| 01st week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
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| 20120002201 | Spectral Device and Method for Controlling Same - A spectroscopic device with high sensitivity is provided. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002202 | DUAL WAVEBAND COMPACT CATADIOPTRIC IMAGING SPECTROMETER - A catadioptric dual waveband imaging spectrometer that covers the visible through short-wave infrared, and the midwave infrared spectral regions, dispersing the visible through shortwave infrared with a zinc selenide grating and midwave infrared with a sapphire prism. The grating and prism are at the cold stop position, enabling the pupil to be split between them. The spectra for both wavebands are focused onto the relevant sections of a single dual waveband detector. Spatial keystone distortion is controlled to less than one tenth of a pixel over the full wavelength range, facilitating the matching of the spectra in the midwave infrared with the shorter wavelength region. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002203 | Sensitivity enhancement in grating coupled surface plasmon resonance by azimuthal control - A method and a system for the enhancement of the sensitivity in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors based metallic grating by exploiting the conical configuration is presented. We consider the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) excited by light from the visible to infrared spectrum range, incident on a plasmonic grating at different directions by varying both the zenith and azimuthal angles. For specific azimuthal angles, SPPs propagate in the grating plane perpendicular to the incident light momentum. This is the condition that allows increasing the number of different excited SPPs modes largely. We exploit this effect to increase the sensor sensitivity with the change of refractive index of thin film on the plasmonic grating surface. Polarization effects also contribute to a further modes enhancement and increase the sensitivity. A scheme for a lab-on-chip implementation of a system that allows a parallel detection in microfluidic channels has been shown. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002204 | DETECTOR FOR BIREFRINGENT OBJECTS - The invention relates to a detector and a method, adapted for detecting a birefringent object near a surface, and to a shaving device adapted for detecting and for cutting a hair near a skin surface of a human body part or an animal body part. The detector ( | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002205 | OPTOELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR GAS ANALYSIS AND METHOD - The invention relates to an improved optoelectronic apparatus for optical gas analysis by means of which the interfering influence of the particles contained in the gas is reduced with regard to the intended measurement. For this purpose the optoelectronic apparatus in accordance with the invention has a light transmitter and a light receiver which define an optical measurement path including a measurement volume between one another. The received signals of the light receiver can be evaluated in an evaluation unit, to ultimately obtain the desired information therefrom, for example, the concentration of a specific gas content. In accordance with the invention an ionizer is further provided which is arranged upstream of the optical measurement path. The ionizer causes an ionization of the undesirable particles, i.e. e.g. the dust particles, smoke particles or such like aerosols so that the ionized particles can be deflected by electric fields or also magnetic fields by means of an ion acceleration apparatus. In this respect the ion acceleration apparatus and/or its electromagnetic fields is/are aligned such that the generated ions experience a deflection to be able to flow past the measurement volume. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002206 | TURBIDITY SENSOR FOR AN ELECTRIC HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE - An optical-type turbidity sensor including a casing accommodating photo emitting means and photo receiving means therein, wherein the photo emitting means and the photo receiving means are arranged side-by-side on a same side of the casing, preferably underneath a same lens-shaped, transparent portion of the same, and are facing to, and spaced from, a reflecting surface carried by the casing and adapted to receive a light radiation from the photo emitting means for reflecting it towards the photo receiving means; the reflecting surface is operatively associated with means for varying a distance existing between the reflecting surface and the side of the casing provided with the photo emitting and photo receiving means arranged side-by-side. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002207 | Method for Determining an Analyte in a Sample - In one aspect of the invention, a method or apparatus is described for determining concentration(s) of one or more analytes in a sample using plasmonic excitations. In another aspect, a method relates to designing systems for such concentration determination, wherein metallic nanostructures are used in combination with local electrical detection of such plasmon resonances via a semiconducting photodetector. In certain aspects, the method exploits the coupling of said metallic nanostructure(s) to a semiconducting photodetector, said detector being placed in the “metallic structure's” near field. Surface plasmon excitation can be transduced efficiently into an electrical signal through absorption of light that is evanescently coupled or scattered in a semiconductor volume. This local detection technique allows the construction of sensitive nanoscale bioprobes and arrays thereof. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002208 | DEVICE FOR DEMONSTRATING AND TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ANTI-REFLECTIVE TREATMENT OF AN OPHTHALMIC LENS - A device for demonstrating and comparatively testing the effectiveness of an antireflection treatment for an ophthalmic lens, the device comprising an image ( | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002209 | HIV/AIDS Treatment Efficacy Measure - A white blood cell nuclei light scattering peak resolving process measures efficacies of treatment agents against an HIV/AIDS infection of a person by calculating changes between Mie scatterings from blood from the person and from blood from the person with a treatment agent added, where the Mie scatterings resolve the first Mie light scattering peak of white blood cell nuclei. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002210 | OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER - A scanning optical interferometer ( | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002211 | CHEMICAL SENSING WITH COHERENT DETECTION OF OPTICAL SIGNAL - This invention relates generally to the systems and methods for standoff trace chemicals detection such as explosives residue and others, and particularly to optical devices and the methods of their use based on sensing of gases and residue materials. This sensing includes detection and measurement of optical absorption spectra and relative concentration of the chemical followed by the chemical identification based on these spectral data. The sensing is based on photothermal interferometry method improved by implementation of coherent optical detection. The coherent optical detection is performed by an integrated polarization-diversity coherent receiver with an electro-optic phase modulator for a local oscillator optical beam. The implementation of pulsed probe sensing and local oscillator optical beams in the coherent detection improves the device with better eye safety performance. The hybrid calibration via a phase-modulated local oscillator optical beam allows optimizing the signal reception and reduces complexity of the probe subsystem. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002212 | DUAL-ETALON CAVITY RING-DOWN FREQUENCY-COMB SPECTROSCOPY - In an embodiment, a dual-etalon cavity-ring-down frequency-comb spectrometer system is described. A broad band light source is split into two beams. One beam travels through a first etalon and a sample under test, while the other beam travels through a second etalon, and the two beams are recombined onto a single detector. If the free spectral ranges (“FSR”) of the two etalons are not identical, the interference pattern at the detector will consist of a series of beat frequencies. By monitoring these beat frequencies, optical frequencies where light is absorbed may be determined. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002213 | SHAPE DETERMINING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to measure thickness distribution with precision by using a simple device configuration without being affected by vibrations of a to-be-measured object. In the present invention, for each of the front and the back surfaces of a to-be-measured object | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002214 | OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - There are provided an optical tomographic imaging apparatus which detects an amount of movement of an object during imaging to reduce a deformation or a displacement in a depth direction in an acquired image. The apparatus using interference beams obtained by combining each return beam with each reference beam, the return beams being obtained by scanning the object with measuring beams, including: a unit adapted to scan the object with the measuring beams; a unit adapted to irradiate the object with the measuring beams such that regions of the object irradiated with each measuring beams are partially overlapped; a unit adapted to calculate a positional difference in a depth direction between obtained tomographic images of the overlapped parts of the regions; and a unit adapted to compute an amount of movement of the object based on the calculated positional difference in the depth direction. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002215 | OPTICAL DETECTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - An optical detecting device including: an emission unit that emits emitting light; a light-receiving unit that receives the emitting light reflected off an object; an amplifying unit that amplifies a received-light detection signal of the light-receiving unit; a detecting unit that detects position identifying information of the object based on a signal output from the amplifying unit; a determining unit that determines a position of the object based on the position identifying information; and a coupling capacitor provided between an output node of the amplifying unit and an input node of the detecting unit. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002216 | ROBOT AND AUTO-ZEROING METHOD - The invention provides a robot including a connection member relatively displaceably connected, and configured to control the displacement of the connection member based on a reference posture that can be adjusted, the robot including: a light emitting unit to emit a laser beam in a predetermined direction; a light receiving unit to receive the laser beam when the connection member is located in a detection posture that is away, by a preset displacement amount, from a predetermined zero posture; and a zeroing unit to relatively displace the connection member so as to make the light receiving unit receive the laser beam, and then to adjust the reference posture to the zero posture based on the posture of the connection member when the laser beam is received as well as on a relationship between the zero posture and the detection posture. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002217 | COORDINATE INPUT APPARATUS, LIGHT RECEIVING APPARATUS OF THE COORDINATE INPUT APPARATUS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A light receiving unit of a coordinate input apparatus includes a light receiving element, a light receiving lens, an adjusting unit for adjusting the positional relationship between the light receiving element and light receiving lens, and a light transmissive plate which is arranged between the light receiving element and light receiving lens, and defines the focal length of the light receiving lens. The light transmissive plate is arranged between the light receiving element and light receiving lens in a state in which the optical axis between the light receiving element and light receiving lens is adjusted by the adjusting unit with the light transmissive plate being removed. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002218 | BANKNOTE RECOGNITION AND COUNTING MACHINE AND BANKNOTE RECOGNITION AND COUNTING METHOD - Banknotes are taken into a banknote recognition and counting machine ( | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002219 | PRINT SHOP MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PRINTING MIXED COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE DOCUMENTS - A method and computer program is described for managing a print shop system in which a plurality of color and black and white printers are connected to and managed by a computer. To print a source document having mixed color and black and white pages with a color-split printing process, the computer first execute a verification program to determine whether the source document indeed contains mixed color and black and black and white pages by utilizing a recursive pair-down or page-down scheme where the color values of the pages are compared and as soon as a mismatch in the color values of the processed pages occurs, the computer will return a result indicating that the source document indeed contains mixed color and black and white pages. Alternatively the computer will return a result indicating that the source document does not contain mixed color and black and white pages when a last page of the document is reached but a mismatch of the color value of the compared page never occurs. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002220 | CONTROLLING PRINTER ENERGY CONSUMPTION - A method for controlling printer energy consumption. The method includes identifying, during a first time interval, a quantity of energy consumed by a printer since commencement of the first time interval; generating a comparison by comparing the quantity of energy with a first energy threshold for the first time interval; and invoking an energy saving mode of the printer based on the comparison. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002221 | MAINTAINING PRINT SETTINGS ACROSS MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS - A method, including: receiving a request to print a first document from a first application; displaying print settings and an option to maintain print settings (MPS); collecting a time limit, a selection enabling the option to MPS, and a selection enabling a print setting; sending a first print job corresponding to the first document and the print setting to a printer; initiating, in response to the selection enabling the option to MPS, a time window having a duration set to the time limit; receiving a request to print a second document from a second application; identifying a remaining time of the time window; retrieving, in response to the remaining time exceeding zero, the indication of the print setting; and sending, bypassing the printer driver GUI, a second print job corresponding to the second document and the print setting to the printer. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002222 | CONTROL DEVICE - A content of the common setting is applied to the plurality of devices and a content of the special setting is applied to a specific device among the plurality of devices. When the item of the special setting for the specific device is selected on the common setting screen, the acquiring unit is configured to acquire special setting screen data corresponding to the selected item of the special setting from an external device. A second setting screen supplying unit is configured to supply the special setting screen data to the display unit such that the display unit displays a special setting screen on which the content of the special setting for the selected item is settable. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002223 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND A PAPER SHEET SUPPLY METHOD - An image forming apparatus, comprising: an input unit which designates the type of a sheet to be used in image formation; a sheet cassette which accommodates the sheets and in which the type of the accommodated sheets is set; a storage unit which stores the sheet type set in the sheet cassette if the sheet type set in the sheet cassette and the sheet type accommodated in the sheet cassette coincide with each other; and a control unit which, when the sheet type set in the sheet cassette is stored in the storage unit upon receiving a request of image formation, judges whether the sheet type designated by the input unit and the sheet type stored in the storage unit coincide with each other, if the sheet type designated by the input unit and the sheet type stored in the storage unit coincide with each other, said control unit instructs image formation, if the sheet type designated by the input unit and the sheet type stored in the storage unit do not coincide, said control unit notifies the judgment result to a user without instructing the image formation, and when the sheet type is not stored in the storage unit upon receiving the request of the image formation, said control unit instructs the image formation. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002224 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO ADD SPECIFIC DATA TO IMAGE, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD OF ADDING THE SPECIFIC DATA TO THE IMAGE - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a data adding part and an image forming part. The data adding part acquires first identification data from a first storage part provided in a colorant container to contain a colorant and storing the first identification data intrinsic to the colorant container, and adds first additional data based on the first identification data to image data to be formed on a sheet. The image forming part forms an image on the sheet based on the image data to which the first additional data is added. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002225 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE ENCODING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH A COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus, including a color conversion part configured to conduct a color conversion of image data. The color conversion part extends an information amount of an output value in the color conversion based on a first minimum information amount possible to depict a gradation in a lattice point interval of an input value in a look up table used for the color conversion. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002226 | ENFORCING A MINIMUM FONT SIZE - A method for enforcing a user specified minimum font size (USMFS) in a hardcopy document (HD). The method includes: receiving a request to print an electronic document (ED) according to a magnification ratio; identifying a first character in the ED having a first font size smaller than a quotient of the USMFS divided by the magnification ratio; and increasing the first font size by a scale factor to match the quotient; where the HD is generated by scaling the ED according to the magnification ratio, and wherein the HD comprises the first character in the USMFS. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002227 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A value for determining a type of a recording medium is compared with a detection result, and the type of the recording medium is confirmed when there is no detection result within a predetermined range. Thus, by controlling the number of recording media to be detected for confirming the type of the recording medium according to the determination result of the recording media, a drop in productivity during determination of the types of the recording media is reduced. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002228 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit, a second image forming unit. In combined processing to perform two types of processing including one-sided image formation and two-sided image formation, if the one-sided image formation is performed, an image is formed on one side of the sheet by the second image forming unit. If there is an execution request for a job of one-sided image formation processing different from a combined job of the combined processing during execution of the combined job, the image formation control unit, while performing the one-sided image formation in the combined job of the combined processing by the second image forming unit, performs the one-sided image formation related to the execution request for the job of the one-sided image formation processing different from the combined job by the first image forming unit and then discharges from the intermediate discharge unit a sheet which has undergone the one-sided image formation processing in the job different from the combined job. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002229 | METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CUSTOM SPOOL PAGE PRINTING - A method and a printer for post-submission and post-rendering custom spooled page printing of a raw print file sent directly to the printer without a printer driver or print application. Embodiments of the method and printer implement a process that includes the steps of sending a raw print file directly to a printer and the printer receiving the raw print file for direct printing, rendering the raw print file by the printer's interpreter, after all pages of the raw print file are spooled, pausing the printer's print engine, providing page printing options on the printer's control panel to allow a user to select pages to be printed, and after receiving the user's page selection, starting the print engine to print only the pages selected by the user. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002230 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, image forming program, and recording medium - An image forming apparatus includes a feeding delay control unit to control a delay in feeding image formation media to a conveying unit and a counting unit to count a number of image formation media discharged to a discharge tray. When a count value of the counting unit reaches a threshold, the feeding delay control unit causes a feeding unit to switch a feeding mode from a small spacing mode, in which a next image formation medium is fed while a previously-fed image formation medium is on a conveying path, to a large spacing mode, in which an image formation medium is fed after a previously-fed image formation medium is discharged from the conveying path. When a number of image formation media on which images have been formed is smaller than a upper limit, the feeding mode is returned from the large spacing mode to the small spacing mode. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002231 | Image processing apparatus, computer program product, and preview image displaying method - The image data processing apparatus includes a storage unit to store image data having a process setting. The image data processing apparatus includes a selection screen display unit to display the one or more image data stored in the storage unit and to display a selection screen to select whether to use a process content associated with image data selected from the displayed image data if the one segment of image data is used. The image data processing apparatus includes a display control unit to display, on the display device, a preview image reflecting the process content based on the associated process content. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002232 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control method in an image processing apparatus to which a post-processing apparatus for performing post-processing on an output sheet is connectable includes storing, in a storage unit, image data and detailed information concerning a setting of post-processing to be set in the image data, and displaying, in a list, image data corresponding to each page stored in the storage unit, a result of output of each page, which reflects the setting of post-processing, and the detailed information of each page corresponding to the result of output. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002233 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus that allows image forming processes of a more number of apparatuses with limited power. The image forming apparatus includes: a job acquiring unit that acquires an image forming job giving an instruction to form an image; an electricity consumption amount acquiring unit that acquires the sum of electricity consumption amount in a plurality of apparatuses of which the sum of electricity consumption amount including the electricity consumption amount of the image forming apparatus is limited at a predetermined maximum electricity consumption amount or less; a determining unit that determines whether or not the sum of electricity consumption amount that the electricity consumption amount acquiring unit acquires is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value, which is smaller than the maximum electricity consumption amount; and an image forming process control unit that performs an image forming job that the job acquiring unit acquires, when the determining unit determines that the sum of electricity consumption amount is equal to or less than the reference value. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002234 | Approach For Securely Printing Electronic Documents - An approach is provided for securely printing electronic documents using a portable media. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of contexts and implementations and includes secure direct printing of electronic documents, secure direct printing of electronic documents with remote user authentication and secure printing of electronic documents with remote data management. The particular information provided on the portable media varies, depending upon the implementation. Furthermore, the approach provides varying degrees of security and may be used in conjunction with conventional printing of electronic documents. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002235 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus of the invention includes a read unit to read an original document, a storage unit to store an image file of the original document read by the read unit, a control unit to control storage and readout of the image file into and from the storage unit, and an image formation unit to print the image file read from the storage unit, and the control unit creates a template including one or plural elements, automatically creates an image file name based on the template when the image file is stored in the storage unit, and stores the image file. According to the image forming apparatus of the invention, when a file is stored, an operation burden is low and an easily identified file name can be created. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002236 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus includes: a controller operable to control a transition among a normal mode to operate the image formation apparatus, a first power saving mode in which electric power less than the normal mode is supplied, and a second power saving mode different from the first power saving mode in which electric power less than the normal mode is supplied; and an abnormality detector configured to detect an abnormality in the image formation apparatus. On the basis of the detection result of the abnormality detector, the controller controls transition to either the first power saving mode or the second power saving mode. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002237 | PRINTER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - According to one embodiment, a printer includes plural control units having a high rank and low rank relation with one another and serially connected in order from a high rank control unit to a low rank control unit. The low rank control unit notifies the high rank control unit of a download condition for the low rank control unit. The high rank control unit determines, if data to be downloaded to the low rank control unit is input from the outside, whether the accepted data meets the notified download condition and transfers, if the input data meets the download condition, the input data to the low rank control unit. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002238 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing system applies an image processing job to received image information according to contents of previously created definition information. The image processing system comprises an image forming apparatus configured to receive image information, associated with user information for specifying a user, through a public line an information processing unit configured to previously generate process definition in which a process to be executed by the image forming apparatus is described, and a storage unit configured to store the process definition previously generated by the information processing unit. The image forming apparatus has an acquisition unit configured to specify the user based on the user information extracted from the received image information and acquire the process definition associated with the user. The image processing system further comprises a processing unit configured to execute the contents of processing described in the process definition associated with the user acquired by the acquisition unit. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002239 | MENU DISPLAY SYSTEM, MENU DISPLAY METHOD, AND SERVER DEVICE - To generate and display a menu display in a printer so as to be adapted to the user. A server device connected so as to be capable of communication between a printing device and an information terminal device comprises a packet communication part for receiving user information designed to uniquely identify a user who operates a portable terminal; a network communication part for receiving printing-device information designed to uniquely identify a printer; a selectable-service determining part for extracting, based on the printing-device information thus received, services that can be executed by the printer, and determining, based on the user information, a service that can be selected by the user; and a menu-screen information creating part for generating, in a format that can be displayed by the printing device, menu information which includes the service thus determined; and transmits the menu information thus generated to the printer. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002240 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING IP ADDRESS OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING DHCP, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF ALLOCATING IP ADDRESS USING DHCP - A method of allocating an IP address of an image forming apparatus using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and an image forming apparatus and system performing the method, the method including requesting a DHCP server to allocate an IP address to an image forming apparatus having a previously allocated IP address in response to the image forming apparatus being re-connected to a network, responding to the IP address allocation request by the DHCP server, declining to respond to the response of the DHCP server, and providing the previously allocated IP address to the image forming apparatus upon receiving no response from the image forming apparatus after a predetermined time. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING DOCUMENT SERVICES - A system and method for acquiring document services is disclosed. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002242 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS EMBEDDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN DOCUMENT DATA - In an image processing apparatus, an input part inputs additional information to be embedded when printing a document. A developing part develops a character contained in the document, into which character the additional information is to be embedded, using a form deformed according to the additional information. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002243 | DELIVERY OF SCAN SERVICES OVER A DEVICE SERVICE PORT - Delivery of scan services of a networked scanning device over a device service port interfaced to the network. An extended XML schema is comprised of an extension to a baseline XML schema which defines baseline functions exposed by the scanning device via the device service port together with baseline parameters for such functions. The extension defines an additional parameter for a predesignated one of the plural baseline functions. A scan job is created by transmission of a request to create a scan job over the device service port. A request for scanner functionality defined by the predesignated function is transmitted to the scanning device via the device service port. The request for scanner functionality includes a non-null value for the additional parameter. The additional parameter specifies a device command of the scanning device. Data responsive to execution of the device command by the scanning device is transmitted to the client via the device service port. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002244 | System and Method for Storing and Retrieving Digital Content with Physical File Systems - A system and method for retrieving and storing digital documents with physical file storage systems are provided. The disclosed system and methods allow a user to retrieve digital documents from a conventional file storage system and to seamlessly categorize and store the digital documents within the conventional file storage system. The system and method provide for receiving an identifier associated with the physical file folder; and accessing the digital documents of the physical file folder using the received identifier. The system and method further provide for storing digital content in a file folder over a network including uploading and storing the digital content; entering an identification code associated with at least one file folder; and assigning digital content to the at least one selected file folder. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002245 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a lateral cover, which is an external covering to cover a lateral side of the image forming apparatus, and a connector member having at least one protrusion, by which the lateral cover is connected to the connector member. The lateral cover is formed to have an inwardly-dented handgrip, which has an open end and a closed end, and at least one opening on an upper section of the handgrip. The at least one protrusion protrudes downwardly from a surface of the connector member. The at least one protrusion is inserted in the at least one opening of the lateral cover to penetrate the connector member and to protrude downwardly from the upper section of the handgrip. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002246 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND SIZE DETECTING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an image reading apparatus includes: a light emitting body configured to emit light at illuminance lower than illuminance in reading an original document; a sensor configured to detect opening and closing of a cover; an image pickup element configured to pick up an image of the original document, on which the light from the light emitting body is irradiated, if the cover is open; and a control and determining section configured to turn on the light emitting body if the cover is opened and specify a pixel having a value exceeding a threshold from the picked-up image to determine the size of the original document. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002247 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF DOCUMENT SIZE DETECTION LIGHT SOURCE - A first LED that is one of a plurality of LEDs arranged in the main scanning direction is turned on, and the presence of a document on a document table glass is determined by detection of reflected light from the document using a CCD sensor, and a second LED other than the first LED in addition to the first LED among the plurality of LEDs is turned on when it is determined that a document is placed on the document table glass, and the size of the document on the document table glass is determined based on a scanning result of the CCD sensor on the reflected light from the document caused by illumination from the first and the second LEDs and a detection result of a reflective photosensor. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002248 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS - There is a light emitting device including a light source which generates light and of which the quantity of light emission changes according to a driving current, a driving circuit which runs the driving current to the light source to drive the light source, and a controller which controls the driving circuit and raises the driving current of the light source as the quantity of light emission from the light source decreases. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002249 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS TO ALTERNATE SCANNING AND METHOD THEREOF - An image scanning apparatus including a plurality of scanning units which are disposed in positions which correspond to each other across the moving path of the scanning object, a user interface to receive input of a scanning command, a supply unit to make a scanning object to pass the scanning units, a controlling unit to control the plurality of scanning units to scan the scanning object alternately when the scanning object passes the plurality of scanning units, and a storage unit to store each image scanned in the plurality of scanning units. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002250 | FULL SPECTRUM RECOGNITION IMAGE SENSOR - The present invention discloses an image sensor, specifically a full spectrum recognition image sensor capable of reading and recognition image information for all of ultraviolet light, visible light and infrared light, which comprises a sensor substrate, photosensitive parts set on the sensor substrate and arranged in a straight line, a lens set on an upper portion of the sensor substrate, a light source set beside the lens, and a framework capable of accommodating said sensor substrate, said lens and said light source. A light-transmitting plate for carrying an original is set on an upper portion of the framework, the light source is a full spectrum light source capable of emitting light including ultraviolet light, visible light and infrared light, and the photosensitive parts on the sensor substrate consist of two parts, one part of which is a reflected light photosensitive part for receiving reflected light information generated by irradiating an original with the light source and another part of which is an exciting light photosensitive part for receiving exciting light information generated by irradiating an original with the light source. The image sensor of the present invention not only can recognize general color images, but also can recognize forgery-prevention images for various special purposes, and thus greatly improve the functions and the application field of the image sensor. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002251 | Adjustable Reference Guide for an Input Tray of an Imaging Apparatus for Media Sheet Alignment - An input tray of an imaging apparatus having an adjustable reference guide for aligning media sheets in the input tray, the reference guide having a first and second reference point defining an axis, the axis being adjustable by one of pivoting of a reference guide wall or moving a slidable plate mounted over a portion of the reference guide allowing for alignment media sheets with one of an image received by the imaging apparatus or a datum axis on the input tray. The adjustments are made during manufacturing or during a servicing operation of the imaging apparatus. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002252 | IMAGE READ DEVICE AND COPIER - An image read device is provided, which conveys an original while performing reading of an image of the original at a read position on a transparent member by a read unit fixed, the image read device including: a moving unit that moves the transparent member back and forth in an original conveying direction; a control unit that conveys the original and moves the transparent member by using the moving unit while causing the reading of the image to be performed at the read position; and a determining unit that, when an event causing interruption of original conveyance occurs, stops the transparent member and determines whether a control of returning the transparent member to a home position is to be performed or not in accordance with a stopped position of the original in an original conveying path. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002253 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND LIGHT AMOUNT ADJUSTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a light source unit including light emitting elements for red, green, and blue; an image pickup section configured to receive, from a reference board on which light from the light source unit is irradiated, reflected light to pick up an image of the reference board; and a control section configured to control the light emitting elements of the light source unit to separately emit light, acquire separate data picked up by the image pickup section, select data having a smallest luminance value among the separate data, and control light amounts of all the light emitting elements of the light source unit with the selected data set as a reference. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002254 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Certain embodiments provide an image reading apparatus including: a monochrome CCD sensor including a first photo-diode array; plural color CCD sensors each including a second photodiode array; an AD converter configured to apply analog-to-digital conversion to each of analog outputs from the second photodiode array and the first photodiode array; a delay processing unit configured to delay at least one of color image data of plural colors from the AD converter and interpolate, with delayed any one or more of the color image data, a blank of image data that is to be read on a line in a sub-scanning direction; and an inter-line correction unit configured to correct, by the intervals and a set reduction magnification, a positional deviation in the sub-scanning direction between the monochrome image data and the color image data, respective timings of which are aligned on the line by the delay processing unit. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002255 | PRINTING - There is provided an apparatus and a method of printing a diffraction grating. In particular, the present invention relates to diffraction gratings applied to a substrate, such as a hologram. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002256 | Laser Based Image Display System - We describe optical techniques for replicating an image to expand the exit pupil of a head-up laser-based image display system. The system includes image replication optics to replicate an image carried by a substantially collimated beam, the image replication optics comprising a pair of substantially planar reflecting optical surfaces defining substantially parallel planes spaced apart in a direction perpendicular to the parallel planes. The system is configured to launch the collimated beam into a region between the parallel planes such that the reflecting optical surfaces waveguide the beam between the surfaces in a plurality of successive reflections at front and rear optical surfaces. The front optical surface is configured to transmit a proportion of the collimated beam when reflecting the beam such that at each reflection of the collimated beam at the front optical surface a replica of the image is output from the image replication optics. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002257 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, HOLOGRAM REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND HOLOGRAM REPRODUCTION METHOD - A hologram recording medium having two or more images recorded therein, wherein when substantially collimated light is incident along a first direction on the hologram recording medium, a first image is reproduced with the intensity of light diffracted in the hologram recording medium maximized in a predetermined direction, when substantially collimated light is incident along a second direction on the hologram recording medium, a second image is reproduced with the intensity of light diffracted in the hologram recording medium maximized in the predetermined direction, and a full width at half maximum of a reproduction angle of at least either of the diffracted light intensities of the first and second images is 8° or smaller. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002258 | OPTICAL ELEMENT - An optical element has a plurality of first machining portions and a plurality of second machining portions. The plurality of first machining portions is aligned in a first direction and the first machining portions each have a convex shape. The plurality of second machining portions is aligned in the first direction along the plurality of first machining portions and the second machining portions each have a convex shape. Ends of the second machining portions in the first direction are adjacent to the corresponding first machining portions, in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The ends of the second machining portions in the first direction are disposed further from end of the corresponding first machining portions in the first direction, than the length of the first machining portions or the second machining portions in the second direction. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002259 | MOLDED ELASTOMERIC FLEXURAL ELEMENTS FOR USE IN A LASER SCANNING ASSEMBLIES AND SCANNERS, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING, TUNING AND ADJUSTING THE SAME - A laser scanning assembly includes a coil support element having a central axis about which is wound an electromagnetic wire coil and having a flange oriented generally transverse to the central axis. An elastomeric flexural element has a first end coupled to the flange. A permanent magnet has first and second surfaces, a central axis, and a magnetization direction oriented generally transverse to the central axis of the permanent magnet. The magnet is supported by a second end of the elastomeric flexural element. A mirror has a central axis and is mounted on the second surface of the magnet. The central axes of the mirror and magnet are coaxial with the central axis of the coil support element. The elastomeric flexural element provides a return force when the magnet and the mirror are rotated at an angle from the central axis during energization of the electromagnetic wire coil. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002260 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an optical scanning apparatus at least including two optical scanning units that freely rotate about a rotation shaft and are disposed in parallel to the rotation shaft; two light sources provided for each optical scanning unit in relation to the optical scanning unit; and four primary mirrors provided respectively opposite and sandwiching the optical scanning unit, and the mirrors reflecting the light from the light source that is scanned by the optical scanning unit, wherein the first optical path that extends from a first optical scanning unit to one primary mirror that corresponds to the first optical scanning unit and a second optical path that extends from a second optical scanning unit to one primary mirror that corresponds to the second optical path are formed to overlap in a vertical orientation on a sectional surface including both rotation shafts of the two optical scanning units. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002261 | SCANNING OPTICAL APPARATUS - In a scanning optical apparatus, light emitted from each of a plurality of light sources is converted by a first optical element into a beam of light, which in turn is converted by a second optical element into a linear image extending in a main scanning direction incident on a deflecting mirror at which the beams of light are deflected in the main scanning direction. A third optical element configured to convert the beams from the deflecting mirror into spot-like images is a single lens, and each of opposite lens surfaces thereof has a curvature in a sub-scanning direction varying continuously from a position corresponding to an optical axis thereof outward in the main scanning direction in such a manner that MTF values in a sub-scanning direction of an image formed on the scanned surface vary less with image height. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002262 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical scanning device having: a light source for emitting a light beam; a deflector having a plurality of flat reflecting surfaces; a first optical system disposed between the light source and the deflector; and a second optical system disposed between the deflector and a photoreceptor surface, and configured such that the reflecting surfaces of the deflector and the photoreceptor surface are conjugated in a sub-scanning direction at every deflection angle in a main-scanning range. In the optical scanning device, the light beam traveling from the first optical system to the deflector has a width greater than a dimension in a main-scanning direction of each reflecting surface of the deflector, and the light beam passes through different portions of the first optical system depending on whether the light beam is to be deflected by the deflector to be directed to an edge portion of the main-scanning range or to be directed to a center portion of the main-scanning range such that the light beam traveling to the deflector has a smaller average wavefront curvature in a sub-scanning direction when the light beam is to be deflected by the deflector to be directed to an edge portion of the main-scanning range than when the light beam is to be deflected by the deflector to be directed to the center portion of the main-scanning range. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002263 | LASER LIGHT SOURCE, WAVELENGTH CONVERSION LASER LIGHT SOURCE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A laser light source having a semiconductor laser light source which emits a laser beam, a laser medium excited by the semiconductor laser light source to emit light, two reflectors configured to work as a resonator to confine the light emitted by the laser medium, and a holder which holds the laser medium, wherein stress is generated in the laser medium formed of a ceramic material situated in the resonator so as to control a polarization direction of the light emitted by the laser medium. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002264 | TEMPERATURE ACTIVATED OPTICAL FILMS - The present invention discloses a multilayer dielectric optical structure wherein one of the optical materials in the multilayer structure shows an optically isotropic state above and a birefringent state below a characteristic temperature Tc near the room temperature. The optical structure reflects a predetermined wavelength range of electromagnetic radiation above the Tc but allow the same to transmit through below the Tc. The predetermined wavelength can be the near infrared radiation from 700 nm to 2500 nm, and the optical structure rejects solar heat in warm summer days but admits the same to interior on a colder winter day. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002265 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR COLOR SHIFT AS A FUNCTION OF ANGLE OF VIEW - In one embodiment of the invention, a display is provided and includes a plurality of interferometric display elements. The display further includes at least one diffuser. Optical properties of the diffuser are selected to reduce color shift of the display when viewed from at least one angle. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002266 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PACKAGING A SUBSTRATE - A package structure and method of packaging for an interferometric modulator. A thin film material is deposited over an interferometric modulator and transparent substrate to encapsulate the interferometric modulator. A gap or cavity between the interferometric modulator and the thin film provides a space in which mechanical parts of the interferometric modulator may move. The gap is created by removal of a sacrificial layer that is deposited over the interferometric modulator. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002267 | Individually Addressable Nano-Scale Mechanical Actuators - An addressable nano-scale mechanical actuator is formed at the intersection of two nanowires. The actuator has an active region disposed between the two nanowires, which form the electrodes of the actuator. The active region contains an electrolytically decomposable material. When an activation voltage is applied to the electrodes, the material releases a gas that forms a bubble at one electrode, causing a bulging of a top surface of the actuator. The bulging may be used, via mechanical coupling, to provide mechanical actuation on a nanometer scale. The nanowires may be arranged in a two-dimensional array to provide an array of individually addressable actuators. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002268 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electrophoretic display device includes a display element including a pair of first and second substrates which are opposed to each other, and a microcapsule enclosing a display material changed in optical characteristics in response to an electric impulse, the microcapsule being sandwiched between the first and second substrates; and a protective film sealing the display element. In the display device, a first electrode is provided on the surface of the first substrate which faces the second substrate, a second electrode is provided on the surface of the second substrate which faces the first substrate, and a spacer is provided in the space between the periphery of the facing surface of the first substrate and the first electrode. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002269 | DEVICE FOR INCREASING THE SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH OF OPTICAL PULSES AS WELL AS AN ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD FOR REDUCING THE DURATION OF OPTICAL PULSES WITH THE USE OF SUCH A DEVICE - A device for increasing the spectral bandwidth of optical pulses, comprises a hollow fiber waveguide, optical components for focusing the beam into the hollow fiber waveguide and for re-collimating the beam at the exit of the hollow fiber waveguide, the hollow fiber waveguide being contained in an air-tight chamber filled with a gas at a given pressure; the length of the hollow fiber is such that, for a given input pulse energy and gas pressure, the energy contained in a fundamental propagation mode of the optical pulses that has minimum propagation losses exhibits substantially periodic oscillations over the full length of the hollow fiber waveguide and reaches a local maximum at the output end of the said hollow fiber waveguide. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002270 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An optical transmission system includes an optical transmitter that sends signal light to a transmission path, an optical receiver that receives the signal light from the transmission path, and an optical amplifier that is provided on the transmission path and that amplifies the signal light, the optical amplifier being configured to control a gain characteristic of the optical amplifier such that a power of signal light having a wavelength included within a wavelength range in which polarization hole burning occurs is higher than a power of another signal light having a wavelength outside the wavelength range. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002271 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER - A semiconductor optical amplifier includes: a laminated structure sequentially including a first compound semiconductor layer composed of GaN compound semiconductor and having a first conductivity type, a third compound semiconductor layer having a light amplification region composed of GaN compound semiconductor, and a second compound semiconductor layer composed of GaN compound semiconductor and having a second conductivity type; a second electrode formed on the second compound semiconductor layer; and a first electrode electrically connected to the first compound semiconductor layer. The laminated structure has a ridge stripe structure. When widths of the ridge stripe structure in a light output end face and the ridge stripe structure in a light incident end face are respectively W | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002272 | EXTERNAL-CAVITY ONE-DIMENSIONAL MULTI-WAVELENGTH BEAM COMBINING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL LASER ELEMENTS - An external-cavity one-dimensional multi-wavelength beam combiner that performs wavelength beam combining along a stacking dimension of a laser stack formed of a plurality of laser arrays, each laser array configured to generate optical radiation having a unique wavelength, and each of the plurality of laser arrays including one or more laser emitters arranged along an array dimension of the laser stack. The multi-wavelength beam combiner includes an optical imaging element configured to image each of the laser emitters along a slow axis of the laser emitters, an optical focusing element arranged to intercept the optical radiation from each of the plurality of laser arrays and combine the optical radiation along a stacking dimension of the laser stack to form a multi-wavelength optical beam, and a diffraction element positioned at a region of overlap of the optical radiation to receive and transmit the multi-wavelength optical beam. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002273 | CATADIOPTRIC PROJECTION OBJECTIVE WITH PUPIL CORRECTION - The disclosure provides a catadioptric projection objective which includes a plurality of optical elements, including first, second and third refractive objection parts. Optical elements arranged between an object surface and a first pupil surface form a Fourier lens group that includes a negative lens group arranged optically close to the first pupil surface. The Fourier lens group is configured such that a Petzval radius R | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002274 | MICROSCOPE COMPRISING MULTIPLE OPTICAL SYSTEMS IN THE IMAGING BEAM PATH - A microscope comprising multiple optical systems in the imaging beam path and at least one subassembly, the optical effect of which in relation to the imaging beam path can be modified by controlling the subassembly, e.g. a group of lenses or a diaphragm that can be moved in the direction of the optical axis, a diaphragm having a variable aperture, a digital zoom device, a shutter, or a focusing device. The microscope includes a control unit which is designed to generate control signals for the subassembly in a first mode of operation to regulate or control the functional parameters exclusively of the imaging optical system with which the subassembly is associated, and additionally in a second mode of operation to regulate or control the functional parameters of the entire optical system of the microscope. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002275 | OPTICAL ELEMENT SWITCHING APPARATUS AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - An optical element switching apparatus is provided that includes: a connecting portion connecting a transmitting portion with a traveling body portion via a predetermined elastic body and displacing the traveling body portion in each of first and second directions in a range of an elastic displacement width greater than a unit travel distance; a holding portion applying a force greater than an elastic force occurring in the connecting portion to the traveling body portion shifted to the travel limit position, in a direction opposite to the direction where the elastic force acts, so as to hold the traveling body portion at a travel limit position; and a control portion adapted to control a drive force generating portion to supply a drive force capable of shifting the traveling body portion farther than the travel limit position when the traveling body portion is to be shifted. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002276 | STAGE SYSTEM AND MICROSCOPE - Disclosed herein is a stage system, including: a stage on which to mount a slide glass; a projection block projected more than the thickness of the slide glass to the side of that surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass; and a pressing block which is provided on that surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass, is thicker than the slide glass, and presses toward the projection block the slide glass disposed between itself and the projection block. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002277 | SLIDE GLASS STORAGE DEVICE, CONVEYING DEVICE AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - A slide glass storage device including: a supply tray which has a supply holding space determined by a longer edge upper limit allowed for a longer edge of a slide glass and a shorter edge upper limit allowed for a shorter edge of the slide glass and on which a slide glass to be supplied to a treatment unit operable to perform a predetermined treatment is mounted; a discharge tray which has a discharge holding space determined by a longer edge longer than the longer edge upper limit and a shorter edge longer than the shorter edge upper limit and on which a slide glass having been subjected to the treatment in the treatment unit and being to be discharged is mounted; and a support unit supporting the supply tray and the discharge tray. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002278 | Anti-Moire Optical System and Method - A three-dimensional optical display system and method that reduces moiré patterns formed between the image display panel and a 3D lens. The reduction of moiré patterns may be achieved by adding a lenticular anti-moiré lens or by curving the 3D lens into a convex shape. The anti-moiré lens may have a regular period, or may incorporate random elements. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002279 | 2D QUALITY ENHANCER IN POLARIZED 3D SYSTEMS FOR 2D-3D CO-EXISTENCE - Polarized 3D viewing systems inherently cut the viewing resolution in half. While 3D content looks of good quality, the quality of any co-existing 2D content in windowed mode on the same screen looks poor. Embodiments may be directed to modifying the 2D content in real time and presents the enhanced 2D content (i.e. 2D+) to each eye as if it was 3D content targeted at each of the left and right eyes separately. The 2D+ content quality thus appears much better than when viewing the original 2D content on a polarized screen through polarized eyewear. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002280 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, POLARIZATION FILTER, OPTICAL ISOLATOR, AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - An optical element transmits incident light having a particular polarization direction mainly by 0-order transmission and diffracts incident light having a perpendicular polarization direction. The optical element includes a periodic structure having a period equal to or greater than the wavelength of the incident light. The periodic structure includes first and second subwavelength concave-convex structures formed perpendicularly adjacent to each other in each period of the periodic structure. The first and the second subwavelength concave-convex structures have a period less than the wavelength of the incident light. A filling factor and a groove depth of the first and the second subwavelength concave-convex structures are determined such that they have the same effective refraction index with respect to the incident light having the particular polarization direction and a phase difference π with respect to the incident light having the particular polarization direction. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002281 | PHASE DIFFERENCE ELEMENT AND DISPLAY UNIT - A phase difference element capable of decreasing deterioration of 3D characteristics and a display unit including the phase difference element are provided. The phase difference element includes a phase difference film, and an anti-glare film. The phase difference film has a phase difference layer composed of two or more phase difference regions each having different direction of a slow axis that are regularly arranged in a plane. Retardation of the anti-glare film is 20 nm or less and total haze of the anti-glare film is 30% or less. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002282 | OPTICAL FILM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, ANTIGLARE FILM, POLARIZER WITH OPTICAL LAYER, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical film includes a base member and an optical layer provided on the base member. The optical layer has an irregular shape on a surface thereof, and the irregular shape is obtained by applying a coating material containing fine particles and a resin onto the base member, distributing the fine particles densely in some regions and sparsely in other regions by convection that occurs in the coating material, and curing the coating material. The resin contains 3% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less of a polymer, the fine particles are organic fine particles having an average particle diameter of 2 μm or more and 8 μm or less, a ratio ((D/T)×100) of the average particle diameter D of the fine particles to an average film thickness T of the optical layer is 20% or more and 70% or less, and a transmitted image clarity value measured with an optical comb having a width of 0.125 mm is 45 or more. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RAMAN CO-PUMPS - An example Raman co-pump apparatus includes a control module for controlling output received from at least one of a first laser and a second laser, said output of said first laser and said second laser for combining into a co-pump output, wherein the control module is configured to increase a frequency difference between said first laser and said second laser. The apparatus may also include at least one of a first laser for providing a first output, a second laser for providing a second output and a polarization beam combiner for combining the first and second output into the co-pump output. Spectral overlap of orthogonally polarized pump lasers is avoided via: 1) control of the frequency (wavelength) interleave and the mode spacing of co-pump lasers; 2) control of frequency (wavelength) offset of co-pump lasers to reduce spectral overlap; and 3) use a single co-pump laser with large mode spacing. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002284 | OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTER FOR USE IN AN OPTOELECTRONIC MODULE, AND A METHOD FOR PERFORMING OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTING IN AN OPTOELECTRONIC MODULE - An optical beam splitter for use in an optoelectronic module and method are provided. The optical beam splitter is configured to split a main beam produced by a laser into at least first and second light portions that have different optical power levels. The first light portion, which is to be coupled into an end of a transmit optical fiber of an optical communications link, has an optical power level that is within eye safety limits and yet has sufficient optical power to avoid signal degradation problems. The optical power level of the first light portion is less than the optical power level of the second light portion. The optical beam splitter is capable of being implemented in a unidirectional or a bidirectional optical link. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002285 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical device includes: an optical waveguide; and a plurality of diffraction grating layers, provided along the optical waveguide, each including a diffraction grating defined by a discontinuous first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the first semiconductor layer and burying the first semiconductor layer, one diffraction grating layer of the plurality of diffraction grating layers including a third semiconductor layer being continuous with the diffraction grating and made from a material different from materials of the first and the second semiconductor layers. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002286 | Optical Element and Method of Producing the Same - Provided is an optical element including a substrate; a plurality of pillars arranged on the surface of the substrate at a pitch equal to or less than the wavelength of incident light; a medium filling gaps between the pillars, the medium having a refractive index different from that of the pillars; and a film-like portion disposed at a position where it covers the entirety of a light-incident surface formed of at least one of the surface of the substrate, the tip surfaces of the pillars, and the surface of the medium, the film-like portion having a refractive index different from that of the pillars. The film-like portion has a film thickness such that it exhibits a reflection-preventing function realized by interference, and the volume ratio of the pillars to the medium changes in a direction along the surface of the substrate. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002287 | Optical Device - Provided is an optical device that includes a substrate, a plurality of pillars arrayed on the surface of the substrate at intervals of a pitch that is equal to or less than the wavelength of incident light, and a medium that fills the gaps between the pillars and that has a different refractive index from the pillars. Each of the pillars has one or more steps that discontinuously change the transverse cross-sectional area of the pillar, along the direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. The transverse cross-sectional area of at least one of step portions formed by the steps of the pillar differs from the transverse cross-sectional area of an adjacent pillar. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002288 | MULTI-LAYER PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH A PANEL - A method of manufacturing a multi-layer panel having a curved reflective and/or transmitting facing layer that includes the steps of increasing and/or decreasing pressure on a side of a thin membrane to form a pressure differential across the thin membrane that causes the thin membrane to deform to a required shape; applying a first layer of material to an outer surface of the thin membrane while the thin membrane is maintained in the required shape by the increase and/or decrease in pressure, and allowing the first layer of material to cure for a pre-determined time. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002289 | ANTI-REFLECTION DISPLAY WINDOW PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An anti-reflection display window panel and a manufacturing method thereof, which includes: forming a master, wherein a glass or a silicon wafer substrate is subject to light irradiation and etching to form a fine nano-pattern; preparing a nickel core plate to have on its surface the same nano-pattern; preparing an IMD core mold for the anti-reflection by attaching the nickel core plate to a particle plate of a lower mold core in an anti-reflection core mold to expose the surface of the nickel core plate formed with said fine nano-pattern; and, performing an IMD injection molding, wherein molten resin with high temperature is introduced between an upper mold core and the lower mold core and then is subject to the performance of the injection molding with a fast heating and a fast cooling to produce an anti-reflection display window panel formed with the fine nano-pattern for anti-reflection. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002290 | LIGHT-TRANSMITTING MEMBER - The present invention provides a light-transmitting member that not only exhibits high antiglare properties but also shows a transmission image with a sharp outline. A reflecting surface of a light-transmitting member formed of an optically transparent material, for example, a glass plate, has minute hubbly surface profile formed therein by blasting the reflecting surface with an abrasive or the like to mill the surface. The minute hubbly surface profile in the reflecting surface are formed so that, when the reflecting surface is divided into minute compartments of a prescribed size and a histogram is constructed on the basis of measurement values obtained by measuring the height in each compartment, the probability density of the mode in the histogram is 10 to 30%, and the variance (σ | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002291 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE GATHERING DEVICE AND SOLAR CELL MODULE HAVING THE SAME - An electromagnetic wave gathering device includes a pillared electromagnetic waveguide body and a reflective structure. The reflective structure is located at about an axis of the pillared electromagnetic waveguide body. The reflective structure comprises a plurality of bicone reflective units. Each of the reflective units has a first reflective surface. The electromagnetic wave gathering device may have a smaller volume and is handy for use. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002292 | USER INTERFACE WITH A COMPOSITE IMAGE THAT FLOATS - User interface having a sensor and a composite interface that floats. Embodiments of user interfaces described herein are useful, for example, as automobile components (e.g., dashboard components), appliance components (e.g., dishwasher components, stove components, oven components, microwave oven components, clothes washer components, and clothes dyer components), medical equipment, elevator buttons, laboratory equipment (e.g., scales), as well as consumer electronics (e.g., entertainment devices and cell phones), automatic teller machines, and the like. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002293 | BEAM COMBINING LIGHT SOURCE - The invention relates to sources of optical radiation wherein polarized radiation from first and second rows of light emitters is first collimated and combined into two combined beam using first and second rows of collimating and beam re-directing elements, respectively, and then polarization multiplexed to form a polarization-multiplexed output beam. In order to reduce the footprint, emitters of the first and second emitter rows are disposed in an interleaved, staggered arrangement, and the second row of collimating and beam re-directing elements is disposed in a space between the first emitter row and the first row of collimating and beam re-directing elements. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002294 | BEAM COMBINER FOR USE IN A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE AND BEAM SPLITTER - A beam combiner for combining a first beam cluster with a second beam cluster that is not parallel to the first, to form a common beam cluster. The beam combiner includes a transparent body for the first beam cluster, which has a superimposition region that is encountered by the first beam cluster as it passes through the body. The superimposition region is split into a first section and a second section. Only the first section formed from interspaced reflective and/or refractive deflection elements causes a deflection of the second beam cluster by reflection and/or refraction, such that the first beam cluster forms the common beam cluster with the deflected second beam cluster once it has left the body. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002295 | DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING MULTIFUNCTION GLASS, PRODUCTION METHOD, AND OPTICAL ELEMENT HAVING A FRESNEL STRUCTURE - A display device including a holding device that can be placed on the head of a user, an image generating module fixed to the holding device and generating an image, and a multifunction glass that is fixed to the holding device and has a coupling in area and a coupling out area. The image produced is coupled into the multifunction glass via the coupling in area, guided in the multifunction glass to the coupling in area, and extracted via the coupling out area, in such a way that the user can perceive the coupled out image superimposed on the surroundings when the holding device is placed on the head of the user. The coupling in area has a Fresnel structure causing a folding of the beam path when the image is injected into the multifunction glass, said structure having an imaging property. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002296 | Optical Band Splitter/Combiner Device Comprising a Three-Arms Interferometer - A three-arm-Mach-Zehnder interferometer for splitting/combining first and second wavelength bands is provided, wherein the optical device includes first and second optical splitting/combining elements; a differential optical delay device comprising first, second and third optical paths; the first, second and third optical paths of the differential optical delay device are configured to introduce, at a wavelength λ | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002297 | COLLIMATOR LENS - There is provided a collimator lens which turns light emitted from a laser device, which is used in a laser display device, into parallel beams. The collimator lens is configured such that the wavelength of the light from the laser device is equal to or longer than 375 nm and equal to or shorter than 750 nm, the numerical aperture is equal to or larger than 0.2 and equal to or smaller than 0.75, and both conditions of “D/f>0.85 assuming that the lens thickness is D and the focal distance is f” and “νd>57 assuming that the Abbe number is νd” are satisfied. | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002298 | HIGH ZOOM-RATIO ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - A high-ratio zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group, in that order from the object. Upon zooming from the short focal length extremity to the long focal length extremity, the first through fourth lens groups moving along the optical axis thereof while increasing the distance between the first and second lens groups, and decreasing the distance between the second and third lens groups. The following conditions are satisfied: | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002299 | HIGH ZOOM-RATIO ZOOM LENS SYSTEM - A high-ratio zoom lens system includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group. Upon zooming from the short to long focal length extremities, the lens groups move while increasing the distance between the first and second lens groups, and decreasing the distance between the second and third lens groups. The first lens group includes a negative lens element having a concave surface on the image side, a positive lens element having a convex surface on the object side, and a positive lens element having a convex surface on the object side, in that order from the object side. The following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: | 2012-01-05 |
| 20120002300 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens, including: a first lens unit and a second lens unit, in which the first lens unit includes: a first lens sub unit which does not move; a second lens sub unit which moves for focusing; and a third lens sub unit which does not move; and in which the following expression is satisfied, −2.27×10 | 2012-01-05 |
