| 47th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
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| 20120293673 | IMAGE STABILIZER AND IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE HAVING SAME - An image stabilizer includes a stationary frame with four sidewalls, a moveable frame including four side panels, magnets, a plurality of fine pattern coils, and a resilient plate holding the moveable frame in the stationary frame. Each sidewall includes a receiving hole, a support portion received in the receiving hole, and a raised engagement portion extending from the support portion. The magnets are fixed on the side panels. The fine pattern coils are fixed in the receiving holes and aligned with the magnets and compensate for vibration and movement of the device to which it is affixed. The resilient plate is configured for returning the moveable frame to a resting position when a power supply is cut off. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293674 | IMAGE STABILIZATION SYSTEM AND DIGITAL CAMERA - An image stabilization system is provided that includes a rolling angle detector for detecting a rolling angle of a camera body; a rotational blur compensator that calculates a rotational blur from the rolling angle and carries out a rotational compensation by rotating an image sensor; a translational motion detector for detecting a translational motion of the camera body; and a translational blur compensator that extracts a partial image from each of two images captured by the image sensor to counteract the translational motion. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293675 | OPTICAL APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM HAVING A FUNCTION OF MOVING A FOCUS LENS IN AN OPTICAL AXIS DIRECTION TO REDUCE FOCUS SHAKE GENERATED IN THE OPTICAL AXIS DIRECTION - The optical apparatus includes an image pickup optical system including a focus lens, a controller controlling movement of the focus lens in an optical axis direction of the image pickup optical system, a shake detector detecting a shake amount of the optical apparatus in the optical axis direction, and a memory storing plural shake amounts sequentially detected by the shake detector. The controller calculates, in response to a start instruction of exposure for the image pickup and before start of the exposure, a predictive value of the shake amount for a time point of the exposure based on the plural shake amounts stored in the memory and including at least one shake amount detected after the start instruction of exposure. The controller moves the focus lens to a position corresponding to the predictive value before the start of the exposure. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293676 | HEAD-SEPARATED CAMERA DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a head-separated camera device includes an imaging unit, a control unit configured to control the imaging unit and a connection unit configured to connect the imaging unit and the control unit. The imaging unit includes a sensor configured to capture an image to provide a video signal, a superimposition module configured to superimpose, on serial data, the video signal, the synchronization signal, and the clock signal, the serial data serving to reproduce the image captured by the sensor, and a transmitter configured to transmit the serial data to the control unit. The control unit includes a receiver configured to receive the serial data and a separation module configured to separate the serial data received by the receiver, into the video signal, the synchronization signal, and the clock signal. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293677 | Methods and apparatuses for anti-shading correction with extended color correlated temperature dependency - In a method for correcting shading effects in an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, shading effects on at least one readout pixel of the image sensor are modeled based on a parametric component, and the shading effects on the at least one readout pixel are corrected based on the modeled shading effects. The parametric component is dependent on at least one of a color channel corresponding to the readout pixel and a color correlated temperature of light incident on the at least one readout pixel | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293678 | RECORDING DATA WITH AN INTEGRATED FIELD-PORTABLE DEVICE - An integrated field-portable device comprising an image capture device configured to capture an image of a survey target area and a position determination system for determining a position of the integrated field-portable device, and an annotation system configured to access the image and associate the image with the position of at least one target in the survey target area and to associate with the image an instance of additional data comprising an identifier of the survey target area. The integrated field-portable device further comprises a storage system configured to generate a digital representation when the image is captured comprising the image, the position of the at least one target and the instance of additional data. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293679 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus calculates an actual reproduction frame rate from a reproduction speed and a frame rate of a moving image file and compares the actual reproduction frame rate with a predetermined frame rate. A display manner of image information of the moving image file is chanced in accordance with a comparison result. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293680 | Method and apparatus for controlling master-slave mode cameras in wireless terminal - The disclosure provides a method and apparatus for controlling dual cameras in a wireless terminal in a master-slave mode, in order to avoid interferences that may occur between the dual cameras due to sharing of data buses. In the disclosure, as the master processor uses a set of resources to control the two cameras, the resources of the master processor may be saved which otherwise will be occupied by the dual cameras, the dependency of the cameras on the master processor is reduced, so that the master processor may release more resources for other peripherals or other tasks. As the multiplexer switch isolates signals of the two camera sensors in a relatively thorough way, mutual interferences between the two cameras may be avoided and electromagnetic interferences may be decreased. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293681 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING SYSTEM, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus performs predetermined signal processing on an image signal output from an image sensor having a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in a direction along a row and a direction along a column. The signal processing apparatus comprises: a storage unit that stores characteristic information indicating characteristics of signal component mix in each pixel from adjacent pixels according to the pixel position in the pixel array of the image sensor; and a correction unit that calculates a correction coefficient according to the position of a pixel for correction in the pixel array from the characteristic information, and corrects an output image signal of the pixel for correction based on an output image signal of adjacent pixels of the pixel for correction and the calculated correction coefficient. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293682 | Image Pickup Optical System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - An image pickup optical system made of five lenses, includes in order from an object side, an aperture stop, a first lens L | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293683 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to an aspect, a portable electronic device includes an imaging unit, a moving unit, and a control unit. The imaging unit images a subject in an imaging region. The moving unit changes orientation and/or a position of the portable electronic device. The control unit causes the moving unit to change the orientation and/or the position of the portable electronic device so as to move the imaging region of the imaging unit. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293684 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes an imaging section for repeatedly forming an image of a subject at a set period, while performing a bulb exposure operation, and outputting image data; an adding processing section for performing adding processing of the image data and previously output image data; an image display section for displaying the added image; and a designation section for designating to display only notification information indicating that bulb exposure is being performed, on the image display section, for a given period from commencement of the bulb exposure. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293685 | MULTIPLE EXPOSURE HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE CAPTURE - Techniques for creating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image within a consumer grade digital camera from a series of images of a scene captured at different exposure levels, and displaying the HDR image on the camera's built-in display, are provided. The approach employs mixing images of the series to incorporate both scene shadow and highlight details, and the removing of “ghost” image artifacts appearing in the mixed HDR image resulting from movement in the scene over the time the series images are captured. The low computational resource utilization of the present invention's image mixing and ghost removal processing operations, along with the present invention's ability to commence image mixing and ghost removal prior to the acquisition of all series images, can significantly reduce the time required to generate and display a tone mapped HDR image. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293686 | VIDEO SUMMARY INCLUDING A FEATURE OF INTEREST - A digital video camera system that provides a video summary using a method that includes: specifying reference data, wherein the reference data indicates a feature of interest; capturing a video sequence of the scene using the image sensor, the video sequence including a time sequence of image frames; processing the captured video sequence using a video processing path to form a digital video file; during the capturing of the video sequence, analyzing the captured image frames using a feature recognition algorithm to identify a subset of the image frames that contain the feature of interest; forming the video summary including fewer than all of the image frames in the captured video sequence, wherein the video summary includes at least part of the identified subset of image frames containing the feature of interest; storing the digital video file in the storage memory; and storing a representation of the video summary in the storage memory. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293687 | VIDEO SUMMARY INCLUDING A PARTICULAR PERSON - A digital video camera system that provides a video summary using a method that includes: designating a reference image containing a particular person; capturing a video sequence of the scene using the image sensor, the video sequence including a time sequence of image frames; processing the captured video sequence using a video processing path to form a digital video file; during the capturing of the video sequence, analyzing the captured image frames using a person recognition algorithm to identify a subset of the image frames that contain the particular person; forming the video summary including fewer than all of the image frames in the captured video sequence, wherein the video summary includes at least part of the identified subset of image frames containing the particular person; storing the digital video file in the storage memory; and storing a representation of the video summary in the storage memory. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293688 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING THE BRIGHTNESS OF A DIGITAL CAMERA IMAGE - A method for adjusting the brightness of a captured image from a digital camera includes calculating a reference exposure value using the capture parameters and calculating an actual exposure value as a function of ambient illumination parameters. The reference exposure and actual exposure values are compared to determine an actual image saturation value. The actual image saturation value is compared with the saturation value of the image sensor to determine a brightness adjustment factor, and the captured image is adjusted to compensate for overexposure or underexposure in response to the brightness adjustment factor. The image is scaled up or down using the brightness adjustment factor if the actual image saturation value is less than or more than the saturation value of the image sensor used to capture the image. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293689 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that performs imaging with an image sensor having pixels of first, second, and third colors, a luminance ratio calculation unit that integrates luminance of each of the first, second, and third colors within a focus determination region of an imaging signal output by the imaging unit and calculates a ratio of the luminance between the integrated values of the colors, a luminance normalization unit that normalizes the integrated value of the luminance of the first color within the focus determination region of the imaging signal output by the imaging unit at the ratio of the luminance between the integrated values calculated by the luminance ratio calculation unit, and a display processing unit that performs display corresponding to the integrated value of the luminance normalized by the luminance normalization unit. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293690 | Method of Simulating Short Depth of Field and Digital Camera Using the Same - A method of simulating short depth of field for a digital camera is disclosed. The method includes steps of detecting an object distance corresponding to a focus pixel, generating an original image according to the focus distance, and blurring a plurality of pixels of the original image to different extents according to a plurality of contrast values of the plurality of pixels, to generate an image with short depth of field. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293691 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus of an embodiment includes a captured video signal outputting unit, a data outputting unit, a supplement processing unit, and a video processing unit. The captured video signal outputting unit outputs a captured video signal related to video captured using an image capturing element. The data outputting unit outputs part of data related to the image capturing elements stored in a storage unit. The supplement processing unit receives the outputted part of the data related to the image capturing elements and uses the received part of the data related to the image capturing elements to perform supplement processing of the data. The video processing unit performs video processing of the outputted captured video signal using the supplement processed data and outputs a video signal. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293692 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM OF IMAGE PROCESSING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING CONTROL PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a camera, a support body, and an arm section including an arm that is rotatably attached to the support body and to a camera housing incorporating therein the camera. The image processing apparatus calculates a height of the camera measured from a set surface, using dimensional information of the image processing apparatus and inclination information indicating an inclination of the camera and an inclination of the arm. The image processing apparatus specifies a type of an object subjected for capturing by the camera using at least the height of the camera, and applies image processing specific to the specified type of the object to a captured image captured by the camera. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293693 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An objective of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of generating a virtual viewpoint image without causing any visually uncomfortable feeling. In order to achieve this objective, a first image obtained by being captured from a first viewpoint at a first image capture time, and a second image obtained by being captured at a second image capture time different from the first image capture time are acquired. To each of pixels in a non-image capture area corresponding to a portion of a subject not captured in the first image of a first virtual viewpoint image that is generated in a pseudo manner based upon the first image and can be acquired by being captured from a first virtual viewpoint different from the first viewpoint, a pixel value is added in accordance with the second image. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293694 | COLOR IMAGING ELEMENT - A color imaging element including color filters arranged on pixels, wherein the color filter array includes a basic array pattern including first filters corresponding to a first color that most contributes to obtaining luminance signals and second filters corresponding to two or more second colors other than the first color, the basic array pattern repeatedly arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions, one or more first filters are arranged in each line in horizontal, vertical, and oblique directions of the color filter array, one or more second filters are arranged in each line in the horizontal and vertical directions of the color filter array in the basic array pattern, and a proportion of the number of pixels of the first color corresponding to the first filters is greater than proportions of the numbers of pixels of each color of the second colors corresponding to the second filters. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293695 | COLOR IMAGING APPARATUS - A color imaging apparatus comprising: a single-plate color imaging element including color filters arranged on pixels arranged in horizontal and vertical directions where all colors are arranged in each line in the directions; weighted average filters with filter coefficients set in a local area extracted from a mosaic image acquired from the color imaging element corresponding to the weighted average filters so that proportions of sums of the filter coefficients of each color in the lines in the horizontal and vertical directions are equal; a weighted average calculation unit that calculates weighted average values of each color; a demosaicking processing unit that calculates a pixel value of another color at a pixel position of a target pixel of demosaicking processing and that interpolates a pixel value of the target pixel based on a color ratio or a color difference of the calculated weighted average values to calculate the pixel value. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293696 | COLOR IMAGING APPARATUS - A color imaging apparatus comprising: a color imaging element comprising a plurality of pixels and color filters of a color filter array arranged on the plurality of pixels, the color filter array including first filters corresponding to a first color that most contributes to obtaining luminance signals and second filters corresponding to two or more second colors, and the first filters including two or more sections adjacent each other in horizontal, vertical, and oblique directions; a direction determination unit acquiring pixel values of pixels of the two or more sections of the first filters near a target pixel of demosaicking processing and determining a correlation direction of luminance; a demosaicking processing unit that calculates a pixel value of another color at a pixel position of the target pixel and that uses one or more pixels of another color in the correlation direction to calculate the pixel value. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293697 | Image Sensor and Control Method for Image Sensor - An image sensor including a plurality of first sensing pixels, a plurality of second sensing pixels, and a readout circuit is disclosed. The first sensing pixels are disposed within a sensitive region. The second sensing pixels are disposed within a non-sensitive region. The readout circuit repeatedly reads the output signals of the second sensing pixels to obtain an offset. The readout circuit processes the output signals of the first sensing pixels according to the offset. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293698 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND CAMERA SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a semiconductor device, a solid-state image sensor and a camera system capable of reducing the influence of noise at a connection between chips without a special circuit for communication and reducing the cost as a result. The semiconductor device includes: a first chip | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293699 | PAUSING DIGITAL READOUT OF AN OPTICAL SENSOR ARRAY - Providing for pausing data readout from an optical sensor array is described herein. By way of example, an interruption period can be introduced into a readout cycle of the optical sensor array to suspend readout of data. During the interruption period, other operations related to the optical sensor array can be performed, including operations that are typically detrimental to image quality. Moreover, these operations can be performed while mitigating or avoiding negative impact on the image quality. Thus, greater flexibility is provided for global shutter operations, for instance, potentially improving frame rates and fine control of image exposure, while preserving image quality. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293700 | HIGH RESOLUTION HIGH CONTRAST EDGE PROJECTION - Generating a high definition projected illumination pattern from a substantially lower resolution digital projector array involves: selectively illuminating a connected set of pixels to produce a pixellated, high contrast edge feature, and positioning an anisotropically blurring optical element (ABOE) between a light source of the projector array and the projection. The ABOE applies an anisotropic blur pattern to pixels of the at least one connected set, to locally preferentially blur the pixel more (and preferably substantially only) in a direction of equally or more strongly illuminated pixels, and not in directions of less illuminated pixels. Preferably a contour of the connected set has no beginning or end within a periphery of the illumination plane, and has bounded curvature, permitting simple ABOEs to be used. Several images each having several or many edges can be produced using a same ABOE. The ABOE may alleviate interpixel gap effects for non-edge pixels too. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293701 | DIGITAL CAMERA - Provided is a digital camera including: a camera body ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293702 | REMOTE DISPLAY GLASSES CAMERA SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system including a digital camera and remote display glasses. The remote display glasses include a frame, at least one display, and a first and a second temple configured to support the display proximate to at least one of the user's eyes when the remote display glasses are worn on the user's head. The digital camera includes a lens configured to capture light, an electronic viewfinder; a video processor configured to generate an image, and a camera switch configured to selectively transmit the image from the video processor to the electronic viewfinder or the display of the remote display glasses. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293703 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup optical system and an image pickup unit configured to receive an image formed by the image pickup optical system. The image pickup optical system includes an optical element having optical incident and optical emergent surfaces disposed between an aperture stop and an object and a fine textured structure having a mean pitch shorter than a wavelength of visible light and formed on at least one of the optical incident and optical emergent surfaces. The conditions 3.5| 2012-11-22 | |
| 20120293704 | Image-Capturing Lens, Image-Capturing Device, and Portable Terminal - Provided is an imaging lens, and also provided are an image pickup apparatus and a portable terminal both equipped with the imaging lens. The imaging lens includes in order: a positive first lens having a convex object-side surface; a negative second lens having a concave image-side surface; a negative meniscus-shaped third lens having a convex object-side surface; a positive fourth lens having a convex image-side surface; and a negative fifth lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the fifth lens is aspherical and has an inflection point at a position of the optical axis. The third and the fourth lenses are integrally moved to focus, and the following conditional relation is satisfied: 0.75| 2012-11-22 | |
| 20120293705 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A method for processing images, suitable for an image capturing apparatus, is provided. In the present invention, a first image is captured. And a face recognition is executed for the first image so as to locate a face location of the first image. A second image is captured after adjusting a imaging magnification, and the face recognition is executed for the second image so as to obtain a face image. Next, the face image obtained from the second image is set at the face location of the first image for generating a composite image. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293706 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS USING THE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AUTO-FOCUSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING THE AUTO-FOCUSING METHOD - An image pickup device is provided including a plurality of pixels arranged over an entire region of the image pickup device, each pixel including: a plurality of light-receiving sub-pixels that generate an image pickup signal from incident light; and a phase-difference detection sub-pixel having a confined light-receiving region. The plurality of pixels includes first group pixels and second group pixels that are each classified according to an arrangement of the confined light-receiving region of the phase-difference detection sub-pixel thereof, and the confined light-receiving region of the phase-difference detection sub-pixel of the first group pixels and the confined light-receiving region of the phase-difference detection sub-pixel in the second group pixels are arranged biased to opposite directions. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293707 | IMAGE-PICKUP ELEMENT, AND IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - An image-pickup element includes an image-pickup pixel configured to photoelectrically convert light from an image-pickup lens to generate an image of an object, and a first focus detection pixel and a second focus detection pixel configured to receive light having passed through part of an area of an exit pupil of the image-pickup lens, and an electrode part of the first focus detection pixel and an electrode part of the second focus detection pixel are arranged at ends of a photoelectrical conversion part that are opposite to each other in a pupil diving direction of the first focus detection pixel and the second focus detection pixel. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293708 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the same may reduce a photographing time by performing an operation of reading out data, an operation of closing an iris, and an operation of opening a shutter in parallel. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293709 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER OF THE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - A digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling power of the digital photographing apparatus so as to reduce power consumption of the digital photographing apparatus by analyzing image frames that are compressed and transmitted and then by determining a screen change in the image frames, when the digital photographing apparatus is remotely controlled. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293710 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, SIGNAL RECEPTION APPARATUS, SIGNAL RECEPTION METHOD, AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A signal transmission apparatus includes: a two-pixel sampling-out control section that maps pixel samples to video data regions; a line sampling-out control section that samples out the pixel samples every other line from each line of the sub-images to which the pixel samples have been mapped, so as to generate an interlace signal; a word sampling-out control section that samples out for each word the pixel samples which have been sampled out for each line so as to be mapped to video data regions of an HD-SDI prescribed by the SMPTE 435-1; and a readout control section that outputs the HD-SDI. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293711 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus that converts an interlaced signal to a progressive signal, including: a field difference calculating unit calculating a field difference that is a difference between consecutive fields in the interlaced signal; a field resolution calculating unit calculating a field resolution that is a resolution of a field in the interlaced signal; a field correlation determining unit determining correlation between the consecutive fields based on the field difference and the field resolution; and an interpolated image deciding unit deciding the fields to be used in an interpolation process for obtaining the progressive signal based on a determination result produced by the field correlation determining unit. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293712 | AUTOMATIC SUBTITLE RESIZING - A method, apparatus and computer program for displaying video and accompanying text data on a display are provided. The method includes receiving media content that includes video and determining whether text data associated with the video is to be presented on the display alongside the video. If associated text data is not to be presented, then the video content is output as normal, with the video content occupying a first area of the display (such as the entire display). If associated text data is to be presented, then the video output is automatically resized such that the video occupies a smaller area of the display, and the associated text data is automatically displayed alongside the video. By allowing for dynamic resizing it is possible to display subtitles or closed captions alongside portions of video content without obscuring the video. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293713 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus and control method are provided. The image preprocess apparatus includes an image receiver which receives an analog broadcasting signal; an image processor which converts the analog broadcasting signal into a digital broadcasting signal; and a filtering unit which selectively performs a low pass filtering on the analog broadcasting signal to filter a frequency higher than a preset frequency and transmits the selectively-filtered analog broadcasting signal to the image processor corresponding to a reception of the analog broadcasting signal by air. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293714 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a parameter setting unit which sets a noise reduction processing parameter for use in noise reduction processing for applying onto an original image signal including a plurality of color components; a correlation arithmetic processing unit which calculates coefficients of correlation between each of the color components in the original image signal; a parameter correcting unit which corrects the noise reduction processing parameter based on the coefficient of correlation; and a noise reducing unit which reduces noise in the original image signal using the corrected noise reduction processing parameter. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293715 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - In an edge-light type lighting device, expansion or contraction of the light guide plate is eliminated without bending or warping, and light sources and light entrance surfaces are not contacted with each other and not damaged. A backlight unit | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293716 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An object is to improve a reliability of an electrical connection in a lighting device. A backlight unit | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293717 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Scan lighting by an edge-light-type backlight device is applicable in a large-screen display device. A display panel | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293718 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Connection reliability of a terminal and other part is improved in a lighting device. A backlight unit includes a cold cathode tube having an outer lead at an end part; a chassis housing the cold cathode tube; and a connector mounted to the chassis and including an insertion path to which the outer lead is inserted, a connection terminal that expands to receive the outer lead inserted to the insertion path, and a restricting portion that is selectively moved in one of a first position and a second position. The restricting portion in the first position allows the outer lead to be inserted to the insertion path and allows the connection terminal to expand to receive the connection terminal. The restricting portion in the second position restricts the outer lead to be inserted to the insertion path and restricts expansion of the connection terminal that holds the outer lead. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293719 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A property of dissipating heat generated from a light source in an edge light type lighting device is improved. A lighting device includes: a plurality of LEDs | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293720 | TV IMAGE CONTROL SYSTEM VIA INSTANTANEOUS GENERATION OF A BLACK SIGNAL - A television screen control system which generates an instantaneous blanking video signal to reduce power consumption and have control of undesirable images is described in this document. It refers to a system which principally consists of two units, a transmitter unit ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293721 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed are a side light-type backlight device with high brightness and excellent light use efficiency, a liquid crystal display device and a television receiver. The disclosed backlight device has a light guide plate that emits, from the top surface, light that entered from the side surface thereof, a substrate that is disposed at the side surface of the light guide plate and that has a plurality of LEDs emitting light from the top aligned thereon, and an outer case enclosing the light guide plate and the substrate. Of the plurality of LEDs, the end LEDs are provided with inclined sections such that the illumination direction of said end LEDs intersect with that of the other LEDs. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293722 | Relay Device and Speaker Apparatus - A relay device includes: a housing including: a first surface; and a second surface which is different from the first surface; a light signal receiving element operable to receive a light signal from outside, the light signal receiving element provided at the first surface of the housing; a light emission element operable to emit light responsive to the light signal received by the light signal receiving element; and a longitudinally elongated light guide member provided at the second surface of the housing, the light guide member to which the light emitted from the light emission element is incident, the light guide member including an emission part which causes the incident light to be emitted to outside from a lateral surface of the light guide member, the lateral surface which extends along a longitudinal direction of the light guide member. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293723 | Back lit mirror with media display device - A combination mirror and media display device assembly is provided. The combination mirror and media display device includes a mirror platform having a media display device viewing area and a media display device coupled to the mirror platform. The media display device is positioned to display images through the media display device viewing area. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293724 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A lighting device having a simplified connection configuration between light sources and a light source driver is provided. A backlight unit | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293725 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An object of the present invention is to provide a lighting device that can suppress uneven brightness. Another object of the present invention is to provide a display device and a television receiver each including the lighting device. The lighting device according to the present invention includes an LED | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293726 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - To improve a workability in assembling and disassembling of parts of a lighting device. A backlight unit | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293727 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A lighting device maintains an optical design and absorbs expansion of a light guide plate with a simple structure if the light guide plate expands toward a light source side. A backlight unit | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293728 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The distance between a light guide plate and a light source is maintained within a certain range, and thus an optical design for a lighting device is maintained. A backlight unit | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293729 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - It is an object of the present invention to achieve cost reduction or the like in a lighting device. A backlight unit | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293730 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed are a side light-type backlight device with high brightness and excellent light use efficiency, a liquid crystal display device and a television receiver. The backlight device according to the present invention is provided with a light guide plate, a prescribed side surface of which is a light incident surface, and a light source that is disposed so as to face the light incident surface of the light guide plate. The light source includes a plurality of side-emitting LEDs mounted on a substrate, and the plurality of LEDs are arranged on two levels in the vertical direction along the light incident surface. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293731 | Displaying Decompressed Pictures on Liquid Crystal Displays in Macroblock Raster Scan Order - A macroblock-scanned picture may be shown directly on a thin film transistor liquid crystal display in macroblock scan order. This enables eliminating conversion operation from macroblock raster scan to line scan order that requires expensive and power-hungry memory for a frame buffer, in some embodiments, which results in a cost savings. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293732 | PHASE DIFFERENCE ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A phase difference element capable of reducing reflection of incident light and a manufacturing method for the phase difference element are disclosed. The phase difference element includes a transparent substrate | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293733 | Displays and Sensors Integrated with Multi-State Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Devices - A sensing device may include a cholesteric crystal device including two optically transparent substrates; a liquid crystal having portions adapted for producing a plurality of optical states, said liquid crystal being arranged between the two optically transparent substrates; an optical sensor for changing optical states of respective portions of said liquid crystal to produce a range of respective optical states including all optical states produced by said liquid crystal ranging from one state to any combination of broadband reflection, tunable narrow band reflection, light scattering, and transparency in accordance with an amount of voltage applied across said cholesteric crystal device for changing optical states. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293734 | OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC ELEMENT, POLARIZING PLATE, STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE, AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEM - Reduction of crosstalk of a stereoscopic display device equipped with an optically anisotropic element having a finely patterned optically anisotropic layer. The optically anisotropic element has a patterned optically anisotropic layer which contains a first retardation area and a second retardation area differing from each other in at least either the direction of in-plane slow axes or the in-plane retardation, and the first and second retardation area being alternately arranged in plane, the patterned optically anisotropic layer being disposed on a surface of a laminate having a first film and a second film, while an in-plane slow axes of the first and an in-plane slow axis the second film being orthogonal to each other. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293735 | DISPLAY DEVICES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A display device includes a first substrate, a middle layer, a first liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a pixel part and a second liquid crystal layer. A first common electrode is on the first substrate. The middle layer includes a lenticular array, and a control electrode on the lenticular array. The control electrode faces the first common electrode. The first liquid crystal layer is between the middle layer and the first substrate, and a second common electrode is on a back side of the middle layer. The pixel part includes a plurality of pixel electrodes on the second substrate and facing the second common electrode. The second liquid crystal layer is between the second common electrode and the pixel part. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293736 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. At least one of the pixels includes a gate line, a data line, a first storage line spaced apart from the gate line, a second storage line spaced apart from the gate line and the first storage line, first and second switching devices electrically connected to the gate line and the data line, a first liquid crystal capacitor connected to the first switching device and including the liquid crystal layer as its dielectric substance, a second liquid crystal capacitor connected to the second switching device and including the liquid crystal layer as its dielectric substance, a first storage capacitor connected between the first switching device and one of the first and second storage lines, and a second storage capacitor connected between the second switching device and a remaining one of the first and second storage lines. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293737 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT CIRCUIT, SHIFT REGISTER, ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - Embodiments of the disclosed technical solution provides a shift register unit circuit which operates based on two clock signals and comprises input terminals, a pre-charging circuit, a level pulling-down circuit, a outputting circuit and a scan signal output terminal. Embodiments of the disclosed technical solution also provides a shift register having at least two shift register unit circuits connected in cascade, and further provides a liquid crystal display array substrate and a liquid crystal display. The disclosed technical solution stabilizes the wave output from the scan signal output terminal and has small noise by means of a design of pulling down the level, and may realize the GOA circuit utilizing less TFTs circuits, so that the circuit structure is simple and power consumption is small. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293738 | BLUE PHASE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An embodiment of the disclosed technology provides a blue phase liquid crystal display device, comprising: a lower polarizer; a thin film transistor substrate, formed above the lower polarizer; a color filter substrate, disposed above and opposite to the thin film transistor substrate; an upper polarizer, formed above the color filter substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes, disposed on a surface of the thin film transistor substrate facing the color filter substrate and protruded toward the color filter substrate, wherein negative pixel electrodes and positive pixel electrodes are alternately disposed; a plurality of common electrodes, disposed on the color filter substrate; and a blue phase liquid crystal layer, provided between the thin film transistor substrate and the color filter substrate. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293739 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH SAID SUBSTRATE - Provided is an array substrate for liquid crystal panel that is capable of suppressing an occurrence of short circuits between a pair of substrates having liquid crystal sealed therebetween. In this array substrate for liquid crystal panel | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293740 | ANTIMICROBIAL CASE FOR MEDICAL MONITOR - Disclosed is an antimicrobial medical monitor case which has antimicrobial properties by adding a zinc phosphate glass powder to a synthetic resin for a monitor case. The antimicrobial case includes 99.4 to 99.8 wt % of a plastic resin and 0.2 to 0.4 wt % of a zinc phosphate glass powder represented by Formula: | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293741 | LCD Panel, and Manufacturing Method and Driving Method Thereof - A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, and a manufacturing method and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The LCD panel comprises: a first pixel matrix comprising a plurality of first pixel units; a second pixel matrix comprising a plurality of second pixel units; and a driving unit, being connected to the first pixel matrix and the second pixel matrix to drive the first pixel matrix and the second pixel matrix respectively, wherein the first pixel matrix and the second pixel matrix are arranged in parallel, and at least a pair of the first pixel units and the second pixel units are partially overlapped with each other to form an overlapped pixel region. In this way, the present invention can provide a high resolution and improve the product yield with the process conditions remaining unchanged. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293742 | OPTICAL FILM, SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical film in accordance with one embodiment comprises a stack having a plurality of basic pairs each constructed by stacking first and second layers. The number of stacks, the refractive index difference |Δn | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293743 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a light emitting device including: a light source; and a light guide plate that receives light emitted by the light source and emits it from a light emitting surface thereof. The light emitting device is provided with a fixing mechanism for fixing the light guide plate to a main body side of the light emitting device by using a structure that does not inhibit thermal expansion of the light guide plate. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293744 | LIGHT GUIDE SHEET AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A light guide sheet ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293745 | BACKLIGHT UNIT - A backlight unit according to embodiment comprise of a frame, a light emitting device module disposed on a side of the frame and a plurality of light guide members disposed in the direction of the light irradiated from the light emitting device, wherein the light guide members have light transmissivity and reflectivity different from each other. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293746 | LIGHT GUIDE MODULE AND BACKLIGHT USING SAME - A light guide module ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293747 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL ACTIVE MATRIX LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS - A direct view display provides a light modulating panel and a backlight including first and second sets of spectral emitters. The first set of spectral emitters generate a first light bundle and the second set of spectral emitters generate a second light bundle. Several modes of operation may be provided including (1) an advanced 2D mode, (2) an enhanced color gamut mode employing simultaneous illumination of the first and second set of spectral emitters, (3) a privacy screen mode, (4) a channel multiplexed mode, and (5) a stereoscopic image mode. The latter three modes utilize the first and second set of spectral emitters to alternately illuminate a portion of the light modulating panel. Images and representations generated by the direct view display operating in the latter three modes are viewed using appropriate eyewear having filters with passband characteristics to transmit the respective light bundle. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293748 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed is a liquid crystal display which includes a first display panel including a plurality of pixel electrodes, a second display panel facing the first display panel, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first display panel and the second display panel, and a method of manufacturing the liquid crystal display panel. The second display panel includes a light emitting element displaying a color, an insulating layer disposed on the light emitting element and including a rubbed surface, a polarization layer disposed on the insulating layer and opposite to the light emitting element with respect to the insulating layer, and a common electrode disposed on the polarization layer and facing the pixel electrode. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293749 | POLYMER COMPOUND AND POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE USING THE SAME - A polymer compound comprising at least one repeating unit selected from the group of repeating units shown by formula (1) or formula (2), | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293750 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display panel disposed between a first polarizer and a second polarizer and having at least one first area and at least one second area. A first light-transmission axis direction of the first polarizer is substantially perpendicular to a second light-transmission axis direction of the second polarizer. The first light-transmission axis direction intersects a horizontal axis direction by about 45 degrees. When the display panel is in a narrow viewing angle display mode, the first and second areas have different brightness in a side viewing angle direction but have the same brightness in and around a normal viewing angle direction. When the display panel is in a wide viewing angle display mode, the first and second areas have substantially the same brightness in various viewing angle directions. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293751 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal device, including: a liquid crystal layer; a reflective layer for reflecting an outside light made incident thereto through the liquid crystal layer; and a retardation layer and a polarizing plate both disposed on a side to which the outside light is made incident in relation to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the retardation layer has an optical biaxial property. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293752 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a pair of first signal lines and a pair of second signal lines extending in a first and orthogonal second directions, and a pixel electrode arranged between the pair of second signal lines and extending in the second direction, and a second substrate having a first main common electrode and a second main common electrode respectively facing the pair of second signal lines and extending in the second direction. An effective domain is surrounded by the pairs of first and second signal lines, or by the pair of the first signal lines and the first and the second main common electrodes. A first area formed of an electrode portion including the pixel electrode is smaller than a second area formed of an aperture portion other than the first area in the effective domain. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293753 | Drive scheme for stereoscopic display polarization modulator and apparatus for same - An improved drive scheme for a segmented polarizing modulator (or Polarization Control Panel) for use in an electronic stereoscopic display. The segmented polarization modulator segments are arranged contiguously in a direction of the sequential scan. The liquid crystal material used in each segment is driven in a manner to reduce the visibility of segment boundaries, by applying a positive or negative transition voltage (+T or −T volts) for a short period of time prior to applying +H and −H drive voltages. Optionally, the transition voltage may also be applied in transitioning from +H and −H drive voltages. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293754 | IN-PLANE SWITCHING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - There is provided an integrated wide viewing film including: a first film having an optical axis located in-plan; and a second film having an optical axis located in a thickness direction thereof, and inclined at a predetermined angle in an in-plane direction. The IPS-LCD employing the integrated wide viewing film can be significantly improved in a contrast ratio in a diagonal direction. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293755 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - In a screen configuration in which pixels are in a delta arrangement, video signal lines are formed on every other pixel, and two scanning lines in one set are disposed, transmittance of the screen is improved. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293756 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of enhancing the transmittance and the display quality. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to face each other, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal molecule having positive dielectric anisotropy; the liquid crystal molecule is perpendicularly aligned relative to a surface of the first substrate when no voltage is applied; the first substrate includes a signal line, a scanning line, an insulating film, a first electrode to which an image signal is provided through the signal line, and a second electrode; the first electrode includes a first comb-tooth portion; the second electrode includes a second comb-tooth portion and a trunk portion connected to the second comb-tooth portion; the first comb-tooth portion and the second comb-tooth portion are planarly disposed to face each other in a pixel; the second substrate has a third electrode covering at least a display region; and the trunk portion is disposed in a manner overlapping the signal line and the scanning line at a position closer to the liquid crystal layer than the signal line and the scanning line with the insulating film sandwiched between the trunk portion and each of the lines. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293757 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND COLOR FILTER - A manufacturing method of a color filter including following steps is provided. First, a partition is formed on a substrate to form a plurality of pixel regions on the substrate. Next, a color pigment is provided along a continuous pigment-providing route, so as to form the color pigment on a sequence of pixel regions among the plurality of pixel regions and the partition. The method mentioned above can prevent the unfilled phenomenon of the pigment around the corners of the pixel region. Besides, a liquid crystal display panel having the color filter is also provided. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293758 | IN-PLANE SWITCHING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - There is provided an integrated wide viewing film including: a first film having an optical axis located in-plan; and a second film having an optical axis located in a thickness direction thereof, and inclined at a predetermined angle in an in-plane direction. The IPS-LCD employing the integrated wide viewing film can be significantly improved in a contrast ratio in a diagonal direction. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293759 | SWITCHABLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - A switchable three-dimensional (3D) display includes a display device and a switchable parallax barrier that is disposed on the display device. The switchable parallax barrier includes a first electrode structure, a second electrode structure, and a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer is located between the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure. The first electrode structure includes a planar electrode, a plurality of first bar electrodes electrically connected to one another, and an insulating layer. A partial region of the planar electrode is not covered by the first bar electrodes. The insulating layer is disposed between the planar electrode and the first bar electrodes, so that the planar electrode is electrically insulated from the first bar electrodes. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293760 | DEVICE AND DISPLAY UNIT - A device includes a substrate, a metal layer being formed in a region on a part of the substrate, and a first insulating film being provided on the substrate and the metal layer and including a trench provided at a position corresponding to a part or all of a region where the metal layer is not provided. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293761 | Liquid Crystal Display - A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, pixel regions formed by gate signal lines and image signal lines formed over the first substrate, a first insulating layer formed over the gate signal lines, thin film transistors connected to the gate signal lines with in a second insulating layer formed thereover, pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors, a counter electrode formed of a first transparent conductive layer over the second insulating layer, and a second transparent conductive layer and an external connection terminal disposed outside of the pixel regions. The second transparent conductive layer is formed over the second insulating layer and is electrically connected to the counter electrode and the external connection terminal, and a part of each of the gate signal lines is disposed outside of the pixel regions and is covered by the second transparent conductive layer. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293762 | GATE DRIVER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - A gate driver includes a gate integrated circuit (“IC”) chip which receives at least two scanning start signals and at least four clock control signals, and outputs a plurality of gate-on voltages, where at least two clock control signals of the at least four clock control signals are generated based on one scanning start signal of the at least two scanning start signals, timings of the at least two scanning start signals are independent of each other, and timings of the at least two clock control signals based on the one scanning start signal are independent of each other. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293763 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - This invention provides an exposure apparatus that can inhibit visual recognition of display unevenness at a joint portion even if scanning temporarily stops during scanning exposure, as well as a liquid crystal display device and a method for manufacturing the liquid crystal display device. This invention is an exposure apparatus for exposing a photoalignment film provided on a substrate. The exposure apparatus includes a light source and a photomask, and exposes the photoalignment film through the photomask while scanning the light source or the substrate. When a direction in which the light source or the substrate is scanned is taken as a scanning direction, and a direction that is orthogonal to the scanning direction is taken as a vertical direction, the photomask includes a first region and a second region that is adjacent to the first region in the vertical direction. The first region includes a plurality of first transparent portions inside a first light-shielding portion. The plurality of first transparent portions are arranged in the vertical direction. The second region includes a plurality of second transparent portions inside a second light-shielding portion. The plurality of second transparent portions are smaller than the plurality of first transparent portions. The plurality of second transparent portions are arranged in the vertical direction and are discretely dispersed in the scanning direction. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293764 | INTEGRATED WIDE VIEWING FILM - There is provided an integrated wide viewing film including: a first film having an optical axis located in-plan; and a second film having an optical axis located in a thickness direction thereof, and inclined at a predetermined angle in an in-plane direction. The IPS-LCD employing the integrated wide viewing film can be significantly improved in a contrast ratio in a diagonal direction. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293765 | MATERIAL FOR EYEWEAR & EYEWEAR STRUCTURE - Eyewear and eyewear structures comprising bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys and methods of making eyewear structures from such bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys are described. The bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys provide form and shape durability, the minimum use of fasteners in the eyewear structure, high resistance to chemical and environmental effects, and low-cost net-shape fabrication for intricate eyewear design and shapes. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293766 | Foldable Sunglasses - The present invention relates to foldable eyeglasses. The foldable eyeglasses include a first frame member and a second frame member, where each frame member holds a lens, and a first hinge that connects the first and second frame members. The foldable eyeglasses also include a first temple member and a second temple member, where each includes a plurality of foldable or collapsible segments, and first and second temple member hinges, where the first temple member hinge connects the first temple member to the first frame member, and the second temple member hinge connects the second temple member to the second frame member. The first and second frame members and the first and second temple members can fold at each of the first hinge and the first and second temple member hinges, such that the foldable sunglasses can compact into a profile size similar to that of a standard credit card. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293767 | GLASSES - Glasses are described having a frame ( | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293768 | ANTIREFLECTION OPHTHALMIC LENS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE METHOD - The invention relates to an optical article including a transparent substrate of organic glass, preferably a substrate of an ophthalmic lens, an adhesive layer covering at least one of the faces of the transparent substrate, a transparent film of thermoplastic polymer fixed on the transparent substrate by means of the adhesive layer, an anti-abrasion hard coating covering the transparent film of thermoplastic polymer, and a multilayer antireflection coating formed from alternating mineral layers with high and low refractive index. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing said article. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293769 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PHASE DIVERSITY WAVEFRONT SENSING - A phase diversity wavefront sensor includes an optical system including at least one optical element for receiving a light beam; a diffractive optical element having a diffractive pattern defining a filter function, the diffractive optical element being arranged to produce, in conjunction with the optical system, images from the light beam associated with at least two diffraction orders; and a detector for detecting the images and outputting image data corresponding to the detected images. In one embodiment, the optical system, diffractive optical element, and detector are arranged to provide telecentric, pupil plane images of the light beam. A processor receives the image data from the detector, and executes a Gerchberg-Saxton phase retrieval algorithm to measure the wavefront of the light beam. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293770 | IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS - An image acquisition apparatus irradiates light from a light source to an inspection object, obtains a tomographic image of the inspection object on the basis of a combined beam obtained by combining a return beam from the inspection object due to the irradiated light and a reference beam corresponding to the light, and obtains a plane image of the inspection object on the basis of the return beam from the inspection object due to the irradiated light. The apparatus performs a first scanning process to main-scan the irradiated light when the tomographic image is obtained, performs a second scanning process to main-scan the irradiated light at a speed higher than that in the first scanning process when the plane image is obtained, and performs a third scanning process to sub-scan the irradiated light when each of the tomographic image and the plane image is obtained. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293771 | COMPENSATION OPTICAL APPARATUS AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - A compensation optical apparatus for obtaining and image of an object without reduction in image quality irrespective of aberration compensation, includes: a division unit for dividing a return beam from a measured object; an aberration measurement unit for measuring an aberration caused by the measured object, with a divided beam from the division unit; an aberration compensation unit for performing aberration compensation based on the aberration measured by the aberration measurement unit; a projection unit for projecting a beam obtained by the aberration compensation in the aberration compensation unit to the measured object; an acquirement unit for acquiring a value exhibiting a state of the measured object based on the return beam from the measured object, which is obtained by the beam projected from the projection unit; and a control unit for retreating the division unit from an optical path based on the value acquired by the acquirement unit. | 2012-11-22 |
| 20120293772 | Instrument for examining or machining a human eye - An instrument is proposed for examining or machining a human eye, with an eye-tracker for acquiring eye movements and for outputting a signal that is representative of the acquired eye movements, the eye-tracker including an interferometric image-acquisition device that has been set up for time-resolved acquisition of sectional images of the eye and that operates on the basis of two-dimensional or three-dimensional optical coherence tomography, and also an evaluating module ascertaining the eye movements solely from the sectional images. | 2012-11-22 |
