US Patent Issued to Nichia on May 6 for "Lighting device and three-dimensional video display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,591, issued on May 6, was assigned to Nichia Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Lighting device and three-dimensional video display device" was invented by Masaru Kato (Sagamihara, Japan) and Hiroshi Miyairi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device includes a light source, a lens receiving light from the light source, and a reflector including multiple first reflecting regions, wherein each first reflecting region reflects light from the lens in a first direction crossing an optical axis of light incident on the lens. The first reflecting regions are arranged with steps interposed therebetween so that the regions further ...