| 25th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 25 |
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| 20090153884 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - This disclosure provides a printing method and system including two or more integrated image marking engines, wherein the printing system is operated with less than the total number of image marking engines to generate the maximum specified prints per minute associated with the printing system. According to one exemplary embodiment, each image marking engine is controlled to be inactive in a round-robin manner to maintain substantially equal running time on each image marking engine or a substantially equal number of printed sheets on each marking engine. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153885 | OUTPUT CONTROL DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR THE SAME, AND OUTPUT CONTROL SYSTEM - An output control device includes an output unit configured to output information externally received or to be transmitted outside, a display unit configured to display a predetermined image, a position detecting unit configured to detect a position specified on the predetermined image displayed on the display unit, a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display the predetermined image when the output unit outputs the information, an area specifying unit configured to specify a predetermined area on the predetermined image as an output control area for controlling an output condition of the information to be outputted from the output unit, and an output control unit configured to control the output condition of the information when the specified position on the predetermined image detected by the position detecting unit is within the output control area specified by the area specifying unit. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153886 | PRINTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTER - The present invention is employed for self-service printing vending machines installed in various stores, for example. The present invention is provided for detecting an abnormality of an image and for displaying the abnormality with the corresponding image to be printed. The abnormality is corrected in accordance with an instruction by a user. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153887 | APPARATUS FOR PRINTING CONSISTENT SPOT COLORS - RE A color imaging system is provided with a tagging system that tags spot color pixels in a page description language differently from non-spot color pixels. These tags are generated in a digital front end and stored along with contone values in a data structure. In addition to the tags, a rendering hint remap table and a user TRC remap table are used to bypass applying TRCs to spot colors. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHROMATIC ADAPTATION - A method for performing chromatic adaptation includes performing chromatic adaptation wherein corrections to tristimulous values XYZ are maximized in the regions of white and neutral and are minimized in the vicinity of non-neutral regions of colors space via piecewise linear corrections in XYZ. In one embodiment, a selective linear correction is performed using three matrices one for each sector in an RGB color space. In an alternative embodiment, selective color adjustments are made and the adjustments are partitioned for each primary and secondary color. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153889 | METHOD OF PREVENTING A REGISTRATION ERROR WHILE PRINTING - A method of preventing a registration error while printing at least one printing image, wherein, in order to control or adjust the correct length of the printing image, the start and/or the distance of the printing image lines of the printing image are controlled by determining the ratio of the number of rotary encoder signals of a transport web counted during a specific time interval to the number of rotary encoder signals of a cylinder of a printing and by taking into account a change of this ratio as a correction, said ratio being a function of a printing sheet located in a printing nip between the transport web and the printing unit, is characterized in that a changed printing material situation occurring in said printing nip between the transport web and the printing unit is used to achieve registration accuracy immediately. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153890 | MEDIUM SUPPLYING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A medium supplying unit of an image forming apparatus includes: a cassette frame; a loading plate which is movably coupled to the cassette frame, and which supports a printing medium thereon; a pickup roller which picks up the printing medium from the loading plate; and a loading plate moving unit which causes the loading plate between a knock up state in which the loading plate located to allow the printing medium can be picked up by the pickup roller and a knock down state in which the loading plate is separated from the pickup roller, the loading plate moving unit causing the loading plate to move during when the loading plate is in the knock down state so as to reduce the occurrence of multiple sheets of printing media being picked up and supplied. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153891 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH PROCESSING PROGRAM - In merging the printing data of the merger source to the printing data of the merger destination, the setting information concerning the tab sheets are identified from the both printing data and the aligning process is executed for aligning the tab setting information of the both printing data. For example, the tab positions are changed and aligned in such a way that the tab positions vary sequentially from the start side of pages. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153892 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes plural image processing units that perform image processing on print data; a delivery unit that delivers a whole set of print data formed of plural segments to the plural image processing units; and a sending unit that sends a processing request command that specifies which segment of print data should be subjected to image processing to the plural image processing units, respectively, each of the plural image processing units including a conversion unit that converts print data for a segment specified by the processing request command sent by the sending unit into image information as bitmap data for primary colors. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153893 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of preventing wasteful transmission of metadata. Metadata is registered in advance in association with a type of a transmission destination of an image data. When transmitting the image data, metadata associated with the type of the transmission destination of the image data is determined, and the image data and the determined metadata are transmitted to the transmission destination. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153894 | Image Forming System and Method of Controlling Image Forming Apparatus - A trial mode in which the number of trials is limited can be set for a network printer function and a network scanner function of an image forming apparatus. Then, the use of one of the network printer function and network scanner function of the image forming apparatus for which the trial mode has been set is permitted in accordance with a use request from a user. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153895 | Image Forming Device, Image Forming Device Terminal, and Program - The present invention provides an image forming device terminal for enhancing the productivity of the image forming process such as printing. An image forming device terminal for instructing execution of a printout process on an image forming device capable of executing an authentication print printing, includes a selection accepting unit which accepts a selection of an image forming device for executing the printout process from a plurality of image forming devices; a determination unit which classifies the selected image forming device to a first type image forming device or a second type image forming device based on whether or not the selected image forming device is a default set image forming device; and a generating unit which generates job data as a printout process of not the authentication print printing in a case where the selected image forming device is the first type image forming device, and generates job data as a printout process of the authentication print printing in a case where the image forming device is the second type image forming device. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153896 | Image Forming Device, Image Forming Device Terminal, Image Forming System, and Program - The present invention provides an image forming device capable of maintaining a security level of a document constant, and an image forming device terminal. The image forming device capable of executing an authentication print printing includes a storage unit for storing a document data file and setting data of the authentication print printing of the document data file; a communication interface for receiving instruction data containing instruction of a process related to the document data file; an authentication print setting determination unit for determining whether to execute as the authentication print printing based on setting data stored in the storage unit; an authentication unit; a user authentication unit for outputting the result of the user authentication; a job executing unit for executing the job; and an authentication print setting registration unit for editing the setting data stored in the storage unit based on the instruction data. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153897 | Method, System and Program Product for Reserving a Global Address Space - A method of operating a data processing system includes each of multiple tasks within a parallel job executing on multiple nodes of the data processing system issuing a respective system call to request reservation, without allocation of backing storage in physical memory, of a global address space defined by a range of effective addresses as global shared memory accessible to all of the multiple tasks within the parallel job. At least two of the tasks within the parallel job allocate global address spaces including a same effective address. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153898 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus enables a user to widely select a desired transfer method, in relation to methods of transferring image data to be output to a transfer destination. To accomplish this, the image processing apparatus allows the user to set instruction information for instructing a transfer method of image data, and decides on a transfer method based on the set instruction information if the image data is color data. This transfer method includes a first transfer method of transferring color image data, a second transfer method of converting color image data to monochrome image data and transferring the monochrome image data, and a third transfer method of storing color image data in a storage unit and transmitting a report showing that image data has been received to a transfer destination printer. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153899 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE INPUT/OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system in which a plurality of image input/output apparatus can communicate with one another via a communication medium is provided. The information processing system includes a transfer unit configured to transfer a job from a first image input/output apparatus to a second image input/output apparatus; and a generating unit configured to generate a job handle used to identify a job on the first image input/output apparatus from the second image input/output apparatus, the job handle allowing the job to be manipulated. When the job is to be transferred by the transfer unit, the job handle generated by the generating unit is transmitted from the first image input/output apparatus to the second image input/output apparatus before the transfer of the job. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153900 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - When an instruction to transfer a print job, which has been issued from a print data source to Device A, to Device B is made, a transfer request for the job is issued from Device A to Device B ( | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153901 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM - The image forming device capable of executing an authentication print printing includes: a communication interface for receiving job data; a job data property deriving unit for deriving a property of the job by referencing data contained in the job data other than data explicitly indicating to execute/not to execute the authentication print printing and outputting the property as job property data; an authentication print setting deciding unit for deciding whether or not to execute the job as the authentication print printing; an authentication unit; a user authentication unit for outputting the result of the user authentication; and a job executing unit for executing the job related to the job data. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153902 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, JOB EXECUTION INSTRUCTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING JOB EXECUTION INSTRUCTING PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus, if a target file to be used for job execution, which is stored in a directory, is detected as being dragged and dropped into an icon instructing to execute a job, the directory storing the target file is detected from the target file itself. And a job execution condition applied to the detected directory, which is stored in an execution condition storage, is given to the target file. And then, a controller outputs a job execution instruction to a job execution apparatus, in order to execute a job about the target file under the job execution condition given thereto. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153903 | IMAGE INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORD MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR IMAGE INFORMATION PROCESSING - An image information storage device is configured such that, when an output control unit makes the output unit output an image represented by first image data stored in an image data storage, the output control unit makes the output unit also output the registration information which has been associated with the first image data, or when the output control unit makes the output unit output first registration information stored in the registration information storage unit, the output control unit makes the output unit also output an image represented by image data which has been associated with first registration information. Further, when there is an input specifying association of the first registration information stored in the registration information storage unit with second image data, the registration control unit associates the first registration information with the first image data and the second image data, and stores in the registration information storage unit. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153904 | Opportunistic process control for printers - A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving print data at an electrophotographic printer; examining the print data to determine if an image within the print data may be used to perform one or more process control measurements and performing the process control measurement if it is determined that the image may be used. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153905 | Systems and methods for processing of variable documents - A method of processing an electronic version of a variable document for a recipient includes the steps of receiving the electronic version of the variable document for the recipient and rasterizing the electronic version into one or more rasterized images, wherein each rasterized image is assigned a unique identifier. The method further includes the step of generating a run instance for the recipient, wherein the run instance includes the unique identifiers of the one or more rasterized images. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153906 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium storing image processing program - An image processing apparatus is disclosed. In the image processing apparatus, a vector converting section converts image data output from a color scanner into vector coefficients, and a color mapping section converts the image data, which are converted into the vector coefficients, into L kinds of record image data corresponding to color materials which are used by a color printer, by referring to an M-dimensional LUT (lookup table). In the M-dimensional LUT, record image data optimal under plural observing light sources have been stored corresponding to the image data converted into the vector coefficients. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153907 | EFFICIENT DIFFUSION DITHERING USING DYADIC RATIONALS - Diffusion dithering can be performed efficiently by applying a set of diffusion filter weights with one or more shift, add, and/or subtract operations. An existing diffusion filter can be approximated with dyadic rationals, thereby allowing division operations in applying the filter weights to be performed with bit-shifting operations. An algorithm is identified to calculate the product of a set of filter weights and a pixel error, where the algorithm performs the calculations using one or more shift, add, or subtract operations. An exhaustive search of the combinations of operations can be made to find an efficient algorithm to calculate the products | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153908 | FACSIMILE DEVICE FOR DIRECTLY COMMUNICATING OVER IP NETWORKS - Implementations described herein may provide fax terminals that can communicate directly with one another over packet-based networks. In one implementation, a fax device may include a network connection configured to connect the device to a packet-based network. The fax device may further include a control unit. The control unit may, in response to a user command, transmit a facsimile document via the network connection and the packet-based network. The fax device may be implemented as a single integrated facsimile appliance. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153909 | AUTOMATED E-MAIL ADDRESS BOOK UPDATE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT OUTPUT DEVICES - A method for adding a user's e-mail address to the address book of a networked document output device includes receiving an electronic message from a user, automatically extracting the sender's electronic address, and automatically adding the electronic address to an address book used by the document output device. A networked document output device includes memory for storing document data, means for sending document to users on a network, means for receiving electronic communications from a networked user, and a controller for practicing a method that includes extracting an electronic address from a received e-mail, and adding the user's address to a local address book. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153910 | Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming System - An image forming apparatus is supplied capable of feeding paper or ejecting paper to position which is desired by user. In the image forming apparatus which has medium accommodating sections, a first storing section stores accommodating section selection data correspondence information in which first medium accommodating section selection data assigned to other image forming apparatus corresponds to second medium accommodating section selection data assigned to the image forming apparatus serving as self apparatus; a receiving section receives the first medium accommodating section selection data and image data from an upper apparatus; a correcting section corrects the first medium accommodating section selection data received from the upper apparatus into second medium accommodating section selection data on the basis of the accommodating section selection data correspondence information stored in the first storing section; and a selecting section selects medium accommodating section on the basis of the second medium accommodating section selection data obtained by the correcting section. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153911 | Apparatus and Methods for Two Point Tone Reproduction Curve Calibration - Systems and methods provide increased accuracy in recalibrating the tone reproduction curve (TRC) for a photoelectric image sensor that senses density values. The sensor outputs sensed density values for tone patches. A recalibrated TRC is calculated from the original TRC, the known densities of the tone patches, and the sensed density values of the tone patches. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153912 | Scanner Calibration Strip, Scanner, and Method for Segmenting a Scanned Document Image - A scanner calibration strip medium is described which includes at least one of a plurality of text symbols and a plurality of halftoned non-text images. A scanner is described which includes a scan bar and a scanner calibration strip medium scannable by the scan bar. The calibration strip medium includes a plurality of text symbols having text pixels and a plurality of halftoned non-text images having halftoned non-text pixels. A method for segmenting a scanned document image into text symbols and halftoned non-text images is described which uses a scanner calibration strip medium which includes a plurality of text symbols having text pixels and a plurality of halftoned non-text symbols having halftoned non-text pixels, wherein the calibration strip medium has a known pixel classification including which pixels of the calibration strip medium are text pixels and which pixels of the calibration strip medium are halftoned non-text pixels. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153913 | Method For Providing Enhancement With An Imaging Apparatus - A method for providing image enhancement with an imaging apparatus includes imaging a target a plurality of times to generate a corresponding plurality of image data sets; averaging the image data sets on a pixel-by-pixel basis to generate a final image data set corresponding to the target; and generating an output image of the target based on the final image data set. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153914 | INPUT APPARATUS FOLLOWING TASK FLOW AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An input apparatus includes a command input unit to input a command, a key input unit having at least one key, a navigation key input unit having a rotatable navigation key, and a display panel unit to perform displaying according to manipulation of the command input unit, the key input unit, and the navigation key. In the input apparatus, the command input unit, the key input unit, the navigation key input unit, and the display panel unit are arranged in sequence according to a task flow, so a user-friendly input apparatus can be implemented. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153915 | HERMETIC SEAL FOR A SCANNER ASSEMBLY OF A PROBE STORAGE DEVICE - A scanner assembly includes a first sealing ring that extends around one of first and second actuating mechanisms of the scanner assembly. A first sealant ring is positioned upon the first sealing ring and is formed from one of a solder seal, glass frit seal and a glue seal. The first sealant ring provides a hermetic seal that maintains a desired operating environment for the one of the first and second actuating mechanisms and a mechanical support for a top plate. A second sealing ring extends around a media table of the scanner assembly. A second sealant ring is positioned upon the second sealing ring and is formed from one of a solder seal, glass frit seal and a glue seal. The second sealing ring provides a hermetic seal that maintains a desired operating environment for the media table and a mechanical support for an array chip. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153916 | MEDIA OUTPUT OPTION LIGHTING SYSTEM - An electrophotographic device includes a scanning unit, at least one media output option for receiving a media sheet, and at least one light source for emitting a light beam to at least partially illuminate a media sheet receiving portion of the at least one media output tray. The media output tray is vertically stacked below the scanning unit. Still further, a user alert display is provided to alert a user to the presence of a media sheet in the output tray. A sensor detects a media sheet received in the output tray, and activates the light source and optionally the user alert display. The media output option may include a plurality of output trays, each output tray having a dedicated light source, user alert display, and sensor. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153917 | Image reader - An image reader has a transport passage for transporting an original, a CIS for reading an image on the original transported on the transport passage, and a control member for pressing the transported original against an abutment member disposed at an opposed side of the transport passage at a read position of the CIS. The original does not slide on glass at the read position of the CIS and is moved with the original abutted against the abutment member of a chute on the opposed side, and image data is read in sequence. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153918 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - A scan job for scanning in an evidenced document is transmitted from a client terminal to a scanner. The scanner executes the scan job that has been received. If the scan job to be executed designates overlay printing, form data to be overlaid with the data scanned in by the scan job is selected (S | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153919 | ENHANCED ILLUMINATED SCANNING UNIT REFERENCE MARKER - A method for providing a visible reference marker on a scanning unit for orienting an item to be scanned or copied includes the steps of emitting a light from a light source, guiding the light to a scanning unit having a contact glass scanning surface, and redirecting the light to define an illuminated reference marker substantially adjacent to the contact glass. A reference marker assembly for accomplishing that method is provided, including a light source, a waveguide for guiding light emitted from the light source to a scanning unit having a contact glass, and a redirector for redirecting the light to define an illuminated reference marker adjacent to the contact glass, for orienting an item to be copied or scanned. The light source may be a light emitting diode, and the redirector may be a light diffuser for redirecting the collected light to define an illuminated reference marker adjacent to the contact glass. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153920 | DETACHABLE TRANSPARENT PLATE FOR SCAN HEAD ASSEMBLY - A detachable transparent plate for a scan head assembly in a document scanning system that allows an operator to detach the transparent plate from the scan head assembly located above a media feed path to clean a top face of the transparent plate and easily reattach it to the scan head assembly. The scan head assembly has an optical system and a sealing member detachably mounted to a bottom end of the optical system. The transparent plate is received and supported by the sealing member and defines a portion of a bottom surface of the sealing member. The sealing member is detachable from the bottom end of the optical system to allow an operator access to the top face of the transparent plate of the sealing member for cleaning the top face of the transparent plate. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153921 | Image forming device and image forming method - The present invention provides an image forming device using a toner that maintains a color-generation state or non-color-generation state owing to color-generation information provided by light, comprising: an image forming unit comprising a developing unit including a photoreceptor and the toner that forms a toner image, a color-generation information providing unit that, based on image data, provides the toner with color-generation information by exposing the toner image to light, a transfer unit, a fixing unit, and a color-generating unit that allows respective toner to generate the color, a toner temperature regulating unit, and a control unit that controls the toner temperature regulating unit so the temperature of the toner is within a predetermined range, and an image forming method using the same. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153922 | Multifunction Sensor for An Image Forming Device - The present application is directed to methods and devices for determining the presence of a module and presence of a media sheet in a media path using output signals from a single sensor in an image forming device. One embodiment includes a sensor which may be oriented in a variety of positions through interaction with the module and the media sheet. An algorithm may be used to determine the presence of the module in a module insertion path and presence of the media sheet in the media path based on the position of the sensor. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153923 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RENDERING AND PRINTING REVERSE FINE FEATURES - A method and system are proposed in which a moving window based operator is applied to a page of a PDL document that has been decomposed, and the objects within the page flattened and rasterized. The window moves along the raster scan line, and processes rasterized data within the window, detecting any color-to-white or white-to-color interface (edge). The white rasterized portion is then dilated outward across the interface into the color portion, the dilated amount being based on a size of a reverse fine line and/or small text font character to be reproduced. A size of the fine line and/or small text font object is determined and if below a threshold, object dilation may be given effect. A dilation amount may increase as the object size decreases until the size reaches a lower threshold at and beyond which a maximum dilation amount may be applied. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153924 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SCANNING IMAGES - In a method or system for scanning a source image, the source image is scanned with a sensor that comprises multiple line arrays designed to detect a specific color such that a color separation of the source image to be scanned is generated by each line array. The color separations represent the source image in the form of pixels. The pixels of the different separations of the source image are at least partially offset relative to one another. The pixels of the color separations are separately filtered with multiple FIR sub-filters. The filtered pixels of the source image of the multiple color separations are summed into pixels of a target image. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153925 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINING IMAGE AND NON-IMAGE SIDES OF SCANNED HARDCOPY MEDIA - A system and method for determining the image and ancillary image sides of scanned hardcopy media. Hardcopy prints typically provide ancillary data to supply additional information for an area of interest and can enhance the analysis of key data in the print. Postcards, for example, provide a unique form of ancillary data. On the back of a postcard image, ancillary data information such as stamps, user notes, dates, addresses, and other types of annotation can be found. This data typically provides additional information to a reader of the postcard. Dual sided scanners provide both the image and ancillary (i.e., non-image) scans simultaneously. In addition, ancillary data can be in a variety of formats, such as audio, video and the like. When a hardcopy print is scanned the scanner provides two image files that represent the image and ancillary image sides of the print. However, given two image files that represent a hardcopy print scan, the front and back need to be automatically identified as to which is of primary interest to a user. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153926 | Hologram Imaging Techniques And Holograms - This invention relates to improved techniques for reading holograms, in particular volume reflection holograms, and to improved security documents incorporating volume reflection holograms. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153927 | HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE MEDIUM AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING/REPRODUCING HOLOGRAPHIC DATA TO/FROM THE SAME - Provided are a holographic data storage medium and an apparatus and method for recording/reproducing holographic data using the same. The holographic data storage medium includes: a substrate; a holographic recording layer disposed on the substrate; and a cover layer covering the holographic recording layer. The holographic recording layer includes: a data recording region including a plurality of data layers to which data is recorded, the data recording region in which interference fringes due to first and second beams are formed in different data layers in a depthwise direction; and a layer discrimination region for providing discrimination between the data layers. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153928 | ENGINE FOR VIDEO PROJECTION/DIGITISER/DIGITAL RADAR WITH MULTIPLE ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION BEAMS - Engine for video projection/digitiser/digital radar with multiple electromagnetic radiation beams for carrying out the projection or recording in 2D or 3D on any surface or in any volume. The invention relates to an optical digital video projection device for multi beam projection onto any surface or into any volume in 2D or 3D, within a solid angle from 0° to 360°, for example, 180, 270, or 360°. The device can also be used in digitiser and/or radar function for the recording/digitisation of spatial and frequency information. The processing of electromagnetic radiation, for example, visible, infrared ultraviolet, microwave radiation in lime, space and frequency either passively or actively for example, by means of mirror/filter windows permits a filter function specific to the target applications. The source uses a light source comprising, for example, a number of weak/medium/high power lasers coupled to a number of optical sources, optical source modules, coloured beam generators or optical matrix heads. The digitisation function uses, for example, a number of photodiode capture devices, charge coupled devices (CCD), etc. The function for digitisation/optical radar in 2D or 3D using light beams permits use in different types of application, in telecommunications, for road maritime, aerial or space navigation. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153929 | APPARATUS FOR RECORDING/REPRODUCING HOLOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - A holographic information recording and/or reproducing apparatus, including a light source to emit light; a polarization forming optical system to form a polarized signal beam and a polarized reference beam from the light emitted from the light source, wherein the polarized signal beam and the polarized reference beam are incident on a holographic information storage medium through an identical surface; a focusing optical system to focus the polarized signal beam and the polarized reference beam onto in the holographic information storage medium so that information is recorded by an interference pattern; and an adjustment optical system to set the focal positions of the polarized signal beam and the polarized reference beam, and to adjust a difference between a path of the polarized signal beam and a path of the polarized reference beam. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153930 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, OPTICAL SCANNING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device includes a laser light source that emits a laser beam; a light deflector that deflects the laser beam; a scan-imaging optical system that focuses the laser beam deflected from the light deflector on a scanning surface to optically scan the scanning surface; a diffractive optical element receives the laser beam and diffracts a portion of the laser beam as a diffracted light; and a detecting unit that detects the diffracted light. The laser light source is a surface-emitting laser light source. Moreover, the diffractive optical element is made of plastic material having a linear expansion coefficient within a temperature variation range of the optical scanning device nearly equal to a rate of wavelength change of an emission wavelength of the laser light source within the temperature variation range. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153931 | PROJECTION SYSTEM, PROJECTION LENS MODULE, OPTICAL ACTUATOR AND ITS DRIVING METHOD - A driving method of an optical actuator is applied to a projection system. The optical actuator includes a carrier, an optical element and an actuator component. The optical element is disposed at the carrier. The actuator component drives the carrier to rotate an angle. The driving method includes the steps of providing a driving signal having an initial section and a target section, and shifting the optical element between a position driven by the initial section and a position driven by the target section via the actuator component according to a first acceleration-deceleration section and a second acceleration-deceleration section. In addition, an optical actuator, a projection lens module and a projection system are also disclosed. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153932 | MEMS devices and related scanned beam devices - Embodiments relate to a MEMS device including a scanner rotatable about at least one rotation axis, with the scanner having a characteristic resonant frequency. According to one embodiment, the MEMS device includes drive electronics operable to generate a drive signal that causes the scanner to oscillate at an operational frequency about the at least one rotation axis. The drive signal has a drive frequency selected to be about equal to the characteristic resonant frequency or a sub-harmonic frequency of the characteristic resonant frequency. According to another embodiment, the drive electronics are operable to generate a drive signal having a plurality of drive-signal pulses that moves the scanner at an operational frequency and sensing electronics are operable to sense a position of the scanner only when the drive-signal pulses of the drive signal are not being transmitted by the drive electronics. The MEMS device embodiments may be incorporated in scanned beam imagers, endoscopes, and displays. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153933 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A disclosed optical scanning device includes a light source unit configured to emit a laser beam; an oscillating mirror configured to deflect the laser beam from the light source unit; a scanning/imaging optical system configured to focus the deflected laser beam on a target surface; and plural light-receiving elements configured to receive the laser beam in a scanning area of the laser beam, the position of the oscillating mirror being adjusted such that time intervals between output pulses in output signals of the respective light-receiving elements become substantially the same between the light-receiving elements and/or widths of the output pulses become substantially the same between the light-receiving elements. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153934 | OPTICAL SCANNER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A curvature-adjustment device used for an optical scanner that includes an optical beam emission unit to emit an optical beam, a deflection unit to deflect the optical beam in a main scanning direction and a mirror to reflect the optical beam. The curvature-adjustment device corrects a curvature of a main scanning line on a surface of a scanning target, and includes a support unit to support the mirror at an end thereof by contacting a rear surface of the mirror, an edge-positioned adjustment unit to curve the mirror by exerting a first force, a center-positioned adjustment unit to curve the mirror reversely in a direction to which the edge-positioned adjustment unit curves the mirror by providing a second force perpendicular to the reflecting surface at a center of the mirror, and a fine adjustment unit to adjust the strength of the first force depending on the strength of the second force. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153935 | ACTUATOR - An actuator according to the present invention includes: a base | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153936 | FIBER BASED MEMS - MEMS can be fabricated from fibers without the use of a matrix material. Devices can be built where fibers are attached only at a substrate edge (e.g. cantilevers, bridges). Motions can be controlled by adjusting the linkage between multiple fibers with weak coupling (e.g. base, tip, in-between). Driving mechanisms include base-forcing (magnetics, piezo, electrostatics) or tip forcing (magnetics). Mirrors may be formed on free ends of cantilevers to form optical scanners. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153937 | LIGHT QUANTITY CONTROL DEVICE - A light quantity control device includes: a bottom board having an opening; a first blade and a second blade linearly moving in opposing directions and changing in an opening area of the opening; a supporting blade overlapping the first blade and closing the opening in cooperation with the first blade and the second blade; and a driving lever connected to the first blade, the second blade, and the supporting blade, and driving the first blade, the second blade, and the supporting blade by rotation of the driving lever. The first blade and the supporting blade are engaged with an identical pin provided in the driving lever. The first blade and the supporting blade are misaligned in such a way to reduce an overlapping degree of the first blade and the supporting blade. The first blade and the supporting blade bring the opening to the fully closed state in cooperation with the second blade. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153938 | Method for enhanced detection of faint targets in systems employing an external occulter - One embodiment of the present method and apparatus encompasses a method having the steps of: locating a rotateable occulter between a star having at least one planet and a light detector for detecting light from the star and the planet, the rotateable occulter having a central circular obscuration, and a plurality of hypergaussian-shaped petals that are located around the central circular obscuration; substantially blocking on axis light from the star with the central circular obscuration; rotating the occulter such that light from the planet oscillates due to changing azimuthal orientation; synchronizing the light from the planet to orientation of the occulter; and detecting off-axis light from the planet with the light detector. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153939 | COLOR DISPLAY DEVICE - The color display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second, substrate, a color reflection layer, and a color conversion layer. The first substrate is divided into a plurality of sub-pixel regions and includes a thin film transistor having a first electrode. The second substrate faces the first substrate and includes a second electrode to form an electric field together with the first electrode. The color reflection layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to reflect incident light, and the color conversion layer is disposed on the color reflection layer. The color conversion layer is a single layer. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153940 | QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION-MODULATED RETRO-REFLECTOR - A method for point-to-point communication over an optical channel is provided. An optical beam is received at a first corner cube modulated retro-reflector. Simultaneously, the optical beam is received at a second corner cube modulated retro-reflector. The first and second corner cube modulated retro-reflectors are adjacent to each other, are co-boresighted, and have an aggregate diameter that is smaller than the far-field Instantaneous Field of View of a receiver. The optical beam is modified by the first corner cube modulated retro-reflector by adding a first modulation to the optical beam, forming a first modulated optical beam. Simultaneously, the optical beam is modified by the second corner cube modulated retro- reflector by adding a second modulation to the optical beam, forming a second modulated optical beam. The first modulated optical beam and the second modulated optical beam combine to form a modified optical wavefront, which is reflected to a sender. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153941 | HINGE MEMORY MITIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided are a system and method for reducing failures due to hinge memory. The method, in one embodiment, includes providing a torsional element having an amount of hinge memory, wherein the hinge memory is at least partially created using an average operational temperature. The method, in this embodiment, further includes subjecting the torsional element having the hinge memory to a temperature equal to or greater than the average operational temperature while the torsional element is in a parked state for an amount of time to reduce the amount of the hinge memory. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153942 | PARTICLE DISPLAY WITH JET-PRINTED COLOR FILTERS AND SURFACE COATINGS - An improved method of forming a display is described. The method includes the operation of forming a cell in an array of cells. Walls of the cell are used to confine both a color filter and a display material prior to sealing the cell. The method is particularly useful when jet printing particulate display materials and filter materials to form pixels in a display. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153943 | IMAGE DISPLAY MEDIUM, DRIVE DEVICE FOR IMAGE DISPLAY MEDIUM AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display medium comprising a pair of substrates, at least one of which is light-transmissive; two or more kinds of particles having different colors and charge polarities, the particles being positioned between the pair of substrates such that the particles can move in response to an electric field generated between the pair of substrates; and an electric charge-retention layer provided at a side of at least one of the pair of substrates. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153944 | SPD FILMS AND LIGHT VALVES INCORPORATING OVERCOATINGS WHICH ENHANCE FILM ADHESION TO SUBSTRATES, HAVE GOOD COHESION AND PROTECT AGAINST ELECTRICAL SHORT CIRCUITS - An electro-optical device, e.g., a suspended particle device (SPD) adapted for controlling the transmission of radiation wherein the device is provided with at least one layer of an overcoating adapted to enhance adhesion on at least a portion of a surface between a film serving as a light modulating element and electrode means for applying an electrical field to said film, wherein the overcoating is formed from a material comprising a member selected from the group consisting of (a) titanium dioxide (TiO | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153945 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device comprising: (i) a pair of substrates facing each other; and (ii) particles placed in a gap between the substrates, wherein at least one of the substrates is a resin substrate which is transparent and exhibits a light transmittance of 50% or more at a wavelength of 300 nm. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153946 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a substrate; a display area including a plurality of pixels provided on the substrate; a switching element provided for each of the pixels, the switching element including a first semiconductor layer formed of a first organic semiconductor; and a humidity sensor provided on the substrate and outside the display area. The humidity sensor includes, as a humidity sensitive layer, a second semiconductor layer formed of a second organic semiconductor having a correlation in terms of electric characteristics with the first organic semiconductor. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153947 | ELECTROPHORESIS DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electrophoresis display includes an element substrate; a counter substrate; an electrophoresis layer sandwiched between the element substrate and the counter substrate; and a driver circuit disposed in an area of the element substrate that is outside a display area. In this electrophoresis display, the counter substrate overlaps the display area and at least part of an area of the element substrate where the driver circuit is disposed. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153948 | THz Wave Generation Device - [Task] To provide the THz wave generator restricting increase in manufacturing cost or large size of the entirety of the apparatus and generating efficiently the several-W THz wave. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153949 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - [Problems] To accommodate a plurality of optical semiconductor elements in one package with their optical axes aligned highly precisely. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153950 | Phase Stabilization Device For Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Phase Conjugate Mirrors And Light Amplification Apparatus Using The Same - The object of this invention is to provide a phase stabilization device for stimulated brillouin scattering-phase conjugate mirrors and a light amplification apparatus using the phase stabilization device. A light amplification apparatus of the present invention includes a polarizer ( | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153951 | RAMAN AMPLIFIER AND RAMAN AMPLIFIER ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A pumping unit supplies pumping light to a fiber connecting medium, a light monitoring unit detects light power of multiple-wavelength light; and a control unit controls the pumping light based on light power detected by the light monitoring unit and connecting medium information indicating optical characteristics in the connecting medium. The connecting medium information includes information indicating a fiber type of the fiber connecting medium, information indicating a length of the fiber connecting medium, an average fiber loss coefficient of the fiber connecting medium and an intra-station loss value. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153952 | OPTICAL RESONATOR - An optical resonator includes a master resonator configured to resonate an electromagnetic wave, one structure or a pair of structures adjacent to each other, each of which is arranged at a position that overlaps one of resonance modes of the master resonator, is made up of a material in which a real part of a permittivity assumes a negative value, and an absolute value of the real part is larger than an absolute value of an imaginary part of the permittivity, and has a size which makes scattering that the electromagnetic wave suffers be Rayleigh scattering, and one or a plurality of particles, each of which is laid out near the structure by a distance smaller than the size of the structure. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153953 | Multi-Layer Photonic Structures Having Omni-Directional Reflectivity and Coatings Incorporating The Same - A multi-layer photonic structure may include alternating layers of high index material and low index material having a form [H(LH) | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153954 | Off-Axis Catadioptric Projection Optical System for Lithography - The present invention is directed to off-axis catadioptric projection optical systems for use in lithography tools for processing modulated light used to form an image on a substrate, such as a semiconductor wafer or flat panel display. In one embodiment the optical system includes an off-axis mirror segment, a fold mirror, a relay, an aperture stop and a refractive lens group. Modulated light is transmitted through the system to form an image on a substrate. In a second embodiment the projection system includes an off-axis mirror segment, an aperture stop and a refractive lens group. In a third embodiment the projection system includes an off-axis mirror segment, a negative refractive lens group, a concave mirror, a relay, an aperture stop, and a refractive lens group. A method to produce a device using a lithographic apparatus including a projection system with an off-axis mirror segment as the first element in a projection optics system is also provided. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153955 | Scanning microscope - A scanning microscope includes a source of illumination light; a scanner scanning the illumination light in a two-dimensional direction crossing a light axis; a lens irradiating the illumination light to a sample, and collecting return light from the sample; a focusing position adjuster adjusting a focal position in a light axis direction; and a light detector detecting collected light. A storage section stores the intensity of detected light, and positional information of an irradiating position of the illumination light set by the scanner and the focusing position adjuster. An image processor acquires images parallel to the light axis based on the intensity of return light and the stored positional information, and processes the images to detect a moving distance along a light axis direction of an area of the sample. The focusing position adjuster is controlled to correct a light condensing position of the illumination light. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153956 | MICROSCOPE ILLUMINATION APPARATUS - A microscope illumination apparatus includes a light source, a collector lens for converting a light ray from the light source into an almost collimated light flux, a field stop provided in the almost collimated light flux from the collector lens, a field lens for converting a light ray from the field stop into an almost collimated light flux, and a condenser lens for collecting the almost collimated light flux from the field lens on a sample surface. The distance between the condenser lens and the field lens is variable. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153957 | PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A projection-type display apparatus and a display method thereof are disclosed, the projection-type display apparatus including a coated portion which is formed on a surface of a substrate, and which scans a video onto a screen, and a patterned portion which is formed on another surface of the substrate in a serrated pattern, wherein the serrated pattern is formed on the substrate according to the surface area of the patterned portion and the depth of the serrated pattern. A serrated pattern is formed on a substrate forming a reflective portion to reflect a video on a screen, so the cooling surface area of the substrate is increased, thereby compensating for distortions in video scanned onto the screen. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153958 | DISPLAY SCREEN FOR USE IN FRONT PROJECTORS - A screen for use in image presentations comprises an array of transmissive elongated prisms. The screen is capable of delivering incident light, having an incident angle within a specific incident angle range, to the viewing area, while preventing ambient light to be directed to the viewing area. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153959 | 1D AND 2D COMPOSITE LENTICULAR FILMS AND FABRICATION METHODS - A composite lenticular film includes a first layer having a first refractive index, and a second layer having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index. The second layer is integrally attached to the first layer. The first layer has at least one row of protruding lenses. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153960 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes plural image forming devices and an observation optical system that includes at least a first optical system configured to fold in a first section a luminous flux from a first image forming device by using a plurality of reflective surfaces and to guide the luminous flux from the first image forming device to the exit pupil, and a second optical system configured to fold in a second section a luminous flux from a second image forming device by using a plurality of reflective surfaces and to guide the luminous flux from the second image forming device to the exit pupil, wherein the first section intersects the second section on an axis that directs from one point in the exit pupil to one point in the observation field. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153961 | Grid Polarizer and Method for Manufacturing the Same - A grid polarizer comprising a first layer composed of a transparent material, a third layer composed of a transparent material, and a second layer laminated between the first layer and the third layer, the second layer having a plurality of layers A extended in an elongated linear state and a plurality of layers B extended in an elongated linear state, in which the layers A and the layers B are alternately arranged side by side, the layers A extended in an elongated linear state comprise a material with an absolute value of a difference between a real part n and an imaginary part κ in a complex refractive index (N=n−iκ) at 1.0 or more, the layers B extended in the elongated linear state comprise a gas, and the third layer is connected to the layers A through a chemical compound having a reactive group bindable with an inorganic material and a reactive group bindable with an organic material, comprises a transparent inorganic oxide or a transparent inorganic nitride, or comprises a porous substance. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153962 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY OPTICAL FILM, HEAD-UP DISPLAY, AND VEHICLE - A head-up display optical film includes: a first optical layer configured to convert the polarization plane of incident light by 90 degrees; a second optical layer configured to convert the polarization plane of incident light by 90 degrees; and an intermediate optical layer sandwiched between the first optical layer and the second optical layer and having a refractive index that is different from the refractive index of the first optical layer and from the refractive index of the second optical layer. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153963 | Light Source Switching Device Adapted for a Projection System - A light source switching device for use in a projection system is provided. The light source switching device comprises at least two light guiding devices and at least one phase switching device. The phase switching device is disposed between the two light guiding devices and adapted to be in one of a first status and a second status. When the first light travels into the light source switching device, the phase switching device is capable of being in the first status such that the first light is adapted to emit out from the outlet surface. When the second light travels into the light source switching device, the phase switching device is capable of being in the second status such that the second light is adapted to emit out from the outlet surface. With the switching operation of the phase switching device, the plural lights provided by plural light sources would be selected and uniformized by the light source switching device. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153964 | METHODS FOR REDUCING POLARIZATION ABERRATION IN OPTICAL SYSTEMS - An optical system includes multiple cubic crystalline optical elements and one or more uniaxial birefringent elements in which the crystal lattices of the cubic crystalline optical elements are oriented with respect to each other to reduce the effects of intrinsic birefringence and produce a system with reduced retardance. The net retardance of the system is reduced by the cancellation of retardance contributions from the multiple cubic crystalline optical elements and the uniaxial birefringent element. The optical system may be used in a photolithography tool to pattern substrates such as semiconductor substrates and thereby produce semiconductor devices. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153965 | Polarizer Protective Film, Polarizing Plate, and Image Display Apparatus - Provided are: a polarizer protective film having excellent optical properties and mechanical strength, with the productivity and reworking property enhanced; a polarizing plate with less defects in an outer appearance, using a polarizer formed of the polarizer protective film and a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin; and an image display apparatus of high quality using the polarizing plate. The polarizer protective film of the present invention includes as a main component a (meth)acrylic resin, which is stretched by longitudinal stretching and/or lateral stretching. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153966 | IMAGING DEVICE AND OPTICAL DEVICE - An imaging device comprising a light transmissive member | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153967 | OPTICAL SECURITY DEVICE OFFERING 2D IMAGE - The present invention provides for a diffractive element comprising a diffractive optical microstructure consisting of a modulated structure of a diffractive type which upon illumination by diffused ambient light creates a two-dimensional image to be viewed by an observer upon tilting or rotating the device or by varying lighting direction, wherein the diffractive modulated structure of the device consists of various generally parameterised special optical elements with specifically prescribed groove shapes, wherein each groove shape, position, centre(s), and line thickness, are described by functions describing those dependencies which are variables of the positional coordinate of the optical element. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153968 | SPECTRAL BEAM COMBINATION USING BROAD BANDWIDTH LASERS - The present invention provides systems and methods for spectral beam combination by applying a spatial chirp to each of a plurality of input beamlets using a respective plurality of dispersive elements and combining the spatially-chirped beamlets into a single collimated output beam using a dispersive element configured to remove the spatial chirp. In an embodiment, each dispersive element is a grating combined with a lens that is confocal to the grating and also confocal to a Fourier plane upon which a transverse distribution of beam spectral components is produced. A final lens-grating pair includes a lens and a grating, where the lens is confocal to the grating and also confocal to the Fourier plane. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153969 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The image display apparatus includes an image-forming element configured to form an original image, a first optical element configured to reflect a light flux from the image-forming element sequentially by plural reflective surfaces to cause the light flux to emerge from the first optical element, and an optical system configured to introduce the light flux from the first optical element to an exit pupil of the optical system. The optical system includes a diffractive optical element. In the optical system, a first portion closer to the exit pupil than the diffractive optical element has a negative optical power. No decentered surface having an optical power is provided between the diffractive optical element and the exit pupil. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153970 | Laminated lens package and method of fabricating the same - A laminated lens package and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The laminated lens package includes a first lens layer including a first lens element formed at one surface thereof through a first mold; a second lens layer including a second lens element formed at one surface thereof through a second mold, corresponding to a location of the first lens element; and a polymer layer provided between the first lens layer and the second lens layer. Accordingly, desired refraction can be implemented by controlling a refractive index. Also, since no spacers are used, defects caused by adhesion of an adhesive agent do not occur. Thus, a fabrication process is simplified, so that productivity can be improved and a fabrication cost can be reduced. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153971 | OPTICAL MULTILAYER THIN-FILM FILTERS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Optical multilayer thin-film filters (OMTFFs) are disclosed. An exemplary filter includes a transparent substrate, a multilayer film (MF) on a surface of the substrate, and a top layer. The MF is of alternatingly laminated layers of a high-refractive-index (HRI) material and a low-refractive-index (LRI) material. The top layer is on an uppermost layer of the MF and is of a material having atoms of lower atomic weight than atoms of either the HRI or LRI materials. The OMTFFs are made in a vacuum environment by alternatingly laminating respective thin films of the HRI and LRI materials on the substrate. The top layer is formed on the MF. Between forming the MF and top layer is a suppression step in which the newly formed MF is exposed to moisture by briefly venting the vacuum to atmosphere. The moisture inhibits migration of the low-molecular-weight atoms into the HRI and LRI materials. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153972 | TRANSLUCENT SUBSTRATE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, ORGANIC LED ELEMENT AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides an organic LED element in which the extraction efficiency is improved up to 80% of emitted light. Further, the invention relates to an electrode-attached translucent substrate having a translucent substrate, a scattering layer formed over the glass substrate and containing a base material having a first refractive index for at least one wavelength of wavelengths of emitted light of an organic LED element and a plurality of scattering materials positioned in the base material and having a second refractive index different from that of the base material, and a translucent electrode formed over the scattering layer and having a third refractive index equal to or lower than the first refractive index, in which distribution of the scattering materials in the scattering layer decreases from the inside of the scattering layer toward the translucent electrode. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153973 | LENS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An exemplary lens ( | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153974 | Optical elements with saddle shaped structures for diffusing or shaping light - Optical elements for efficiently diffusing or shaping light have substrates with saddle shaped structures on their surfaces which provide substantially uniform light along a predefined angular range. Each saddle shaped structure defines an aperture of a lens, where the outer boundary of such aperture, when viewed normal to surface, may be of one of more different shapes, such as square or rectangular, circular, hexagonal, oval, or other geometric or arbitrary shape which may represent a full saddle shape or a subset region thereof. A plurality of saddle shaped structures may be arranged periodically or randomly along the surface. An optical element with a saddle shaped structure is referred to as a saddle lens, and optical elements with different shaped saddle shaped structures provide different types of saddle lenses. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153975 | High Power EUV Lamp System - A system for providing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation comprises a laser source arranged to produce a laser beam having a focus; and a carrier movable relative to the laser source for carrying a surface material, the surface material when carried by the carrier providing a renewable target edge. The focussed beam is arranged to impinge on the target edge to produce an EUV radiation emitting plasma. The system is cooperable with a mirror for harnessing the EUV radiation by reflecting EUV radiation impinging thereon. The mirror comprises a substantially aspheric surface and means for supplying a reflecting liquid to at least partially coat the aspheric surface, the mirror being rotatable to centrifugally confine the liquid to the aspheric surface. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153976 | Wide-Angle Glasses-Free 3-D Image Display System Without Ghosting Providing Real Depth and Agreement between Accommodation and Convergence - An image display system provides a viewer with an experience of three-dimensional imagery by presenting a composite image made up of at least two separate images. The system includes at least first and second image sources, a beam combiner, and a “background-image-occluding element” which prevents background imagery from being seen through foreground image elements. The system presents the image from one of the image sources, containing background image information, at a distance from the viewer which is greater than the distance from the viewer to the other image presented from the other image source, which contains foreground image elements. The “background-image-occluding element” is positioned at the same optical distance from the viewer as the image containing foreground image elements, eliminating any parallax error between them, enabling the foreground image elements to always occlude appropriate areas of the background image, regardless of the viewer's position or the background image brightness relative to the brightness of foreground image elements. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153977 | LIGHT PROJECTION APPARATUS AND LIGHT-MIXING MODULE THEREOF - A projection apparatus includes a first, a second and a third light sources, a first reflective element, a first and a second dichroic mirrors, a light-homogenizing element, a light valve and a projection lens. The first reflective element is configured to reflect the first light beam, and the first dichroic mirror is configured to reflect the second light beam and to transmit the first light beam transmitted from the first reflective element. The second dichroic mirror is configured to reflect the first and the second light beams transmitted from the first dichroic mirror and to transmit the third light beam. The light-homogenizing element is used for homogenizing the combined light beam, and the light valve is used for modulating the combined light beam to form an image beam. The projection lens is used for receiving and then projecting the image beam. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153978 | Projection lens and projection device using the same - A projection lens and a projection device using the same are provided. The projection device comprises a projection lens and an optical element. The projection lens comprises a first lens group and a second lens group from an image side sequentially. The first lens group has a negative refracting power, and the first lens group includes an aspherical lens surface. The second lens group has a positive refracting power. The first lens group has a first focal length f | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153979 | Zoom lens and electronic imaging apparatus using the same - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens unit with negative power, a second lens unit with positive power, a third lens unit with positive power, and a fourth lens unit. When the magnification of the zoom lens is changed in the range from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position, spacing between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is narrowed and spacing between the second lens unit and the third lens unit is widened. An aperture stop moved integrally with the second lens unit is interposed between the most image-side lens element of the first lens unit and the most image-side lens element of the second lens unit. The first lens unit has, in order from the object side, a negative lens element and a positive lens element and satisfies the following conditions: | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153980 | MACRO LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE MACRO LENS - Providing a compact macro lens having high optical performance over the entire focusing range from infinity to a close distance, an optical apparatus equipped therewith, a method for focusing the macro lens, and a method for vibration reduction of the macro lens. The macro lens includes, in order from an object, a first lens group G | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153981 | Device for transferring lens - A device for transferring a lens, including a lens installation member in which at least one lens is installed, a guide member guiding the lens installation member, a driver that transfers the lens installation member and comprises a lead screw, a clip member that comprises a thread part contacting the lead screw and an installation portion installed in the lens installation member, an installation pin that rotatably installs the clip member in the lens installation member, and an elastic member installed onto the installation pin. A first portion of the elastic member contacts the clip member and a second portion of the elastic member contacts the lens installation member. A portion of the lens installation member contacting the second portion of the elastic member has an inclined surface shape with respect to a longitudinal direction of the installation pin. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153982 | Optical Lens System for Taking Image - An optical lens system for taking image consisting of from the object side to the image side: an aperture stop; a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, at least one of the object-side and the image-side surfaces of the second lens element being aspheric; and a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, at least one of the object-side and the image-side surfaces of the third lens element being aspheric. | 2009-06-18 |
| 20090153983 | Imaging lens unit and camera module - An imaging lens unit includes, from an object side, a diaphragm, a first lens, and a second lens placed on an image side of the first lens. The first lens is a positive meniscus lens convex toward the object side, and at least one side of the first lens has an aspherical surface. The second lens is a meniscus lens convex toward the image side, and at least one side of the second lens has an aspherical surface. Further, a maximum value of an angle between a tangent to a surface on the image side of the second lens and a normal to an optical axis is in a range of 65° to 90° within an effective diameter of the second lens. | 2009-06-18 |
