| 35th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
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| 20100220298 | LIGHT SOURCE MODULE AND PROJECTOR USING SAME - The present disclosure provides a light source module including three light source units each comprising a light source and respectively emitting light of different color. At least one light source unit of the three light source units is a first light source unit. Each first light source unit further includes a rotatable light converter located on the light path of the light emitted from the light source The rotatable light converter is covered with fluorescent powder. The fluorescent powder is located on the light path of the light emitted from the light source, and configured for converting the emitted light from the light source into light of different color when the fluorescent powder is stimulated by the emitted light. The present disclosure also provides a digital light processing projector with the light source module. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220299 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device is provided with an image display unit for displaying an image visually recognizable by a viewer. The image display unit includes a sub-diffusion layer for diffusing laser light, a vibrator for vibrating the sub-diffusion layer, a primary diffusion layer for diffusing the laser light diffused by the sub-diffusion layer and a light shielding layer for cutting off outside light from a viewer side, wherein the primary diffusion layer and the light shielding layer are arranged at the viewer side of the sub-diffusion layer. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220300 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a projection display apparatus capable of avoiding decreasing efficiency in the use of a light beam propagating from a light source, thereby to display a high-quality image. The projection display apparatus includes: a light source for emitting a coherent light beam; a light valve having an image-forming region for modulating a light beam propagating from the light source, thereby to generate and emit an image light beam; a lighting-optical system for guiding to the image-forming region the light beam propagating from the light source; a projection-optical system for enlarging and projecting the image light beam emitted by the image-forming region; and a diffusion device located in the lighting-optical system and in the vicinity of a position optically conjugated with the image-forming region. The diffusion device has a structure in which a plurality of microscopic optical elements is regularly arranged on a base plane perpendicular to a propagation direction of a light beam propagating from the light source. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220301 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO CONTROL LIQUID STAGNATION IN IMMERSION LIQUID RECOVERY - An immersion liquid confinement apparatus confines an immersion liquid in an immersion area that includes a gap between a projection system and an object of exposure in an immersion lithography system. The apparatus also recovers the immersion liquid from the immersion area. The apparatus includes a confinement member and a liquid-permeable member. The confinement member includes an outlet and an aperture through which a patterned image is projected onto the object. The liquid-permeable member covers the outlet and has a first surface that faces the object and a second surface opposite the first surface, the second surface contacting a chamber. The confinement member includes at least one liquid inlet within the chamber through which a liquid is introduced into the chamber to reduce liquid from becoming stagnated within the chamber. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220302 | PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR LITHOGRAPHY COMPRISING A COOLING DEVICE - A projection exposure apparatus for semiconductor lithography includes a cooling device for cooling components of the projection exposure apparatus. The cooling device contains a liquid cooling medium having a thermal conductivity of greater than 5W/mK. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220303 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARACTERISING AN OPTICAL SYSTEM - The disclosure provides an optical system and a method of characterising an optical system, such as in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus. According to an aspect, an optical system having an optical axis (OA) includes a first element which is partially translucent for light of a working wavelength of the optical system. The first element has at least one partially reflecting first surface arranged rotated about a first axis of rotation in relation to a plane perpendicular to the optical axis (OA). The optical system also includes a second element in succession to the first element along the optical axis (OA). The second element is partially translucent for light of the working wavelength and has at least one partially reflecting second surface which is arranged rotated about a second axis of rotation in relation to a plane perpendicular to the optical axis (OA). The system further includes an intensity measuring device configured to measure the intensity of light reflected at the first surface and the intensity of light reflected at the second surface. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220304 | MASK CASE, TRANSPORT APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, MASK TRANSPORT METHOD, AND DEVICE PRODUCTION METHOD - A mask case which accommodates a mask therein includes a reinforcing member which has a strength corresponding to a load of the mask and which is provided at a contact portion contacting with a transporting vehicle and a transporting apparatus each of which is an external apparatus on which the mask case is placed. Each of the transporting vehicle and the transporting apparatus transporting the mask includes a plurality of ball transfers which support the reinforcing member of the mask case accommodating the mask therein and which serve as a case support portion suppressing friction which is generated with respect to the reinforcing member. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220305 | Optical element and exposure apparatus - An optical element is used for an exposure apparatus which is configured to illuminate a mask with an exposure light beam for transferring a pattern on the mask onto a substrate through a projection optical system and to interpose a given liquid in a space between a surface of the substrate and the projection optical system. The optical element includes a first anti-dissolution member provided on a surface of a transmissive optical element on the substrate's side of the projection optical system. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220306 | SOLID-STATE ARRAY FOR LITHOGRAPHY ILLUMINATION - A method for providing an actinic illumination energizes solid-state light sources in an array, wherein each solid-state light source emits actinic light of a predetermined wavelength, directs the emitted actinic light from the solid state light sources through one or more compound parabolic concentrators, and forms a field conjugate to an objective lens by directing the concentrated actinic light from each compound parabolic concentrator through one or more lens elements in a lens array. Emission of one or more of the solid state light sources is adjusted to obtain a predetermined illumination pupil envelope function. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220307 | SHUTTER PIXEL, SHUTTER STRUCTURE INCLUDING THE SHUTTER PIXEL, AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SHUTTER STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a shutter pixel, a shutter structure including the shutter pixel, and an exposure apparatus including the shutter structure. The shutter pixel may include a lower substrate, an electrode disposed on the lower substrate, a spacer disposed on the edge of the electrode, a first mirror disposed on the spacer to be separated from the electrode and including a hole, an upper substrate disposed on the lower substrate to face the lower substrate, and a second mirror disposed at the upper substrate and overlapping the hole. Accordingly, a relatively simple structure may be provided. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220308 | Apparatus for Angular-Resolved Spectroscopic Lithography Characterization and Device Manufacturing Method - To inspect all portions of the substrate, the substrate table can be moved rotationally and linearly. Furthermore, the detector can be moved rotationally. This allows all portions of a surface of the substrate to be inspected from all angles in a plane parallel to the substrate. In one example, as less linear motion is needed, the apparatus occupies a smaller volume and generates smaller vibrations. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220309 | SOLAR POWERED RANGEFINDER - A rangefinder for measuring a distance to a target includes a housing having a front wall, an opposed rear wall, first and second side walls disposed between the front and rear walls, an upper wall, and an opposed lower wall. The rangefinder also includes a transmission device for transmitting a signal towards a target, a receiving device for receiving a reflected signal from the target, and a distance measuring mechanism for determining the distance to the target using the transmitted signal and the reflected signal. A display device is in communication with the distance measuring mechanism for displaying the determined distance to the target. A solar power supply mechanism supplies solar power to operate the rangefinder, and includes a solar energy collector positioned on an outer surface of the housing that is operatively in communication with an energy storage device. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220310 | Fast UV-VIS-NIR absorption spectrometer system and method - A method and system for evaluating a colored gem stone which has been cooled to below a designated temperature are provided. The system includes a cooling unit configured to support and cool a gem stone to below a desired temperature, an electromagnetic radiation source, a spectrometer, an integrating sphere, and a processing unit. The method includes receiving a spectral response of the colored gem stone and sampling a noise component within a range of wavelengths in the spectral response so as to make a baseline determination. The method further includes ascertaining a presence of at least one designated peak within the range of wavelengths as a function of the baseline determination, and evaluating the presence of each of the at least one designated peaks so as to provide an indication of whether the colored gem stone requires further evaluation. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220311 | Method and apparatus for rapidly cooling a gem, including two stage cooling - A cooling apparatus includes a container configured to contain a coolant within a space. The apparatus further includes a cooling block positioned substantially within the space and having a high heat capacity such that the space not occupied by the cooling block is filled with a coolant to a level at or below the top of the cooling block, and a placement structure having high thermal conductivity positioned on top of the cooling block and outside of the space. A method for cooling an object is also provided, which includes inserting a coolant into a container configured to contain the coolant within a space, and placing the object on a placement structure outside the space. For this method, the placement structure has a high thermal conductivity and is coupled to a cooling block, the cooling block having a high heat capacity and positioned substantially within the space. A two-stage cooling apparatus and method is also described. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220312 | BLOOD EXAMINATION APPARATUS - This blood examination apparatus examines cancer cells mixed in an examination object which is flowing blood, and includes: a flow cell through which the examination object is made to flow; an imaging optical system which light output from the examination object in an examination region in the flow cell enters, the imaging optical system forming an image of the light on a first image plane; a first Fourier transformation optical system which optically two-dimensionally Fourier-transforms the image formed on the first image plane by the imaging optical system to form the Fourier-transformed image on a second image plane; a spatial light filter which selectively allows a portion in a certain range around an optical axis of the first Fourier transformation optical system of the image formed on the second image plane by the first Fourier transformation optical system to pass through; and a second Fourier transformation optical system which optically two-dimensionally Fourier-transforms the portion which has passed through the spatial light filter of the image formed on the second image plane by the first Fourier transformation optical system to form the Fourier-transformed image on a third image plane. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220313 | Terahertz-infrared ellipsometer system, and method of use - The present invention relates to ellipsometer and polarimeter systems, and more particularly is an ellipsometer or polarimeter or the like system which operates in a frequency range between 300 GHz or lower and extending to higher than at least 1 Tera-hertz (THz), and preferably through the Infra-red (IR) range up to, and higher than 100 THz, including:
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| 20100220314 | Method and Hand-Held Color Measurement Device For Gauging A Color Measurement Chart - In a method for gauging a color measurement chart which includes at least one row of adjacently arranged color measurement fields, a hand-held color measurement device is used which is moved over the color measurement fields in the row and gauges the color measurement fields in a multitude of individual measurements. The hand-held color measurement device is guided over the color measurement fields in the row in two measurement runs. In a first measurement run, first color measurement data of the color measurement fields is measured using a first type of illumination light, and the fields are identified on the basis of the first color measurement data. The first type of illumination light (typically, white) covers a sufficient portion of the spectrum to enable the fields to be identified by means of the first color measurement data. In a subsequent second measurement run, second color measurement data of the color measurement fields is measured using a second type of illumination light which does not cover a sufficient portion of the spectrum for identifying the fields (typically, UV). The second color measurement data is then assigned to the color measurement fields on the basis of the fields identified in the first measurement run. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220315 | Stabilized Optical System for Flow Cytometry - A particle analyzer that includes optical waveguides, a support, and a detector. The optical waveguides direct spatially separated beams from a source of radiation to produce measuring beams in a sample flow measuring area. The support maintains each of the optical waveguides in a fixed relative position with respect to each other and maintains the positioning of the measuring beams within the measuring area. The detector senses light produced from the measuring beams interacting with a particle flowing through the measuring area. At least one of the support and the detector can be coupled to the core stream sample system. The coupling can use an optical waveguide device configured to convey optical radiation arising from sample interaction to the detector. In another example, a particle analyzer comprises an optical system configured to be fixedly coupled to a sample system and configured to direct beams along independent beam paths from a source of radiation to produce measuring beam spots in a sample flow measuring area of the sample system and a detection system configured to sense radiation delivered from the sample flow measuring area. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220316 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THIN FILM QUALITY CONTROL - Photovoltaic thin film quality control is obtained where the thin film is supported by a support and a section of the film is illuminated by a polychromatic or monochromatic illumination source. The source forms on the thin film an illuminated line. The light collected from discrete sampled points located on the illuminated line is transferred to a photo-sensitive sensor through an optical switch. The spectral signal of the light reflected, transmitted or scattered by the sampled points is collected by the sensor, processed and photovoltaic thin film parameters applicable to the quality control are derived e.g. thin film thickness, index of refraction, extinction coefficient, absorption coefficient, energy gap, conductivity, crystallinity, surface roughness, crystal phase, material composition and photoluminescence spectrum and intensity. Manufacturing equipment parameters influencing the material properties may be changed to provide a uniform thin film layer with pre-defined properties. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220317 | Method and Apparatus for Acoustic Sensing Using Multiple Optical Pulses - An improved technique for acoustic sensing involves, in one embodiment, launching into a medium, a plurality of groups of pulse-modulated electromagnetic-waves. The frequency of electromagnetic waves in a pulse within a group differs from the frequency of the electromagnetic waves in another pulse within the group. The energy scattered by the medium is detected and, in one embodiment, the beat signal may be used to determine a characteristic of the environment of the medium. For example, if the medium is a buried optical fiber into which light pulses have been launched in accordance with the invention, the presence of acoustic waves within the region of the buried fiber can be detected | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220318 | Waveguide With Integrated Lens - A sample can be illuminated for analysis using apparatus including a light source, a planar waveguide, and a refractive volume. The light source provides light along a propagation vector. The planar waveguide is oriented such that the propagation vector is perpendicular to the normal vector of the planar waveguide and offset from the planar waveguide in a direction parallel to the normal vector of the planar waveguide. The refractive volume is positioned proximate to the planar waveguide and can optically coupling light provided by the light source to the planar waveguide. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220319 | TILT SENSOR - A tilt sensor includes a body, a light emitting device, a first photosensitive device, a second photosensitive device, and a moving element. The body can tilt in a plurality of tilt directions. The light emitting device is disposed at the body for providing a light beam. The first photosensitive device is disposed at the body and at one side of the light emitting device. The second photosensitive device is disposed at the body and at another side of the light emitting device. The moving element is disposed at the body. When the body tilts toward different tilt directions, the moving element moves toward different tilt directions so that the light beam emitted by the light emitting device directly transmits to the first photosensitive device and the second photosensitive device or is sheltered from directly transmitting to at least one of the first photosensitive device and the second photosensitive device. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220320 | NITROGEN ANALYZING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a nitrogen analyzing apparatus comprising: | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220321 | Normalization of Data - Methods for normalizing output from an instrument employing a reference standard or non-fluorescing substance disposed within at least one of a plurality of reaction chambers. The method comprises collecting and analyzing a signal associated with the reference standard or non-fluorescing substance to determine a normalizing bias. The normalizing bias is then applied to the data signal collected from a remainder of the plurality of reaction chambers. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220322 | Cells for biochemical analysis, kit for biochemical analysis, and biochemical analyzer - The invention makes it possible to measure binding of a biochemical substance with a high throughput and with high sensitivity using a small cell capable of being filled with a small amount of chemical solution. A space between a first substrate and a second substrate such that probes are immobilized on their mutually facing planes is used as a cell that houses a specimen solution. Light is irradiated from a first substrate side, and reflected light is subjected to spectroscopy. Binding of the target with the probe is detected by a wavelength shift in the refection spectrum. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220323 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IN SITU AEROSOL THERMO-RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS - Particle detection systems configured to identify a particle included in a bulk sample volume are less efficient than if measurements are to be taken of a single particle. An embodiment of a particle detection system according to an embodiment of the present invention capable of determining an identification of a particle in a fluid stream is presented. The detection system may employ one or any number of heating stations. Each heating station may be set to a distinct temperature. The heating stations may include a light source and a light detector, such that once a particle traverses a beam provided by the light source, the light detector may measure resultant optical scattering. Based on the optical scattering with respect to temperature or temperature variation, an identification of the single particle may be obtained, thereby eliminating measurement inaccuracies associated with bulk sample volumes. The particle detection system may be applied to detection of organic particles among inorganic particles in various fluid flow environments, such as for safety or quality purposes. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220324 | DOWNHOLE SENSORS USING MANUFACTURED ANISOTROPIC PERMITTIVITY - A apparatus for use in a borehole in an earth formation. The apparatus may include: an electromagnetic source; an anisotropic permittivity material, either natural or manufactured, receiving electromagnetic radiation from the electromagnetic source; and a detector for estimating the electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the anisotropic permittivity material as an indication of a parameter of interest. Also, a method of estimating a parameter of interest using the aforementioned apparatus. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220325 | METHOD FOR ORIENTING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT ON A SCREEN - The invention relates to a method for orienting an optical element (e. g. a parallax barrier screen or lenticular screen) on a screen comprising pixels x(i, j) in a raster composed of lines (i) and columns (j) in order to produce a screen for three-dimensional representation. In said method, especially a test pattern is presented which consists of various views A(k), wherein k=n, and n>1. The test pattern comprises at least two first straight lines that are located in different horizontal positions in the n>1 views A(k) as well as at least two second straight lines which each extend parallel to one of the first straight lines and are located in at least the same horizontal positions in the n>1 views A(k). The method according to the invention can be carried out quickly and with high accuracy and is therefore suitable for industrial use to produce screens for three-dimensional representation. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220326 | Fluorescence Detection Instrument with Orthogonal Laser Entry - A detector assembly for analysis of light emitted form a fluorescent material, an optical alignment assembly for introducing an output beam into a detector array or demultiplexer, and methods of demultiplexing a beam of light into wavelength bands. The detector assembly generally includes an optical alignment assembly to introduce an output beam having a projected optical axis into an array of filters. The optical alignment assembly is mounted substantially orthogonally to a plane of reflective light defined by the path of the output beam through the filter array. The array includes filters arranged in two rows in parallel. Each filter transmits a particular band of the output beam and reflects the remaining bands to the next filter in the opposite row of filters. The array further includes a plurality of detectors mounted in detector ports. The optical alignment assembly presented herein generally includes a housing configured to receive an optical fiber, at least one collimating lens, a rotatable housing member with a beam reflecting element attached thereto. The optical alignment assembly is adjustable to introduce an output beam into a detector array utilizing a rotational adjustment mechanism and a goniometric tilt adjustment mechanism. These two mechanisms ensure that the point of entry of a light beam into the array remains at a fixed point in space despite the rotation or tilt of the rotatable housing member. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220327 | Measurement Device for the Distribution of Chemical Concentration - A material distribution measuring device ( | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220328 | DETECTING DEVICE, DETECTING UNIT SUBSTRATE, DETECTING UNIT, DETECTING UNIT KIT AND DETECTING METHOD - A necessary number of metal structures including a trapping body for trapping a target substance provided on a support are one-dimensionally placed to form a transmission path of plasmon, and a signal based on the plasmon transmitted on the transmission path is detected so as to detect whether or not there is trapping of the target substance from a sample to the trapping body. It is thereby possible to detect a reaction of the trapping body belonging to the detecting unit and the target substance with high sensitivity. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220329 | OPTICAL DETECTION OF A COMPONENT FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system and method for optically identifying a component coupled to an electronic device is provided. The method includes emitting light from within the device toward a surface of a component connector inserted into a receiving socket of the device. A light sensor senses the intensity, amplitude or wavelength of light reflected from a surface of the component connector. A processor of the device identifies the component based on the intensity, amplitude or wavelength of light reflected from a surface of the component connector. The processor modifies at least one setting of the electronic device in response to the identification of the component. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220330 | OPTICAL RESONANCE ANALYSIS USING A MULTI- ANGLE SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION - An SPR or other optical resonance based analysis system in which, light is provided at multiple angles to a specimen and then the light modified by the specimen is processed to select only some of the light. Optionally, the processing selects light at a particular incidence angle. Optionally, the detection is by imaging of the light on a 2D imager array. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220331 | Micro-electromechanical system fabry-perot filter cavity - According to some embodiments, a micro-electrical mechanical system apparatus includes an actuator within a plane and at least one movable mirror oriented substantially normal to the plane. The actuator may move the movable mirror with respect to a fixed mirror oriented substantially normal to the plane and substantially parallel to the movable mirror. The space between the fixed and movable mirrors might comprise, for example, a Fabry-Perot filter cavity for a spectrometer. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220332 | FIBER OPTIC SENSOR USING A BRAGG FIBER - An optical sensor includes an optical coupler configured to receive a first optical signal and to split the first optical signal into a second optical signal and a third optical signal. The optical sensor further includes a Bragg fiber in optical communication with the optical coupler. The second optical signal and the third optical signal counterpropagate through the Bragg fiber and return to the third port and the second port, respectively. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220333 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY - This invention relates to an optical coherence tomography, in which a light source and an optical linear beam forming system are adopted to obtain two dimensional image of high quality resolution within short time without affection by any mechanical movements. For such purpose, the optical linear beam forming system ( | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220334 | FORWARD-IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) SYSTEMS AND PROBES - Provided are forward-imaging optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems and probes. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220335 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING THE SAME - A method for calibrating an encoder in a lithographic apparatus, the encoder including a sensor and a grating, the encoder configured to measure a position of a moveable support of the lithographic apparatus, the method including measuring a position of the moveable support using an interferometer; and calibrating the encoder based on the position of the moveable support measured by the interferometer. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220336 | INTERFEROMETER - There is disclosed an interferometer for measuring a surface shape of an examined object or a transmitted wavefront through the examined object. The interferometer includes an area light source having a low spatial coherence property, and a light-guiding optical system configured to arrange the area light source and the examined object in an optically conjugate relation with each other. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220337 | OPTICAL SURFACE MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method which is capable of accurately measuring surface status, such as a minute variation in height (the height difference), a protrusion, a depression, surface damage and/or surface roughness, at each point on the surface of the object to be measured in an optical manner. In particular, the present invention provides an optical surface measuring apparatus and method which is capable of accurately measuring the minute surface status of the object to be measured using both a signal from an interferometer and an FE signal from a Position Sensitive Detector (PSD) in order to overcome the 2π-ambiguity of the conventional interferometers and the limitation of the FE signal. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220338 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING SURFACE SHAPE AND ROUGHNESS - A measurement apparatus includes an illumination light setting unit which sets illumination light having an optical characteristic corresponding to a microstructure which is formed on the surface of a measurement target and is to be measured, a measurement unit which measures reflected light when the measurement target is irradiated with the illumination light, and an extraction unit which extracts, from the measured reflected light, information about the surface shape of the measurement target and the microstructure formed on the surface. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220339 | Method for Determining Positions of Structures on a Mask - A method for determining the positions of structures ( | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220340 | System and Method for Height Triangulation Measurement - A method for height triangulation measurement particularly for measuring the height of an object on a surface, the method includes: a) illuminating said object from a known angle with a narrow strip of light, having a large numerical aperture along said light strip and a small numerical aperture perpendicular to said light strip; b) imaging said object from a known angle having a large numerical aperture along said light strip and a small numerical aperture perpendicular to said light strip, having an image of said object illuminated by said light strip; and c) calculating the height of said object from the location of said light strip on said image. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220341 | COLOR REPRODUCTION EVALUATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An evaluation apparatus includes an image reproduction section, which obtains a reproduction image by reproducing an original image with a plurality of color elements visually mixed for defining colors, and which obtains a plurality of reproduction images respectively corresponding to twelve types of color element groups having different types of color elements and/or different numbers of color elements from one another. The apparatus also includes a calculation section which calculates a level of a difference between colors of each of the plurality of reproduction images and colors of the original image; and a display section which displays the level of the difference calculated by the difference calculation section. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220342 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - With this invention, color shifting correction is performed first based on shifting amount information indicating a shifting amount with respect to the scanning direction on an image carrier of each image forming unit, and halftone processing is then performed, thus suppressing generation of moiré due to the color shifting correction, and forming a high-quality image. To this end, an image forming engine has color shifting amount storage units C, M, Y, and K (black) which store actual shifting amounts with respect to ideal scan directions on image carriers C, M, Y, and K in image forming units C, M, Y, and K. Color shifting correction amount arithmetic units C, M, Y, and K calculate color shifting correction amounts for respective color components on the basis of the stored color shifting amounts. Color shifting correction units C, M, Y, and K perform color shifting correction by converting coordinates upon reading out image data from bitmap memories C, M, Y, and K on the basis of the calculated color shifting correction amounts, and then perform tone correction. Data after tone correction undergo halftone processing by halftone processors. C, M, Y, and K. PWM processors C, M, Y, and K generate PWM signals for scanning, and output them to exposure units C, M, Y, and K of the respective image forming units. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220343 | DOCUMENT MANAGING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGING SYSTEM, AND DOCUMENT MANAGING METHOD - A disclosed device includes a document managing apparatus including an image data acquiring unit acquiring original data of original documents in a predetermined layout, a layout information storing unit storing IDs and layout information, an original document determining unit determining the IDs of the original documents, a partial area information storing unit storing partial area information for the original data respectively for the IDs, a partial area extracting unit, an arrangement information storing unit storing arrangement information on paper in association with the IDs respectively for the partial areas, a synthetic image data generating unit forming synthetic image data in conformity with the arrangement information and forming identification information into the synthetic image data, a data accumulating unit causing a data storing unit to store the identification information and the original data, and a printing unit that prints a synthetic document having the synthetic image data. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220344 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An embodiment of an image reading device may include a light source, an image reading unit, a drive control unit, a white reference member, a chromaticity detecting unit, a reference value storage unit, a chromaticity change calculating unit, and/or a control unit. An embodiment may include a photoelectric conversion element that reads an image illuminated by the light source. In some embodiments, may measure the chromaticity of a white reference member. In some embodiments, a reference value storage unit may store a reference value representing the chromaticity of an image. In an embodiment, a control unit may control an operation of the device according to the calculated amount of chromaticity change. An embodiment may include measuring the luminous intensity of a light source and storing a reference value representing the luminous intensity of the light source. Some embodiments may include making adjustments to images. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220345 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a first read device configured to read a first surface of an original document in a main scanning direction and to produce a first band data. The image forming apparatus further includes a second read device configured to read a second surface of the original document in the main scanning direction and to produce a second band data during the reading of the first surface by the first read device. The image forming apparatus still further includes an image data processor configured to produce printing band data by combining the first band data with the second band data, during the reading of at least one of the first surface and the second surface. Moreover, the image forming apparatus includes a printing device configured to start printing an image of the printing band data produced by the image data processor on a printing sheet, during the reading of at least one of the first surface and the second surface. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220346 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH POWER SUPPLY CONTROLLER - A power supply method for an image forming apparatus according to the invention includes: calculating a frequency of use of an associated unit that shares a power source with an image forming unit, for each associated unit; setting power supply to the associated unit from the power source to ON-setting or OFF-setting for each associated unit in accordance with the frequency of use; and controlling the power supply to the associated unit for each associated unit in accordance with the ON-setting or the OFF-setting at the time of starting the image forming unit. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220347 | METHOD, APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR CONFIGURING A PRINTER DRIVER - A method and apparatus for configuring a printer driver where default settings of a printer on which a job is to be printed are queried by a printer driver of a client computer. The default settings can be, for example, stored in the printer itself, or in a storage medium or in a database in some other location that is accessible to the client computer. Depending on the default settings of the printer, default settings of the driver are configured. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220348 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING WEB SERVICE FUNCTIONS - The object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus that can transmit and receive data without any process part of an application corresponding to various communication protocols and easily add a communication protocol and an application. An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes connection request mediation means for, in response to a connection notice from a plurality of communication protocol daemons to transmit and receive data in accordance with respective different communication protocols, mediating connection instead of the communication protocol daemons by informing the application that a connection request is provided to the communication protocol daemons and a shared memory being used for delivery of received data and transmitted data between the application and the plurality of communication protocol daemons and being shared by the communication protocol daemon. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220349 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and performs a private print process according to a request from an authenticated user. When the user requests interruption of the private print which is now performed or it is detected that the user has left a place near the image forming apparatus while the private print is being performed, the image forming apparatus interrupts the private print which is now performed and stores a print state at the interruption time. Further, the image forming apparatus performs a user authentication process and re-starts the private print which is interrupted in response to a re-start request from the authenticated user. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220350 | Systems and Methods for Configuration of Networked Printers - Methods disclosed permit the configuration of printers coupled to a network. In some embodiments, a configuration message received over a network may be parsed at a printer to extract configuration information local to the printer and configuration information external to the printer. Local configuration information is used to update configuration settings on the printer. Messages are also sent to clients managed by the printer using configuration information for the clients included in the external configuration information. In some embodiments, the configuration messages may take the form of e-mail messages and/or PJL commands. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220351 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTER STATUS DETERMINATION - Methods disclosed facilitate the obtaining and display of status information for printers. In some embodiments, a status request may be sent to a printer requesting the status of parameters whose status is tracked by the printer. In some embodiments, the MIB objects pertaining to parameters specified in the request may be represented using XML and a response to the status request may be sent, wherein the response includes an XML representation of the MIB objects. The requested status information may be displayed by parsing the response to the status request. The methods may be performed in whole, or in part, by one or more of a printer, a computer, and/or a handheld device that may be coupled through Bluetooth or USB connections. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220352 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a function realizing unit performing a function in accordance with a request sent from a client device in a first description format. A request analyzing unit analyzes the request to acquire function realizing unit identifying information and a request item. A format of the request item is converted into a corresponding data format of the function realizing unit or a second description format, depending on whether the corresponding description format is available. The image forming apparatus generates a response in the first description format based on a response item that is outputted by the function realizing unit in the corresponding data format or in the second description format, indicating whether the request item has been processed by the function realizing unit. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220353 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - This invention provides an image forming apparatus for accurately specifying the type of the apparatus without increasing cost, and a method of controlling the same. To accomplish this, an image forming apparatus of the embodiment executes a continuous image formation test to specify the model of the self apparatus when a system control unit is connected to an engine control unit. In the continuous image formation, the image forming apparatus measures the period from synchronization signal output by the engine control unit to output of the next print start request by the system control unit, and specifies the model of the self apparatus in accordance with the measured period. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220354 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING SAME - Upon receiving a job-end event from a printer, a data transfer unit executes job-end processing for completing processing relating to a print job. A communication control unit monitors the processing status of the data transfer unit notifies the job management unit of end of the print job after it has been determined, as a result of monitoring, that the job-end processing has been completed. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220355 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a spooler for spooling jobs received from an application; a spooler monitor; an archive unit for archiving a job; and a port monitor; the port monitor being configured to: detect if the spooler starts a job, in a case that the port monitor detects that the spooler starts a job, request control parameters from the spooler monitor and archive unit; and in a case that a control parameter received from the archive unit indicates that the job is to be archived, and a control parameter received from the spooler monitor indicates that another operation is to be performed on the job, cause the archive unit to archive the job and cause performance of the other operation. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220356 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a receiving portion to receive an image data composed of a plurality of pages and a print data including an information indicating a size of characters included in the image data, a decision portion, in case of generating an Nin1 image so as to reduce and print in a page images of different N (N is a positive integer) pages out of the plurality of pages of the print data received in the receiving portion, to decide a value of N within a range where the size of the characters of the Nin1 image is more than a prescribed value based on the information indicating the size of the characters, and a generating portion to generate the Nin1 image according to the value of N decided in the decision portion. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220357 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information security managing technique for use when a plurality of image processing apparatuses cooperate with each other to process a single job. In a case where a single job is cooperatively executed by a plurality of image processing apparatuses via a network, an image processing apparatus as a cooperation destination determines whether or not an image deletion level designated by an image processing apparatus as a cooperation source in the job is supported. When the image deletion level is not supported, the cooperation-destination image processing apparatus determines whether or not the job can be executed without using an HDD provided in the cooperation-destination image processing apparatus. When the job can be executed without using the HDD, the cooperation-destination image processing apparatus performs control such that the job is executed without using the specific storage medium. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220358 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE DELIVERY USING A SECURE DEVICE AND SIMPLE OUTPUT WITHOUT THE USE OF A PERSONAL COMPUTER - Communication systems and methods for enhancing communications between users featuring a central service which formats messages into a printer-friendly format. The format of the delivered message is based on preference settings established by the recipient or an authorized agent of the recipient. The messages are delivered to a device, such as a printer. Messages can be sent to the service in any format and can include text, photographs, URLs, and/or a variety of file types. The messages are then parsed by the service and formatted for delivery to the device. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220359 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A memory management device, an image forming apparatus, and an image forming method include an OS-management-memory-region managing unit configured to divide a physical memory space into a management region managed by an OS and a non-management region that is not managed by the OS, assign the management region to the virtual memory space, and acquire and/or free a memory space of the management region. The image forming apparatus includes an OS-non-management-memory-region managing unit assigning the non-management region to the virtual memory space so that an application program acquires and/or frees a memory space of the non-management region. The OS-management-memory-region managing unit includes a window region provided so that the OS refers to the non-management region. Data is read and/or written from and/or into the OS-non-management region via the window region. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING BOOKS BY BOOK IDENTIFICATION - A system and method for efficiently copying books. According to the system and method, a user inputs a book identification into a peripheral device to cause the peripheral device to access an electronic version of the book. Upon so accessing, the peripheral is adapted to print the electronic version as specified. The book identification may be any suitable identification, such as a book ISBN number, a bar code, a title, etc. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220361 | PRINTING PROCESS SYSTEM, A PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, A TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND A PRINTING PROCESS METHOD - The printing process system for laying out and printing images for two pages on one side of each sheet for creating a booklet, comprises: a generating unit for generating, in order to cause a plurality of printing devices to print the images on the sheets to form a booklet, print sheet data and insertion sheet data intended for each of the printing devices; a calculating unit for calculating a shift amount of the image for each of the sheets referenced in the print sheet data based on the print sheet data and the insertion sheet data, the shift amount ensuring that the image gets closer to the center of the sheet as the sheet gets closer to the innermost of the booklet; and an instructing unit for instructing a relevant printing device to print the images on the sheets referenced in the print sheet data, based on the shift amount. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220362 | Performing halftoning by plurality of halftoning mechanisms - A controller is to receive a halftoning job having a number of pages. The controller is to divide each page into a number of sections. A number of halftoning mechanisms correspond in number to the number of sections into which each page is to be divided. Each halftoning mechanism is to perform halftoning on a different section of each page. At any given time, no halftoning mechanism is to perform halftoning on a same page on which any other halftoning mechanism is to currently perform halftoning. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220363 | STREAK COMPENSATION USING MODEL BASED PROJECTIONS FOR RUN TIME UPDATES - Streak compensation in a digital printer is provided utilizing a spatially varying Printer Model and Run Time updates to generate Spatially Varying Tone Reproduction Curves (STRCs) which are used as actuators to compensate for streaks during run time. A full width array sensor is used to measure streak profiles and the STRCs are used as actuators to compensate for streaks. Streak profile measurements taken at a limited number of area coverage levels combined with a Printer Streaks Basis Function Model are used to estimate and project the streak behavior at all area coverage levels and at all inboard-to-outboard spatial locations. The projection is then used in a pixel-wise error feedback control scheme to drive each profile to a desired shape, thereby compensating for streaks. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220364 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SECURING DOCUMENTS - The document securization method includes:
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| 20100220365 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPRATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image recording apparatus includes: a recording head which has a plurality of recording elements; a conveyance device which conveys at least one of the recording head and a recording medium to cause relative movement between the recording head and the recording medium; an input device which inputs image data; an image processing device which causes a plurality of subsidiary image processing devices to perform a plurality of subsidiary image processes with respect to the input image data so as to generate output data; an image recording device which causes the recording head to perform recording on the recording medium according to the generated output data; a selection device which selects, of the plurality of subsidiary image processing devices, a subsidiary image processing device that is not to reflect, in the output data, processing result; and a control device which controls the selection device in accordance with the input image data. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220366 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD UTILIZING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus provided with a reader for reading an original image, a connection unit for connection with a network to which plural computers are connected, and a transfer unit for transferring the image data, read by the reader, to a computer through the connection unit, the apparatus comprising a specifying unit for specifying a desired one among the computers connected through the connection unit, and a designation unit for designating image reading by the reader, wherein the transfer unit is adapted to transfer the image data, read by the reader in response to the designation by the designation unit, to a computer specified by the specifying unit. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220367 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image scanner might capture an image corresponding to scan region | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220368 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a light source; a light-source driving unit; a photosensitive member including an image forming region; a determining unit determining a level of a rotation speed of the photosensitive member; a scanner unit exposing the photosensitive member by deflecting the light beam from the light source by a deflecting unit; a sensor receiving the light beam and outputs a detection signal; and a control unit controlling the image forming apparatus based on the detection signal output from the sensor. When the determining unit determines that the rotation speed is low, the light-source driving unit is configured to drive the light source to emit the light beam when a deflecting direction of the light beam is oriented toward the sensor and not to drive the light source to emit the light beam when the deflecting direction of the light beam is oriented toward the image forming region. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220369 | Scanning System for Scanning an Object Surface, in Particular for a Coordinates Measurement Machine - Scanning system for scanning the surface ( | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220370 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes: an image-signal output unit including plural light-emitting elements provided at equal intervals in a main scanning direction and a lens; and a driving unit configured to control electric currents applied to the light-emitting elements such that amounts of received light in the photoelectric conversion elements at both the ends in the main scanning direction supplement an amount of a light beam that is emitted from a peripheral area on a lens surface of the lens and decreases. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220371 | Security Functional Thin Film and Security Product Containing the Functional Thin Film - The present invention provides a security functional thin film and a security product containing such a thin film. The security functional thin film is of an amorphous structure, and possesses soft magnetic characteristics. Large Barkhausen effect can be detected along the in-plane preferred direction of magnetization; and the Large Barkhausen effect significantly attenuates, or no such signal can be detected, in a direction perpendicular to the in-plane preferred direction of magnetization. The thin film has a thickness of 20-300 nm, and the thin film also possesses element encoding characteristics that can be authenticated by experts. The security functional thin film of the present invention can be fabricated by magnetron sputtering web coating process. The security product provided by the present invention has a security information layer formed of the security functional thin film, and can be combined with other security characteristics for use in fabricating security materials such as security threads, security tapes, paper security strip-like inserts, or security labels, and others. Compared with conventional anti-counterfeiting technologies, the instant security functional thin film has more hidden security information, and facilitates enhancement of safety performance of security products. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220372 | COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAM AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS - The present invention provides a computer generated hologram which forms a light intensity distribution on a predetermined plane by giving a phase distribution to a wavefront of incident light, the hologram comprising a first anisotropic cell and second anisotropic cell configured to change a polarization state of the incident light, and a first isotropic cell and second isotropic cell configured not to change the polarization state of the incident light, wherein a direction of an optic axis of the first anisotropic cell is different from a direction of an optic axis of the second anisotropic cell, and a thickness of the first isotropic cell is different from a thickness of the second isotropic cell. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220373 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REACTIVE OPTICAL CORRECTION OF GALVANO MOTOR SCANNING HEADS - This invention relates to a method of optical correction of field position distortions created by galvano motor scanning heads. In addition, the invention relates to the apparatus and method to achieve a calibration of said field positions to overcome said distortions generated by the delivery optics within a galvano motor scanning head using a pre-calibrated target that may be positioned into a registration or ‘lay’ system for ease of identifying and measuring said series of marks by removal and replacing said pre-calibrated target into said registration or ‘lay’ system, pre-determined logic means to generate a series of marks on said pre-calibrated target using said galvano motor scanning head and said galvano motor scanning head control apparatus and operator input so that said logic means may calculate from a minimum number of operator entries corresponding to said series of marks on said pre-calibrated target that may be positioned into said registration or ‘lay’ system for ease of identifying and measuring said series of marks by removal and replacing said pre-calibrated target into said registration or ‘lay’ system a full field correction of the field position distortions taking into account all beam or laser beam, mounting, alignment and parallelity intolerances to generate corrected galvano motor position control optical correction data reactive to the exact parameters of an individual laser, delivery optic/s, galvano motor scanning head and target plane set-up. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220374 | POLYGON MIRROR SCANNER MOTOR - A polygon mirror scanner motor includes rotor frame ( | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220375 | LENS UNIT, LIGHT EMITTING DIODE HEAD, EXPOSURE DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND READING APPARATUS - A lens unit includes a lens array, a first light blocking member, and a second light blocking member. The lens array includes a plurality of lens pairs arranged in a substantially linear arrangement. Each of the lens pairs includes a first lens for forming an inverted reduced-size image of an object and a second lens for forming an inverted enlarged-size image of the inverted reduced-size image. The first light blocking member is disposed between the first lenses and the second lenses, and includes first apertures. The second light blocking member includes second apertures arranged in a substantially linear arrangement corresponding to an arrangement interval of the lens pairs, and having different opening portion shapes depending on a position of the lens pairs in an optical axis direction of the lens pairs. The second light blocking member is disposed at least between the first lenses and an object plane or the second lenses and an image plane. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220376 | OPTICAL MODULATION CIRCUIT AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An optical modulator and an optical transmission system convert continuous light of a multiple wavelength light source, which generates the continuous light with a fixed and complete phase but different frequencies, to a modulator driving signal so as to generate a light subcarrier with each frequency at the center and modulate the continuous light to the light subcarrier by using the modulator driving signal. In the case where an optical modulation is carried out by an optical IQ-modulator, transmitting data, for example, is converted to two parallel data A(t) and B(t), an I phase signal, in which the data A(t)+B(t) are modulated with a clock signal with a frequency ω, and a Q phase signal, in which the data A(t)−B(t) are modulated with a clock signal with a π/2 phase shifted, are generated, and the I phase signal and the Q phase signal are applied to electrodes of the optical IQ-modulator, respectively. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220377 | OPTICAL FILTER - An optical filter that transmits light of the visible light region includes a dielectric substrate; a dielectric layer that is formed on a surface of the dielectric substrate; and a first metal structure group in which a plurality of first metal structures are arranged two-dimensionally in an isolated state in the in-plane direction of the dielectric substrate, that is provided between the dielectric substrate and the dielectric layer, comprising: the first metal structures having first and second lengths in first and second directions orthogonal to each other, which lengths are equal to or less than a first wavelength in the visible light region; and a transmittance of the first wavelength being reduced or a reflectance being increased by surface plasmons induced on a surface of the first metal structures by resonance between light incident on the dielectric substrate or the dielectric layer and the first metal structures. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220378 | SELF-POWERING DISPLAY FOR LABELS AND CARDS - A device is disclosed that combines a battery system with an electrochromic system by judicious selection of electrodes and the connection of the appropriate electrodes to generate internal as well as external current flows. This system allows the elimination of a battery component reducing cost and improving manufacturing yield by reduction of the number of parts and number of interconnections. However, the design can be further extended to the combination of a battery system with a sensing system. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220379 | Thermochromic component and thermochromic display apparatus using the same - A thermochromic component includes a thermochromic module and a heater. The heater is thermally coupled with the thermochromic module. The heater includes a carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure directly transfers heat to the thermochromic module. A thermochromic display apparatus also is provided. The thermochromic display apparatus uses the thermochromic component. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220380 | ELECTROWETTING ELEMENTS AND OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICES - The present invention relates to reducing backflow in an electrowetting element for modifying a radiation beam characteristic. The electrowetting element comprises a first and a second fluid which are immiscible with each other and are switchable between a first configuration and a second configuration by application of a voltage across at least one of the first and second fluids. There is a tendency for backflow of the second fluid from the first configuration to the second configuration when the second fluid is switched to be provided in the first configuration. The electrowetting element comprises a backflow reducer arranged for reducing the backflow of the second fluid from the first configuration to the second configuration when the second fluid is switched to be provided in the first configuration. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220381 | Multilayer Light Modulator - A multilayer light modulator includes, a light modulating stack operable to transform an electrical control signal into a modulated optical signal. The light modulating stack comprises one or more optically reflecting layers, optically transmitting layers, and optically variable layers. The optically variable layer comprises a plurality of electrophoretic particles supported in a fluid. The multilayer light modulator also includes a bias generator coupled to the optically variable layers. The bias generator is responsive to the electrical control signal, wherein the bias generator creates a bias that changes the reflectance of the light modulating stack by causing the electrophoretic particles to move within the fluid. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220382 | Magnetic control of surface states - A magnetic field may be applied to a plasmon path to affect plasmon propagation. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220383 | VARIABLE LENS - A lens is provided, comprising a lens body. According to an embodiment, the lens body comprises at least one portion of electroactive material. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220384 | LASER DEVICE, LASER DISPLAY APPARATUS, LASER RADIATING APPARATUS, AND NONLINEAR OPTICAL ELEMENT - A laser device, includes: a fundamental wave generating portion configured to generate a plurality of fundamental waves having wavelengths which are different from each other in at least one set thereof, the fundamental wave generating portion having a semiconductor laser having a plurality of luminous points, and a Bragg reflection structure; and a nonlinear optical element in which a poling structure adapted to pseudophase matching for the wavelengths of the plurality of fundamental waves emitted from the fundamental wave generating portion, respectively, is formed variatively along a propagating direction of the plurality of fundamental waves. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220385 | Nanotube electronic device - An electronic device comprising an array of aligned nanotubes supported on a first side of the substrate, with at least one of the nanotubes in the array of nanotubes being in electrical communication with a location on the substrate; and a second array of aligned nanotubes supported on the substrate, with at least one of the nanotubes in the second array of nanotubes being in electrical communication with a location on the substrate. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220386 | CLADDING-PUMPED EVANESCENT GAIN OPTICAL FIBER - A cladding-pumped gain optical fiber is provided. The cladding-pumped gain optical fiber includes a core transmitting a signal light; a first cladding covering the core and having an optical-gain dopant; a second cladding covering the first cladding for transmitting a pumping light; and a third cladding covering the second cladding for reflecting the pumping light. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220387 | SUPERFLUORESCENT FIBER SOURCE WITH ENHANCED MEAN WAVELENGTH STABILITY - A doped superfluorescent fiber source (SFS) has an enhanced mean wavelength stability. A method stabilizes the mean wavelength of a SFS. The method includes pumping the SFS with pump light from a pump source having a wavelength dependent on the temperature of the pump source and dependent on the power of the pump light. The length of the fiber is selected to compromise between reduction of the dependence of the mean wavelength on the pump light power and reduction of the contribution of the forward amplified spantaneous emission light produced by the fiber to the output light. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220388 | NEAR-INFRARED SHIELDING MATERIAL, LAMINATE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL FILTER FOR DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - To provide a laminate which is excellent in heat-ray shielding properties, transparency, and weatherability and is suitable for use in laminated glass; and an optical filter for display which has excellent near-infrared shielding properties and is excellent in transparency, weatherability, and display performance. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220389 | POLYMERIC COVER WITH PROTECTIVE PROPERTIES AGAINST SOLAR RADIATION - The invention relates to a cover polymeric with protective properties against solar radiation, suitable for controlling both ultraviolet radiation and infrared radiation or both at the same time. The cover comprises a substrate of polymeric material with a specific density greater than 1, provided with at least one UV radiation-absorbing compound: and at least one selective solar filter, transparent to visible light and reflecting infrared radiation, applied on said substrate and which is configured by at least one first dielectric material layer; at least one first metal layer; an intermediate layer as a barrier; and at least one second dielectric material layer. The cover is applicable as a coating of rigid laminar materials and also as material for greenhouses or buildings with transparent walls. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220390 | High accuracy optical pointing apparatus - In the subject three-axis pointing system, the elevation and tip mirror axes are permanently mounted with their rotation axes orthogonal to each other to eliminate gimbal lock over the hemisphere, to avoid high accelerations as the zenith or nadir pointing directions are approached, and to provide optimal two-axis beam pointing control. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220391 | LENTICULAR LENS SHEET - A lenticular lens sheet including: rows of cylindrical lenses on an incident surface side; protrusions on sections of the lens rows where light is not condensed; and light absorption layers on the protrusions. The pitch of the lens rows is smaller than 0.5 mm, the angle between the lowermost section of the protrusion and a sheet main surface is equal to or greater than 45° and is greater than the angle formed between the vertex of the protrusion and the sheet main surface, and the width of the protrusion measured at a position 10 μm away in the sheet thickness direction from the vertex of the protrusion is equal to or smaller than 150 μm. A light shielding layer thick enough formed on the protrusion of a lenticular lens can be easily and uniformly formed even if the pitch of the lenticular lens rows is small, and thereby contrast of external light can be enhanced. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220392 | POLARIZING PLATE, OPTICAL FILM AND IMAGE DISPLAY - A polarizing plate of the present invention includes a polyvinyl alcohol-based polarizer and transparent protective films provided on both sides of the polarizer with an adhesive layer interposed between the polarizer and each transparent protective film, wherein the transparent protective films each comprise a lactone ring structure-containing (meth)acrylic resin, each one of the transparent protective films has a thickness T1 (μm) of 10 to 35 μm, and the polarizer has a thickness T2 (μm) which satisfies that the ratio (T2/T1) of T2 to the thickness T1 of each one of the transparent protective films falls within the range of 0.8 to 1.8. The polarizing plate is designed to be thin and can satisfy durability. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220393 | SPINEL SINTERED BODY, LIGHT TRANSMITTING WINDOW AND LIGHT TRANSMITTING LENS - A low-cost spinel sintered body having small polarization and high heat-conductivity is provided. Also, a useful light-transmitting window and light-transmitting lens for light-emitting device is provided. For such purpose, the spinel sintered body of the present invention has a contrast ratio of 300 or more in the case of white light, where the contrast ratio is defined as the quotient obtained by dividing an amount of transmitting light in the case of being arranged between two polarizing plates, the polarizing directions of the two polarizing plates being parallel to each other, by an amount of transmitting light in the case of being arranged between two polarizing plates, the polarizing directions of the two polarizing plates being orthogonal to each other. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220394 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes: an image-forming element; an optical element including a light-transmitting portion disposed so as to face an image surface of the image-forming element; a vibration-application member arranged at a position other than a position of the light-transmitting portion of the optical element, for vibrating a surface of the optical element and inside of the optical element; and a vibration-absorption member arranged at a position opposed to the vibration-application member, for absorbing a part of vibration of the optical element in a predetermined cycle, wherein when a wavelength of vibration generated in the optical element by vibration of the vibration-application member is defined as λ, and an odd number as k, the vibration-application member and the vibration-absorption member are arranged separately from each other at positions on the optical element such that a distance between centers of the members is expressed by k×λ/4. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220395 | FABRICATION PROCESS OF A MICROFABRICATED BLAZED GRATING - A blazed grating is disclosed as well as mode hop-free tunable lasers and a process for fabricating gratings of this type. The grating lies in a general plane and includes a plurality of elongate beams carrying mutually parallel respective reflection surfaces spaced apart from one another with a predefined pitch, each of these reflection surfaces having a normal direction inclined at a grating angle α to the normal direction of the general plane. The grating includes a plurality of resilient suspension arms connected to the beams and intended to be fastened to a grating support. A first pair of comb electrodes is provided for applying a mechanical force to this assembly, being placed on a first side of the grating, along an axis transverse to the beams, and designed so as to allow the pitch of the grating to be modified in response to the application of the mechanical force. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220396 | Optical Device, Method of Producing the Device and Optoelectronic Component Comprising the Device - An optical device having a specific form is provided that includes a resin molding compound having an adhesion-reducing, chemically modified surface layer. | 2010-09-02 |
| 20100220397 | INTERNALLY FOCUSING LENS SYSTEM - An exemplary internally focusing lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens group with positive refractive power, a second lens group with negative refractive power, and a third lens group with positive refractive power. The third lens group includes one lens element. The second lens group is movable toward the image side and the first and third lens groups remain stationary during focusing of the lens system from an infinitely distant object to a nearby object. | 2010-09-02 |
