141 |
OPTICAL PROCESSING |
US15358724 |
2016-11-22 |
US20170102603A1 |
2017-04-13 |
Melanie Holmes |
A modular routing node includes a single input port and a plurality of output ports. The modular routing node is arranged to produce a plurality of different deflections and uses small adjustments to compensate for wavelength differences and alignment tolerances in an optical system. An optical device is arranged to receive a multiplex of many optical signals at different wavelengths, to separate the optical signals into at least two groups, and to process at least one of the groups adaptively. |
142 |
LENSLESS IMAGING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF OBSERVATION |
US15274108 |
2016-09-23 |
US20170082975A1 |
2017-03-23 |
Alain GLIERE; Salim BOUTAMI; Alexei TCHELNOKOV; Ivan VOZNYUK; Cedric ALLIER |
The invention describes a device allowing the observation of a sample, comprising particles, for example biological particles, by lensless imaging. The sample is disposed against a substrate, the substrate being interposed between a light source and an image sensor. The substrate comprises at least one thin film, extending across a thin film plane, structured so as to form a diffraction grating, designed to confine a part of a light wave emitted by the light source, in a plane parallel to said thin film plane. The device does not comprise magnification optics between the substrate and the image sensor. |
143 |
Method and system for imaging an object using incoherent light |
US13260569 |
2010-03-31 |
US09594346B2 |
2017-03-14 |
Joseph Rosen; Barak Katz |
A method of generating a hologram of an object is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving data corresponding to a plurality of non-coherent sub-holograms acquired by an optically passive synthetic aperture holographic apparatus, combining the sub-holograms to generate a mosaic hologram of the object, and transmitting the mosaic hologram to a computer readable medium. |
144 |
DISPLAY WITH OBSERVER TRACKING |
US15355340 |
2016-11-18 |
US20170068092A1 |
2017-03-09 |
Norbert LEISTER |
The invention relates to a display, in particular an autostereoscopic or holographic display, for representing preferably three-dimensional information, wherein the stereo views or the reconstructions of the holographically encoded objects can be tracked to the movements of the associated eyes of one or more observers in a finely stepped manner within a plurality of zones of the movement region. In this case, the zones are selected by the activation of switchable polarization gratings. |
145 |
IMAGING APPRATUS AND METHODS USING DIFFRACTION-BASED ILLUMINATION |
US15307759 |
2014-04-30 |
US20170052384A1 |
2017-02-23 |
Charles M Santori; Alexander Govyadinov |
Imaging apparatus and methods using diffraction-based illumination are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a diffraction grating to redirect light from a light source toward a sample to thereby illuminate the sample. The example apparatus also includes an image sensor to detect a diffraction pattern created by the illuminated sample. |
146 |
HOLOGRAM DATA GENERATING METHOD, HOLOGRAM IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND HOLOGRAM IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE |
US15257207 |
2016-09-06 |
US20160378062A1 |
2016-12-29 |
Daichi WATANABE; Yoshiaki HORIKAWA |
Hologram data is generated by dividing hologram data generation area, in which hologram data is generated, into a plurality of element sub-areas, computing base hologram data that pertains to an area smaller than the hologram data generation area and that is to form an optical wavefront of an image to be reconstructed, and assigning, as hologram data of the element sub-areas4, hologram data of an entirety or a part of the area to which the base hologram data pertains. Consequently, the amount of operations for generating a hologram pattern in holographic display is reduced. |
147 |
Optical processing |
US14568750 |
2014-12-12 |
US09529325B2 |
2016-12-27 |
Melanie Holmes |
A modular routing node includes a single input port and a plurality of output ports. The modular routing node is arranged to produce a plurality of different deflections and uses small adjustments to compensate for wavelength differences and alignment tolerances in an optical system. An optical device is arranged to receive a multiplex of many optical signals at different wavelengths, to separate the optical signals into at least two groups, and to process at least one of the groups adaptively. |
148 |
DISPLAY APPARATUS |
US15231901 |
2016-08-09 |
US20160349508A1 |
2016-12-01 |
Yoshiaki HORIKAWA |
A display apparatus includes a spatial phase modulator that forms a display light beam, a transparent substrate in which the display light beam propagates by repeated internal reflection, a bifurcation that emits a portion of the display light beam outside the transparent substrate each time the display light beam undergoes the internal reflection, and a light beam introduction optical system including a beam splitter that guides an illumination light beam to the spatial phase modulator and guides the display light beam formed by the spatial phase modulator to the transparent substrate. The spatial phase modulator forms the display light beam holographically by diffraction of the illumination light beam. |
149 |
Integrated filter and grating in an aiming sight |
US14274057 |
2014-05-09 |
US09482803B2 |
2016-11-01 |
Brian Paul Dehmlow; David Edwin Ventola; Zbynek Ryzi |
A holographic sight is provided having a housing that includes a plurality of holograph sight components. A laser diode mounted in the housing is configured to emit a laser light beam. The light beam is transmitted to an integrated diffraction grating and filter unit which includes a grating and a filter in a single device. The diffraction grating has a grating surface for diffracting the light beam and also diffracting unwanted ambient light transmitted into the housing. The filter is an optical filter contacting at least a portion of the grating. The optical filter is adapted to absorb at least one wavelength of the ambient light to inhibit the ambient light from diffracting into a visible spectrum that might otherwise be viewable to a user looking into the holographic sight. |
150 |
HOLOGRAPHIC FOIL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME |
US14783833 |
2014-04-03 |
US20160306089A1 |
2016-10-20 |
Stefan MORGOTT; Joachim REILL; Peter BRICK |
Described is a holographic film (100) whose transmission and/or reflection properties vary periodically along at least one of its directions of principal extent, said film being designed for at least partial transmission (22, 28) of light (20, 26) of at least one first wavelength range that is irradiated from a multiplicity of periodically disposed illuminants (200) and that impinges on the holographic film (100). Also described are a lighting means (300), a backlighting means and a method for producing a holographic film (100). |
151 |
Beam divergence and various collimators for holographic or stereoscopic displays |
US13808379 |
2011-04-11 |
US09395690B2 |
2016-07-19 |
Gerald Futterer |
A holographic display with an illumination device, an enlarging unit and a light modulator. The illumination device includes at least one light source and a light collimation unit, the light collimation unit collimates the light of the at least one light source and generates a light wave field of the light that is emitted by the light source with a specifiable angular spectrum of plane waves, the enlarging unit is disposed downstream of the light collimation unit, seen in the direction of light propagation, where the enlarging unit comprises includes a transmissive volume hologram realizing an anamorphic broadening of the light wave field due to a transmissive interaction of the light wave field with the volume hologram, and the light modulator is disposed upstream or downstream of the anamorphic enlarging unit, seen in the direction of light propagation. |
152 |
Display device and display system |
US13995354 |
2012-10-16 |
US09389421B2 |
2016-07-12 |
Keiji Sugiyama; Kakuya Yamamoto; Kenichi Kasazumi |
A display device includes a light source which outputs laser light, an illumination optical system which emits the laser light as illumination light, a spatial modulation element which diffracts the illumination light by displaying a diffraction pattern, a diffraction pattern acquiring unit which acquires a basic diffraction pattern generated based on an image, and a diffraction pattern process unit which uses the basic diffraction pattern and a correction diffraction pattern for correcting the basic diffraction pattern to generate, as the diffraction pattern to be displayed on the spatial modulation element, a combined diffraction pattern obtained by correcting the basic diffraction pattern by the correction diffraction pattern. The spatial modulation element displays diffracted light, which is diffracted by displaying the combined diffraction pattern, to a user as a fictive image. |
153 |
Apparatus for detecting a 3D structure of an object |
US14259942 |
2014-04-23 |
US09297647B2 |
2016-03-29 |
Alexander Knüttel |
An apparatus for detecting a 3D structure of an object. The apparatus has first and second laser emitters which generate laser radiation having first and second wavelengths, respectively, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength. Optical devices are disclosed, including a beam splitter, which splits the laser radiation of the laser emitters in each case into a reference radiation and an illuminating radiation. The illuminating radiation impinges upon the object to be measured, is reflected by the object as object radiation and interferes with the reference radiation. A detector receives the interference patterns. The laser emitters are located such that the illuminating radiation of the first and second laser emitters impinge upon the object at different angles of incidence. Also discussed is a measuring device which measures the two wavelengths of the laser radiation of the laser emitters and influences the recording of the interference patterns. |
154 |
HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY DEVICE |
US14816441 |
2015-08-03 |
US20160041525A1 |
2016-02-11 |
Takeru UTSUGI; Kazuyoshi YAMAZAKI |
To reduce an influence of stray light and stably record/reproduce high-quality data in holographic recording/reproduction. A holographic memory device includes an optical system that guides a reference beam to an optical information recording medium at a desired angle of incidence, a control part that controls the angle of incidence of the reference beam generated in the optical system, and a lens part that images the reference beam in a desired position of the optical information recording medium. Further, at least a first light beam at a first angle and a second light beam at a second angle different from the first angle are output from the optical element, and the optical element is provided so that the first light beam may propagate within an effective diameter of the lens part and the second light beam may propagate to an outside of the effective diameter of the lens part. |
155 |
INTEGRATED FILTER AND GRATING IN AN AIMING SIGHT |
US14274057 |
2014-05-09 |
US20160003996A1 |
2016-01-07 |
Brian Paul DEHMLOW; David Edwin VENTOLA; Zbynek RYZI |
A holographic sight is provided having a housing that includes a plurality of holograph sight components. A laser diode mounted in the housing is configured to emit a laser light beam. The light beam is transmitted to an integrated diffraction grating and filter unit which includes a grating and a filter in a single device. The diffraction grating has a grating surface for diffracting the light beam and also diffracting unwanted ambient light transmitted into the housing. The filter is an optical filter contacting at least a portion of the grating. The optical filter is adapted to absorb at least one wavelength of the ambient light to inhibit the ambient light from diffracting into a visible spectrum that might otherwise be viewable to a user looking into the holographic sight. |
156 |
VOLUME HOLOGRAM FOR OPTIC ILLUMINATION |
US14320290 |
2014-06-30 |
US20150378080A1 |
2015-12-31 |
Andreas Georgiou; Joel S. Kollin; Neil Emerton |
An optical system includes an illumination source, a volume hologram, and an image-forming optic. The illumination source is configured to emit coherent light, and the volume hologram is configured to receive and diffract the coherent light. The image-forming optic is arranged opposite the volume hologram and configured to receive the coherent light diffracted by the volume hologram and to spatially modulate the coherent light to form an image. |
157 |
Display Method and Display Apparatus |
US14638234 |
2015-03-04 |
US20150241844A1 |
2015-08-27 |
Yoshiaki Horikawa |
A display method lets a display beam to propagate in a transparent substrate while internally reflected repeatedly and lets the display beam partly emit out of the transparent substrate every time the display beam is internally reflected, thereby emitting display beams from almost entirety of a surface of the transparent substrate. The display beam is produced holographically. A display apparatus includes a spatial phase modulator that produces a display beam, a transparent substrate in which the display beam is internally reflected repeatedly to propagate in it, and a splitter that lets the display beam partly emit out of the transparent substrate every time the display beam is internally reflected. |
158 |
Apparatus and method for fast generation of three-dimensional (3D) hologram |
US13686078 |
2012-11-27 |
US09081363B2 |
2015-07-14 |
Dong Kyung Nam; Ho Cheon Wey; Seok Lee; Du Sik Park; Ju Yong Park |
An apparatus for generating a hologram that may generate a three-dimensional (3D) hologram pattern at a high speed may include a pattern setting unit to set points for which hologram patterns are to be generated with respect to a one-eighth area of an entire area for which a hologram pattern is to be generated, a calculation unit to calculate pattern values for a plurality of reference points selected with respect to the one-eighth area of the entire area, and to generate a pattern for the one-eighth area using recurrent interpolation, and a pattern duplicating unit to complete a pattern for the entire area by duplicating the generated pattern for the one-eighth area. |
159 |
METHOD FOR ENCODING A HOLOGRAM IN A LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE |
US14361739 |
2012-11-29 |
US20150124302A1 |
2015-05-07 |
Norbert Leister |
A hologram is constructed from individual subholograms assigned to corresponding encoding regions in a light modulation device and respectively assigned to an object point of the object to be reconstructed with the hologram. With a virtual observer window, a defined viewing region is provided through which a reconstructed scene in a reconstruction space is observed by an observer. A complex value of a wavefront for each individual object point is calculated in the virtual observer window. Each individual amplitude of a complex value of a wavefront in the virtual observer window is subsequently multiplied by a correction value with which a correction of the angle selectivity of at least one volume grating arranged downstream in the beam path of the light modulation device is carried out. The corrected complex values determined in this way for all object points are summed and transformed into the hologram plane of the light modulation device. |
160 |
APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A 3D STRUCTURE OF AN OBJECT |
US14259942 |
2014-04-23 |
US20140320865A1 |
2014-10-30 |
Alexander Knüttel |
An apparatus for detecting a 3D structure of an object. The apparatus has first and second laser emitters which generate laser radiation having first and second wavelengths, respectively, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength. Optical devices are disclosed, including a beam splitter, which splits the laser radiation of the laser emitters in each case into a reference radiation and an illuminating radiation. The illuminating radiation impinges upon the object to be measured, is reflected by the object as object radiation and interferes with the reference radiation. A detector receives the interference patterns. The laser emitters are located such that the illuminating radiation of the first and second laser emitters impinge upon the object at different angles of incidence. Also discussed is a measuring device which measures the two wavelengths of the laser radiation of the laser emitters and influences the recording of the interference patterns. |