Abstract:
A backlight (10) includes a front and back reflectors (12,14) forming a light recycling cavity (16) and one or more light source members (24a, 24b, 24c) disposed to emit light into the light recycling cavity. The front reflector (12) being partially reflective to provide an output illumination area. The front reflector (12) has a blue sloped transmission spectra, at normal incidence with a range among bin values from 15% to 100%.
Abstract:
An optical film includes an optically diffusive layer including a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed between and across opposing first and second major surfaces thereof. The plurality of nanoparticles has a nanoparticle size distribution including distinct first and second peaks at respective nanoparticle sizes d1 and d2, wherein 1.5 ≤ d2/d1 ≤ 10. The optically diffusive layer includes a polymeric material bonding the nanoparticles to each other. For a substantially collimated substantially normally incident light, the optical film has, in a visible wavelength, an average specular transmittance VTs and an average total transmittance VTt, and in an infrared wavelength range, an average total transmittance ITt and an average specular transmittance ITs, wherein 0.3 ≤ (VTs/VTt) ≤ 0.7, (VTs/ITs) ≤ 0.25, and (ITs/ITt) ≥ 0.7.
Abstract:
A display system for sensing a finger of a user applied to the display system includes a display panel; a sensor for sensing the finger; a sensing light source configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength W1; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the sensor. For a substantially normally incident light, an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for a first polarization state has a band edge such that for a first wavelength range extending from a smaller wavelength L1 to a greater wavelength L2 and including W1, where 30 nm ≤ L2 – L1 ≤ 50 nm and L1 is greater than and within about 20 nm of a wavelength L3 corresponding to an optical transmittance of about 50% along the band edge, the optical transmittance has an average of greater than about 75%.
Abstract:
A reflective polarizer includes a plurality of polymeric layers with opposing first and second outer layers, the first outer layer including a plurality of first particles, the second outer layer comprising a plurality of second particles, such that for substantially normally incident light and a first wavelength range and a second wavelength range, the plurality of polymeric layers reflects greater than about 80% of the incident light having a first polarization state in the first wavelength range; transmits greater than about 40% of the incident light having a second polarization state in the first wavelength range; transmits greater than about 60% of the incident light in the second wavelength range for each of the first and second polarization states; and an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for the first polarization state comprises a band edge between about 800 nm and about 1100 nm.
Abstract:
Optical films and stacks include at least one optically diffusive layer. The optically diffusive layer can include a plurality of nanoparticles and a polymeric material bonding the nanoparticles to each other to form a plurality of nanoparticle aggregates defining a plurality of voids therebetween. For substantially normally incident light and a visible wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 650 nm and an infrared wavelength range from about 930 nm to about 970 nm: in the visible wavelength range, the optical film or optically diffusive layer has an average specular transmittance Vs; and in the infrared wavelength range, the optical film or optically diffusive layer has an average total transmittance It and an average specular transmittance Is, Is/It ≥ 0.6, Is/Vs ≥ 2.5.
Abstract:
An optical film including a plurality of alternating first and second layers disposed on a skin layer is described. The skin layer has an average thickness greater than about 2 microns. A transmittance of the film for substantially normally incident light includes a band edge separating first and second wavelength ranges, where each range is at least 250 nm wide. A reflectance of the film is greater than about 95% for each wavelength in the first wavelength range; an average transmittance of the film is greater than about 80% in the second wavelength range; and a difference between maximum and minimum values of the optical transmittance of the film in the second wavelength range is less than about 30%. The band edge may have a slope that is greater than about 2%/nm. The transmittance may increase monotonically at least from about 10% to about 70% with increasing wavelength.
Abstract:
The systems and techniques of this disclosure relate to improving work safety in confined spaces by, for example, using machine vision to analyze location marking labels in the confined space to control an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) within the confined space. In one example, a system includes a UAV that includes an imaging device and a processor communicatively coupled to the imaging device. The processor may be configured to receive, from the imaging device, an image of a confined space, detect a location marking label within the image, process the image to decode data embedded on the location marking label, and control navigation of the UAV within the confined space based on the data decoded from the location marking label.
Abstract:
A backlight (10) includes a front and back reflectors (12,14) forming a light recycling cavity (16) and one or more light source members (24a, 24b, 24c) disposed to emit light into the light recycling cavity. The front reflector (12) being partially reflective to provide an output illumination area. The front reflector (12) has a blue sloped transmission spectra, at normal incidence with a range among bin values from 15% to 100%.