US Patent Application 18179998. Lights With Microlens Arrays simplified abstract
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Lights With Microlens Arrays
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Xiaofeng Tang of Santa Clara CA (US)
Kurt R. Stiehl of Los Gatos CA (US)
Clarisse Mazuir of San Jose CA (US)
Christopher P. Child of San Jose CA (US)
Lights With Microlens Arrays - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18179998 titled 'Lights With Microlens Arrays
Simplified Explanation
The patent application describes a system that uses lights to produce illumination.
- The lights are equipped with a collimated light source that produces collimated light.
- The collimated light source utilizes lenses or reflective optical elements to create the collimated light.
- Each light consists of an array of light elements, with each element emitting a beam of illumination.
- Each light element includes a preshaping lens that receives the collimated light and produces preshaped output light.
- An output lens then receives the output light from the preshaping lens and generates a beam of illumination.
- An electrically adjustable shutter is placed between the preshaping lens and output lens to adjust the illumination between a low-beam pattern and high-beam pattern.
Original Abstract Submitted
A system may have lights produce illumination. A light may be provided with a collimated light source that produces collimated light. The collimated light source may use lenses or reflective optical elements to produce the collimated light. The light may have an array of light elements each of which emits a respective beam of the illumination. Each light element may have a preshaping lens that receives the collimated light and produces corresponding preshaped output light and an output lens that receives the output light from the preshaping lens and produces a corresponding beam of the illumination. An electrically adjustable shutter may be located between each preshaping lens and output lens to adjust the illumination between a low-beam pattern and high-beam pattern.
