| 09th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 25 |
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| 20090051978 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises an extraction unit configured to extract areas having predetermined attributes from image data of a document; a calculation unit configured to calculate skew angles of the areas extracted by the extraction unit; a selection unit configured to select necessary elements by determining, as unnecessary elements, the areas having the calculated skew angles not less than a threshold and by determining, as the necessary element, the areas having the calculated skew angles less than the threshold; and a processing unit configured to apply image processing to the necessary elements selected by the selection unit. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051979 | TONER-BASED NOISE REDUCTION IN ELECTROSTATOGRAPHY - In the method, a digital image is received. A granularity model is constructed of each of the toner stations. A noise table is produced. The noise table is based on the granularity models and is adaptive to the content of the digital image. Noise is reduced in the digital image using the noise table. The digital image is divided into a plurality of color records, each corresponding to a respective toner station. The color records of the noise reduced digital image are printed using respective toner stations. Each granularity model defines a toner applied by the respective toner station. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051980 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus, which can communicate with an external apparatus that provides WEB information, is provided. The apparatus comprises a storage unit configured to store a plurality of flow files that describe process contents of processes to be executed by the image processing apparatus, and an execution order; an acquisition unit configured to acquire WEB information from the external apparatus; a display unit configured to display a window based on the acquired WEB information; a selecting unit configured to select a flow file to be executed for the WEB information acquired by the acquisition unit; a processing unit configured to generate image data based on execution of the selected flow file; a storing unit configured to store the image generated data; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data stored in the storing unit to the external apparatus in accordance with a transmission instruction. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051981 | Image Input and Output Using Scan-All-First Input Mode - In processing documents, a scan-all-first mode is available, in which a set of documents is input part by part until all documents have been input, and, after completion of the input process, an output process is performed as a single job for the set of documents. In an intermediate state during the input process in which the set of documents is input part by part in the scan-all-first mode, a user is allowed to make settings of processing conditions associated with, for example, insertion of a sheet or insertion of a form image. In the job processed in the scan-all-first mode, insertion of the sheet or insertion of a composite image including the form image is performed according to the settings made in the intermediate state. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051982 | Light scanning apparatus, latent image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus - A light scanning apparatus is provided in which a light source is controlled so that the total exposure energy density of when light beams are emitted to an image carrying member across light deflection scanning of a plurality of times becomes constant on the image carrying member, thereby high image quality, long lasting output images are obtained. Exposure energy density necessary when exposure is completed by light deflection scanning of one time is set to Ex | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051983 | IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE - An image scanning device of the present invention includes a platen, an image scanning part that scans an image on the manuscript, a light source that irradiates light from the back side of the platen, a platen cover that is allowed to be positioned in a closed state or in an opened state, a light receiving part that is configured to receive light from the manuscript scanning area on the back side of the platen, a range obtaining part that is configured to obtain range between the amount of received light of the light receiving part in the opened state of the platen cover and the amount of received light of the light receiving part in the closed state of the platen cover, and a manuscript detecting part that is configured to detect existence of the manuscript in a manuscript scanning area of the platen based on the range. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051984 | IMAGE SENSOR HAVING CHECKERBOARD PATTERN - An image sensor for capturing a color image, comprising a two-dimensional array of pixels having a plurality of minimal repeating units wherein each repeating unit is composed of eight pixels having four panchromatic pixels, two pixels having the same color response, and two pixels having different color responses that are different than the pixels having the same color response, with the minimal repeating units tiled to cause each row or each column of the image sensor to have color pixels of a single color or to cause each row and each column to have color pixels of only two colors. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051985 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, COLOR DATA CONVERSION METHOD, AND COLOR DATA CONVERSION PROGRAM - The present invention claims and discloses an image forming device for generating color data contained in a second color gamut of a second device based on color data contained in a first color gamut of a first device. The image forming device comprises a color data generation unit that divides the first color gamut into two or more layers based on a grid point coordinate of a color conversion lookup table; a color gamut compression unit that generates a chroma value of each layer of the second color gamut based on a chroma value of each layer of the first color gamut; and an LUT generation unit that generates the color conversion lookup table based on the generated second color gamut. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051986 | Security Holograms - This invention relates to improved techniques for using holograms to provide security for documents and the like. A method of providing a tamper-resistant pattern in association with a hologram on a substrate, the method comprising: preparing a hologram, said hologram being recorded in a photosensitive recording layer carried by a carrier; printing a pattern onto said photosensitive recording layer; and then attaching said hologram to a substrate by adhesive such that said pattern is between said photosensitive recording layer and said substrate to provide a tamper-resistant pattern in association with said hologram. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051987 | Method and arrangement for producing a hologram - A method and arrangement for producing a hologram of an object uses light, having photon packets, to illuminate the object and to serve as a reference light. Each photon packet includes a plurality of photons correlated in a quantum-mechanical manner and jointly form a multi-photon Fock state. Some of the photon packets may be used for illuminating the object, and some may be used as a reference light. Photon packets arriving from the object may be made to interfere with the reference light in an interference field, and the brightness distribution in the interference field or a part thereof may be registered by a detector. A light source emitting a plurality of mutually coherent rays of photon packets may be used for generating the packets, some of the rays being used for illuminating the object, and some of the rays being used as a reference light or for forming same. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051988 | HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING APPARATUS - A holographic recording medium includes at least two substrates, and a recording layer provided between the substrates. The recording layer has a property such that an average refractive index lowers as irradiation with a beam proceeds. In the recording layer, an optical compensation rate C that is defined by C=(1−(n | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051989 | Sighting device - A sighting device couples a sight mark into a viewing beam path and is especially for a handheld weapon ( | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051990 | Phase mask for holographic data storage - The present invention relates to a phase mask for holographic data storage, and to a method and an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to holographic storage media using such a phase mask. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051991 | OPTICAL BEAM SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical beam scanning beam apparatus includes: a light source that emits one or more light fluxes; an optical beam deflecting device that deflects the light flux, which is emitted from the light source, to an scanned object in a main scanning direction; and an aperture part provided between the light source and the optical beam deflecting device. The aperture part includes a first aperture through which a main light beam of the light flux emitted from the light source passes, and at least one second aperture which is different from the first aperture and is provided at one or more of both sides or one side in the main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction of the first aperture. With this configuration, it is possible to properly reduce sidelobe occurring in a beam profile. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051992 | OSCILLATOR DEVICE, OPTICAL DEFLECTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed is an oscillator device that includes an oscillating system having a first oscillator, a second oscillator, a first torsion spring for connecting the first and second oscillators each other, and a second torsion spring being connected to the second oscillator and having a common torsional axis with the first torsion spring; a supporting system for supporting the oscillating system; a driving system for driving the oscillating system so that at least one of the first and second oscillators produces oscillation as can be expressed by an equation that contains a sum of a plurality of time functions; a signal producing system for producing an output signal corresponding to displacement of at least one of the first and second oscillators; and a drive control system for controlling the driving system on the basis of the output signal of the signal producing system so that at least one of amplitude and phase of the time function takes a predetermined value. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051993 | Optical scanning projector apparatus - An optical scanning projector apparatus includes a light emitting element array having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a row in a first direction for emitting light according to display data; a light scanning unit for scanning light of the light emitting elements in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a scanning optical system for collecting light of the light emitting elements to form an image on a screen; and a control unit for controlling the light scanning unit and the scanning optical system. The light emitting elements include micro resonator type light emitting diodes (LED) having a radiation angle smaller than or equal to 20 degrees at a half of maximum light intensity. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051994 | OPTICAL BEAM SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical beam scanning apparatus and an image forming apparatus having the optical beam scanning apparatus are provided. The optical beam scanning apparatus includes a light source; a pre-deflection optical system; an optical beam deflecting device; a sensor; and a post-deflection optical system. An exit surface of the imaging lens includes a lens-shaped portion for imaging the light flux on a scanned surface of the scanned object, and a totally reflecting surface-shaped portion having a totally reflecting surface for totally reflecting a portion of the light flux from the deflecting surface of the optical beam deflecting device at least two times, and the incident surface of the imaging lens includes a transmission surface-shaped portion having a transmission surface for transmitting the light flux totally reflected by the totally reflecting surface, and the light flux transmitted through the transmission surface is directed to the sensor. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051995 | Linear Optical Scanner - A device for linear scanning including a mirror roof structure. The mirror roof structure includes a roof prism with at least two reflecting surfaces or at least two mirror surfaces. The reflecting surfaces of the roof prism or the two mirror surfaces are mutually perpendicular reflecting surfaces intersecting in a line of intersection. A scanning mechanism moves the mirror roof structure in a direction perpendicular to a plane of bilateral symmetry of the mirror roof structure. The line of intersection is included in the plane of bilateral symmetry; and an incident beam entering the mirror roof structure and an exit beam exiting the mirror roof structure are angularly separated by a substantial angle. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051996 | OPTICAL BEAM SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical beam scanning apparatus of the present invention includes a body housing; a light source that emits one or more light fluxes; a pre-deflection optical system; an optical beam deflecting device; a sensor that detects a portion of the light flux deflected by the optical beam deflecting device; a holder base fixed to the body housing by a screw; a rotating holder attached to the holder base and provided with a shaft; a sensor substrate fixed to the rotating holder by a screw, the sensor being fixed to the sensor substrate; a rotation adjusting mechanism that rotationally adjusts the rotating holder around the shaft with respect to the holder base; and a fixing mechanism that fixes the rotating holder to the holder base. With this configuration, it is possible to properly adjust deviation of a recording position while making precise rotational adjustment of a horizontal synchronization sensor. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051997 | LASER RADAR AND BEAM IRRADIATION APPARATUS THEREFOR - A laser radar according to an embodiment of the invention includes a beam irradiation head which emits a laser beam and a control circuit which controls the beam irradiation head to perform scan in a two-dimensional direction with the laser beam. In the laser radar, the beam irradiation head includes a laser beam source; a mirror to which the laser beam emitted from the laser beam source is incident; and a driving mechanism which rotates the mirror in first and second directions about a first rotating axis and a second rotating axis perpendicular to the first rotating axis respectively. The control circuit controls the rotation of the mirror in the first direction and the second direction such that a scan region of the laser beam becomes a rectangular shape. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051998 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE SAME - An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source having a light-emitting point; a light-beam converting unit configured to convert a state of a light beam emitted from the light-emitting point of the light source into another state; a deflecting unit configured to deflect and scan the light beam emitted from the light-beam converting unit, the deflecting unit including a resonant deflecting element having a single deflecting surface that reciprocates around an axis; and an imaging optical unit configured to cause the light beam deflected and scanned by the deflecting surface of the deflecting unit to form an image on a surface to be scanned. The distance between the light-emitting point of the light source and the light-beam converting unit is adjusted based on information obtained by a detector that detects the light beam emitted from the light source and deflected by the deflecting surface of the deflecting unit. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090051999 | Optical tweezers controlling device - An optical tweezers controlling device including a light source, an objective lens and a focus adjusting unit is provided. The focus adjusting unit disposed between the light source and the objective lens includes a mirror set and a zoom lens set. The mirror set has at least a mirror. The mirror is rotatable such that after a light of the light source is projected to the mirror, the reflective direction of the light reflected from the mirror is changeable. The zoom lens set has at least a zoom lens disposed in accordance with the mirror. By rotating the mirror or changing the focal length of the zoom lens, the focusing location of the light changes on the focal plane of the objective lens or in the front or the rear of the focal plane. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052000 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - There is provided an image forming device. The image forming device includes: a light source for emitting light; a liquid lens configured to allow a focal point of the liquid lens to be adjusted and which focuses the light on an imaging plane; and drive means for driving the liquid lens to scan the focal point. The drive means scans the focal point to scan the light on the imaging plane, thereby forming an image. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052001 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electro-optic device includes a shift register and another circuit. Source and drain regions of transistors in the shift register contain the same kind of impurity as that contained in the source and drain regions of transistors in the other circuit and contain a higher concentration of the impurity than a concentration of the impurity in the source and drain regions of transistors in the other circuit. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052002 | ELECTROPOLYMERIZATION OF ENHANCED ELECTROCHROMIC (EC) POLYMER FILM - Devices including EC monomers polymerized using chronoamperometry to deposit a very thin homogeneous layer followed by cyclic voltammetry to increase the density of the EC polymer film. Another aspect of the present invention is directed to specific web like configurations for a grid of conductive material deposited onto a transparent substrate. The web like configuration is based either on concentric circles, or on concentric ellipses. Yet another aspect of the present invention is directed to an imaging system including a digital window that is disposed between a prism and a patterned analytic layer. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052003 | MIRROR REFLECTIVE ELEMENT ASSEMBLY - A reflective element assembly for a mirror assembly of a vehicle includes a reflective element substrate and a conductive trace or layer disposed at a rear surface of the reflective element substrate. A non-conductive layer is applied at the conductive layer and covers at least a portion of the conductive layer and leaves at least some portions of the conductive layer exposed. At least one circuitry component is applied to at least one of the portions of the conductive layer. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052004 | Ionic Colored Liquid and Image Display Apparatus Using the Same - An ionic colored liquid according to the present invention moves with a voltage application, and contains as principal components at least a coloring material whose base material is a pigment, and an ambient temperature molten salt combining a cation and an anion. The coloring material has a mean volume particle diameter of equal to or smaller than 5 μm and a coefficient of variation in a volume particle size distribution of equal to or smaller than 50. In an image display apparatus according to the present invention, a surface energy of the ionic colored liquid ( | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052005 | Electronic Electrochromic Device and Method - A solid-state electronic electrochromic device (ECD) operates electronically rather than relying on the ionic motion that is common in electrochromic devices. The electronic ECD has at least one active layer sandwiched between two electrodes. The active layer is made of mixed metal oxides and may be made of a mixture of tungsten and praseodymium oxides. The electronic ECD may have only a single active layer, or may have multiple layers that have the same composition and that are separated by thin transparent metal films. Some versions of the electronic ECD incorporate a distribution of small metal particles within the active layer. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052006 | FLEXIBLE PANEL BASED ON ELECTROCHROMIC POLYMERS - A flexible electrochromic (EC) panel that is usable for a display device or for other applications in which at least a region of the panel is selectively caused to change opacity. An exemplary EC panel includes an electrochromic working layer or electrode formed of a PProDOT-Me | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052007 | REFLECTIVE MAGNETIC DISPLAY - A reflective magnetic display includes a magnetic material layer region formed between front and rear substrates, wherein the magnetic material layer region has magnetic particles that reflect or absorb incident light when magnetic moments are randomly oriented and reflect or transmit the incident light in, accordance with polarization of the incident light, when the magnetic moments are aligned in a direction and an electrode that is designed to apply a magnetic field inducing a magnetic moment alignment on the magnetic material layer region in accordance with electrical operation. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052008 | OPTICAL MODULATOR - A micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS) electro optical modulator ( | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052009 | NON-LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICE SENSITIVE TO GREEN LASER - A non-linear optical device comprising a polymer configured to be photorefractive upon irradiation by a green laser. The polymer comprises a repeating unit including a moiety selected from the group consisting of the structures (M-1), (M-2) and (M-3), as defined herein. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052010 | Apparatus for providing multiple independently controllable beams from a single laser output beam and delivering the multiple beams via optical fibers - An output beam from a laser is directed into an acousto-optic cell. The acousto-optic cell is driven by RF voltages at four different frequencies. A portion of the laser output beam is diffracted by the acousto-optic cell at four different angles to the laser output beam. This provides four secondary beams. The magnitude of the RF voltages applied to the acousto-optic cell and the power in the laser output beam may be cooperatively varied to provide a predetermined power in each of the secondary beams. The four secondary beams are directed into four beam separating optical fibers connected to four transport optical fibers for transporting the secondary beams to a location remote from the laser. Power in the beams is monitored at the output ends of the four optical fibers for controlling the magnitude of the RF voltages. All four beams are focused into the beam-separating fibers by a single lens. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052011 | ALL-OPTICAL, CONTINUOUSLY TUNABLE, PULSE DELAY GENERATOR USING WAVELENGTH CONVERSION AND DISPERSION - A technique for generating variable pulse delays uses one or more nonlinear-optical processes such as cross-phase modulation, cross-gain modulation, self-phase modulation, four-wave mixing or parametric mixing, combined with group-velocity dispersion. The delay is controllable by changing the wavelength and/or power of a control laser. The delay is generated by introducing a controllable wavelength shift to a pulse of light, propagating the pulse through a material or an optical component that generates a wavelength dependent time delay, and wavelength shifting again to return the pulse to its original wavelength. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052012 | Optical antenna array for harmonic generation, mixing and signal amplification - An optical antenna collects, modifies and emits energy at light wavelengths. Linear conductors sized to correspond to the light wavelengths are used. Nonlinear junctions of small dimension are used to rectify an alternating waveform induced upon the conductors by the lightwave electromagnetic energy. The optical antenna and junctions are effective to produce harmonic energy at light wavelengths. The linear conductors may be comprised of carbon nanotubes that are attached to a substrate material, which may then be connected to an electrical port. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052013 | THZ WAVE GENERATOR - The present invention purposes to provide a THz-wave generator capable of generating a THz-wave stably and efficiently, and particularly, to provide the THz-wave generator which is stable against a frequency shift of a laser source and which can easily vary the frequency of the THz-wave. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052014 | SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCE BASED ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND PROJECTION SYSTEM HAVING SAME - An exemplary illumination apparatus for use in a projection system includes a number of solid-state light sources and first non-imaging collection optics, a power coupler, an optical amplifier, and a second non-imaging collection optic. The solid-state light sources are configured to generate light of a predetermined wavelength. Each first non-imaging collection optic is configured to collect and transmit light from a respective solid-state light source to the power coupler. The power coupler is configured to combine light from the solid-state light sources. The optical amplifier is configured to amplify the combined light. The second non-imaging collection optic is configured to collect the amplified light to provide illumination. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052015 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING SPECTRUM SHAPE OF A GAIN FLATTENING FILTER IN AN OPTICAL AMPLIFIER - A method for acquiring spectrum shape of a gain flattening filter of a doped optical fiber amplifier comprises the steps of: measuring spectrum shapes at two gain point (H, L) of the doped optical fiber with invariable fiber length respectively; and acquiring various gain spectrums of the doped optical fiber with various fiber length and various population inversion level according to an expression: | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052016 | Double-pass fiber amplifier - Several examples of double-pass fiber amplifiers including a polarization maintaining (PM) gain-fiber are disclosed. In each example, input and twice-amplified output are separated by an all-fiber, polarization-maintaining polarization splitter combiner. In one example, light is first passed through a gain fiber in a first polarization direction and then is passed through the gain fiber in a second polarization direction. The light exits the splitter combiner in the first polarization direction. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052017 | LIGHT TRANSMITTING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SHIELDING FILM, OPTICAL FILTER AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - To provide a light transmitting electromagnetic wave shielding film which achieves both of excellent electromagnetic wave shielding properties and an excellent near infrared ray cutting function. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052018 | Compact two-element infrared objective lens and IR or thermal sight for weapon having viewing optics - A compact objective lens is disclosed which is particularly suitable for infrared optical systems. The lens features a simple design with only two lens elements, namely a first lens element receiving incident radiation and having front and rear surfaces, and a second lens element receiving incident radiation from the first element and having front and rear surfaces. The lens forms an image of a scene on a focal plane. At least three of the four surfaces of the elements are aspheric surfaces. The lens has an f-number less than about 2, a field-of-view less than about 30 degrees, and an effective focal length less than about 6 inches. The elements are made from a material selected to pass radiation in the infrared band of the electromagnetic spectrum, e.g., germanium. The lens is suitable for use as an objective lens for a long-wave infrared sight for small arms, e.g., rifle or shoulder-launched surface to air missile launching system, i.e., a lens optimized for operating in the electromagnetic spectrum between about 7.5 and about 15 micrometers. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052019 | IMAGING INTERFEROMETRIC MICROSCOPY - Exemplary embodiments provide an image interferometric microscope (IIM) and methods for image interferometric microscopy. The disclosed IIM can approach the linear systems limits of optical resolution by using a plurality of off-axis illuminations to access high spatial frequencies along with interferometric reintroduction of a zero-order reference beam on the low-NA side of the optical system. In some embodiments, a thin object can be placed normal to the optical axis and the frequency space limit can be extended to about [(1+NA)n/λ], where NA is the numerical-aperture of the objective lens used, n is the refraction index of the transmission medium and A is an optical wavelength. In other embodiments, tilting the object plane can further allow collection of diffraction information up to the material transmission bandpass limited spatial frequency of about 2n/λ. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052020 | Stereoscopic microscope with high numerical aperture - The invention is directed to a telescope-type stereomicroscope which is outfitted with an objective and two magnification changers which are arranged downstream of the objective. The invention provides a telescope-type stereomicroscope in which the light coming from an object that is being examined enters the objective, two light bundles of the light re-exiting from the objective which are oriented parallel to one another enter the magnification changers, the optical axes of the magnification changers are arranged at a fixed distance B from one another, each magnification changer has an entrance pupil for the light bundle associated with it, which entrance pupil has a diameter D | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052021 | Microscopic Cell Observation and Inspection System Using a Plurality of Observation Methods - The invention relates to a microscopic cell observation and inspection system that uses a total internal reflection cell illuminator that is capable of freely changing an observation position without recourse to any special slide glass, makes sure high SN-ratio observation and facilitates sample manipulation, thereby making high-sensitivity, fast detection of a lot of cell reactions on the same slide glass. While, in response to a command from personal computer ( | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052022 | Operating unit for optical imaging devices - The invention relates to an operator-controlled device ( | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052023 | Dual field of view sighting system - A dual field of view sighting system uses liquid crystals, flip-polarizers and/or flip-mirrors to select between at least two fields of view. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052024 | CLIP-ON NIGHT VISION DEVICE - A night viewer ( | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052025 | LENS SHEET, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND RESIN COMPOSITION FOR TRANSFER MATERIAL - To provide a lenticular lens sheet having a fine light shielding pattern that has high color reproducibility. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The above problem can be solved by a lenticular lens sheet, in which the average primary particle diameter of carbon black contained in a light shielding layer is not less than 10 nm and not more than 50 nm and, preferably, in an image of the cross-section of the light shielding layer under scanning electron microscopic observation, the area ratio of carbon black to the whole image is not less than 60% and not more than 95%, and a process for producing the lenticular lens sheet. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052026 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - It is made possible to provide a stereoscopic image display apparatus capable of preventing the stereoscopic display characteristics from being degraded even if the locus of light rays between the lens and the two-dimensional display device becomes long. A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a plane display device having a display face formed of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; an optical plate comprising a plurality of lenses which are arranged in front of the display face of the plane display device and which have a uniaxial double refractive material inserted therein, and controlling light rays from the pixels; and a sheet polarizer provided between the plane display device and the optical plate to align a polarization direction of light ray. In the double refractive material, a maximum primary axis of refractive index is parallel to ridgelines of the lenses and is inclined in a direction opposed to a viewer. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052027 | SPACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY - When a two-dimensional display section including a plurality of pixels of p colors and a lenticular lens slanted with respect to a pixel array are combined to emit a plurality of light rays corresponding to a plurality of viewing angles into space by surface segmentation at the same time. Moreover, relative positional relationship between each cylindrical lens and each pixel of the two-dimensional display section is periodically changed to periodically displace the emission direction of display image light from each pixel via each cylindrical lens. Images corresponding to a unit frame of a three-dimensional image are time-divisionally displayed on the two-dimensional section, and a timing of time-divisional display in the two-dimensional display section | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052028 | OPTICAL FILM, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE OPTICAL FILM - An object of the present invention is to provide an optical film capable of contributing to reduction in thickness, preventing uneven heating, and favorably preventing light leak in black display, and an image display apparatus using such an optical film. An optical film of the present invention includes a polarizer, a first optical compensation layer having a refractive index profile of nx>ny=nz, and a second optical compensation layer having a refractive index profile of nx>ny>nz in the stated order. In the optical film, an angle formed between an absorption axis of the polarizer and a slow axis of the first optical compensation layer is +17° to +27° or −17° to −27°, an angle formed between the absorption axis of the polarizer and a slow axis of the second optical compensation layer is +85° to +95°, and an Nz coefficient of the second optical compensation layer is 1.2≦Nz≦2. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052029 | FUNCTIONAL FILMS FORMED BY HIGHLY ORIENTED DEPOSITION OF NANOWIRES - Optical films formed by deposition of highly oriented nanowires and methods of aligning suspended nanowires in a desired direction by flow-induced shear force are described. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052030 | WIRE-GRID POLARIZER AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a wire-grid polarizer showing high polarization separation ability in the visible light region and is excellent in heat resistance and durability; and a process for producing such a wire-grid polarizer with high productivity, which enables to produce a polarizer of large area. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052031 | POLARIZATION CONVERSION ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A polarization conversion element includes: a plurality of light transmitting substrates sequentially bonded at a plurality of inclined planes thereof that form an angle of approximately 45° with respect to a light incident face and a light emitting face being approximately parallel to the light incident face; a retardation plate providing a phase difference to incident polarized light; a polarization separation film separating incident light into two types of polarized light; and an air layer. In the element, the polarization separation film and the air layer are alternately formed along the plurality of inclined planes. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052032 | OPTICAL FILM, POLARIZING PLATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - An optical film is provided and includes a transparent polymer film. The optical film has at least an A1 value defined by Re (450)/Re (550) of from 0.10 to 0.95 and A2 value defined by Re (650)/Re (550) of from 1.01 to 1.50. Re (λ) represents the retardation value of the film with respect to light having a wavelength of λ nm; and Rth (λ) is the retardation value in the thickness direction of film with respect to light having a wavelength of λ nm. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052033 | Analyzer, method for cleaning photometry mechanism in such analyzer, and cleaning tool - The present invention relates to an analyzer ( | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052034 | LENS PROTECTION DEVICE - A lens cover device for a camera lens, particularly suited for use with a telephoto lens and hood assembly, comprises a disk-like body member having a plurality of retention members. The retention members provide friction within the filter-thread region of the camera lens. A large handle attached to one face of the cover device enables a photographer to easily cover or uncover the lens whether the lens and hood are in the shooting position or the stored position. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052035 | LENS BARRIER MECHANISM - According to one embodiment, a lens barrier mechanism includes four barrier blades for opening/closing an opening for a lens. The driving force of a gear arm is transmitted, via a torsion spring, to a ring cam for opening/closing the barrier blades. The torsion spring includes a coil wound on the rotary shaft of the gear arm, and two arms extending from the opposite ends of the coil and engaged with the boss of the ring cam. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052036 | PRISM SHEET AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - An exemplary prism sheet according to a preferred embodiment includes a light input surface, a light output surface and a plurality of triangular pyramidal optical elements. The light output surface is opposite to the light input surface. The plurality of triangular pyramidal optical elements are formed at the light output surface. A bottom surface of each triangular pyramidal optical element is coplanar with the light output surface. Each triangular pyramidal optical element has three sides. Each one of the three sides of each triangular pyramidal optical element is connected with a side of adjacent triangular pyramidal optical element. A liquid crystal display device using the prism sheet is also provided. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052037 | OPTICAL DEVICE STABILIZER - A stabilizer for an optical device that forms part of an electronic device may include a platform that has an optical device mounted thereon. A gimbal mount may retain the platform so that the platform is pivotal about a first axis and the gimbal mount being further pivotal about a second axis so that the optical device is pivotal about both the first and second axes. A first actuator may be controlled to manage movement of the optical device about the first axis and a second actuator may be controlled to manage movement of the optical device about the second axis. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052038 | Apparatus and method for changing optical tweezers - An apparatus and a method for changing optical tweezers are provided. The apparatus includes a diffractive optical element (DOE), a mask unit and an objective lens. The DOE includes a plurality of phase delay patterns. The mask unit includes a plurality of mask patterns that correspond to the phase delay patterns, respectively, wherein at least a portion of the mask patterns are complementary. A laser beam passing through each phase diffractive pattern correspondingly passes through each mask pattern to generate a compound diffractive pattern. The objective lens receives the compound diffractive pattern and focuses it on an examining object to form an optical tweezers. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052039 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device comprises a first optical system, a second optical system, a shading unit, and a diffraction grating. The first optical system transforms incident light to parallel light. The second optical system transforms incident light to parallel light. An optical axis of the second optical system is different from an optical axis of the first optical system. The shading unit has transmission areas having slit forms and shading areas having strip forms. The transmission areas and the shading areas are alternately arranged. The diffraction grating deflects the light transmitted by the transmission areas in a predetermined direction. Part of the incident light through the first optical system passes through the transmission areas, and the rest are shaded by the shading areas. Part of the incident light through the second optical system passes through the transmission areas, and the rest are shaded by the shading areas. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052040 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT - A diffractive optical element | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052041 | Anti-Reflection Film and Polarizing Plate Using the Same - An anti-reflection (AR) film has a transparent substrate film; a hard coat layer which is formed on one surface of the transparent substrate film; and an AR layer which is formed on the hard coat layer. And the AR layer has a four-layer stacked structure of alternate high and low refractive index material layers; the total thickness of the low refractive index material layer is in the range 90-130 nm; and the arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the AR layer surface is in the range 1.5-3.0 nm. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052042 | LIGHT TUNNEL STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A light tunnel structure includes a plurality of reflecting plates and an impervious layer. The reflecting plates are connected to each other to form a light tunnel. An end surface of each reflecting plate and an end surface of the adjacent reflecting plate of the two adjacent reflecting plates form an joint. The impervious layer is disposed at the joints formed by the adjacent reflecting plates. A method for manufacturing a light tunnel structure is disclosed. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052043 | Anti-Glare Optical Multilayer Body - An optical laminate having a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material, wherein the outermost surface of the anti-dazzling layer has a concavoconvex surface. The concavoconvex shape simultaneously satisfies the following formulae (I) 1.2≦θa≦2.5 and (II) 0.004≦ψ≦0.18, wherein θa represents the average inclination angle of the concavoconvex part; Rz represents the average roughness of concavoconvexes; Sm represents the average spacing of the concavoconvexes; and ψ represents the ratio, between Rz and Sm, defined by ψ=Rz/Sm. The optical laminate has an internal haze value of not less than 0% and not more than 50%, and the optical laminate has a surface haze value of not less than 0.5% and not more than 4.5%. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052044 | ERECTING EQUAL-MAGNIFICATION LENS ARRAY PLATE, IMAGE SENSOR UNIT, AND IMAGE READING DEVICE - An erecting equal-magnification lens array plate includes a stack of a plurality lens array plates built such that pairs of corresponding lenses form a coaxial lens system, where each lens array plate is formed with a plurality of convex lenses on both surfaces of the plate. The plate receives light from a substantially straight light source facing one side of the plate, and the plate forms an erect equal-magnification image of the substantially straight light source on an image plane facing the other side of the plate. A light shielding member operative to shield light not contributing to imaging is formed in the neighborhood of a position in the intermediate plane in the erecting equal-magnification lens array plate where an inverted image of the substantially straight light source is formed. The main lens arrangement direction of the convex lenses differs from the main scanning direction of the erecting equal-magnification lens array plate. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052045 | FILM, BACKLIGHT DISPLAYS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME - In one embodiment a film can comprises a surface comprising a plurality of prism structures. Each prism structure has a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to ±20% of an average pitch of the prism structures. The plurality of prism structures can have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous. In one embodiment, a method for making a film can comprise forming a plurality of prism structures on a surface. The plurality of prism structures can have a lateral modulation in the w direction of less than or equal to ±20% of an average pitch of the prism structures, and wherein the plurality of prism structures have a variation in the w direction of prism peak height that is discrete and/or continuous. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052046 | Light guide optical device - The invention provides an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate, optical means for coupling light into the substrate by total internal reflection, and a plurality of partially reflecting surfaces carried by the substrate, characterized in that the partially reflecting surfaces are parallel to each other and are not parallel to any of the edges of the substrate. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052047 | SUBSTRATE-GUIDED IMAGING LENS - There is provided an optical system, including a substrate having a major surface and edges, an optical element for coupling light into the substrate by total internal reflection, a reflecting surface carried by the substrate, a retardation plate and a reflecting optical element. The retardation plate is located between a portion of the major surface of the substrate and the reflecting optical element. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052048 | DISTRIBUTED REFRACTIVE INDEX LENS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A distributed refractive index lens and method of producing the lens are disclosed. The lens has a plurality of areas having refractive index distributions, and includes a plate-like member containing polysilane. The refractive index distribution of these areas is a distribution that includes a change in a refractive index in a direction parallel to a plane of the plate-like member, and includes a substantial uniform refractive index in a direction perpendicular to the plane. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052049 | FLUIDIC OPTICAL DEVICES - A fluidic optical device, systems utilizing fluidic optical devices, methods for manufacturing fluidic optical devices and actuators are disclosed. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052050 | WIDE-ANGLE LENSES - The present invention provides new projection schemes for wide angle imaging lenses rotationally symmetric about optical axis wherein the field of view of lenses and the size of image sensors are directly reflected without any reference to the effective focal length of the lenses. This invention also provides explicit examples of wide-angle lenses implementing the newly developed projection schemes. According to the present invention, by providing new projection schemes explicitly reflecting the physical quantities of direct interest to the user for industrial applicability, namely, the field of view and the image sensor size, it is possible to realize wide-angle lenses providing the most satisfactory images. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052051 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE BY THE OPTICAL SYSTEM - Providing an optical system having excellent optical performance with sufficiently correcting spherical aberration and curvature of field, an imaging apparatus, and a method for forming an image by the optical system. The optical system includes a plurality of lens groups, at least one of the plurality of lens groups having an A lens that satisfies at least one of given conditional expressions. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052052 | Zoom lens and image-capture device - A zoom lens includes a plurality of lens groups having at least first, second and third lens groups arranged in order from an object side. The first lens group has a positive refractive power which is firmly secured when the magnification is changed, the second lens group has a negative refractive power which is shifted to the image side when the magnification is changed from the wide angle end to the telescopic end, and the third lens group has a positive refractive power which is firmly secured when the magnification is changed. The first lens group is configured by arranging, in order from the object side, a single lens having a negative refractive power, a prism having a reflection surface to create a 90° bend in a light path, and at least one single lens having a positive refractive power. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052053 | Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus using the same - An imaging optical system includes in order from an object side thereof a front lens unit having a negative refracting power, an aperture stop, and a rear lens unit having a positive refracting power, and the front lens unit having a negative refracting power includes in order from the object side, a first lens having a negative refracting power, and the rear lens unit having a positive refracting power includes in order from the object side, a second lens which is a positive lens, a third lens which is a negative lens, and a fourth lens which is a positive lens, and
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| 20090052054 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes a lens group having an optical axis associated therewith, a fixed barrel and a rotatable barrel receives the fixed barrel. The fixed barrel has the lens group received therein and has a plurality of projections extending radially from the outer surface of the fixed barrel. The rotatable barrel rotatable relative to the fixed barrel about the optical axis has an inner latching groove and a number of insertion cutouts. The latching groove is defined in the inner surface of the rotatable barrel. The insertion cutouts are defined in a distal edge of the rotatable barrel with the inner latching groove and communicating with the latching groove. The insertion cutouts is insertable in the insertion cutouts and can engage in the latching groove for preventing the rotatable barrel to move axially relative to the fixed barrel. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052055 | PROJECTION LENS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION AND REDUCED OVERALL LENGTH - An exemplary projection lens includes, in this order from the magnification side to the minification side thereof, a negative lens group of negative fraction power, and a positive lens group of positive fraction power. The projection lens satisfies the formulas of: −2.5| 2009-02-26 | |
| 20090052056 | OPTICAL ELEMENT MOLDING METHOD AND OPTICAL ELEMENT - A molding material is heated and pressed plural times when molded is an optical element having a radius of curvature smaller than a radius of a sphere having the same volume as the optical element. When such an optical element is molded, a closed space is formed between a molding material and a transfer surface of a mold in a state where the molding material is placed thereon. Thus, an appearance defect such as a recess is easily generated on the molded optical element. However, since the molding material is molded plural times, it is possible to place the molding materials on the transfer surfaces of the molds after a size of the closed space is adjusted so as not to generate the appearance defect prior to each heating/pressing process. Thereby, it is possible to suppress generation of an appearance defect in the molded optical element. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052057 | WIDE ANGLE LENS MODULE AND VEHICLE VISION SYSTEM - A wide angle lens module includes a first lens and a second lens with negative refracting power, a third lens and a fourth lens with positive refracting power, a fifth lens with negative refracting power, a sixth lens with positive refracting power, and a seventh lens with negative refracting power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, and the seventh lens are disposed in order from an object side to an image side. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052058 | OPTICAL ELEMENT MOLDING METHOD AND OPTICAL ELEMENT - An optical element is molded by placing at least two glass materials between a pair of molding dies having optical-function transfer surfaces, a total volume of the two glass materials being same as that of the optical element, the two glass materials being made of a same material and being formed to individually come in contact with centers of the optical-function transfer surfaces when they are pressed; and by heating and pressing the glass materials using the pair of molding dies. Thereby, closed spaces are not formed between the optical-function transfer surfaces and the glass materials coming in contact with the centers of the optical-function transfer surfaces. Therefore, it is possible to reduce a load of the molding process while preventing an appearance defect of the optical element by applying just a single cycle of a placing process, a transferring (heating and pressing) process and a cooling process. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052059 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS MODULE AND ENDOSCOPE - A wide-angle lens module includes a first lens and a second lens with negative refracting power, a third lens with positive refracting power, a fourth lens with negative refracting power, a fifth lens with positive refracting power, a sixth lens with positive refracting power, and a seventh lens with negative refracting power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens, and the seventh lens are disposed in order from an object side to an image side. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052060 | IMAGING LENS WITH HIGH RESOLUTION AND SHORT OVERALL LENGTH - An exemplary imaging lens includes, in this order from the object side to the image side thereof, a first lens of positive refraction power, a second lens of negative refraction power, a third lens of positive refraction power, and a fourth lens of negative refraction power. The imaging lens satisfies the formulas of: (1) 0.5| 2009-02-26 | |
| 20090052061 | IMAGING LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens that has a negative refractive power and is convex toward the object side; a second lens that has a positive refractive power and is a meniscus lens convex toward the object side; a stop; a third lens that has a positive refractive power and is convex toward an image side; and a cemented lens that has a positive refractive power as a whole and is formed by cementing a fourth lens and a fifth lens, wherein assuming that an Abbe number of the second lens with respect to d-line is ν | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052062 | SMALL-DIAMETER OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM - Reducing the outer diameter and effectively correcting various aberrations realizes a small-diameter objective optical system suitable for in vivo observation with a high numerical aperture. The invention provides a small-diameter objective optical system comprising, in order from an object plane a first lens group with positive refractive power, including at least one plano-convex lens whose convex surface faces an image plane; a second lens group with positive refractive power, including at least one concave lens; and a third lens group including a cemented lens of which a cemented surface has negative refractive power. The focal length of the third lens group is larger than the focal length of the first lens group. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052063 | LENS WITH COLLAR AND LENS MODULE USING SAME - An exemplary lens includes an active part configured for refracting light transmitting therethrough, an inactive part surrounding the active part, and a collar formed on a surface of the inactive part. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052064 | Large aperture imaging optical system - Large aperture optical systems that are extremely well corrected over a large flat field and over a large spectral range are disclosed. Breathing and aberration variation during focusing are optionally controlled by moving at least two groups of lens elements independently. Aberration correction in general is aided by allowing the working distance to become short relative to the format diagonal. Field curvature is largely corrected by a steeply curved concave surface relatively close to the image plane. This allows the main collective elements to be made of low-index anomalous dispersion materials in order to correct secondary spectrum. In wide-angle example embodiments, distortion may be controlled with an aspheric surface near the front of the lens. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052065 | Multi-image retriving system - A multi-image retrieving system includes lenses of multiple image retrieving units arranged close to one another with a virtual boundary of filed field keeping a given spacing in parallel with that of an abutted lens without overlapping from each other to combine into a large scope of filed angle of photography and an image retrieved by an individual lens being processed using an image processor to display an image picture achieves the purpose of minimizing blind spots on both sides, expanding filed angle and image retrieving scope, and maintaining normal reproduction of the image retrieved. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052066 | Actuator Device - Actuator devices, as well as related systems and methods, are disclosed. In some embodiments, the devices, systems and methods are within the field of microlithography. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052067 | LENS MODULE - A lens module includes at least one lens group, a fixed barrel, a rotatable barrel receiving the fixed barrel, a holder, and a number of fasteners. The fixed barrel has the at least one lens group received therein and defines a number of fastener holes oriented parallel with an optical axis of the lens group. The rotatable barrel is rotatable relative to the fixed barrel about the optical axis. The holder defines a plurality of through holes parallel with an optical axis corresponding to the fastener holes of the fixed barrel. The fasteners are configured for securing the fixed barrel to the holder via the through holes and being received in the fastener holes. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052068 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel has an elastically deformable moving frame which is a cylindrical frame member having a first groove group, in which a plurality of grooves formed in the circumferential direction are arranged in the optical axis direction, at the outer periphery thereof, and an elastically deformable rotating frame which is a cylindrical frame member engaging with the outer periphery of the moving frame and having a second groove group, in which a plurality of grooves formed in the circumferential direction are arranged in the optical axis direction so as to face to the first groove group, at the inner periphery thereof, the rotating frame being movable relative to the moving frame without interference of the second groove group with the first groove group during the ordinary operation. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052069 | CAM FOLLOWER FOR LENS BARREL AND LENS BARREL - A lens barrel has a first group frame, cam followers each having a shaft portion having a straight hollow hole and a slidably contacting portion integral with the shaft portion, which are fixed to the first group frame and a rotating frame having a cam groove with which the cam followers are in slidable contact, which moves relatively to the first group frame. The hollow hole of the cam follower reaches the inside portion of the slidably contacting portion. The shaft portion is press-fit fixed in the shaft hole of the first group frame when an impact force is applied to the lens barrel, the possibility of damaging the frame member is little. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052070 | HEATABLE MIRROR - Electrically heatable mirror comprising a clear soda-lime glass sheet coated on one of its surface sides by a silver-based reflective layer and on the other surface side by an electrically conductive layer adapted to dissipate no more than (25) to (90) W/m | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052071 | Rear-view mirror assembly - A rear-view mirror assembly includes a housing having a receiving space defined therein. The receiving space is provided to receiving elements of the rear-view mirror assembly and a digital device. A multi-functional lens is attached to the housing for selectively closing the receiving space. The multi-functional lens can flash back the objects and become transparent when a light source is turn on behind the multi-functional lens. A holder is mounted in the housing for holding the digital device in place. A fix unit is formed on an outer periphery of the housing for mounted the housing to a frame of a motorcycle or a bicycle. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052072 | Facial Hair Grooming Mirror Apparatus - A facial hair grooming mirror apparatus for permitting a user to view an underside portion of the user's chin is provided. The mirror apparatus includes two mirror elements hingidly attached at adjacent edges for relative swinging between open positions where the reflective surfaces of the mirror elements form an angle and closed positions where the reflective surfaces are disposed parallel and juxtaposed. The mirror elements are attached to a base for rotation between a first configuration where the mirror elements are disposed generally horizontal and a second configuration where the mirror elements are disposed generally vertical. The base includes mounting members for removably attaching the mirror assembly to a support surface. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052073 | MICROLITHOGRAPHY PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DEVICE - In some embodiments, a catoptric microlithgraphy projection optical system includes a plurality of reflective optical elements arranged to image radiation from an object field in an object plane to an image field in an image plane. The image field can have a size of at least 1 mm×1 mm. This optical system can have an object-image shift (OIS) of about 75 mm or less. Metrology and testing can be easily implemented despite rotations of the optical system about a rotation axis. Such a catoptric microlithgraphy projection optical system can be implemented in a microlithography tool. Such a microlithography tool can be used to produce microstructured components. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052074 | Perpendicular magnetic recording media and magnetic storage apparatus using the same - Embodiments of the present invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recording media having excellent resolution, signal to noise ratio (S/N), and a small adjacent track erasure. According to one embodiment, underlayers for controlling the orientation and segregation of a magnetic layer, a magnetic layer including an oxide and an alloy of magnetic materials mainly composed of Co, Cr, and Pt, and a ferromagnetic-metal layer which does not contain oxygen, are formed over a substrate. The magnetic layer has at least two layers including ferromagnetic grains and oxides, a first magnetic layer, which is the part of the magnetic layer closer to the substrate, has grain boundaries mainly composed of Cr oxide and at least one oxide selected from Si, Ti, Nb, and Ta, and grain boundaries of a second magnetic layer at the ferromagnetic-metal layer side includes at least one oxide selected from Si, Ti, Nb, and Ta in which Cr oxide is less than the first magnetic layer. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052075 | Systems and Methods for Improved Synchronization Between an Asynchronously Detected Signal and a Synchronous Operation - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for synchronizing data processing. As one example, a method for synchronizing data processing is disclosed that includes receiving a data input, and sampling the data input at a sample period to generate a sample set. A first pattern is received and a first periodic boundary associated with the first pattern is identified. In one particular case, the first pattern is a preamble pattern included as sector data on a storage medium, and the first periodic boundary is a 4T boundary. Further, a second pattern is detected in the sample that is used to establish a second periodic boundary. In one particular case, the second pattern is a SAM pattern included as sector data on a storage medium, and the second periodic boundary is a 1T boundary. Based at least in part on the first periodic boundary and the second periodic boundary, a time to transmit or assert a data-found signal is determined. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052076 | THERMALLY ASSISTED MAGNETIC HEAD WITH OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE - While an emitting position of light from an optical waveguide and a magnetic pole end part are made closer to each other, high-density writing onto a magnetic recording medium is realized. | 2009-02-26 |
| 20090052077 | THERMALLY ASSISTED MAGNETIC HEAD WITH OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND LIGHT SHIELD - A thermally assisted magnetic head which can realize high-density writing onto magnetic recording media is provided. | 2009-02-26 |
