04th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 25 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100020331 | Laser interferometer systems and methods with suppressed error and pattern generators having the same - An interferometer system for tracking a position of a movable object in a pattern generator is provided. The interferometer system includes an interferometer configured to generate an interference signal indicative of at least one instantaneous position of an object, and a control system. The control system generates raw position data based on the generated interference signal, selects a subset of position data from the raw position data, and extrapolates at least a third position of the object based on the selected subset of position data. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020332 | Interferometric device for position measurement and coordinate measuring machine - An interferometric device for position measurement of an element moveable in a plane is disclosed. A laser light source measures the position of the moveable element and emits the required measuring light. A beam splitter splits the measuring light into a first partial beam path and a second partial beam path, which each impinge on a reflecting surface of the moveable element via an interferometer. Herein, at least the beam splitter, which splits the measuring light into a first partial beam path and a second partial beam path, and the beam splitter, which directs the third partial beam path onto an etalon via an interferometer, have a respective beam trap associated with them, which traps the light returning from the respective interferometers. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020333 | REFRACTIVE PRODUCTION OF A CONCENTRICALLY FANNED STRUCTURED BUNDLE OF LIGHT BEAMS, OPTICAL, MEASURING DEVICE WITH REFRACTIVE DEFECTION ELEMENT - The invention describes an optical deflection element for the refractive production of a spatially structured bundle of light beams fanned concentrically to an optical axis of the deflection element. The optical deflection element has a base body made of optically transparent material, and has a light input and output side. The light input side is configured such that a primary bundle of light beams can be coupled in the base body. The light output side has a cylindrically symmetrical contour, which defines a recess in the base body. The fanning of the primary bundle of light beams is achieved by refraction on rotationally symmetric interfaces, which are variably inclined relative to the optical axis. The invention further relates to an optical measuring device for the three-dimensional measurement of a cavity in an object and a method for producing a concentrically fanned, spatially structured bundle of light beams. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020334 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, COORDINATE INPUTTING DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An illumination device includes a light incident face onto which light is incident, a light guide plate that has a light emitting face that is disposed adjacent to the light incident face and intersects the light incident face, an illumination light source that is disposed to face the light incident face such that an optical axis thereof faces the light incident face, a position detecting beam source that is disposed to face the light incident face such that an optical axis thereof faces the light incident face, and a wiring substrate that extends along the light incident face and has both the illumination light source and the position detecting beam source mounted thereon. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020335 | METHOD FOR DETECTING THE SPACE ORIENTATION AND POSITION OF AN OBJECT - The invention relates to a method for the optical detection of the position and orientation of an object by means of an optical device comprising at least one parallelogram fastened to said object, the optical device comprising optical means and electronic analysis means making it possible to determine the coordinates of the four vertices of the parallelogram A′B′C′D′, in an orthonormal frame with center | 2010-01-28 |
20100020336 | OPTICAL-TYPE ROTATIONAL BODY POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS - An optical-type rotational body position detection apparatus includes a body being rotational in a predetermined angle at each predetermined time interval to cross an optical axis between fixed light emitting and detecting units, including a standard position hole on a rotational locus crossing the axis, and configured such that after rotating the body at one interval from a standard position at which the hole coincides with the axis, a periphery of the hole is positioned outside the periphery at the standard position. The apparatus further includes a restriction unit on a support to cross the axis and to permit light passing and to restrict a diameter of the passing light. The restriction unit restricts the diameter of the passing light to be smaller than a minimum distance within a positional displacement tolerable error range of the hole after the predetermined angled rotation of the body. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020337 | APPARTUS FOR MARKING LUMBER POSITION - An apparatus adapted to project a series of parallel light lines is provided, the apparatus comprising a body adapted to receive a plurality of light projecting devices, the plurality of light projecting devices being secured to the body and adapted to generate a series of parallel light lines to identify discrete parallel positions to facilitate the location of lumbers. A method of using same and a kit for assembling same are also provided. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020338 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus determines the resolution of bitmap copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data included in transmitted print data, and decides whether to print the bitmap copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data onto a sheet based on the determination result. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020339 | MINIMIZING DOT GRAININESS IN DOT-ON-DOT PRINTING DEVICES - What is disclosed is a novel system and method for minimizing dot visibility in color marking devices capable of dot-on-dot printing. The present method achieves minimum dot visibility for a given dispersed-dot screen by performing a CMYK to CMYKRGB conversion which uses less visible dots as much as possible before more visible dots are introduced. The output color dot coverages are calculated sequentially to minimize the coverage of more visible dots in a decreasing order of brightness. Resulting images have noticeably reduced halftone graininess, particularly in the mid to darker tone areas. The present method is also computationally efficient. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020340 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VISUAL CALIBRATION OF PRINTERS - A method and system for improving visual calibration of a printing device is disclosed. A Pan-Dimensional Mechanism can be utilized for calibrating the printing device so that a gamma curve can be created once for each halftone. A grey calibration and a color calibration can be implemented under different light sources utilizing a comb pattern and a snowflake pattern for displaying color display parameters. A delta in value can be determined between composite greys associated with different light sources which can be added to an internal calibration value associated with a particular light source for color calibration. Such an approach can be implemented utilizing a touch screen front panel with various display methods for user interactions in order to set the color display parameters. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020341 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, Image Processing Program, and Image Printing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus including a specific image detection unit detecting an area including at least a part of a specific image in an input image, a difference acquisition unit acquiring a difference between brightness of the area detected by the specific image detection unit and brightness of a background area in the input image, a correction curve acquisition unit acquiring a correction curve for gradation correction on the basis of the difference, and a correction unit correcting the gradation value of a pixel, which belongs to a color gamut with a dark portion defined, from among pixels constituting the input image by using the correction curve. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020342 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT INSTRUCTION APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed an image forming apparatus to perform image forming processing based on a print job, which image forming apparatus including: a storage section to store obverse side information indicating an attribute specific to an obverse side of a sheet and reverse side information indicating an attribute specific to a reverse side of the sheet; and a control section to perform image forming processing on the obverse side of the sheet in an image forming condition according to the obverse side information stored in the storage section, and to perform image forming processing on the reverse side of the sheet in an image forming condition according to the reverse side information stored in the storage section, when image forming processing is performed on both sides of the sheet based on the print job. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020343 | DOCUMENT FIXER - A document fixer includes a supporting plate and a fixer body. The supporting plate includes a business card fixing recess and a clamping part. The fixer body includes a first supporting plate receiving part, an ordinary document fixing recess and a second supporting plate receiving part. When the supporting plate is received in the first supporting plate receiving part, the document fixer is adapted to fix a business card. Whereas, when the supporting plate is received in the second supporting plate receiving part, the document fixer is adapted to fix an ordinary document. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020344 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - It is an object of the present invention to provide an image forming apparatus that achieves reduction in power and resumption time by selectively resuming a function which a user desires when a storage medium in which identification information for identifying the user is stored is exposed so as to perform resumption from the energy saving state. The image forming apparatus includes: two or more functions of a copy function, a printer function, a scan function and a FAX function; a radio communication portion that performs radio communication with a storage medium in which identification information for identifying a user is stored; and a control portion that when the radio communication portion obtains the identification information from the storage medium in a case where part of the apparatus is in an energy saving state, selects a function to be resumed from the energy saving state according to an exposure state in which the storage medium is exposed to the radio communication portion. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020345 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method is provided for controlling an image forming apparatus provided in a room managed by a management apparatus capable of managing an entry or exit state of a participant who attends a conference and configured to process a print job received from a client computer. The method includes determining whether the room is used by a participant of a conference relating to the print job transmitted from the client computer, outputting the print job in a case where it is determined that the room is used by the participant of the conference relating to the print job, and restricting an output of the print job in a case where it is determined that the room is not used by the participant of the conference relating to the print job. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING OF A PRINT JOB IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - A system and method of controlling printing of a print job in a printing system is provided. The print job includes a first section and a second section, with each one of the first and second sections including copyrighted content for which copyright clearance is required prior to printing. In one example of operation, the first and second sections are stored in memory and it is determined that copyright clearance is unavailable for one of the first and second sections. In response to such determining, either (1) printing of the one of the first and second sections is prohibited until it can be determined that a selected condition has been met, or (2) at least one operation is performed with respect to the one of the first and second sections so that only pages for which copyright clearance has been obtained can be printed. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020347 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING OF A PRINT JOB IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - A system for controlling printing of a print job in a printing system is provided. In practice, a first value corresponding with a first proposed number of prints to be produced with the printing system is stored in a memory communicating with the controller. When the first value exceeds a number for which copyright clearance is available, a controller changes the first value corresponding with the first proposed number of prints to be produced to a second value corresponding with a second proposed number of prints to be produced. Additionally, when a selected condition is met the controller uses the second value corresponding with the second proposed number of prints to be produced to control the number of prints produced by the printing system. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020348 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING OF A PRINT JOB IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - A system for controlling printing of a print job in a printing system is provided. In practice, a first value corresponding with a first proposed number of prints to be produced with the printing system is stored in a memory communicating with the controller. When use of the first value for printing the print job would cause the copyright royalty to exceed a selected threshold, the controller changes the first value corresponding with the first proposed number of prints to be produced to a second value corresponding with a second proposed number of prints to be produced. Additionally, when a selected condition is met the controller uses the second value corresponding with the second proposed number of prints to be produced to control the number of prints produced by the printing system. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020349 | System and Method for Location Based Printing for Healthcare Data - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for location and/or rules based printing for healthcare data. Certain embodiments provide a printing system for printing health care data. The printing system includes a user device and a plurality of printers. The printing system further includes a processor operably connected to the user device and to the plurality of printers that is configured to associate a location with the user device, and to select at least one printer from among the plurality of printers to provide a print out requested from the user device based on the location associated with the user device. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020350 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO CONTROL A POWER SUPPLY, AND METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus for controlling power supply is provided. An image forming apparatus includes at least one cover unit to be mounted in the image forming apparatus, at least one replaceable unit to participate in an image forming operation of the image forming apparatus, a sensing unit to sense whether the at least one cover unit is opened or closed, and a main board unit to cut off the power supply to the at least one replaceable unit for a predetermined period of time when the at least one cover unit is opened or closed. Accordingly, stable operation is enabled. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020351 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: a plurality of different conversion processing systems that converts page description language data into raster image data; a conversion control unit that controls each of the different conversion processing systems to convert page description language data to be inspected into raster image data; and a difference information outputting unit that outputs difference information in a case where there is a difference among the raster image data as conversion results obtained by the conversion processing systems. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020352 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, wherein a SOAP processing section determines, when a communication processing section receives a document data request message from a client apparatus, whether a request message for causing an image reading apparatus to read a document image and to generate document data and requesting transmission of the document data or a request message for requesting transmission of the document data within a document box is represented by the document data request message, generates a response message containing the document data corresponding to the document data request message, and causes the communication processing section to transmit the response message to the client apparatus. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020353 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including: a data storage device that stores a user registration information item and/or user group registration information item as address book data; a communication processing section that receives a registration request message described in XML so as to include a plurality of user registration information items and/or user group registration information items; a SOAP processing section that extracts, when the communication processing section receives the registration request message from a client apparatus, each of the plurality of user registration information items and/or user group registration information items that are specified in the registration request message; and a control section that registers the user registration information item and/or user group registration information item that are extracted from the SOAP processing section in the address book data. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020354 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of smoothly controlling option apparatuses while suppressing power consumed by conveyance, compared to a conventional technique. To achieve this, the control unit of the image forming apparatus issues a control instruction by serial communication via a common communication line to drive not all but two or more option apparatuses at once. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020355 | PRINT CONTROL MECHANISM BASED ON PRINTING ENVIRONMENT - An image forming apparatus implements a print restriction depending on the environment of the image forming apparatus, such as who is or is not near the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus communicates with a short-range wireless terminal for authenticating print data with reference to access right information in which document identifying information identifying the print data is associated with wireless terminal identifying information identifying the short-range wireless terminal. The image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit for acquiring the wireless terminal identifying information from the short-range wireless terminal; a determining unit for determining whether the printing of the print data should be permitted or not based on the wireless terminal identifying information acquired by the acquiring unit and the access right information; and a control unit for controlling the printing of the print data depending on a result of the determination made by the determining unit. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020356 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Print commands are saved in increments of pages, based on usable storage capacity, at the time of printing processing of a first copy, so that page spacing to save the print commands is as uniform as possible. At the time of printing processing of the second copy, the stored print commands are reused and transferred to a printer, and the print commands not stored are generated again. The transferring and generating of the print commands are performed in parallel. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020357 | Image Outputting Apparatus - An image outputting apparatus includes: a consumables residual quantity detecting unit which detects a residual quantity of consumables; a job attribute determining unit which determines a job attribute of a print output job; and an output availability determining unit which determines whether a print output is available, wherein the output availability determining unit performs a first determining process of determining whether to perform only the print output or to perform the print output while storing the print output job data in accordance with the job attribute determined by the job attribute determining unit, when the consumables residual quantity detecting unit detects that the residual quantity of the consumables is equal to or less than a predetermined quantity. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020358 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING - An order in which to delete bands is defined in advance according to a table of importance levels of bands. If the free storage space of a hard disk becomes equal to or lower than a threshold value after a new printer command of a band is stored, printer commands stored in the hard disk are deleted in units of bands in accordance with the defined importance levels of bands. If the free storage space of the hard disk becomes greater than the threshold value, new printer commands are stored in units of bands on the hard disk. In the controlling of the printing for second and following ones of the plurality of copies, printer commands stored on the hard disk are transmitted to a printer. However, printer commands that are not stored on the hard disk are again produced. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020359 | Method For Playing Audio Signals Provided On A Photograph - A method of decoding coded data provided on a photograph using a reader. The coded data is at least partially indicative of an audio signal and is provided on a photograph substrate in the same area as an image. The method includes steps of scanning the image using a scanner; locating within the image a first target boundary that is spatially displaced from the coded data; locating within the image a second target boundary that is spatially displaced from the coded data and downstream of the first target boundary in a direction in which the image is fed past the scanner; reading the coded data located between the first and second target boundaries; decoding the coded data read by the scanner to obtain an audio signal; and, playing the audio signal through an output. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020360 | HOST APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A host apparatus, an image forming apparatus, and a diagnosis method for the image forming apparatus, the diagnosis method including: storing a printing image generated from print data according to a printing command; and generating a diagnosis image for the printing image based on the stored printing image and a defect image corresponding to a predetermined defect of the image forming apparatus. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020361 | HOST APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A host apparatus, an image forming apparatus, and a diagnosis method for the image forming apparatus, the diagnosis method including: storing a printing image generated from print data according to a printing command; and generating a diagnosis image for the printing image based on the stored printing image and a defect image corresponding to a predetermined defect of the image forming apparatus. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020362 | IMAGE SCANNER, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image scanner includes a scanning unit configured to scan images on document sheets, an image processing unit configured to perform image processing for the images scanned by the scanning unit under a predetermined condition, an identifying unit configured to identify one or more damaged sheets among the document sheets to be scanned, and a condition setting unit configured to set a specific condition under which the image processing is to be performed for images scanned from the damaged sheets identified by the identifying unit. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020363 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - By enabling the confirmation of a finish state by a preview reliably, it makes it possible to prevent unnecessary image formation processing due to setting errors by a user. Finish state information showing a finish state of paper is simultaneously displayed in addition to a preview image showing an entire page of image data on a preview screen before performing image formation. The finish state information is displayed, for example, as “2-sided: Front 1” showing to be the first page in 2-sided printing. In addition thereto, an icon showing to be a front side in 2-sided printing is displayed at the same time. This display allows the user to recognize that a setting of 2-sided printing is performed and image data of the current preview image is the front side of the first page in the 2-sided printing. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING SYSTEM PROCESS MAGNIFICATION ADJUSTMENT - Document processing systems and duplex printing methods are presented in which side | 2010-01-28 |
20100020365 | METHOD OF PRESSURE DETECTION FOR SELECTIVE SCANNING OF A DOCUMENT - A method of scanning comprises detecting a document on a scanning device scanning surface, and detecting pressure on the scanning device scanning surface to scan a region of the document. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020366 | SHEET PRESENCE DETECTING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DETECTING A SHEET PRESENCE AND METHOD FOR READING AN IMAGE IN A SHEET - A sheet presence detecting apparatus includes a transparent plate for mounting a sheet, a light reflecting plate for reflecting light which passes through the transparent plate, a light source for emitting light to the transparent plate when an angle formed by the light reflecting plate and the transparent plate becomes a predetermined angle, an image sensor for detecting light emitted from the light source, a memory for storing a plurality of detection outputs which are detected by the image sensor and each associated with a speed of closing the light reflecting plate when the sheet is not mounted and a control circuit for calculating a difference between the detection outputs stored in the memory and detection outputs detected at time of detection, and for determining whether a sheet is mounted on the transparent plate or not based on the calculated difference. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020367 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image reading device configured to read information of an object, including an imaging optical system configured to image an image of an object and an image-capturing device configured to image-capture at least a portion of the image imaged by the imaging optical system, wherein the imaging optical system includes a first optical system configured to image an intermediate image of the object and a second optical system configured to image the imaged image of the intermediate image. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020368 | Image Scanning Apparatus, Computer Readable Medium, Image Management System, and Image Management Methods - An image scanning apparatus includes a scanning unit that scans an image from an image display medium optically and creates image data; a data comparison unit that compares the image data scanned by the scanning unit and image data recorded in a predetermined recording region; and a notification unit that notifies an operator depending on a result of comparison by the data comparison unit. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020369 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading device includes: a foreign-matter image position detection unit that detects a predetermined foreign-matter image from the image read by a document reading unit when the document conveyed by a document conveying unit comes off from a document reading position and detects a main scanning direction position of the foreign-matter image in the main scanning direction; and a lighting control unit that lights up the light-emitting element group arranged in the main scanning direction and lights up the light-emitting elements within a predetermined range from the main scanning direction position of the foreign-matter image in a light emission mode that is different from a light emission mode of other light-emitting elements when the foreign-matter image is detected by the foreign-matter image position detection unit. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020370 | IMAGE SCANNER, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image scanner includes a feeding unit performing document feeding to sequentially feed sheets, a flatbed glass being loaded with a sheet thereon, a scanning unit performing document scanning in any one of a first mode for sequentially scanning sheets being fed by the feeding unit and a second mode for scanning each sheet which is placed on the flatbed glass on a sheet-by-sheet basis, an interrupting unit detecting an error during the document feeding and interrupting the document feeding, an identifying unit identifying damaged sheets among document sheets to be scanned, and a controller configured to, after the interrupted document feeding is released with the detected error being settled, control the scanning unit to perform the document scanning in the second mode for the damaged sheets and in the first mode for undamaged sheets other than the damaged sheets. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020371 | DIGITAL PHOTO ALBUM, DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF AND CONTROLLER USING THE DISPLAY METHOD - Digital photo albums, display methods thereof and controllers using the display methods are provided by the present invention so that a user can have a page-turning effect during switching digital photos. The first display method with the page-turning effect includes generating a plurality of digital photos with an arbitrary quadrilateral, and sequentially displaying the present digital photo, the plurality of digital photos with an arbitrary quadrilateral and the next digital photo. The second display method with the page-turning effect includes respectively dividing the digital photo and the next digital photo into a plurality of image data blocks, sequentially generating a plurality of intermediate digital photos according to the image data blocks of the present digital photo and the next digital photo and sequentially displaying the present digital photo, the intermediate digital photos and the next digital photo on a screen. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020372 | HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A holographic recording medium is provided. The medium includes a recording layer. The recording layer includes a polymer matrix, a polymerizable monomer and a photopolymerization initiator. The polymerizable monomer includes a monomer being expressed in the following general formula (M1), (M2), or (M3). | 2010-01-28 |
20100020373 | HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR GATED DIFFUSION OF PHOTOACTIVE MONOMER - An optical medium is provided. The optical medium comprises: a diffusion-controlling matrix framework; at least one photoactive monomer attached to the diffusion-controlling matrix framework in a first state of the optical medium, wherein the at least one photoactive monomer is released from the diffusion-controlling matrix framework by photo cleavage, producing a second state of the optical medium, in which diffusion of the photoactive monomer through the optical medium is possible; and wherein the at least one photoactive monomer is then polymerized or reattached to the diffusion-controlling matrix, giving a third state of the optical medium, when exposed to photo-polymerizing light. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020374 | HOLOGRAM OPTICAL ELEMENT AND SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE USING THE HOLOGRAM OPTICAL ELEMENT - A hologram optical element having a thin form and a high degree of light transmittance, moreover that provides superior handling ease, as well as a surface light source device employing this hologram optical element. The angle at which light can be bent in this hologram optical element, has low wavelength dependency, and the hologram optical element enables prevention of spectral separation in white light incident from an oblique direction which is bent to a vertical direction and emitted. A transmitting diffraction grating, when light of wavelengths λ1, λ2 and λ3 within the ranges 0.46≦λ1≦0.50 μm (blue light), 0.53≦λ2≦0.57 μm (green light), 0.60≦λ3≦0.64 μm (red light) is incident at angle θi, the maximum diffraction angle for diffractive efficiency of each wavelength is within the range from −5 degrees to +5 degrees. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020375 | METHOD OF RECORDING HOLOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - A method of recording holographic information includes recording a hologram mark and a homogeneous mark in a holographic data storage medium with a volume to alternatively locate the hologram mark and the homogeneous mark. The hologram mark has a varied refractive index distribution due to constructive/destructive interferences between two light beams and indicates information, while the homogeneous mark has a more uniform refractive index distribution than the hologram mark. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020376 | SHEARING RADIATION BEAM FOR IMAGING PRINTING MEDIA - An illuminator ( | 2010-01-28 |
20100020377 | Beam Scanning Based on Two-Dimensional Polygon Scanner for Display and Other Applications - Scanning beam systems based on a two-dimensional polygon scanner with different reflective polygon facets tilted at different tilt facet angles to use rotations of the polygon scanner to scan optical beams both horizontally and vertically on a surface which can be a display screen or a printing surface. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020378 | OPTICAL SWITCH - A detection means ( | 2010-01-28 |
20100020379 | GIMBALED SCANNING MICRO-MIRROR ACTUATION SCHEME AND ARCHITECTURE - A Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) device for actuating a gimbaled element, the device comprising a symmetric electromagnetic actuator for actuating one degree of freedom (DOF) and a symmetric electrostatic actuator for actuating the second DOF. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020380 | Vehicular Rearview Mirror Elements and Assemblies Incorporating These Elements - The present invention relates to improved electro-optic rearview mirror elements and assemblies incorporating the same. Area of the effective field of view of the electro-optic mirror element substantially equals to that defined by the outermost perimeter of the element. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020381 | FUNCTIONALIZED GLAZING - Glazing comprising, in succession:
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20100020382 | SPACER FOR MEMS DEVICE - An improved spacer in an apparatus comprising a MEMS device that is packaged between a substrate and cover plate, where the improved spacer protects traces running on the substrate and under the spacer. The improved spacer reduces the amount of force or pressure on the traces or wires, which reduces line out damage when an array of packaged MEMS devices are separated by pressure or force into one packaged MEMS device. In one embodiment, the improved spacer comprises a softer, deformable, elastic, or malleable material that does not crush the traces. This softer material can be an elastic polymeric spacer. In another embodiment, the improved spacer can protect these traces by having a shape with a smaller contact surface which minimizes the amount of traces being affected. This surface can be a sphere or a ball. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020383 | THERMAL ACTUATOR FOR AN INFRARED SENSOR - In one embodiment, an infrared (IR) sensor has a flexible beam connected between two anchors supported on a substrate. The beam is mechanically coupled to a plate that has an IR-absorbing layer and is adapted to transfer the IR-induced heat to the beam. The heat transfer causes the beam to deform and move the plate with respect to the substrate. The motion of the plate is detected electrically or optically to quantify the amount of IR radiation received by the plate. The beam, anchors, and plate are formed from a planar layer of material that is supported at a specified offset distance from the substrate. During fabrication, certain portions of the planar layer are removed to define the beam, anchors, and plate. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020384 | IMAGE DISPLAY MEDIUM AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display medium includes a pair of substrates, a liquid that is enclosed between the substrates, first colored particles, second colored particles and third colored particles. The first colored particles are colored a first color and move in response to an electric field that is formed between the substrates. The second colored particles are colored a second color and move in an opposite direction of the first colored particles. The third colored particles are colored a third color, are configured to have a particle diameter such that the third colored particles move through clearances between the first colored particles and the second colored particles in a state in which the first colored particles and the second colored particles have aggregated together, and move in response to an electric field that is formed between the substrates. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020385 | MICROCAPSULES FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICES, AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR PRODUCTION, AND THEIR APPLICATIONS - The microcapsules for electrophoretic display devices according to the present invention each enclose a dispersion containing electrophoretic particles and a solvent in a shell having an inner shell made of a mercapto group-containing amino resin and an outer shell made of an epoxy resin. Alternatively, the microcapsules for electrophoretic display devices according to the present invention each have a capsule strength of 0.6 MPa or higher. These microcapsules are produced by dispersing a dispersion containing electrophoretic particles and a solvent as a core substance in a water-based medium, and subsequently forming at least one shell on the surface of the core substance. These microcapsules can be used, as their applications, for sheets for electrophoretic display devices, electrophoretic display devices using the sheets, and electronic equipments using the electrophoretic display devices. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020386 | REFLECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A reflection type display apparatus wherein an electroplating is used to modulate light, at least one of a reflectance and an absorptance of a first surface, which contacts the first electrode, of an electroplating film | 2010-01-28 |
20100020387 | CHIRPED-PULSE QUADRATIC NONLINEARITY-BASED HIGH-ENERGY PULSE COMPRESSOR - A pulse compression technique for compressing femtosecond-duration high-energy pulses first linearly chirps and thus broadens an input pulse before compressing it by nonlinear soliton compression. The technique simultaneously decreases the final compressed pulse duration and improves of the compressed pulse quality. In the preferred embodiment, a linear dispersive delay ( | 2010-01-28 |
20100020388 | AMPLIFYING OPTICAL FIBER - The invention consists in an amplifying optical fiber comprising a core containing a dopant and a cladding, wherein said core comprises a monomode core intended to propagate an optical signal, quantum dots of a semiconductor material being disposed in or near said monomode core, and a multimode core surrounding the monomode core, intended to receive a pumping signal. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020389 | Articulating Infrared Window - An articulating infrared window to be installed into a panel of a cabinet is disclosed. The window includes a window housing and an infrared transparent pane. The infrared transparent pane is installed within the window housing. Embodiments of the window housing can include various articulation mechanisms including individually or in combination a double gimbal assembly, a single gimbal and rotary stage, a ball and socket joint, and an extension joint (such as a bellows) for articulating the infrared transparent pane. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020390 | CATADIOPTRIC PROJECTION OBJECTIVE WITH PUPIL CORRECTION - A catadioptric projection objective includes a plurality of optical elements arranged to image an off-axis object field arranged in an object surface onto an off-axis image field arranged in an image surface of the projection objective. The optical elements form: a first, refractive objective part that can generate a first intermediate image from radiation coming from the object surface and including a first pupil surface; a second objective part including at least one concave mirror that can image the first intermediate image into a second intermediate image and including a second pupil surface optically conjugated to the first pupil surface; and a third objective part that can image the second intermediate image onto the image surface and including a third pupil surface optically conjugated to the first and second pupil surface. The optical elements are arranged between the object surface and the first pupil surface form a Fourier lens group which includes a negative lens group arranged optically close to the first pupil surface. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020391 | OBSERVATION DEVICE - The observation device includes a micro optical system and a macro optical system. The observation device is configured in such a way that the micro and macro optical systems share an image position and that the first pupil position of the micro optical system and the second pupil position of the macro optical system substantially coincide with one another. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020392 | Confocal microscope device - The present application detects a state change of an object in an optical axis direction by a single frame scanning for each round. A confocal microscope apparatus includes a detecting unit separating incident light into a light from a vicinity of a collecting point on the sample and a light from a peripheral of the vicinity and detecting each of the lights, and an image generating unit generating an image of the sample by a light signal from the vicinity and a light signal from the peripheral, in which a distinction between a light signal from the vicinity and a light signal from the peripheral is calculated for each of a plurality of images generated in a number of times of scanning without changing a collecting location in an optical axis direction. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020393 | System and Device for Non-Destructive Raman Analysis - An improved Raman microspectrometer system extends the optical reach and analysis range of an existing Raman microspectrometer to allow analysis and/or repair of an oversized sample. The improved Raman microspectrometer system includes an extender for extending the optical reach of the existing microspectrometer and a supplemental stage which extends the analysis range of the existing microspectrometer by providing travel capabilities for non-destructive analysis of an entire oversized sample. Such an arrangement decreases manufacturing costs associated with testing oversized samples such as mammography panels, enabling analysis and/or repair to be performed without destruction. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020394 | CELESTIAL TRACKING DEVICE - A celestial tracking device ( | 2010-01-28 |
20100020395 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection type image display apparatus includes an optical engine that emits a light according to image signal, a Fresnel lens on which the light emitted by the optical engine is incident and emitting the light as a parallel light, and a diffusion member that diffuses the parallel light emitted by the Fresnel lens. The projection type image display apparatus further includes a driving unit that moves the Fresnel lens or the diffusion member in a plane parallel to an emitting surface of the Fresnel lens or the diffusion member, a frame the supports the Fresnel lens, the diffusion member and the driving unit, a resilient supporting body that supports a weight of the Fresnel lens or the diffusion member with respect to the frame, and a holding unit that holds the Fresnel lens or the diffusion member so as to be movable in the plane parallel to the emitting surface of the Fresnel lens or the diffusion member. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020396 | POLARIZER PROTECTIVE FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided are: a polarizer protective film, which is allowed to express excellent UV-absorbing ability by using a UV-absorbing monomer as a raw material, has excellent heat resistance and excellent optical transparency, and has much less coloring and foaming; a polarizing plate with less defects in an outer appearance, using the polarizer protective film; and an image display apparatus of high quality, using the polarizing plate. The polarizer protective film of the present invention has a light transmittance at 380 nm in a thickness of 80 μm of 30% or less, and is obtained by molding a forming material that contains a resin component containing as a main component a (meth)acrylic resin obtained by polymerizing a monomer composition containing a UV-absorbing monomer and a (meth)acrylic monomer by extrusion molding. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020397 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL ELEMENT AND THE OPTICAL ELEMENT - A method for producing an optical element having a three-dimensional structural part that can resolve problems associated with deterioration of optical characteristics that is caused by variations in the element shape in the conventional process and poor endurance caused by insufficient joining strength and the optical element produced by the method are provided. A method for producing an optical element configured by joining at least a first optical member and a second optical member formed from an oxide material includes the processes of forming a refractive index periodic structural part with a period equal to or less than a visible light wavelength on at least one of the first optical member and the second optical member, forming a joining layer composed of an oxygen-deficient oxide on the first optical member and the second optical member, tightly joining the first optical member and the second optical member by the joining layer, and oxidizing the joining layer after the tight joining. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020398 | OPTICAL LAMINATE COMPRISING LOW-REFRACTIVE INDEX LAYER - The present invention discloses an optical laminate comprising a light-transparent base material and a low-refractive index layer provided on the light-transparent base material, the low-refractive index layer simultaneously having both contamination preventive properties and slipperiness. The optical laminate comprises a light-transparent base material, and a hard coat layer and a low-refractive index layer provided in that order on the light-transparent base material, wherein the low-refractive index layer contains a contamination preventive agent and/or a slipperiness imparting agent, and contamination preventive agent and/or slipperiness imparting agent are added so that the concentrations of the contamination preventive agent and/or slipperiness imparting agent have a concentration gradient from the surface of the hard coat layer toward the surface of the low-refractive index layer. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020399 | PROGRAMMABLE OPTICAL PROCESSING DEVICE EMPLOYING STACKED CONTROLLABLE PHASE SHIFTING ELEMENTS IN FRACTIONAL FOURIER PLANES - A monolithic or hybrid integrated optical processor or optical processing system having a plurality of phase shifting array elements, each controlled by respective control signals, and arranged so that each phase shifting array element lies in a different fractional Fourier transform plane. In various embodiments, at least a portion of the resulting system is implemented in a stack of element materials. In one embodiment, a segment of graded index material lies between consecutive phase shifting array elements. Other features include obtaining images from an electronically-controllable image source, using an image sensor to change the processed image into an electrical output, and using at least one of the phase shifting array element to introduce a phase shift. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020400 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND LASER BEAM MACHINING METHOD - A diffractive optical element includes: a substrate having a first face and a second face; a diffractive structure section that is formed on the first face of the substrate, shaped in a rectangular form in a cross-sectional view of the diffractive structure section, and having an upper face and a plurality of protuberance portions; and a grid section that is formed of a dielectric material, formed on at least one of the upper face of the diffractive structure section and the second face of the substrate, and including micro protuberance portions that are smaller than each of the protuberance portions. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020401 | WAVELENGTH SELECTION FILTER, FILTER UNIT, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSOR - A wavelength selection filter selectively resonating and reflecting light of a given wavelength contained in incident light, includes a substrate having a rectangular waveform concave and convex structure which is formed on a plane on which the incident light falls incident, the concave and convex structure including convex portions and concave portions which are arranged in one axial direction and a multilayer structure including a first layer and a second layer respectively coating one and the other one of side surfaces, in the one axial direction, of each of convex portions of the concave and convex structure. A refractive index of the first layer and a refractive index of the second layer are both higher than a refractive index of the substrate. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020402 | MULTILAYER FILM - An object of the present invention is to provide a multilayer film that can make large the amount of outgoing light from a liquid crystal device such as liquid crystal display element and liquid crystal aberration compensating element and at the same time, can realize a high contract in a liquid crystal display element. The multilayer film of the present invention is a multilayer film which is formed on an inner side of a transparent substrate and contains a transparent electrically-conductive film and an orientation film, in which an antireflection film is provided at least either between the transparent substrate and the transparent electrically-conductive film or between the transparent electrically-conductive film and the orientation film. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020403 | DISPLAY LIGHT SHIELD - A display light shield as a visor for a portable computer, includes a top portion and two side portions. The portions are sheet and jointed to form a hood whose sides and top are closed while bottom is open. The shape of the hood is suitable for the computer monitor. A fastener is provided on the hood for attaching the visor to the computer. The visor can be folded by changing joining manners of the portions so that packaging and transporting become convenient. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020404 | REMOVABLE LENTICULAR LABELS FOR USE ON PRINTED MATTER - A lenticular label for removable attachment to a surface of an object includes a transparent sheet having a first planar side and a second side having a lenticulated region. The label having a printed image on the first planar side and a low-tack adhesive disposed along the printed image. The low-tack adhesive is configured to provide tangential adhesion between the label and the surface to which the label is removably attached. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020405 | VARIABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In order to perform dispersion compensation for an optical signal of light introduced from an input light collimator, a variable dispersion compensator includes: a group delay characteristic control unit which controls group delay characteristics at a group delay characteristic assignment unit; a positioning unit which positions a relative positional relationship between an optical axis position and an output light collimator in the case where the light from the input light collimator is output to an output light collimator through reflection on each of incident side planes of a plurality of reflective etalons; and a positioning control unit which controls the positioning unit so that the relative positional relationship becomes a positional relationship set in association with the group delay characteristics controlled by the group delay characteristic control unit, and minimizes loss deterioration in the case of changing the amount of dispersion compensation. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020406 | LENS ARRANGEMENT - A lens arrangement suitable for looking through small holes is provided in which no conventional integral physical lens stop is required. The lens arrangement is relatively insensitive to its position, meaning that it may be set back behind the hole reducing the risk of detection and allowing rapid installation. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020407 | LIQUID LENS APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed is a liquid lens apparatus. The liquid lens apparatus includes a liquid lens element and a fixing jig. The liquid lens element includes a main body, a lens surface, and a sealing portion, the main body including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a third substrate that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and forms a liquid chamber, the lens surface being formed of an interface between two liquids which are contained in the liquid chamber and have different refractive indexes and being capable of being electrically deformed, the sealing portion hermetically sealing the main body. The fixing jig is engaged with the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate sandwiching the third substrate. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020408 | ENDOSCOPE OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM - An endoscope objective optical system used in an endoscope has an objective optical system including a first lens group having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, a second lens group having a negative refractive power and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, the first lens group, the aperture stop and the second and third lens group being successively disposed from the object side. The second lens group is made movable along an optical axis to change the focal length of the objective optical system. The lens surface at the object-side outermost position in the first lens group is formed so as to be convex on the object side. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020409 | ZOOM LENS, IMAGING APPARATUS AND MOBILE PHONE - A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group including a prism which has no refractive power and deflects an optical path, a third lens group that has a positive refractive power and is moved during zooming, a fourth lens group that has a negative refractive power and is moved during zooming, and a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power arranged in this order from an object side. A zoom group including the third positive lens group and the fourth negative lens group, not a fixed positive lens group, is provided on the rear side of the prism. The first lens group includes two negative lenses. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020410 | Zoom lens, lens barrel and image pickup apparatus - Disclosed herein is a zoom lens, wherein a stop moves in an optical axis direction n in a phase of zooming; a position of the stop in a telephoto end is located on an object side with respect to a position of the stop in a wide-angle end; an opening size of the stop is controlled in conjunction with the zooming so that an open F number becomes approximately constant in a range from the wide-angle end to a specific intermediate focal length; the opening size of the stop is made approximately constant in a range from the specific intermediate focal length to the telephoto end so that the open F number is changed; and the specific intermediate focal length fulfills the following conditional expression (1), wide-angle end focal length×1.52010-01-28 | |
20100020411 | PROJECTION VARIABLE FOCUSING LENS AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a projection variable focusing lens and a projection display device that has a reduction side which is telecentric, a high magnifying power, a small size, a light weight, and a low manufacturing cost and is capable of correcting all aberrations occurring when power varies with good balance. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020412 | LENS BARREL AND CAMERA INCLUDING IT - A lens barrel includes a plurality of lens groups ( | 2010-01-28 |
20100020413 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes a lens holding frame configured to hold a lens and being provided with a cam follower, a guide tube engaging with the lens holding frame and being configured to rectilinearly guide the lens holding frame in an optical axis direction, and a cam tube engaging with the cam follower and being provided with a cam slot which engages with the cam follower, the cam tube being configured to rotate about the optical axis thereby to move the lens holding member in the optical axis direction, wherein the cam slot has a locus including a flat portion orthogonal to the optical axis and a lift portion not orthogonal to the optical axis, wherein the flat portion has a surface perpendicular to the optical axis, and wherein the cam follower has a surface parallel to the perpendicular surface. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020414 | LENS APPARATUS AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - The lens apparatus includes a guide barrel including a guide groove portion penetrating through a circumferential wall of the guide barrel, and a cam barrel disposed rotatably and including a penetrating cam groove portion penetrating through a circumferential wall of the cam barrel and a non-penetrating cam groove portion not penetrating therethrough. The apparatus further includes a first holding member holding a first optical element and moved in an optical axis direction by the guide groove portion and the penetrating cam groove portion with rotation of the cam barrel, a second holding member holding a second optical element and moved in the optical axis direction by the guide groove portion and the non-penetrating cam groove portion with the rotation of the cam barrel, and an adjusting mechanism used for adjusting a position of one of the first and second optical elements relative to that of the other. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020415 | System and Method for Inducing Far Field Transparency with Negative Index Materials - A lens system with a lens formed of a material having a negative index of refraction in an operational frequency range, a first surface of the material having a convex hyperbolic curvature, and a second surface of the material having a concave circular curvature. A lens system can include two of these lenses, arranged with the concave circular surfaces facing each other. Far field radiation arriving at the hyperbolic surface of the the first lens is refracted by the lens material toward the circular surface, out of the first lens in a direction parallel to the original radiation direction, and into the circular surface of the second lens, where it is refracted toward the hyperbolic surface of the second lens, and exits the second lens in a direction parallel to the original direction. The lens material can have a tunable or fixed negative refractive index and/or resonant frequency. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020416 | Imaging lens module - An imaging lens module includes a fixed aperture stop and an optical module, and the optical module includes a first, a second, a third and a fourth lenses. The first lens has a meniscus lens with positive refractive power and a concave surface disposed towards the image. The second lens has a meniscus lens with negative refractive power and a concave surface disposed towards the image. The third lens has a meniscus lens with positive refractive power and a convex surface disposed towards the image. The fourth lens has a concave surface disposed towards the object. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020417 | OPTICAL LENS SYSTEM FOR TAKING IMAGE - An optical lens system for taking image comprises: a first lens element with positive refractive power, an Abbe Number of the first lens element being V | 2010-01-28 |
20100020418 | Image pickup lens and image pickup apparatus - An image pickup lens includes: a first lens having a positive refracting power; an aperture stop for adjusting the amount of light; a second lens having a concave face directed to the object side and having a negative refracting power; a third lens having a concave face directed to the object side and having a positive refracting power; and a fourth lens having a negative refracting power; the first lens, aperture stop, second lens, third lens, and fourth lens being disposed in order from the object side. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020419 | LENS SYSTEM - A lens system includes, in order from the object side, a positive refractive power first lens, a positive refractive power second lens; and a negative refractive power third lens. Wherein the lens system satisfies the following conditions: (1) (|G | 2010-01-28 |
20100020420 | LENS OPTICAL SYSTEM - Provided is a lens optical system, which includes (from object to image side) a first lens group having positive refractive power, a stop, and a second lens group having positive refractive power. The first lens group comprises a plurality of lenses among which there are a lens closest to the object side and a lens closest to the stop having negative refractive powers. The second lens group includes a front group and a rear group. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020421 | LENS ARRAY UNIT MOUNTING STRUCTURE - A lens array unit mounting structure mounts a lens array unit in a recess provided in a housing of an image reading device. The structure includes a right projection and a left projection provided on the lens array unit and includes a right groove and a left groove provided in the recess of the housing. The lens array unit is secured in the recess of the housing by engaging the right projection with the right groove and engaging the left projection with the left groove. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020422 | RESILIENT PLATE AND LENS ACTUATOR USING SAME - A resilient plate includes a body, a through hole defined in the center of the body, a plurality of slots defined in the body. A plurality of glue-holes is defined in the periphery portion of the body, and the glue-holes are configured for receiving an amount of an adhesive. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020423 | HYDROSTATIC LIQUID-METAL DEFORMABLE OPTICAL ELEMENTS - Optical components and systems are disclosed that include an optical element and a base member. Multiple wells correspond to respective locations on a surface of the optical element. Liquid metal in the wells is coupled to the respective locations to apply respective hydrostatic pressures to the locations. At least one displacement device is coupled to at least one well to selectively change the respective hydrostatic pressure applied, relative to the base member, by the liquid metal in the well to the respective location. The “liquid metal” is any of several formulations of metal that are liquid under actual-use conditions (e.g., a liquid alloy of gallium). The liquid metal can be displaced through conduits to change the hydrostatic pressure being applied to the respective locations. The displacement, and hence the hydrostatic pressure, can be feedback controlled. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020424 | Combination mirror and recording/playback apparatus - A mirror has a recording and playback apparatus, and a pre-recorded message plays aloud through at least one speaker on the mirror. The mirror is the typical size found in a common household. The record/playback apparatus may be a CD-ROM or other similar medium. The preferred embodiment for the invention is for use by individuals with low self-esteem, and the mirror may be used as a therapeutic tool for depression. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020425 | Mirror image display method - The mirror image display method is used to suspend the main subject of a decorative or presentation display in mid air. This is accomplished by affixing the flat side of a symmetrically divided main subject flush onto a true first-surface mirror, which makes up one wall of the display body and eliminates the subjects visible seam line. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020426 | Method and Apparatus for Coating a Curved Surface - A method involves: determining a percentage by which a thickness of a layer of material, if applied by a selected coating apparatus to a curved surface on a selected optical component having an operating wavelength, would decrease from a central region of the curved surface to an edge region of the curved surface; formulating a multi-layer optical coating that will provide, in the central region of the curved surface, a specified optical performance characteristic for all radiation within a waveband extending from the operating wavelength to a further wavelength, where the further wavelength decreased by the percentage equals the operating wavelength; and using the selected coating apparatus to form the multi-layer optical coating on the curved surface. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020427 | METHOD FOR MEASURING OFFSET AMOUNT BETWEEN HEADS IN A COMPOSITE MAGNETIC HEAD AND A MEASURING DEVICE USING THE METHOD - An offset amount between heads is calculated by positioning a head in a designated track under an ON track servo control, obliquely writing test data by moving the head in a radial direction of the magnetic recording medium at a designated moving speed K to cross the designated track and at least one track adjacent to the designated track according to a write start signal, reading the oblique test data by the read head from the adjacent track under the ON track servo control, detecting a peak position of a read voltage by using a read voltage characteristics of the read signal in the adjacent track and calculating the offset amount between the heads by detecting a scan time up to the peak position of the read voltage. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020428 | METHOD FOR MEASURING WRITE/READ WIDTH OF A COMPOSITE MAGNETIC HEAD AND A MEASURING DEVICE USING THE METHOD - A test data is written in tracks of a DTM by making the tracks eccentric by accessing a plurality of tracks by forcibly making a composite magnetic head eccentric under an ON track servo control. The test data written in the tracks which are pseudo-eccentric are written in the tracks with the original write sensitive width of a write head. It is possible to obtain a read characteristics profile having a peak by tracing and reading the test data while moving the composite magnetic head (read head) which is forcibly made eccentric in a radial direction. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020429 | Converting Timing Errors Into Symbol Errors to Handle Write Mis-Synchronization in Bit-Patterned Media Recording Systems - A method includes: writing data to a bit-patterned media at times determined by a clock having a period that is offset from a bit island period by a fixed offset to create one insertion or one deletion approximately within a predetermined number of bit islands, reading the data, and correcting the read data using error correction. An apparatus that implements the method is also provided. | 2010-01-28 |
20100020430 | CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a control device of a storage device that is supplied with a power supply voltage from a power supply and writes write data to a recording medium, includes an input module and a controller. The input module receives a comparison result obtained by comparing the power supply voltage with a threshold voltage. The controller saves the write data to a save area when determining, immediately before writing the write data to the recording medium, that the power supply voltage is lower than the threshold voltage based on the comparison result, and writes the write data saved in the save area to the recording medium. | 2010-01-28 |