| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 359454000 | Unitary sheet comprising plural refracting areas | 41 |
| 20080297894 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a display device including an image source unit shaped like a plate to form an image; and an image magnifying unit including a plurality of light transfer members each extended in a first direction and arrayed in a second direction transverse to the first direction, each light transfer member is shaped like a plate, of which a longitudinal direction is parallel with a surface of the image source unit and a height direction is transverse to the surface of the image source, and includes a plurality of cutting parts arrayed in the longitudinal direction and form a plurality of light guide channels. With this configuration, there is provided a display device which can reduce a problem that a joint is distinctive to a user's eye. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090122399 | OPTICAL DEVICE - Embodiments of an optical device including at least two transparent layers are disclosed. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100097699 | SCREEN FILM FOR LIGHT PROJECTION BRIGHTNESS ENHANCEMENT - A front-projection screen that includes a prismatic film that comprises an outside surface of the screen. The film includes parallel prismatic grooved lines. Each of the lines have a draft surface, a groove surface, and, each of the lines are located on a first side of a base portion of the film. The screen also includes a diffuser-reflector layer adjacent to a second opposite side of the base portion. The outside surface of the screen is oriented to receive an incoming light exclusively through the draft surfaces of the lines. The incoming light has an angle of incidence of about 60 degrees or greater with respect to the normal of the outside surface. A draft-base angle between the base portion and the draft surface is about 75 degrees or greater. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100165459 | LENS UNIT AND PROJECTION SCREEN MADE OF THE SAME - A lens unit and a projection screen made of the same are disclosed. The lens unit includes a micro lens having a light incident surface and a light emergent surface opposing to the light incident surface; a light absorbing layer formed on the light emergent surface of the micro lens and having a cavity formed therein; a scattering layer formed in the cavity of the light absorbing layer and including a transparent resin blended with scattering particles; and a reflective layer formed on the light absorbing layer and the scattering layer. The projection screen includes a plurality of the lens units, thereby achieving high contrast and high energy utilization efficiency of incident light with a large viewing angle. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110181948 | Multilayered Fluorescent Screens for Scanning Beam Display Systems - Fluorescent screens and display systems and devices based on such screens using at least one excitation optical beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials and non-phosphor materials such as quantum dots. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20120212812 | POLARIZATION SENSITIVE FRONT PROJECTION SCREEN - A projection system is disclosed, in which a screen may have improved rejection of ambient light by having a high reflectivity at low angles of incidence for a polarization parallel to that of the projector, a low reflectivity at high angles of incidence for a polarization parallel to that of the projector, and a low reflectivity at both low and high angles of incidence for a polarization perpendicular to that of the projector. In some embodiments, for p-polarized light polarized parallel to the projector, the power reflectivity is high at low angles of incidence and decreases to a low value at high angles of incidence. In some embodiments, for p-polarized light polarized perpendicular to the projector, the power reflectivity is low at low angles of incidence. In some embodiments, for s-polarized light polarized perpendicular to the projector, the power reflectivity remains low at all angles of incidence. In some embodiments, the screen includes a thin film structure that has alternating quarter-wave layers of isotropic and birefringent materials, which are refractive-index-matched for light polarized perpendicular to the projector, which form a high reflector at normal incidence for light polarized parallel to the projector, and which exhibit Brewster's angle effects for p-polarized light polarized parallel to the projector at high angles of incidence. The Brewster's angle effect may be reached by use of a light-scattering layer that increases the effective incident refractive index. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20130321910 | HIGH ANGLE REAR PROJECTION SYSTEM - A system for projecting content at an angle to a rear projection screen. The system includes a projector configured for projecting changeable electronic content and a rear projection screen for receiving the projected content at an angle and displaying the projected content. The rear projection screen includes a turning film having prisms facing toward or away from the projector. For prisms facing toward the projector, a protective film covers the turning film. When the projected content is displayed on the rear projection screen, the content has a substantially uniform appearance. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140355111 | SCATTERING SCREEN SYSTEM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION THEREOF - There is provided a screen scattering system. The system has a transparent substrate forming a substrate layer, and wide band gap materials made of 0D, 1D and 3D elements forming a scattering layer. The 0D, 1D and 3D elements are in the form of nanostructures aligned uniformly on said substrate layer. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140368906 | DISPLAY SCREEN OF IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed are a display screen of an image display system capable of displaying a 3D (three-dimensional) image and providing an image with a high contrast ratio in a bright room and a method for manufacturing the same. The display screen includes: a Fresnel lens layer; a reflective layer formed the light-exit surface of the Fresnel lens layer to reflect image light; and a protection layer formed on the light-incident surface of the Fresnel lens layer, wherein one surface of the protection layer may have an embossed pattern. | 12-18-2014 |
| 359455000 | Lenticular | 32 |
| 20090080071 | Projection type screen and image projection system - A projection type screen comprises a reflection surface array and a lenticular sheet. In the reflection surface array, a plurality of reflection surfaces is located along a horizontal direction. Each reflection surface has a mirror reflectivity of which section along the horizontal direction is quadratic curve shape. The lenticular sheet is located at an incident side of a projection light for the reflection surface array. The lenticular sheet has diffusivity along a vertical direction. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090207488 | SCREEN AND PROJECTION SYSTEM - A screen includes a screen sheet including a lens array having a plurality of element lenses arranged in a two-dimensional plane on the front side of the screen, a plurality of reflection surfaces disposed on the backside of the lens array, the plurality of reflection surfaces inclined to the two-dimensional plane, and a plurality of scattering portions that scatter the light directed from the plurality of reflection surfaces toward the front side of the screen. At least one of the plurality of element lenses is a combined lens comprised of a set of two lens portions offset from each other obtained by relatively shifting optical axes of the lens portions, and the reflection surfaces correspond to the respective combined lenses. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100091366 | Screen of projector - A screen of a projector having a substrate and a plurality of asymmetric optical structures is provided. There is a plurality of light absorbing zones and a plurality of reflective zones alternatively disposed on a surface of the substrate facing the projector. The asymmetric optical structures are disposed on the surface of the substrate and correspond to the reflective zones, respectively. The asymmetric optical structure has a first curved surface and a second curved surface, and the first curved surface protrudes toward the projector for converging an incident light from the projector on the reflective zone, and the second curved surface is disposed at a side of the first curved surface away from the projector for refracting a reflective light from the reflective zones toward the normal direction of the surface of the substrate. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100157424 | SCREEN - A screen that reflects light from a projection apparatus to present a projected image includes: a screen substrate; and a plurality of spherical microlenses disposed on the front side of the screen substrate, wherein the microlenses are arranged along a predetermined first direction on the screen substrate to form lens rows, and adjacent microlenses in each of the lens rows have different radii of curvature. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20120243082 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SCREEN AND PARTIAL SCREEN - A screen is manufactured by a partial screen manufacturing process, a cutting process, and a bonding process. In the partial screen manufacturing process, partial screens adapted to constitute the screen and each having a plurality of lens elements arranged on a surface are manufactured. In the cutting process, the partial screens are each cut. In the bonding process, the partial screens are bonded to each other on the cutting surfaces of the partial screens thus cut. Thus, since the shape of the molding die for forming the screen can be made smaller, the manufacturing process can be simplified. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120287502 | ROLLABLE DISPLAY SCREEN - A rollable display screen for use in electronic display systems includes a rollable screen that is mechanically coupled to a roller mechanism and has a plurality of pixel elements disposed thereon. The roller mechanism is configured as a stowing mechanism for the rollable screen, and may be further configured to deploy the rollable screen as a substantially planar viewing surface. The rollable display screen can be advantageously used for a durable and easily transported electronic display device since the rollable display screen is light-weight, durable, and compact. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20150077849 | REFLECTION SCREEN AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A reflection screen includes: a reflection layer provided on the back side and adapted to reflect light; and a surface shape layer provided on the reflection layer, at the image source side relative to the reflection screen, the surface shape layer having a plurality of unit optical shapes arrayed and deflecting image light toward the reflection layer side. The unit optical shape satisfies, in a section along the array direction of the unit optical shapes and orthogonal to a screen plane, the relationship of α+2φ−θ>90°, where θ is an angle that a total reflection surface makes with a plane parallel to the screen plane, φ is an angle that an incidence surface makes with a normal direction to the screen plane, and α is an angle that light incident on the incidence surface makes with the normal direction to the screen plane. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150362832 | PROJECTION SCREEN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PROJECTION SCREEN - A projection screen that includes a transparent substrate, a plurality of micro-lens structures, a Fresnel lens structure, a light absorption layer, and a diffusive reflection layer is provided. The transparent substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The micro-lens structures are located at the first surface of the transparent substrate. The Fresnel lens structure is located at the second surface of the transparent substrate. The light absorption layer includes a light absorption portion. The diffusive reflection layer includes a plurality of dispersive diffusive reflection portions connected to the Fresnel lens structure. The deviation degrees of the diffusive reflection portions with respect to a plurality of optical axes of the corresponding micro-lens structures increase together with an increase in slopes of inclined surfaces of the Fresnel lens structure on the corresponding optical axes. A manufacturing method of the projection screen is also provided. | 12-17-2015 |
| 359456000 | Rear projection screen | 23 |
| 20090009861 | Optical Sheet, Image Display Device, and Screen for Image Projector - An optical sheet of the present invention is constituted by a micro-lens array sheet formed with a flat face and a back face having micro lenses aligned laterally and longitudinally and an anisotropic light-absorbing sheet with different light absorbing properties depending on incident angle of incident light entering an incident face arranged oppositely and proximally to each other. The optical sheet may be constituted by the micro-lens array sheet, the anisotropic light-absorbing sheet, a pinhole array sheet and a light diffusing sheet arranged proximally in this order. In an image display device of the present invention, the optical sheet of the present invention is arranged proximally to a display face of an image display element. The anisotropic light-absorbing sheet of the present invention has through cavities surrounded by light-absorbing side walls mutually sharing the side walls and collected closely in a large number. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090052025 | LENS SHEET, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND RESIN COMPOSITION FOR TRANSFER MATERIAL - To provide a lenticular lens sheet having a fine light shielding pattern that has high color reproducibility. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The above problem can be solved by a lenticular lens sheet, in which the average primary particle diameter of carbon black contained in a light shielding layer is not less than 10 nm and not more than 50 nm and, preferably, in an image of the cross-section of the light shielding layer under scanning electron microscopic observation, the area ratio of carbon black to the whole image is not less than 60% and not more than 95%, and a process for producing the lenticular lens sheet. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20100220391 | LENTICULAR LENS SHEET - A lenticular lens sheet including: rows of cylindrical lenses on an incident surface side; protrusions on sections of the lens rows where light is not condensed; and light absorption layers on the protrusions. The pitch of the lens rows is smaller than 0.5 mm, the angle between the lowermost section of the protrusion and a sheet main surface is equal to or greater than 45° and is greater than the angle formed between the vertex of the protrusion and the sheet main surface, and the width of the protrusion measured at a position 10 μm away in the sheet thickness direction from the vertex of the protrusion is equal to or smaller than 150 μm. A light shielding layer thick enough formed on the protrusion of a lenticular lens can be easily and uniformly formed even if the pitch of the lenticular lens rows is small, and thereby contrast of external light can be enhanced. | 09-02-2010 |
| 359457000 | With Fresnel lens | 20 |
| 20080204868 | Screen, Fresnel Lens Sheet Used For The Same, And Image Display Apparatus Using The Same - An image display apparatus includes an image generation source, optics for projecting in an enlarged form the image generated by the image generation source, and a transmissive screen for displaying the image projected from said optics. The transmissive screen includes a Fresnel lens sheet disposed at an image generation source side, and a diffusing sheet disposed at an image-watching side in order to diffuse image light at least in a horizontal direction of the screen. The Fresnel lens sheet has a plurality of entrance-side prisms formed at the image generation source side, and a plurality of exit-side prisms formed at the image-watching side, and the Fresnel lens sheet emits lights in a first direction and a second direction. The first direction is almost parallel to a central axis of the Fresnel lens sheet, and the second direction extends toward the central axis. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080212177 | Diffusion sheet, rear projection screen provided with diffusion sheet, method of manufacturing mold for diffusion sheet, and method of manufacturing diffusion sheet - In a diffusion sheet | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080247040 | Diffusion sheet, rear projection screen provided with diffusion sheet, method of manufacturing mold for diffusion sheet, and method of manufacturing diffusion sheet - In a diffusion sheet | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090002818 | Rear Surface Projection Type Screen and Rear Surface Projection Type Display Device - There are provided a rear projection screen and a rear projection display apparatus capable of achieving a large lenticular pitch Lp and a high pitch ratio Gp/Lp and suppressing moire. The rear projection screen includes a plurality of pixels with an outer edge having a rhombus shape inclined with respect to a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of a screen of the rear projection screen, and a lenticular lens sheet diffusing light emitted from a rear projection projector within a certain angle range. The plurality of pixels are arranged in such a way that their outer edges are adjacent to each other, a lens pitch Lp (mm) of the lenticular lens sheet satisfies Lp≧0.15, and a pitch ratio Gp/Lp of a pitch Gp (mm) of the pixels and the lens pitch Lp satisfies Gp/Lp≧1.0. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090040605 | Diffusion sheet, rear projection screen provided with diffusion sheet, method of manufacturing mold for diffusion sheet, and method of manufacturing diffusion sheet - In a diffusion sheet | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090097112 | Rear-projection screen for projection video display system, method of rear-projection collimation and projection video display system incorporating the same - Various embodiments of a rear-projection screen, a method of rear-projection collimation and a projection video display (PVD) system. In one embodiment, a rear-projection screen includes: (1) a total-internal-reflection (TIR) fresnel lens configured to aim light received at an incidence angle toward a central axis of the TIR fresnel lens at a convergence angle and (2) a refractive fresnel lens configured to refract the light received from the TIR fresnel lens and at least to reduce the convergence angle. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090097113 | Depth Enhancing Screen - The present disclosure relates to a depth-enhancing screen for producing a simulated 3D image. The screen comprises a multi-curved Fresnel lens which when viewed in cross-section along the or each longest line linking two points on the edge of the lens, has a curved cross-section with an apex in the central region of the lens, and wherein each end of the curve flattens before it reaches the edge of the lens. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090116107 | Multilayered Screens with Light-Emitting Stripes for Scanning Beam Display Systems - Multilayered screens with parallel light-emitting stripes for scanning beam display systems. The light-emitting materials may include phosphor materials and non-phosphor materials. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090135480 | Fresnel lens sheet, light-transmission screen, and projection image display apparatus - The Fresnel lens sheet according to the present invention has a plurality of prismatic Fresnel lens elements including a Fresnel facet, a riser facet, and a top facet crossing the facet and the riser facet on an entrance surface. An angle of the top facet of each Fresnel lens element constituting the lens relative to the an exit surface, δ | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090190211 | OPTICAL DIFFUSING SHEET, OPTICAL DEFLECTING SHEET, AND TRANSMISSION TYPE SCREEN - An optical diffusing sheet is provided, which prevents deterioration in image quality which might result from warping of the sheets due to environmental changes, and is capable of, even if a substrate is broken by an accident, preventing scattering of pieces of the broken substrate. An optical diffusing sheet is used in a transmission type screen that emits imaging light projected from an incident side to an emergent side. The optical diffusing sheet includes a highly rigid substrate layer with a light-transmissibility and a high rigidity, and a plurality of layers laminated on the highly rigid substrate layer. The plurality of layers includes at least a pair of anti-scattering layers disposed on opposite sides of the highly rigid substrate layer for preventing scattering of the highly rigid substrate layer. At least one layer of the two or more layers includes an optical diffusing element that diffuses imaging light. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090251774 | LAMINATE SHEET AND DISPLAY SCREEN - An object is to provide a laminated sheet for a display screen and a display screen which enable reliable reduction of warping due to temperature changes. An laminated sheet according to this invention is a laminated sheet, in which a plurality of screen sheets are stacked, including: a multilayer sheet A including two or more layers with different linear expansion coefficients; and a single sheet B which is a sheet other than the multilayer sheet A, wherein at least in a temperature range from 10° C. to 30° C., expressions (*1), (*2) and (*3) are satisfied, and, when all sheets are stacked, either (i) or (ii) below applies. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090296211 | Fresnel lens and projection display device using one such lens - A Fresnel lens comprises at least one first prism and one second prism. Each prism has a first side and a second side which forms with a main axis an angle greater than that formed by the first side and the main axis. Conventionally, the second side of the first prism collimates the light received from a light source in line with the main axis. In order to improve the optical effectiveness, the second side of the second prism transmits the light received from the source in a first direction slightly different from the main axis. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100134883 | TRANSPARENT SCREEN, PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF RECEIVING CONTROL SIGNAL LIGHT - A transparent screen is constructed in such a way that a plurality of Fresnel prisms | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100188745 | TRANSPARENT SCREEN, PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A Fresnel lens screen | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100245996 | SCREEN AND PROJECTOR - There is provided a screen and a projector using a simple configuration and operation to make speckles less visible. A screen | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100290114 | TRANSMISSION-TYPE SCREEN, PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD - A transmission-type screen includes an entering-side Fresnel lens that inflects image light from a light emitter toward a display side using a prism formed on a rear-surface side, which is a light-entering-surface side of the image light; a first light diffusing unit that is provided on the display side with respect to the entering-side Fresnel lens and diffuses the image light from the entering-side Fresnel lens; a second light diffusing unit provided on the display side with respect to the first light diffusing unit, diffuses the image light from the first light diffusing unit, causes the diffused image light to exit toward the display side, and configured to change a relative position thereof to the first light diffusing unit; and a second substrate that holds the second light diffusing unit while being provided on the display side with respect to the second light diffusing unit. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110069384 | OPTICAL DIFFUSING SHEET, OPTICAL DEFLECTING SHEET, AND TRANSMISSION TYPE SCREEN - An optical deflecting sheet for a transmission type screen that emits imaging light projected from an incident side to an emergent side. The optical deflecting sheet includes a highly rigid substrate layer with a light-transmissibility and a high rigidity, and a plurality of layers laminated on the substrate layer. The plurality of layers includes at least a pair of anti-scattering layers disposed on opposite sides of the substrate layer for preventing scattering of the substrate layer. At least one layer of the two or more layers includes an optical deflecting element that deflects imaging light by refracting or reflecting the imaging light. The optical deflecting element is a prism part formed by arranging a plurality of unit prisms each having an incident surface on which light is incident and a total reflecting surface for reflecting at least a part of light incident on the incident surface. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110096394 | REAR-PROJECTION DISPLAY - Various embodiments related to rear-projection image display are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a projector for projecting an image and a screen configured to display the image. The screen comprises a filter layer having a light reception side and an image display side. The filter layer includes an array of trapezoidal transmissive elements and an array of trapezoidal absorption elements, where a wider base of each of the trapezoidal transmissive elements faces the light reception side of the filter layer, and where a wider base of each of the trapezoidal absorption elements faces the image display side of the filer layer. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110122493 | TRANSMISSION SCREEN FOR INTERACTIVE BOARD - There is provided a screen that, as a screen suitable for an interactive board, can output video image light incident obliquely from the back surface side to a viewer side to display a reflection-free image and, at the same time, can realize easy handwriting on the screen surface on the viewer side. To this end, a transmission screen for an interactive board is provided that comprises at least a Fresnel lens sheet comprising a prism part on its incident light side, a light diffusing member provided on the Fresnel lens on its surface side remote from the prism part, and a hard coat layer provided on the outgoing light side of the light diffusing member. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20150124315 | LINEAR FRESNEL LENS SHEET, TRANSMISSIVE DISPLAY DEVICE AND ROLL-SHAPED MOLD FOR PRODUCING LINEAR FRESNEL LENS SHEET - A linear Fresnel lens sheet ( | 05-07-2015 |
| 359458000 | Stereoscopic imaging or three dimensional imaging | 1 |
| 20150370156 | SCREEN FOR REFLECTIVE PROJECTOR - A screen for displaying an image received from a projector includes an anisotropic base diffusion layer having a fine pattern; a lens layer formed on a rear surface of the anisotropic base diffusion layer; a reflection layer deposited on a rear surface of the lens layer; and a surface protection layer coupled with a front surface of the anisotropic base diffusion layer. The screen for a projector enables a viewer to view an image from a single focus projector inside a bright room, brightness to be uniformly distributed throughout the screen, and a desirable viewing angle to be obtained. | 12-24-2015 |
