Ambient Light Sensor System Having Light-Scattering Desiccant

    公开(公告)号:US20180080815A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-22

    申请号:US15384102

    申请日:2016-12-19

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor: Aditya B. Nayak

    Abstract: An ambient light sensor system ma be mounted in alignment with a window in a display cover layer associated with a display in an electronic device. The ambient light sensor system may have a light diffuser layer and an infrared-light-blocking filter. The light diffuser layer may have a polymer layer with embedded light-scattering desiccant particles. An ambient light sensor in the ambient light sensor system may receive ambient light through the light diffuser layer and the infrared-light-blocking filter. The infrared-light-blocking filter may have a polymer substrate and a thin-film interference filter formed from a stack of inorganic thin-film layers on the polymer substrate. Light-scattering desiccant particles may be incorporated into the polymer substrate of the infrared-light-blocking filter. Desiccant may also be incorporated into ambient light sensor support structures.

    Laser power sensor
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09897481B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-20

    申请号:US15343802

    申请日:2016-11-04

    Inventor: Michinori Maeda

    CPC classification number: G01J1/4257 G01J1/0252 G01J1/0418 G01J1/0437

    Abstract: A low-cost laser power sensor having sufficient measurement accuracy with respect to received light intensity of the power sensor. The power sensor has a sensor substrate which receives monitor light, and a filter which attenuates the intensity of the laser beam before being received by the sensor substrate. The filter is constituted from a material having a laser transmissivity equal to zero, and has a plurality of openings within an irradiation range where the monitor light is irradiated. A summation of opening areas of the openings is equal to or more than 50% of the irradiation range. A part of the laser beam, which is irradiated to the filter and passes through the openings, is directly received by the sensor substrate.

    Sky luminance mapping system and mapping method

    公开(公告)号:US09829376B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-28

    申请号:US14831859

    申请日:2015-08-20

    Inventor: Yun-Shang Chiou

    Abstract: A sky luminance mapping system includes a camera unit, two pyranometer units and a processing unit. Camera unit includes a fisheye lens to shoot image of sky dome and is equipped with light-shading devices which block the sun from the camera unit corresponding to instant location of the sun at instant time. First pyranometer unit measures daylight illuminance from the sky dome and outputs first intensity signal while the light-shading device is applied to block the sun. Second pyranometer unit measures daylight illuminance from the sky dome and outputs second intensity signal without blocking the sun. A reference intensity value is obtained by subtracting a value of the first intensity signal from a value of the second intensity signal. According to the value of the first intensity signal and the reference intensity value, a total luminance of and the luminance distribution in the image of the sky dome are corrected.

    LASER POWER SENSOR
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170138787A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-18

    申请号:US15343802

    申请日:2016-11-04

    Inventor: Michinori Maeda

    CPC classification number: G01J1/4257 G01J1/0252 G01J1/0418 G01J1/0437

    Abstract: A low-cost laser power sensor having sufficient measurement accuracy with respect to received light intensity of the power sensor. The power sensor has a sensor substrate which receives monitor light, and a filter which attenuates the intensity of the laser beam before being received by the sensor substrate. The filter is constituted from a material having a laser transmissivity equal to zero, and has a plurality of openings within an irradiation range where the monitor light is irradiated. A summation of opening areas of the openings is equal to or more than 50% of the irradiation range. A part of the laser beam, which is irradiated to the filter and passes through the openings, is directly received by the sensor substrate.

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