28th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100177314 | METHODS FOR ON-LINE CALIBRATING OUTPUT POWER OF OPTICAL PICK-UP - The present invention relates to methods for on-line calibrating output power of an optical pick-up. A power adjusting circuit of the optical pick-up has an optical power regulator and an optical power detector. The on-line output power calibrating method includes the steps of: performing a recording pre-process; providing a focus offset value and/or a tilt offset value to the optical pick-up; providing a setting value, corresponding to power under test, to the optical power regulator; detecting laser power emitted from the optical pick-up using the optical power detector; comparing the laser power with the power under test to adjust the setting value of the optical power regulator corresponding to the power under test; and performing an optimum power calibration if the laser power emitted from the optical pick-up conforms to the power under test. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177315 | ALIGNMENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL SYSTEM - An alignment device is provided for aligning a primary mirror with a secondary mirror in an optical system having the primary mirror and the secondary mirror arranged so as to face each other along the optical axis. The alignment device has a dichroic film formed on a surface on the front side of the secondary mirror and configured to reflect light used in the optical system and to transmit alignment light, a back reflecting surface formed on the back side of the secondary mirror and configured to reflect the alignment light, and a detection system which detects a positional deviation between the primary mirror and the secondary mirror, based on the alignment light having traveled via the dichroic film, the back reflecting surface, and a reflecting surface of the primary mirror. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177316 | Integrated Embedded Processor Based Laser Spectroscopic Sensor - A novel low-power and compact laser spectroscopic sensor is described herein. Embodiments of the disclosed sensor utilize state-of-the-art microprocessors and digital processing techniques to reduce power consumption and integrate functions into a small device. In particular, novel software methods are disclosed which allow the use of low-power microprocessors which draw no more than about 0.02 W of power. Such low-power enables long battery life and allows embodiments of the sensor to be used in portable applications. In addition, the system architecture and methods described in this disclosure allow a single integrated embedded processor to control all the subsystems necessary for a laser spectroscopic sensor further reducing sensor size and power consumption. In addition, a power efficient method of calibrating a photoacoustic laser spectroscopic sensor is disclosed. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177317 | Matter-Wave Rate Gyro Integrated onto an Atom Chip and Associated Accelerometer - The general field of the invention is that of rate gyros, of the matter-wave type, allowing the measurement of a speed of rotation in a given direction of measurement. This type of rate gyro works by the Sagnac effect and uses ultracold atoms to perform the measurement. It necessarily comprises an atom trap allowing a cloud of ultracold atoms to be immobilized in a given configuration and means for separation-displacement-recombination of the cloud into two packets of atoms so as to make them trace out a given area. The device according to the invention combines both of these two functions onto one atom chip notably comprising a first conducting wire through which a DC current I | 2010-07-15 |
20100177318 | Laser interferometer - A laser interferometer includes: a laser source for emitting a laser beam while stabilizing a center wavelength of the laser beam by modulating the laser beam using a modulation signal of a predetermined frequency; and a reference mirror and a measurement mirror for reflecting the laser beam. The laser interferometer further includes: a sampling unit for acquiring a sampling value by sampling interference light reflected by the reference mirror and the measurement mirror with a sampling frequency that is a multiple by an integer of two or more of a frequency of the modulation signal; and an average calculator for calculating an average value by averaging a time-series sampling value acquired by the sampling unit in accordance with the sampling frequency. The laser interferometer calculates a displacement of the measurement mirror based on the average value calculated by the average calculator. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177319 | OPTICAL IMAGING OF PHYSICAL OBJECTS - A method for combining shape data from multiple views in a common co-ordinate system to define the 3-D shape and/or colour of an object, the method comprising: projecting one or more optical datum(s)/markers onto the object surface; projecting light over an area of the object surface; capturing light reflected from the surface; using the optical datum(s)/markers as reference points in multiple views of the object, and using the multiple views and the reference points to determine the shape of the object. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177320 | METHOD OF MEASURING A DEVIATION OF AN OPTICAL SURFACE FROM A TARGET SHAPE - A method of aligning at least two wave shaping elements, a method of measuring a deviation of an optical surface from a target shape and a measuring apparatus for interferometrically measuring a deviation of an optical surface from a target shape. The method of aligning at least two wave shaping elements, each of which wave shaping elements has a diffractive measurement structure for adapting part of a wave front of incoming light to a respective portion of the target shape, includes: providing a first one of the wave shaping elements with a diffractive alignment structure, arranging the wave shaping elements relative to each other such that each of the diffractive measurement structures is traversed by a separate subset of rays of the incoming light during operation of the measuring apparatus, and aligning the first wave shaping element and a second one of the wave shaping elements relative to each other by evaluating alignment light having consecutively interacted with the diffractive alignment structure and with the second wave shaping element. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177321 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD OF CALIBRATING A MEASURING APPARATUS COMPRISING A WAVE SHAPING STRUCTURE - Optical element having an optical surface, which optical surface is adapted to a non-spherical target shape, such that a long wave variation of the actual shape of the optical surface with respect to the target shape is limited to a maximum value of 0.2 nm, wherein the long wave variation includes only oscillations having a spatial wavelength equal to or larger than a minimum spatial wavelength of 10 mm. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177322 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - The present invention provides a measurement apparatus that illuminates a surface to be tested having an aspheric surface using light beams that form spherical waves to measure a figure of the surface to be tested, including a detection unit configured to detect interference patterns between light beams from the surface to be tested and light beams from a reference surface, and a controller configured to control processing for obtaining a figure of the surface to be tested based on the interference patterns detected by the detection unit. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177323 | WAVEFRONT-ABERRATION-MEASURING DEVICE AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS - A wavefront-aberration-measuring device measures wavefront aberration of a to-be-tested optical system and includes a diffraction grating that splits light transmitted through the optical system, a detecting unit that detects interference fringes produced by beams of the split light, an arithmetic unit that calculates the wavefront aberration from the detected interference fringes, an image-side mask insertable into and retractable from an image plane of the optical system, and an illuminating unit that incoherently illuminates the image-side mask. The image-side mask has an aperture with a diameter larger than λ/2NA, where λ denotes a wavelength of the illuminating unit and NA denotes a numerical aperture of the to-be-tested optical system. The arithmetic unit calculates the wavefront aberration of the optical system from the interference fringes detected with the image-side mask being retracted from the image plane and the interference fringes detected with the image-side mask being in the image plane. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177324 | Method and apparatus for optically measuring periodic structures using orthogonal azimuthal sample orientation - An optical metrology apparatus for measuring periodic structures using multiple incident azimuthal (phi) and polar (theta) incident angles is described. One embodiment provides the enhanced calculation speed for the special case of phi=90 incidence for 1-D (line and space) structures, which has the incident plane parallel to the grating lines, as opposed to the phi=0 classical mounting, which has incident plane perpendicular to the grating lines. The enhancement reduces the computation time of the phi=90 case to the same order as the corresponding phi=0 case, and in some cases the phi=90 case can be significantly faster. One advantageous configuration consists of two measurements for each sample structure, one perpendicular to the grating lines and one parallel. This provides additional information about the structure, equivalent to two simultaneous angles of incidence, without excessive increase in computation time. Alternately, in cases where the computation for phi=90 is faster than the corresponding phi=0 incidence, it may be advantageous to measure parallel to the grating lines only. In the case where two sets of incident angles are used, the incident light can be polarized to provide a total of four sets of data—R | 2010-07-15 |
20100177325 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING HOME POSITION OF ROTATABLE BODY - Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing a home position of a rotatable body. The apparatus includes: a tray including a support surface on which the rotatable body can be seated; a rotatable body position alignment unit for controlling the position of the rotatable body so that the rotatable body is aligned to be in a predetermined position when the rotatable body is seated on the support surface of the tray; a motor including a motor shaft that rotates by power supply, and a turntable that can be coupled with the rotatable body and rotates the rotatable body; and an encoder that is connected to the motor shaft and generates signals for measuring a rotational angle and a rotational direction of the motor shaft. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177326 | FILM-THICKNESS MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR, AND THIN-FILM DEVICE FABRICATION SYSTEM - Objects are to reduce the burden on an operator and to improve fabrication efficiency. A transparent conductive film or a transparent optical film formed on a substrate W is irradiated with line illumination light by means of a line illumination device 3, line reflected light reflected at the transparent conductive film or the transparent optical film is detected with a camera, a color evaluation value of the detected reflected light is measured, and a film thickness corresponding to the measured color evaluation value is obtained using a film-thickness characteristic in which the color evaluation value is associated with the film thickness. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177327 | Method and Apparatus for Generating White Underbase and Generating Suitably Modified Separations for Printing on Colored Background Other than White - The invention relates to an embedded system and a method to generate a white underbase for printing on a colored background from the given image to be printed automatically without any human intervention or operator's assistance. This invention simplifies the process of printing on colored substrates like garments, packing materials, woods, acrylic sheets, cardboard etc. Along with the simplification of a great amount of productivity increase is achieved in comparison to the existing methods as it eliminates any human intervention. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177328 | METHOD FOR REDUCING REGISTRATION DEFECTS IN COLOR PRINTING - A method and system modify a rasterized digital image to reduce registration artifacts, the image having a black plane and a color plane by determining if a pixel is part of a connected black region and if the pixel is part of a connected color region. It is determined if the pixel is part of a connected black region and a connected color region that are contiguous. A dilation operation is performed on the color plane value of the pixel if the pixel is part of a connected black region and a connected color region that are contiguous. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177329 | METHOD FOR REDUCING REGISTRATION DEFECTS IN COLOR PRINTING - A method and system modify a rasterized digital image to reduce registration artifacts, the image having a black plane and a color plane by determining if a pixel is part of a connected black region and if the pixel is part of a connected color region. It is determined if the pixel is part of a connected black region and a connected color region that are contiguous. A dilation operation is performed on the color plane value of the pixel if the pixel is part of a connected black region and a connected color region that are contiguous. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177330 | JOB-SPECIFIC PRINT DEFECT MANAGEMENT - A print defect management device that supports job-specific print defect management automatically assesses print job pages to determine the severity of image quality defects likely to occur on one or more selected printers. Views of identified troubled pages may be rendered to include approximations of color and image quality defects based on the original page image data, and each printer's color rendition data and defect data, thereby allowing troubled pages for one or more selected printers to be viewed prior to printing. Suggested changes may be automatically or manually applied. Once satisfied with the image quality of print job pages rendered for a specific printer, a user may submit the print job to the same printer, thereby assuring that the user's image quality expectations are met in the printed product. The device may support job-specific print defect management with both local and/or remote printers via LAN, WAN and/or Internet based connectivity. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177331 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus, which performs image formation by using various colorants, includes a bitmap data generation unit that generates bitmap data, in which each pixel has a gradation value of each color of the colorants, with respect to image formation objects, a label generation unit that generates label information of a relevant pixel for each pixel based on the bitmap data or label information of peripheral pixels of the relevant pixel, and a correction unit that corrects the bitmap data based on the label information. The image formation is performed based on the corrected bitmap data, and the label information includes information on a color of a pixel adjacent to a region to be corrected when the pixel exists in the region to be corrected, and includes information for identifying a color of the relevant pixel when the pixel does not exist in the region to be corrected. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177332 | METHOD OF ADAPTING A PRINTING PROCESS WHILE MAINTAINING BLACK BUILD-UP - A method of adapting color values, which have been produced for a first printing process to a second printing process, is performed so that the visual impressions of the colors in the two printing processes are identical. Starting from a first printing process adaptation U without maintaining the black build-up, which transforms the color values [C | 2010-07-15 |
20100177333 | Printing Apparatus, Printing Method and Printing Program - When an encoder ( | 2010-07-15 |
20100177334 | Information processing apparatus and storage medium storing printer driver program - A computer-readable storage medium storing a printer driver program is disclosed. The printer driver program causes a computer to draw and display a printer configuration image. The printer driver program includes an optional accessory information obtaining code unit for obtaining optional accessory information on optional accessories attached to a printer; a storage code unit for storing a printer image, optional accessory images, and image layout information including intermediate optional accessory information indicating optional accessories placeable between each optional accessory and the printer; an order determining code unit for determining an order of drawing the optional accessory images based on the optional accessory information and the intermediate optional accessory information; and a configuration image drawing code unit configured to draw the printer configuration image by arranging the optional accessory images relative to the printer image according to the determined order and the image layout information. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177335 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH OPTIONAL DEVICES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A method of controlling an image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus to perform the method, the method including transmitting a pulse signal from a controller to a first optional device, setting an identification (ID) of the first optional device according to the received pulse signal, and incrementing the pulse signal and transmitting the incremented pulse signal so as to be received by a potential additional optional device | 2010-07-15 |
20100177336 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - Image data C | 2010-07-15 |
20100177337 | SELECTIVE ROUTING OF MEDICAL PRINTING REQUESTS - A computer system and method for selectively routing a printing request to the appropriate printer or printing component is provided. Patient-related and treatment-related information are received. The patient-related and/or treatment-related information are utilized to determine required printing features for the printing request, such as, for example, tamper-proof paper. The print request is routed to a printer having the required printing feature or features. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177338 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING DEVICE, NETWORK PATH, TRANSMITTAL OPTION AND/OR RECEIVING DEVICE PROTOCOL SELECTION - Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to electronic voice or data communication. More specifically, the systems and methods disclosed herein relate to the selection of transmitting devices, communication network paths, transmittal options and/or receiving device protocols for electronic voice or data communication. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177339 | ROBUST INSERT PAGE METHOD USING CODE PAGES - According to aspects illustrated herein, there is provided a method, a print making device, and a system for printing a plurality of input document sheets as one or more print jobs. The one or more print jobs include the following steps. First, generating in series a plurality of virtual documents, with the documents including at least one code sheet and the plurality of input document sheets. The code sheet include machine readable code with one or more commands for printing the one or more print jobs being encrypted in the machine readable code. Next, reviewing sheet by sheet the virtual documents, and identifying, from review of the virtual documents, a first code sheet having machine readable code. After that, decoding the machine readable code of the first code sheet to identify the one or more commands for printing the one or more print jobs associated with the first code sheet. Then, printing the virtual documents following the first code sheet which do not include machine readable code based on the one or more commands associated with the first code sheet to define a first print job. Subsequently, identifying a second code sheet having machine readable code, while printing one or more of the virtual documents of the first print job. Followed by, decoding the machine readable code of the second code sheet to identify the one or more commands for printing the one or more print jobs associated with the second code sheet. Lastly, printing the virtual documents following the second code sheet which do not include machine readable code based on the one or more commands associated with the second code sheet to define a second print job. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177340 | Network Printing System - A network printing system includes user devices, printing devices, a print server, and a logon server. The print server includes a print queue arranged to store print jobs received from the user devices and to send stored print jobs to the printing devices. The logon server is arranged to store logon details for users of the user devices and to store printer information for the users. The print server is arranged to select a printing device to which to send a print job stored in the queue based on the printer information stored in the logon server for the user of the user device from which the print job originated. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177341 | WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT METHOD - A method for managing a workflow executed in a workflow management system which includes a client apparatus which a user instructs to perform workflow processing, a workflow management server configured to execute the workflow based on an instruction from the client apparatus, and an image processing apparatus which includes the user-specific portal screen, and has a function of registering or deleting an operation button for executing scanning and transmission or printing displayed on the portal screen based on an instruction from the workflow management server. The method includes aggregating setting information about a plurality of the operation buttons, storing the aggregated operation button setting information and a plurality of work items corresponding to the aggregated operation button setting information by associating each other, and registering an operation button for executing an aggregated work item in the portal screen based on the aggregated operation button setting information. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177342 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to the present invention, first a processing burden for image forming is estimated. Furthermore, based on this estimate, programs executed by a plurality of processing units are reloaded. Then, a plurality of processing apparatuses respectively receive data necessary for processing for image forming, and start rendering processing or image processing. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177343 | Receipt handling systems, print drivers and methods thereof - A method of processing receipts, including: obtaining transaction data including a plurality of categories of information necessary to describe a purchasing transaction of a customer at a store location; obtaining image data representing a receipt corresponding to the purchasing transaction of the customer at the store location; obtaining an e-mail address of the customer; providing an option to print the receipt at the store location and an option to e-mail the receipt to the customer; obtaining a selection of at least one of the provided options; if the option to print is selected, initiating printing of the image at the store location; and if the option to e-mail is selected, sending an e-mail to the e-mail address of the customer, the e-mail including providing at least one of the image data and the transaction data. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177344 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A management apparatus collects an operation log and a job log from an image forming apparatus by using a job log collection unit and an operation log collection unit. The management apparatus identifies operation log information corresponding to a start operation, of the collected operation logs, as an operation start log information while identifying an operation log corresponding to an end operation as operation end log information. The management apparatus further associates the identified operation start log information and the job log information whose job type of the collected job log matches the job type of the operation end log information, with the operation start log information and the operation end log information. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177345 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus stores, in a memory, print jobs and execution sequences for forming images of the print jobs, forms the images of the print jobs according to the execution sequences stored by the memory, measures execution time from the start of image formation for a print job being subjected to the image formation, determines whether plural print jobs are stored by the memory, determines, if plural print jobs are stored at least by the memory, whether the measured execution time of the print job being subjected to the image formation reaches designated execution time, and suspends, after the execution time reaches the designated execution time, the printing job being subjected to the image formation and executes a print job of the next execution sequence stored by the memory. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177346 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, JOB PROCESSING METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An apparatus includes a division unit configured to divide the print job into a plurality of data pieces, and a definition unit configured to define an object used for each of the divided data pieces as a reusable object which can be used by each piece of data. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177347 | IMAGE FORMING PROCESSING CONTROLLER AND METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - To provide a technique for enabling formation of a background pattern image even if a dedicated computer program corresponding to an image forming apparatus caused to execute image formation processing is not installed in an apparatus configured to instruct the image formation processing. An image-formation-processing control apparatus includes: a unit-pattern acquiring unit configured to acquire, via a network, unit patterns used for formation of a background pattern image in image forming apparatuses that are instruction targets of image formation processing; and a PDL-data generating unit configured to generate PDL data in which information used for specifying a shape of a background pattern image that should be formed and the unit patterns used for formation of a background pattern image in an image forming apparatus caused to execute the image formation processing are associated. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177348 | PAGE IMAGE MANAGING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a page image managing technique that enables editing of N-in-1-arranged page images. A page image managing apparatus includes: a number-of-pages-information acquiring unit configured to acquire number-of-input-pages information indicating the number of arrayed pages of plural page images arrayed in a reading target original document; an image processing unit configured to slice, on the basis of the number-of-input-pages information acquired by the number-of-pages-information acquiring unit, the plural page images from a read image of the original document and apply image processing corresponding to the number-of-input-pages information acquired by the number-of-pages-information acquiring unit to the respective sliced page images; and a storage control unit configured to cause a predetermined storage area to store the respective plural page images processed by the image processing unit as separate page images. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177349 | PROGRAM DELIVERY SERVER, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM DELIVERY METHOD - A program delivery server includes a collection unit configured to collect log information including actual use records of functions of an image forming apparatus, via a network, a selection unit configured to select at least one program, from among a plurality of control programs, using the log information that the collection unit collected, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a control program selected by the selection unit to the network. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177350 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE INCLUDED IN THE SAME - An image forming system includes a first terminal device and a second terminal device. The first terminal device includes a storing unit that stores image data, a network connecting unit for establishing a connection with another terminal device through the Internet, an inputting unit that accepts input of a facsimile number of the second terminal device, a producing unit that produces peer-to-peer connection information for establishing a peer-to-peer connection with the second terminal device using the network connecting unit, and a facsimile transmitter that transmits the peer-to-peer connection information over telephone lines to the second terminal device in accordance with the facsimile number whose input is accepted by the inputting unit. The second terminal device includes a facsimile receiver that receives the peer-to-peer connection information over the telephone lines from the first terminal device, a network connecting unit that establishes a peer-to-peer connection with the first terminal device through the Internet in accordance with the received peer-to-peer connection information and acquires from the first terminal device image data stored in the storing unit, and a printer that performs printing on the basis of the received image data. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177351 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR OUTPUTTING INFORMATION, AND INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE USING THE SAME - A computer readable medium has computer readable instructions stored thereon. The instructions, when executed by a processor communicable with an image forming device, cause the processor to perform the steps of transmitting, to a first server connected with the processor via a network, a request for supply of an expendable item for the image forming device, acquiring a first identification for identifying the expendable item to be supplied via the first server, which first identification is transmitted by the first server in response to the request, storing the first identification acquired, onto a database, acquiring a second identification for identifying an expendable item attached to the image forming device, determining whether the second identification acquired is identical to a first identification stored on the database, and outputting first information when it is determined that the second identification is different from any first identification stored on the database. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177352 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA STORAGE DEVICE FOR PERFORMING TIME CERTIFICATION OF DIGITAL DATA - A data storage device for storing changeable data includes a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction from an information processing apparatus, a time certification request unit configured to request time certification of selected changeable data in order to acquire time information to be acquired as a result of time certification, in accordance with the instruction received by the receiving unit, a generating unit configured to generate unchangeable data by adding the selected changeable data with the time information acquired by the time certification request unit, and a storing unit configured to store the unchangeable data generated by the generating unit. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177353 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method ( | 2010-07-15 |
20100177354 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CREATING LOOKUP TABLE, LOOKUP TABLE, PRINTING METHOD, AND PRINTED PRODUCT - A printing apparatus for performing printing using a special gloss material and a coloring material, includes: an input unit that inputs image data; and a printing unit that controls an arrangement of the special gloss material and the coloring material on a printing medium on the basis of the input data and prints the image data, wherein the printing unit relatively reduces an amount of the special gloss material to be used in a shadow region that is a printing region where an index value relating to color intensity expressed by the coloring material is equal to or lower than a predetermined darkness value. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177355 | POST RIP TRAPPING - Image data representing an image is obtained, raster image processing is performed on the image data, and then trapping is performed on the image data after raster image processing. The trapping may be performed based on a tag plane generated during the raster image processing, or the determination of which pixels to trap may be performed after the raster image processing. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE IN DIGITAL PRINTER - Provided are a method and apparatus for processing image data in a printer, in which page description language (PDL) data is analyzed and generated as standard color data, the generated standard color data is converted to a plurality of printer outputting colors, image conversion processes are parallely performed on the printer outputting colors, and printing data is generated on a page-by-page basis based on the printer outputting colors to which the image conversion processes are performed. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177357 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CREATING LOOKUP TABLE, LOOKUP TABLE, PRINTING METHOD, AND PRINTED MATTER - A printing apparatus for performing printing with the use of a special gloss material and a coloring material is provided. The printing apparatus includes: an inputting unit that receives or acquires image data as an input; and a printing unit that controls the arrangement of the special gloss material and the coloring material on a print target medium on the basis of the inputted image data to print the image data. The printing unit changes the amount of use of the special gloss material depending on an index value that is related to the lightness of a color represented by the coloring material. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177358 | METHOD FOR SECURE PRODUCTION PRINTING - A method for printing a composite document creates a fixed data unit for a composite document, the fixed data unit being a portion of an individual document which is consistent in each individual document within the composite document. A variable data unit is created for each individual document to be represented by the composite document, a variable data unit being a portion of the individual document which is unique to that individual document. The data within each created variable data unit is analyzed to determine a set of rights for each created variable data unit, and the determined set of rights are embedded into the appropriated created variable data unit. A composite document is created by bundling the fixed data unit with the embedded variable data units and submitted for printing. A plurality of individual documents for printing is created, each individual document being a merger of the fixed data unit with an embedded variable data unit wherein each individual document is printed based upon the set of rights embedded in the corresponding variable data unit. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177359 | MAINTENANCE WORK SUPPORT DEVICE, MAINTENANCE WORK SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A maintenance work support device which computes replacement information of a part configuring a device and supports maintenance work of the device includes: a storage unit storing information; and a control unit controlling the maintenance work support device according to the stored information. The storage unit comprises: a unit storing identification information and a replacement state for improving part quality as quality information; a unit storing device identification information and a replacement state by a past part failure as replacement history information; and a unit storing a part replacement record associated with a device use state as replacement record information. The control unit comprises a unit retrieving quality information, replacement history information, and part replacement record information based on identification information and a use state of an inspection target device and computes information of a part that needs to be replaced as replacement information based on the retrieval result. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177360 | SHADING CORRECTION APPARATUS IN IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS - A shading correction apparatus includes: a light irradiating unit configured to scan an original document; a reference plate located in a scanning area of the light irradiating unit; a detecting unit configured to receive reflected light from the original document or the reference plate of light irradiated by the light irradiating unit; a first control unit configured to classify plural areas of the reference plate, which are divided in a direction perpendicular to a traveling direction of the light irradiating unit, as plural blocks, scan the reference plate for each of the blocks with the light irradiating unit, and detect valid areas of the plural blocks; and a second control unit configured to set the valid areas of the plural blocks as adopted areas used for shading correction. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177361 | OPERATING DEVICE, CONTROL PANEL, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - An operating device included in an control panel for an image forming apparatus, the operating device that includes multiple input keys to operate independently from each other, disposed on the control panel, surrounding a center portion; and at least one indicator comprising at least one of letters and marks representing a function of one at least of the multiple input keys, located in the center portion adjacent to the one of the multiple input keys. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177362 | ILLUMINATOR, AND IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - Disclosed are an illuminator and an image forming apparatus employing an illuminator. The illuminator includes a light guide to guide light generated from a light source to an object to be illuminated. The light guide includes at least one incidence face facing the light source and an emission face configured to emit the light to the target object. A diffusion pattern may be formed on the emission face to extend from one longitudinal end to the other longitudinal end of the emission face. The emission face may have a constant cross section or a varying cross section along a longitudinal direction thereof. The illuminator may be part of an image reading device to uniformly or near uniformly irradiate light to a document. The illuminator may also be incorporated in an image forming apparatus to irradiate light to a photosensitive body for elimination or reduction of electric potential from the photosensitive body. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177363 | PRIORITIZED VIRTUAL SCAN LINE PROCESSING - Systems and methods are provided for prioritizing an order in which to process a plurality of sub-regions of an acquired image of an optical code. A method of processing an optical code in a data reader comprises the steps of receiving data corresponding to a plurality of sub-regions of an acquired image of an optical code, processing according to a processing order the plurality of sub-regions for decodable data corresponding to the optical code, determining based on the step of processing the plurality of sub-regions whether one or more of the plurality of sub-regions contains decodable data, and if it is determined that a sub-region contains decodable data, increasing the processing priority associated with said sub-region. If one or more of the sub-regions having the highest processing priority contains decodable data, the remaining sub-regions do not need to be processed, which may save processing resources and increase the read throughput. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177364 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a drive unit that drives the line image sensor by frequency-modulated clock; a signal generating unit that generates an analog signal according to a change in frequency of the frequency-modulated clock; an amplification-inversion unit that amplifies the analog signal with an arbitrary amplification factor, and configured to switch between inversion and non-inversion; and a signal superimposing unit that superimposes between the analog image signal and an analog signal output from the amplification-inversion unit. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177365 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE QUALITY CALIBRATION METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus and an image quality calibration method in the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus including a printing unit to print a calibration chart in one mode selected from a plurality of resolution modes, a scanning unit to scan the printed calibration chart, and a calibrating unit to calibrate an image using color values of the scanned calibration chart according to the plurality of resolution modes. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177366 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING COLOR GAMUTS OF MULTIPLE IMAGE TRANSFER DEVICES - A method for adjusting the gamuts of a set of printers to match the gamuts across a population of printers using mass targets. The method involves printing color patches suitably positioned in the color gamut with CMYK separations and simultaneously actuating DMA targets to the level 2 controls of the printers using closed loop control algorithms. An extreme MIMO control algorithm is used to converge to the desired L*a*b* targets by adjusting mass targets to the printing system in an iterative fashion to maximize the common intersection gamut across the printers. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177367 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a chart data generating unit that generates density adjustment chart data; a printing unit that prints a density adjustment chart where the reference patterns and the adjustment patterns of each pattern are juxtaposed, based on the density adjustment chart data; a receiving unit that receives the input of a density adjustment value of an arbitrary pattern; a gradation correcting unit that corrects gradation of the arbitrary pattern based on the density adjustment value of the arbitrary pattern that is received by the receiving unit; and a reconstructing unit that reconstructs density adjustment chart data used to juxtapose and print the reference patterns and density-corrected adjustment patterns for only pattern data of the patterns where the receiving unit receives the density adjustment value. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177368 | SCANNING ENDOSCOPE - A scanning endoscope comprising a light transmitter, an actuator, and a force transmitter, is provided. The light transmitter emits a beam of the light exiting the first emission end. The light transmitter is flexible. A longitudinal direction of the light transmitter is a first direction. The actuator is mounted near the first emission end. The actuator bends the light transmitter in a second direction by pushing a side of the light transmitter in the second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. A force transmitter is oriented lengthwise in the first direction. The force transmitter is elastic. The force transmitter is positioned between the light transmitter and the actuator. The force transmitter exerts a pushing force supplied by the actuator on the side of the light transmitter while the force transmitter is deformed elastically toward the first direction. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177369 | OSCILLATOR DEVICE, OPTICAL DEFLECTOR AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT USING THE SAME - An oscillator device includes a supporting base plate, a torsion spring, and a movable member, wherein the movable member is supported by the torsion spring, for torsional oscillation relative to the supporting base plate about a torsional axis, wherein the torsion spring has an X-shaped section being perpendicular to the torsional axis and a top surface and a bottom surface each being defined by a (100)-equivalent surface of monocrystal silicon, and wherein a distance L1connecting bottoms of concavities formed at the top surface and bottom surface, respectively, and a distance L2 connecting bottoms of concavities defined at side surfaces of the X-shaped torsion spring as well as a rate of change αi of inertia moment of the movable member around the torsion axis, with a change of a thickness t of the supporting base plate, satisfy the following relation: L1/L2=C1−Exp{C2−(α | 2010-07-15 |
20100177370 | Piezoelectric transducer element, actuator, sensor, optical scanning device, and optical scanning display device - In a piezoelectric transducer element, on a base body having a fixing part and a movable part which are connected with each other, a piezoelectric body which is sandwiched between a lower electrode and an upper electrode is formed in a state where the piezoelectric body extends between and over the fixing part and the movable part of the base body. The piezoelectric body converts a change in potential between the lower electrode and the upper electrode into mechanical displacement of the movable part relative to the fixing part or the mechanical displacement into the change in potential. The upper electrode includes a pad electrode for connection which is formed above the fixing part, and the lower electrode is not formed in a region above the fixing part and below the pad electrode. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177371 | Organic Layers for Tunable Optical Devices - A method for manipulating light comprises receiving an incoming beam of light at a tunable optical device, the tunable optical device comprising an organic material having an optical property that can be selectively varied under the influence of an external bias. The method further comprises applying a selected external bias to the tunable optical device to change an optical property of the tunable optical device. The method also comprises controlling an optical property of a beam of light exiting the tunable optical device as a result of the selected external bias. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177372 | OPTICAL IMAGE MODULATOR, OPTICAL APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING AND OPERATING THE OPTICAL IMAGE MODULATOR - Disclosed are an optical image modulator, an optical apparatus including the same, and methods of manufacturing and operating the optical image modulator. The optical image modulator includes a light amount increasing unit increasing the amount of forward light emission of an electric-optical unit. The light amount increasing unit includes a first reflector reflecting light, which travels from the inside of the electric-optical unit toward the optical-electric unit, to the electric-optical unit. The light amount increasing unit may further include a second light reflector reflecting light, which passes through the optical-electric unit without optical-electric conversion, to the optical-electric unit. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177373 | TUNABLE ZERO-CHIRP PULSE GENERATOR USING PLASMA DISPERSION PHASE MODULATOR - An optical pulse generator comprising a phase modulator, wherein the phase modulator is configured to phase modulate and intensity modulate a continuous wave (CW) light signal in accordance with a received electrical signal, and an all-pass filter, the all-pass filter being coupled to the phase modulator to generate a pulsed light signal by filtering the modulated light signal from the phase modulator. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177374 | Display apparatus using dielectrophoresis and method of manufacturing the display apparatus - Example embodiments relate to a display apparatus using dielectrophoresis and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus. The display apparatus may include a display pixel, wherein the display pixel may include uncharged particles distributed in a dielectric medium that fills a cell area. A pattern electrode unit may be configured to produce a non-uniform electric field in the dielectric medium. A light transmittance of the display pixel may be adjusted by dielectrophoresis of the uncharged particles according to an electric field gradient. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177375 | BEAM COMBINER AND A LIGHT SOURCE WITH SUCH A BEAM COMBINER - A beam combiner for combining at least two light beams ( | 2010-07-15 |
20100177376 | TUNABLE ACOUSTIC GRADIENT INDEX OF REFRACTION LENS AND SYSTEM - A tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction (TAG) lens and system are provided that permit, in one aspect, dynamic selection of the lens output, including dynamic focusing and imaging. The system may include a TAG lens and at least one of a source and a detector of electromagnetic radiation. A controller may be provided in electrical communication with the lens and at least one of the source and detector and may be configured to provide a driving signal to control the index of refraction and to provide a synchronizing signal to time at least one of the source and the detector relative to the driving signal. Thus, the controller is able to specify that the source irradiates the lens (or detector detects the lens output) when a desired refractive index distribution is present within the lens, e.g. when a desired lens output is present. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177377 | USE OF UNDOPED CRYSTALS OF THE YTTRIUM/ALUMINUM/BORATE FAMILY FOR CREATING NON-LINEAR EFFECTS - The present invention concerns a method of producing blue or UV light. To produce blue or UV light with the described crystal family it is proposed according to the invention that a crystal of the family A | 2010-07-15 |
20100177378 | INTENSE OPTICAL HIGH FIELD GENERATOR IN OPTICAL OSCILLATOR UTILIZING CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION - To provide an intensive optical high field generator capable of generating an intensive optical high field with excellent stability, a high quality, and an intensity greatly higher than that of a known example. An intensive optical high field, which is disposed in an optical oscillator using chirped pulse amplification, includes: an optical amplification medium | 2010-07-15 |
20100177379 | Splitter/Combiner and Waveguide Amplifier Incorporating Splitter/Combiner - Several embodiments of waveguide amplifiers incorporating a network of waveguides, signal splitters, solid state amplifiers and signal combiners are disclosed. The signal splitters and combiners have similar structures including parallel input and exit ports. In some embodiments, the solid state amplifiers are enclosed within the waveguide amplifier. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177380 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An optical element is provided includes an optical layer having a flat incident surface on which light is incident and a wavelength-selective reflective layer disposed in the optical layer. Of light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (θ, φ), the optical element selectively directionally reflects light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one direction other than a specular reflection direction (−θ, φ+180°) while transmitting light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, and is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177381 | Sample Holding System for a Microscope - The invention relates to a sample holding system for a microscope, comprising a sample chamber which has an upper opening and is filled with an immersion liquid, and in which a sample embedded in a transparent embedding compound is placed in a holder. The sample holding system also comprises means for the translatory movement of the sample in relation to a detection objective of the microscope, and means for rotating the sample about an essentially vertical rotational axis in a plane forming an angle different from zero with the optical axis of the detection objective. The means for rotating the sample in such a sample holding system comprise a rotational drive provided with a magnetic coupling or a belt drive and/or toothed wheel rotational drive arranged above the sample chamber, said drives transmitting the rotational movement to the holder, or the rotational movement is generated directly by the movement of the entire sample chamber. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177382 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPLIANCE FOR PRODUCING A FLOATING REAL STEREO IMAGE - Known image display appliances with relatively large appliance depth have parallel lens plates with rotation-symmetrical microlenses, wherein a real stereo image could be made visible directly using a matt screen by way of the microlenses optically imaging the non-inverted, non-rastered image information. Known image display appliances with a cylinder lens plate, the cylinder lenses of which image linearly, have hitherto not been used to produce a floating real stereo image. The image display appliance (BWG) according to the invention with a cylinder lens plate (ZLP) and a corresponding alternating raster of left and right image strips (BSR) is characterized in that each image strip (BSR) is displayed as side-inverted with respect to its arrangement in the original image information, and in that all image strips (BSR) are positioned with such gaps (R, r) to their two neighbouring image strips (BSR) on the display screen (BS) that the observer in the stereo image plane (SBE) which lies between the cylinder lens plane (ZLE) and the observer eye plane (BAE) obtains a gapless representation of the image information in the form of a floating real stereo image (SB). Advantageously, equidistant distances between the image strips (BSR) can be selected. Real articles which can be detected together by the observer without accommodation conflict (mixed reality applications) can be introduced into the stereo image plane | 2010-07-15 |
20100177383 | GLASS - There is provided a glass which contains a base, and a polarizing layer containing at least a polarizer, wherein the polarizer has an aspect ratio of 1.5 or more, and a major axis of the polarizer is obliquely orientated relative to a surface of the glass base. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177384 | PROCESS FOR SURFACE STRUCTURING OF PRODUCT HAVING A SOL-GEL LAYER, PRODUCT HAVING A STRUCTURED SOL-GEL LAYER - The present invention relates to a process for surface structuring, that is to say, for meaning forming at least one array of patterns with a submillimeter scale characteristic lateral dimension on a flat surface of a product comprising a substrate bearing at least one layer resulting from a sol-gel process, where the structuring is done hot with a hydrolyzed sol layer based on alkoxides and/or halide(s) of at least one metal chosen among Si, Ti, Zr, W, Sb, Hf, Ta, V, Mg, Al, Mn, Co, Ni, Sn, Zn, and Ce with a nonreactive organic group, where the structuring is carried out by contact with a structured mask and exerting pressure as needed, and where the structuring is carried out in a temperature range suited for a sufficient condensation threshold ensuring the thermal hold of the structuring, with a total structuring time less than or equal to two hours. The invention also covers the resulting product. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177385 | Mirror Apparatus for Use in the Presence of Steam - A mirror hangs from a transparent enclosure which may surround a shower, a bathtub, or other bathing area. The mirror may be in a position that avoids condensation on the surface of the mirror from steam emitted from the transparent enclosure. The mirror may also be in a position so that the mirror reflects light into the enclosure. An individual in the bathing area may use the mirror from inside the transparent enclosure without the mirror fogging, which is a common problem associated with using mirrors in a bathing area. The mirror may hang from the outside of the transparent enclosure and optionally includes a sealing element or a frame surrounding the reflective element to further avoid contact with steam. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177386 | ELECTROWETTING DEVICE WITH POLYMER ELECTRODE - The invention concerns an electrowetting optical device comprising a chamber ( | 2010-07-15 |
20100177387 | END REFLECTOR FOR A FLAT PANEL LENS - End reflectors, flat panel lens that may utilize the end reflector, and methods are provided. The end reflector for a flat panel lens may include a first grating having a first set of parallel planes. The first set of parallel planes may be of layers of alternating refractive indexes disposed at a first angle with a central plane of the flat panel lens. The end reflector may also include a second grating having a second set of parallel planes. The second set of parallel planes may be of layers of alternating refractive indexes of alternating refractive indexes disposed at a second angle with the central plane. The second angle may be equivalent to the first angle reflected about the central plane. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177388 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL RELAY DEVICE WITH IMPROVED COLOR UNIFORMITY - An optical relay comprises a light-transmissive substrate having a plurality of diffractive optical elements, where at least one diffractive optical element is characterized by nonuniform diffraction efficiency. The substrate and diffractive optical elements are designed and constructed to relay at least a portion of a light beam emanating from an object to at least one predetermined eye-box in a manner such that for each point of the object, there is a set of parallel outgoing light rays originating from the point and arriving to the eye-box. The color difference between any two parallel light rays of the set is less than 50 ΔE* units. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177389 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING THE COMPENSATION FOR PUPIL DELAY IN A CONVERGENT OR DIVERGENT BEAM - A method of adjusting the pupil delay compensation of a convergent or divergent beam that includes placing a device composed of an afocal system comprising one or more passive optical components disposed on the propagation axis of the beam, at least one of the components being a focusing diffractive component, and moving the device along the propagation axis of the beam until the required pupil delay compensation is obtained, where the compensation is the algebraic sum of pupil delays of each passive optical component of the afocal system and lying in a range of values the limits of which are functions of the particular combination of the optical components chosen to form the afocal system of the compensation device. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177390 | WAVELENGTH DEPENDENT OPTICAL ELEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF - The present invention provides an optical element operable to display a plurality of distinct images when irradiated with various wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. The ability to output a plurality of distinct images can permit the use of optical elements of the present invention in a variety of apparatus and imaging applications. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177391 | Optical device, laminate and labeled article - A special visual effect is achieved. An optical device includes a light-reflecting interface provided with a first relief structure including first recesses or protrusions arranged two-dimensionally, the first relief structure emitting a first diffracted light when illuminated with a light, and a light-transmitting interface disposed in front of the light-reflecting interface and having a reflectance smaller than that of the first interface, the light-transmitting interface being provided with a second relief structure including second recesses or protrusions arranged two dimensionally, and the second relief structure emitting a second diffracted light when illuminated with the light. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177392 | Anti-Reflective Film and Production Method Thereof, and Stamper for Producing Anti-Reflective Film and Production Method Thereof - In this method for producing an anti-reflective film, pores are formed on a surface of a polymer molding material to continuously change a refractive index and then reduce reflectance, in which anodic oxidized porous alumina, in which pores having a tapered shape and whose pore diameter continuously changes, are formed by repeating anodic oxidation at about the same formation voltage and pore diameter enlargement treatment, is used as a mold, or a stamper, which is produced by using the anodic oxidized porous aluminum as a mold, is used as a mold. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177393 | Reflective structure, display apparatus including the reflective structure, and method of manufacturing the reflective structure and display apparatus - Example embodiments relate to a reflective structure, a display apparatus including the reflective structure, and a method of manufacturing the reflective structure and the display apparatus. A reflective structure according to example embodiments may include a plurality of nanoparticles of non-uniform size, which are arranged on a substrate, or an uneven element having a surface contour that resembles a plurality of nanoparticles; and a reflective layer covering the plurality of nanoparticles or the uneven element. The reflective layer may have a random/variable height. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177394 | ARRAY OF LIGHT-DIFFUSING SUB-GRATING - The invention relates to a transparent substrate comprising, on its surface, a light-diffusing array comprising at least 10 juxtaposed sub-gratings of parallel lines of features, said features being separated by domains with a refractive index differing from that of the features, each sub-grating comprising at least 20 repeated successive identical features equally spaced apart with a period p, said period varying monotonically from one edge of the sub-grating array to the other. This substrate redirects the light without iridescence in a daylighting application. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177395 | Optical Article and Method for Producing the Same - A method for producing an optical article. A first layer that is light-transmissive is formed on an optical substrate directly or with an additional layer in between. A silicide material, light-transmissive thin film is formed on the surface of the first layer. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177396 | ASYMMETRICAL LUMINANCE ENHANCEMENT STRUCTURE FOR REFLECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICES - The present invention is directed to a luminance enhancement structure comprising grooves and columns, wherein the grooves have a triangular cross-section and a top angle, and the triangular cross-section having two sides which are not equal. The luminance enhancement structure is useful for reflective display devices. The structure can reduce total internal reflection, thus enhancing the brightness of a display device. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177397 | FRONT FILTER FOR PLASMA DISPLAY AND PLASMA DISPLAY - A front filter for a plasma display that is mainly used as a TV display. The front filter has an anti-glare function which is capable of effectively preventing reflection concurrently with achieving black color reproduction, and a functional layer for imparting a function required of an image display device such as a light absorbing function and/or an adhesion function. This front filter has an anti-glare layer having a concavo-convex shape on an outermost surface thereof, a polyester film and a functional layer. The anti-glare layer is disposed on the observer-side surface of the front filter; at least one functional layer is disposed on the display device side. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177398 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME, MASTER AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - An optical element includes a substrate including protruding structures on the surface and a hard coat layer formed on the substrate. An irregular shape is formed by the structures. An irregular shape resembling the irregular shape of the substrate is formed on a surface of the hard coat layer and is smoother than the that of the substrate. The size of bottoms of the structures changes at random within the range of the minimum distance Rm to the maximum distance RM (Rm: minimum value of the shortest distance from the center of gravity of the bottom of the structure to the rim of the bottom, RM: maximum value of the longest distance from the center of gravity of the bottom of the structure to the rim of the bottom). Neighboring structures have bottoms in contact or substantially in contact with one another. Rm and RM satisfy Rm/RM≦0.9. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177399 | OPTICAL SHEET - An optical sheet includes a transparent base, a plurality of first micro structures, and a plurality of second micro structures. The transparent base has a light-receiving surface and a light-exit surface. The first micro structures are disposed on the light-exit surface, and the second micro structures are disposed on the light-receiving surface. Each first micro structure includes a first planar surface and a curve surface. Each second micro structure includes a second planar surface formed on the light-receiving surface and a total reflection surface connected with the second planar surface. Each first micro structure forms a first orthogonal projection area on the light-receiving surface, each second micro structure forms a second orthogonal projection area on the light-receiving surface, the second planar surface is located within the first orthogonal projection area, and the entire area of the second planar surface is equal to the second orthogonal projection area. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177400 | Lens array, lens unit, led head, exposing unit, image forming apparatus, and image reading apparatus - A lens array forms an erect image of an object. The lens array includes at least one row of lens elements and at least one rib. The lens elements are aligned in a first direction perpendicular to optical axes of the lens elements having an incidence surface and an exit surface. The rib is formed on the lens array and extending in a second direction parallel to the first direction and in a third direction parallel to the optical axes further than the incidence surface and the exit surface. A lens unit includes a shielding member and the lens array assembled to the shielding member. The shielding member includes diaphragms formed therein and aligned in a first direction, and a first engagement portion. The lens array includes a second engagement portion for engaging the first engagement portion to correct deformation of the lens array. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177401 | ERECT LIFE-SIZE LENS ARRAY - An erect life-size lens array having a deep focal depth is realized. The erect life-size lens array includes a first lens array, a second lens array and an aperture, and when a thickness of the second lens is ξ | 2010-07-15 |
20100177402 | FLOATING IMAGE INTERACTION DEVICE AND ITS PROGRAM - A real mirror image forming optical system is constructed from a half-mirror, and from a retroreflector placed in a position where it recursively reflects either the light passing through or reflected by that half-mirror, so that light emitted from an object to be projected placed behind the half-mirror can pass through either a first light path consisting of passing through the half-mirror, recursive reflection by the retroreflector, and reflection by the half-mirror; or a second light path consisting of reflection by the half-mirror, recursive reflection by the retroreflector, and passing through the half-mirror; thus by one or both of these light paths a real mirror image of the object to be projected is formed at a planar symmetric position with respect to the half-mirror surface. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177403 | Optical Systems That Display Different 2-D and/or 3-D Images to Different Observers from a Single Display - 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. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177404 | DRY-TYPE MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE LENS - The present invention offers a dry-type microscope objective lens which has a high NA in the range from low magnification to middle magnification and is lightweight and by which a high-resolution image can be obtained without taking a user time and trouble in observation. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177405 | Optical Fiber Micro Array Lens - An optical fiber micro array lens is provided along with an associated fabrication method. The micro array lens is fabricated from a mesh of optical fibers. The mesh includes a first plurality of cylindrical optical fibers. Each fiber from the first plurality has a flat bottom surface and a hemicylindrical top surface. The top and bottom surfaces are aligned in parallel with a central fiber axis. The mesh also includes a second plurality of cylindrical optical fibers. Each fiber from the second plurality has a hemicylindrical bottom surface overlying and in contact with the top surfaces of the first plurality of optical fibers, and a flat top surface. The top and bottom surfaces are aligned in parallel with a central fiber axis. Each contact of the first and second plurality of optical fibers forms a lens assembly in a micro array of lenses. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177406 | LENSES - A solar concentrator comprises a curved linear Fresnel lens ( | 2010-07-15 |
20100177407 | LENS SYSTEM - A lens system including: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a positive refractive power; and a third lens group having a positive or negative refractive power, wherein the first lens group comprises four or less lenses, and the first through third lens groups are movable, independently, during focusing and have magnifications in a range from −1 to 0. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177408 | METHOD OF FORMING LENS ARRAYS AND TRANSFERRING SUCH ONTO MOVABLE-MEMS STRUCTURES - Micro-electrical-mechanical (MEMS) wafers in which a lens is formed on a micro-electrical-mechanical structure. The micro-electrical-mechanical wafers can comprise a substrate, MEMS structures, and a lens array. A method of forming a micro-electrical-mechanical wafer comprises providing a substrate, forming a micro-electrical-mechanical structure on the substrate, forming a carrier, forming a lens array on the carrier, and transferring the lens array from the carrier onto the micro-electrical-mechanical structure. The lens array is placed above the micro-electrical-mechanical structure. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177409 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An optical element and a manufacturing method thereof are described. An optical material is pressed in a holder through a mold, so as to form an optical element with an optical lens embedded in the holder. A groove in the holder has a guiding face, and the guiding face is obliquely disposed in a direction towards a mirror with a relatively smaller radius of curvature of the optical lens, so as to guide the optical material to truly enter the groove, thereby enhancing gas tightness and precision between the optical lens and the holder. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177410 | PROJECTION LENS UNIT - A projection lens unit includes: a projection lens having a first optical system for focusing incident image light and also having a second optical system for magnifying and projecting the image light focused by the first optical system; a lens barrel member for accommodating the projection lens and having a small diameter portion in which a joining portion of the first and the second optical system is formed to be the thinnest; a holding member having a first holding face on which the small diameter portion is mounted; and a presser member having a second holding face which holds the small diameter portion together with the first holding face. The holding member is fixed to a housing on which the projection lens unit is mounted. The presser member does not protrude upward from the lens barrel member arranged in a dead space of the small diameter portion. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177411 | WAFER LEVEL LENS REPLICATION ON MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS - Movable lens structures in which a lens is formed on a micro-electrical-mechanical system and methods of making the same. A method of forming the lens includes forming a micro-electrical-mechanical system on a substrate, arranging a first mold inside the micro-electrical-mechanical system, and forming a lens on the micro-electrical-mechanical system using the first mold. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177412 | ADAPTIVE VEHICLE SIDE MIRROR SYSTEM - Systems and methods for automatically adjusting the orientation of one or more mirrors present on a motorized vehicle are responsive to the spatial position of a component of a driver seat present in such motorized vehicle and the vehicle's primary rear-view mirror. | 2010-07-15 |
20100177413 | VEHICLE MIRROR CONTROL WITH SEAT POSITION INFORMATION - Systems and methods for automatically adjusting the orientation of one or more mirrors present on a motorized vehicle are responsive to the spatial position of at least one component of a driver seat present in such motorized vehicle. | 2010-07-15 |