15th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120086899 | ELECTROOPTIC APPARATUS - An electrooptic apparatus includes an electrooptic material interposed between a pair of substrates, and a film formed above each of surfaces of the substrates facing the electrooptic material. The film is formed by a method including (a) forming a frame-shaped partition in an application area on the substrate, the partition having a side surface facing a center of the application area, (b) applying the material liquid to the application area, and (c) drying the material liquid. In step (a), the partition is formed so that a distance between the side surface of the partition and the center is smaller than a distance between an outer edge of the application area and the center, and so that a height of the partition is smaller than a film thickness of the material liquid at a time when the material liquid is applied and is larger than a thickness of the dried film. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086900 | COMMON ELECTRODE PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment includes: forming a thin film transistor array panel including a fan-out region connecting a display area and a peripheral area; forming a common electrode on a substrate; forming a cutout in the common electrode by using a laser; forming a common electrode panel by cutting the substrate; and assembling the thin film transistor array panel and the common electrode panel, wherein the cutout is formed on the edge of the common electrode panel and a portion of the cutout is positioned on the portion corresponding to the fan-out region. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086901 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of columnar spacers configured to maintain a constant gap between substrates on a color filter substrate of the liquid crystal display device. At a tip end of each of the columnar spacers contacting an array substrate, a height adjusting portion which is easily deformed as compared to a portion of the columnar spacer other than the tip end portion when the pair of substrates are bonded together is provided. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086902 | ISOSORBIDE DERIVATIVES AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS COMPRISING THE SAME - An isosorbide derivative of Formula (I) is provided. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086903 | POLARIZATION GRATINGS IN MESOGENIC FILMS - A polarizer including a polarization grating comprising a polarization sensitive photo-alignment layer and a liquid crystal composition arranged on said photo-alignment layer. An alignment pattern, corresponding to the polarization pattern of a hologram, is recorded in the photo-alignment layer, and the liquid crystal composition is aligned on the photo-alignment layer. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086904 | INFRARED-LIGHT REFLECTIVE PLATE AND INFRARED-LIGHT REFLECTIVE LAMINATED GLASS - An infrared-light reflective plate reflects an infrared-light ≧700 nm including a substrate of which fluctuation of retardation in plane at a wavelength of 1000 nm, Re(1000), ≧20 nm, on a surface of the substrate, at least two light-reflective layers, X1 and X2, formed of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase, and, on another surface of the substrate, at least two light-reflective layers, Y1 and Y2, formed of a fixed cholesteric liquid crystal phase. The reflection center wavelengths of X1 and X2 are both λ | 2012-04-12 |
20120086905 | EYEWEAR FOR REDUCING SYMPTOMS OF COMPUTER VISION SYNDROME - Computer eyewear for reducing the effects of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS). In one embodiment, the eyewear comprises a frame and two lenses. In some embodiments, the frame and lenses have a wrap-around design to reduce air flow in the vicinity of the eyes. The lenses can have optical power in the range of approximately +0.5 to +2.5 diopters for reducing accommodation demands on a user's eyes when using a computer. The lenses can also include prismatic power for reducing convergence demand on a user's eyes when sitting at a computer. The lenses can also include a partially transmissive mirror coating, tinting, and anti-reflective coatings. In one embodiment, a partially transmissive mirror coating or tinting spectrally filters light to remove spectral peaks in fluorescent or incandescent lighting. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086906 | Apparatus and System for Assisting People with Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome - An apparatus and system for alleviating the symptoms of scotopic sensitivity syndrome for a user wearing eyeglasses is provided. The eyewear comprises one or more layers, a first band, and a second band. Each of the layers comprises a coloured film. The first and second bands are attached to the one or more layers. When the eyewear is in use, the one or more layers are placed in front of the eyeglasses and the first band is attached to the second band at a location behind the user's head. Systems for assisting in viewing a computer screen or printed matter are also provided. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086907 | CURVED RETARDER BASED OPTICAL FILTERS AND EYEWEAR - Curved polarization filters and methods of manufacturing thereof. One method includes laminating a planar polarization layer to a planar retarder layer at a predetermined orientation and bending the laminate to create a curved filter. The strain on the retarder layer results in stress-induced birefringence, and the predetermined orientation of the retarder substantially compensates for the stress-induced birefringence. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086908 | PRODUCT COMPRISING A FLEXIBLE OPHTALMIC LENS, AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING SUCH A FLEXIBLE OPHTALMIC LENS ON AN EYEGLASSES LENS - A product ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086909 | Arc Flash Protection Shield - An arc shielding lens formed of plastic and a plurality of additives such as saturation absorbing dye and reverse saturation absorbing dye having enhanced reaction times to protect a user from arc flash energy. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086910 | Spectacle Lens, Spectacles, and Method for Manufacturing Spectacle Lens - Spectacle lenses that allow a wearer to view an object in a more comfortable manner include a pair of lenses for the left and right eyes. The power of one of the pair of lenses is shifted toward the positive side with respect to the power of the other lens, and object-side average surface power (base curve) of the one lens is smaller than object-side average surface power (base curve) of the other lens. The power (dioptric power) is principal meridian power along a principal meridian of each of the lenses, and the base curve is in the direction along the principal meridian. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086911 | CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - An apparatus including: a main unit including a system for irradiating illumination light from a light source to a cornea of an eye from an oblique direction and a system for obtaining a corneal endothelial cell image by receiving reflection light from the cornea by a first imaging element; an anterior segment observation optical system including a second imaging element, the anterior segment observation optical system configured to pick up an anterior segment image of the eye by the second imaging element to observe the anterior segment image from front; a controller adapted to turn on the light source and obtain a plurality of picked-up images output from the first imaging element; and a unit adapted to detect an alignment state of the main unit with respect to the eye based on a picked-up image output from the second imaging element during obtaining of the picked-up images by the controller. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086912 | KIT OF HIGHER ORDER ABERRATION CONTACT LENSES AND METHODS OF USE - The present invention provides a kit of contact lenses, comprising two or more contact lenses having a known higher order aberration for each given lens power. By way of example, the higher order aberration may comprise a spherical aberration, a coma aberration, or a trefoil aberration. A practitioner selects a lens from the kit and applies the lens to a patient's eye and measures a residual higher order aberration of the lens-eye system. In cases where the residual higher order aberration exceeds a predetermined magnitude, the practitioner selects a second lens from the kit, applies the second lens to the patient's eye and measures the residual higher order aberration of the lens-eye system. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086913 | Rotatable Article Display Device and Method - A rotatable article display device for displaying an article such as a piece of jewelry or the like includes a platen defining a display surface. The platen is configured to rotate about a first axis substantially perpendicular to the display surface. A camera mount is provided which is configured to secure a camera to the device such that the camera is rotatable about a second axis substantially parallel to the display surface. In a method for use, at least one article of jewelry is positioned on the display surface and viewed while the platen is rotated about the perpendicular axis and the camera is rotated about the parallel axis. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086914 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electricity storage section that stores power from an external power source and supplies the stored power as operating power is provided, and, when an interruption of the external power source to a projection display device is detected, control to reduce the power consumption of a device main body and control to drive an exhaust port shutter so that it is closed by the power supplied from the electricity storage section are performed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086915 | Image Projection Apparatus Tiling System and Method - In one tiling system described below, a first portable projection device ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086916 | ILLUMINATION UNIT, PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY UNIT, AND DIRECT VIEW TYPE DISPLAY UNIT - An illumination unit includes one or more light sources each including a solid-state light-emitting device having a light emission region configured of one or more light-emission spots, one or more traveling-direction angle conversion device each converting a traveling-direction-angle of light, and an integrator including a first fly-eye lens having cells which receive light from the traveling-direction angle conversion device and a second fly-eye lens having cells which receive light from the first fly-eye lens, the integrator uniformalizing illumination distribution in a predetermined illumination area. An optical system configured with the traveling-direction angle conversion device and the first and second fly-eye lenses has an optical magnification which allows each of light source images to have a size not exceeding a size of the cell in the second fly-eye lens, the light source images being formed on the second fly-eye lens by the respective cells in the first fly-eye lens. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086917 | OPTICAL UNIT, PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL DIFFUSER - Disclosed is a projection display apparatus which is provided with: a light source ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086918 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - When the operation of a device main body is stopped, control to close an exhaust port shutter is performed, detection as to whether or not the exhaust port shutter is closed is performed, when the exhaust port shutter is not closed, the control to close the exhaust port shutter is retried, when the exhaust port shutter is not closed after the retry, error processing is performed, and, after the error processing, the state transitions to a standby state in which startup is possible. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086919 | COOLING DEVICE AND PROJECTOR COMPRISING THE SAME - A cooling device and a projector comprising the same are provided. The projector comprises a light source. The cooling device is disposed adjacent to the light source for cooling a bulb of the light source. The cooling device comprises a blower and a guiding device. The blower is used to generate an airflow towards the bulb. The guiding device is disposed adjacent to the blower and comprises a peripheral edge and a flapper. The peripheral edge defines an outlet for the airflow to pass therethrough. The flapper moves along a direction of gravity to partially cover the outlet to force the airflow to flow towards an end of the bulb away from the direction of gravity. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086920 | LIGHT SOURCE COOLING DEVICE AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a light source cooling device that includes: a case in which exhaust port ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086921 | Turning Off a Projector - A method of and apparatus for turning off a projector. The method and apparatus identify a condition to the effect that the projector should not be powered on, identify a condition to the effect that the power draw of the projector is above a threshold value, and instruct the projector to turn off. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086922 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection display device includes: an aperture part which narrows light traveling toward an imager; a control part which controls the aperture part; a detection part which detects brightness of an image to be projected; and a determination part which determines whether the image is a still image or a moving image. In this arrangement, the control part operates the aperture part so as to narrow the light when the brightness of the image detected by the detection part is darker than predetermined brightness, and operates the aperture part so as to further narrow the light when the brightness of the image detected by the detection part becomes darker than the predetermined brightness. In addition, the control part sets the predetermined brightness for operating the aperture part so as to be darker when the image is the still image than when the image is the moving image. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086923 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, PROJECTOR, AND DRIVING METHOD OF DISCHARGE LAMP - To prevent biased consumption of electrodes in a discharge lamp and to prevent biased precipitation of the electrode material, a light source is provided. The light source device has a discharge lamp that emits light by discharge between a first electrode and a second electrode; and a driver that supplies alternating current to the first and the second electrodes so as to maintain the discharge, and changes duty ratio of the alternating current in accordance with predetermined pattern. The predetermined pattern includes a plurality of section periods for which the duty ratio maintains mutually different values for a predetermined period. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086924 | AUTO FOCUSING MOBILE PROJECTOR AND METHOD THEREOF - A mobile projector and method are provided for performing Auto Focusing (AF). The mobile projector includes a projection system for projecting an image onto a screen, a camera module for receiving an input image which is the projected image, an edge detection logic for detecting an edge value of the input image, and a controller for controlling the edge detection logic to detect the edge value of the input image, and controlling focusing of the mobile projector based on the edge value. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086925 | METHOD FOR AVOIDING CONTAMINATION AND EUV-LITHOGRAPHY-SYSTEM - A method for preventing contaminating gaseous substances ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086926 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Liquid is supplied to a space between the projection system of a lithographic apparatus and a substrate. A flow of gas towards a vacuum inlet prevents the humid gas from escaping to other parts of the lithographic apparatus. This may help to protect intricate parts of the lithographic apparatus from being damaged by the presence of humid gas. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086927 | DETECTION DEVICE, MOVABLE BODY APPARATUS, PATTERN FORMATION APPARATUS AND PATTERN FORMATION METHOD, EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND EXPOSURE METHOD, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - By irradiating a detection beam from an irradiation system of a detection device to a scale used for measuring the position of a wafer stage, and detecting the detection beam via the scale by a photodetection system, a surface state (an existence state of foreign substance) of the scale is detected. With this operation, detection of the surface state can be performed contactlessly with respect to the scale. Moreover, movement control of the wafer stage can be performed with high precision by taking the surface state into consideration. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086928 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lithographic apparatus, includes a support structure configured to hold a patterning device, the patterning device configured to impart a beam of radiation with a pattern in its cross-section; a substrate table configured to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project the patterned beam onto a target portion of the substrate; a liquid supply system configured to provide liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate table; a sensor configured to measure an exposure parameter using a measuring beam projected through the liquid; and a correction system configured to determine an offset based on a change of a physical property impacting a measurement made using the measuring beam to at least partly correct the measured exposure parameter. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086929 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lithographic projection apparatus includes a laser cleaning device. The laser cleaning device is constructed and arranged to clean a surface. The laser cleaning device includes a laser source constructed and arranged to generate radiation, and an optical element constructed and arranged to focus the radiation in a focal point in order to generate a cleaning plasma in a background gas above the surface. The laser cleaning device is further provided with a gas supply constructed and arranged to generate a jet of protection gas at a location near the plasma. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086930 | PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY EXPOSURE APPARATUS HAVING BLINDING PLATES AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An exposure apparatus includes a light source for providing bursts of photolithographic exposure light, a mask for applying a pattern to the photolithographic exposure light, a variable length blind for blocking parts of an exposure window from receiving the photolithographic exposure light and a blind driver for controllably driving the variable length blind. The blind includes a plurality of movable blocking plates. The blind driver includes a plurality of motors and a motor control unit which are structured to rapidly return one or more of the blocking plates through the exposure window in a time duration between the bursts of photolithographic exposure light so that a return stain is not formed on the substrate. In one embodiment, the substrate is a mother substrate having a plurality of LCD daughter substrates being formed thereon. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086931 | Stage device including a heat insulating sheet supported by an auxiliary member - A stage device that includes a base. A stage movable portion is movable along a surface of the base. An interferometer measures a position of the stage movable portion using measurement light. At least one of a piping element and a wiring element are connected to the stage movable portion. An auxiliary member, including a plurality of members connected with each other, guides a bend of at least one of the piping element and the wiring element. A heat insulating sheet is supported by the auxiliary member. The heat insulating material is provided between a space through which the measurement light of the interferometer passes, and the at least one of the piping element and the wiring element. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086932 | HIGH RESOLUTION TIME-OF-FLIGHT DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE BASED ON FEMTOSECOND LASER - Disclosed is a high resolution time-of-flight distance measurement device based on a femtosecond laser, including a femtosecond laser light source, a polarization beam splitter, a balanced optical cross-correlator in which second harmonic pulses are generated using reference light and measurement light, wherein the second harmonic pulse that was primarily generated is incident on a first photodetector and the second harmonic pulse that was secondarily generated is incident on a second photodetector, so that a difference in intensity of the second harmonic pulses is output, thus resolving the time interval of the pulse laser, a controller for controlling the repetition rate of the femtosecond laser, and a converter for measuring the repetition rate of the femtosecond laser controlled so that the pulses uniformly overlap by means of the controller, using a frequency counter traceable to a time/frequency standard, so that a measured value is converted into distance information. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086933 | EVALUATION DEVICE, MEASURING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PATH LENGTH MEASUREMENT AND MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A COORDINATE MEASURING DEVICE AND COORDINATE MEASURING DEVICE - An evaluation device for path length measurement configured to evaluate a measured signal representing an intensity of a sequence of pulses of electromagnetic radiation, particularly a sequence of light pulses, as a function of time, after the sequence has traveled through a path length to be measured. The sequence of light pulses is generated with a repetition rate by a radiation source, particularly a light source. The evaluation device is configured to evaluate a first component of the measured signal, which oscillates with a first frequency, and a second component of the measured signal, which the second component oscillates with a second frequency that is greater than the first frequency. The first frequency may correspond to the repetition rate or a multiple of the repetition rate. The second frequency may correspond to another multiple of the repetition rate. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086934 | SLOW-LIGHT FIBER BRAGG GRATING SENSOR - In certain embodiments, an optical device and a method of use is provided. The optical device can include a fiber Bragg grating and a narrowband optical source. The narrowband optical source can be configured to generate light. A first portion of light can be transmitted along a first optical path extending along and through the length of the fiber Bragg grating at a group velocity. The light can have a wavelength at or in the vicinity of a wavelength at which one or more of the following quantities is at a maximum value: (a) the product of the group index spectrum and a square root of the power transmission spectrum, (b) the slope of a product of the group index spectrum and one minus the power transmission spectrum, and (c) the slope of a product of the group index spectrum and the power transmission spectrum. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086935 | IDENTIFIABLE VISIBLE LIGHT SOURCES FOR FIBER OPTIC CABLES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method including generating a plurality of identifiable visible light sources having at least one constant visible light source and at least one oscillating visible light source and selectively applying, such as one at a time, at least two identifiable visible light sources among the plurality of identifiable visible light sources to a fiber optic cable strand in order to remotely test a fiber optic cable having a plurality of strands including the fiber optic cable strand. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086936 | Method And System For Measuring The Propagation Properties Of A Light Beam - A system for obtaining a propagation factor for determining the performance of a light beam ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086937 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAST CHANGES OF FOCUS - An inspection system includes a first focusing unit configured to perform fast focus changes to a first focusing function applied to an incident light beam. A traveling lens acousto-optic device is arranged to receive the light beam focused by the first focusing function and produce focused spots using a plurality of traveling lenses generated in response to radio frequency signals. The traveling lenses apply a second focusing function and the traveling lens acousto-optic device is arranged to alter the second focusing function at a fast rate. The inspection system also includes optics arranged to direct the focused spots onto an inspected object and to direct radiation from the inspected object to a sensor. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086938 | Analysis of an Acoustically Separated Liquid - An analyser is provided comprising a sample chamber for holding a liquid sample containing particles and an ultrasound source acoustically couplable to the sample chamber to supply resonant ultrasound energy for acoustically concentrating particles in the liquid sample in nodal planes established thereby. A probe is also provided which is adapted to supply electromagnetic energy into the sample chamber and to receive the supplied electromagnetic energy from the sample chamber at least during a time at which particles are substantially concentrated in associated nodal planes. The analyser is provided with an analysis unit in operable connection to a detector of the optical probe and is adapted to determine one or both a quantitative and a qualitative property of the liquid sample from the received electromagnetic energy. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086939 | Detecting Small Amounts of Substances - In determining whether an object contains e.g. a hazardous substance or molecules of a hazardous substance the object is illuminated with light of a definite wavelength. A telescope collects and concentrates light scattered by the object and a plurality of individual picture elements in a picture element array in a camera receives and detects the collected and concentrated light. The detection signals from each of the individual picture elements are individually analyzed to produce a Raman-spectrum or some similar spectrum valid for the subarea of the illuminated area of the object that corresponds to the respective picture element. The subarea of the illuminated area that corresponds to one of the individual picture elements can be chosen to have a width or dimension chosen to correspond to the size or a dimension of a particle or a molecule of the hazardous substance. A filter that can be tunable can be used for filtering the collected and concentrated light before being received by the camera, so that at each instance light of only one wavelength range is detected. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086940 | METHOD OF DETERMINING AN ASYMMETRIC PROPERTY OF A STRUCTURE - Methods of determining asymmetric properties of structures are described. A method includes measuring, for a grating structure, a first signal and a second, different, signal obtained by optical scatterometry. A difference between the first signal and the second signal is then determined. An asymmetric structural parameter of the grating structure is determined based on a calculation using the first signal, the second signal, and the difference. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086941 | Vehicular Headlight Adjustment Apparatus And Method of Use - Disclosed and claimed herein is an apparatus for the alignment of headlight beams and the method of use of the apparatus. A headlight alignment stand ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086942 | OIL STATE MONITORING METHOD AND OIL STATE MONITORING DEVICE - Disclosed are an oil state monitoring method and an oil state monitoring device which monitor the state of degradation of oil used in machinery or equipment. In monitoring the oil state by the oil state monitoring method and by the oil state monitoring device, oil used in machinery or equipment is filtered when the degradation state of the aforementioned oil is to be monitored. By means of filtration, the oil content is removed from the filter which captured contaminants that were present in oil prior to filtration. Light is projected onto the filter from which oil was removed. The projected light detects the color components of the transmitted light which penetrated the aforementioned filter. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086943 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING NANOPARTICLE MONOLAYERS - There is provided a method that can curtail the time for forming a particle layer and that can permit the production of a nanoparticle monolayer having stable optical characteristics at a high coating ratio and homogeneity in a reproducible and an efficient manner. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086944 | SPECKLE JITTER SENSOR - A jitter sensor including a light source and a light sensor utilizes speckle pattern analysis to detect motion. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086945 | TUNABLE INTERFERENCE FILTER, OPTICAL MODULE, PHOTOMETRIC ANALYZER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF TUNABLE INTERFERENCE FILTER - A tunable interference filter comprising a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a first reflection film formed on the first substrate, a second reflection film formed on the second substrate, the second reflection film facing the first reflection film by interposing a gap, and a gap adjustable-part that adjusts the gap, wherein the second substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface, wherein the second substrate includes a first groove on the first surface, and wherein the second substrate includes a second groove on the second surface, the second groove facing the first groove. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086946 | SAGNAC FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER HAVING IMPROVED RESOLUTION - A Sagnac interferometer can include a beamsplitter arranged to receive an input beam of light of a design wavelength, to split the input beam of light into first and second beams that counter propagate around an optical path, and to recombine the first and second beams into an output beam of light. The optical path can include at least one diffraction grating that is arranged to satisfy an effective Littrow geometry. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086947 | GENERATOR PROTECTION SYSTEM - A temperature sensor is disclosed. The sensor includes an optical fiber and at least one twin-grating structure formed on the optical fiber. Each twin-grating structure includes a first optical grating structure, a second optical grating structure adjacent the first optical grating structure, and a sensing cavity disposed between the first and second optical grating structures. Each twin-grating structure is selectively responsive to a unique wavelength of light to generate an optical interference fringe signal. For each twin-grating structure, an optical property of the twin-grating structure and a phase of the optical interference fringe signal generated by the twin-grating structure are determined by a temperature of the twin-grating structure. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086948 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED AXIAL CONTRAST AND REFERENCE MIRROR HAVING MULTIPLE PLANES FOR THE SAME - In the OCT apparatus, the reference mirror is a mirror having a multi-layer structure having at least two planes and includes a first plane and at least one second plane having a height difference corresponding to ¼ length of a central wavelength of the light source or an odd multiple of ¼ length with respect to the first plane such that beams reflected by the planes have a phase shift corresponding to a half wavelength or an odd multiple of the half wavelength. Since a bandwidth of a light source is not increased, large broadband performance of optical parts is not required and neither is dispersion compensation of the path in each coherence arm. Therefore, the OCT apparatus using the reference mirror can be applied in industries that require various precise thick film techniques through the tomography image having the remarkably enhanced contrast in the depth direction. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086949 | Tunable And Switchable Multilayer Optical Devices - A multilayer optical device includes an arrangement, on a substrate, of a first layer, a second layer, and a space therebetween. The second layer is a thin-film. The arrangement of the first and second layers and the space therebetween produces transmitted, reflected, or dispersed spectrally modified electromagnetic energy from electromagnetic energy incident upon the arrangement. An optical function of the device is dependent at least in part on interference effects. An optical detector system includes a similar multilayer optical device. The space within the device is in fluid communication with structures for receiving a fluid such that the device operates in a first or second mode depending on absence or presence of the fluid within the space. The system includes a detector for receiving the modified electromagnetic energy, and a controller in fluid communication with the space that establishes the absence or presence of the fluid in the space. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086950 | SHAPE MEASURING APPARATUS AND SHAPE MEASURING METHOD - A shape measuring apparatus that measures a three-dimensional shape of a measuring target has a lighting device that irradiates the measuring target placed on a stage with light, an imaging device that takes an image of the measuring target, a shape calculating device that calculates orientations of normals at a plurality of points on a surface of the measuring target from an image, the image being obtained by performing imaging with the imaging device while the lighting device irradiates the measuring target with the light, the shape calculating device calculating the three-dimensional shape of the surface of the measuring target from the calculation result of the orientations of the normals, a ranging device that measures a distance from a predetermined reference position with respect to at least one point on the surface of the measuring target, and a determination device that determines a spatial position of the three-dimensional shape of the surface of the measuring target, the three-dimensional shape being obtained by the shape calculating device using information on the distance obtained by the ranging device. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086951 | OPTOELECTRONIC SENSOR - An optoelectronic sensor ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086952 | Providing Thermal Compensation for Topographic Measurement at an Elevated Temperature Using a Non-Contact Vibration Transducer - A mechanism for providing thermal compensation when measuring surface topography at an elevated temperature using a non-contact vibration transducer, such as a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV). Thermal compensation is provided to a detector output signal to correct for thermal diffraction of a reflected portion of a beam of radiant energy directed at a surface of a test object. The thermal compensation is based on a calculated deviation between the detector output signal r | 2012-04-12 |
20120086953 | Methods and Systems for Realizing Reduced Complexity in Three-Dimensional Digitizer Systems - A simplified system and method for synchronizing a three dimensional digitizers is disclosed. Various three dimensional digitizers utilize detected light sequences received from a probe as a synchronization signal negating the need for complex synchronization circuitry and communication signals. One embodiment utilizes no transmitted synchronization signal, but relies on embedded, high-stability clocks to maintain synchronization after initial one-time synchronization of the clocks. In this manner the design of the three dimensional digitizer may be simplified. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086954 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT SELECTS A SCREEN FROM A PLURALITY OF SCREENS - An image forming apparatus selects a screen from a plurality of screens corresponding respectively to a plurality of gradation values and each including a pattern in which a first region to which toner is to adhere and a second region to which toner is not to adhere are defined, and forms a toner image on media. The apparatus includes a storage device for storing a minimum formable distance between first regions or second regions adjacent to each other, and a controller calculating a distance between the first regions or second regions adjacent to each other in the screen and, when the distance of the region of a screen that corresponds to a gradation value of an input image and has a first pattern is smaller than the minimum formable distance, selecting a screen corresponding to the gradation value of the input image and having a second pattern. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086955 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH CALIBRATION FUNCTION AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A problem that multiple apparatuses execute their calibration all at the same timing occurs in a case where the apparatuses obtain the same environmental condition information from an environment sensor shared among the apparatuses. To solve this, an image processing apparatus: obtains environmental condition information from an environment detection device, the environment detection device sending detected environmental condition information to image processing apparatuses; holds a correction interval adjustment value for adjusting a calibration execution timing; and determines the calibration execution timing by using the held correction interval adjustment value, if it is judged based on the environmental condition information that calibration is necessary. The image processing apparatus then performs the calibration at the determined timing to correct the colors on output images. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086956 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus for printing a tint block image including a latent image and a background image on a sheet includes a first receiving unit configured to receive latent printing density of the latent image, a second receiving unit configured to receive background printing density of the background image, a changing unit configured to change the latent printing density and the background printing density according to the type or the size of sheets to be used in printing, and a printing unit configured to print the tint block image on the sheet according to the changed latent printing density and the changed background printing density. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086957 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a direct sensor arranged so as to face a second surface of a moving sheet on the back side of a first surface thereof and configured to perform measurement on the second surface at a measurement position to thereby detect at least one of information on sheet inclination at the measurement position and positional information on a sheet position in the direction of the distance between a recording head and the sheet at the measurement position. A control unit controls the operation of the recording apparatus based on the detection by the direct sensor. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086958 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRINTING LABELS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS - Provided is a method and apparatus for generating a label for use in a medical application. Label content specified by a user that is to be applied to a surface of the label is received. The label content, which includes a machine-generated character, is printed on demand onto the surface of the label. The label bearing the label content is dispensed in a condition suitable for use in the sterile environment. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086959 | OPTIMAL SPOT COLOR RECIPES USING VARIABLE GCR PROFILES - What is disclosed is a novel system and method for obtaining optimum CMYK values for spot colors, with significantly lower computational effort, by using a set of printer profiles with different pre-computed GCR strategies. Various versions are discussed on how to utilize and/or choose among these profiles for each spot color. The present invention is applicable to spot color emulation for CMYK as well as N-color printing, and can be used to optimize one or more image quality attributes, including graininess, mottle, color stability, ink cost, etc. Various embodiments are disclosed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086960 | COLOR MATERIAL AMOUNT CONTROL METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR LIMITING AN AMOUNT OF THE COLOR MATERIAL TO BE USED FOR IMAGE FORMATION - A color material amount control method having the steps of: setting a weighting factor of each color material to be used for image formation; and for each pixel, obtaining a color material amount summation by product sum of color material amount and the weighting factor of each color material, obtaining a required reduction amount for the color material amount summation from a predetermined target limit value with respect to the color material amount summation, and correcting the color material amount for each color material so as to reduce the required reduction amount from the color material amount summation. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086961 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that makes it possible to conduct an operation for correcting density unevenness in a main-scanning direction of an image, while achieving both the accuracy and the efficiency thereof. The image processing apparatus includes: an outputting section to output data representing a test chart including a plurality of patches respectively having different gradation values and extended in the main-scanning direction; an acquiring section to acquire a measured result of measuring a density of each of the patches included in the test chart printed on the basis of the data outputted by the outputting section; and a control section that compares the density unevenness of a pair of patches being adjacent to each other and deriving from the measured result, so as to determine new data representing a next patch to be outputted on a next occasion, based on a comparison result thereof. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086962 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLOR CORRECTION USING BOTH SPATIAL CORRECTION AND PRINTER CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES - A system using a spatial correction to improve the result of a printer calibration and correction is described. More particularly, in one form, a spatial correction may be used to pre-condition a printer for an improved color calibration. In another form, spatial correction and color calibration are addressed in the same process for color correction. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086963 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE TO GENERATE INFORMATION FOR DISTINGUISHING FORMS - An information processing device according to the present invention includes a storage unit ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086964 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, comprising: a control section including a plurality of operation units; and a nonvolatile storage section to store a program to execute analysis processing and rendering processing by a control of the control section, the analysis processing analyzing page description language format data to generate intermediate language format data by the band, and the rendering processing generating rendering data based on the generated intermediate language format data, wherein the control section assigns the operation units the analysis and rendering processing to be executed, based on the stored program, wherein at least one of the operation units is capable of executing the analysis and rendering processing, and wherein when the operation unit is executing one of the analysis and rendering processing, and when an event which suspends the processing being executed occurs, the operation unit executes the other processing. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086965 | Image forming apparatus, host apparatus and job performing method thereof - An imaging forming apparatus, host apparatus, and job performing method thereof, the job performing method using target setup in an image forming apparatus supporting at least one function for targeting one host apparatus of a plurality of host apparatuses connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, the method including: receiving, by the host apparatus, input of a user generating a job event using a function by target setup supported by the image forming apparatus; transmitting, by the host apparatus, a use request message corresponding to the job event to the image forming apparatus; receiving, by the host apparatus, a message about whether to make a registration including whether a job targeting the host apparatus is registered in response to the use request message from the image forming apparatus; and displaying whether the job event is registered based on the received message about whether to make the registration. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086966 | AUDITING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An auditing system that stores job history information of a job to be executed by an image forming apparatus may include a setting unit and an acquisition unit. The setting unit sets page filtering conditions. In response to the page filtering conditions including a setting of a ratio of pages containing image data to be acquired to all pages included in the job to be executed by the image forming apparatus, the acquisition unit randomly acquires image data of a number of pages corresponding to the ratio, from the pages included in the job, as the job history information. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086967 | MULTI-FUNCTION PERIPHERAL - A multi-function peripheral includes: a recording unit having a carriage for recording which supports and moves a recording head for performing recording on a recording medium; and an image reading unit having a carriage for reading which supports and moves a reading sensor for reading an image and a driving source which is mounted in the carriage for reading in order to move the carriage for reading. The carriage for reading moves above the carriage for recording, and the driving source of the image reading unit is disposed to overlap with the carriage for recording in an up and down direction at a position deviating from a movement area of the carriage for recording. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086968 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND OPERATION SETTING METHOD THEREOF - This invention is directed to enhancement of flexibility when connecting an add-in card conforming to the PCI-Express specification. More specifically, the operation mode of the system board of a printing apparatus is configured to cope with both a root-complex and end-point. When an add-in card is inserted into an extension slot, the type of add-in card is discriminated by confirming the ON state of a detection pin. When the inserted add-in card operates as a root-complex, the system board is set to operate as an end-point. When the inserted add-in card operates as an end-point, the system board is set to operate as a root-complex. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086969 | MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL - A multifunction peripheral includes: a second storage section which stores state image data for causing a display section to display an image indicative of a state of the multifunction peripheral; and a device control section which generates a URL indicative of a location of the state image data. A web browser section obtains the state image data indicated by the URL from the second storage section in accordance with operation screen data including the URL generated by the device control section, so as to cause an operation screen including a state image represented by the state image data to be displayed in the display section. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086970 | DIVISION OF RENDERING BLOCK IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for printing an image of print data includes a generating unit to analyze the print data to generate rendering command data, which includes rendering commands regarding rendering objects for each page, a storing unit to store the rendering command data, and a plurality of rendering processing units to read the rendering command data to execute the rendering commands associated with respective rendering blocks to perform rendering, wherein, upon completing rendering of a first rendering block, a first one of the rendering processing units sends a notice of completion to a second one of the rendering processing units that is performing rendering of a second rendering block, and wherein, in response to the notice, the second one of the rendering processing units divides the second rendering block, and requests the first one of the rendering processing units to perform rendering of part of the second rendering block. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086971 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION, STORAGE, RETRIEVAL AND REMOTE SIGNING OF AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS - Exemplary embodiments include methods of handling stored electronic original information objects that have been created by electronically signing information objects by respective authorized users and transfer agents, submitting signed information objects to a trusted repository system, validating the submitted signed information objects by at least testing the integrity of the contents of each signed information object and the validity of the signature of the respective transfer agent, and applying to each validated information object a date-time stamp and a digital signature and authentication certificate of the trusted repository system that is an electronic vault. One method includes the remote signing of electronic documents without the trusted repository ever releasing the electronic original documents and other information objects that are controlled and protected by the trusted repository system. Other methods include handling information objects that are transferable records according to specified business and government rules. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086972 | SYSTEM FOR HANDLING VALUABLE DOCUMENTS - A system for handling valuable documents is provided that comprises a validator | 2012-04-12 |
20120086973 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes: a combining unit configured to combine a document image and a coded image; a setting determining unit configured to determine whether a setting for combining a document image including a previously combined coded image and an other coded image is made when a reproduction of the document image is instructed; and a prohibiting unit configured to prohibit the combining unit from combining the document image including the previously combined coded image and the other coded image according to the setting when the result of the determination indicates that the setting is made. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086974 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD OF THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an image forming apparatus that registers objects designated in print jobs, whether the objects designated in the print jobs exist in the apparatus is determined. If it is determined that the objects do not exist in the apparatus, the print jobs are associated with identification information of the objects and stored as waiting jobs. When the objects are registered based on the identification information of the objects associated with the waiting jobs, printing of the stored waiting jobs starts. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086975 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus according to this invention, a plurality of pieces of batch setting information each configured by a plurality of pieces of print setting information are registered in advance. A setting of print setting information, use of which is inhibited, of the plurality of pieces of print setting information is accepted. Batch setting information including the print setting information, use of which is inhibited, is specified from the plurality of pieces of batch setting information. Then, a setting screen which allows the user to select pieces of non-specified batch setting information, and does not allow the user to select the specified batch setting information is displayed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086976 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus may include a storage unit, a generation unit, a recording unit, and a transmission unit. The storage unit is managed to allow access from an external information processing apparatus. The generation unit generates image data for audit for auditing the image data later. The image data is generated by a reading unit reading a document or is input. The recording unit records the image data for audit generated by the generation unit. The transmission unit transmits, to the external information processing apparatus, information about the image data in which the image data for audit is recorded by the recording unit among the image data stored in the storage unit in a case where a request for referring to the storage unit is received from the external information processing apparatus. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086977 | PRINTING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A printing method of print data performed by an apparatus, the method includes, providing a first printing mode in which printing including decoding is performed and a second printing mode in which printing without decoding is performed to an output apparatus as options, generating code information by decoding coded information included in the print data when the first printing mode is selected, storing the code information into a storage device, generating a synthesized image based on the code information and the print data, and deleting the code information in the storage device after printing the synthesized image. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086978 | CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A cloud computing system may include a request receiving unit realized by executing a program that causes a storing service to store a message corresponding to a job according to reception of a processing request of the job from an image forming apparatus, and a back-end processing unit realized by executing a program that regularly issues to the storing service an acquisition request for the message. The cloud computing system further may include a registration unit and an instruction unit. The registration unit acquires a queue message issued according to a network pull-print request accepted from an image forming apparatus, determine a priority of the acquired queue message according to a status of the image forming apparatus, and register the queue message. The instruction unit acquires a queue message of high priority from registered queue messages and instruct the storing service to store the acquired queue message of high priority. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086979 | STORAGE DEVICE, HOST DEVICE, CIRCUIT BOARD, LIQUID CONTAINER, AND SYSTEM - A storage device includes a control unit performing communication processing for communication with a host device connected to the storage device via a bus, a storage unit to which data from the host device is written, and a storage control unit exerting access control over the storage unit. In a first mode, when receiving a write command and data, the control unit indicates the storage control unit to write the received data to the storage unit, and if the data has been normally written to the storage unit, the control unit returns an acknowledgment to the host device. In a second mode, when receiving the write command and the data, the control unit indicates the storage control unit to write the received data to the storage unit and does not return the acknowledgment to the host device. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086980 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM - A system and method for registering an image forming apparatus in a print server when the image forming apparatus is used on a temporarily basis, and for unregistering the image forming apparatus from the print server after the temporary use ends. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086981 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCANNED DATA PROCESS METHOD - An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086982 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE OF VOICE MAIL AND EMAIL IN A MIXED MEDIA ENVIRONMENT - A mixed media reality (MMR) system includes an MMR user, a MMR computer, a user printer that produces a printed document, a networked media server, an office portal, a service provider server, an electronic display that is electrically connected to a set-top box, a document scanner, a network, a capture device, a cellular infrastructure, wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) technology, Bluetooth® technology, infrared (IR) technology, wired technology, and a geo location mechanism. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types, such as printed paper as a first medium and a digital photograph, digital movie, digital audio file, or web link as a second medium. Furthermore, the MMR system facilitates business methods that take advantage of the combination of a portable electronic device, voice mail or email, and a paper document. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086983 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITALLY CONTROLLING IMAGE PRINTING SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE DESIRED COLOR DENSITY OF PRINTED IMAGE - A method for controlling a tone reproduction curve of an image printing system includes generating an actual printed image tone reproduction curve using printed image data from a printed image sensor; determining a set of adjusted contone values by comparing the actual printed image tone reproduction curve with a target printed image tone reproduction curve, where the adjusted contone values being representative of the print contone values at which target color density data of the printed image is achieved in the image printing system; and determining adjusted image transfer surface reflectance data to update a target image transfer surface tone reproduction curve, where the adjusted image transfer surface reflectance data being obtained by interpolating the target image transfer surface tone reproduction curve at the adjusted contone values; and controlling subsequent toner image data to achieve the updated target image transfer surface tone reproduction curve. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086984 | EDGE REFINEMENT SYSTEM - An edge refinement system includes a computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program having computer readable code for identifying carrier cells among shadow cells and highlight cells of a segmented image, computer readable code for determining if a predetermined edge condition is met by each of the identified carrier cells, and computer readable code for re-classifying the carrier cell as a non-carrier cell when the predetermined edge condition is met. The edge refinement system further includes memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory and to the computer-readable medium. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086985 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a processor. The processor executes a screen process by using different screens for respective color components which are newly used in response to N colors ranging from a primary color in an output color space to a Nth color, in the output color space, obtained by mixing the primary color with other primary colors in order, where N denotes natural number equal to or larger than 2. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086986 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus comprising: a first halftone processing unit configured to perform halftone processing on multilevel input image data; a first filter unit configured to perform smoothing filter processing on the first halftone image data; a second filter unit configured to perform smoothing filter processing on the multilevel input image data; a first difference evaluation unit configured to calculate a difference between the converted first and second filter-processed data for each pixel as a first moiré intensity; a third filter unit; a fourth filter unit; a second difference evaluation unit configured to calculate a difference between the converted third and fourth filter-processed data for each pixel as a second moiré intensity; and a moiré intensity selection unit configured to select one of the first moiré intensity and the second moiré intensity. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086987 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A limit value of a recording material is determined based on a difference between a maximum density value of an image formed by an image forming unit and a maximum density value to be targeted by an image processing apparatus, and the amount of the recording material corresponding to the image data is controlled so as to be the determined limit value or below. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086988 | Image Reading Apparatus - An image reading apparatus which reads an image on a target includes a first housing, a transparent member which is provided on the first housing and has a placement face on which the target is placed, a positioning member on which the transparent member is placed, a second housing which is assembled on the first housing and biases the positioning member, and an engagement member which is provided on the second housing and engages with the positioning member. In the image reading apparatus, when the second housing is assembled on the first housing, the engagement member biases the positioning member so as to fix the transparent member to an attachment position. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086989 | BROWSER-BASED SCANNING UTILITY - A browser based scanning utility is provided that includes an applet delivery module for delivering an scanning applet to a web browser. A browser based capture application executes the scanning applet using the browser. The browser based capture application initiates a call. A web scanning module receives the call and activates one or more scanners for scanning one or more documents into specific image files. The web scanning module uploads the specific images to a document capture server for storage and maintenance | 2012-04-12 |
20120086990 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In a method for reading a document set on a document positioning plate to output image data, an edge area of an image of an entire reading area is extracted to form a first rectangle area including the extracted edge area. If a position of an apex of the first rectangle area farthest from a reading reference position and a size of the first rectangle area satisfy predetermined conditions, image data corresponding to a second rectangle area including the first rectangle area and the reading reference position are output. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086991 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus comprises: a guide portion that is linked to a driving portion and extends so as to guide the movement of a reading carriage; a guide rail that guides the reading carriage while supporting the reading carriage; and an interlocking portion that is provided in the reading carriage, has a first sliding surface that makes contact with the guide rail on the side of the guide rail facing the guide portion and a second sliding surface that makes contact with the guide rail on the side of the guide rail that is on the opposite side as the guide portion. The position at which the first sliding surface of the interlocking portion makes contact with the guide rail is lower on the guide rail than the position at which the second sliding surface of the interlocking portion makes contact with the guide rail. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086992 | SCANNING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OBTAINING GREY SCALE IMAGES - In a method of scanning an image on an original, an optical sensor including sensor elements for each of a number of basic colors is used to generate pixel values of rows of pixels of the scanned image. The sensor elements are used to generate grey scale pixel values representing different parts of the image. A first sensor element for each of the basic colors is used to generate pixel values of odd pixels of rows on the original, and a second sensor element for each of the basic colors is used to generate pixel values of even pixels of rows of the original. Each grey scale pixel value is generated mainly on the basis of a pixel value of at least one of the first sensor elements and a pixel value of at least one of the second sensor elements for adjacent pixels. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086993 | PHOTOPOLYMER MEDIUM FOR COLOR HOLOGRAM IMAGE RECORDING AND COLOR HOLOGRAM IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - A photopolymer medium | 2012-04-12 |
20120086994 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HOLOGRAPHY 3-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - An apparatus includes a recording light source configured to emit recording beams, an electrically addressable spatial light modulator (EASLM) configured to time sequentially modulate the recording beams emitted from the recording light source according to hologram information corresponding to a 3-dimensional image spatially divided into a plurality of portions, an optically addressable spatial light modulator (OASLM) configured to include a plurality of regions corresponding to the plurality of the divided portions of the 3-dimensional image and images on a region corresponding to the portions using the modulated recording beams to form a hologram, a scanning optical unit configured to reproduce the hologram formed by the recording beams serially modulated by the EASLM on a reduced scale and transmit the hologram to the regions of the OASLM corresponding to the portions, and a reproducing light source configured to produce a surface light and emit the surface light to the OASLM. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086995 | LIGHT MICROSCOPE WITH NOVEL DIGITAL METHOD TO ACHIEVE SUPER-RESOLUTION - Methods and apparatus for reconstructing a wave, including interpolation and extrapolation of the phase and amplitude distributions, with application to imaging apparatus, such as microscopes. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086996 | OPTICAL SCANNER, MIRROR CHIP, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL SCANNER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanner includes: a movable section which includes a light reflecting member with a light reflecting surface and which is rotatable around the central axis of rotation; four movable beams which extend from the movable section along the light reflecting surface and which are provided at angles of 90° along the circumferential direction of the movable section; a displacement section connected to each movable beam; two driving beams extending from the displacement section along the surface direction of the light reflecting surface so as to be perpendicular to the movable beams; a fixed section connected to each driving beam; an inner frame section formed in the displacement section; a permanent magnet fixed to the inner frame section; and a driving section which drives the displacement section. Each movable beam includes a bending section which deforms the moving beam by bending in a direction perpendicular to the light reflecting surface. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086997 | VEHICULAR REARVIEW MIRROR ELEMENTS AND ASSEMBLIES INCORPORATING THESE ELEMENTS - The present invention relates to improved electro-optic rearview mirror elements and assemblies incorporating the same. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086998 | DIFFUSION BARRIER LAYER FOR MEMS DEVICES - Described herein is the use of a diffusion barrier layer between metallic layers in MEMS devices. The diffusion barrier layer prevents mixing of the two metals, which can alter desired physical characteristics and complicate processing. In one example, the diffusion barrier layer may be used as part of a movable reflective structure in interferometric modulators. | 2012-04-12 |