G02B3/005

Lamp for vehicle
11644170 · 2023-05-09 · ·

Provided is a lamp for a vehicle. The vehicle lamp comprises a light source unit for generating light, and a lens unit for forming a predetermined beam pattern by allowing the light incident through a plurality of incident lenses from the light source unit to be emitted through a plurality of emitting lenses corresponding to each of the plurality of incident lenses. The plurality of incident lenses comprises a first incident lens for allowing the light incident from the light source unit to be emitted in a first direction, and a second incident lens for allowing a first portion of the light incident from the light source unit to be emitted in the first direction, and a second portion of the light to be emitted in a second direction different from the first direction.

Image sensors having grating structures therein that provide enhanced diffraction of incident light

An image sensor may include a semiconductor substrate having a light receiving surface thereon and a plurality of spaced-apart semiconductor photoelectric conversion regions at adjacent locations therein. A grating structure is provided on the light receiving surface. This grating structure extends opposite each of the plurality of spaced-apart photoelectric conversion regions. An optically-transparent layer is provided on the grating structure. This grating structure includes a plurality of spaced-apart grating patterns, which can have the same height and the same width. In addition, the grating patterns may be spaced apart from each other by a uniform distance. The grating structure is configured to selectively produce ±1 or higher order diffraction lights to the photoelectric conversion regions, in response to light incident thereon.

Optical substrates having light collimating and diffusion structures

An optical substrate having a structured prismatic surface and an opposing structured lenticular surface. The structured lenticular surface includes shallow-curved lens structures. Adjacent shallow-curved lens structure may be continuous or contiguous, or separated by a constant or variable spacing. The lens structure may have a longitudinal structure with a uniform or varying cross section. The lenticular lenses may have a laterally meandering structure. Sections of adjacent straight or meandering lenticular lenses may intersect or partially or completely overlap each other. The lenticular lenses may be in the form of discontinuous lenticular segments. The lenticular segments may have regular, symmetrical shapes, or irregular, asymmetrical shapes, which may be intersecting or overlapping, and may be textured. The lens structure may be provided with isolated ripples, in the form of a single knot, or a series of knots.

LENTICULAR PRODUCT
20170363780 · 2017-12-21 ·

Lenticular products and methods of manufacturing. A lenticular product can include a lenticular sheet having a front surface and a back surface, the front surface including an array of lenticular lenses. Images can be printed on the back surface of the lenticular sheet, and each of the images can be arranged into frames interlaced with other frames corresponding to other images, wherein each of the frames is aligned with a lenticular lense such that light reflected from frames associated with a same image are refracted in a same direction and frames reflected from frames associated with a different image are refracted in a different direction. The lenticular can include a backing layer having a first surface coupled to the back surface of the lenticular sheet and a second surface opposite of the first surface. The backing layer can include instructions and/or images on the second surface representing a sports move.

SUBSTRATE UNIT OF NANOSTRUCTURE ASSEMBLY TYPE, OPTICAL IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF
20170363967 · 2017-12-21 ·

The present disclosure relates to a substrate unit of a nanostructure assembly type, an optical image apparatus including the same, and a controlling method thereof, and the substrate unit of the nanostructure assembly type according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a lower substrate; an upper substrate separated from the lower substrate, an observation object being able to be positioned at the upper substrate; and at least one metal nanostructure positioned on the lower substrate, wherein the at least one metal nanostructure is capable of being assembled on the lower substrate or separated from the lower substrate.

Light-Emitting Detection Device
20220381694 · 2022-12-01 ·

A light-emission detection apparatus is provided for individually condensing light emitted from each emission point of an emission-point array using each condensing lens of a condensing-lens array to forma light beam and detecting each light beam incident on a sensor in parallel. The light-emission detection apparatus can be downsized and high sensitivity and low crosstalk can be simultaneously accomplished when a certain relation between the diameter of each emission point, a focal length of each condensing lens, an interval of condensing lenses, and an optical path length between each condensing lens and a sensor is satisfied.

VEHICLE NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEM
20170358220 · 2017-12-14 ·

A laser navigational system for a vehicle having a lighting assembly configured for emission of light. A lens array assembly receives incoming light from the lighting assembly and changes the direction of the incoming light received from the lighting assembly such that the outgoing light emanating from the lens array assembly is collimated in a first direction but diverges along a different, second direction. A scanning unit aligns with the lighting assembly to direct the collimated beam in two orthogonal directions. The lighting assembly, the lens array assembly and the scanning unit are configured to direct the light to form a visual beacon that guides navigation of the vehicle to a location.

Luminance enhancement film having a substrate incorporation dispersed particles for diffusion
09841541 · 2017-12-12 · ·

The present invention discloses a light redirecting film. The light redirecting film comprises a support substrate and an optical substrate. The support substrate comprises a unitary body, wherein the unitary body has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The optical substrate has a third surface and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface, wherein the fourth surface is a structured surface, and the second surface of the unitary body faces the third surface of the optical substrate. A plurality of particles are disposed in a region below the first surface of the unitary body, wherein the thickness of the region is smaller than the thickness of the unitary body.

LIGHTING APPARATUS

The present disclosure describes a lighting system for vehicle interiors, comprising a light source that emits visible light and a component arranged relative to the light source in such a manner that light emitted from the light source passes through it. The lighting system further comprises a transparent substrate with a surface area through which light emitted from the light source passes, and a lenticular screen structure having a plurality of regularly arranged lens elements and being formed on the surface area of the transparent substrate. The invention present disclosure also describes using the lighting system and its component to illuminate the interior of vehicles, wherein generated three-dimensional lighting effects can be perceived differently by a viewer/occupant in the interior space, depending on the angle of viewing.

Device for shaping laser radiation
09823479 · 2017-11-21 · ·

Device for shaping laser radiation (10a, 10c), comprising a component (1) having an entrance face (2) and an exit face (3), a first lens array (4) on the entrance face (2) with a plurality of lenses (5a, 5c, 5e) juxtaposed in the X-direction, and a second lens array (6) on the exit face (3) with a plurality of lenses (7a, 7c, 7e) juxtaposed in the Y-direction, wherein the laser radiation (10a, 10c) is deflected by a first one of the lenses (5a, 5c, 5e) of the first lens array (4) with respect to the X- and Y-direction by a different angle than from a second one of the lenses (5a, 5c, 5e) of the first lens array (4), and/or wherein the laser radiation (10a, 10c) is deflected by a first of the lenses (7a, 7c, 7e) of the second lens array (6) with respect to the X- and Y-direction by a different angle than by a second one of the lenses (7a, 7c, 7e) of the second lens array (6).