An optical image stabilization using a droplet manipulation on a liquid crystal and polymer composite film

Yu-Jen Wang; Chia-Ming Chang; Yu-Shih Tsou; Ming-Syuan Chen; Hung-Shan Chen; Yi-Hsin Lin

doi:10.1117/12.2188871

5 September 2015 An optical image stabilization using a droplet manipulation on a liquid crystal and polymer composite film

Yu-Jen Wang, Chia-Ming Chang, Yu-Shih Tsou, Ming-Syuan Chen, Hung-Shan Chen, Yi-Hsin Lin

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Proceedings Volume 9565, Liquid Crystals XIX; 95651C (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188871
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Motion blur is one of the major factors decreasing the image quality of a hand-held optical imaging system while the system is under shakes or vibrations during exposure. Optical image stabilization (OIS) is a technique to reduce such a blurring. The basic principle of OIS is to stabilize the recorded image in a camera by varying the optical path to the sensor under vibrations during exposure. In this paper, we demonstrate optical image stabilization (OIS) for an imaging system using a droplet manipulation on a liquid crystal and polymer composite film (LCPCF) that reduces the motion blur. The mechanism is based on manipulation of position of the liquid lens on LCPCF by means of electrically adjusting orientations of liquid crystals. The change of the position of the liquid lens compensates the deviation of light when the image system is under a handshake vibration. Therefore, the imaging system forms a clear image with a droplet on different position to overcome handshake vibration. The concept in this paper can also be extended to design other optical components for modulating the direction of light.

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Yu-Jen Wang, Chia-Ming Chang, Yu-Shih Tsou, Ming-Syuan Chen, Hung-Shan Chen, and Yi-Hsin Lin "An optical image stabilization using a droplet manipulation on a liquid crystal and polymer composite film", Proc. SPIE 9565, Liquid Crystals XIX, 95651C (5 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188871

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