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3m Innovative Properties

Thales Dis France Sas

Michael W Dolezal

Ronald David Jesme

Douglas Scott Dunn

Bernard O Geaghan

Robert T Krasa

Matthew S Stay

Mark A Roehrig

Joseph B Eckel

Robert L W Smithson

Ta-Hua Yu

William Vogel Dower

Pingfan Peter Wu

James P Endle

Stephen P Maki

Ravi Palaniswamy

Shawn C Dodds

Charles J Studiner, Iv

Jeffrey M Florczak

Orlin Bruce Knudson

David H Redinger

Pradnya V Nagarkar

Roger W Barton

Robert R Kieschke

Richard L Rylander

Marc A Egeland

Ankit Mahajan

James F Poch

Karl M Kropp

Muthu Sebastian

Andrew R Henry

Richard M Osgood, Iii

Justin Tungjunyatham

Adam C Nyland

Gareth A Hughes

Jae Yong Lee

Sammuel D Herbert

Donato G Caraig

Douglas S Dunn

Robert Lw Smithson

Rufus C Sanders

Bradley M Johnson

Theo L Simon

Paul HR Jolly

Robert LW Smithson

Charles J Iv Studiner

Emily L Bowen

A digitizer system includes a substrate with indicia that uniquely define local areas of the substrate. A multi-mode sensor device, such as a stylus, may sense radiation emitted from the features, and selectively switch to a mode of operation that can sense the indicia and determine therefrom the location of the stylus relative to the substrate.

Multi-mode stylus and digitizer system

The invention relates to a method for patterning one or more portions of a microstructure comprised of a flexible substrate, a conductor disposed on the substrate, and a metal layer disposed on the conductor, wherein the conductor is comprised of a stack of a first and a second transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer, and a metal doped silicon oxide layer sandwiched between the two TCO layers.

Method for patterning a microstructure

Touch sensor layer constructions and methods of making such constructions are described. More particularly, touch sensor constructions that utilize patterned conductive layers that may be applied by a sacrificial release liner, eliminating one or more glass and/or film substrate from touch sensor stacks, and methods of making such constructions are described.

Transferable transparent conductive patterns and display stack materials

Techniques are described for forming microlens sheeting having composite images that appear to float with respect to the plane of the sheeting. As one example, a method comprises forming one or more images within a sheeting having a surface of microlenses, wherein at least one of the images is a partially complete image, and wherein each of the images is associated with a different one of the microlenses, wherein the microlenses have refractive surfaces that transmit light to positions within the sheeting to produce a plurality of composite images from the images formed within the sheeting so that each of the composite images appears to float with respect to the plane of the sheeting, and wherein forming the one or more images comprises forming the one or more images such that each of the composite images is associated with a different viewing angle range.

Sheeting with composite image that floats

Translucent, transparent, or semi-translucent microlens sheetings with composite images are disclosed, in which a composite image floats above or below the sheeting, or both. The composite image may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. The sheeting may have at least one layer of material having a surface of microlenses that form one or more images at positions internal to the layer of material, at least one of the images being a partially complete image. Additional layers, such as retroreflective, translucent, transparent, or optical structure layers may also be incorporated into the sheeting.

Microlens sheetings with composite images are disclosed, in which the composite image floats above or below the sheeting, or both. The composite image may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Methods for providing such an imaged sheeting are also disclosed.

Methods of forming sheeting with a composite image that floats and sheeting with a composite image that floats

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Michael W Dolezal