Optical apparatus including non-electric type touch panel
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsWon-taek Seo, Seung-hoon Han, Hong-seok Lee, Wan-joo Maeng
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Abstract
An optical apparatus includes a touch substrate; a waveguide layer arranged on the touch substrate, the waveguide layer including a plurality of waveguides; an optical output structure arranged on the waveguide layer and configured to output light propagating in the plurality of waveguides at touched locations on the touch substrate; a gap layer arranged to provide a predetermined gap between the waveguide layer and the optical output structure; and an optical system, which projects light output by the optical output structure.
Claims4
An optical apparatus comprising:
- a touch substrate;
- a waveguide layer, disposed on the touch substrate, the waveguide layer comprising a plurality of waveguides;
- an optical output structure, which is disposed on the waveguide layer and is configured to output light propagating in the plurality of waveguides at touched locations of the touch substrate;
- a gap layer disposed between the waveguide layer and the optical output structure and providing a gap between the waveguide layer and the optical output structure;
- an optical system, which projects light output by the optical output structure;
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- a transparent fixing member disposed on the gap layer such that the transparent fixing member covers the optical output structure,
- wherein the optical output structure comprises an array of reversed trapezoidal micro-prisms, and
- wherein the array of reversed trapezoidal micro-prisms are disposed between the gap layer and a light exit surface of the transparent fixing member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.