40th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 32 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110242447 | OBLIQUE VAPOR DEPOSITION SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE, AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - An oblique vapor deposition substrate having an oblique vapor deposition layer formed thereon is provided, wherein a plurality of pixel sections is arranged in a matrix of intersected straight lines of two directions with each pixel section being spaced apart from each other, and has been relatively rotated in a plane of the oblique vapor deposition substrate taking into consideration the distribution of the vapor deposition directions in the oblique vapor deposition layer. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242448 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is a thin liquid crystal display device where it is easy to position the flexible printed circuit on which light emitting diodes are mounted. In the liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display panel and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) that is connected to the liquid crystal display panel and supplies power for driving display pixels, light emitting diodes (LED) are mounted on a portion of the flexible printed circuit, a mold frame MFR is provided to contain the light emitting diodes, and through holes ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110242449 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a white light source, a liquid crystal display panel, and an electrochromic unit. The white light source has a light exiting plane, and the liquid crystal display panel is disposed on the light exiting plane of the white light source. Additionally, the electrochromic unit is disposed on the light exiting plane of the white light source, wherein the electrochromic unit displays different colors in sequence. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242450 | LED Package and LED Package Mounting Structure - A highly reliable LED package mounting structure which can realize improvement in solder fatigue life at low costs is provided. An LED package has a light-emitting surface which is perpendicular to a mounting surface of a circuit board, comprises connection terminal portions on the side face or on the side face and the bottom face of the package, and is joined with the circuit board by soldering via the connection terminal portion. Furthermore, the shape of the solder is optimized by defining the relative position relation between the end of an electrode on the central side of the LED package on the bottom face of an LED package body and the end of a component mounting pad on the circuit board. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242451 | Beam Multiplier for Multi-LED Lighting Assemblies - A beam multiplier operates on lighting assemblies using light emitting diodes (LED) to make their appearance and their illumination field more uniform. It uses holographic structures to multiply the number of light beams emitted by the LEDs. Fixed or switched holographic structures can be used in the construction of beam multipliers. Beam multipliers with electrically switched holographic structures fabricated of liquid crystal materials provide lighting assemblies with selectable static or dynamic modes of operation such as beam widening and sharpening modes, color changing modes and scanning modes. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242452 | TRANSFLECTIVE LCD DEVICE - A transflective LCD device includes an array substrate and a color filter. The substrate includes a plurality gate lines, a plurality of common lines, and a plurality of data lines substantially crossing the gate lines to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions. Each sub-pixel region has a reflective area and a transmissive area. Two of the reflective area of two adjacent sub-pixel regions in the same column are juxtaposed to each other. The color filter has a plurality of sub-pixel regions respectively aligned with the sub-pixel regions of the array substrate. The color filter includes an insulating layer disposed on the reflective area of a respective sub-pixel region. An LC layer is disposed between the array substrate and the color filter. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242453 | LIGHT DEVICES, DISPLAY DEVICES, BACKLIGHTING DEVICES, EDGE-LIGHTING DEVICES, COMBINATION BACKLIGHTING AND EDGE-LIGHTING DEVICES - In some embodiments, an LCD device comprising (1) liquid crystals, (2) at least one lighting device that emits BSY-1, BSY-2, BSR, BSG-1, BSG-2 and/or BSG-3 light, (3) solid state light emitters (430-480 nm) and luminescent material (555-585 nm, 595-625 nm, or 510-560 nm), and/or (4) a light guide, a reflector and/or a light polarizer. In some embodiments, a light device comprising (1) at least one lighting device that emits BSY-1, BSY-2, BSR, BSG-1, BSG-2 and/or BSG-3 light, (2) a light guide, a reflector and/or a light polarizer, and/or (3) solid state light emitters (430-480 nm) and luminescent material (555-585 nm, 595-625 nm, or 510-560 nm). | 2011-10-06 |
20110242454 | REFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a reflective liquid crystal display apparatus which includes a polarization beam splitter having a polarization split film used as both a polarizer and an analyzer; a reflective liquid crystal display device; a quarter wave plate; and a projection optical system; where the absolute value of phase difference of diffracted light generated by the reflective liquid crystal display device in a black display state is reduced by the phase difference of the quarter wave plate, and thus the amount of stray light of the diffracted light guided from the polarizing beam splitter to the projection optical system decreases. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242455 | REFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a reflective liquid crystal display apparatus which includes a polarization beam splitter having a polarization split film used as both a polarizer and an analyzer; a reflective liquid crystal display device; a quarter wave plate; and a projection optical system; where the absolute value of phase difference of diffracted light generated by the reflective liquid crystal display device in a black display state is reduced by the phase difference of the quarter wave plate, and thus the amount of stray light of the diffracted light guided from the polarizing beam splitter to the projection optical system decreases. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242456 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display unit and a drive circuit. The display unit includes a first display region to display a first image and a second display region to display a second image. The display unit includes a first support substrate, a second support substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The second support substrate is disposed to oppose the first support substrate. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first support substrate and the second support substrate and is held by the first support substrate and the second support substrate. The drive circuit drives the display unit. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242457 | COMPOSITE COLOR SEPARATION SYSTEM - A composite color separation system, comprises: a light control module, a light guide module and a light splitting module. The light control module has a lighting unit and a lens unit, in which the lighting unit includes an array of lighting elements whereas there are at least two types of lighting elements in the array for emitting at least two beams of different wavelengths. The light from the lighting unit is directed to enter the lens unit before being discharged out of the light control module. The light guide module comprises: a first light incident surface, for receiving the beams from the light control module; a first light emergence surface; and a light guide structure, for guiding the beams to the first light emergence surface where they are discharged out of the light guide module to the light splitting module. The light splitting module is used for splitting the beams. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242458 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device, including: alight guide plate; first light-emitting diodes and a first connector, which are opposed to a first side surface of the light guide plate; a first substrate on which the first light-emitting diodes and the first connector are mounted; second light-emitting diodes and a second connector, which are opposed to a second side surface of the light guide plate, the second side surface being on a side opposite to the first side surface; and a second substrate on which the second light-emitting diodes and the second connector are mounted, in which: the first connector is opposed to any one of the second light-emitting diodes; the second connector is opposed to any one of the first light-emitting diodes; and the first connector and the second connector are disposed without being opposed to each other. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242459 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate at intervals with each other, and a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and configured to include a vertical alignment liquid crystal. When the interval between the pixel electrodes adjacent to each other is s [μm], the thickness of the liquid crystal layer is d [μm] and the pretilt angle of the vertical alignment liquid crystal is θ[°], a relation equation −1.6×s/d+4.4≦θ≦−2.6×s/d+5.6 is satisfied. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242460 | CELLULOSE ACYLATE FILM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, RETARDATION FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A cellulose acylate film containing a polymer having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (1) and a cellulose acylate. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242461 | Polarization-Independent Liquid Crystal Display Devices Including Multiple Polarization Grating Arrangements and Related Devices - A liquid crystal device includes a first polarization grating ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110242462 | POLARIZING PLATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A polarizing plate for a liquid crystal display is provided and includes a first protective film, a polarizer, a second protective film and a light diffusion layer in order. The light diffusion layer is a layer including a translucent resin and translucent particles having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the translucent resin. The internal haze of the light diffusion layer is 45% to 80%. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242463 | OPTICAL FILTER FOR REDUCING COLOR SHIFT IN A DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical filter for reducing color shift in a display device includes a background layer made of a light-transmitting material and a light-diffusing pattern formed over the background layer to diffuse light. The light-diffusing pattern is a thin film coating applied along the cross section of the background layer in the depth direction thereof. The light-diffusing pattern is a self-assembled thin film in which the light-diffusing particles are self-assembled. A method of manufacturing the optical filter includes forming a concave-convex pattern layer made of a first light-transmitting material and having a concave-convex pattern, and forming the light-diffusing pattern along the sidewall surface of the concave section of the concave-convex pattern. After the light-diffusing pattern is formed, the concave section is filled with a second light-transmitting material, and the light-diffusing particles are removed from the upper surface of the convex section. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242464 | INSULATED GATE TRANSISTOR, ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - According to the insulated gate transistor, a gate electrode ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110242465 | Display panel including a soft key - A display panel includes a transparent substrate, a picture region, a black matrix region around the picture region, and a soft key region, a black matrix formed in the black matrix region on one side of the transparent substrate and having a first opening in the soft key region, and an overcoating layer on the transparent substrate including the black matrix, wherein a soft key is implemented in the soft key region by disposing a light source under the first opening of the black matrix. When the display panel is a touch screen panel, conductive sensing cells in the picture region and position detection lines in the black matrix region are included. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242466 | THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a display device that provides a first observation region with a first picture and provides a second observation region with a second picture, a double image made of the first picture and the second picture is suppressed. First columns of pixels that display the first picture and second columns of pixels that display the second picture are disposed alternately with a black matrix interposed between each neighboring pair of them. A light-shielding plate having light-shielding portions and openings is disposed above the panel. When a distance between the first observation region and the second observation region is denoted by V, a distance between the first observation region or the second observation region and the light-shielding plate is denoted by D, a distance between the light-shielding plate and the display panel is denoted by G, an interval of the first columns of pixels or the second columns of pixels is denoted by P, and the width of the black matrix is denoted by Q, an equation K≦Q×D/(D+G) is satisfied. The openings are disposed on lines connecting between a position directly above a center of the display panel and the black matrix. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242467 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a display panel including a display surface and a peripheral area surrounding the display surface, a transparent plate covering the display surface and the peripheral area, a resin layer disposed between the display panel and the transparent plate, and hardened by light, and a reflective layer provided between the transparent plate and the resin layer, along the peripheral area of the display panel. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242468 | PIXEL ELECTRODE PANEL, A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL ASSEMBLY AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display panel, including: a pixel electrode formed on a first substrate; an alignment layer formed on the pixel electrode, wherein the alignment layer includes an alignment layer material and aligns first liquid crystal molecules in a direction substantially perpendicular to the pixel electrode; and a photo hardening layer formed on the alignment layer, wherein the photo hardening layer includes a photo hardening layer material and aligns second liquid crystal molecules to be tilted with respect to the pixel electrode, wherein the alignment layer material and the photo hardening layer material have different polarities from each other. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242469 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer held between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a first insulating substrate, and a pixel electrode and a counter electrode formed on the first insulating substrate. The second substrate includes a second insulating substrate. A first light shield layer is formed on a surface of the second insulating substrate apart from an end of the second insulating substrate opposing to the first substrate, and having a frame portion in a frame shape. Furthermore, a second light shield layer is arranged adjoining the first light shield layer extending up to the end of the second insulating substrate opposing to the first substrate. A third light shield layer to shield light is provided between the first light shield layer and second light shield layer. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242470 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electro-optical device includes: a pixel electrode provided on a substrate; a transistor being provided between the substrate and the pixel electrodes; and a holding capacitor, provided between the pixel electrode and the transistor, configured of a first electrode, a second electrode provided opposing the first electrode via a first capacitor insulation film, and a third electrode provided opposing the first electrode via a second capacitor insulation film. Both the first capacitor insulation film and the second capacitor insulation film have multiple layers; the first capacitor insulation film and the second electrode are formed symmetrical to the second capacitor insulation film and the third electrode when viewed from the first electrode. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242471 | Liquid crystal display device - A liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and liquid crystal interposed between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes an active element, a first insulating film formed on the active element, a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first insulating film, a second insulating film disposed on the first electrodes, and a pixel electrode disposed on the second insulating film. The pixel electrode is electrically coupled to the active element via a portion defining a contact hole formed in a portion defining a clearance between the plurality of first electrodes. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242472 | ELECTROOPTIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electrooptic device includes a first substrate, a second substrate which is arranged so as to be opposed to the first substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes which are provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, a dielectric multilayer film which is formed so as to cover the plurality of pixel electrodes and in which a plurality of dielectric layers are laminated, and a sealing member which is arranged around a pixel region on which the plurality of pixel electrodes are provided and bonds the first substrate and the second substrate to each other. In the electrooptic device, at least one dielectric layer of the plurality of dielectric layers is formed so as not to overlap with a sealing region on the first substrate, on which the sealing member is arranged. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242473 | OPTICALLY ISOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL MEDIUM AND OPTICAL DEVICE - A liquid crystal medium, which has a liquid crystal phase over a wide temperature range, a large refractive index anisotropy, and a large dielectric anisotropy, and exhibits an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase, is provided. The liquid crystal medium is characterized by containing a liquid crystal compound having four benzene rings and a difluoromethyleneoxy group, and a chiral reagent, and exhibiting an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242474 | Display device with sufficient adhesive strength for sealing material - A display device which can ensure a sufficient adhesive strength on an adhering surface between each of a pair of substrates of a liquid crystal display panel and a sealing material is provided. A display device includes: a first substrate on which a predetermined integrated circuit is formed; a second substrate which is arranged on one surface of the first substrate in an overlapping manner; and an adhesive material which is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and has an annular planar shape as viewed from the surface of the first substrate, the adhesive material being provided for adhering the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein an outer periphery of the adhesive material as viewed from the surface of the first substrate includes a zone which is constituted of a plurality of first portions passing substantially the same position as an outer periphery of the surface of the first substrate and a plurality of second portions each of which is connected with the two neighboring first portions and has a center portion thereof in a peripheral direction retracted toward an inner peripheral side of the adhesive material as viewed from the surface of the first substrate. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242475 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A liquid crystal device includes an element substrate on a surface of which a display element region is formed that includes a MOS-FET array circuit and an extension of a reflective electrode superposed on the MOS-FET array circuit; a counter substrate disposed so as to oppose the surface of the element substrate having the display element region, and including a transparent electrode formed on a surface opposing the element substrate; a seal member provided between the element substrate and the counter substrate in a loop shape so as to surround the display element region; and liquid crystal enclosed in the region surrounded by the seal member; and the seal member is not superposed on the extension of the reflective electrode in a region along an outer peripheral edge of the element substrate. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242476 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - Provided are a liquid crystal display panel in which the distance between substrates is maintained consistent inside and outside the sealing member border, which prevents cell thickness irregularity and ensures uniform display quality over the entire display region, and a liquid crystal display device including such a liquid crystal display panel. In the liquid crystal display panel, a thin film transistor substrate and an opposite substrate facing the thin film transistor substrate are bonded together with a sealing member, a liquid crystal layer is held inside the region bordered by the sealing member, and spacers are disposed inside and outside the region bordered by the sealing member. In the thin film transistor substrate, the thickness of the panel-constituting members disposed in regions overlapping the spacers is substantially the same inside and outside the region bordered by the sealing member. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242477 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - The liquid crystal display comprises a first substrate having a first electrode formed on one side, and a second substrate having a second electrode formed on one side and which is placed opposite to the first substrate so that the second electrode and the first electrode of the first substrate face each other. A liquid crystal layer is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode includes a plurality of first openings provided in a regular checkered pattern with each first opening having a shape extending in a first direction. The second electrode includes a plurality of second openings provided in a regular checkered pattern with each second opening having a shape extending in the first direction. The plurality of first openings and the plurality of second openings are relatively arranged so that each of the plurality of first openings is positioned between two second openings which are adjacent in a planar view among the plurality of second openings. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242478 | LIQUID CRYSTAL FILTER, RETARDATION FILM, AND OPTICAL LOW-PASS FILTER - A liquid crystal filter made of a plurality of region having different liquid crystal molecule arrangement directions has a problem that linear defects, which are visible at boundaries between different liquid crystal molecule arrangement directions, are captured by image capturing elements. Therefore, provided is a liquid crystal filter comprising a first region that includes liquid crystals arranged in a first direction; a second region that includes liquid crystals arranged in a second direction, which is different from the first direction; and a buffer region that is disposed between the first region and the second region, and includes liquid crystals arranged in an intermediate direction between the first direction and the second direction. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242479 | Eyeglasses - Eyeglasses, the eyeglasses defining substantially opposed lateral sides, the eyeglasses comprising: a pair of lenses provided in a substantially side-by-side relationship relative to each other between the eyeglasses lateral sides; a pair of connectors each provided substantially adjacent a respective one of the eyeglasses lateral sides; and a pair of side arms, each of the side arms being pivotally coupled to a respective one of the connectors so as to be pivotable in a side arm pivoting plane to a closed, an opened, an extended and a released configuration. In the closed configuration, the side arms are each substantially adjacent and substantially parallel to the lenses. In the opened configuration, the side arms extend substantially perpendicular to the lenses. In the released configuration, the side arms are located opposite to the lenses relatively to the connector and are substantially freely pivotable in the side arm pivoting plane. In the extended configuration, the side arms are between the opened and released configurations and are biased toward the opened configuration. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242480 | Adjustable Spectral Transmittance Eyewear - Embodiments of the present invention relate to eyewear having an electrically switchable spectral transmittance lens(es). The eyewear includes a lens driver that controls the variable spectral transmittance lens(es). The lens driver is functional to alter a duration of a spectral transmittance state based on a desired frequency and/or duty cycle of the spectral transmittance state. A user may provide an input indicating the desired level of difficulty provided by the eyewear, wherein the input may indicate that the frequency, the duty cycle, or a combination of the two should be changed. As a result of changing a perceived level of difficulty presented by the eyewear, a wearer of the eyewear may train his or her visual abilities to provide a competitive advantage | 2011-10-06 |
20110242481 | Wearing Condition Parameter Measurement Device for Spectacle Lens and Wearing Condition Parameter Measurement Method for Spectacle Lens - A wearing condition parameter measurement device for a spectacle lens adapted to measure a wearing condition parameter necessary for manufacturing spectacles includes a mirror having a mirror surface adapted to reflect the wearing condition of a wearer of the spectacle lens, an imaging camera adapted to simultaneously shoot the wearer and the mirror surface reflecting the wearer to obtain a shot image, and a calculation device adapted to calculate the wearing condition parameter based on the shot image obtained by the imaging camera. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242482 | System and Method for Determining and Predicting IOL Power in Situ - The present invention relates to a system and a method for determining the power of an artificial intraocular lens (IOL) in situ. The invention furthermore relates to a system and a method for predicting the optical outcome of IOL surgery. Use of the system may provide prevention, treatment, or amelioration of diseases and disorders affecting the lens of the eye and which may benefit from IOL surgery. Moreover, the invention relates to a computer-readable medium for implementing such a system on a computer. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242483 | REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT/DISPLAY/RECORD/PLAYBACK OF WAVEFRONT DATA FOR USE IN VISION CORRECTION PROCEDURES - One embodiment is an apparatus/system for providing feedback to a procedure. The apparatus includes a real time wavefront sensor for measuring the wavefront of an optical beam, a real time video camera for capturing a scene where the optical beam comes from, a computer for processing the captured wavefront data and synchronizing the data with the video and outputting the synchronized information to a display, and a display for simultaneously displaying the synchronized wavefront and video information. Another embodiment of the present invention is a method for providing feedback to a procedure. The method involves the steps of measuring the wavefront of an optical beam with a real time wavefront sensor; capturing a video of a scene from which the optical beam comes; processing the captured wavefront data and synchronizing it with the video; and simultaneously displaying the wavefront information with the video on the same display screen. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242484 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus for supporting imaging diagnosis of an eye is provided. A layer boundary of a retina region is detected from a tomographic image. A position where the detected layer boundary intersects with an upper or lower limit position of the image in the depth direction of the tomographic image is determined as a dividing position. The tomographic image is divided at the determined dividing position by a scan line in the depth direction of the tomographic image. Subsequently, whether the detection is a false detection is judged for each divided region. An average density value of the image outside the retina region according to the detected result is calculated for each divided region, and the detection in the divided region is judged to be a false detection if the average density value is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242485 | FLUORESCENCE IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD, FLUORESCENCE IMAGE ACQUISITION PROGRAM, AND FLUORESCENCE IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS - A fluorescence image acquisition method including: irradiating an eyeground with a short-pulse beam of light for exciting a fluorescent dye; setting the time point of emission of the light as a reference, measuring the intensities of luminescence of the fluorescent dye at two different times which are predetermined periods of time after the reference, determining the ratio between the intensities of luminescence at the two different times, and detecting the intensity of luminescence of the fluorescent dye having marked a target by using the ratio; and generating a fluorescence image of the fluorescent dye having marked the target, based on the results of detection by the detecting step. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242486 | AUTISM DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS - An autism diagnosis support apparatus | 2011-10-06 |
20110242487 | OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS - Provided is an optical tomographic imaging apparatus that can suppress variations of resolution, sensitivity, and the like and reduce the number of components for equalizing optical properties so that cost can be reduced, in a case of an OCT apparatus using a plurality of lights. The optical tomographic imaging apparatus for obtaining a tomographic image of an object includes an optical property adjusting unit for adjusting an optical property of at least one light of measurement lights, reference lights, and interference lights each comprised of a plurality of lights. The optical property adjusting unit is shared by each group including measurement lights having substantially the same distance from an optical axis of an irradiation optical system among the measurement lights comprised of a plurality of lights. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242488 | OPHTHALMIC MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - Provided is an ophthalmic measurement apparatus capable of quickly transferring from measurement of ocular characteristics of one eye to measurement of ocular characteristics of the other eye. An ophthalmic measurement apparatus | 2011-10-06 |
20110242489 | Apparatus for Determining Prescription for Reading Lenses for Eyes with Mild AMD - An apparatus is provided for finding and defining a prescription for reading glasses for an AMD patient whose Macula and Fovea are damaged enough that the patient has double vision, i.e. the patient sees two images of every object within the field of view of the Macula and Fovea. The apparatus positions reading lenses in various locations in front of the patient's eyes until the patient indicates that he/she now sees one image for each object in the field of view of the Macula and Fovea. The X-Y coordinates of the location of each lens axis in relation to the patient's visual axis are offset dimensions indicated for each eye by the apparatus and is thus the prescription for reading lenses. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242490 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes a liquid crystal light valve to which first image data and second image data are alternately written and a polarization switching device that has a plurality of switching areas and switches a polarization state between a first polarization state and a second polarization state for each of the switching areas. A boundary position between a switching area that provides the first polarization state and a switching area that provides the second polarization state moves in synchronization with a boundary position between an area where the first image data is written and an area where the second image data is written. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242491 | PROJECTOR OPTICAL SYSTEM - Disclosed is a projector optical system, the system including an illumination unit including illumination lenses illuminating light downwards, a display device receiving light illuminated from the illumination lenses to enable to realize an image, projection lenses downwardly projecting light emitted from the display device to a screen, and a field lens changing an optical angle of the light illuminated from the illumination lenses and emitting the light to the display device, and changing an optical angle by receiving an image light of the display device and emitting the light to the projection lenses. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242492 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY MODULE - A display module includes a plurality of light sources that emit light toward a display panel having a screen with a first aspect ratio. An image with a second aspect ratio different from the first aspect ratio is displayed in the first region and not in the second region, and one or more light sources corresponding to the second region are selectively turned off so that luminance of the first region is different from luminance of a second region. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242493 | PROJECTION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR PROJECTION SYSTEM, AND PROJECTION APPARATUS - The focus position of each projection apparatus is changed depending on the configuration state of a projection system comprising a plurality of projection apparatuses. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242494 | MULTI-PROJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING PROJECTOR IN MULTI-PROJECTION SYSTEM - A multi-projection system includes a first projector projecting a first image, a second projector projecting a second image , and an optical light blocking apparatus blocking part of an image light corresponding to the first image and part of an image light corresponding to the second image to adjust the brightness of a superimposed region. The installation positions of the first projector and the second projector are set in such a way that a tinge which appears in the first image and a tinge which appears in the second image are the same type of color in the superimposed region as a result of part of the image light being blocked by the optical light blocking apparatus. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242495 | LIGHT SOURCE MODULE AND PROJECTION APPARATUS - A light source module and a projection apparatus are provided. The light source module includes a first light-emitting device, a wavelength conversion device, a second light-emitting device and a light combination device. The first light-emitting device emits an exciting beam. The wavelength conversion device is disposed on a transmission path of the exciting beam, and converts the exciting beam into a first color beam. The wavelength conversion device is suitable for moving, so that the exciting beam illuminates into different positions of the wavelength conversion device at different time. The second light-emitting device emits a second color beam. Colors of the first color beam and the second color beam are different. The light combination device is disposed on transmission paths of the first color beam and the second color beam, and combines the first color beam and the second color beam. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242496 | PROJECTION IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection image display device has a plurality of light sources, a phosphor layer that emits light through excitation by at least any one of the light sources, an optical section, a temperature detector, a light-source intensity controller, an amplitude controller, a luminance controller. The optical section determines an optical path of light emitted from the light sources and the phosphor layer. The temperature detector directly or indirectly detects temperature of the phosphor layer or of the periphery of the phosphor layer. The light-source intensity controller controls intensity of an excitation light source that excites the phosphor layer. The amplitude controller controls the amplitude of a projection image signal. The luminance controller controls luminance of projection images by switching the light-source intensity controller and the amplitude controller according to a detected temperature. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242497 | LIGHT SOURCE SYSTEM AND PROJECTOR - There are provided a light source system which can suppress the deterioration of a luminescent material and a projector which can project a clear image. The light source system comprises a luminescent wheel, a driving unit for rotating the luminescent wheel, a light source for shining excitation light on to a luminescent material layer of the luminescent wheel, a light shining control unit for controlling an illumination timing of the light source, a light shining time integrating unit for integrating individual excitation light shining times to a plurality of predetermined divided areas of the luminescent wheel, an integrated light shining time storage unit for storing the individual light shining times to the predetermined divided areas, and a light shining range control unit for equalizing times over which excitation light is shone on to the plurality of predetermined divided areas of the luminescent wheel based on the individual excitation light shining times to the predetermined divided areas. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242498 | LASER PROJECTOR - A projector using coherent light as a light source includes: one or more coherent light sources emitting coherent light beams; a beam scanner which changes a direction of the coherent light beam; and a beam splitter which splits a beam into multiple segments and changes a phase of light of each split segment, the beam splitter being located in an optical path between the beam scanner and the coherent light source. This projector reduces speckle noises. The beam splitter includes a pair of transparent substrates; a plurality of parallel electrodes disposed on each surface of the pair of transparent substrates, the pair of the parallel electrodes being disposed in a perpendicular direction to each other. Voltages are applied to the respective electrodes at predetermined time intervals so as to produce different potentials in a liquid crystal sandwiched by the transparent substrates. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242499 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PROJECTOR - A liquid crystal projector includes a light modulating device, a cooling device, a dehumidification device, and a housing. The light modulating device forms an optical image by modulating light flux emitted from a light source based on image information. The cooling device cools air to be supplied to the light modulating device. The dehumidification device dehumidifies and dries air to be supplied to the corresponding cooling device. The housing includes a cooling medium flow path for circulating air among the light modulating device, the cooling device, and the dehumidification device. The cooling device includes a thermoelectric conversion material interposed between a pair of heat transmission plates arranged to face each other. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242500 | PROJECTOR - A projector includes: a cooling device which supplies cooling air to a cooling target, wherein the cooling device includes a plurality of cooling fans each of which discharges cooling air, and a plurality of ducts each one end of which is connected with the corresponding one of the plural cooling fans to introduce the cooling air toward the cooling target in directions different from each other, and the plural ducts communicate with each other at the other end and have an outlet port through which the cooling air flows out. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242501 | PORTABLE AND TRANSPORTABLE 2-D AND 3-D DISPLAY SYSTEM - A portable projection system comprises a first and second vertical member including at least one hinged point for folding the first and second vertical member into at least two separate portions. A first and second horizontal member connected with the first and second vertical members includes at least one hinged point for folding the first and second horizontal member into at least two separate portions. At least one base member pivots between a first position parallel to the first or second vertical member and a second position perpendicular to the first or second vertical member. First and second mounting members of a projector mounting assembly include at least one hinged point for folding the first and second mounting members into at least two separate portions. A projector mounting assembly mounting bracket pivotally connects the first and second mounting members with the first horizontal member. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242502 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - A projector is provided which can reduce power consumption while preventing the deterioration of a luminescent material by heat by controlling a luminescent wheel to rotate or stop rotating. The projector of the invention includes a light source unit having an excitation light source, a luminescent wheel on which a luminescent material layer is laid circumferentially which becomes luminous using light emitted from the excitation light source as excitation light and a wheel motor for driving the luminescent wheel, a display device, a light guiding optical system which guides light emitted from the light source unit to the display device, a projection side optical system which projects projection light generated in the display device, and a motor control part which determines whether to stop or drive the wheel motor in such a state that excitation light is shone on to the luminescent material layer by the excitation light source. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242503 | Projection Device and Projection Light Source Control Method Thereof - A projection device and a projection light source control method thereof are disclosed. The project device comprises a signal detection module, a projector lamp, and a lamp driver module. The signal detection module is for determining whether an image signal is inputted, executing the normal mode upon determination of the image signal, and executing the power saving mode upon determination of no image signal. The projector lamp is used for emitting a projection light source. The lamp driver module is used for controlling an input voltage inputted to the project lamp. When the power saving mode is executed, the lamp driver module is used for controlling the input voltage to decrease the brightness of the projector lamp and controlling the brightness of the projector lamp to generate a fade-in brightness and a fade-out brightness periodically cycling between a minimum is brightness setting and a maximum brightness setting. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242504 | Rear Projection System - The present disclosure generally relates to a rear projection system. The rear projection system may include a housing assembly configured to house at least a portion of a speaker system. The housing assembly may include a multi-function panel that is at least partially optically transmissive and includes an acoustically transparent portion. The rear projection system may further include a rear projection device positioned within the housing assembly and | 2011-10-06 |
20110242505 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - A light source device includes an arc tube having a tube spherical portion containing a light emission portion and a pair of sealing portions, a reflector and a sub mirror having a reflecting portion and a fixing portion. The reflector is so shaped that at least an end on one side is removed in a cross-sectional view cut along a predetermined plane containing a revolution center axis. The fixing portion of the sub mirror is so constructed as to cover at least the sealing portion as one of the pair of the sealing portions of the arc tube through an area larger than the half of the outer circumference of the sealing portion. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242506 | PROJECTION APPARATUS - A projection apparatus comprising a projection unit provided with an optical system that projects an image, a housing that houses the projection unit, a first surface, provided at the housing, that functions as a distance reference surface that defines a distance from a projection window that the housing is provided with to a projection surface that projects the image and as a first placement surface used when setting the housing, and a second surface, provided at the housing, that perpendicularly intersects the first surface and functions as a second placement surface when setting the housing is provided. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242507 | SPORTS PROJECTION SYSTEM - A method of facilitating athletic training is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of projecting an image downwardly on a surface. The projected image displays a plurality of indicia including at least one position indicia corresponding to a participant of an athletic activity and at least one reference indicia at least partially spaced from the at least one position indicia. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242508 | INTERFACE SYSTEM - An interface system includes: a first transfer chamber having a closable first transfer opening through which a substrate is transferred between the first transfer chamber and an exposure system and capable of being evacuated to a reduced pressure; a plurality of load-lock chambers each having a second transfer opening through which a substrate is transferred between the load-lock chamber and the first transfer chamber, and a third transfer opening through which a substrate is transferred between the load-lock chamber and the coating and developing system; a plurality of heating modules for heating a substrate, each having a fifth transfer opening through which a substrate is transferred between the same heating module; and a plurality of cooling modules for cooling a substrate, each having a sixth transfer opening through which a substrate is transferred between the same cooling module and the second transfer chamber. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242509 | POSITION DETECTING METHOD - A method detects a position of a mark based on an image signal of the mark. The method includes steps of obtaining a first position of the mark by performing a first process for the image signal, extracting plural feature values from the image signal based on the first position, and detecting the position of the mark by obtaining an offset value for the first position based on the plural feature values. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242510 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM, SUBSTRATE SURFACE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE SURFACE INSPECTING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE SURFACE INSPECTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD - A substrate processing system which enables a minute piece of foreign matter attached to a substrate surface to be detected and are suitable for mass production of substrates. The substrate processing system has a substrate processing apparatus that carries out predetermined processing on a substrate. The substrate processing system comprises a substrate surface processing apparatus having a fluid supply unit that supplies onto a surface of the substrate a fluid containing an altering substance that alters a substance exposed at the surface of the substrate, and a substrate surface inspecting apparatus that inspects the surface of the substrate onto which the fluid has been supplied. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242511 | Apparatus and methods for inhibiting immersion liquid from flowing below a sustrate - A substrate stage is provided with an immersion liquid collection member that surrounds at least an alignment feature of the substrate stage used to align the substrate on the stage by engaging alignment structure of the substrate. The collection member is located at least partly below the periphery of the substrate held by the substrate holding member of the substrate stage. The collection member has an uppermost liquid-receiving surface that preferably is spaced below a lowermost surface of the substrate when the substrate is held by the substrate holding member. The collection member collects liquid that flows along the alignment feature so as to prevent that immersion liquid from flowing along the under-surface of the substrate. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242512 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Embodiments of a drain in a lithographic projection apparatus are described that have, for example, a feature which reduces inflow of gas into the drain during a period when no liquid is present in the drain. In one example, a passive liquid removal mechanism is provided such that the pressure of gas in the drain is equal to the ambient gas pressure and in another embodiment a flap is provided to close off a chamber during times when no liquid needs removing. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242513 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A processing temperature of thermal processing is corrected based on measurement of a first dimension of a resist pattern on a substrate from a previously obtained relation between a dimension of a resist pattern and a temperature of thermal processing, a second dimension of the resist pattern after thermal processing is performed at the corrected processing temperature is measured, a distribution within the substrate of the second dimension is classified into a linear component expressed by an approximated curved surface and a nonlinear component, a processing condition of exposure processing is corrected based on the linear component from a previously obtained relation between a dimension of a resist pattern and a processing condition of exposure processing, and thermal processing at the processing temperature corrected in a temperature correcting step and exposure processing under the processing condition corrected in an exposure condition correcting step are performed to form a predetermined pattern. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242514 | 1.5D SLM FOR LITHOGRAPHY - This invention relates to an improved micro lithographic writer that sweeps a modulated pattern across the surface of a workpiece. The SLM disclosed works in a diffractive mode with a continuous or quasi-continuous radiation source. It uses a long and narrow SLM and takes advantage of diffractive effects along the narrow axis of the SLM to improve writing characteristics along that axis. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242515 | EUV collector system with enhanced EUV radiation collection - A collector system for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation includes a collector mirror and a radiation-collection enhancement device (RCED) arranged adjacent an aperture member of an illuminator. The collector mirror directs EUV radiation from an EUV radiation source towards the aperture member. The RCED redirects a portion of the EUV radiation that would not otherwise pass through the aperture of the aperture member or that would not have an optimum angular distribution, to pass through the aperture and to have an improved angular distribution better suited to input specifications of an illuminator. This provides the illuminator with greater amount of useable EUV radiation than would otherwise be available from the collector mirror alone, thereby enhancing the performing of an EUV lithography system that uses such a collector system with a RCED. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242516 | Lithographic Apparatus, a Radiation System, a Device Manufacturing Method and a Radiation Generating Method - A lithographic apparatus includes a radiation system for providing a beam of radiation from radiation emitted by a radiation source. The radiation system includes a contaminant trap for trapping material emanating from the radiation source. The rotation contaminant trap includes a multiple number of elements extending in a radial direction from a common rotation trap axis and being arranged for allowing contaminant material emanating from the radiation source to deposit during propagation of the radiation beam in the radiation system. The radiation system further includes a contaminant catch for receiving contaminant material particles from the rotation trap elements, the contaminant catch having a constitution, during operation of the radiation, for retaining said contaminant material particles. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242517 | PROJECTION EXPOSURE SYSTEM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MICRO-STRUCTURED STRUCTURAL MEMBER BY THE AID OF SUCH A PROJECTION EXPOSURE SYSTEM AND POLARIZATION-OPTICAL ELEMENT ADAPTED FOR USE IN SUCH A SYSTEM - The invention relates to a projection exposure system, in particular for micro-lithography. The projection exposure system according to the invention comprises a light source for producing light in the EUV region. The projection exposure system further comprises a first optical system for illuminating a mask by the light of the light source and a second optical system for imaging the mask on a component. At least one polarization-optical element is disposed on the beam path between the light source and the component. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242518 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND SUBSTRATE EXCHANGING METHOD - A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam; a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam; at least three substrate tables that are each constructed to hold a substrate; and a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, wherein the substrate tables are moveable in a common moving area extending substantially in a plane perpendicular to the patterned radiation beam, the moving area comprising at least three working locations of which at least one working location is arranged for exposure of the substrate to the patterned radiation beam and at least one working location is arranged for non-exposure purposes. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242519 | Device for mounting a grating and a photosensitive material for stereoprojection imaging - A device for mounting a grating and a photosensitive material for stereoprojection imaging, includes: an enlarging-printing platform; and an exposure head positioned above the enlarging-printing platform; wherein the enlarging-printing platform is a chamber structure, and has a plurality of suction holes provided on an upper surface thereof and at least one exhaust port provided on a side connected with an exhaust device; the device for mounting the grating and the photosensitive material for stereoprojection imaging further includes a compressing mechanism connected with the upper surface. The device for mounting the grating and the photosensitive material provides a real-time composite device for developing stereopictures. With the mounting device, the grating and photosensitive photographic paper need either being combined beforehand, or being developed with the grating after exposure. Therefore, the drawback of high crimp ratio of the grating, high difficulty of developing, bad stereoimaging effect, and high cost is overcome. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242520 | OPTICAL PROPERTIES MEASUREMENT METHOD, EXPOSURE METHOD AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An image of a pattern used for measurement formed on a reticle for testing is transferred onto a wafer for testing via a projection optical system, while gradually changing a position in an optical axis direction of the projection optical system. The image of the pattern used for measurement which has been transferred is detected, and an amount corresponding to an expanse of the image of the pattern in a measurement direction is obtained. In this case, four images included in the image of the pattern used for measurement are detected in detection areas, respectively, or in other words, remaining sections except for both ends in a non-measurement direction are detected, and for example, area of the remaining sections is to be obtained as the corresponding amount. Optical properties of the projection optical system are to be obtained, based on the area which has been obtained. Because the area which has been obtained does not have sensitivity to the non-measurement direction, the optical properties of the projection optical system in the measurement direction can be precisely obtained. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL TREES IN LIDAR DATA USING LOCAL VIEW - A method and apparatus for identifying individual trees and its canopy shape in LiDAR data determines if the view of each LiDAR data point is blocked by one or more neighboring LiDAR data points. LiDAR data points that do not have neighboring LiDAR data points that block the view are considered to be a central part of a tree canopy. In one embodiment, those LiDAR data points that are central part of a canopy are added to an output file that stores clusters of data points for each canopy detected. The central part of the canopy area can be analyzed to predict one or more characteristics of the tree. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242522 | DETERMINING DISTANCE BETWEEN NODES - A first node in a wireless network transmits a periodic pilot signal to a second node. The second node receives the periodic pilot signal and retransmits the signal back to the first node. The retransmitted pilot signal includes a phase adjustment in view of an internal processing delay at the second node. The phase adjustment involves matching a phase of the retransmitted pilot signal to a phase of the received pilot signal. The first node measures a roundtrip delay of the pilot signal and the distance between the nodes is computed based at least on the measured roundtrip delay. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242523 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM IN WATER - Disclosed and claimed herein is an apparatus and method for measuring hexavalent chromium in water samples using a colorimetric method. The apparatus includes a means for correcting interference due to sample turbidity. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242524 | FLAT SURFACE INSPECTION APPARATUS - An object is to provide a flat surface inspection apparatus that can prevent sliders from being damaged and detect micro defects. A flat surface inspection apparatus includes: a measured subject; a stage that supports the measured subject; a spindle that rotates the stage; a first part having light sources applying light beam onto the measured subject, a scattered-light-detecting section, a signal processing section that converts the scattered light into information about a first defect, and a first memory section that stores therein the information about the first defect; and a second part having sliders mounted with a contact sensor that detects a second defect smaller than the first defect, a loading/unloading mechanism that flies the slider over the measured subject, a slider control section that controls the loading/unloading mechanism based on the information about the first defects and second defects. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242525 | Redundant Optical Fiber System and Method for Remotely Monitoring the Condition of a Pipeline - An optical fiber sensor system and method for monitoring a condition of a linear structure such as a pipeline is provided which is capable of providing continuous monitoring in the event of a break in the sensing optical fiber or fibers. The system includes at least one sensing fiber provided along the length of the linear structure, and first and second interrogation and laser pumping sub-systems disposed at opposite ends of the sensing fiber, each of which includes a reflectometer. The reflectometer of the first interrogation and laser pumping sub-system is connected to one end of the sensing fiber. The reflectometer of the second interrogation and laser pumping sub-system is coupled to either (i) an end of a second sensing fiber provided along the length of the linear structure which is opposite from the one end of the first sensing fiber, or (ii) the opposite end of the first sensing fiber. Before any break of the sensing fiber or fibers occurs, each reflectometer redundantly monitors the condition of the linear structure over its entire length. After any such break occurs, each reflectometer will continue to receive signals up to the point of the break from opposite ends of the structure. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242526 | LIGHT DIRECTIONALITY SENSOR - The present invention relates to light sensors for measuring light characteristics. In particular, the present invention relates to a light directionality sensor that is capable of measuring light characteristics such as the light direction, light collimation, and light distribution. According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a light directionality sensor comprising a photo-sensor ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110242527 | ROOM-TEMPERATURE QUANTUM NOISE LIMITED SPECTROMETRY AND METHODS OF THE SAME - In one embodiment, a heterodyne detection system for detecting light includes a first input aperture adapted for receiving a first light from a scene input, a second input aperture adapted for receiving a second light from a local oscillator input, a broadband local oscillator adapted for providing the second light to the second input aperture, a dispersive element adapted for dispersing the first light and the second light, and a final condensing lens coupled to an infrared detector. The final condensing lens is adapted for concentrating incident light from a primary condensing lens onto the detector, and the detector is a square-law detector capable of sensing the frequency difference between the first light and the second light. More systems and methods for detecting light are disclosed according to more embodiments. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242528 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM WITH CATOPTRIC OBJECTIVE; BROADBAND OBJECTIVE WITH MIRROR; AND REFRACTIVE LENSES AND BROADBAND OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM HAVING TWO OR MORE IMAGING PATHS - An optical system may include an objective having at least four mirrors including an outermost mirror with aspect ratio <20:1 and focusing optics including a refractive optical element. The objective provides imaging at numerical aperture >0.7, central obscuration <35% in pupil. An objective may have two or more mirrors, one with a refractive module that seals off an outermost mirror's central opening. A broad band imaging system may include one objective and two or more imaging paths that provide imaging at numerical aperture >0.7 and field of view >0.8 mm. An optical imaging system may comprise an objective and two or more imaging paths. The imaging paths may provide two or more simultaneous broadband images of a sample in two or more modes. The modes may have different illumination and/or collection pupil apertures or different pixel sizes at the sample. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242529 | METHODS FOR VISUALLY INSPECTING INTERFEROMETRIC MODULATORS FOR DEFECTS - A method is provided for visual inspection of an array of interferometric modulators in various driven states. This method may include driving multiple columns or rows of interferometric modulators via a single test pad or test lead, such as test pad, and then observing the array for discrepancies between the expected optical output and the actual optical output of the array. This method may particularly include, for example, driving a set of non-adjacent rows or columns to a state different from the intervening rows or columns and then observing the optical output of the array. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242530 | IN-SITU SOIL NITRATE ION CONCENTRATION SENSOR - A method and apparatus for near real-time in-situ soil solution measurements is presented. An outer sleeve is placed in soil where ionic concentrations of organic or inorganic species are to be measured. A porous section connects with the outer sleeve (the porous section initially loaded with distilled water) equilibrates with the solution present in soil pores to form a solution to be measured. The initial distilled water is displaced within the porous section by a removable plunger. After substantial equilibration of the solution to be measured within the apparatus, the plunger is removed and a removable probe replaced. The probe may be an Ion Selective Electrode, or a transflection dip probe. The probe then may be used under computer control for measurement of solution properties. The Ion Selective Electrode may measure nitrate (NO | 2011-10-06 |
20110242531 | Programmed Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy Particles - Embodiments include types of programmable surface-enhanced spectroscopy (SES) particles (PSPs), including PSP | 2011-10-06 |
20110242532 | BIODEGRADABLE FIBERS FOR SENSING - Biodegradable waveguides and their uses with devices, such as medical devices, are described. In one embodiment, an optically transmissive fibrous structure comprising biodegradable fiber waveguides may be disposed on a surface of a bandage. The bandage in combination with the optically transmissive fibrous structure may allow for simultaneously monitoring and covering an injured area of a patient. In one embodiment, the fiber waveguides may be provided as multi-channel/multi-core biodegradable fiber waveguides for transmitting light to and from a patient tissue. In some implementations, the bandage may include hydrogel-based biodegradable fiber waveguides that may deliver therapeutics to an injured patient area. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242533 | System and Method for Detecting Hazardous Agents Including Explosives - A system and method for MWIR hyperspectral imaging to detect hazardous agents including explosive agents. A system comprising an illumination source, a tunable filter, and an imaging detector configured for MWIR hyperspectral imaging of a target comprising an unknown material. A method comprising illuminating a target comprising an unknown material, passing interacted photons through a tunable filter, and generating a MWIR hyperspectral image of the target. Algorithms and chemometric techniques may be applied to assess the MWIR hyperspectral image to identify the unknown material as comprising an explosive agent or a non-explosive agent. A video imaging device may also be configured to provide a video image of an area of interest, which may be assessed to identify a target for interrogation using MWIR hyperspectral imaging. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242534 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING PARTICLE - An apparatus for detecting a particle is disclosed. The apparatus for detecting a particle in a fluid in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can include a first light source, which emits a first beam having a wavelength of a particular band toward the fluid, a second light source, which emits a second beam having a wavelength of a band that is different from that of the first beam, a first dichroic mirror, which is placed between the fluid and the first light source and allows the first beam to permeate and reflect the second beam toward the fluid, and a detecting unit, which detects a dispersed beam of the first beam and the second beam in the fluid. An embodiment of the invention can improve the reliability of detection by detecting a particle using a beam that has an optimal permeability according to the type of solution. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242535 | Cell Construction For Light Scatter Detectors Having Self-Focusing Properties - The invention relates to a device and to a method for measuring the scattered light about molecules present in a suspension, wherein the suspension is fed through a measurement cell. The measurement cell is produced as a segment of a curved surface, particularly an ellipsoid, a hyperbolic shape, a parabolic shape, or a circle, and comprises a curved and a flat surface. Light-sensitive detectors are disposed about the curved surface and capture the scattered light. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242536 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF DENTAL CURING LIGHTS - The present invention is directed to methods and related systems for evaluating and demonstrating various performance characteristics of one or more dental curing lights. The method and system employs a performance evaluation member (e.g., in the shape of a disc) comprising a carrier material (e.g., any of various suitable polymeric materials) and a color-changing material on or within (e.g., impregnated within) the body material. A user is able to use the performance evaluation member to demonstrate and evaluate performance characteristics relating to the presence of particularly desired wavelengths within the light emitted by a dental curing light, footprint size and shape of emitted light, uniformity of intensity within the emitted footprint, as well as relative intensities of desired wavelengths provided by two or more dental curing lights. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242537 | SURFACE INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A surface inspection apparatus includes a light source for applying a detection laser beam to a film sample. A light receiver has plural photomultiplier tubes arranged in a width direction of the film sample, for receiving output light reflected by the film sample. A defect detector detects a defect on the film sample according to an output signal output by each of the photomultiplier tubes. A sensitivity corrector sets sensitivity of the photomultiplier tubes to process an output of the light receiver for output noise suppression. Specifically, the sensitivity corrector determines a set sensitivity of the photomultiplier tubes by correcting a sensitivity characteristic thereof for abnormality detection, to keep a sensitivity difference between the photomultiplier tubes as small as a predetermined value or less. Furthermore, plural light valves upstream from the light receivers are controlled by the sensitivity corrector for their transmittance. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242538 | OPTICAL ARRANGMENT FOR DETERMINING THE CONCENTRATION OF A SUBSTANCE IN A FLUID - An arrangement for determining concentration of substances in a fluid comprising a light source for generating primary light pulses within a wavelength interval, a light pulse splitter adapted to split up the primary light pulses into a predetermined number of secondary light pulses to be transmitted through the fluid, the secondary light pulses being separated in time as well as wavelength to be differently absorbed upon passage of the fluid depending on the concentration of the substances, a detector for detecting intensity of the differently absorbed secondary light pulses, and a comparator for comparing the intensities of the differently absorbed secondary light pulses with different reference intensities corresponding to different substances to thereby determine the concentration of the substances in the fluid. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242539 | Handheld Optical Measuring Device and Method of Use - Embodiments provide a handheld optical measuring device and method of measuring an optical property of a liquid sample. In some embodiments the optical measuring device includes a handheld controller module having an immersible sensor head and a sampling member including a sample cup and an attachment member that couples the sample cup to the handheld controller module. In some embodiments the attachment member is an elongated rigid member that is hingedly coupled to the controller module, thus providing a folding configuration for enclosing the sensor head with the sample cup during measurements, transportation, and/or storage. In some embodiments the attached sample cup provides a protective shell for the immersible sensor head during use and/or when not in use. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242540 | RAIN SENSOR - A rain sensor mounted on a windshield of a vehicle comprises: a housing having an opening, at least an emitter disposed in the housing and used for emitting light beams, a coupler, and an optical detector. The coupler connecting and covering the opening of the housing, comprises: at least a collimator receiving and collimating the light beams into collimated light beams; and at least a groove having a deflection surface to reflect the collimated light beams that passes through the collimator and is incident to the deflection surface at an incident angle θ to the windshield. The optical detector disposed in the housing is used for receiving the collimated light beams reflected by the windshield and generating electrical signals. The present invention characterized in that the incident angle θ satisfies the following condition: 1.272011-10-06 | |
20110242541 | OPTICAL MEMBER AND SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE MEASURING APPARATUS - The shape of a prism is set such that an excitation light beam that enters the prism to cause surface plasmon resonance to be generated is not irradiated onto the corners of the prism after being totally reflected within the prism. The angle of a surface that the excitation light exits the prism is set to an angle at which the excitation light beam is not totally reflected. Thereby, the excitation light beam returning to a light source, and being scattered within the prism are prevented, and therefore the accuracy of measurements can be improved. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242542 | FRINGE LOCKING SUBSYSTEM AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME - A fringe locking subsystem for an optical sensing cavity is provided. The subsystem comprises one or more photo detectors that detect a reference signal and a cavity signal; a first amplifier that generates a calculated differential between the reference signal and the cavity signal; a lock-in amplifier that generates a modulation signal based on the calculated differential; and a controller that adjusts a distance within the cavity based on the modulation signal. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242543 | INTERFEROMETRIC SYSTEMS HAVING REFLECTIVE CHAMBERS AND RELATED METHODS - Disclosed herein are interferometric systems having reflective chambers and related methods. According to an aspect, an interferometric system may include a light source for generating an illumination beam that propagates towards a sample. A sample holder may hold the sample and include a partially reflective cover for allowing a first portion of the illumination beam to pass therethrough to interact with the sample to produce a sample beam that propagates substantially along an optical axis. The cover may be oriented at an angle for reflecting a second portion of the illumination beam to produce a reference beam that propagates at a predetermined angle with respect to the optical axis. An imaging module may redirect the reference beam towards the optical axis at a detection plane. A detector may intercept the sample and reference beams and may generate a holographic representation of the sample based on the beams. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242544 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING STRUCTURES ON PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY MASKS - The invention relates to a method for measuring structures on masks ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110242545 | ASPHERIC SURFACE MEASURING APPARATUS - An aspheric surface measuring apparatus includes a sample holder mechanism and an interferential optical mechanism, and performs optical interferometric measurement while rotating a sample every time a measurement angle is varied. The sample holder mechanism has a first air spindle for rotating the sample about a test surface axis and a first airslide. The first airslide carries the sample orthogonally or parallel to the test surface axis. The interference optical mechanism has an interference optical system, a first imaging system, and a second imaging system, a second air spindle, and a second airslide. The second spindle revolves or turns the interference optical system and the first and second imaging systems integrally to change a measurement angle between the measurement optical axis and the test surface axis. The second airslide carries the second air spindle orthogonally to the moving direction of the first airslide. | 2011-10-06 |
20110242546 | System For Monitoring a Relative Displacement of Components - A system is provided for monitoring a relative displacement of a pair of end-winding components. The system includes a structure mounted to the end-winding components. The system further includes a fiber Bragg grating mounted to a non-curved surface of the structure, where the fiber Bragg grating is configured to reflect incident radiation having a peak intensity at a respective wavelength based on a strain of the fiber Bragg grating. The structure is configured so that the strain produced by the structure limits a magnitude of the strain of the fiber Bragg grating within a predetermined range over a span of the relative displacement of the pair of end-winding components. | 2011-10-06 |