electro-holographic light field generator device is disclosed. The light field generator device has an optical substrate with a waveguide face and an exit face. One or more surface acoustic wave (SAW) optical modulator devices are included within each light field generator device. The SAW devices each include a light input, a waveguide, and a SAW transducer, all configured for guided mode confinement of input light within the waveguide. A leaky mode deflection of a portion of the waveguided light, or diffractive light, impinges upon the exit face. Multiple output optics at the exit face are configured for developing from each of the output optics a radiated exit light from the diffracted light for at least one of the waveguides. An RF controller is configured to control the SAW devices to develop the radiated exit light as a three-dimensional output light field with horizontal parallax and compatible with observer vertical motion. |
184 |
REDUCED BANDWIDTH HOLOGRAPHIC NEAR-EYE DISPLAY |
US15397646 |
2017-01-03 |
US20180188688A1 |
2018-07-05 |
Andrew Maimone; Andreas Georgiou; Joel Steven Kollin |
Examples are disclosed that relate to holographic near-eye display systems. One example provides a near-eye display device, comprising a diverging light source, an image producing dynamic digital hologram panel configured to receive light from the diverging light source and form an image. The near-eye display device also includes and a combiner comprising a holographic optical element positioned to receive light from the dynamic digital hologram panel and to redirect the light toward an eyebox, the holographic optical element being positioned between the eyebox and a view of an external environment to combine a view of the image formed by the dynamic digital hologram panel and the view of the external environment. |
185 |
Large-size bionic holographic three-dimensional dynamic display method with large field of view |
US15822107 |
2017-11-24 |
US20180150028A1 |
2018-05-31 |
Juan LIU; Xinhui DUAN |
The present invention relates to a large-size bionic holographic three-dimensional dynamic display method with large field of view. The method includes: a computer generated hologram (CGH) is loaded on a spatial light modulator; a large field angle is formed by changing the optical path through a microlens array or a diffractive optical element having same optical property with the microlens array disposed on a light-emitting surface of pixel structure of the spatial light modulator. Each microlens of the microlens array has one-to-one correspondence with each pixel of the pixel structure of the spatial light modulator. The cost is saved and design of the system structure is simplified while field view of the three-dimensional holographic display is expanded and large size is reappeared. The pixels in the spatial light modulator are fully utilized to avoid loss of resolution, and the display precision is provided to meet the growing demand of people. |
186 |
HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING EXPANDED VIEWING WINDOW |
US15676336 |
2017-08-14 |
US20180129166A1 |
2018-05-10 |
Wontaek Seo; Juwon Seo; Geeyoung Sung; Yuntae Kim |
A holographic display apparatus for providing an expanded viewing window is provided. The holographic display apparatus includes a spatial filter configured to allow a plurality of holographic images generated by 0th order or higher diffraction in a spatial light modulator to pass therethrough, and an image path conversion element configured to adjust a light path of the plurality of holographic images so that the plurality of holographic images are spaced apart from each other on a focal plane of an optical system. |
187 |
APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING HOLOGRAMS |
US15807199 |
2017-11-08 |
US20180129165A1 |
2018-05-10 |
Byoungho LEE; Youngmo JEONG; Gang LI; Dukho LEE |
An apparatus for manufacturing a hologram includes a holographic optical element on which a first interference pattern of a first signal beam and a first reference beam is recorded and a second interference pattern of a second signal beam modulated by a Fourier lens and a second reference beam is recorded. Also, an apparatus for reconstructing a hologram by using the holographic optical element is provided. |
188 |
HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTOR FOR WAVEGUIDE DISPLAY |
US15624409 |
2017-06-15 |
US20180120563A1 |
2018-05-03 |
Joel Steven KOLLIN; Andrew MAIMONE; Steven John ROBBINS; Eliezer GLIK; Andreas GEORGIOU; Xinye LOU |
Examples are disclosed that relate to a near-eye display device including a holographic display system. The holographic display system includes a light source configured to emit light that is converging or diverging, a waveguide configured to be positioned in a field of view of a user's eye, and a digital dynamic hologram configured to receive the light, and project the light into the waveguide such that the light propagates through the waveguide. |
189 |
DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE-TAKING APPARATUS |
US15844009 |
2017-12-15 |
US20180107159A1 |
2018-04-19 |
Keigo MATSUO |
Provided is a digital holographic image-taking apparatus, including: an illumination portion (10) having a light emission surface (14D) for emitting illumination light toward an object (1), the illumination light having a specific wavelength in a coherent plane waveform; and an image sensor (50) having an pixel array (51) including two-dimensionally arranged pixels, the image sensor (50) capturing an interference pattern generated based on the illumination light having acted on the object (1), in which the following conditional expression is satisfied: 0.0000001
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190 |
BACKLIGHT UNIT AND HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME |
US15604247 |
2017-05-24 |
US20180094791A1 |
2018-04-05 |
Hye Sog LEE; Jae Ho YOU |
A backlight unit includes: a light source unit which outputs coherent light; a first reflection unit including a parabolic mirror; a second reflection unit facing the first reflection unit and including a flat mirror; and a holographic optical element which changes a path of incident light, where a reflection surface of the second reflection unit forms an acute angle with an light incident surface of the holographic optical element, and the coherent light output from the light source unit sequentially passes the first reflection unit, the second reflection unit, and the holographic optical element. |
191 |
Near-to-Eye and See-Through Holographic Displays |
US15658388 |
2017-07-24 |
US20180074457A1 |
2018-03-15 |
Sundeep Jolly; Nickolaos Savidis; V. Michael Bove, JR.; Bianca Datta; Daniel E. Smalley |
A holographic display is comprised of space-multiplexed elemental modulators, each of which consists of a surface acoustic wave transducer atop an anisotropic waveguide. Each “line” of the overall display consists of a single anisotropic waveguide across the display's length with multiple surface acoustic wave transducers spaced along the waveguide length, although for larger displays, the waveguide may be divided into segments, each provided with separate illumination. Light that is undiffracted by a specific transducer is available for diffraction by subsequent transducers. Per transducer, guided-mode light is mode-converted to leaky-mode light, which propagates into the substrate away from the viewer before encountering a volume reflection grating and being reflected and steered towards the viewer. The display is transparent and all reflection volume gratings operate in the Bragg regime, thereby creating no dispersion of ambient light. |
192 |
Illuminated cup holder |
US15686258 |
2017-08-25 |
US09902319B1 |
2018-02-27 |
Stuart C. Salter; Christopher Anthony Danowski; Paul Kenneth Dellock; Pietro Buttolo; James J. Surman |
A vehicle cup holder includes a console substrate defining a cup well. A light source is positioned proximate the cup well. An insert is positioned within the cup well and defines a base wall and a side wall, wherein at least one of the base wall and the side wall defines a diffraction grating. |
193 |
Interferometric System and Method of Measurement of Refractive Index Spatial Distribution |
US15520293 |
2015-10-05 |
US20170322151A1 |
2017-11-09 |
Pavel KOLMAN; Radim CHMELIK |
An interferometric system and a method of measurement of refractive index spatial distribution for use in digital holographic microscopy to observe samples in reflected as well as transmitted radiation or to observe luminescent samples comprises a first branch and a second branch with a plurality of optical elements. The first branch comprises a diffraction grating located in a plane optically conjugated with the object plane in order to create an achromatic hologram with spatial carrier frequency in the output image plane. |
194 |
Spatial light modulator comprising a liquid crystal device having reduced stray light |
US14425674 |
2012-09-05 |
US09810948B2 |
2017-11-07 |
Naru Usukura; Hiromi Katoh; Yuichi Kanbayashi; Norbert Leister; Ralf Haussler |
The present invention relates to a controllable diffraction device for a light modulator device. The controllable diffraction device comprises at least two substrates, at least one electrode on each of said substrates facing each other, and liquid crystals forming at least one liquid crystal layer arranged between said electrodes on said substrates. The orientation of the liquid crystals is controllable by a voltage supplied to the electrodes. The liquid crystal layer is provided on at least one alignment layer arranged on at least one electrode on said substrates. The liquid crystals close to the alignment layer are pre-oriented by at least one pre-tilt angle relative to the alignment layer such that the resulting light diffraction in opposite spatial directions is approximately equal. |
195 |
Illuminated cup holder |
US15278216 |
2016-09-28 |
US09809161B1 |
2017-11-07 |
Stuart C. Salter; Christopher Anthony Danowski; Paul Kenneth Dellock; Pietro Buttolo; James J. Surman |
A vehicle cup holder includes a console substrate defining a cup well. A light source is positioned to emit light into the cup well. An insert is positioned within the cup well and defines a base wall and a side wall. At least one of the base wall and the side wall defines a diffraction grating. A holographic film is positioned between the insert and the console substrate. |
196 |
System, apparatus and method for extracting three-dimensional information of an object from received electromagnetic radiation |
US15014742 |
2016-02-03 |
US09804563B2 |
2017-10-31 |
Joseph Rosen; Gary Brooker |
An apparatus and method to produce a hologram of an object includes an electromagnetic radiation assembly configured to receive a received electromagnetic radiation, such as light, from the object. The electromagnetic radiation assembly is further configured to diffract the received electromagnetic radiation and transmit a diffracted electromagnetic radiation. An image capture assembly is configured to capture an image of the diffracted electromagnetic radiation and produce the hologram of the object from the captured image. |
197 |
Holographic high power illumination distribution system |
US14662913 |
2015-03-19 |
US09740169B2 |
2017-08-22 |
Quinn Y. Smithwick |
An illumination distribution system for distributing high power illumination to a set of projectors. The system includes a display element, such as a spatial light modulator (SLM), receiving light from a laser. The system includes a fiber optic array with connection locations for optical fibers. The system includes projectors that are each coupled to the fiber optic array at one or more of the connection locations with at least one optical fiber. The system includes a controller operating the display element at a first time to display a first hologram and at a second time to display a second hologram differing from the first hologram such that the laser light is split, with equal or unequal splitting ratios, into beams that are selectively directed to the connection locations of the fiber optic array (e.g., based on a 2D routing pattern used to generate the holograms). |
198 |
INTERACTIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD |
US15374505 |
2016-12-09 |
US20170235372A1 |
2017-08-17 |
Hoon SONG; Yuntae KIM; Juwon SEO; Hongseok LEE; Chilsung CHOI |
An interactive 3D display apparatus and method are provided. The interactive 3D display apparatus includes a hand sensing module configured to acquire a hand image by detecting a hand of a user and a user interaction module configured to generate a virtual object adjustment parameter by analyzing user-intended information about the hand based on the hand image acquired by the hand sensing module and comparing an analysis result with predefined user scenarios, an image rendering module configured to set a scene according to the generated virtual object adjustment parameter, generate image data by rendering the set scene, and convert the generated image data into display data, and a 3D display configured to display a 3D image including a virtual object in which a change intended by the user has been reflected according to the display data. |
199 |
HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD USING DIRECTIONAL BACKLIGHT UNIT (BLU) |
US15381962 |
2016-12-16 |
US20170176933A1 |
2017-06-22 |
Hyun Eui KIM; Tae One KIM |
A holographic display apparatus and method using a directional backlight unit (BLU) are provided. The holographic display apparatus may include a BLU configured to control light to be incident on a spatial light modulator (SLM) using a plurality of mirrors, and the SLM configured to modulate the incident light based on image information and to display a holographic image. |
200 |
Apparatus for producing a hologram |
US14363380 |
2012-12-07 |
US09678473B2 |
2017-06-13 |
Joseph Rosen; Gary Brooker; Nisan Siegel |
An apparatus for producing a hologram includes a collimation lens configured to receive incoherent light emitted from an object; a spatial light modulator (SLM) that includes at least one diffractive lens which is configured to receive the incoherent light from the collimation lens and split the incoherent light into two beams that interfere with each other; and a camera configured to record the interference pattern of the two beams to create a hologram, wherein a ratio between a distance from the SLM to the camera and a focal length of the diffractive lens is greater than 1. |