| 09th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 36 |
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| 20110051172 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to an aspect of the invention, a document management system includes a document state storage unit, a manipulation control unit, a stamp image storage unit, and a state change unit. The document state storage unit stores document state information representing states concerning document validity of electronic documents stored in a document storage unit. The manipulation control unit refuses a request from a user for manipulating one of the electronic documents when the document state information corresponding to the one of the electronic documents indicates that the one of the electronic documents is invalid at present. The stamp image storage unit stores a plurality of stamp images each corresponding to any one of possible states represented by the document state information. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051173 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, information processing apparatus, program, and storage medium - An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit to receive print data including image to be formed, identification information identifying a print-requesting person, personal identity verification information for verifying identity of person, and execution condition information designating priority between readability and productivity when implementing an information-leak proofed printing; an operation-input receiving unit to receive an input by an administrator; a setting unit to set whether the information-leak proofed printing is mandatory; a personal identity verification unit to verify identity of person when the information-leak proofed printing is mandatory and readability-priority is designated; a watermark embedding unit to generate a watermark-embedded image depending upon a result of the personal identity verification; a text synthesizing unit to generate a composite image by synthesizing text data to image data when the information-leak proofed printing is mandatory, and productivity priority is designated; and a print unit to print the watermark-embedded image or the composite image. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051174 | METHOD OF QUERYING IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICES ON A NETWORK - A method of querying image output devices on a network, including receiving a search term indicating device-related information to be searched. The method includes first determining whether the search term includes a target device type, and if the first determining step determines that the search term includes the target device type, determining which devices in a list of all devices on the network are of the target device type to generate a device list. Otherwise the device list is set to be the list of all devices on the network. The method further includes second determining if the search term includes a conditional expression, and if the second determining step determines that the search term includes a conditional expression, determining which devices in the device list satisfy the conditional expression, so as to generate a final list of devices. The final list of devices is displayed. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051175 | DLNA device and image forming method thereof - A DLNA device includes a communication interface to receive at least one of content and content information through the Internet or receive at least one of content and content information which are stored in a device within the DLNA network, a storage unit to store the received content and content information, a user interface to display the content based on the content information and receive a printing command for the content from a user, a printing job generation unit to generate printing data for the content, based on the content information and the printing command from the user, and a controller to control the communication interface such that the generated printing data is printed by the image forming apparatus. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051176 | Host apparatus connected to image forming apparatus and compatible function information providing method - Disclosed are a host apparatus which is connected to an image forming apparatus and a compatible function information providing method thereof. The method includes: executing the integrated administration program of the host apparatus; receiving function information on at least one image forming apparatus; storing the received function information on the image forming apparatus; determining whether the function corresponding to the stored function information on the image forming apparatus is compatible with the integrated administration program or a sub application program within the integrated administration program; and separately displaying the integrated administration program or the sub application program corresponding to a determination result. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051177 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an input section that inputs image information and additional information; and a generating section that, in case that printing of a mirror image of an image according to the image information and a normal image of an image according to the additional information is instructed, generates printing image information for printing the mirror image of the image according to the image information input from the input section, and the normal image of the image according to the additional information input from the input section. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051178 | IMAGE-READING SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image-reading system includes an image-reading device that includes: a first creating unit that creates, if a control device requests creation of a content of a settings screen, a content of a first settings screen for setting a scan condition supported by the available function of an image-reading unit expressed by stored function information; a generating unit that generates, when a scan condition is set on the first settings screen whose content is created by the first creating unit, first instruction data to read an image in accordance with the set scan condition; and a reading controller that controls the image-reading unit based on the generated first instruction data, so that the image-reading unit reads an image in accordance with the set scan condition. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051179 | FACSIMILE DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A facsimile device includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, an obtaining unit, and a controller. The transmitting unit transmits, when receiving a transmission instruction of image data while a communication state is established with a first destination of the image data, the image data to the first destination. The receiving unit receives, from the first destination, first destination information indicating the first destination. The obtaining unit obtains second destination information indicating a destination of the image data from the image data. The controller controls the transmitting unit so as not to transmit the image data when the first destination indicated by the first destination information and the second destination indicated by the second destination information are different from each other. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051180 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A management device includes a receiving unit, a judgment unit, a permission unit and a change unit. The permission unit permits the image forming device to perform a requested image forming processes, if the judgment unit judges that a number of image forming process which have been performed is within a first upper limit value. The change unit sets, if the number of image forming process which have been performed exceeds the first upper limit value through the requested and permitted image forming processes being performed, a second upper limit value used for limiting image forming processes at the next time based on an excess amount from the first upper limit value. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051181 | Printing system and print control method - A printing system comprises a printer and an information processor, which includes a control unit. The control unit generates a print data file, which includes a resource saving flag and mode information. This information represents either a printing mode or a document filing mode, in which the printer operates. The control unit determines whether one or more specified resource saving functions of the printer are selected for the print data file in a main setting window. If so, the control unit turns on the flag and outputs the print data file as a first print data file to the printer. If not, the control unit turns off the flag and outputs the print data file as a second print data file to the printer. If a user is specified for the second print data file, the control unit outputs the file to the printer, with the mode information representing the document filing mode. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051182 | PRINT SYSTEM FOR PLACING RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF SCANNED DATA - A printing device includes a printing unit that prints a print-object image corresponding to print data on a recording medium. A placing unit places restriction information on the recording medium if the print data is attached with the first restriction condition. The restriction information is used for attaching a second restriction condition to scanned data that is generated by reading the print-object image printed on the recording medium. The second restriction condition is for placing restrictions on the usage of the scanned data. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051183 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INSTALLATION METHOD AND UNINSTALLATION METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit and an installation processing unit. The storage unit is capable of storing an application program and application data that is referred to when the application program is executed. The installation processing unit registers, when installing the application data in the storage device, link data indicating the correspondence between the application identifier of the application program and the data identifier of the application data. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051184 | SMALL-SIZED SETTLEMENT TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME - According to one embodiment, when a touch position on a touch panel-type display section corresponds to an image pattern for an operation, the display of the image pattern is changed to the display of the image pattern in a different display form. When the touch is released in this state, the information of the image pattern that is touched is used as an input and processing based on the input information is executed. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051185 | COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A program, when executed by a computer processor, carries out setting, for a printing request that is obtained from a printer driver, output destination information used to identify an output destination to which the printing request is output; determining whether a printing port that corresponds to the output destination information that has been set exists based on port management information that associates the printing port with the output destination information; creating a printing port when the determining determines that no printing port that corresponds to the output destination information exists; and storing in job management information the printing port that corresponds to the output destination information or the created printing port, the printing request and the output destination information in such a manner that the printing port, the printing request and the output destination information are associated with each other. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051186 | IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM OF IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE - The MFP capable of scanning images acquires from the file server which the server management table associates with the authorized user the file information for the scan data stored in the associated file server, lays out the acquired scanned data on the Web page | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051187 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus for executing a printing based on a job provided with job setting information, the apparatus includes: a display section which displays two or more job images on a screen, each of the job images representing each of two or more jobs; an operation section for changing a display scale of the two or more job images displayed on the display section; and a control section which controls to display the two or more job images having been displayed on the screen of the display section, as overlapped images in a same display area, based on an operation of changing the display scale in the screen, wherein the control section enables to select each of the overlapped job images displayed in the same display area on the screen. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051188 | PRINTING SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTING SERVER, PRINTING TERMINAL, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISTRIBUTING SERVER AND CONTROL PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING TERMINAL AND CONTROL PROGRAM - A printing terminal which is connectable to a distributing server via a communication line includes a limited number of times data receiving section which receives from the distributing server limited number of times data indicating a limit on the number of printing times of content data to be printed, an accepting section which accepts a user's operation to order printing of the content data, a content data receiving section which receives the content data, a printing section which carries out the printing of the content data upon the accepting section accepting the operation to order the printing, and a printing controller which prevents the content data from being printed by the printing terminal upon the number of printing times of the content data on the printing terminal reaching the limit on the number of printing times indicated by the limited number of times data after the printing is carried out. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051189 | IMAGE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus supplies power to a communication unit that communicates with an external apparatus, and manages history information for each communication sequence in the communication unit in a mode where power supplied to a control unit is stopped. At that time, the apparatus assigns identification information unique to the communication unit to the history information when the apparatus is in a mode where power supplied to the control unit is stopped, and makes control when power supplied to the control unit is stopped or when the apparatus returns to the mode in which power is supplied to the control unit so that continuity of the history information managed by the control unit is ensured. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051190 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage a device that provides a plurality of functions, and a utilization unit configured to utilize one function among the plurality of functions. In the apparatus, the management unit confirms whether a function different from the one function, among the plurality of functions, is available according to management and control data that includes information for constructing a management screen, which management screen being a screen configured to manage the device, and a setting unit sets an argument to an object indicating a link to the utilization unit according to a result of the confirmation. In the apparatus, the utilization unit is configured, if the object, which is displayed on the management screen, is designated, to set the device according to the argument. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051191 | Image Processing Device Capable of Executing A Plurality of Jobs In Parallel - An image processing device includes an image processing portion, a reception portion, a determining portion and a stopping portion. The image processing portion is configured to execute a plurality of jobs in parallel. Each job requires at least one of a reading process for reading a manuscript, a printing process for printing an image, a facsimile transmission process for transmitting facsimile data and a facsimile reception process for receiving facsimile data. The reception portion is configured to receive a stop request of a job. The determining portion is configured to determine one of a plurality of running jobs as one that is to be stopped when a plurality of jobs are executed at the time of reception of the stop request, and to give a priority to a job that is executed in a state of a high stop emergency degree over a job that is executed in a state of a low stop emergency degree when determining a job that is to be stopped. The stopping portion is configured to stop execution of the job that is determined as one that is to be stopped by the determining portion. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051192 | Printing system and printer with setting switch - A host device is connected to at least one printer through a network. Before printing, the host device broadcasts a query on the network, selects a printer that replies to the query, and sends printer setting information to the printer. The printer includes a setting switch that can be set to different states to accept or reject the printer setting information. A printer replies to the query only if its setting switch is set to the state that accepts the printer setting information. The setting switch avoids the generation of unnecessary replies and thereby simplifies the selection of the printer, as well as protecting the printer from unwanted alteration of its settings. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051193 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFORAND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a sever access unit configured to acquire information representing an amount of use of a storage area from a document management server, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the amount of use exceeds a threshold when data is stored in the storage area by checking the size of the data. A document storage unit stores the data in a storage unit in the image forming apparatus when the amount of use exceeds the threshold, and stores management information relating to a storage location of the data in the storage unit in the document management server. The document storage unit stores the data in the storage area when the amount of use is the threshold or less. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051194 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus includes an output unit configured to periodically output a file to a storage region of a storage device and to share the storage region with another apparatus, a check unit configured to check whether a periodical output of the file to the storage region performed by a plurality of apparatuses is successful based on a number of the files stored in the storage region, and a post-processing unit configured to perform post-processing based on a result of the check performed by the check unit. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051195 | Printing Device - In the printing device, the image in the print data indicates a part of the original image. The printing unit prints a print image in the printing region on the recording sheets. Each printing region is assigned with at least one of a gluing region and a projecting region. The projecting region is a part of the printing region. The gluing region is on the recording sheet. One of two printing regions corresponding to two image regions partially overlaps with each other is assigned with the gluing region. The remaining printing region is assigned with the projecting region. An image corresponding to the projecting region corresponds to a part of image corresponding to the one of the two printing regions. The printing unit performs borderless printing with the image corresponding to the projecting region running off the recording sheet. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051196 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS - A print control apparatus is provided, which controls a printing apparatus that performs printing using a plurality of color inks including a white ink. The print control apparatus includes a toning white designation unit that designates a plurality of partial regions in a print region where the printing by the printing apparatus is performed, and designating at least one of sets of density values and color specification values with respect to a toning white that is defined by a combination of the density value and the color specification value in a predetermined color system with respect to the partial regions; and a print control unit that controls a first image forming unit that forms a color image on the print region and a second image forming unit that forms a toning white image on the partial regions in which the sets of the density values and the color specification values are designated. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051197 | BITMAPPED BASED TRAPPING METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS - Provided are bitmap based trapping methods, apparatus and systems. According to one exemplary method, black trapping color image data is performed by estimating the continuous tone values associated with non-black pixels near a qualified black pixel and subsequently, the estimated continuous tone values are halftoned at the qualified black pixel locations and ORed with the original bitmap data. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051198 | System and method for inverse halftoning - The system and method for inverse halftoning using a partitioning look-up table (LUT) provides an improvement on a conventional LUT method for inverse halftoning, and a hardware implementation thereof. The method includes the partitioning of the single LUT into N smaller look-up tables (s-LUTs). After partitioning, N s-LUTs are generated, which can be stored in separate memory blocks, allowing parallel access to more than one s-LUT at any time. Such parallelization is not possible with only one LUT stored in a single memory block. Additionally, two or more templates (represented as r templates) with different pixels at position 0 can be retrieved from the halftone image concurrently. Further, the contents of the single LUT are partitioned into Ns-LUTs, thus the total entries in Ns-LUTs are equal to the entries in the single LUT of the conventional LUT based method of inverse halftoning. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051199 | METHOD OF PRINTING DOCUMENT BASED ON BLACK OPTIMIZATION PRINTING OPTION AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND HOST DEVICE TO PERFORM THE SAME - A method of controlling an image forming apparatus supporting a black optimization printing option in a host apparatus includes executing a printer driver of the image forming apparatus, setting the black optimization printing option in a user interface of the executed printer driver, generating a second color matching table by using an existing first color matching table and color properties corresponding to red, blue, and green values of a document to be printed based on the set black optimization printing option, selecting a first printing method to print the document by using the first color matching table or a second printing method to print the document by using the second color matching table, based on the red, green, and blue values of the document, and transmitting the document and print data of the document to which a color matching table corresponding to the selected printing method is applied to the image forming apparatus. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051200 | Image scanning device and image forming apparatus - An image scanning device includes a base part; and multiple image sensors each including a substrate, a line sensor including scanning elements arranged on the substrate, and a holder for holding the substrate. The base part holds the image sensors such that the scanning elements of an image sensor partly overlap the scanning elements of an adjacent image sensor in the main-scanning direction. The coefficients of linear expansion of the substrate and the base part are substantially the same; the holder and the base part are fixed together at a first fixing point; the holder and the substrate are fixed together at a second fixing point; and the distance in the main-scanning direction between the first fixing point and the second fixing point and the direction of the second fixing point with respect to the first fixing point are the same for all the image sensors. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051201 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE, SENSOR CONTROL CIRCUIT, IMAGE READING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The photoelectric conversion device includes a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert light reflected from an original image to electrical signals and a clock generator configured to generate driving signals for driving the photoelectric conversion element from a reference clock. Each of the driving signals is generated using the same logic gate or substantially the same logic gate. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051202 | Traveling unit driving apparatus and image reading apparatus provided with the driving apparatus - Provided is a traveling unit driving apparatus where a driving belt of the traveling unit is manufactured with ease, and concurrently therewith, can be coupled reliably to the unit in a state with high durability. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051203 | Laptop computer with scanning capability - A laptop computer is comprised of a base portion, a display portion, and a scanning/illuminating mechanism. The scanning/illuminating mechanism illuminates a display of the display portion of the laptop computer and illuminates a document during scanning of the document. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051204 | IMAGE-READING APPARATUS - An image-reading apparatus includes: a light dividing unit that divides irradiated light so that a part of the light having a first wavelength is diffracted, and a part of the light having a second wavelength is transmitted; a first light measuring unit that measures an intensity of light entering into a first measuring area, and outputs first measurement information indicating the measured intensity; a second light measuring unit that measures an intensity of light entering into a second measuring area, and outputs second measurement information indicating the measured intensity; an image-forming unit that forms an image of a subject for reading in the first measurement area, and that forms a virtual image in the second measurement area, using light diffracted by the light dividing unit; and a generation unit that corrects the first measurement information on the basis of the second measurement information. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051205 | SCANNER APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a scanner apparatus. The scanner apparatus includes a light source, a reflecting means and an imaging means. The light source is located under an object, and radiates light so that the light is reflected from the object. The reflecting means is placed under the light source at a specific angle of inclination with respect to a surface of the object, and folds the path of the light when the light radiated by the light source is reflected from the object. The imaging means is placed along the path of the light reflected from the reflecting means, and condenses light reflected from the reflecting means and then acquires an image of the object. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051206 | CORRECTING COLOR BASED ON AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINED MEDIA - A method for automatically applying color transforms to scanned input images from a digital color image scanner, wherein the input images may be on a variety of different imaging media is disclosed and comprised of: scanning a front side of an input image forming an image scan, scanning a back side of the input image forming a back scan, analyzing the image scan or the back scan to determine the imaging medium for the scanned input image, selecting a color transform associated with the determined imaging medium and applying the color transform to the image scan to produce a corrected image scan. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051207 | Gamut Clipping with Preprocessing - A method is provided for gamut clipping with preprocessing enabled as software instructions stored in a computer-readable medium and executable by a processor. The instructions provide a color in a color space defined by at least three attributes. If the color lies outside a gamut boundary in the first color space, a distance is measured from the color to the gamut boundary. In response to the measured distance, a weight is calculated for an attribute of the color. Then, it is determined if the attribute of the color is to be shifted. If so, an attribute shift amount is derived. The attribute shift amount of the color is modified by applying the weighting. The attribute of the first color is shifted by the weighted attribute shift amount, creating a post-processed color. The post-processed color is then clipped. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051208 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a color conversion processing unit which obtains CMY data from input color space coordinate data of image data, and an output data generating unit which generates output data by forming CMYK data by using a result output from a color conversion processing section. The color conversion processing section includes an optimum color reproduction data structure which gives the CMY data for obtaining a full color image optimally reproduced from the input color space coordinate data, and a color material using amount reducing data structure for outputting the input color space coordinate data by reducing the color material using amount with the use of a reference value in which the color material using amount is increased for a hue of an output image giving a high psychological effect and is decreased for a hue of the output image giving a low psychological effect. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051209 | BEAM IRRADIATION APPARATUS AND LASER RADAR - A beam irradiation apparatus includes a light source which outputs a laser beam, a convergent lens into which the laser beam output from the light source is entered, and a scanning portion which makes the laser beam transmitted through the convergent lens scan on a target region. In the beam irradiation apparatus, the laser light source is arranged such that a pn junction surface of a laser chip is parallel with the vertical direction. Length of the laser beam in the vertical direction on the target region is set by length of a light emitting portion of the laser light source in the vertical direction. Further, a wavefront aberration of the convergent lens with respect to the laser beam is set to be 0.15 λrms or less. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051210 | Laser Projector - A laser projector including a laser light source, a scan unit to scan the laser beam, a scan signal generation unit to generate a pulse signal, a drive unit to drive the scan unit and a pulse pattern adjustment unit to adjust a pulse pattern, wherein the pulse pattern adjustment unit adjusts the pulse pattern to a first pulse pattern for adjusting the swing amount from a first swing amount to a second swing amount in a projection interval, adjusts the pulse pattern to a second pulse pattern for adjusting the swing amount from the second swing amount back to the first swing amount in a first-stage interval in a non-projection interval, and adjusts the pulse pattern to a third pulse pattern for keeping the swing amount at the first swing amount in a second-stage interval in the non-projection interval until a scan position returns to the projection interval. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051211 | Pattern generation systems and high bandwidth focus control system with suppressed reaction forces and noise - A pattern generation system includes an optical system and a rotor. The optical system is configured to project a laser image onto an optical scanner. The rotor has a plurality of optical arms arranged at a first angle relative to one another, and further includes the optical scanner. The laser image is sequentially reflected by the optical scanner into each of the plurality of optical arms of the rotor to generate a pattern on a workpiece. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051212 | Dynamically focused optical instrument - An optical system includes a dynamically focused lens that variably changes focal length to focus light on a material under evaluation at discrete axial depths, and a scanning element that laterally scans the material to focus light on the material at points that are laterally adjacent the axial depth. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051213 | Optical apparatus and imaging apparatus - An optical apparatus includes: a sealing case having chambers partitioned by a partition wall; a polar liquid having polarity and a nonpolar liquid having no polarity which are respectively sealed in a predetermined amount in each of the chambers; and electrodes pulling the polar liquid by an electrowetting phenomenon upon application of a driving voltage. One of the polar liquid and the nonpolar liquid is colored with a color having a light-blocking property, and the other has a light-transmitting property, at least a part of the partition wall is positioned in an optically effective area including the optical axis, and when a driving voltage is applied to a predetermined electrode among the electrodes, the polar liquid is moved in the chamber between closed and open positions where the optically effective area is closed and open, respectively. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051214 | EXTENDABLE STROBE LIGHT DEVICE - The extendable strobe light device ( | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051215 | Methods and Apparatus for Generating 16-QAM-Modulated Optical Signal - A system and method for producing a 16-QAM-modulated signal are disclosed. The methodology, in an exemplary expedient, generally comprises splitting light from a CW laser into two parts; modulating the first part with a first signal and modulating the second part with a second signal; phase shifting the modulated second part by about π/2; combining the modulated first part with the phase shifted and modulated second part to produce a four-level modulated signal; phase modulating the four-level modulated signal with a third signal with a phase modulation of about (0, π/2) to produce an 8-QAM-modulated signal, and thereafter modulating that signal with a fourth signal with a phase-modulation of about (0, π) to produce the 16-QAM-modulated signal. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051216 | APPARATUS AND METHODS RELATING TO WAVELENGTH CONDITIONING OF ILLUMINATION - Lighting systems comprising a spectrum former upstream from a reflective pixelated spatial light modulator (reflective SLM), the SLM reflecting substantially all of the light in the spectrum into at least two different light paths, that do not reflect back to the light source or the spectrum former. At least one of the light paths acts as a projection light path and transmits desired light out of the lighting system. The lighting systems provide virtually any desired color(s) and intensity(s) of light, and avoid overheating problems by deflecting unwanted light and other electromagnetic radiation out of the system or to a heat management system. The systems can be part of another system, a luminaire, or any other suitable light source. The systems can provide virtually any desired light, from the light seen at the break of morning to specialized light for treating cancer or psoriasis, and may change color and intensity at speeds that are perceptually instantaneous. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051217 | High Performance Chirped Electrode Design for Large Area Optoelectronic Devices - An electro-optic device with a doped semiconductor base and a plurality of pixels on the semiconductor base. Pixels include oppositely doped semiconductor layer and a top electrode formed on the oppositely doped semiconductor layer. The top electrode has a grid pattern with at least one busbar and a plurality of fingers extending from the busbar, and spacing between the fingers decreases with distance from the bondpad along the busbar. Each pixel can also include a multiple quantum well formed on the semiconductor base. The top electrode shape produces an approximately uniform lateral resistance in the pixel. An embodiment is a large area modulator for modulating retro-reflector systems, which typically use large area surface-normal modulators with large lateral current flow. Uniform resistance to each part of the modulator decreases location dependence of frequency response. A chirped grid electrode balances semiconductor sheet resistance and metal line resistance components of the series resistance. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051218 | ELECTROLYTES FOR ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES - An electrolyte for electrochromic devices is manufactured by mixing ( | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051219 | Environmentally safe electrochromic devices and assemblies - This invention recognizes the hazards of materials used to make electrochromic devices and the resulting mirror assemblies for automotive use. The invention provides novel ways to reduce these hazards and to manufacture these mirrors using renewable resources and smaller environmental footprint. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051220 | TRANSPARENT STRUCTURES - Transparent structures, electrochromic devices, and methods for making such structures/devices are provided. A transparent structure may include a transparent substrate having a plurality of micro- or nano-scale structures, at least one substance configured to block near-infrared or infrared radiation and partially cover at least substantial portions of the substrate and the plurality of micro- or nano-scale structures, and at least one photocatalyst configured to at least partially cover an outermost surface of the transparent structure. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051221 | Electrochromic devices, assemblies incorporating electrochromic devices, and/or methods of making the same - Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to electrochromic (EC) devices, assemblies incorporating electrochromic devices, and/or methods of making the same. More particularly, certain example embodiments of this invention relate to improved EC materials, EC device stacks, high-volume manufacturing (HVM) compatible process integration schemes, and/or high-throughput low cost deposition sources, equipment, and factories. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051222 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE - An electro-optic device is provided. The electro-optic device includes a junction layer disposed between a first conductivity type semiconductor layer and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer to which a reverse vias voltage is applied. The first conductivity type semiconductor layer and the second conductivity type semiconductor layer have an about 2 to 4-time doping concentration difference therebetween, thus making it possible to provide the electro-optic device optimized for high speed, low power consumption and high integration. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051223 | PHOTOCHROMIC OPTICAL ARTICLES PREPARED WITH REVERSIBLE THERMOCHROMIC MATERIALS - Provided is a photochromic optical article including: (a) an optical substrate; (b) a thermally reversible photochromic material; and (c) reversible thermochromic material capable of at least partially filtering UV/visible light at or below room temperature and becoming less capable of filtering UV/visible light at temperatures greater than room temperature. The reversible thermochromic material (c) is operable for filtering light in the range of from 300 to 450 nanometers. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051224 | LOW TEMPERATURE AMORPHOUS SILICON SACRIFICIAL LAYER FOR CONTROLLED ADHESION IN MEMS DEVICES - Methods of fabricating an electromechanical systems device that mitigate permanent adhesion, or stiction, of the moveable components of the device are provided. The methods provide an amorphous silicon sacrificial layer with improved and reproducible surface roughness. The amorphous silicon sacrificial layers further exhibit excellent adhesion to common materials used in electromechanical systems devices. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051225 | Electromechanical display and backlight - Electromechanical light modulators and backlight providing efficient, low cost and high performance displays. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051226 | STABILIZED LIGHT SOURCE - A light source including a light emitting unit, a nonlinear medium, and a resonant grating. The light emitting unit is arranged to emit a first light into the nonlinear medium. The nonlinear medium is arranged to generate a second light such that an optical frequency of the second light is higher than an optical frequency of the first light. The resonant grating is arranged to stabilize an optical frequency of the first light by providing optical feedback to the light emitting unit. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051227 | Quantum entangled photon pair generating device - Excitation light is split into two components with mutually orthogonal polarization. One component is fed clockwise and the other component is fed counterclockwise into a polarization maintaining loop. A second-order nonlinear optical medium disposed in the loop generates up-converted light from each excitation component by second harmonic generation, and generates down-converted light from the up-converted light by spontaneous parametric down conversion. A polarization manipulation unit manipulates the polarization direction of at least one of the excitation or down-converted components. The clockwise and counterclockwise components of the down-converted light are recombined and output as quantum entangled photon pairs having substantially the same wavelength as the excitation light. The optical components can be optimized for operation at this wavelength without the need to consider the shorter wavelength of the up-converted light. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051228 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AND/OR CONTROLLING AN OPTICAL SIGNAL - A method provides and/or controls an optical signal, wherein a control signal and at least one data signal are optically processed into a combined signal of substantially constant optical power. The level of the at least one data signal is substantially maintained within the combined signal. In addition, an according device is provided. Suitable for compensation of Raman tilt in WDM communication systems. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051229 | ACHROMATIC VISIBLE TO FAR INFRARED OBJECTIVE LENS - Disclosed herein are lens systems that are capable of imaging in the visible spectrum to the far infrared spectrum. The lens systems are formed from optical crystals with different and substantially parallel partial dispersion characteristics. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051230 | Optical element, imaging optical system, and imaging apparatus - An optical element includes: a base material formed of a film-like resin material that has an infrared absorbing effect; and a multilayered film that adjusts spectral characteristics, and is formed on an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the base material. The optical element is disposed on a light path of an imaging optical system, and of such characteristics that its spectral transmittance, and its spectral reflectivities on the object-side surface and the image-side surface satisfy the conditions (1) to (4) | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051231 | LIGHT EXCITED LIMITING WINDOW - An optical power limiter comprises an input optical transmission element, an output optical transmission element, and a power-limiting element disposed between the input and output elements for transmitting optical signals from the input element to the output element. The power-limiting element comprises an optical-limiting solid mixture containing particles of at least one material that produces reversible thermal changes in response to light above a predetermined optical power level, thereby changing the optical transmission properties of the power-limiting element. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051232 | MICROSCOPE WITH RETAIN FOCUS CONTROL - A microscope including an imaging optical unit, a sample stage for supporting a sample to be examined, a movement unit, by which the distance between sample stage and imaging optical unit can be altered, a focus measuring unit, which measures the present focus position and outputs a focus measurement signal, a control unit for maintaining a predetermined focus position for examinations of the sample that are separated from one another in time. The control unit receives the focus measurement signal and derives a deviation of the present focus position from the predetermined focus position. Dependent on the deviation derived the movement unit, changes the distance between sample stage and imaging optical unit so that the predetermined focus position is maintained. The control unit drives the movement unit ( | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051233 | SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY - Known scanning confocal microscope systems use an optical fibre to deliver light to the confocal scanning head. The illumination from the fibre may be uneven and significant light loss may occur in the fibre. According to the invention, an assembly is provided for inputting a light beam from a light source into the confocal scanning head of a scanning confocal microscope system, wherein the assembly comprises a beam width adjuster ( | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051234 | LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE HAVING VARIABLE LIGHT INTENSITY AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - A laser scanning microscope (LSM) having variable light intensity and a control method for the same. The light intensity of a laser beam in an LSM has been controlled to date with high accuracy, but also high costs by means of an acousto-optic component (AOM, AOTF). According to the invention, such a component for beam modulation is to be omitted, without reducing the exposure accuracy of the sample. In an LSM, a directly modulated laser diode ( | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051235 | MICROSCOPE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A microscope measurement system including: an optical microscope including a microscope body and an objective connected to the microscope body; a chamber including a support mechanism holding an object to be examined therein, the chamber including an opening inserting the objective into the chamber such that the objective is located essentially within the chamber and the microscope body is located essentially outside of the chamber; a sealing mechanism that provides an essentially gas-tight connection between the optical microscope and the chamber such that the chamber is sealed. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051236 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND FLY EYE LENS - In a three-dimensional image display device for displaying color three-dimensional images, a fly eye lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in this order from the observer side. A display panel has four pixels arrayed in a (2×2) matrix correlated with one lens element of the fly eye lens. In the event that j is a natural number, a pixel magnifying projection width e in a second direction is set in a range of the following expression according to mean interpupillary distance Y of the observers. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051237 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAYING DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A reflecting apparatus comprising: an array of reflectors including a first subset of reflectors and a second subset of reflectors, wherein the first subset of reflectors guide light toward a first viewing position and the second subset of reflectors guide light toward a second viewing position that is different from the first viewing position. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051238 | Stereoscopic sheet structure - The present invention serves to provide a stereoscopic sheet structure in which a three-dimensional design appears to be changing by changing the angle of observation. The stereoscopic sheet structure has a convex lens assembly which is formed on one surface of a sheet member and in which a plurality of convex lenses are arranged; and a repeating design portion in which a plurality of design units are arranged on a focal plane of the convex lenses at arrangement intervals and/or in arrangement directions different from those of the convex lenses, and which has a continuously deformed design portion in which the arrangement intervals and arrangement directions of the design units regularly change. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051239 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PARALLAX BARRIER - A three-dimensional display device includes a display unit that displays a left eye image and a right eye image by dividing the images thereof into a plurality of vertically elongated stripes of images and by alternately arranging the divided left eye image and the divided right eye image in a horizontal direction, a barrier formation unit that forms a parallax barrier in front of the display unit, the parallax barrier including a pattern of a plurality of slits to selectively transmit the left eye image and the right eye image towards spatially different points, respectively, that correspond to a left eye and a right eye of the viewer, and a distance measurement unit that measures a distance between the display unit and a viewer viewing the display unit, wherein the barrier formation unit changes the pattern of the slits in the parallax barrier in accordance with the distance measured by the distance measurement unit. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051240 | PARALLAX BARRIER 3D IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A parallax barrier 3D image display method is provided. Particularly, a vertical strip parallax barrier design method is provided to avoid transverse ghost images generated by a conventional parallax barrier and directed to arrangement of sub-pixels on a screen of a flat panel display, which displays multi-view 3D images with minimal ghost images, thereby achieving the purpose of optimum 3D image display. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051241 | ANTI-FOG SCREEN AND METHODS - The present invention is directed to removable and collapsible moisture blocking screens that inhibit moisture from condensing on a surface when steam is present. The screens include a shaped vinyl film adapted to releasably contact a surface, a fabric component secured around a periphery of the film, and a flexible perimeter of fixed length having two attached ends, which perimeter is encased at least substantially within the fabric and is disposed around at least a substantial portion of the periphery of the film. Methods of inhibiting steam from accumulating on a surface are also described. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051242 | MULTI-DIRECTIONAL CUBE CORNER RETROREFLECTIVE ARTICLE - An object of the invention is to provide a multi-directional cube corner retroreflective article (may be referred to as a retroreflective article, hereinafter) capable of improving entrance angle characteristic and rotation angle characteristic. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051243 | PRISM TYPE LENS STRUCTURE - A prism type lens structure is provided. A plurality of piezoelectric elements are mounted to a reflection prism. The deformation of piezoelectric elements corresponding to the applied voltages controls the deflection angle of the reflection prism to compensate the unsteady optical path caused by vibration. Therefore, the image of light signals may be controlled to precisely and steadily focus in an image sensor element to reduce the vibration due to hand shake. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051244 | ARTICLE HAVING METAL DIELECTRIC REFLECTIVE FILM - A article includes a substrate and a metal dielectric reflective film. The metal dielectric reflective film is formed on the substrate, the metal dielectric reflective film includes a dielectric multiple layer and a metal layer. The dielectric multiple layer includes a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, and a fourth layer arranged in the order written and stacked one on another. The first and third layers comprised of a low refractive index material, the second and fourth layers comprised of a high refractive index material. The metal layer is disposed on the fourth layer. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051245 | OPTICAL LAMINATED POLYESTER FILM - The present invention provides an optical laminated polyester film which can exhibit a good adhesion to a light diffusion plate, a prism layer and a hard coat layer as well as an excellent antistatic property without deterioration in transparency. The present invention relates to an optical biaxially oriented polyester film comprising a polyester film, a coating layer comprising a cationic polymer which is formed on one surface of the polyester film, and a layer formed on the other surface of the polyester film which is obtained by applying thereonto a coating agent comprising a polyurethane comprising a diol component having a polycarbonate structure, and a heat-crosslinking agent. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051246 | Reflection-Reducing Interference Layer System and Method for Producing It - A reflection-reducing interference layer system is disclosed, which has at least three alternating layers having different refractive indices. At least one nanostructured layer comprising an organic material or an organic-inorganic hybrid material is applied to the alternating layers. With the interference layer system, it is possible to obtain very low reflection over a wide wavelength and incident angle range. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051247 | OPTICAL SHEETS - Disclosed is an optical sheet having a structured surface and a composition for forming optical three-dimensional patterns able to form the structured surface, which is not easily damaged by external force or a rough surface and thus facilitates the handling thereof, reduces defective rates to thus decrease the production cost and increase the production efficiency, and prevents a decrease in luminance attributable to damage. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051248 | Hybrid Optical Film - A hybrid optical film includes a first layer, a second layer, and a plurality of diffusion structures. The first layer has a light entering face and a first refractive index. The second layer has a second refractive index and is disposed on a face of the first layer opposite to the light entering face, wherein the second refractive index is lower than the first refractive index. The plurality of diffusion structures are disposed on the interface of the first layer and the second layer. The diffusion structure has a third refractive index, wherein the third refractive index is between the first refractive index and the second refractive index and is selectively equal to the first refractive index and the second refractive index. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051249 | OPTICAL DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MASTER - An optical device that has an antireflection function includes: a base; and a plurality of structural bodies, which are formed by convex portions or concave portions, arranged on a surface of the base with a fine pitch that is equal to or smaller than a wavelength of visible light. The plurality of structural bodies are arranged so as to form tracks of a plurality of rows on the surface of the base and form a quasi-hexagonal lattice pattern, a tetragonal lattice pattern, or a quasi-tetragonal lattice pattern, and a packing ratio of the structural bodies to the surface of the base is equal to or higher than 65%. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051250 | OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING REFLECTION - An optical element includes: a pit forming portion of a material that forms a pit in the vicinity of each focal point of a predetermined light beam upon condensation, wherein the pits are formed in such a manner that the volume percentage of the pits with respect to the material at distances from a light incident face becomes smaller away from the incident face. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051251 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An optical element having an anti-reflection function includes a base having a first main surface and a second main surface; a plurality of structures composed of projections or recesses and arranged on the first main surface at a fine pitch equal to or less than the wavelength of visible light for which the amount of reflection is to be reduced; and a light-absorbing layer that absorbs the light and that is disposed on the second main surface, wherein the structures are arranged so as to form a plurality of rows of tracks on the first main surface and form a hexagonal lattice pattern, a quasi-hexagonal lattice pattern, a tetragonal lattice pattern, or a quasi-tetragonal lattice pattern, and the structures each have an elliptical cone shape or a truncated elliptical cone shape, the major axis direction of which is a direction in which the tracks extend. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051252 | Projection-receiving surface - This invention presents a projection-receiving surface that has a surface having an undulating contour. The undulating contour comprises a plurality of alternating convex cylindrical surface segments and concave cylindrical surface segments. The convex cylindrical surface segments and concave cylindrical surface segments of the undulating contour of the surface arranged with cylindrical axes in a direction. The surface can further have an additional surface feature comprising striations, cusps, and/or nanoflaked reflector leaves. The striations are arranged crosswise to the undulating contour. The surface can be a reflection surface of a front projection-receiving surface. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051253 | APPARATUS FOR HOMOGENIZING LIGHT AND LASER APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A LINEAR INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION IN A WORK PLANE - An apparatus for homogenizing light, including a lens array ( | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051254 | LIQUID LENS - A variable-focus liquid lens is provided. The liquid lens includes a membrane and a fluid. The membrane is made of a transparent elastomer, and the fluid fills a predetermined space to contact at least a lens surface of the membrane. The membrane and the fluid are respectively made of materials repulsive to each other, for example, hydrophilic and hydrophobic materials or oleophilic and oleophobic materials. Accordingly, a repulsive force between the fluid and the membrane can prevent the absorption or leaking of the fluid into/through the membrane. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051255 | FLUIDIC LENS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A fluidic lens and method for manufacturing the same are provided. The fluidic lens includes a transparent optical fluid and a double elastomer membrane. An outer membrane of the double elastomer membrane that is externally exposed includes a Poly DiMethyl Siloxane (PDMS) elastomer, and an inner membrane of the double elastmoer membrane that makes contact with the optical fluid is transparent and includes an elastomer which has a low coherence with respect to the optical fluid. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051256 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear group including at least one lens unit. During zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the first and third lens units move to the object side, the second lens unit moves to the image side, and the aperture stop moves to the object side along a convex path. Radii of curvature of object- and image-side lens surfaces of a lens closest to the object side in the second lens unit, focal lengths of the entire zoom lens at the wide angle end and the telephoto end, and focal lengths of the first and second lens units are set properly. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051257 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, first and second lens units respectively having positive and negative refractive powers, a reflecting prism for bending an optical path, and a rear lens group including lens units. At least the first and second lens units move for zooming. During retraction into a storage state, the prism moves to a position different from a position in an image taking state, and at least a part of the first and second lens units is retracted into a space formed by movement of the prism. Thicknesses of the first and second lens units, a moving amount of the first lens unit during zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, a focal length of the first lens unit, and a focal length of the entire zoom lens at the telephoto end are set properly. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051258 | OPTICAL SIGHT FOR MAINTAINING DIOPTER ADJUSTMENT - An optical sight includes a main barrel unit, an objective lens unit, an ocular lens unit, and a magnification unit. The main barrel unit extends about an axis. The objective lens unit is mounted to a front end of the main barrel unit. The ocular lens unit is mounted to a rear end of the main barrel unit, and includes an outer barrel securely connected to the main barrel unit, an inner barrel coupled threadedly with the outer barrel, a lens disposed in the inner barrel, an adjusting barrel disposed on the inner barrel and movable in a direction along the axis, and a release device disposed between the inner barrel and the adjusting barrel. The magnification unit is rotatably disposed in the main barrel unit between the objective lens unit and the ocular lens unit. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051259 | WIDE ANGLE LENS SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a wide angle lens system. The wide angle lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side thereof, a first lens of positive refraction power, a second lens of positive refraction power, and a third lens of negative refraction power. The wide angle lens system satisfies the following condition: 0.45| 2011-03-03 | |
| 20110051260 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM, CAMERA AND PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT - An imaging optical system includes an aperture stop, a first lens group disposed on an object side of the aperture stop, a second lens group disposed on an image side of the aperture stop and a plate-like ND filter disposed close to a position of the aperture stop in an optical axis direction of the first and second lens groups, and the second lens group includes positive refracting power as a whole, the ND filter is configured to be retractable from the optical axis, and to attenuate a passing light amount. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051261 | IMAGING LENS - An imaging lens includes, sequentially from an object side, a first lens (L | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051262 | WIDE-ANGLE LENS - A wide-angle lens ( | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051263 | CLUTCHING JIG - A clutching jig is adapted to disassemble a lens module which includes a lens socket and a lens component mounted to the lens socket. The clutching jig includes a base and at least two inserting slices. The base defines two opposite lateral surfaces and a bottom surface. A slot passes through the opposite lateral surfaces and the bottom surface to divide the base into a first holding portion and a second holding portion. The bottom surface has a receiving recess at a portion thereof. The inserting slices are removably mounted to the opposite lateral surfaces and beyond the bottom surface. Wherein the inserting slices are inserted between the lens component and the lens socket, and the receiving recess receives the lens component with a circumferential dimension thereof lessened to clutch the lens component when the first holding portion and the second holding portion are urged to approach each other. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051264 | LENS DRIVING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus comprises a base, a yoke coupled to the base, having an upper surface formed with a hole, a closed side surface, and an opened bottom surface, a bobbin movably installed in an inner portion of the yoke, a lens module coupled to the bobbin to go in and out the hole according to movement of the bobbin, a magnet fixed to an inner portion of the yoke, a coil fixed to an outer portion of the bobbin while facing the magnets, and springs coupled to the bobbin to provide restoration force to the bobbin. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051265 | Lens Drive Device - According to one embodiment, a lens drive device comprises: a housing; a yoke provided on the inside of the housing; a magnet secured to the yoke; a carrier which is located on the inside of the yoke and which is provided with a lens; a coil which is connected to the carrier and which interacts with the magnet; a spring for resiliently supporting the carrier; and a magnetic member connected to the carrier. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051266 | COVECTED-SHAPED EDGE REAR VIEW MIRROR AND METHOD OF USE - The present invention is a rear view mirror provided on a vehicle with a flat glass reflective panel section, a plurality of convect-shaped curved outer and lower edges disposed onto flat glass reflective panel section that provide a clear view to a rear side of a vehicle, into a blind spot and also at ground level and a convect-shaped edge rear view mirror housing that is fitted with said flat-glass reflective panel section that is curved forward along the curved outer and lower edges. The rear view mirror can also be provided as a complete rear view mirror replacement on an aftermarket vehicle. There is also a method of using a convected-shape edge rear view mirror as well. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051267 | REFLECTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR USE IN AN EUV SYSTEM - A reflective optical element ( | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051268 | BLIND SPOT MIRROR - A new blind spot mirror comprising a bifurcated mirror, allows one portion of a mirror to remain in the normal driving mode while concurrently allowing a blind spot portion to be transitioned to a position where the blind spot area can be viewed. The transition from regular viewing to blind spot viewing can be triggered by manual and/or automatic means. An alternate embodiment of the present invention comprises a mirror assembly with one mirror face affixed back-to-back with another mirror face. One face is used for normal driving mode and the other face is angled to capture the blind spot area. Transition (rotation) of the blind spot mirror face into viewing position may be triggered by manual or automatic means. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051269 | TRUE SAFE MIRRORS - A true safe mirror is provided for a motor vehicle. The true safe mirror is a wedge shaped member which has an approximate two to three degree (2°-3°) angle to increase the vision of a driver. The mirror can be attached to an existing motor vehicle mirror, thereby providing a better field of visibility to eliminate blind spots. The true safe mirror gives the driver a wider and more accurate view of surrounding objects without any distortion. The mirror can also be a plate shaped member having a front reflective surface. The plate shaped member is encased within a housing carried by the motor vehicle. The plate shaped member has a first portion bent outwardly at a slight angle with respect to a second portion of the plate shaped member to help increase the vision of the driver of the motor vehicle to eliminate blind spots. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051270 | EXTERIOR SIDEVIEW MIRROR SYSTEM - An exterior sideview mirror assembly includes a single mirror backing plate element within a mirror housing. A main plano mirror element and an auxiliary non-plano curved mirror element are supported by the backing plate element. The backing plate element has a generally flat portion for supporting the main plano mirror element and a curved portion for supporting the auxiliary non-plano curved mirror element. The curved portion may be angled relative to the generally flat portion in a manner such that, when a driver of the vehicle aligns the rearward field of view of the main plano mirror element, the rearward field of view of the main plano mirror element may be aligned downwardly relative to the vehicle body side. The main plano mirror element includes a generally flat reflector-coated glass substrate or a generally flat polymeric substrate having a thin glass element applied to a surface thereof. | 2011-03-03 |
| 20110051271 | Angle-adjustable auxiliary vehicle mirror - An angle-adjustable auxiliary vehicle mirror includes a base and a mirror. The base has a concave rest with a threaded hole. The mirror fits in a concave chamber of the base, with an auxiliary lens combined on top, having an arc-shaped convex formed at the bottom to engage with the concave rest. An opening is bored in the arc-shaped convex. A washer with a through hole is put on the arc-shaped convex. A screw is orderly inserted through the through hole and the opening to engage with the threaded hole to keep the mirror positioned, with the arc-shaped convex contacting with the concave rest. With the screw not tightly engaged with the mirror, the arc-shaped convex can axially slide on the concave rest to alter the angle of the mirror. Therefore, a view angle can be altered by pressing down any spot of the circumference of the auxiliary lens. | 2011-03-03 |
