A light source module includes a light source, a wavelength conversion unit, a diffuser, and a reflector. The light source is configured to emit excitation light. The wavelength conversion unit is configured to reflect the excitation light. The diffuser has a first side and a second side opposite to each other, and is configured to allow the excitation light reflected by the wavelength conversion unit to enter the diffuser from the first side and reach the second side. The reflector is configured to reflect the excitation light entering the diffuser, so that the excitation light propagates from the second side to the first side and leaves the diffuser.

A tunable optical metamaterial system includes a tunable optical metamaterial, an actuator module to selectively activate the tunable optical metamaterial, and a control system to selectively control the actuator module. The tunable optical metamaterial includes a substrate defined by one or more fluid-filled pockets formed by one or more electroactive polymer (EAP) layers defining a reservoir containing a fluid that is induced to a change in volumetric configuration or 3D orientation when electrically activated. The optically active array of resonators are populated on an electroactive surface of the one or more fluid-filled pockets and are optically responsive to the change in volumetric configuration of the one or more fluid-filled pockets. The control module is to selectively control, via the actuator module, the optical properties of the tunable optical metamaterial by causing the electrical activation of the fluid-filled pockets.

A background display device for a virtual image recording studio is configured to display, behind a real subject, a representation of a virtual background for a camera recording and comprises an active illumination apparatus that comprises at least one panel having a plurality of picture elements in an at least two-dimensional arrangement; a control device; and a controllable lens arrangement. The control device is configured to control the active illumination apparatus to display the representation of the virtual background, and is configured to change a beam characteristic of at least some of the plurality of picture elements by controlling the lens arrangement.

A light-source device, an image projection apparatus, and a display device. The light-source device includes a light source to emit light, an optical element having a lens array on one side or both sides of which a plurality of lenses are arrayed with distance from each other, the distance between a pair of vertices of an adjacent pair of the plurality of lenses of the optical element being equal to or less than one-quarter of width of light flux of the light incident on the optical element and a wavelength conversion element to convert a wavelength of the light emitted from the light source and passed through the optical element. An image projection apparatus includes the light-source device, a light mixing element to mix the light emitted from the light-source device to uniformize the light and an illumination optical system to emit the light uniformized by the light mixing element.

A wafer includes a substrate layer, a first mirror layer having a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged first mirror portions, and a second mirror layer having a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged second mirror portions. In the wafer, a gap is formed between the first mirror portion and the second mirror portion so as to form a plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filter portions. A wafer inspection method according to an embodiment includes a step of performing faulty/non-faulty determination of each of the plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filter portions, and a step of applying ink to at least part of a portion overlapping the gap when viewed in a facing direction on the second mirror layer of the Fabry-Perot interference filter portion determined as faulty.

A white light source includes a light source and a phosphor conversion component. The light source emits short wavelength light peaked at a peak wavelength of 570 nanometers or shorter. The phosphor conversion component includes a light conversion layer comprising a phosphor effective to convert the short wavelength light to converted light. The light conversion layer includes light passages comprising openings or passage material that does not comprise the phosphor and is light transmissive for the short wavelength light. The light source is disposed respective to the phosphor conversion component so as to illuminate the light conversion layer with the emitted short wavelength light and to pass the short wavelength light through the light passages.

A lens curvature variation apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a liquid lens including a common electrode and a plurality of individual electrodes; a lens driver configured to apply a voltage to the common electrode and the plurality of individual electrodes; a sensor unit configured to sense an interface of the liquid lens; an AD converter configured to convert an analog signal corresponding to the interface output from the sensor unit into a digital signal; and a controller configured to control the lens driver based on a signal output from the AD converter, wherein the plurality of individual electrodes includes a first group and a second group each including two or more individual electrodes, wherein the sensor unit includes a first sensor unit connected to a first individual electrode among individual electrodes of the first group; and a second sensor unit connected to a second individual electrode among individual electrodes of the second group; and wherein the controller includes a controller for controlling the lens driver to adjust the voltage applied to each of the individual electrodes included in the first group and the second group based on the signal output from the AD converter.

A lens module according to an embodiment includes a first lens barrel in which a first solid lens is disposed; a second lens barrel disposed on the first lens barrel; and a variable focus lens disposed in the second lens barrel; wherein at least a part of the first lens barrel is disposed in the second lens barrel, and wherein the at least a part of the first lens barrel includes a region spaced apart from an inner surface of the second lens barrel.

Disclosed is a camera module comprising: a lens assembly including a liquid lens; an image sensor for receiving light that has passed through the lens assembly; a detecting sensor for detecting the movement of the lens assembly to generate a motion signal; a voltage controller for generating a driving signal to control an interface of the liquid lens in response to the motion signal; a detecting unit for outputting a motion frequency from the motion signal; and a driving unit for changing an image-capture timing of the image sensor according to the motion frequency.

This invention provides a vision system having a housing and an interchangeable lens module is provided. The module is adapted to seat on a C-mount ring provided on the front, mounting face of the housing. The module is attached via a plurality of fasteners that pass through a frame of the module and into the mounting face. The module includes a connector in a fixed location, which mates with a connector well on the mounting face to provide power and control to a driver board that operates a variable (e.g. liquid) lens within the optics of the lens module. The driver board is connected to the lens body by a flexible printed circuit board (PCB), which also allows for axial motion of the lens body with respect to the frame. This axial motion can be effected by an adjustment ring that can include an indexed/lockable, geared, outer surface.