A luminaire includes a housing, a downlight that includes one or more first light sources configured to emit a first light downwardly from the housing, a waveguide, and one or more second light sources. The waveguide is formed of a portion of an optical material and characterized by opposing planar faces joined by one or more edge faces about a periphery of the optical material. The waveguide forms at least a portion of an uppermost optical surface of the luminaire. The one or more second light sources are coupled with the housing and configured to emit a second light into the optical material through at least one of the one or more edge faces. The waveguide is configured to emit at least a portion of the second light upwardly from an upper one of the planar faces.

In various embodiments, a lighting device for a motor vehicle is provided. The lighting device includes at least one light source, and at least one layer of a lacquer embodied such that light may be coupled into the lacquer for achieving a luminous effect. Scattering particles are provided in the lacquer for output coupling of the light.

A light guide plate has a light conducting portion having a light input surface for introducing light into the light guide plate, a main light guiding body that is thinner than a maximum thickness of the light conducting portion, and disposed continuously from the light conducting portion, a slanted surface that is disposed on the light conducting portion on at least one of a surface near a light output surface and a surface opposite the surface near the light output surface, and that is inclined from a section of the light guide plate that is thicker than the main light guiding body toward an end of the main light guiding body, two cylindrical surfaces that cut into the slanted surface, and a groove formed by the two cylindrical surfaces.

A lighting assembly includes a light guide having opposed major surfaces, a light input edge extending between the major surfaces and including first and second input regions, a first light guide region associated with the first input region and including first light extracting elements, and a second light guide region associated with the second input region and including second light extracting elements. A first light source segment is arranged to input light through the first input region and into the first light guide region, and a second light source segment is arranged to input light through the second input region and into the second light guide region. The first light source segment and the second light source segment are independently controllable to control an illumination state of the solid-state light emitters

An optical element comprises a light transmitting substrate (100), the light transmitting substrate comprises a first surface, and the first surface is provided with a plurality of strip-shaped prisms (200) which are arranged parallel to each other along a predetermined direction and extend along another predetermined direction. In the direction along which the plurality of strip-shaped prisms are arranged, a side of each strip-shaped prism close to a center of the light transmitting substrate has a refractive surface (201); from an end of the refracting surface close to the center of the light transmitting substrate to another end of the refracting surface close to an edge of the light transmitting substrate, the refracting surface inclines gradually along a direction away from the first surface. From the strip-shaped prism nearest to the center of the light transmitting substrate to the strip-shaped prism farthest to the center of the light transmitting substrate, an angle between the refracting surface and a normal of the first surface is gradually increased. A light guide plate (10), a prism (20), a backlight module and a display device are further provided.

A light assembly includes a core, a light source, and a functional layer. The core extends along a centerline, and includes a base end, a distal end, a first side spanning axially between the base and distal ends, and a second side opposite the first side and spanning axially between the base and distal ends. The second side includes an unbinding element axially extending partially between the base and distal ends. The light source is adapted to emit light rays into the core at the base end. The functional layer is laterally spaced from the first side, axially extends partially between the base and distal ends, and is axially aligned to the unbinding element.

A lighting assembly includes a light guide to propagate light by total internal reflection and having a light output region on a major surface thereof. The lighting assembly also includes an optical adjuster having a major surface juxtaposed with and conforming to the light guide's major surface. The optical adjuster has a first region and a second region, the first region having a light modifying characteristic. The optical adjuster and light output region are variably positionable relative to one another to selectively apportion light emitted from the light output region between the first region and the second region. In this way, light apportioned to the first region is modified by the light modifying characteristic so that light output from the lighting assembly is modified based on relative positioning of the optical adjuster and the light guide.

Provided are a backlight unit and a display apparatus including the same. An optical lens of an optical unit has a shape asymmetrical with respect to a plane that bisectionally divides a center of an optical package. A plurality of reflectors each of which has an embossed or engraved shape are disposed on a top surface of the reflection sheet.

An illumination system comprises a lightguide (12) having a plurality of light extraction features (LEFs); and a plurality of independently controllable light sources (11a, 11b, 11c). The LEFs have a preferred direction, with light that is incident on an LEF along the preferred direction of the LEF being extracted from the lightguide generally parallel to a reference plane, and light that is incident on an LEF not along the preferred direction of the LEF being extracted from the lightguide at an extraction angle to the reference plane, the extraction angle being related by a response function to an incidence angle between the light propagation direction and the preferred direction of LEF. The shape of the LEFs varies with distance from a reference point or respective reference point so that the response function becomes larger with increasing distance of the LEFs from the reference point.

In one embodiment, an overhead street light (a luminaire) is formed that has an asymmetric light intensity distribution, where the peak intensity is greatest along the direction of the street, lower directly across the street, and much lower on the house side of the street. Around the edge of a circular transparent light guide are white light LEDs that inject light into the light guide. To help control the asymmetry of the light intensity distribution, sawtooth-shaped grooves are formed in the light guide surface opposite to the light-emission surface and parallel to the street. Gaussian diffusers are used to partially diffuse the light. By proper selection of the grooves, the Gaussian diffuser, and the relative amounts of light emitted by LED segments around the light guide, the desired asymmetrical light intensity distribution is achieved while a direct view of the light exit surface appears as a uniform light.