36th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100225908 | INSPECTION APPARATUS FOR CONTAINERS - An inspection apparatus for containers, comprising a first illumination device which directs light having first characteristic properties onto the base of the container, a second illumination device which directs light having second characteristic properties, which differ at least partially from the first characteristic properties, onto the base of the container, and at least one image recording device which receives at least a portion of the light directed onto the base of the container and transmitted by the latter. At least the second illumination device illuminates the base of the container in an indirect manner. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225909 | SPECTROCHEMICAL PLASMA TORCH AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - The present invention describes a torch for producing a plasma for a spectrochemical analysis comprising: an alumina ceramic injector, a vitreous material inner tube concentric with the injector, and an annular joint between the injector and the inner tube. The joint fixedly attaches the injector and the inner tube together and comprises of an adhesive compatible with vitreous material and alumina ceramic. A method of manufacturing the torch is also described. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225910 | CONFIGURATION OF A LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE FOR RASTER IMAGE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENT AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING AND EVALUATING SUCH A MEASUREMENT - 1.1. Method for the configuration a laser scanning microscope for a raster image correlation spectroscopy measurement and method for carrying out and evaluating a measurement of this kind. 2.1. Manual setting of the scan parameters for a raster image correlation spectroscopy measurement (RICS) is complicated because the effects of setting a certain parameter are not apparent due to the complex interaction between the various parameters and also depend on the physical-technical properties of the microscope. By means of an improved configuration method, mathematical transport models can be fitted to correlations determined by means of scanning fluorescence spectroscopy with few errors. With improved methods for carrying out or evaluating a RICS measurement, the amount of data to be stored can be reduced and RICS correlations of high statistical quality can be determined within a short period of time. 2.2. According to the invention, for a raster image correlation spectroscopy measurement, a best value for a sampling value is determined and is specified for a subsequent scanning process on a sample. In order to carry out or evaluate a RICS measurement, sampling values are acquired or a correlation is determined exclusively in a sample region within which a pixel time (ΔP) changes along a harmonically controlled scan axis (X) by less than, or at most by, a predetermined or predeterminable value. 2.3. The invention is preferably used in laser scanning microscopes. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225911 | System and Method for Classifying a Disease State Using Representative Data Sets - System and method for determining a disease state of a sample. A sample is positioned in a field of view and a first spectroscopic data set is obtained. The positional information is stored and the sample is treated with a contrast enhancing agent. The sample is repositioned in the field of view and a digital image is obtained. The spectroscopic data is linked with the digital image and a database comprising representative spectroscopic data sets is searched to classify the disease state of the sample. The disclosure also provides for the step of obtaining a processed derivative image and searching a database comprising representative processed derivative images to classify a disease state of the sample. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225912 | APPARATUS FOR THE QUALITY CONTROL OF NOZZLES - An apparatus and method for measuring spray angle, spray uniformity, and spray velocity using laser sheet tomography includes measuring the extinction image formed by a spray in two laser sheets spaced apart by a know distance. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225913 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICLES - An instrument for measuring characteristics of a particle sample by counting and classifying particles into selected ranges of particle characteristics. The particle concentration is reduced to the level where the probability of measuring scattering from multiple particles of interest at one time is reduced to an acceptable level. A light beam is projected through a sample space, through which the particles flow. As each particle passes through the beam, it scatters, absorbs, and transmits different amounts of the light, depending upon the particle characteristics. So both the decrease in the beam intensity, due to light removal by the particle, and light scattered by the particle, may be used to determine the particle characteristics, to classify the particle and count it in a certain range of particle characteristics. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225914 | METHOD FOR MONITORING AND MEASURING OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF DEVICE IN POLARIZATION MAINTAINING FIBERS BY USING REFERENCE FIBER BRAGG GRATING AND FIBER COMPONENTS MANUFACTURED THEREBY - This invention provides a method for measuring and monitoring the state of polarization (SOP) of a polarization maintaining (PM) fiber and the like using a narrowband fiber Bragg grating (FBG) written on the same. The PM fiber therefore comprises a first narrowband reference FBG which is used as a reference to measure and monitor the SOP of the PM fiber. Due to the birefringence properties of the PM fiber, the reference FBG will generally reflect two narrowband spectra, each having a central wavelength; one in the slow axis and one in the fast axis. By measuring the intensity of the reflected spectra in each axis and by tuning the fiber with a polarization controller, it is possible to adjust the fiber to a predetermined SOP. After having adjusted the PM fiber to a predetermined SOP, it is possible to accurately measure the optical properties of a second grating, or of another optical device, according to the predetermined SOP. The method of the present invention can also be advantageously used for accurate measurement of reflectivity. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225915 | Prism for inducing Brewster's angle transmission and fluorescence detection apparatus for improving signal-to-noise ratio using thereof - The present invention relates to a prism for inducing Brewster's angle transmission and a fluorescence detection apparatus for enhancing a signal-to-noise ratio using thereof, and more specifically, to a prism for inducing Brewster's angle transmission and a fluorescence detection apparatus for enhancing a signal-to-noise ratio using thereof, in which evanescent waves are generated when light is cast onto fluorescence material applied on a sample surface at an angle greater than a critical angle, and the evanescent waves are used as excitation light of fluorescence to induce total internal reflection of the light so that the light may pass through the prism at a Brewster's angle. Therefore, effects of the re-reflected light on the sample surface are removed, and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is improved at the same time. In addition, the prism is miniaturized, and therefore, usage of the sample area and efficiency of the light amount are improved. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225916 | Liquid Immersion Type Absorbance Sensor Element and Absorption Spectrometer Using Same - An absorptiometer is provided which can be used in a state where it is immersed in a liquid to be measured without using an absorbance-measuring cell, and which is insusceptible to disturbance light. The absorptiometer is constructed of a sensor unit ( | 2010-09-09 |
20100225917 | GAS CONCENTRATION-MEASURING DEVICE - A gas concentration-measuring device makes it possible to measure gas components in a gas sample. An interferometer, based on a dual-band Fabry-Perot interferometer ( | 2010-09-09 |
20100225918 | PORTABLE DIESEL PARTICULATE MONITOR - A diesel particulate matter (DPM) monitor that can be worn, attached to a particular location or piece of equipment, and collects real-time data about DPM levels. In an exemplary embodiment, ambient air is drawn by a flow-controlled diaphragm pump through a particle size selector which only passes submicron particles. These particles are collected on an optically transparent filter. A laser illuminates the filter and the transmittance of the laser beam is measured in real-time by a photo detector. As DPM accumulates on the filter, the laser transmittance decreases. The instrument is calibrated to convert this decrease in transmittance to a real-time concentration of elemental carbon in the air. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225919 | Determining Solid Concentration of an Ink - The present disclosure is drawn to methods, devices, and systems for determining solid content of inks, including a device comprising a chamber configured to hold an ink sample having ionic particulates in a liquid vehicle, a first opening in the chamber for filling the chamber with the ink sample, a second distinct opening in the chamber for removal of the liquid vehicle, a deposition electrode at least partially defining the chamber, a counter electrode, a power supply connected to the deposition electrode and the counter electrode for creating an electric field inside the chamber, and a densitometer optically coupleable to the deposition electrode for measuring the optical density of ionic particulates. Additionally, the device can be operable to separate the ionic particulates from the liquid vehicle by deposition of the ionic particulates at the deposition electrode and/or the device can be operable to measure the optical density of the ionic particulates after migration to the deposition electrode. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225920 | Ensuring Sample Adequacy Using Turbidity Light Scattering Techniques - Cervical cancer screening using HPV testing can yields a high negative predictive value of approximately 99.5% for prediction of cervical lesions of CIN3 or greater. However, sample adequacy can affect the number of at-risk women that may go undetected due to the inadequacy of the tested sample. We have approached this challenge of increasing sample assurance of the negative results by estimating the cell count in known fluid volumes using light scattering techniques, in particular turbidity. These methods may be used as a fast, convenient, and economical method for measuring sample adequacy for other uses as well. Particular examples using these methods in conjunction with the HC2 HPV test are provided herein. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225921 | Screening system and method for analyzing a plurality of biosensors - A screening device and a method are described herein which can automatically handle and measure (interrogate) a plurality of sensor carriers (i.e., multiwell plates, microplates) with multi-dimensionally arranged, temperature-compensated or temperature-compensatable optical sensors, while maintaining a substantially constant temperature gradient for a relatively long period of time around the optical sensors where temperature compensation has been performed on the sensor carriers. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225922 | CAVITY LENGTH MODULATION IN RESONATOR FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES - Systems and methods for reducing rotation sensing errors in a resonator fiber optic gyroscope. An example method propagates a primary light wave through a resonator having an optical fiber and a plurality of optical surfaces for directing the light wave exiting a first end of the optical fiber back into an opposite end of the optical fiber. The optical fiber is wound onto a piezo-electric transducer (PZT) tube. A sinusoidal voltage is applied to the PZT tube to modulate a length of a fiber cavity within the optical fiber. The amplitude and frequency of the fiber cavity length modulation is selected to produce a relative phase modulation between the primary light wave and a double-back reflected light wave, such that the rotation sensing errors resulting from double backscatter of light is at a frequency above a frequency band of interest. This allows the associated error to be filtered out of the rotation rate signal. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225923 | RESIDUAL INTENSITY MODULATION (RIM) CONTROL LOOP IN A RESONATOR FIBER-OPTIC GYROSCOPE (RFOG) - Systems and methods for reducing intensity modulation-induced rotation rate measurement error in a resonator optical gyroscope. The method includes tapping an intensity modulated light beam, directing a portion of the tapped light beam toward a photo detector, outputting from the photo detector a signal proportional to the amplitude variation of the light beam, amplifying the signal, and then providing the signal to the intensity modulator as a control input. Intensity modulation-induced error is reduced by an amount proportional to the gain of the feedback loop. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225924 | OPTICAL INTERFERENCE MEASURING APPARATUS - An optical interference measuring apparatus comprises a first multiple-wavelength light source | 2010-09-09 |
20100225925 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Using Automatic Dispersion Compensation - Methods, systems and computer program products for generating parameters for software dispersion compensation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems are provided. Raw spectral interferogram data is acquired for a given lateral position on a sample and a given reference reflection. A trial spectral phase corresponding to each wavenumber sample of the acquired spectral interferogram data is postulated. The acquired raw spectral data and the postulated trial spectral phase data are assembled into trial complex spectrum data. Trial A-scan data is computed by performing an inverse Fourier transform on the trial complex spectrum data and determining the magnitude of a result. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225926 | Optical Distance Sensor - In a optical sensor ( | 2010-09-09 |
20100225927 | OPTICAL FIBER-BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING SYSTEM - Described are an imaging device and method for determining three-dimensional position information of a surface of an object. The device includes a pair of optical fibers, a phase shifter, a detector array and a processor. The phase shifter is coupled to one of the optical fibers and is used to change a phase of optical radiation emitted from the optical fiber relative to a phase of optical radiation emitted from the other optical fiber. The detector array receives optical radiation scattered by the surface of the object. The processor communicates with the detector array and the phase shifter. Signals generated by the detector array are received by the processor and three-dimensional position information for the surface is calculated in response to the received optical radiation scattered by the surface of the object and the change in the relative phase of optical radiation emitted by the optical fibers. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225928 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING STRUCTURES OF AN OBJECT - A device for measuring structures of an object. The device includes a probe element extending from a probe extension, an optical sensor for capturing an image of the probe element on a sensor field, an evaluation unit configured to compute the structures based on a position of the optical sensor relative to a coordinate system of a coordinate measuring machine and from a position of the probe element measured by the optical sensor. The device also includes a lens disposed on the probe extension between the optical sensor and the probe element. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225929 | POSITIONING METHOD AND POSITIONING SYSTEM BASED ON LIGHT INTENSITY - A positioning method and a positioning system based on light intensity are provided. The positioning system comprises a lighting system, a sense feedback device and a positioning module. The lighting system comprises at least three point light sources and sequentially adjusts luminance of these point light sources to light up a target. The sense feedback device is disposed on the target and used to collect light intensity information of the light projected on the target by the lighting system. The positioning module calculates a distance between the target and each of the point light sources based on the light intensity information and calculates a positioning location of the target based on the locations of the point light sources and the distances between the target and the point light sources. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225930 | BEAM IRRADIATION DEVICE AND POSITION DETECTING DEVICE - In a beam irradiation device, laser light emitted from a laser light source is entered into a mirror. An actuator pivotally moves the mirror into which laser light is entered, whereby a targeted area is scanned with the laser light. Servo light emitted from a semiconductor laser is entered into a hologram element. The hologram element is pivotally moved with the pivotal movement of the mirror. A diffraction pattern is formed on an exit surface of the hologram element. A photodetector receives servo light transmitted through the hologram element to output a signal depending on a light receiving position of the servo light. The scan width of servo light on the photodetector is increased by a diffraction function of the hologram element. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225931 | Method and Measuring Device for Measuring Translation of Surface - A surface ( | 2010-09-09 |
20100225932 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier on which a latent image is formed. The latent image is developed, and the developed image is transferred onto a recording target medium. A fixing section thermally fixes the recording target medium on which the image has been transferred. A storing section stores variation information regarding variation in size of the thermally fixed recording target medium. An image data processing section processes image data for transfer on a first side of the recording target medium based on the variation information. A data outputting section outputs the processed image data for transfer on the first side of the recording target medium and outputs image data for a second side of the recording target medium, which has not been processed by the image data processing section, to transfer the image data on the second side of the recording target medium. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225933 | PAPER SIZE SUPPORT FOR A PRINT SYSTEM - Techniques are provided for allowing a print driver to recognize a paper size that is not supported by the print driver. A printing device informs the print driver (executing on a client device) that an input tray of the printing device supports a particular paper size. Alternatively, the printing device informs the print driver that a feature and/or option supported by the printing device has changed. The print driver requests the new paper size (or the set of features and options) from the printing device. The print driver receives the new paper size data from the printing device and updates its user interface to allow a user to select the new paper size as a supportable option. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225934 | ENCODER SIGNAL PROCESSOR, ENCODER SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND TRANSPORT APPARATUS - An encoder signal processor which processes a pulsed encoder signal output from an encoder in accordance with a travel distance of an object to be detected, including: an increasing and decreasing wave generating unit that generates an increasing and decreasing wave based on the encoder signal output from the encoder; an intermediate pulse signal generating unit that generates a binarized intermediate pulse signal based on the increasing and decreasing wave; and a multiplied pulse signal generating unit that generates a multiplied pulse signal, which is a signal obtained by multiplying the encoder signal by 2, by performing exclusive-OR operation between the encoder signal output from the encoder and the intermediate pulse signal. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225935 | Apparatus and method for dispensing color Merchandise - A methodology and apparatus provide the customers and other decision makers the ability to make decisions, such as purchase decisions and other selections, based solely on non-verbal and non-textual, non-symbolic or non-hieroglyphic prints on a substrate. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225936 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR USE IN INKJET PRINTING - Method, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium for use in performing a pre-print scan of a recording medium using a first sensor, wherein pre-print data is obtained from the pre-print scan, the pre-print data corresponding to an area of the recording medium upon which printing is to be performed; performing a post-print scan of the recording medium using a second sensor, wherein post-print data is obtained from the post-print scan, the post-print data corresponding to the area after printing was to have been performed thereon; and determining whether printing was successful using the pre-print data and the post-print data. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225937 | IMAGED PAGE WARP CORRECTION - A method of correcting warp on an imaged page includes generating projection profiles for pixels on the imaged page and determining a reference baseline based on the projection profiles; calculating a deviation away from the reference baseline for points along a boundary; and mapping the points along the boundary to the reference baseline. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225938 | IMAGE-PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD - An image-processing apparatus includes: a memory that stores a red range defining red in a color space; an acquiring unit that acquires original image data representing an original image including a first part whose color is the red defined by the red range and a second part whose color is a color other than the red; and a generating unit that generates modified image data representing a modified image in which a density of either the first part or the second part is reduced to a density smaller than a density of the original image represented by the acquired original image data. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225939 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING BLACK-ONLY ON THE NEUTRAL AXIS IN COLOR MANAGEMENT PROFILES - This disclosure provides methods, apparatus and systems for generating and using color management profiles. Specifically, the color management profiles generated include K-only colorant recipes for image colors associated with a neutral axis. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225940 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRINTING WITH CURABLE INK - A method for printing with curable ink is presented. The method comprises the steps of: generating an image wise pattern of spaced apart ink droplet locations for representing the image; and separating the pattern into at least first and second different interleaved portions, each portion comprising a plurality of droplet locations and the droplet locations of each interleaved portion being spaced apart from each other and spaced apart from the droplet locations of the remaining interleaved portions. In a first printing pass, ink droplets are deposited on the substrate at the drop locations of the first interleaved portion. Then, in a final printing pass, ink droplets are deposited on the substrate at the droplet locations of the second interleaved portion. The deposited ink droplets are then cured by exposing the deposited ink droplets to curing radiation in a first partial curing step between first and final printing passes and in a final curing step. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225941 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image processing device acquires image data of set document sheets in a single acquiring operation, extracts from the image data document images respectively based on the document sheets, specifies a position of each document image defined on the image data, provides each document image with a first identification based on the specified positions of the document images, inputs data for creating ancillary images, provides each ancillary image based on the input data with a second identification, identifies an ancillary images as being associated with one of the document images, based on the first and second identifications, generates one or more pages of composite data, each page of the composite data containing one or more combinations each of which includes one of the document images and an ancillary image identified as being associated with the one of the document images, and outputs each page of the composite data. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225942 | COLOR CONVERSION APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND COLOR CONVERSION METHOD - A color conversion apparatus, for converting input image data into output image data that is to be output from a recording apparatus using a color material of five colors or more, the color conversion apparatus, includes a color conversion table that is used in performing color conversion of the input image data directly into the output image data; and a color conversion unit that, by making use of the color conversion table, performs color conversion of the input image data directly into the output image data. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225943 | Rotor Optics Imaging Method and System with Variable Dose During Sweep - The technology disclosed relates to translating between a Cartesian grid and a curved scanning path that produces varying exposure doses as the scanning head traces the curved scanning path. It can be applied to writing to or reading from a workpiece. In particular, we teach use of varying exposure dose that compensates for the time it takes for the curved scan path to transit a straight axis. This simplifies either modulation of a modulator, from which data is projected onto the workpiece, or analysis of data collected by a detector, onto which partial images of the workpiece are projected. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225944 | Online printing method and service - The invention is of an online printing service that following the completion of registration and initial setup, installs a printer on the user's computer. The printer is a print manager and user interface program that receives the print command, manages the upload of files to the online service provider's servers and manages the order of prints. The main idea of this invention is the accessibility of this printer from every application and from every “Print” menu item while working on the computer. This includes selecting the “Print” menu item after right-clicking on a file name, selecting the “Print” menu item from the “File” menu in Windows Explorer and clicking the “Print” button or selecting the “Print” menu item within applications. The printer thus behaves like a local printer with the ease of use and accessibility of local printing but with the quality and convenience advantages of online printing. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225945 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A management apparatus has a determination unit which determines, from a plurality of logs included in the log information, a plurality of similar logs based on information included in the logs. The management apparatus also has a difference log generation unit which generates, from the information included in each log, a difference log having information in a smaller amount than in an original log for the plurality of logs determined to be similar by the determination unit. The log management unit manages, as logs based on one print request together, the plurality of logs determined to be similar by the determination unit, and manages, as the difference log generated by the difference log generation unit, some of the plurality of logs determined to be similar by the determination unit. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225946 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANAGING PRINT SETTINGS DATA, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus and method of managing print settings data, and a recording medium storing a program for managing print settings data are provided. The print settings data is managed by printer driver, logical printer, group of users, or user, using a directory structure under a file system of an operating system. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225947 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus; a detection apparatus that detects a user who enters or exits a room where the image forming apparatus exists; and an administration server that judges a security level of the room based on a detection result drawn by the detection apparatus. The image forming apparatus selects a print mode based on the security level judged by the administration server and performs printing by the selected print mode. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225948 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH A RECONSTRUCTION CIRCUIT, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit, a first storage unit, a selection unit, a second storage unit, an image processing unit, a generation unit, a control unit, and a decision unit. The image processing unit is configured to include a reconfiguration circuit, which enables reconfiguration according to circuit configuration data stored in the second storage unit, and to execute image processing on image data input by the input unit. The control unit, after performing a first setting processing for rewriting a part of the circuit configuration data stored in the second storage unit, according to the rewriting data generated by the generation unit, configured to execute control to perform reconfiguration processing for reconfiguring a circuit configuration of the image processing unit according to the circuit configuration data stored by the second storage unit. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225949 | RETRIEVE INFORMATION BY SENSING DATA ENCODED ON A CARD - A method of retrieving information using a device is disclosed. Data encoded on a surface of the print medium is read using a sensor module of the device. The data encodes a print media identifier which uniquely identifies the print medium and position data with respect to the surface of the print medium. The print media identifier and the position of the sensor module relative to the surface of the print medium are determined from the data encoded on the surface. Finally, information is retrieved from a database. The information is indexed by the print media identifier, a region with respect to the surface of the print medium, and an identity of the device, the position of the sensor module being within the region. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225950 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus associates a plurality of pieces of user information with a single user identifier, and furthermore, stores keys corresponding to keys that are used for signing in association with the respective pieces of user information. Furthermore, when a user uses the image forming apparatus, jobs for which user information attached to the jobs matches user information that is identified when the user uses the image forming apparatus are extracted, signature verification is performed on respective pieces of signature data attached to the extracted jobs, using the keys held in a user information table, and jobs that are successfully verified are further extracted and listed. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225951 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which, when an error occurs during communication with a host computer, gives a higher priority to reconnection to the host computer connected at the time of occurrence of the error than to connection to another host computer. A CPU of the apparatus accepts processing requests from the host computers. When accepting a processing request from a host computer, the CPU causes the apparatus to connect to the host computer. If occurrence of an error is detected during communication with the host computer, the CPU controls the connection such that reconnection to the host computer connected at the time of occurrence of the error is given priority over connection to another host computer. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225952 | IMAGE RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND IMAGE RETRIEVAL PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image retrieval apparatus includes: an image storage section that stores two or more photographic images and receives an access for the photographic images; an access detection section that detects an access for the photographic images stored in the image storage section; an access image analyzing section that analyzes a subject of the photographic image detected in the access by the access detection section to determine a word associated with the subject; and an image retrieval section that retrieves a photographic image associated with the word determined by the access image analyzing section, of said two or more photographic images. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225953 | METHOD AND ASSEMBLY FOR RELEASING AND CONFIGURING SPECIFIC SYSTEM OPERATIONS OF A PRINTER OR PHOTOCOPIER - In a method or arrangement to select instructions to be executed by a control unit of a printer or copier, the control unit is connected with a plug connector arrangement providing an electrical connection to the control unit via a plurality of individual contact terminals. At least one first instruction stored in a first memory region is executed by the control unit in a first operating mode. At least one second instruction stored in a second memory region is executed by the control unit in a second operating mode. The second operating mode is set by at least one of the contact terminals of the plug connector arrangement, and wherein an evaluable signal level is respectively present at the at least one contact terminal. A memory region from which the at least one first instruction is loaded for execution by the control unit is established with aid of the electrical connection. An additional memory region from which the at least one second instruction is loaded for execution by the control unit is established in the absence of the electrical connection. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225954 | JOB SCHEDULE GENERATION - In some embodiments, job schedules are generated from an answer set or a derivative thereof at least by executing an answer-set program, the answer set including a set of constraints, and the answer-set program indicating, among other things, a set of jobs. The job schedules are stored in a processor-accessible memory system. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225955 | Print Button Widget - An embodiment of the invention relates to a method including determining when a print button widget on a webpage has been accessed by a user from a communication device accessing the webpage, recording an identity of an online publisher hosting or maintaining the webpage, issuing a print instruction to the communication device for the communication device to create a print job when the print button widget has been accessed by the user, identifying at least one detail of the print job, sending a notification and the at least one detail of the print job to an exchange server, and sharing an online publisher report including the at least one detail of the print job with at least one advertiser | 2010-09-09 |
20100225956 | ORTHOGONALITY CORRECTION EMPLOYING SUBSTITUTED IMAGE DATA - A method for forming an image in a skewed recording apparatus comprising a recording head comprising a plurality of recording channels, the method includes providing an image data file comprising a plurality of image data columns; assigning different portions of each image data column to different recording channels; substituting first image data from a first image data column assigned to a first recording channel with second image data from a second image data column assigned to a second recording channel; and operating the recording head to form the image. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225957 | Driverless Architecture For Printing Systems - Techniques are provided for allowing an application program to print to a new or updated printing device on a network without the user having to perform any updates or reconfigurations that are required with conventional print drivers. The techniques include techniques for retrieving new or updated printing device capabilities data from the printing device on the network, converting the retrieved printing device capabilities to a printer description file, generating print job tickets based on the printer description file, and submitting the print job tickets to the printing device as part of the submission of print jobs to the printing device. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225958 | Approach For Printing To Web Services-Enabled Printing Devices - According to an approach for printing to Web services-enabled printing devices, a print driver retrieves printing device capabilities data from a Web services-enable printing device and generates printer description data based at least upon the printing device capabilities data. The printer description data specifies display data for one or more features and options currently supported by the Web services-enabled printing device. The print driver generates Graphical User Interface (GUI) data based at least upon the printer description data and provides the GUI data to an application program. The print driver receives application data generated by the application program and generates print data and a print job ticket. The print driver may use the printer description data to generate the print data or the print job ticket. The print driver causes the print data and the print job ticket to be transmitted to the Web services-enabled printing device for processing. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225959 | PRINT DRIVER LOCALIZATION SUPPORT FROM PRINTING DEVICE TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE USER PROFILES - According to an approach for printing to Web service-enabled printing devices, a print driver is configured to retrieve printing device capabilities data from the Web service-enabled printing device. The printing device capabilities data specifies for a particular feature and a particular option supported by the Web service-enabled printing device, a plurality of languages in which the particular feature and the particular option may be displayed. The print driver generates, based at least upon the capabilities data, printer description data that specifies display data that indicates how the particular feature and the particular option are to be displayed, on a GUI, in the plurality of languages. In response to user input, the print driver generates, based at least upon the display data and language data that specifies a particular language, GUI data which, when processed, causes the particular feature and the particular option to be displayed on a GUI in the particular language. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRINTING AN ADVERTISEMENT WITH A DOCUMENT - Presented is a method and system for printing an advertisement with a document. The method includes receiving a print request for a document from a user, converting the requested document into a vector graphics format document, selecting at least one advertisement for inclusion into the vector graphics format document, recording the vector graphics format document into a print driver queue enabled to print advertisements, inserting at least one advertisement into the vector graphics format document and printing the advertisement with the vector graphics format document. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225961 | MONITORING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A monitoring device includes: a receiving unit that receives information including first use mode information transmitted from a first information processing device; a memory unit that stores the received first use mode information; a creating unit that creates, when the receiving unit receives trouble information together with the first use mode information, a trouble prediction formula corresponding to the trouble information using second use mode information of a second information processing device in which the same trouble as that indicated in the trouble information has occurred; a storing unit that stores the created trouble prediction formula; and a determining unit that determines, when the receiving unit receives third use mode information of a third information processing device, whether or not a trouble in the third information processing device occurs in a high probability based on the stored trouble prediction formula and the received third use mode information. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225962 | Communication system, information processing system, image formation system, image forming apparatus, mobile information terminal device and information processing device - After a digital multi-function peripheral establishes a connection with a mobile phone once, it rejects connection establishment requests made to a wireless communication section by other devices. Moreover, after a connection is established with a mobile phone once, the digital multi-function peripheral stops sending of the address of the wireless communication section through a reader/writer. After completing the sending/receiving of data, the digital multi-function peripheral and the mobile phone delete the addresses of their partner devices stored in them, respectively, for use in sending/receiving data. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225963 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Upon execution of re-print processing of a variable job, a re-print range is set in consideration of finishing setting information to facilitate a replace operation. Or the range is presented. Also, a re-print range that allows an easy replace operation by the user is set to have the smaller number of pages to be re-printed as much as possible in consideration of subset execution ranges depending on the capability of a printer. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225964 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING PRINT PROCESSING ACCORDING TO APPROPRIATE TIMING - In a PC connected to an image forming apparatus, an image formation assist program starts at power-on (S | 2010-09-09 |
20100225965 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing apparatus that is capable of preventing an unauthorized connection from a host apparatus which is not permitted to use a device by restricting a host apparatus that performs an association process by a method other than password authentication. A processing unit performs an association process with the host apparatus in order to perform the wireless communication. A storage unit stores a permitted host ID indicating the host apparatus that is permitted to perform the association process by the processing unit. A control unit compares a host ID transmitted from the host apparatus with the permitted host ID stored in the storage unit when the processing unit performs the association process, and determines whether the processing unit performs the association process based on a result of the comparison. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225966 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING USING A DOCUMENT CONVERSION SERVER - A method of printing a document includes receiving a document at a printer; determining that a file format of the document is not supported by the printer; delivering the document to a document conversion server that is remote from, but coupled to, the printer; converting the document into a converted file format that is supported by the printer using the document conversion server; and delivering the document in the converted file format to the printer. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225967 | METHOD OF SETTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A relay station | 2010-09-09 |
20100225968 | DOCUMENT MANAGING APPARATUS - A document managing apparatus includes a determining unit which determines whether a document print image can be generated or not when the document is entered in file managing information in which a data file is entered, the data file constituting the document which is a managing target, a print image generating unit which generates the document print image when the determining unit determines that the document print image can be generated, the document print image being entered as the file in the file managing information, an application start-up unit which starts up an application program according to the document when the determining unit determines that the document print image cannot be generated, and a screen dump generating unit which generates a screen dump of the document entered as the file in the information based on the document displayed on a display unit by the application program started. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225969 | Decoding device, method for controlling decoding device, and image forming apparatus - A decoding device checks whether there is free space in each of channel-by-channel buffers, specifies a channel corresponding to a buffer having free space as an input channel for receiving an input of compressed data, analyzes codes of the compressed data received through the input channel, and detects a delimit position in the compressed data on the basis of a result of the analysis. The decoding device expands the compressed data received through the input channel, and sorts the expanded data so as to be stored in the buffer corresponding to the input channel. The decoding device cancels specification of the input channel in accordance with detection of the delimit position, and checks whether there is free space in each of the channel-by-channel buffers, and then specifies a channel corresponding to a buffer having free space as a next input channel. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225970 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING HARD DISK STORAGE UNIT, AND DATA DISPLAY METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a hard disk storage unit for storing user registered data; a display unit for displaying the user registered data in a user selectable state; a power supply unit for supplying power to the hard disk storage unit; a power supply control unit for interrupting or starting power supply to the hard disk storage unit; a switch memory for storing at least a part of the user registered data stored in the hard disk storage unit; and an access switching unit for displaying the user registered data stored in the switch memory on the display unit in a user selectable state when the power supply from the power supply unit to the hard disk storage unit is started. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225971 | IMAGE COMPOSITION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image composition device includes: a determination unit that determines an overlap state between respective pixel strings on corresponding lines in plural first image data pieces, having plural continuous pixels in the same color as a pixel string, including continuous coordinates with start point coordinate information and end point coordinate information of the pixel string, using the plural first image data pieces; and a composition unit that composes plural second image data pieces based on a result of determination by the determination unit. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225972 | VECTOR HALFTONING IN AN IMAGE PATH UTILIZING SUB-SAMPLED CROSS-CHANNEL IMAGE VALUES - This disclosure provides methods, apparatus and systems to generate vector halftone data for rendering an image on an image output device. According to one aspect, a method generates vector halftone data as a function of contone pixel data for a given colorant at its nominal resolution and contone pixel data for the other colorants at a relatively lower resolution. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225973 | LASER PRINT APPARATUS WITH DUAL HALFTONES - A printing system comprises a memory configured to store image data representing an image. The printing system comprises a processor configured to perform a first digital halftone process on a first portion of the image and a second digital halftone process on a second portion of the image. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225974 | LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING SYSTEM WITH PLACEMENT CORRECTIONS - The technology disclosed relates to methods and devices that compensate for displacements in a pattern or deformations of a workpiece. In particular, this relates to using timing to compensate for displacements along a first axis along the scanning direction while using resampling, interpolation or a similar method to compensate for displacements along a second axis that is substantially orthogonal to the first axis. The scanning direction may be an actual direction of movement of the scanning head or it may be a direction perpendicular to an orientation of an image projected onto a workpiece. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225975 | PRINTER FOR GENERATING AND PRINTING CODED TAGS - A printer for printing an interface is provided. The printer has a coded tag generator configured to generate coded tags based on identity data indicative of an identity associated with the interface and position data defining a relative position of each tag on the interface, and a printhead for printing the interface with the coded tags at the positions defined by the position data and having the identity data. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225976 | ORTHOGONALITY CORRECTIONS FOR DIFFERENT SCANNING DIRECTIONS - The present invention provides methods for forming an image with orthogonality corrected image data. A recording head includes a plurality of recording channels which form an image on media. Each recording channel forms an image pixel column. An image data file includes a plurality of image data columns. Different portions of each of a first image data column and a second image data column are assigned to different recording channels. First image data from a portion of the first image data column is substituted with zero image data and is assigned along with image data from another portion of the second image data column to a first recording channel which forms a first image pixel column. The first image data can also be assigned to a second recording channel which forms a second image pixel column. The second image data column is formed while scanning along a direction different than the scanning direction employed to form the first image pixel column. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225977 | Sheet feeding unit, image reading device including same, and image forming apparatus including the image reading device - A sheet feeding unit has a main body, a sheet stack portion attached to the main body to accommodate a stack of sheets, a sheet feeding device disposed substantially above the sheet stack portion to feed the sheet onward, movable between a sheet feeding position at which the sheet feeding device contacts the sheet and feeds the sheet onward and a separating position at which the sheet feeding device separates from the sheet and does not feed the sheet onward, a separation unit to separate the sheets, a restriction member disposed between the sheet feeding device and the separation unit and switchable between a sheet feeding state when the sheet feeding device is at the sheet feeding position and a sheet restriction state when the sheet feeding device is at the separation position, and a cover openably closable relative to the main body and constituted as an independent member. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225978 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus holds a job to be executed, scan processing performed by an operator in job execution, sheet registration, work content of sheet supply, working hours, information about a worker and the like, in association with a database. Further, the image forming apparatus transmits information about man-hours concerning registration work of sheet information held in the database, to a server. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225979 | ROTOR IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH VARIABLE-RATE PIXEL CLOCK - The technology disclosed relates to handling varying pixel overlaps long a first axis as a scanning head sweeps a curved path that is not parallel to the first axis. In particular, we teach use of a variable frequency pixel clock to produce equally spaced pixels along the first axis as a rotor arm scans a curved path that is not parallel to the first axis. The pixel clock has a varying frequency that varies approximately sinusoidally with the position of the scanning head relative to the first axis. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225980 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image processing device determines whether a total number of ancillary images based on input data is equal to a total number of document images extracted from acquired image data. When determining that the total number of the ancillary images is different from the total number of the document images, the image processing device makes an adjustment such that the total number of the ancillary images is equal to the total number of the document images. Based on the document images and the ancillary images after the adjustment, the image processing device generates set data each piece of which has a set of a document image and an ancillary image based on ancillary data identified as being associated with the document image. The image processing device outputs the set data generated. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225981 | IMAGING WITH HELICAL AND CIRCULAR SCANS - A method for forming an image includes providing a media support comprising a cylindrical surface adapted to receive media; providing a recording head adapted to scan over the media; providing image data representative of the image; operating the recording head to form a first portion of the image in accordance with a first portion of the image data while helically scanning over the media; and operating the recording head to form a second portion of the image in accordance with a second portion of the image data while circularly scanning over the media. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225982 | IMAGING WITH HELICAL AND CIRCULAR SCANS - A method for forming an image includes providing a media support adapted to receive media; providing a recording head comprising a plurality of recording channels, wherein each recording channel is adapted to form an image pixel column while scanning over the media; providing an image data file comprising one or more arrangements of image data columns; assigning first image data from a single image data column to a first recording channel of the recording head; operating the first recording channel to form a first image pixel column solely in accordance with the assigned first image data; assigning second image data from each image data column of a plurality of the image data columns to a second recording channel of the recording head; operating the second recording channel to form a second image pixel column in accordance with the assigned second image data; and operating the recording head to form the image. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225983 | Deep focus image reading system and image forming apparatus - An image reading system reads an image of an original document by conveying the original document through a fixed reading position along a platen glass. The image reading system includes a conveyance device that conveys the original document keeping a prescribed distance from the platen glass at the reading position. The contact glass is arranged outside a depth of focus at the reading position. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225984 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: a first determination unit that determines whether each of an image regions is for a vector image; a color number counting unit that counts the number of colors in the pixels of high-resolution image data; a frequency counting unit that counts a number of times where the difference between the colors of each of the pixels in the high-resolution image data and the colors of at least one pixel located around each of those pixels is greater than or equal to a threshold; a second determination unit that determines that the image region is not an image region for a vector image; and a generation unit that generates image data in which a process for rendering images in the image regions determined by the first determination unit to be image regions for vector images is defined by numerical values or numerical formulas. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225985 | REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A reproducing device including a light source that emits light for reproducing recorded information to a hologram recording medium subjected to recording of information by interference fringes of signal light and reference light, a light irradiating unit that generates the reference light for obtaining a reproduced image according to the recorded information and DC light having uniform intensity and phase, and irradiates the hologram recording medium with both the reference light and the DC light and with only the DC light, a light receiving unit that performs light-reception for the DC light and the reproduced image, and performs light-reception for the DC light, and a difference calculating unit that calculates a difference between an image signal obtained based on a light-reception result of the reproduced image and the DC light, and an image signal obtained based on a light-reception result of the DC light. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225986 | Display Device with an Active Matrix of Electrowetting Cells - The invention relates to an active matrix with data driver circuit and selection driver circuit, where the active matrix is electrically connected with the driver circuits and where it comprises electrowetting cells (EW cells) arranged in rows and columns. An EW cell comprises at least two electrodes, which are connected through at least one transistor with data lines and row lines of the driver circuits. The electrodes which are provided for controlling the EW cell are connected with the same data line and with two different control lines, where the selection driver circuit simultaneously activates the transistors which are connected with the individual selection lines by control signals and where it connects the electrodes of the respective EW cell locally so to achieve a medium voltage value. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225987 | METHODS FOR FORMING MAGNETICALLY MODIFIED ELECTRODES AND ARTICLES PRODUCED THEREBY - The present invention is directed to methods for making magnetically modified electrodes and electrodes made according to the method. Such electrode are useful as electrodes in batteries, such as Ni-MH batteries, Ni—Cd batteries, Ni—Zn batteries and Ni—Fe batteries. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225988 | Solar Heat Responsive Exterior Surface Covering - An exterior surface covering has a colored outer layer that transmits infrared radiation and an inner layer with a thermochromic pigment that absorbs heat at low temperature and reflects at high temperatures. The outer layer conceals the color change of the thermochromic pigment. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225989 | PHASE CHANGE DEVICE - A phase change material is applied as a very thin film to a transparent substrate such as glass, which material when switched from the amorphous to the crystalline state and back again can affect the reflectivity/transmittance of the combined substrate-coating system. When used with glass panels in the fabrication of relatively large area window glass, the change in spectrally selective transmittance can be used to modulate the amount of sunlight passing through the glass, and thus reduce the amount of cooling required for an interior space in the summertime, and the amount of heating required of that same interior space in the wintertime, while also optimizing the use of visible daylight. Exemplary of a suitable phase change material for glass coating is GeSb or BiSn. Heating of the phase change material to initiate a change in phase can be provided by the application of electric energy, such as supplied from a pulsed power supply, or radiant energy, such as from a laser. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225990 | MICRO THIN-FILM STRUCTURE, MEMS SWITCH EMPLOYING SUCH A MICRO THIN-FILM, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THEM - A micro thin-film structure, a micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) switch, and methods of fabricating them. The micro thin-film structure includes at least two thin-films having different properties and laminated in sequence to form an upper layer and a lower layer, wherein an interface between the upper and lower layers is formed to be oriented to at least two directions. The micro thin film structure, and method of forming, may be applied to a movable electrode of an MEMS switch. The thin-film structure may be formed by forming through-holes in the lower layer, and depositing the upper layer in the form of being engaged in the through-holes. Alternatively, the thin-film structure may be made by forming prominence and depression parts on the top side of the lower layer and then depositing the upper layer on the top side of the lower layer having the prominence and depression parts. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225991 | MICRO THIN-FILM STRUCTURE, MEMS SWITCH EMPLOYING SUCH A MICRO THIN-FILM, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THEM - A micro thin-film structure, a micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) switch, and methods of fabricating them. The micro thin-film structure includes at least two thin-films having different properties and laminated in sequence to form an upper layer and a lower layer, wherein an interface between the upper and lower layers is formed to be oriented to at least two directions. The micro thin film structure, and method of forming, may be applied to a movable electrode of an MEMS switch. The thin-film structure may be formed by forming through-holes in the lower layer, and depositing the upper layer in the form of being engaged in the through-holes. Alternatively, the thin-film structure may be made by forming prominence and depression parts on the top side of the lower layer and then depositing the upper layer on the top side of the lower layer having the prominence and depression parts. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225992 | Oversized micro-mechanical light modulator with redundant elements, device and method - The present invention relates to a reconfigurable micro-mechanical light modulator including a two-dimensional array of modulating elements with redundant rows of modulating elements. In particular, it relates to extending the life of the modulator by shifting the set of elements used, without physically replacing the micro-mechanical light modulator. The modulating elements are adapted to modulate light impinging on the micro-mechanical light modulator. The array of modulating elements comprises a first and a second set of modulating elements. The second set is a redundant set of modulating elements that can be selected to substitute for the first set of modulating elements in modulating light impinging on the micro-mechanical light modulator, without physically replacing the micro-mechanical light modulator. Devices and methods are described. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225993 | LIGHT GUIDE UNIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A light guide unit includes a light guide plate and a plurality of light-exiting protrusions. The light guide plate includes a light-entering surface, an upper surface connected to the light-entering surface and a lower surface facing the upper surface. The light-exiting protrusions protrude from the upper surface of the light guide plate to have a cylindrical shape in which a cross-section size thereof increases in a direction away from the upper surface of the light guide plate, the light-exiting protrusions being disposed in a light control area which is turned on or off by a microelectromechanical system shutter. Light guided by the light guide unit to the light control area exits through the light-exiting protrusions. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225994 | MICROCAPSULE PATTERNING METHOD - Provided is a microcapsule patterning method for patterning electrophoretic microcapsules on a substrate, the method including the steps of: preparing a microcapsule slurry in which microcapsules and a water-soluble binder are mixed; putting the microcapsule slurry into a liquid ejector having injection and ejection ports formed therein; and applying the microcapsule slurry contained in the liquid ejector onto the substrate so as to pattern pixels using the microcapsules. Accordingly, specific patterns are formed without physical and chemical damage to the microcapsules. Therefore, the patterns can be used as pixels of flat panel displays. Further, through the patterning, it is possible to implement a color display device which does not exhibit performance degradation | 2010-09-09 |
20100225995 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAYS, AND COLOR FILTERS FOR USE THEREIN - A process for producing a color electro-optic display uses an electro-optic sub-assembly comprising an electro-optic layer and a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer. This sub-assembly is laminated to a backplane comprising a plurality of electrodes with the electro-optic layer disposed between the backplane and the electrically-conductive layer. A flowable material is placed over the sub-assembly and a color filter array is placed over the electrically-conductive layer and aligned with the electrodes of the backplane to form the color electro-optic display. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225996 | Display Device - A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a partition element disposed between the first and the second substrates, a dielectric liquid and a plurality of dielectrophoretic particles. The first substrate includes a base having surface and an electrode layer being disposed on the surface and having at least one electrode. The partition element forms at least one accommodating room between the first and the second substrates. The electrode is adapted to forming an electric field in the accommodating room. A plurality of sections of the electrode parallel to the surface are gradually reduced in a direction towards the second substrate. The dielectric liquid is disposed in the accommodating room and has a first dielectric constant. The dielectrophoretic particles are dispersed in the dielectric liquid. Each of the dielectrophoretic particles has a color and a second dielectric constant different from the first dielectric constant. | 2010-09-09 |
20100225997 | WHITE PARTICLES FOR DISPLAY, PARTICLE DISPERSION FOR DISPLAY, DISPLAY MEDIUM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - White particles for display including first white particles that move in response to an electric field and second white particles that do not move in response to an electric field, the second white particles having a volume average particle size that is less than that of the first white particles, and a ratio of the numerical amount of the first white particles/the second white particles (L/S) satisfying the following relationship: 1/(5.1×10 | 2010-09-09 |
20100225998 | PARTICLES FOR DISPLAY, PARTICLE DISPERSION FOR DISPLAY, DISPLAY MEDIUM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Particles for display including color particles and a silicone polymer attached to a surface of the color particles, the silicone polymer including, as copolymerization components, a first silicone chain component, a second silicone component including a silicone chain that is shorter than a silicone chain of the first silicone component, and a component including a charging group | 2010-09-09 |
20100225999 | LUMINANCE ENHANCEMENT STRUCTURE FOR REFLECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICES - The present invention is directed to luminance enhancement structures for reflective display devices. The structure comprises columns and grooves, wherein each of said grooves has a cross-section comprising an apex angle and two edge lines. The structure increases the overall reflectance by reducing the total internal reflection, and as a result, the brightness of a display device is increased. | 2010-09-09 |
20100226000 | OPTICAL PROPERTY ALTERING APPARATUS - An optical property altering apparatus includes an optical property altering element formed by inductors that are smaller than a wavelength of visible light, mutually connected by connecting lines, and arranged in a single plane; a photoconductor that is excited by incident light and generates alternating current of a frequency identical to that of the incident light; and an amplifying circuit that amplifies the alternating current generated by the photoconductor and supplies the amplified alternating current to the optical property altering element, where the optical property altering element, through supply of the alternating current from the amplifying circuit, arbitrarily alters a refractive index of the incident light. | 2010-09-09 |
20100226001 | WAVELENGTH CONVERSION DEVICES AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A wavelength conversion device | 2010-09-09 |
20100226002 | WAVELENGTH CONVERTING DEVICES - A harmonic wave oscillating device | 2010-09-09 |
20100226003 | Optical parametric oscillator with achromatic phase-maintaining pump return - The invention applies to doubly resonant optical parametric oscillators comprising a non-linear crystal ( | 2010-09-09 |
20100226004 | Optical Article and Method for Producing the Same - A method for producing an optical article having a filter layer formed directly or with another layer in between on an optical substrate, the filter layer transmitting light in a predetermined wavelength band and blocking light with a wavelength longer and/or shorter than the predetermined wavelength band, includes: forming a first layer to be included in the filter layer, and adding at least one of carbon, silicon, and germanium to the surface of the first layer, thereby reducing the resistance of the surface of the first layer. | 2010-09-09 |
20100226005 | Optical Article and Process for Producing the Same - A process for producing an optical article having an antireflection layer formed directly or via another layer on a flexible optical base material, includes: forming a primary layer contained in the antireflection layer; and adding at least any one of carbon, silicon, and germanium to a surface of the primary layer to reduce a resistance. | 2010-09-09 |
20100226006 | ACRYLIC CIRCULAR POLARIZATION 3D LENS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME - A 3D circular polarization apparatus comprises first and second acrylic layers, a quarter wave layer positioned between the first and second acrylic layers, and a linear polarizer layer adjacent to the quarter wave layer and positioned between the first and second acrylic layers. The 3D polarization apparatus may be produced by adhering a first acrylic layer to a first surface of a quarter wave layer, adhering a second surface of the quarter wave layer to a first surface of a linear polarizer layer, and adhering a second surface of the linear polarizer layer to a second acrylic layer to form the 3D polarization apparatus. | 2010-09-09 |
20100226007 | POLARIZATION COMPONENT, POLARIZATION LIGHT SOURCE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A polarization component, capable of efficiently reflecting an obliquely transmitted light beam toward a light source without degrading the transmission-polarization property of a perpendicular incident light beam, is provided. A C-plate having an oblique retardation of at least λ/8 with respect to a light beam inclined by at least 30° is disposed between at least two reflective circular polarizer layers whose selective reflection wavelength bands of polarized light overlapping each other. A combination of a reflective linear polarizer and a quarter wavelength plate may be used instead of the reflective circular polarizer. Alternatively, a combination of two reflective linear polarizer layers and two quarter wavelength plate layers (Nz≧2) disposed therebetween can provide a similar effect. Further, a combination of two reflective linear polarizer layers and a half wavelength plate (Nz≧1.5) disposed therebetween may be used. When reflective linear polarizer layers are used, they must be bonded together with their axial directions set at a certain angle. The polarization component is preferably used in various image display apparatuses such as liquid crystal display apparatuses and organic EL display apparatuses. | 2010-09-09 |