37th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110222008 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electro-optical device includes a pixel electrode provided on a substrate, a transistor provided between the substrate and the pixel electrode, a first capacitor electrode provided between the pixel electrode and the transistor, and be electrically connected to the pixel electrode and the transistor, a second capacitor electrode provided between the pixel electrode and the first capacitor electrode, be located so as to be opposite the first capacitor electrode via a capacitor insulating film, and be supplied with a predetermined electric potential, and a light-shielding film provided between the pixel electrode and the second capacitor electrode, be located so as to be at least partially overlapped by the transistor, and be electrically connected to the second capacitor electrode via a contact hole formed in an insulating film disposed between the second capacitor electrode and the light-shielding film. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222009 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device that includes a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between two substrates, one of which includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode, where the electrode that is disposed closer to the liquid crystal layer has a stripe pattern that includes a plurality of slip electrode portions, and each of the plurality of slip electrode portions includes a curved portion at which each of the plurality of the slip electrode portions changes a stretching direction, and where the other electrode has a solid flat shape provided with a plurality of openings at locations that overlap with the curved portions of the plurality of slip electrode portions, the plurality of openings being provided in a manner that makes the opening in one curved portion independent and that allows only a convex outline segment of the slip electrode portion to run through an area of the opening. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222010 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A display device having an improved viewing angle by using a linear polarization structure, and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device includes a first substrate arrangement including a domain forming layer and a pixel electrode arranged on the domain forming layer, the pixel electrode having a cross type opening pattern, a second substrate arrangement including a common electrode arranged on an entire surface that faces the first substrate arrangement and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate arrangement and the second substrate arrangement, the liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules and a reactive mesogen to fix liquid crystal molecules and to produce a liquid crystal domain based on the cross type opening pattern. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222011 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a TFT array substrate ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222012 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The liquid crystal display device is manufactured by placing a half tone mask on the assembled first and second substrates in a polymerization process of liquid crystal composition disposed between the first and second substrates. The liquid crystal composition includes liquid crystal molecules and reactive mesogens. The half tone mask has a first transmission part and a second transmission part. The light transmittance of the first transmission part is higher than the light transmittance of the second transmission part. The first transmission part is disposed in the pixel region, while the second transmission part is disposed in the non-pixel region. The non-pixel region is covered by a black matrix that is formed on the second substrate. Through this manufacturing method, the generation of spots around a black matrix is prevented. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222013 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates placed so as to face each other; a frame-shaped sealing member provided between the first and second substrates, and configured to bond the first and second substrate together; and a liquid crystal layer formed by enclosing a liquid crystal material inside the sealing member. A display region configured to display an image is defined inside the sealing member, and a non-display region is defined outside the display region. The non-display region is also provided in an inner periphery of the sealing member. The first substrate is provided with a plurality of wall-shaped portions formed in the non-display region in the inner periphery of the sealing member so as to extend along the sealing member and to be separated from each other. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222014 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a first spacer and a second spacer on the first substrate and have different heights, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate and including a plurality of a liquid crystal molecule. The first spacer and the second spacer include a photosensitive material defining a maximum height of a spacer with respect to a predetermined a cross-section width dimension of the spacer, and heights less than the maximum height with respect to cross-section width dimensions larger than the predetermined cross-section width dimension. The first spacer and the second spacer can include a black pigment. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222015 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display including: a first substrate on which a first electrode and a first orientation layer are formed; a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a second electrode and a second orientation layer; a sealant formed along edges of the first substrate and the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; wherein holes are formed in the first and second orientation layers and the sealant is bonded to the first and second subatrates through both side holes. Since a contact area between the sealant and the substrates is increased and a bonding force is improved, a stable sealing state can be maintained with a small area and a size of a non-pixel region is reduced so that a small-sized liquid crystal display can be achieved. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222016 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A liquid crystal display panel includes: one pair of substrates each of which is disposed so as to face each other with a liquid crystal layer pinched therebetween; alignment films that are formed on opposing faces of the one pair of substrates with the liquid crystal layer pinched therebetween; a plurality of columnar spacers that are formed in a display area on one side of the one pair of substrates and maintain a cell gap between the one pair of substrates; and a light shielding member that is formed on one side of the one pair of substrates of a non-opening portion including a spot at which the columnar spacers are formed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222017 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL LIQUID CRYSTAL PARALLAX BARRIER DEVICE - A multi-functional liquid crystal parallax barrier device is a liquid crystal device mainly formed by two parallax barrier structures, namely, a double-view vertical strip parallax barrier and a multi-view slant-and-step parallax barrier, in which the two parallax barriers are disposed in the same horizontal display direction, so as to display a double-view 3D image and a multi-view 3D image, in addition to displaying a 2D image, through the control of an appropriate driving voltage and the use of a flat panel display screen. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222018 | GLASSES STRUCTURE - A glasses structure includes a frame, two temple arms and a bridge. The frame has two end portions arranged at lateral sides thereof and a middle portion connecting the two end portions. Each temple has a elastic engagement member at a front end thereof for clamping the respective end portion of the frame. The bridge has a elastic clip member clamping the middle portion of the frame. Therefore, the temple arms and the bridge could link to the frame without screw members. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222019 | Progressive-Power Lens Designing Method, Progressive Power Lens Designing System, and Progressive-Power Lens - A progressive-lens designing system includes a manufacturer-side terminal installed in a lens manufacturer connected to a shop-side terminal installed in a spectacle shop or any other location via a network. The manufacturer-side terminal includes an optimization coefficient setting section that uses a variety of data received from the shop-side terminal to set an optimization coefficient for each target object in specific work, a dioptric power computing section that computes target dioptric power for each target object, a lens designing section that performs lens design, and an order processing section that performs order processing when receiving an order placed from the shop-side terminal. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222020 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Distributed Scanning for Motion Artifact Reduction in Optical Coherence Tomography - Methods of reducing motion artifacts in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) include scanning a sample with a scan pattern to acquire OCT data at a plurality of data locations. The data locations are distributed in the scan pattern across the sample such that at least some spatially adjacent data locations are acquired non-sequentially in time. A profile of the sample corresponding to a sample surface or an aspect of an internal structure of the sample is estimated responsive the OCT data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222021 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD - An ophthalmological measuring device for determining geometric structures in an eye includes an optical, triangulating measurement system for determining at least one geometric reference in the eye by triangulation, and an optical, interferometric measurement system for determining geometric detailed structures in the eye by optical interferometry. The measuring device is designed to position the geometric detailed structures determined by the interferometric measurement system on the basis of the at least one geometric reference in the eye determined by the triangulating measurement system. This firstly allows the interferometric measurement system to register geometric detailed structures in the eye with a high optical resolution and at places that are not visible to the triangulating measurement system, and secondly allows the positioning of said geometric detailed structures in the eye on the basis of geometric references that are determined by the triangulating measurement system without significant movement artifacts. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222022 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device which displays a three-dimensional image without alternately displaying right and left eye images, and utilizes substantially the same light for both two- and three-dimensional displays. The image display device includes: an LED light source having no polarization characteristics; a collimator lens collimating light from the LED light source; a condenser lens focusing the collimated light; a first polarizing prism separating the light transmitted by the condenser lens into S-polarized light and P-polarized light; a first polarized image former forming a P-polarized image from the S-polarized light reflected from the first polarizing prism; a second polarized image former forming an S-polarized image from the P-polarized light transmitted by the first polarizing prism; a second polarizing prism combining the P-polarized image and the S-polarized image; a projection lens projecting the combined image; and a screen. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222023 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device includes: a modulating portion which modulates light; a plurality of light source portions which is disposed in correspondence with a plurality of divided sections formed by dividing a light modulation area of the modulating portion; a light-guiding optical system which guides light from the plurality of light source portions to the plurality of corresponding divided sections; a power output adjustment portion which adjusts power outputs of the light source portions corresponding to the divided sections in accordance with image signals applied to the divided sections; and a modulation control portion which controls the modulating portion in accordance with power outputs of the light source portions and the image signals. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222024 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM FOR PROJECTION DISPLAY - An illumination system for a projection display is disclosed in the present invention. The illumination system has three light sources for providing three primary color rays, two collimators for collimating the rays into light beams, and two beam splitters for reflecting and passing the light beams to make white light available. It can also include three light sources, one collimator and three individual beam splitters. The illumination system has a compact size and low manufacturing cost. Its lighting efficiency is better than that of a conventional illumination system. Hence, it is suitable for small size projectors. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222025 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL DEVICE AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE ILLUMINATION OPTICAL DEVICE - A light guiding section guides, to a light incident surface of a rod integrator, a portion of light beams incident on a first light incident surface, and emits another portion of the light beams from a second light incident surface. The light guiding section guides, to the light incident surface of the rod integrator, a portion of light beams incident on the second light incident surface, and emits another portion of the light beams from the first light incident surface. A first light converging section converges light beams which are emitted from the first light incident surface such that a converged light is incident on the first light incident surface. A second light converging section converges light beams which are emitted from the second light incident surface such that a converged light is incident on the second light incident surface. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222026 | DIAPHRAGM APPARATUS FOR PROJECTORS - When a rotation member is rotated clockwise by a stepping motor, one main operation member is rotated counterclockwise through a link member and the other main operation member is rotated clockwise by said main operation member through the link member. Also, one sub operation member is rotated counterclockwise by said main operation member through the link member, and the other sub operation member is rotated clockwise by the other main operation member through the link member. This causes the amount of overlap between a main split blade mounted to said main operation member and a sub split blade mounted to said sub operation member to be increased and also causes the amount of overlap between a main split blade mounted to the other main operation member and a sub split blade mounted to the other sub operation member to be also increased. As a result, the aperture opening formed between the two main split blades is increased. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222027 | PROJECTOR WITH LENS HEIGHT ADJUSTING FUNCTION - A projector includes a projector body, a lens module with a lens, and a gear module. The lens module and the gear module are arranged in the projector body. The gear module is operable to adjust a height of the lens and keep an angle of the lens, in response to the gear module being rotated. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222028 | PROJECTOR WITH LENS HEIGHT ADJUSTING FUNCTION - A projector includes a projector body, a lens module, and a base rack. The front panel of the projector body defines a though hole. The lens module includes a lens body rotatably mounted to the projector body, a sliding bracket, and a lens extending from the lens body to extend through the through hole of the projector body, and a sliding bracket connected to the lens body via parallel connecting poles. The sliding bracket is slidably mounted to the base rack. The base rack is rotatably mounted to the projector body. A height of the lens is operable to be adjusted by changing the positions of the sliding bracket on the base rack. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222029 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND METHOD - A detector to measure a property of radiation is disclosed. The detector comprises first and second luminescent uniaxial crystals each having an optic axis, the optic axis of the first uniaxial crystal being arranged such that it is substantially perpendicular to the optic axis of the second uniaxial crystal. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222030 | IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUSES - Apparatuses for specially designed gradient immersion lithography are presented. The gradient immersion lithographic apparatus includes a radiation system providing a patterned beam of radiation, a substrate table with a substrate structure held thereon, a projection system with an optical lens element arranged to project the patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate structure, multiple layers of media of gases, liquids, or liquid crystals partitioned by moveable plates arranged in sequence between the projection system and the substrate structure, and a controller for displacement of the moveable plates to adjust relative thicknesses of the multiple layers of media. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222031 | LIQUID IMMERSION MEMBER, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, LIQUID RECOVERING METHOD, DEVICE FABRICATING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A liquid immersion member can form an immersion space such that an optical path of exposure light is filled with a liquid. The liquid immersion member comprises: a recovery port, which recovers at least some of the liquid on an object disposed such that it faces an emergent surface wherefrom the exposure light emerges; a recovery passageway, wherein flows the liquid recovered via the recovery port; a first suction port, which faces the recovery passageway and suctions only a gas from the recovery passageway; and a second suction port, which faces the recovery passageway and suctions the liquid from the recovery passageway | 2011-09-15 |
20110222032 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND METHOD - A lithographic apparatus is disclosed that includes a substrate table configured to support a substrate on a substrate supporting area and a heater and/or temperature sensor on a surface adjacent the substrate supporting area. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222033 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND METHOD - A lithographic apparatus is disclosed that includes a substrate table configured to support a substrate on a substrate supporting area and a heater and/or temperature sensor on a surface adjacent the substrate supporting area. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222034 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS CLEANING METHOD - An immersion lithographic projection apparatus having a megasonic transducer configured to clean a surface and a method of using megasonic waves to clean a surface of an immersion lithographic projection apparatus are disclosed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222035 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lithographic apparatus with a cover plate formed separately from a substrate table and means for stabilizing a temperature of the substrate table by controlling the temperature of the cover plate is disclosed. A lithographic apparatus with thermal insulation provided between a cover plate and a substrate table so that the cover plate acts as a thermal shield for the substrate table is disclosed. A lithographic apparatus comprising means to determine a substrate table distortion and improve position control of a substrate by reference to the substrate table distortion is disclosed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222036 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lithographic apparatus with a cover plate formed separately from a substrate table and means for stabilizing a temperature of the substrate table by controlling the temperature of the cover plate is disclosed. A lithographic apparatus with thermal insulation provided between a cover plate and a substrate table so that the cover plate acts as a thermal shield for the substrate table is disclosed. A lithographic apparatus comprising means to determine a substrate table distortion and improve position control of a substrate by reference to the substrate table distortion is disclosed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222037 | Exposure apparatus, exposure method, and device manufacturing method - An exposure apparatus comprises a liquid immersion system, a first mover, and a prescribed member. The exposure apparatus exposes a substrate via an optical member and a liquid. The liquid immersion system performs supply and recovery of the liquid. The first mover can move in a first area, and can hold the liquid between itself and the optical member. The prescribed member is removed from the first mover when the first mover withdraws from a position opposing the optical member, and can hold the liquid between itself and the optical member. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222038 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PLACING TABLE - A substrate processing apparatus, for performing a plasma process to a substrate (W) in a processing container held in a vacuum state, has a substrate placing table ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222039 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam; a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam; a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; and a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate. An optical element of the projection system is adjustable. The lithographic apparatus includes a controller to control the adjustable optical element. The controller is arranged to drive the optical element so as to at least partly compensate for a magnification resulting from a bending of the patterning device. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222040 | RADIATION SOURCE APPARATUS, LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF GENERATING AND DELIVERING RADIATION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DEVICE - A contaminant trap is used in an EUV radiation source apparatus. An EUV radiation beam is generated and focused through a low pressure gaseous atmosphere into a virtual source point. The EUV radiation creates a plasma in the low pressure hydrogen atmosphere through which it passes. A contaminant trap including electrodes is located in or around radiation beam as it approaches the virtual source point. A DC biasing source is connected to the electrodes to create an electric field oriented to deflect out of the beam path contaminant particles that have been negatively charged by the plasma. Additional RF electrodes and/or an ionizer enhance the plasma to increase the charging of the particles. The deflecting electrodes can be operated with RF bias for a short time, to ensure dissipation of the enhanced plasma. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222041 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND LITHOGRAPHY SYSTEM - An apparatus which can measure an aerial image is provided. The apparatus includes an aperture configured to transmit light of the aerial image, a detector configured to detect the transmitted light at a plurality of first relative positions to the aperture, a controller configured to control a second relative position of the aperture to the aerial image, and a processor configured to generate information about the aerial image based on data obtained from the detector at each first relative position by controlling the second relative position of the aperture and position data about the first relative positions. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222042 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An optical device includes a wavelength separation filter configured to separate incident light into light having a first wavelength and light having a second wavelength, the wavelength separation filter including a blazed grating whose cross-sectional shape is a saw-tooth shape formed by one-dimensionally arranging a plurality of grating elements, wherein the blazed grating is configured to exert a first power on the light having the first wavelength, of the light having the first wavelength and the light having the second wavelength, by gradually changing angles surfaces of the plurality of grating elements make with a base plane, and to exert a second power on the light having the second wavelength, of the light having the first wavelength and the light having the second wavelength, by gradually changing lengths of the plurality of grating elements along a direction in which the plurality of grating elements are arranged. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222043 | MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS - The disclosure relates to a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, such as are used for the production of large-scale integrated electrical circuits and other microstructured components. The disclosure relates in particular to coatings of optical elements in order to increase or reduce the reflectivity. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222044 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A level sensor configured to measure a height level of a substrate arranged in a measurement position is disclosed. The level sensor comprises a projection unit to project multiple measurement beams on multiple measurement locations on the substrate, a detection unit to receive the measurement beams after reflection on the substrate, and a processing unit to calculate a height level on the basis of the reflected measurement beams received by the detection unit, wherein the projection unit and the detection unit are arranged next to the substrate, when the substrate is arranged in the measurement position. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222045 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lithographic apparatus arranged to transfer a pattern from a patterning device onto a substrate is disclosed, the apparatus including a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate, a first clamping system configured to clamp the substrate table to a substrate table support structure, and a second clamping system configured to clamp a substrate to the substrate table after the substrate table has been clamped to the substrate table support structure. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222046 | RANGEFINDER FOR SHOOTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF ALIGNING RANGEFINDER TO SHOOTING DEVICE SIGHT - Embodiments of the present concept are directed to a rangefinder that can be aligned to a fixed sight on a shooting device so that a range can be accurately taken that corresponds to a fixed sight that is used to align the shooting device to a target. Other embodiments of this concept provide methods of aligning the rangefinder to the fixed sight of the shooting device. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222047 | AERIAL OBSERVATION SYSTEM - An aerial platform comprising a kite providing a level of directional stability when elevated by the wind, and an inflated balloon attached above the kite with a cord. The payload is attached to the kite. The physical separation of the balloon from the kite isolates the payload from shocks generated by the balloon. Additional isolation is provided by use of an elastic attachment cord. Electric power is supplied to the aerial platform by means of an optical fiber receiving optical power from a ground-based source, and conversion of the optical power to electrical power on board the platform. In order to provide a strong tether line, the optical fiber is plaited with a jacket braided from high tensile strength fibers. An aerial laser transmitter is described using a ground based laser source transmitting laser power through an optical fiber to an aerial platform for transmission from the platform. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222048 | DOPPLER ASYMMETRIC SPATIAL HETERODYNE SPECTROSCOPY LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING RECEIVER - Obtaining global tropospheric vertical wind profiles by directly detecting atmospheric winds using space borne, airborne and/or ground station platforms is accomplished by a DASH interferometer in the back-end of a Doppler wind LIDAR. In the front-end of the Doppler wind LIDAR, a laser illuminates an atmosphere and a telescope collects backscattered laser light return signals from the laser illuminated atmosphere. The DASH interferometer processes return signals from the atmosphere, forming an interferogram and determines from the interferogram a Doppler shift of the return signals, which is equivalent to determining the line of sight wind speed of the Doppler wind LIDAR observation, by measuring the frequency shift caused by winds. From this determination, global and/or non-global atmospheric wind profile data are transmitted over a communications network in either real-time and/or non-real-time, to facilitate weather forecasting, weather modeling, weather avoidance navigation, atmospheric research, hurricane warnings, operations systems selections and deployment of operational assets. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222049 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TAKING A SAMPLE - Method and device for taking and measuring a sample of a material of a process, for example, a granulation process. The material to be measured is allowed to accumulate as free fall into the measuring chamber ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222050 | OPTICAL MEASURING DEVICE AND OPTICAL MEASURING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an optical measuring device including: a light applying section configured to apply exciting light to a sample flowing in a channel; and a scattered light detecting section configured to detect scattered light generated from the sample irradiated with the exciting light on the downstream side of the sample in the traveling direction of the exciting light; the scattered light detecting section including a scattered light separating mask for separating the scattered light into a low numerical aperture component having a numerical aperture not greater than a specific value and a high numerical aperture component having a numerical aperture greater than the specific value; a first detector for detecting the low numerical aperture component; and a second detector for detecting the high numerical aperture component. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222051 | MICROASSEMBLED IMAGING FLOW CYTOMETER - A microassembled imaging cytometer includes a sensing location that undergoes relative motion with a cell. Light from a light source is focused by a focusing element to a plurality of focused illumination spots or lines at the sensing location, illuminating the cell as the cell traverses the sensing location. A collection lens collects light emanating from the cell and refocuses the collected light onto an array light sensor. The focusing element may include an array of microlenses having spherical or aspheric surfaces. The system may include a processing unit that constructs a digital image of the cell based at least in part on signals produced by the array light sensor indicating the intensity and distribution of light falling on the array light sensor. The system may characterize cells using light emanating from the cells by fluorescence. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222052 | TEST SYSTEMS THAT INCLUDE A CENTERING SYSTEM FOR ALIGNING AN OPTICAL PULSE LAUNCHING DEVICE WITH A MULTI-MODE FIBER AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME - A test system for a multi-mode fiber comprises a launching device that is configured to generate optical pulses and has a rest position. A centering system is operable to move the launching device in a circular motion having a center corresponding to the rest position and a diameter corresponding to a core diameter of the multi-mode fiber. The centering system is further operable to adjust a position of the multi-mode fiber relative to the launching device while the launching device is moving in the circle until an optical power coupled from the launching device into the multi-mode fiber is below a threshold. The centering system optically centers the launching device with the multi-mode fiber by fixing the position of the multi-mode fiber responsive to the optical power coupled from the launching device into the multi-mode fiber being below the threshold and returning the launching device to the rest position. In addition, the centering system can move the launching device in a circular motion to launch optical pulses into a multi-mode fiber to perform differential mode delay measurements, which may result in better screening of any circular inhomogeneity of the core of the multi-mode fiber. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222053 | FRONT PLATE FOR DISPLAY, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING FRONT PLATE FOR DISPLAY - The present invention relates to a front plate for a display comprising: a glass substrate having a first surface and a second surface; and a ceramic layer formed on at least a part of a marginal area of the second surface, wherein the front plate has a difference (ΔT) between a maximum light amount T | 2011-09-15 |
20110222054 | Apparatus and Method for Multi-Modal Imaging in Nonlinear Raman Microscopy - An apparatus for the microscopic examination of an object has an illumination system which generates a first illumination light beam and a second illumination light beam. A first polarization filter ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222055 | DETERMINATION OF THE SALT CONCENTRATION OF AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION - A method of determining the concentration of a salt that may be present in a substance containing at least some water, comprising the following steps: a) recording the Raman spectrum of photons scattered by the substance in the wave number range 2500 cm | 2011-09-15 |
20110222056 | SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERISTICS ACQUISITION UNIT, IMAGE EVALUATION UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A spectroscopic characteristics acquisition unit includes a light emitting unit to illuminate a measurement target; a lens array including lenses to receive reflected light reflected from the measurement target; a light blocking member having a pinhole array including openings; a focusing unit to focus light coming from the pinhole array; a diffraction unit to diffract the light to different directions depending on wavelength of light received by the focusing unit; and a light receiving unit to receive the reflected light diffracted by the diffraction unit. The light receiving unit includes a spectroscopic sensor array having spectroscopy sensors including pixels. Each of the lenses constituting the lens array corresponds to one of the openings of the pinhole array. The numerical aperture NA of the lens in the arrangement direction in the lens array satisfies the formula NA>sin(θmax) with respect to the maximum angle of view θmax of the focusing unit. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222057 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING A CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF A LIQUID METAL SUITABLE FOR COATING A STEEL STRIP - A method and a device measure a chemical composition of a liquid metal suitable for coating a steel strip. The method measures a chemical composition of a liquid metal suitable for coating a steel strip for which the liquid metal is formed continuously in a first cavity, and the composition of the liquid metal is measured on a direct measurement surface thereof, for which a specimen of the liquid metal reaching the measurement surface is heated to a chosen temperature so as to isolate principally iron-based impurities from the measurement surface. Several embodiments of devices suitable for implementing the method are also presented. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222058 | PROCESS MONITORING DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided are a process monitoring device for monitoring semiconductor device manufacturing processes, a semiconductor process apparatus including the same, and a process monitoring method thereof. The process monitoring device generates plasma from the exhaust gas of the process chamber using DBD-type electrodes and analyzes a spectrum of emission light from the plasma, thereby monitoring the semiconductor manufacturing process performed in the process chamber. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222059 | Systems, devices, and methods including a dark-field reflected-illumination apparatus - Systems, devices, and methods are described that modulate a specimen-background dark-field micrograph contrast. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222060 | MONOCHROMATOR COMPRISING VARIABLE WAVELENGTH SELECTOR IN COMBINATION WITH TUNABLE INTERFERENCE FILTER - A system for spectrally filtering light is provided. The system includes a variable wavelength selector for selecting a wavelength from a light source and a tunable interference filter for filtering light from the variable wavelength selector. The interference filter may be synchronously tunable to the output of the variable wavelength selector. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222061 | DYSON-TYPE IMAGING SPECTROMETER HAVING IMPROVED IMAGE QUALITY AND LOW DISTORTION - A Dyson imaging spectrometer includes an entry port extending in a direction X, an exit port, a diffraction grating including a set of lines on a concave support, an optical system including a lens, the lens including a plane first face and a convex second face, the convex face of the lens and the concave face of the diffraction grating being concentric, the optical system being adapted to receive an incident light beam coming from the entry port and to direct it toward the diffraction grating, to receive a beam diffracted by the diffraction grating, and to form a spectral image of the diffracted beam in a plane of the exit port, the spectral image being adapted to be spatially resolved in an extension direction X′ of the image of the entry port. The diffraction grating includes a set of non-parallel and non-equidistant lines and/or the support of diffraction grating is aspherical in order to form an image of the entry port in the exit plane of improved image quality and of very low distortion. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222062 | ANALYZERS WITH TIME VARIATION BASED ON COLOR-CODED SPATIAL MODULATION - A filter arrangement can transmit and/or reflect light emanating from a moving object so that the emanating light has time variation, and the time variation can include information about the object, such as its type. For example, emanating light from segments of a path can be transmitted/reflected through positions of a filter assembly, and the transmission functions of the positions can be sufficiently different that time variation occurs in the emanating light between segments. Or emanating light from a segment can be transmitted/reflected through a filter component in which simpler transmission functions are superimposed, so that time variation occurs in the emanating light in accordance with superposition of two simpler non-uniform transmission functions. Many filter arrangements could be used, e.g. the filter component could include the filter assembly, which can have one of the simpler non-uniform transmission functions. Time-varying waveforms from sensing results can be compared to obtain spectral differences. The filter arrangement, in a practical commercial embodiment, can be manufactured to be disposable, and used in a point-of-care device for use practically anywhere, at low cost, and can also be implemented in an in-line monitoring system. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222063 | APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CONCENTRATION OF GASEOUS COMPONENT - A gaseous component concentration determination apparatus that can obtain a sufficiently large light detection value and determine a concentration of a target component in a desired section without using a laser emitter of a high laser intensity or a large light collector is provided. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222064 | OBJECT DETECTING DEVICE AND INFORMATION ACQUIRING DEVICE - An information acquiring device includes a laser light source which emits light in a predetermined wavelength region; a projection lens which projects the light from the laser light source toward a targeted area; an image sensor which receives reflected light reflected from the targeted area to output a signal; and an imaging lens which guides the reflected light to the image sensor; a filter which transmits the light from the laser light source; and an actuator which inclines the filter. A filter controlling circuit inclines the filter in such a direction as to approximate a transmissive wavelength region of the filter to the wavelength region of the light from the laser light source. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222065 | Reflection characteristic measuring apparatus for sheet specimen, method of calibratingreflection characteristic measuring apparatus for sheet specimen, and calibrationreference plate for use in calibration of reflection characteristic measuring apparatus forsheet specimen - A reflection characteristic measuring apparatus capable of scanning a specimen surface of a sheet specimen at a high speed is provided. The reflection characteristic measuring apparatus includes a group of illuminating and light-receiving systems for directing illuminating light onto the specimen surface of the sheet specimen held by a specimen holding roller pair and for receiving reflected light from the specimen surface. The illuminating and light-receiving systems measure a spectral characteristic of the received reflected light. The illuminating and light-receiving systems are disposed over one-dimensional arrays of color samples which extend in the longitudinal direction of the sheet specimen, and scan the one-dimensional arrays in a direction opposite to a direction in which the sheet specimen is transported. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222066 | Assembly With Absorbing Sensor Layer - The invention relates to an assembly for detecting the presence of a target based on a detection of a resonance associated to surface polaritons, such as long-range surface exciton polaritons (LRSEP). The invention relates to an assembly to be used in connection with a bio-sensor. The assembly comprising a carrier substrate ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222067 | TECHNIQUE TO DETERMINE MIRROR POSITION IN OPTICAL INTERFEROMETERS - A Micro Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) interferometer system utilizes a capacitive sensing circuit to determine the position of a moveable minor. An electrostatic MEMS actuator is coupled to the moveable minor to cause a displacement thereof. The capacitive sensing circuit senses the current capacitance of the MEMS actuator and determines the position of the moveable minor based on the current capacitance of the MEMS actuator. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222068 | NEAR REAL TIME OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION - An optical system and associated method enable near real time optical phase conjugation. In the method, a translucent medium is illuminated by a sample illumination beam. Light scattered by the medium is directed to an electronic image sensor while a reference beam is also directed to the electronic image sensor. The scattered light and the reference beam form an interference pattern at the electronic image sensor. A digital representation of the interference pattern is recorded using the electronic image sensor, and the characteristics of a conjugate of the sample beam are computed from the numerical representation. A conjugate beam having the computed characteristics is generated using a configurable optical element and directed back to the translucent medium. The generation of the conjugate beam may be accomplished using a spatial light modulator. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222069 | LIGHT-INTERFERENCE MEASURING APPARATUS - A light-interference measuring apparatus including: a light source of a broad band light; an objective lens section to branch an optical path of the broad band light into a reference optical path including a reference mirror and a measuring optical path including a measuring object and to output a superposed wave of two branched lights; and an optical path length changing section to change an optical path length of either the reference optical path or the measuring optical path; wherein the objective lens section includes a phase difference control member to control a phase difference between the reference light and the object light to generate destructive interference fringes, and a minimum luminance position detecting section to detect minimum luminance position of the destructive interference fringes. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222070 | Optical Tomographic Image Forming Method - An optical tomographic image forming method including: splitting low coherence light emitted from a light source is split into a measuring light and a reference light; forming an optical tomographic image of a measured object by detecting an interference light that is obtained by superposing reflected light, reflected from the measured object when the measuring light is irradiated onto the measured object via a condenser lens, and reflected light, reflected from a reference mirror, which is positioned a predetermined length of optical path away from the splitting position, when the reference light is irradiated onto the reference mirror, wherein the method further includes: inputting a refractive index of the measured object; correcting the tomographic image in accordance with the inputted refractive index of the measured object; and outputting the corrected tomographic image. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222071 | METHOD FOR MEASURING THE THICKNESS OF A DISCOIDAL WORKPIECE - The invention relates to a method for measuring the thickness of a discoidal workpiece, which serves as a substrate for electronic components, comprising the steps: infrared radiation is directed at the top side of the workpiece, wherein a first radiation portion is reflected on the top side and a second radiation portion penetrates the workpiece thickness, is reflected on the bottom side of the workpiece and emerges again on the top side of the workpiece, the first and the second radiation portion interfere under formation of an interference pattern and the optical workpiece thickness between the top side of the workpiece and the bottom side of the workpiece is determined using the interference pattern. It is provided according to the invention that the mechanical workpiece thickness is determined from a measurement of the intensity of the infrared radiation reflected and/or transmitted from the workpiece. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222072 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY MEASURING BY INTERFEROMETRY THE THICKNESS OF AN OBJECT - Apparatus ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222073 | OPTICAL ENCODER AND DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An optical encoder ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110222074 | Pattern generators, calibration systems and methods for patterning workpieces - A pattern generator includes: a writing tool and a calibration system. The writing tool is configured to generate a pattern on a workpiece arranged on a stage. The calibration system is configured to determine a correlation between a coordinate system of the writing tool and a coordinate system of a calibration plate on one of the stage and the workpiece. The calibration system is also configured to determine the correlation at least partly based on an optical correlation signal, or pattern, in a form of at least one optical beam being reflected from at least one reflective pattern on the surface of the calibration plate. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222075 | OPTICAL POSITION DETECTION DEVICE - An optical position detection device, includes: a light source adapted to emit at least one detection light beam toward one side in a Z-axis direction; a first detector having a light receiving section directed to the one side in the Z-axis direction; a second detector located at a position on the one side in the Z-axis direction, the position being distant from the light source and the first detector, and having a light receiving section directed to the one side in the Z-axis direction; and a position derivation section adapted to derive a position of a object located in a first space between the first detector and the second detector and a position of a object located in a second space on the one side of the second detector in the Z-axis direction based on a light receiving result in the first detector and the second detector. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222076 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE PRODUCING REDUCED IMAGE - An image processing device includes an original image data acquiring unit and a reducing unit. The original image data acquiring unit acquires original image data indicative of an original image. The original image data includes a plurality of sets of original pixel data, the original image having a first resolution and a first size. The original image is divided into a plurality of original grids. Each original grid corresponds to a set of original pixel data. The reducing unit creates reduced image data by performing a reduction process on the original image data. The reduced image data includes a plurality of sets of reduced pixel data. The reduced image data indicates of a reduced image having a second resolution lower than the first resolution and a second size same as the first size. The reduced image is divided into a plurality of reduced grids. Each reduced grid corresponds to a set of reduced pixel data. The reducing unit includes an acquiring unit and a reduced pixel data producing unit. The acquiring unit acquires, for each set of reduced pixel data, at least one set of original pixel data satisfying a following condition that the at least one set of original pixel data corresponds to the original grid whose part is superposed on the reduced grid corresponding to the each set of reduced pixel data when the reduced image is partially superposed on the original image such that the reduced image is shifted, from a original position at which the reduced image is entirely superposed on the original image, by a prescribed length shorter than a length of one original grid. The reduced pixel data producing unit produces the reduced pixel data by calculating a weighted average of the at least one set of original pixel data acquired by the acquiring unit based on size ratio, each size ratio being defined as a ratio of a size of the part of original grid that is superposed on the reduced grid corresponding to the reduced pixel data to a size of the reduced grid. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222077 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DENSITY UNEVENNESS CORRECTION METHOD - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section to write a latent image, and to develop the latent image to form an image; a misalignment detecting section to detect misalignment amount of a sheet in the main scanning direction on a sheet conveying path to the image forming section; a storage section to store the misalignment amount; a density measuring section to measure density of a plurality of preset positions and to generate measurement data; and a control section to adjust a writing position on the image carrier; to allow the image forming section to output the sheet on which a density measuring image is formed; and to convert the position on the sheet of the measurement data to the writing position on the image carrier and to generate correction data; and a density unevenness correcting section to correct the density of the image. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222078 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPERATION MODE SETTING METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises a display; a customization portion; a mode setting portion; and a controller that forcibly changes a value set for a first operation mode to a first parameter, still keeps the first parameter after cancellation of the second operation mode, and changes the first parameter according to a user operation, if a second operation mode is employed by the mode setting portion while an operation key for setting a value for the first operation mode is not hidden by the customization portion, meanwhile changes the value set for the first operation mode to a second parameter and changes the second parameter to a third parameter after cancellation of the second operation mode, if the second operation mode is employed by the mode setting portion while an operation key for setting a value for the first operation mode is hidden by the customization portion. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222079 | PRINT HEAD ARRAY - A printing apparatus including at least one print head array coupled to the printing apparatus, a servicing station configured to service the at least one print head array, and a print controller software coupled to computer readable medium and the print controller software configured to perform the steps of moving the at least one print head array to the servicing station when at least one occurs from the group consisting of a nozzle head crash, a clogged nozzle, a failure of a print head, a misalignment, and the image quality defect value is above a threshold value and configuring at least one additional print head array to continue a print job started by the at least one print head array when the at least one print head array is at a position following the at least one print head array and the at least one additional print head array is functional. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222080 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR JOINTLY OPTIMIZING NODE LOCATIONS AND CORRESPONDING OUTPUT VALUES OF A COLOR LOOK-UP-TABLE (LUT) - This disclosure provides methods, systems and apparatus for jointly optimizing node locations and corresponding output value of a color look-up-table (LUT) associated with an imaging device. According to one exemplary method, initially a set of LUT node locations are generated by solving a first optimization problem and subsequently, a set of LUT node values are generated by solving a second optimization problem. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222081 | Printing Three-Dimensional Objects Using Hybrid Format Data - Methods of how to build a 3D model with both surface features and internal structures are disclosed. 3D image data in a hybrid data format or other suitable data formats are first received as input and then broken down into layers of 2D data. The layers of 2D data hold various attribute information about the model, such as colors, shapes, durometer hardness, etc. The layers of data are printed on printing sheets that are specially formulated. Selected materials are also deposited on printed sheets as dictated by the 2D data. Each printed sheet is cut along the shape boundaries either before or after it has been bound to previously printed sheets. Finished sheets are then bound and processed to generate a 3D model with rich details. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222082 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which can rotate input image data in a compressed state, comprises a storage unit which stores a rotation angle of the image data; a holding unit which holds, for each tile including blocks each including a predetermined number of pixels in the image data, information on a color arrangement in the block obtained by compressing the image data, color information corresponding to the color arrangement, and information on a position of the tile in the image data; and a rotation unit which converts the color arrangement in the block in accordance with the rotation angle of the image data stored in the storage unit to form rotated image data based on the converted color arrangement, color information corresponding to the color arrangement, and information on a position of the tile. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222083 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE PERFORMING COLOR CONVERSION AND PRODUCING SCALED IMAGE - An image processing device includes a color converting unit and a scaling unit. The color converting unit is configured to convert input image data to converted image data. The converted image data has a plurality of sets of converted pixel data. Each set of converted pixel data includes an achromatic color value and a plurality of chromatic color values. The achromatic color value indicates an amount of an achromatic color material. The achromatic color material produces an achromatic color. Each of the plurality of chromatic color values indicates an amount of one of a plurality of chromatic color materials. Each of chromatic color material produces a chromatic color. The achromatic color is produced by mixing at least one of the achromatic color material and the plurality of chromatic color materials. The scaling unit is configured to produce scaled image data based on the converted image data. The scaled image data includes a plurality of sets of scaled pixel data. Each set of scaled pixel data corresponds to at least one set of converted pixel data. The scaling unit produces each set of scaled pixel data based on the corresponding at least one set of converted pixel data. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222084 | DECOLORING DEVICE, SHEET CONVEYING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING SHEET CONVEYING PROGRAM - There is provided a decoloring device including a decoloring unit, a first sheet conveying unit, a second sheet conveying unit, a reversing and conveying unit, a manual feed tray, and a manual discharge tray. The reversing and conveying unit is disposed adjacent to an outer wall of the decoloring device in relation to the first sheet conveying unit, and conveys once again the sheet, which is temporarily brought into the second sheet conveying unit after being decolored by the decoloring unit and is switch-back conveyed, to the first sheet conveying unit. The manual feed tray is provided at an outer wall side of the decoloring device adjacent to the reversing and conveying unit. The manual discharge tray is provided at a position of the outer wall side of the decoloring device adjacent to the reversing and conveying unit. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222085 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus includes a correcting unit that performs enlarging or reducing correction on an image to be processed by determining an arrangement of pixels that are to be added to or deleted from gradational image data of the image to be processed based on an angle at which the pixels are to be arranged with respect to a horizontal direction of the image to be processed or with respect to a vertical direction of the image to be processed, and a pixel array control unit that changes the angle at which the pixels are arranged based on a test image of the image data to be processed after being corrected by the correcting unit. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222086 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus comprises: an image forming section that forms an image on a sheet; a density sensor that measures the image formed on the sheet and outputs a measured value corresponding to a density of the image; a conversion data storing section that stores plural conversion data showing relationship between the measured value outputted from the density sensor and the image density, for each sheet type and each screen for an image; a conversion data selection section that selects at least one conversion data from the plural conversion data stored in the conversion data storing section; and a density adjustment section that adjusts a density for an image formed by the image forming section based on a measured value acquired by measuring a prescribed image formed on a sheet and on the conversion data selected by the conversion data selection section. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222087 | PRINT ORIENTATION OF DOCUMENTS BASED ON DEVICE SENSOR OUTPUT - This is directed to defining the orientation in which a document is printed from the orientation of the device on which the document is displayed. In particular, some electronic devices can have limited user interfaces that do not provide for a simple or elegant interface for defining print settings. To overcome limitations in a displayed user interface, the orientation of an electronic device can be used to define the print orientation of a displayed document. In particular, a motion-sensing component of an electronic device can determine whether the electronic device display is in a portrait or landscape orientation, and define the page orientation of the displayed document to match the determined device orientation. The electronic device can then transmit the document, in the defined page orientation, to a printer system for printing in the desired page orientation. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222088 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A control portion includes a CPU and a ROM. The ROM includes a first memory area, a second memory area, and a third memory area. The first memory area stores the correspondence of a user's input operation at a touch panel to a first type of information on image forming processing. The second memory area stores the correspondence of a detection result output from a sensor to the first type of information. The third memory area stores the correspondence of a detection result output from the sensor to a second type of information on the image forming processing. If the touch panel is not faulty, the CPU performs the image forming processing based on the contents of the first and third memory areas. If the touch panel is faulty, the CPU performs the image forming processing based on the contents of the second and third memory areas. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222089 | Continuous paper duplex printer and printing method - In a continuous paper duplex printer, during duplex printing, a printer controller provides image data for odd-numbered and even numbered pages to front surface and back surface image processing apparatuses respectively, and a printing engine prints an image of an odd-numbered page on the front of continuous paper and parallelly forms an image of an even-numbered page different from an even-numbered page subsequent to the odd-numbered page on the back of the front of the continuous paper based on the image data processed by the processing apparatuses. In the continuous paper duplex printer, during single sided printing, the printer controller provides image data for odd-numbered and even numbered pages to the processing apparatuses, but when the image data is provided to one of the processing apparatuses, blank page image data or a blank page instruction is provided to another one of the processing apparatuses. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222090 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING METHOD AND IMAGE READING SYSTEM - To keep track of which process each process job currently exits and when it comes in own charge or which job must be processed, it is necessary to use a workflow system on a PC, and this necessitates to move back and force between the PC and the apparatus, thereby leading to the deterioration of the operational efficiency. An object of the invention is to provide a system in which the apparatus and the workflow server are connected, and by moving forward the processing by using the operation unit of the apparatus, the workflow of the operator in the centralized copy room and the print center of the company can be smoothly moved forward. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222091 | POSTSCRIPT STREAM INTERPRETER WITH INTEGRATED PAGINATION - Systems and methods presented herein provide for the processing of PostScript print jobs that are not DSC compliant. A single stream of a PostScript data is processed and divided into multiple streams (e.g., page objects), each comprising data operable to render an individual page. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving the PostScript data stream and identifying object tokens in the PostScript data stream. An object token is operable to generate a PostScript object or execute a PostScript operation. A portion of the object tokens may be operable to define page boundaries in the PostScript data stream. The method also includes analyzing the object tokens to parse the object tokens into a plurality of page objects, separating the page objects into a plurality of data paths, and parallel processing the page objects through the data paths to rasterize the PostScript data stream on a page by page basis. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222092 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LIFTING AN ELEVATOR PLATE OF A MEDIA TRAY IN AN IMAGE PRODUCTION DEVICE - A method and apparatus for lifting an elevator plate of a media tray in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a request to print a print job using stacked media from one of one or more media trays, initiating lifting of the leading edge of the elevator plate so that the stacked media may be received by the one or more feeder rollers, initiating printing of the requested print job from the one of one or more media trays, determining if the amount of stacked media in the one of the one or more media trays is less than a predetermined amount, wherein if it is determined that the amount of stacked media in the one of the one or more media trays is less than the predetermined amount, initiating lifting of both of the leading and trailing edge of the elevator plate so that the stacked media may be received by the one or more feeder rollers. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222093 | INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information recording method includes: acquiring plural pieces of file information; acquiring plural pieces of additional information accompanying the acquired pieces of file information; storing the acquired pieces of file information in first or second storage area each having a predetermined capacity for storing the file information. If the pieces of additional information on the acquired pieces of file information indicate the acquired pieces of file information are required to be stored in time order, the acquired pieces of file information are stored into the first storage area in the order of pieces of time information contained in the respective pieces of additional information. If a file capacity of one of the acquired pieces of file information is larger than an empty capacity of the first storage area, the one of the acquired pieces of file information is stored into the second storage area. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222094 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus operates in two modes of an energy saving mode and a normal mode. The image forming apparatus includes a shared memory that is capable of being referenced by a network interface card, which is detachably connected to the image forming apparatus, in the energy saving mode and the normal mode of the image forming apparatus; and an apparatus information saving unit that, when an apparatus state of the image forming apparatus is changed, saves image forming apparatus information regarding the apparatus state of the image forming apparatus in the shared memory. The network interface card includes an apparatus information acquisition unit that acquires the image forming apparatus information from the shared memory. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222095 | MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE FOR QUICK EXECUTION OF FUNCTIONS AND EXECUTION METHOD THEREOF - A multifunction device for quick execution of functions thereof includes a processing module, and a scanning unit, a user interface and an output module, all of which are connected to the processing module. The scanning unit performs image acquisition on an original to generate a scan image signal representative of an image of the original. The user interface includes a display unit and an operation interface. The display unit displays a representation image of the scan image signal. The operation interface receives a user input. After the representation image is displayed, the processing module receives a user setting signal containing user input information from the operation interface and generates an output signal according to the user setting signal and the scan image signal. The output module outputs an output result corresponding to the output signal. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222096 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR UNINSTALLING PRINTER DRIVER, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An uninstaller extracts a print setting included in only a printer driver to be uninstalled, deletes information relating to the extracted print setting from all presets (a preset description file) to be registered in an OS, extracts a default value of print setting items for all print queues other than a print queue corresponding to the printer driver to be uninstalled, deletes information relating to the preset which does not differ in the print setting from the extracted default value from the preset description file, and uninstalls the printer driver. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222097 | INPUT DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - When a quantity of light of a liquid crystal back light falls below a predetermined value, a detecting section of an input device outputs to a first control section a failure-detected signal indicating that a failure occurred in the liquid crystal back light of an operation panel. When a touched area is inputted from a touch panel after the failure-detected signal was inputted, the first control section, referring to a failure time table, transmits setting information corresponding to a display area that includes the touched area to a second control section of an image forming apparatus. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222098 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A first image forming apparatus detects a malfunction generated in a functional unit thereof and determines a functional mode that cannot be executed. The first image forming apparatus transmits the functional mode that cannot be executed to a management apparatus. When obtaining the functional mode that cannot be executed, the management apparatus updates a functional mode table. The management apparatus increases a priority of the first image forming apparatus for a functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. Along with this, the management apparatus decreases a priority of a second image forming apparatus that normally operates for the functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. When receiving a job, the management apparatus refers to the updated functional mode table to allocate the job to one of the image forming apparatuses. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222099 | VERIFICATION APPARATUS, JOB TICKET VERIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus for verifying whether or not processing of a received job ticket is feasible in a printing apparatus, comprises: a unit which holds capability information associated with capabilities included in the printing apparatus and verification information associated with verification items respectively for the capabilities; a unit which generates, based on user identification information, which is defined for each user who designates execution of the processing of the job ticket and indicates available functions in the printing apparatus and verification items for the user, and the capability information, printer capability data indicating feasible capabilities of the user in the printing apparatus; a unit which generates verification policy data indicating feasible verification items of the user for the job ticket; and a unit which verifies based on the printer capability data and the verification policy data whether or not the processing of the job ticket is feasible in the printing apparatus. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222100 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, USE RESTRICTION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic device includes a display part, a system control part for designating a display target to be displayed by the display part and switch the display target to another display target, a display control part for instructing the display part to display an operation screen corresponding to the display target designated by the system control part, and a receiving part for receiving a request for initiating the exclusive use of the display part from a use restriction application and receiving a request for terminating the exclusive use of the display part from the use restriction application. In a case where the receiving part receives the request for initiating the exclusive use of the display part, the system control part ceases switching the display target to the other display target until the receiving part receives the request for terminating the exclusive use of the display part. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222101 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH POWER CONTROL UNIT - An image processing apparatus includes a platform and plugins installed in the platform to cause devices to perform functions, wherein the platform includes a power control unit to control supply of power to the devices and a first power control interface to transmit to the plugins an advanced notice of shutdown, wherein each of the plugins includes a second power control interface to receive the advanced notice of shutdown and a power processing control unit to make a preparation for shutdown in response to the advanced notice of shutdown received through the second power control interface, and to send information about the preparation to the power control unit through the second power control interface, wherein the power control unit controls supply of power to at least one of the devices based on the information about the preparation received from at least one of the plugins. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222102 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus including a web server configured to generate an operation screen and a browser configured to receive the operation screen from the web server and to display the operation screen includes an identification unit configured to identify, if a connection request is given to the web server, a requestor of the connection request, a web server authentication unit configured to perform authentication of a user to use the web server, and a control unit configured to, if the requestor is identified as the browser of the image forming apparatus by the identification unit, control the web server to transmit the operation screen to the browser of the image forming apparatus without the web server authentication unit performing the authentication. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222103 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANAGING PRINT JOB, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is configured to access a storage that stores, therein, first associating information indicating a first terminal identifier for identifying a terminal and a first user identifier for identifying a user. The apparatus receives data based on which a print job is to be executed and which contains a second terminal identifier. If the second terminal identifier contained in the data matches the first terminal identifier indicated in the first associating information, then the apparatus executes the print job. Otherwise, the apparatus suspends execution of the print job. The apparatus receives an input of a second user identifier. If the second user identifier matches the first user identifier indicated in the first associating information, and, if the print job whose execution is suspended is selected, then the apparatus stores, into the storage, second associating information indicating the second terminal identifier and the second user identifier. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222104 | PRINTER DISCOVERY WITHIN A WEB PAGE - Systems and methods presented herein provide for printer discovery with a webpage such that a client device may print the webpage via a remote printing service. The client device retrieves a webpage with an internet browser. The webpage includes a printer detection module that detects printing devices of one data network and transfers their printing characteristics to a print server in another data network. The printer detection module is accessible through the webpage. The printer detection module allows for the selection of one or more of the printing devices. The client device transfers the webpage (or the URL of the webpage) to the print server to render the webpage for printing on the selected printing device. The print server renders the webpage according to the printing characteristics of the selected printing device and then transfers the rendered webpage to the selected printing device via the client device for printing. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222105 | PRINTING INTERNET INACCESSIBLE WEB CONTENT VIA REMOTE PRINTING SERVICE - Systems and methods presented herein provide for printing, via a remote printing service, Internet content retrieved by a client device. The retrieved Internet content is Internet inaccessible to the remote printing service as it is viewable within a private network (e.g., an Intranet). In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving the webpage from a data network with a client device, transferring a request from the client device to the remote printing service to render the webpage for printing, and receiving a response from the remote printing service indicating that the webpage is inaccessible. The method also includes storing data of the webpage in the client device and transferring the stored webpage data from the client device to the remote printing service for rendering and printing. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222106 | PRINT QUALITY VALIDATION OF PRINT JOBS USING BITMAPPED IMAGE - A method and apparatus capture bitmapped images of pages of a print job that have been raster image processed while being printed by a printing device and collect electronic image data from at least one predetermined area of the bitmapped images of the pages using a computerized device. In addition, the method and apparatus capture at least one scanned image from the predetermined area of sheets of media printed by the printing device according to the print job, using an optical imaging device operatively connected to the computerized device and compare the scanned image to the electronic image data to validate whether the print job printed correctly. | 2011-09-15 |
20110222107 | METHODS AND STRUCTURE FOR IMPROVED JDF TICKET PROCESSING IN A PRINTING SYSTEM USING AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED TRANSLATION TABLES - Methods and apparatus for generating and utilizing a device capability file and a device PostScript table for processing JDF job tickets within a printing system. Features and aspects hereof generate a device capability file and a device PostScript table from information in a printer description file and a mapping file. The device capability file is used to generate JDF job tickets. The device PostScript table is used in the printing system to translate a JDF job ticket into corresponding device command strings. Constraint information may be generated from the printer description and mapping files and used to validate the JDF job ticket. The constraint information may be integral with the device capability file and/or with the device PostScript table. JDF job tickets may be validated as they are generated, and/or just prior to transmission to the printing system, and/or as part of the job ticket processing within the printing system. | 2011-09-15 |