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Color foveated display devices and methods of making the same

A display device includes a display panel having a first emission region and one or more second emission regions disposed adjacent to the first emission region. The display device includes a plurality of light emitters, arranged in the first emission region, corresponding to a first color gamut and a plurality of light emitters, arranged in the one or more second emission regions, corresponding to a second color gamut that is distinct from the first color gamut. A method for making a display device with a plurality of light emitters corresponding to a first color gamut in a first emission region and a plurality of light emitters corresponding to a second color gamut in a second emission region is also described.

Illuminated cup holder

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.

Contact lens with phase map display
09810910 · 2017-11-07 · ·

A contact lens includes a transparent material, a substrate material, a light source, an optical system, and a phase map. The transparent material has an eye-side opposite an external side. The eye-side is curved to fit the human eye. The light source is configured to emit illumination light. The optical system is configured to receive the illumination light from the light source and output the illumination light as an in-phase wavefront. The phase map is configured to adjust a phase of the in-phase wavefront to form an image at a retina-distance in response to being illuminated by the in-phase wavefront. The phase map is pre-recorded with a phase pattern that is included in the image.

DISPLAY ARTICLE

A display article (10) includes a plurality of display areas (12, and 13a to 13c). Display areas adjacent to each other differ in at least one of an average hue, an average brightness and an average chroma and a first object to be displayed (21) is formed by a combination of the plurality of display areas (12, and 13a to 13c). At least one of the display areas (12, 13a to 13c) includes a Fourier transform hologram (20R, 20Y) configured to convert incident ray from a point light source or a laser light source into a second object to be displayed.

FLEXIBLE PACKAGE WITH TAMPER-EVIDENT ANTI-COUNTERFEITING LABEL AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME
20170313489 · 2017-11-02 ·

A flexible package having a tamper evident product authentication label secured thereto and methods of making the same are disclosed. The package includes at least one panel having a heat seal line. The label has an outer surface with authentication indicia appearing thereon and an inner surface adhesively secured to the package adjacent the heat seal line. The label includes peripheral portions that are frangible, with one of the frangible peripheral portions of the label being located within a portion of the area made up by the heat seal line. Accordingly, attempted removal of the label from the package will cause said label to tear, leaving at least a portion of the peripheral edge of the label secured to the package to thereby prevent reuse of the label.

SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR
20220060667 · 2022-02-24 ·

A liquid crystal on silicon spatial light modulator comprising an array of light-modulating pixels and a controller are disclosed. Each light-modulating pixel of the array comprises liquid crystal and is associated with a respective flip-flop. The controller receives a hologram of an image comprising a plurality of hologram pixels. Each hologram pixel comprises a respective n-bit hologram pixel value. The controller drives each light-modulating pixel in accordance with a respective hologram pixel value of the hologram. There is a one-to-n pixel correlation between the hologram and the light-modulating pixels. The flip-flops of each contiguous group of n light-modulating pixels are connected in series to form a shift register. During operation of the shift register, the n-bit hologram pixel value associated with each contiguous group of n light-modulating pixels is provided to each light-modulating pixel one bit at a time over the course of at least n clock cycles.

AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE HAVING HOLOGRAPHIC PRODUCTS

An automatic vending machine having holographic products comprises: a user interface unit; a display unit comprising one or multiple displays; an image display processing unit for processing to display, on the display unit, a thematic image including a plurality of image objects and one or more three-dimensional product image objects included within the thematic image; and a sale processing unit for processing the sale of an actual product corresponding to the three-dimensional product image object selected for purchase by means of the user interface, wherein the image display processing unit rotates the three-dimensional product image object in accordance with a user input from the user interface unit.

AUTHENTICITY DETERMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SECURITY MEDIUM INCLUDING REFLECTIVE VOLUME HOLOGRAM, AND SECURITY MEDIUM INCLUDING REFLECTIVE VOLUME HOLOGRAM

To provide an authentication device and method for a security medium including a reflective volume hologram, capable of easily performing authentication determination and a security medium including the reflective volume hologram.

An authenticity determination device 1 for a security medium 10 including a reflective volume hologram 2 includes a light source L disposed on the front surface side of the reflective volume hologram 2 so that light emitted therefrom is incident on the reflective volume hologram 2, a first observation device 11 disposed in a pre-designed diffraction direction of the reflective volume hologram 2, and a second observation device 12 disposed in a direction other than the pre-designed diffraction direction of the reflective volume hologram 2. Light including a pre-designed diffraction wavelength is emitted from the light source L to be incident on the reflective volume hologram 2, and at this time, when the light amount observed in the first observation device 11 is larger in the diffraction wavelength than in other wavelengths, and the light amount observed in the second observation device 12 is smaller in the diffraction wavelength than in other wavelengths, it is determined that the reflective volume hologram 2 is genuine.

COLLOIDAL FINGERPRINTS FOR SOFT MATERIALS USING TOTAL HOLOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION
20170307497 · 2017-10-26 ·

Systems and methods for uniquely identifying fluid-phase products by endowing them with fingerprints composed of dispersed colloidal particles, and by reading out those fingerprints on demand using Total Holographic Characterization. A library of chemically inert colloidal particles is developed that can be dispersed into soft materials, the stoichiometry of the mixture encoding user-specified information, including information about the host material. Encoded information then can be recovered by high-speed analysis of holographic microscopy images of the dispersed particles. Specifically, holograms of individual colloidal spheres are analyzed with predictions of the theory of light scattering to measure each sphere's radius and refractive index, thereby building up the distribution of particle properties one particle at a time. A complete analysis of a colloidal fingerprint requires several thousand single-particle holograms and can be completed in ten minutes.

Near-eye display with phase map
09798147 · 2017-10-24 · ·

A near-eye display includes a light source, an optical system, and a phase map. The light source emits illumination light. The optical system is configured to receive the illumination light from the light source and output the illumination light as an in-phase wavefront. The phase map is configured to adjust a phase of the in-phase wavefront to form an image in response to being illuminated by the in-phase wavefront. The phase map is pre-recorded with a phase pattern that generates the image.