02nd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100007859 | HEAT-DISSIPATING DEVICE AND PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A heat-dissipating device used in a projection display apparatus with an air outlet includes a fence module, at least one resilient member, and a shape memory alloy module. The fence module is disposed at the air outlet and includes at least one guiding plate with a pivot. The resilient member exerts a first force on the guiding plate to enable the guiding plate to rotate on the pivot, and the shape memory alloy module deforms when heated to exert a second force on the guiding plate to enable the guiding plate to rotate on the pivot. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007860 | Composite optical element and projection optical device - A composite optical element is provided. The composite optical element includes a plurality of optical elements, in which at least one of the optical elements is formed of an element modifying an optical path and the other optical elements are bonded to an incident surface and/or exit surface of the element modifying the optical path with a low refractive index material layer in between. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007861 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes: a plurality of light source devices; an image projecting unit, and projects the image light; a power supply device; and an outer housing, wherein the plurality of light source devices include a same shape, a plurality of light source storage units each of which accommodates the corresponding one of the plurality of light source devices are provided inside the outer housing, an opening through which the light source devices are attached and detached in the side direction of the outer housing is formed on the outer housing, and the plurality of light source devices are inserted into the plurality of light source storage units through the opening with the same surfaces of the respective light source devices located on the upper side. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007862 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An apparatus that projects a pattern of an original, onto a substrate held by a substrate stage having a top plate, to expose the substrate, comprises a cleaning unit, the cleaning unit including a discharge nozzle configured to discharge a fluid toward the top plate, and a recovery nozzle configured to recover the fluid discharged from the discharge nozzle, wherein an opening of the recovery nozzle has a shape which surrounds a path of the fluid discharged from the discharge nozzle. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007863 | Inspection Method and Apparatus, Lithographic Apparatus, Lithographic Processing Cell and Device Manufacturing Method - An apparatus and method to determine a property of a substrate by measuring, in the pupil plane of a high numerical aperture lens, an angle-resolved spectrum as a result of radiation being reflected off the substrate. The property may be angle and wavelength dependent. The radiation that is reflected off the substrate is radially polarized. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007864 | SCANNING EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DEVICE - A scanning exposure apparatus which transfers, onto a substrate, a pattern on a reticle illuminated with pulse light whose light intensity distribution has an isosceles trapezoidal shape along a scanning direction of the substrate comprises a controller configured to obtain a relationship between a number of pulses received by the substrate while the substrate moves by a unit amount in the scanning direction and unevenness of exposure on the substrate which changes in accordance with the number of pulses received and the shape of the light intensity distribution. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007865 | Coupling apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device fabricating method - An exposure apparatus fills a space between a projection optical system and a substrate with a liquid and projects a pattern image onto the substrate to expose the substrate. The projection optical system has a first group including an optical member that comes into contact with the liquid, and a second group that differs from the first group. The first group is supported by a first support member via a vibration isolating apparatus. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007866 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FACET MIRRORS AND PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS - The disclosure relates to methods for producing mirrors, in particular facet mirrors, and projection exposure apparatuses equipped with the mirrors. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007867 | Lithographic Apparatus and Calibration Method - In an embodiment, a stage system calibration method includes moving the stage relative to an encoder grid in response to a setpoint signal and measuring a position of the stage by a sensor head cooperating with the encoder grid. The position of the stage is controlled by a stage controller. A signal representative of a difference between the setpoint signal and the position of the stage as measured by the sensor head is registered. The stage system is calibrated from the registered signal representative of the difference. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007868 | Substrate Support System Having a Plurality of Contact Lands - The present invention includes a substrate support system having a chuck body. The chuck body includes a body surface with a pin extending therefrom having a contact surface lying in a plane. The pin may be movably coupled to the chuck body to move with respect to the plane. The pin may also include a cross-member having multiple contact lands. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007869 | Reticle Handler - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for handling a reticle during manufacturing processes of semiconductor devices in the fabrication line. The apparatus includes a holder for the reticle, the holder is configured to securely hold the reticle and a level indicator attached to and operative with the holder to indicate leveling condition of the holder. The apparatus further includes a shaft connected to the holder for holding and a switch connected to the shaft. The method includes providing a reticle and clamping the reticle with a reticle holder including a switch and a leveling indicator operative with the holder to indicate leveling condition of the holder. The method further includes loading the reticle into a reticle pod while maintaining the leveling condition of the holder. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007870 | Apparatus for the recognition of the presence of an object in space - The invention relates to an apparatus ( | 2010-01-14 |
20100007871 | Method and device for locating a piece with respect to a tool - A method of, and a device for, locating a piece with respect to a tool, utilize a measuring device for measuring a feeding speed, a driving direction and a feeding amount of the piece. The piece bears against two abutment rollers and is driven by a driving roller that is operated by a controllable motor operatively coupled to a machine numerical control apparatus. An output of the measuring device and an output of the controllable motor are both coupled to the machine numerical control apparatus. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007872 | SURFACE INSPECTING METHOD AND DEVICE - A light source section outputs optical flux having two types of wavelength, which are a short wavelength and a long wavelength, while the intensity is made variable. The optical flux is made incident to a detected surface of a body to be detected at a predetermined incident angle simultaneously or alternatively. Based on a type of optical flux outputted from the light source section and an output from a first light intensity detecting section, at least the intensity of the optical flux having a long wavelength outputted from the light source section is adjusted. The output from the first light intensity detecting section in irradiating the optical flux having a short wavelength is compared with the output from the first light intensity detecting section in irradiating the optical flux having a long wavelength. A signal that appears only in the output from the first light intensity detecting section in irradiating the optical flux having a long wavelength is identified as a detected signal from an internal subject. The intensity of optical flux having a long wavelength is adjusted. A disappearance level near a point where the detected signal from the internal subject disappears is calculated. The first intensity of optical flux having a long wavelength is set to level higher than the disappearance level. Based on the output from the first light intensity detecting section obtained by the optical flux having a long wavelength of the first intensity, a subject inside the body to be detected is measured. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007873 | VISUALIZATION OF THE ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION REFLECTING POWER OF A GLASSES LENS - According to the invention, in order to visualise the ultraviolet radiation reflection power of a glasses lens ( | 2010-01-14 |
20100007874 | METHOD FOR ENSURING THE SAFETY OF THE COMPONENTS OF THE DRIVE TRAIN OF A VEHICLE FOLLOWING THE DETERIORATION OF THE FUEL - The invention relates to a method of ensuring the safety of the components of the drive train of a vehicle equipped with a heat engine, before or during its startup phase following a deterioration of the quality of the fuel contained in the tank ( | 2010-01-14 |
20100007875 | Field Replaceable Units (FRUs) Optimized for Integrated Metrology (IM) - An Integrated Metrology Sensor (IMS) including a plurality of Field Replaceable Units (FRUs) for measuring a target on a wafer. The FRU configurations can be optimized to include the appropriate elements, so that each FRU can be pre-aligned and calibrated in the factory to minimize the time need to swap the FRU in the field due to failure or scheduled maintenance. The FRU configuration of the IMS is optimized to shorten the time to repair a failure or perform scheduled maintenance and increase the system reliability. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007876 | HOLLOW-CORE WAVEGUIDE-BASED RAMAN SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Embodiments of the invention include a method for sensing. Other embodiments include a method for sensing molecules, for example, homonuclear diatomic molecules. The method may include transmitting light from a light source through a hollow-core wave-guiding device that exhibits a low attenuation at predetermined operating optical frequencies; introducing a gaseous medium between the light source and the hollow-core wave-guiding device; and detecting molecules within the gas. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007877 | Narrow-band spectrometric Measurements - Spectrometers and spectrometric measurement methods are disclosed. These employ narrow-band sources positioned in a circular array to perform spectrometric measurements that can employ Hadamard sequences. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007878 | HIGHLY SENSITIVE SPECTROSCOPIC UNIT - The invention is directed to a highly sensitive spectrum analysis unit with a diffraction grating, wherein a parallel light bundle having a wavelength range impinges on a diffraction grating which splits the different wavelengths into spectra by diffraction in first directions, and wavelength partial ranges of the spectrally split light bundle can be focused on a detector row by means of camera optics, and evaluation electronics are connected to the detector row and acquire the generated spectrum as information and display it. The invention is characterized in that the light bundle passes a first optical element, and then wavelength partial ranges of a spectrally split light bundle impinge on respective partial regions of a diffraction grating, the diffraction grating having the same grating constant across all partial regions and a changing profile shape, the profile shapes generating different blaze wavelengths that lie in the respective wavelength partial ranges. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN-LINE MONITORING OF PARTICLES IN OPAQUE FLOWS - Systems and methods are disclosed for particle monitoring. An exemplary method includes confining a flowable sample which is opaque to at least a first range of wavelengths of light waves; measuring transparency of the flowable sample; compressing the flowable sample in a first direction while confining the sample in a second direction parallel to a flow direction of the flowable sample and orthogonal to the first direction, while elongating the sample in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions. When the sample is compressed in the first direction, the sample becomes transparent to at least one of the wavelengths in the first range of wavelengths, and the method can include identifying characteristics of particles contained in the sample which has been compressed. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007880 | Optical Apparatus - Various optical apparatus, in particular embodiments, may provide a source of parallel light ( | 2010-01-14 |
20100007881 | SCATTERFIELD MICROSCOPICAL MEASURING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention provides a scatterfield microscopical measuring method and apparatus, which combine scatterfield detecting technology into microscopical device so that the microscopical device is capable of measuring the sample whose dimension is under the limit of optical diffraction. The scatterfield microscopical measuring apparatus is capable of being controlled to focus uniform and collimated light beam on back focal plane of an objective lens disposed above the sample. By changing the position of the focus position on the back focal plane, it is capable of being adjusted to change the incident angle with respect to the sample. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007882 | RAPID ACQUISITION ELLIPSOMETRY - Disclosed embodiments pertain to optical assemblies which impart a spatially dependent rotation to linearly polarized light. A pair of optical assemblies may be used to apply a spatially dependent rotation to linearly polarized light in the region between the optical assemblies, and produce a spatially independent rotation after traversing the second optical assembly. A pair of optical assemblies may be used in combination with a wave plate to allow a determination of the Stokes parameters of an elliptically polarized beam of light. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007883 | Method and Apparatus for Analyzing Coatings on Curved Surfaces - An ellipsometer is used to analyze each of a plurality of sample portions that each include a substrate portion with a coating portion thereon, the substrate portions corresponding to respective spaced portions of a part with a curved surface. For each sample portion, the analysis includes: directing onto the coating portion a beam of radiation that includes first and second components with different polarizations; detecting energy of each of the first and second components reflected by the sample portion; and generating data that includes, for each of a plurality of different wavelengths, information regarding a change caused by the sample portion to a relationship between the first and second components. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007884 | Position Finding System and Method for Use in Aligning Laser Device with an Optical Fiber - A position finding system and method may be used to find an alignment position of a laser device relative to an optical fiber such as an angled optical fiber. The laser device may be positioned “off-axis” relative to the optical fiber such that light from the laser device is directed at an angle to an end of the optical fiber and coupled into the optical fiber. The position finding system and method may be used to find the alignment position by searching for relative high power positions at different angular orientations of the laser device and calculating coordinates of at least one alignment position from the coordinates of the relative high power positions. The relative high power positions may be positions at which the measured power coupled into the optical fiber by the laser is maximized. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007885 | Pre-Aligned Metrology System and Modules - A Pre-Aligned Metrology System comprising a number of Pre-Aligned Metrology Assemblies and Pre-Aligned Metrology Modules for measuring a target on a wafer. The Pre-Aligned Metrology Assemblies and Pre-Aligned Metrology Modules can reduce the maintenance down time and decrease the cost of ownership (COO). | 2010-01-14 |
20100007886 | WAVELENGTH IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND ANALYZER - An analyzer analyzes a sample based on optical characteristics of the sample. The analyzer includes a measuring unit that measures absorbances of two or more wavelength identifying samples having different concentrations and having absorbance characteristics in which there is no extremum in a wavelength band including a wavelength to be identified, the wavelength identifying samples being made of a same material; a calculator that obtains a gradient of a straight line indicating a relationship between the concentrations and the absorbances of the identifying samples measured by the measuring unit; and an identifier that identifies an actual wavelength of light to be measured by the measuring unit, based on a degree of coincidence between the gradient of the straight line calculated by the calculator and at least one pre-obtained reference gradient of a straight line indicating a relationship between concentrations and absorbances of reference samples made of the same material as the wavelength identifying samples for at least one wavelength. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007887 | GLAZING INSPECTION - A method of inspecting the fragmentation pattern of a single ply of toughened glass, following a fragmentation test carried out in accordance with ECE R43 involves illuminating a first portion of the ply of glass in transmission using a strip light source located on a first side of the transparent support. An image of the first portion of the ply of glass is captured using an image capture device located on a second side of the transparent support means, aligned with and fixed in a relative position to the strip light source. A series of images of the glass are collected and analyzed to produce an image of the fragmentation pattern. Imaging can be performed using an apparatus for carrying out the imaging. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007888 | Multiple path length transmittance measuring device - A device to measure the amount of light able to transmit through a test liquid sample. A single lamp is used to illuminate a liquid sample cell containing the test water. A light detector is fixed relative to the lamp and is used to detect the amount of light from the lamp able to transmit through the liquid sample cell. The liquid sample cell is shaped in such a way as to provide at least two sets of opposed side walls that are able to transmit the light emitted from the lamp, where each set of opposed side walls defines a different path length through the liquid sample in the liquid sample cell. A rotation mechanism is used to provide relative rotation between the liquid sample cell and the lamp/light detector assembly. A microprocessor connected to the light detector calculates the light transmitted through at least two different path lengths through the liquid sample. Using these calculated transmittances the microprocessor then calculates the overall transmittance of the test water. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007889 | SAMPLE CONCENTRATION DETECTOR WITH TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION - A sample sensor ( | 2010-01-14 |
20100007890 | ENERGY-EFFICIENT OPERATING METHOD FOR A GAS SENSOR - Energy-efficient operating method for a gas sensor. In a method for determining a gas concentration with the aid of a gas sensor having a radiation source, the radiation source
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20100007891 | Methods of and Apparatus for Determining Properties Relating to Multi-Phase Systems - A method of, and apparatus for, determining properties relating to multi-phase systems are provided. In the method, an array of sample tubes each containing a sample of a multi-phase system is formed. An iterative process is used to generate at least two data sets of transmitted and/or backscattered values for each sample and the data sets for each sample are processed to determine at least one property of the sample. The apparatus has a support on which an array of sample tubes each containing a sample of a multi-phase system may be assembled. It also has a wave source and at least one wave detector for detecting transmitted and/or backscattered values for each sample and computer means for iteratively operating said wave source and said at least one detector to generate data sets of transmitted and/or backscattered values for each sample and for processing the data sets for each sample to determine at least one property of the sample. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007892 | OPTICAL SENSING OF MEASURANDS - A dome-shaped chemical sensing probe comprises an optical fiber or may be mounted on an optical fiber. The probe has a chemically sensitive measuring material which exhibits a change in volume and/or a change in refractive index in the presence of a given chemical. The change in volume and/or refractive index gives a change in an optical path length through the probe which can be measured interferometrically. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007893 | Push-pull two wavelength fabry perot sensor for fiber optic acoustic sensor arrays - Two optical wavelengths are used to interrogate a fiber optic Fabry-Perot sensor having a moveable diaphragm that changes the width of a gap between two reflective surfaces. By picking the right operating point for the gap, the power output for one wavelength increases as the gap width changes and the power for the other wavelength decreases. A ratio of the difference of the two powers over the sum of the two powers is formed to generate a detected signal independent of power and phase fluctuations in a fiber between signal sources and sensor and between sensor and detector. This ratio, which is called the visibility, has a response proportional to the pressure of acoustic disturbances that move the diaphragm. The push-pull sensor can be used with both TDM and CW fan-out array architectures. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007894 | Multilayer Structure Measuring Method and Multilayer Structure Measuring Apparatus - A tomographic image measuring method according to the present invention includes a first step of calculating information corresponding to an optical distance of each layer thickness from a wave-number spectrum, a second step of separating and extracting information of each layer from the information corresponding to the optical distance of each layer thickness, a third step of reconverting information of each layer into a wave-number spectrum, respectively, a fourth step of obtaining a interference wave number from the result of the-third step, a fifth step of calculating an order of interference from the interference wave number and the optical distance of each layer; and a sixth step of calculating the optical distance of each layer by making use of the fact that the order of interference is an integer. Thus, when discrete Fourier transform is used, the measuring precision of layers is improved. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007895 | Calibrating jig, profile measuring device, and method of offset calculation - A calibrating jig comprises a reference sphere, and a reflecting plate configured to support the reference sphere from a lower side thereof and mirror-reflect light in a case that the reference sphere is illuminated from an upper side thereof. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007896 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A manufacturing method and system are disclosed for illuminating a target. A light controller has a plurality of pixels, and light is projected from at least a first light source to the light controller, wherein the light from the first light source is incident on the light controller at a first angle. The pixels are controlled to establish illumination characteristics for first and second optical paths between the light controller and the target. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007897 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A document processing apparatus and method, the method including: selecting a document to be printed; displaying a user interface; setting at least one a number of vertical lines per inch value and a brush pattern expansion value, via the displayed user interface; and converting the document into printing data, according to the set value. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007898 | Printer and Method for Printing - A method for controlling the printing of overlapping swathes, the swathes extending perpendicular to a succession of print lines; for each print line a transition is defined between one swathe and the next, with the location of the transition in the print line varying between print lines, for example varying pseudo-randomly or as a curve extending in the swathe direction. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007899 | METHOD TO PRINT A RECORDING MEDIUM WITH COLOR DATA AND MICR DATA - In a method or system for printing a recording medium with color data and MICR data, a color printing device and at least one MICR printing device are arranged independent and separate from one another. The color printing device prints both the color data and the MICR data in encoded form as code data onto the recording medium. The recording medium is supplied to the at least one MICR printing device. The MICR data are decoded from the code data, and the MICR data are subsequently printed on the recording medium via the at least one MICR printing device. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007900 | Image processing apparatus, image-capturing apparatus, and recording medium storing image processing program - An image processing apparatus can correct band-like unevenness due to flickering with a simple arrangement. For this purpose, the image processing apparatus includes a detecting unit which detects, in the image to be processed, a band-like unevenness occurring along a direction substantially perpendicular to the scanning direction of the imaging sensor included in the image-capturing apparatus used when performing image-capturing of the image, a calculating unit which calculates a correction amount to correct the band-like unevenness, and a correcting unit which corrects the band-like unevenness in the image based on the correction amount. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007901 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a color converting unit | 2010-01-14 |
20100007902 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Flexible specifying is enabled in the event of using data created with a general application to specify printing by layering a color toner image and optional special color toner image. A printer driver specifies pages to perform printing using a clear toner out of the page group received from the application, generates a job including data for layering as to the same face on the same sheet and printing a clear toner page which is a specified page, and a color toner page which is a page not specified for clear toner in the page group, and sends this to the printer. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007903 | PRINT ATTRIBUTE SETTING APPARATUS, PRINT ATTRIBUTE SETTING METHOD, AND PRINT ATTRIBUTE SETTING PROGRAM - Print attributes are set in print type where a plurality of original paper images are arranged on at least one surface of print paper so that useless print can be prevented. A print attribute for defining a specific relationship between an original paper size and a print paper size is provided as one of the print attributes of the print type, one print attribute is selected from a plurality of options so that the specific relationship between the original paper size and the print paper size is set. As a result, a combination of the original paper size and the print paper size intended by a user can be set securely even in the above print type, so that useless print can be prevented securely. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007904 | Image forming device, image forming method, printer driver program, and image forming system - The image forming device of this invention includes a control unit and a storage unit. The control unit determines whether or not data for printing which has been inputted while the power save mode is being executed is data for printing to which a control command is appended that commands the reduction of electrical power consumption. If it is data for printing to which a control command is appended, then the control unit does not execute any image forming operation, but instead stores this data for printing with control command appended in the storage unit. However, if data for printing to which no control command is appended is inputted, then the control unit changes over to the operating mode and, after having performed image forming operation for this data for printing to which no control command is appended, performs image forming operation for that data for printing with control command appended within the storage unit, which has the same identification information as the data for printing to which no control command is appended. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007905 | PRINTER SELECTION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH PRINTER SELECTION PROGRAM - The PC that functions as a printer selection apparatus (1) displays on the display part at least a portion of the printer information stored on the equipment information storage area that stores information concerning the printers on the network, for example, the printer information concerning the printers for which printings based on instructions from the PC were executed previously, and (2) acquires the printer information via the network when displaying the particular printer information. Upon receiving the designation of the filtering condition for narrowing down a plurality of printers into a short list, the PC displays the printer information concerning the printers that fit the designated filtering condition based on the printer information on which the information acquired via the network is reflected. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007906 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A multi-functional peripheral allows a user to select a productivity priority mode or an image quality priority mode. In the productivity priority mode, a scanner performs a reading operation without moving first and second carriages in a sub-scanning direction, a foreign object image removing processing is executed in accordance with image data obtained by the reading operation, and image forming is performed in accordance with the image data applied with image processing. In the image quality priority mode, the first and second carriages are moved from a reading position P to a reading position P′ at which the foreign object does not adhere to a reading slot, the scanner performs the reading operation, and an image forming is performed in accordance with image data applied with image processing not including the foreign object image removing processing. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ATTEMPTED SECURE PRINT JOB RELEASE NOTIFICATION - A method and apparatus for notifying a user of an attempted secure print job release from an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a secure print job and secure print job instructions from a user, wherein the secure print job instructions include at least a pass code and the user's contact information, determining if a pass code has been entered for the user's secure print job, wherein if it is determined that a pass code has been entered for the user's secure print job, determining if the entered pass code is correct, wherein if it is determined that the entered pass code is correct, sending a signal to print the secure print job and notifying the user in accordance with the user's contact information that the secure print job has been printed, otherwise, notifying the user in accordance with the user's contact information that an unauthorized user attempted to print the secure print job. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007908 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of flow easily and efficiently resuming an interrupted processing. The image processing apparatus executes a processing flow for sequentially carrying out a plurality of processes. When execution of the processing flow is interrupted due to occurrence of a power failure, the image processing apparatus creates a recovery processing flow for carrying out yet-to-be-executed ones of the processes included in the processing flow, after restart of the image processing apparatus, and executes the created recovery processing flow. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007909 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELETING SECURE PRINT JOBS - A method and apparatus for deleting secure print jobs sent to an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a secure print job and secure print job delete instructions from a user that include a secure print job expiration time, setting a secure print job delete timer based on the secure print job expiration time, determining if the secure print job delete timer has expired, wherein if it is determined that the secure print job delete timer has expired, deleting the secure print job, otherwise determining if the secure print job has been printed, wherein if it is determined that the secure print job has been printed, the secure print job delete timer is set to zero. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007910 | ECONOMIC MODEL FOR PRINTING WITH A PEER NETWORK OF PRINTING DEVICES - At least two printing devices receive a print job from a user that has printing data and printing specifications. Each of the printing devices calculates an ability score based on each printing device's ability to meet each of the printing specifications. The printing devices each output their ability score to the user. The printing devices then receive an indication as to which printing device is the selected print device, and instructions to print the print job are thus sent from the user to the selected print device. Then, the selected print device prints the print job on tangible media to produce a tangible output. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007911 | Method and system for augmenting imaging device with non-native job settings - A method and system for augmenting an imaging device with non-native job settings without unduly complicating the processing of imaging jobs that utilize only native job settings is disclosed. In one aspect, an imaging device comprises a processor, a user interface communicatively coupled with the processor and a network interface communicatively coupled with the processor, wherein under control of the processor in response to job settings selected on the user interface for an imaging job the imaging device selectively invokes via the network interface an external process to process the imaging job per at least one selected job setting based on a determination of whether at least one selected job setting is non-native to the imaging device. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007912 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL - An image processing apparatus includes an image receiving unit, an extraction unit, a determination unit, an area conversion unit and an image concealing unit. The image receiving unit receives an image. The extraction unit extracts a portion having been additionally written in the image received by the image receiving unit. The determination unit determines an area to be concealed in the received image based on the additionally written portion extracted by the extraction unit. The area conversion unit converts the area determined by the determination unit. The image concealing unit conceals the area determined by the determination unit in the received image using an area obtained by the conversion of by the area conversion unit. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007913 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming system for obtaining a counter value of a requested event comprises an image forming apparatus storing counter reference sequence data and counter values and a terminal apparatus specifying event types for the counter values using the counter reference sequence data and obtaining the counter value of the requested event type. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007914 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus linked to a network includes a central processing unit CPU, a power management unit, a physical layer, a packet engine unit, a packet filter, and a transmission control unit. The packet engine unit transmits a packet to the network. The packet filter receives a packet from the network. The transmission control unit controls packet transmission. The power management unit supplies power to the physical layer, packet filter, and packet engine unit but not the CPU during a low-power mode. The packet engine unit includes an identification data generator, a message data generator, and a packet frame generator. The identification data generator generates identification data. The message data generator generates message data. The packet frame generator generates a packet by combining the identification data and message data. The transmission control unit transmits the packet periodically during the low-power mode. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007915 | IMAGE SENDING APPARATUS - Provided is an image sending apparatus capable of preventing that, in sending image data with additional information such as sending source information added thereto, the additional information is overlaid on a part other than a margin of the image data. The image sending apparatus is provided with an image display portion for displaying a preview of image data and is capable of sending the image data with additional information added thereto. The image sending apparatus is provided with a display control portion for displaying information showing an adding position at which the additional information is added to the image data subjected to a preview display on the image display portion in the preview display. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007916 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An information processing system in which a source information processing apparatus is capable of performing a job cooperatively with a destination information processing apparatus, is provided. The system includes an instruction unit configured to cause the source information processing apparatus to submit a cooperative job to the destination information processing apparatus, and a control unit configured to restrict manipulation of the submitted cooperative job at the destination information processing apparatus and to enable the manipulation of the cooperative job according to an instruction from the source information processing apparatus. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007917 | CONFIGURABLE DOCUMENT SERVER - A configurable document server is described. In some embodiments, the configurable document server can enable administrators to set an option that prevents documents from being routed to users when the configurable document server experiences some types of errors. When the configurable document server determines that such an error condition exists, it may prevent the routing of the corresponding document. By preventing documents causing errors from being routed, the configurable document server enables administrators to improve the accuracy of document workflow and thereby improve productivity of users. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007918 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An information processing apparatus capable of freely and dynamically defining a releasing procedure of a using limitation of an apparatus and an deleting procedure for information held in an apparatus by a manager. An acquisition unit acquires information about an expiration date of the apparatus. A first determination unit determines whether the expiration date expires based on the acquired information. A limitation unit limits use of the apparatus when the expiration date expires. A registration unit registers a specific processing procedure executed by the apparatus as work flow information. A second determination unit determines whether the work flow information has been registered. A third determination unit determines whether a user instructs an execution of the processing procedure when the work flow information has been registered. An execution unit executes the processing procedure under the use limited condition, when the user instructs the execution of the processing procedure. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007919 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - In a document management apparatus, a document search unit is configured to operate under the control of a main controller to search for document entities and objects from a document information storage unit via a document information operation unit and acquire document entities and objects found in the search operation. A degree-of-association calculator is configured to operate under the control of the main controller to calculate the degrees of association between objects for the objects stored in the document information storage unit and register the calculated degrees of association in a degree-of-association information storage unit via a degree-of-association information operation unit. A degree-of-association information search unit is configured to operate under the control of the main controller to search for degree-of-association information between objects from the degree-of-association information storage unit via the degree-of-association information operation unit and acquire the degree-of-association information found in the search operation. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007920 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus capable of efficiently using a removable medium when the removable medium is used instead of a memory provided in the image processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a RAM for storing image data, a removable medium I/F to which the removable medium is coupled, and a CPU. The CPU confirms the remaining capacity of the RAM and determines based on the remaining capacity confirmed during execution of a job and a job operation mode whether the job can be continued by using only the RAM. When it is determined that the job cannot be continued, image data to be saved is selected according to a predetermined priority order, and the selected image data is saved from the RAM onto the removable medium. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007921 | DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - A display device capable of informing a user of a plurality of condition information items correctly even if a display area is restricted. A determination unit determines whether a plurality of conditions should be displayed on a display unit. A first display unit displays the condition information items showing the respective conditions to be displayed in turn in contracted messages, which are created by contracting the respective condition information items so as to be fitted within a display area of the display unit, when the determination unit determines that the plurality of conditions should be displayed. A second display unit displays the condition information item showing the condition to be displayed in a detailed message, which does not contract the condition information item, when the determination unit determines that one condition should be displayed. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007922 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus which is capable of bringing processing devices, such as sheet feed devices and post-processing devices connected respectively to the image forming apparatus, into operable states in timing optimal for carrying out an image forming job, thereby improving productivity and operation rate of the image forming apparatus as well as saving energy. A print job is analyzed to determine at least one sheet feed device and at least one post-processing device to be used in executing the print job, and states of the determined devices are checked to determine at least one of the sheet feed device and the post-processing device to be caused to start a preparatory operation in advance before the print job is executed. Power supply to the at least one of the sheet feed device and the post-processing device is turned on in timing such that the preparatory operation is completed in time for the start of execution of the print job. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007923 | PRINTER CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, PRINTER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, READER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A printer control apparatus can be applied to an image forming apparatus in which a plurality of types of readers and a plurality of types of printers can be connected to a single controller, and which enables efficient transfer of image data from the reader to the printer via an image memory of the controller. The controller receives image data from a reader and temporarily stores the same in an image memory, and transmits the stored image data to a printer. The controller acquires a reader processing speed from the reader and a printer processing speed from the printer, and determines, while the image data is being written to the image memory, timing for transmitting the image data written in the memory to the printer according to a difference between the reader processing speed and the printer processing speed and a sub-scan size of the image data. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007924 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The invention provides an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a recording medium and a program capable of suppressing security dots from being reproducible visibly while enhancing reproduction of a color, in an original, specified by a user, in the process of forming a monochrome image from a color image. The image processing apparatus includes a unit for taking a color image, a unit for separating a color image into respective color elements, a unit for judging the security dots through the use of the separated data, and a unit that, when it is judged that security dots are included, recalculates the blending ratio through the use of the security dot judgment result to convert the color image into a monochrome image. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007925 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image processing controlling unit calculates an image processing parameter to reduce an image quality difference between image data read by a first reading unit and a second reading unit depending on a reading characteristic of a reading unit indicated by attached information (reading-unit information) received together with the calculating request and a writing characteristic of a printer. The calculated image processing parameter is stored in a memory. Next, when printing the image data, a middleware unit causes a printer to print the image data based on the image processing parameter held in the memory. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007926 | Image communication system, image communication apparatus, and storage medium having image communication program stored therein - Identification information of another image communication apparatus is received, as transmitter information indicating a transmitter, from the another image communication apparatus, and display is performed so as to indicate the transmitter on display means in accordance with the transmitter information having been received, and a user is allowed to select whether or not an image is to be received from the another image communication apparatus having transmitted the transmitter information. Next, its own identification information is transmitted, as destination information indicating a destination, to the another image communication apparatus which is selected as the transmitter from which an image is to be received. An image is received from the another image communication apparatus to which the destination information is transmitted, and the received image is stored in storage means. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007927 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes plural image outputting parts, an image processing part configured to process image data to be output by the plural image outputting parts, plural software control parts configured to selectively control the plural image outputting parts, a user service selecting part configured to share the image processing part in a case of processing the image data to be output from the plural image outputting parts and select plural user services that selectively use the plural software control parts, and a request executing part configured to sequentially receive plural image process requests and plural output requests from the plural software control parts and execute the plural image process requests and the plural image output requests in an order in which the plural image process requests and the plural output requests are sequentially received. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007928 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE INPUT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - Upon a user selecting and associating document data and a digital multifunction peripheral on a computer screen, the document data associated with the selected digital multifunction peripheral | 2010-01-14 |
20100007929 | IMAGE READ-OUT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - The image read-out device comprises an integrally formed scanning optical unit in which a light source which emits light toward a document, a plurality of reflective mirrors reflecting the light which is emitted from the light source to the document and then reflected, an image forming lens converging the light reflected by a final reflective mirror which finally reflects the light, among the plurality of mirrors, and a light receiving sensor for receiving the light converged by the image forming lens are integrally mounted on a housing, the integrally formed scanning optical unit moving in a scanning direction and reading out an image of the document, wherein an opening is provided on each of top and bottom surfaces of the housing, and wherein the area of the opening provided on the bottom surface is equal or more than that of the opening provided on the top surface. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007930 | Authentication Scanner - A system for obtaining a signature from a scan area on the surface of an article comprises: a signature generator that generates the signature from scattered coherent radiation detected from a plurality of points on the surface and includes a scan head comprising a coherent radiation source and photodetectors; a camera for capturing an image of the surface; a comparator that compares the captured image with a reference image to determine the location and orientation of the scan area; and a drive assembly that positions the scan head appropriately for generating a signature from the scan area in response to the determination of the location and orientation of the scan area. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007931 | SHEET-FEEDING SCANNING APPARATUS HAVING MECHANISM FOR FEEDING BUSINESS CARD - A sheet-feeding scanning apparatus having a business card feeding mechanism is provided. The sheet-feeding scanning apparatus includes a scanning module, an ordinary document input tray, an ordinary document pick-up roller assembly, a transfer channel, a plurality of transfer rollers, an ejecting tray, an ejecting roller assembly, a business card input tray, and a business card pick-up roller assembly. The business card input tray includes a business card support plate, a spring, a separation slice and a position-limiting glide slot. The business card pick-up roller assembly includes a business card pick-up roller, a business card separation roller and a shaft rod. The shaft rod is sheathed by the business card separation roller. The sheet-feeding scanning apparatus is adapted for scanning images of multiple ordinary documents or multiple business cards. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007932 | Optical recording medium and method for manufacturing the same - An optical recording medium has a recording layer formed of a plurality of reflection hologram layers. A spacer layer is interposed between the respective reflection hologram layers. The reflection hologram layer is made of a material having a thermal threshold value which allows, when being irradiated with a recording laser beam, local absorbed heat to vary hologram diffraction conditions at a focal position, and allows the hologram to be retained at non-focal positions. The spacer layer is made of a material which is insensitive to a laser beam of a recording wavelength and which has a smaller extinction coefficient than that of the reflection hologram layer. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007933 | MOVABLE BODY APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT USING THE MOVABLE BODY APPARATUS - An apparatus includes an oscillatory system having first and second movable bodies, and first and second elastic support portions, a driving portion having a permanent magnet, and a drive controlling portion. The oscillatory system has at least two characteristic oscillation modes of first and second resonance frequencies. The drive controlling portion supplies a driving signal to the driving portion so that the movable body of the oscillatory system is swingingly rotated. The swinging rotation is performed such that a sum of time periods wherein the angular displacement of the movable body changes in one direction is different from a sum changes in its opposite direction. The drive controlling portion includes a waveform adjusting portion for adjusting the driving signal. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007934 | Optical Element and Image Display Device Using the Same - An optical element includes a light transmission member | 2010-01-14 |
20100007935 | Optical scanning device, retinal scanning display and manufacturing method of optical scanning device - An optical scanning device includes an oscillating mirror portion having a reflection surface, and a frame portion holding the oscillating mirror portion. The optical scanning device reflects an incident optical flux by the reflection surface so as to convert the incident optical flux into a scanned optical flux. The optical scanning device further includes a reflection portion having a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface which are arranged in substantially V-shaped inclined surfaces. The first reflection surface reflects the incident optical flux and radiates the reflected light toward the oscillating mirror portion. The second reflection surface receives the reflected light from the oscillating mirror portion and radiates the reflected light as the scanned optical flux. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007936 | DIELECTRIC MICROSTRUCTURE FOR USE IN MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS - Disclosed herein is a dielectric microstructure with a substantially unit dielectric constant K for use in microelectromechanical systems. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007937 | METHOD OF MAKING AN ION-SWITCHING DEVICE WITHOUT A SEPARATE LITHIATION STEP - In any manufacturing sequence for making a lithium ion-switching device, lithium has to be introduced at some stage into the device. An electrode inside the device is filled and depleted with lithium through an ion conductor at every use cycle of the device. Prior-art methods to introduce the lithium are: direct sputtering of lithium on the electrode, or electrochemically loading the electrode in an electrochemical cell, or indirectly loading the electrode after an ion conductor has been deposited on top of the electrode and still other methods. The inventive method disclosed makes such a separate lithiation step obsolete. The lithium is introduced at the same time as the ion-conductor is put on the electrode. This can be achieved by using an oxygen super-stoichiometric compound for the electrode. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007938 | DIGITAL TYPE ANTI-GLARE DEVICE USING TOUCH AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed is a digital type anti-glare device capable of conveniently performing input, operation and adjustment, and a method of controlling the same. The digital type anti-glare device includes a touch sensor input unit recognizing a shade degree and a grind mode level by direct selective operation or adjustment of a user as a digital contact signal and inputting the shade degree and the grind model level to the control unit, and an encoder switch input unit recognizing a sensitivity level and an opening delay level by the selective operation or adjustment of the user and inputting the sensitivity level and the opening delay level to the control unit. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent operation failure due to switch contact, dust or humidity or the like by a touch sensor and encoder input and to facilitate input, operation and adjustment even in a state in which an operator wears gloves. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007939 | METHOD OF PROJECTING IMAGE WITH TUNABLE INDIVIDUALLY-ADDRESSABLE FABRY-PEROT FILTERS - A projection system includes a display apparatus comprising a plurality of tunable Fabry-Perot filters, each of the filters being configured for shifting between a state in which the filter transmits radiation in a bandwidth in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum and a state in which the filter transmits radiation in a bandwidth outside the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. An illuminator provides light to the plurality of Fabry-Perot filters. A control system receives image data and controls the display apparatus to project an image onto an associated display surface. The control system includes a modulator which provides wavelength modulation signals to the plurality of Fabry-Perot filters to modulate a color of pixels in the image and causes selected ones of the Fabry-Perot filters to shift into the bandwidth outside the visible range to modulate the brightness of pixels in the image. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007940 | MICRO OSCILLATING DEVICE - A micro oscillating device includes a first frame; an oscillating portion; a first twist coupling portion and a second twist coupling portion coupling the first frame and the oscillating portion to define a first shaft center of an oscillating operation of the oscillating portion; a second frame including a support base and an arm portion extended from the support base toward the oscillating portion; and a third twist coupling portion and a fourth twist coupling portion coupling the second frame and the first frame to define a second shaft center of an oscillating operation of the first frame, wherein the third twist coupling portion is coupled to the first frame and the arm portion between the oscillating portion and the support base, and the fourth twist coupling portion is coupled to the first frame and the support base or the arm portion between the oscillating portion and the support base. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007941 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electrophoretic display device includes a first substrate on which a pixel electrode and another pixel electrode that is adjacent to the pixel electrode are formed, a second substrate on which a common electrode facing the pixel electrode and the another pixel electrode that is adjacent to the pixel electrode is formed, a plurality of electrophoretic elements that is sandwiched by the first substrate and the second substrate and has charged electrophoretic particles, and an adhesive agent layer that is disposed between the plurality of electrophoretic elements and the first substrate. A floating electrode that is electrically isolated is disposed between the pixel electrode and the another pixel electrode that is adjacent to the pixel electrode on the first substrate. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007942 | Electronic Paper - An object of the present invention is to increase the resistance of electronic paper to external stress. The resistance to external stress is increased by providing an element formation layer, which includes an integrated circuit portion, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a charged particle-containing layer, between a first insulating film including a first structure body in which a first fibrous body is impregnated with a first organic resin, and a second insulating film including a second structure body in which a second fibrous body is impregnated with a second organic resin. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007943 | Optical amplification system and optical amplification method - An optical amplification system includes a wavelength filter that divides a wavelength multiplexing optical signal into a plurality of wavelength multiplexing optical signals having wider wavelength intervals than wavelength intervals of the wavelength multiplexing optical signal, and a first optical amplifier that performs optical amplification on the plurality of divided wavelength multiplexing optical signals independently of one another. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007944 | OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A manufacturing method for an optical semiconductor device, including disposing a semiconductor element that has a polarization dependent gain or polarization dependent loss between optical waveguide modes differing in the direction of polarization, positioning a lens at one end face side of the semiconductor element based on an optical coupling loss between the lens and the semiconductor element, and repositioning the lens based on the polarization dependent gain or the polarization dependent loss of the semiconductor element. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007945 | Optical Device Comprising a GaInP-Based Photonic Crystal not Exhibiting Two-Photon Absorption - The invention relates to an optical device operating within a wavelength range centred on a reference wavelength (λ | 2010-01-14 |
20100007946 | SUBSTAGE, STAGE AND MICROSCOPE EQUIPPED THEREWITH - Provided is a substage for a microscope. The substage is provided with a plurality of fixing members for selectively fixing a plurality of stages, on which a sample is placed, each of which is equipped with a fixing member. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007947 | METHOD FOR, IN PARTICULAR, OPTICAL EXAMINATION OF THE SURFACE OF A SAMPLE CARRIER FOR BIOLOGICAL OBJECTS - Method for, in particular, optical examination of the surface of a sample carrier for biological objects, in which the sample carrier is arranged in the spatially-fixed observation area of a measuring facility, whereby the observation area covers a partial area of the surface of the sample carrier, and the sample carrier is moved with respect to the observation area, whereby, for examination, the sample carrier is displaced in the direction of an axis that extends in the plane of the sample carrier and rotated simultaneously in this plane. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007948 | Telescope having a focus display - A telescope having a focus display includes a tube assembly, a sensor and a focus display. The tube assembly has a first tube and a second tube connected within the first tube. The first tube has an opening. The sensor is provided on the second tube. The focus display is provided in the opening of the first tube. The focus display is provided with a screen, a processing unit and an electromagnetic sensing unit. The electromagnetic sensing unit, the processing unit and the screen are electrically connected with each other. When the first tube is telescopically moved with respect to the second tube, the electromagnetic sensing unit receives and senses the change in the electromagnetic field of the sensor. The processing unit then calculates the displacement and displays the data on the screen, so that the user can focus the telescope to obtain the clearest image. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007949 | INFLATABLE SCREEN WITH FULLY INTERNAL TENSION - An inflatable moving screen system includes an inflatable support structure. The inflatable support structure has at least two horizontal tubes and at least two vertical tubes that collectively form a rectangular frame. A skirt is coupled to one of the horizontal tubes and to both vertical tubes. An air inlet is also provided in the support structure, so that as air is received, it can fill the support structure tubes. A projection surface is disposed within the rectangular frame and is permanently coupled directly to one of the horizontal tubes, to both vertical tubes, and to the skirt. An internal tension mechanism is also included. The skirt may be part of the internal tension mechanism, which is configured to create fully internal tension to stretch the projection screen automatically, by inflation of the four inflatable tubes, and without using external or removable tension mechanisms. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007950 | SCREEN - A screen includes: a flexible screen body on which image light is projected; a fixed column arranged in a central portion; an arm sliding unit configured to pivotably support the second arm member of the first pantograph mechanism and the second arm member of the second pantograph mechanism with respect to the fixed column so as to be slidable in the vertical direction, in which the first pantograph mechanism and the second pantograph mechanism are expanded and contracted to move the first supporting unit and the second supporting unit toward and away from each other by a sliding movement of the arm sliding unit, and an urging member configured to urge the first supporting unit and the second supporting unit to move away from each other is provided. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007951 | STEREOGRAM METHOD AND APPARATUS - An apparatus may include a meditative stereogram adapted or selected to encourage meditation of a subject and an audio track paired with the stereogram to work in cooperation with the stereogram to encourage the subject to reach a meditative state. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007952 | Arrangement for Adjusting and Compensating for First- and Second-Order Polarization Mode Dispersion - A configuration contains a series connection of a first emulation element, having a first adjustable differential delay time between the fast and slow main axes and further having an adjustable chromatic dispersion of a polarization adjuster for the adjustment of a polarization rotation angle, and of a second emulation element, having a second adjustable delay time. Advantageously, the first and second differential delay times, the polarization rotation angle, and the chromatic dispersion can be adjusted by the configuration such that a desired value each is obtained for the differential group delay, the depolarization, and the polarization-dependant chromatic dispersion. By the adjustment of the chromatic dispersion, arbitrary frequency-dependant run times of the spectral components of a broadband optical input signal are generated. The configuration may also be utilized for the compensation of PMD of the first and second orders. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007953 | POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING REFLECTOR ARRANGEMENT - The present invention discloses a polarization-maintaining reflector arrangement comprising a reflector group including at least one polarizing reflector and at least one compensating reflector, wherein the incident plane for the polarizing reflectors is perpendicular to the incident plane for the compensating reflectors, and the product of s-wave reflectance of all the polarizing reflectors and p-wave reflectance of all the compensating reflectors is equal to the product of s-wave reflectance of all the compensating reflectors and p-wave reflectance of all the polarizing reflectors. One or more reflector groups can be used in the light path. The invention can conveniently and effectively eliminate the polarization caused by reflection. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007954 | RETROREFLECTIVE ARTICLES COMPRISING OLEFINIC SEAL FILMS - Microstructured articles, such as a retroreflective articles, having a plurality of (e.g. cube-corner) microstructured elements and a seal film layer adhered to portions of the cube-corner elements and/or portions of a (e.g., flexible) body layer. The seal film is a thermoplastic polymeric material comprising reaction products of alkylene in an amount of at least about 50% and reaction products of at least one non-acidic polar monomer. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007955 | Large Amplitude High Frequency Optical Delay - Optical delay line system that includes a retro-reflection mirror which is displaced along a circular path while being maintained in angular alignment with launch and return sources of light subject the components of the system to minimum levels of unbalanced linear acceleration. A retroreflector is pivotally mounted on a rotating element such that the optical axis of the retroreflector's motion is mobile such that its angle or position changes relative to a fixed observer. There is no linear stopping and starting of the retroreflector and all acceleration of the retroreflector is rotational acceleration with small angles so the required forces in the optical delay line are greatly reduced. Both large displacement and high repetition rates are achieved. The system can be configured so that optical fibers serve as launch and return optics. Alternatively, free space beam paths deliver light to the optical delay and return the reflected light from the retroreflector. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007956 | VIBRATION CORRECTING DEVICE, LENS BARREL, AND OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device with an imaging device for forming an image of a subject with a lens device includes a lens unit, a movable member making the lens unit movable within a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens unit, an image pickup device imaging the subject image formed by the lens device, a fixed member limiting the movement of the movable member in the optical axis direction, at least three balls rolling between the movable and fixed member, a vibration detecting unit, and a pitch direction drive unit for driving the movable member in the pitch direction within the optical axis orthogonal plane and a yaw direction drive unit for driving the movable member in the yaw direction within the optical axis orthogonal plane. The pitch and yaw direction drive units press the movable member toward the fixed member side by means of magnetic pressing forces caused by magnetic attractive action between drive magnets and yokes. | 2010-01-14 |
20100007957 | PHOTOGRAPHING LENS AND CAMERA - A small shooting lens has high optical performance and is suitable for mass production. To attain this, the shooting lens includes at least three lens groups disposed in order from an object side, wherein an adhesion multiple-layer diffractive optical element is formed on one of surfaces disposed between an object surface and an imaging plane, and a maximum image height Y and an entire length L satisfy 0.12010-01-14 | |
20100007958 | PROCESS OF FORMING A LIGHT BEAM PATH IN A DIELECTRIC MIRROR - An optical mirror element includes an optically transmissive element having a first surface and a second surface, and a reflective coating layer on the first surface that defines a mirror surface. A first portion of the first surface does not include the reflective coating layer such that the first portion defines an optically transmissive window in the mirror surface. Q method of forming an optical mirror element having a window portion includes providing an optical element, masking a first portion of a first surface of the optical element, and thereafter applying a reflective coating to the first surface so as to define a reflective surface, wherein the masked portion defines a transmissive region in the reflective surface. The exposed portion of the first surface may be coated with an anti-reflective coating, either before or after the reflective coating is applied. | 2010-01-14 |