47th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 27 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110286033 | PRINT MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print management device includes: a receiving unit that receives a print instruction to perform print of an electronic document on recording media; a canceling unit that cancels the print caused to be performed by the print instruction received by the receiving unit, in accordance with a canceling instruction of the print by an operator; and a recording unit that records the number of the recording media or the number of faces of the recording media, if the print caused to be performed by the print instruction received by the receiving unit is canceled by the canceling unit, the print on the recording media being canceled. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286034 | Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium - An information processing apparatus is disclosed, including an application, a user interface part, a storage part, an image processing part, and a sending part. The application issues a drawing instruction and outputs drawing data. The user interface part performs a print setting with respect to the drawing data. The storage part stores a setting file in which parameters of an allocation process are set. The image processing part performs the allocation process on the drawing data based on the setting file read out from the storage part when the print setting using the setting file is determined by the user interface part. The sending part sends the drawing data on which the allocation process is performed by the image processing part, to an output destination. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286035 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SAME - A server executes a job related to image processing, and receives a job log including attribution information for the job from a device that formed the image to thereby form an external image URL that is recorded position information in the server for the image log related to the image. The server adds the external image URL to the job log to generate a new job log that is recorded in a storage unit, and then executes a transmission command for the image log on the device, and receives the image log from the device. Then the server records information including the new job log and the image log as log information in the storage unit. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286036 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes an obtaining unit; a receiving unit; a generating unit; and an output unit that outputs to the printer the command generated for each of the request. The obtaining unit obtains a specification of commands to output to a printer; the receiving unit receives a request for a process to be executed for the printer; the generating unit generates a predetermined command corresponding to a type of the request and the specification obtained when the request is received; and the output unit outputs to the printer the command generated for each of the request. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286037 | CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A reception processing unit provided in a document processing system receives a document data processing request from a user device. A division processing unit divides document data corresponding to the processing request and generates divided document data. A document processing unit performs document processing for the divided document data, and a coupling processing unit combines the document-processed divided document data. A resource management unit increases or decreases the number of the division processing units, the document processing units, and the coupling processing units in response to the processing status of each thereof. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286038 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE PRINTING APPARATUS, HELP DISPLAY CONTROLLER, HELP DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING HELP - There is provided an image reading apparatus including an image reading unit that reads image data optically from an information display medium, an operation screen display unit that displays an operation screen to receive input from a user with respect to an image reading process performed by the image reading unit, and a help screen display unit that displays, in accordance with a displayed operation screen displayed by the operation screen display unit, help guidance relating to the displayed operation screen in a manner that the help guidance and the displayed operation screen are visible at the same time. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286039 | RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SCREEN CONTROLLING PROGRAM, DELIVERY SYSTEM AND SCREEN CONTROLLING METHOD - A screen controlling program representing a sequence of instructions including outputting an acquisition request of a contents type, included in one or plural bibliographic information pieces which are defined in a storage destination of image data indicated by a storage information piece, to a document controlling server if the storage information is received from an image forming apparatus; generating, if the one or plural contents types are received from the document controlling server, selection screen data for selecting the received contents types; sending the generated selection screen data to the image forming apparatus; generating setup screen data for setting one or plural bibliographic information pieces included in the selected contents type if the selected contents type is received from the image forming apparatus; and sending the generated setup screen data to the image forming apparatus. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286040 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Page description language data are imposed according to entered imposition information. The imposed page description language data are converted into raster-format data by an RIP process. Page data depending on a plurality of page areas are clipped from the raster-format data. The clipped page data are mapped onto respective model areas corresponding to the page areas on a determined three-dimensional shape model thereby to generate three-dimensional preview data of a print. A three-dimensional preview image of the print is displayed based on the three-dimensional preview data. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286041 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A management apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive file information about a file input into a folder, a transmission unit configured to generate print job information including the file information and transmit the print job information to an image forming apparatus that is associated with the folder in advance, a job monitoring unit configured to monitor whether printing of a job corresponding to the file information included in the print job information by the image forming apparatus has finished based on printing progress information received from the image forming apparatus, and a folder management unit configured to, if printing of the job is determined by the job monitoring unit to have finished, delete the file information corresponding to the job from the folder. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286042 | FORM PROCESSING SYSTEM, FORM CREATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided a form processing system including a form creation device and a printer, wherein the form creation device includes a layout generation unit that generates layout information denoting a layout of a form, a drawing instruction unit that causes a drawing performing unit in the printer to generate referential image data which corresponds to at least part of the generated layout information, based on the generated layout information, and an image transmission unit that transmits the generated referential image data to an OCR device, and the printer includes the drawing performing unit that generates the referential image data in accordance with an instruction from the drawing instruction unit. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286043 | FORM PROCESSING SYSTEM, OCR DEVICE, FORM CREATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided a form processing system including a form creation device and an OCR device, wherein the form creation device includes a layout generation unit that generates layout information denoting a layout of a form and a layout transmission unit that transmits the layout information generated to the OCR device, and the OCR device includes a layout acquisition unit that acquires the layout information transmitted from the form creation device and an OCR processing unit that performs OCR processing on image data of the form read by a scanner, based on the layout information acquired. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286044 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information distributing apparatus obtains a serial number input from the image forming apparatus and information regarding an apparatus connected to the image forming apparatus. The information distributing apparatus determines permission or inhibition of distribution with respect to each program specified by the serial number. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286045 | System, Method and Production Tickets for Print Management - Disclosed herein is a method of preparing production tickets that involves selecting order data from at least a first data field in an ordering system, feeding the selected order data to a workflow management system, and generating a production ticket for a print production job using at least a portion of the selected order data to name the print production job. One embodiment employs a join identifier to include several related files on the same production ticket. Corresponding configuration tools and workflow management systems also are disclosed. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286046 | PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided is a printing apparatus in which a printed material of a same page is printed in almost same color tone even in a case where calibration execution conditions are satisfied in executing printing processing and concentration correction information is updated. A decision portion decides, when a calibration execution portion executes calibration in executing print image data generation processing based on print setting information of N-up printing, poster printing and the like, whether print image data of N-up printing, poster printing and the like is generated using concentration correction information before update or concentration correction information after update based on print setting information analyzed by a data analyzing portion. Then, based on the decision results, the print image data generation portion generates print image data of N-up printing, poster printing and the like. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286047 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Upon setting of a halftone process of an initial setting, there is such a problem that graininess deteriorates due to an aging change or an environmental change. To solve this problem, an image processing apparatus executes a halftone process on a test image for tone correction and prints the processed test image; forms a tone correction table in accordance with read values from the printed test image; obtains graininess from a read value of a low density portion of a tone correction patch of the test image for the tone correction; discriminates whether the obtained graininess exceeds a predetermined reference level; and changes a setting of the halftone process so as to reduce the graininess when it is discriminated that the obtained graininess exceeds the predetermined reference level. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286048 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD USING THE DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A communication device includes a first acquisition unit that acquires communication setting information of communication device from a server, the communication setting information being information necessary for communication between communication devices through a communication network; a second acquisition unit that acquires network identification information, which is information for identifying the communication network to which the communication device is connected, on the basis of the communication setting information acquired by the first acquisition unit; and a selection unit that, in accordance with the network identification information acquired by the second acquisition unit, selects an operation scheme of the communication device when the communication device communicates with another device through the communication network. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286049 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes a sensor and a control unit. The sensor includes including a photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate a charge, a first transfer unit configured to transfer the generated charge from the to an output unit, and the output unit transfers the charge to an outside of the sensor, and a second transfer unit configured to transfer the charge from the first transfer unit to a drain unit to drain the charge. The control unit configured to execute control for transferring the charge to the drain unit after transferring the charge outside the sensor, based on a size of document to be read. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286050 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus that is configured so as to continuously display a plurality of images in a drawing area by scanning light for the drawing area formed on a display surface. The image forming apparatus includes a light emitting unit that emits the light, an optical scanning unit that two-dimensionally scans the light emitted from the light emitting unit for the drawing area, and a driving control unit that controls driving of the optical scanning unit such that the number of the images displayed in the drawing area in a unit of time is changed by changing a range in which the light is scanned on the drawing area at the time of displaying the images based on a shape and a size of each of the images, which are displayed in the drawing area, on the drawing area. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286051 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes: an ADF driven by a motor; an image reading unit transmitting charges accumulated in a photoelectric conversion element as a shift pulse to a shift register; and a shift pulse control unit controlling an output timing of the shift pulse based on rotation of the motor. When the rotation of the motor stops, the shift pulse control unit outputs the shift pulse to transmit the charges accumulated in lighting of a light source immediately before the stoppage of the motor. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286052 | IMAGE READING UNIT AND OVERHEAD IMAGE READING DEVICE - An image reading unit includes an image reading section that reads an image of a document in a one-dimensional direction by one-dimensionally aligned imaging elements, a light source that irradiates an image reading region by the image reading section with light, and a rotation head that holds the image reading section and the light source in a manner that the image reading section and the light source are rotatable relative to the document about a rotation axis which is parallel to an alignment direction of the imaging elements. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286053 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image scanning apparatus includes: a document table on which an original document is stacked; a substrate; plural first light emitting elements located on one surface of the substrate, the first light emitting elements each emitting light for irradiating the original document on the document table; and plural second light emitting elements located on the other surface of the substrate, the second light emitting elements each emitting light for irradiating the original document on the document table. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286054 | READING HEAD - According to one embodiment, a reading head includes: a carriage configured to move in a sub-scanning direction with respect to a document table glass; a first light source provided to be movable integrally with the carriage and configured to illuminate a reading target position on the document table glass from an angle tilting to one side in the sub-scanning direction with respect to a reading optical axis extending in a normal direction in the reading target position on the document table glass; and a second light source provided to be movable integrally with the carriage and configured to illuminate the reading target position from a tilting angle larger than the angle of the first light source to the other side in the sub-scanning direction with respect to the reading optical axis and from a position further apart from the reading target position than the first light source. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286055 | READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus is provided which can form an image of excellent picture quality in which a streak does not appear at a specified position in a main scanning direction. A reading control apparatus includes an illuminator to irradiate an illumination light to a document of a reading object, a CCD sensor that includes a plurality of light-receiving elements arranged in one line to receive the illumination light reflected by the document, and sequentially outputs electric signals stored in the light-receiving elements, a read control part that acquires, with respect to the electric signals of each line generated by the CCD sensor, electric signals by reading the electric signals starting from an electric signal corresponding to a position outside one end, in a main scanning direction, which is one of both ends of the document of the reading target in the main scanning direction and is the end where an electric signal is outputted from the CCD sensor at an earlier timing, a pre-processing part to perform a specified pre-process on the electric signals acquired by the read control part, and an image output control part that removes, with respect to the electric signals of each line, electric signals corresponding to a range outside the one end from the electric signals processed by the pre-processing part, acquires electric signals starting from the electric signal corresponding to the one end, and outputs only the acquired electric signals to outside. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286056 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image scanning apparatus includes an image pickup device, a substrate connected to a terminal of the image pickup device, a heat radiation plate which is disposed between the image pickup device and the substrate and one surface of which contacts the image pickup device, and an insulating sheet which is sandwiched between the heat radiation plate and the substrate, respective surfaces of which contact the heat radiation plate and the substrate, and which electrically insulates the heat radiation plate from an electronic component on the substrate. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286057 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image scanning apparatus includes a document glass, a substrate, a first semiconductor light emitting element, a second semiconductor light emitting element, a light guiding section, and a light receiving section. The substrate is provided below and obliquely opposed to the document glass. The first semiconductor light emitting element is mounted on a first surface of the substrate opposed to the document glass and emits light to an original document via the document glass. The second semiconductor light emitting element is mounted on a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface and emits light. The light guiding section receives incidence of the light emitted from the second semiconductor light emitting element and emits the light to the original document from a position where a normal of the document glass is present between the light guide section and the first semiconductor light emitting element. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286058 | SCANNING METHOD OF SCANNING APPARATUS AND SCANNING APPARATUS - A scanning method of scanning apparatus and a scanning apparatus are provided. Firstly, when the scanning apparatus is in the default reflective document scanning state and a document is placed in the scanning apparatus, the scanning apparatus automatically activates reflective document scanning function to perform scanning. Next, a document holder is disposed in the feeding entrance of the scanning apparatus, wherein after the scanning apparatus activates the transmissive document scanning state and the document is placed in the document holder, the scanning apparatus automatically activates transmissive document scanning function to perform scanning. The scanning method automatically activates corresponding scanning function without performing document recognition, incurs lower power consumption, produces fast recognition, and is applicable to various scanning apparatuses having both reflective document and transmissive document scanning function. The scanning apparatus has well-designed structure, incurs lower manufacturing cost, and does not require complicated light emitting element and light measuring element. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286059 | IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE SCANNING METHOD - An image scanning device and an image scanning method are provided. The invention is related to a miniaturized image scanning device and an image scanning method. The miniaturized image scanning device includes a housing, a first driving roller set, an entrance sensor, an image sensor, a reflective light source, a transmissive light source, and a control module. The housing has an entrance and an exit. The first driving roller set is disposed in the housing. The entrance sensor is disposed between the entrance and the first driving roller set. The image sensor, the reflective light source and the transmissive light source are disposed between the first driving roller set and the exit. The control module receives and processes signals outputted from the image sensor and the entrance sensor to control the operation of the image sensor, the first driving roller set, the reflective light source and the transmissive light source. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286060 | IMAGE READING DEVICE - An image reading device includes a light source, an imaging unit that captures an image of an original using light from the light source, a conveying unit that conveys the original to the imaging unit, a casing that accommodates at least the imaging unit and the conveying unit, the casing having an insertion slot for feeding the original to the conveying unit, a determination unit that determines whether or not the image reading device is in a conveyable state in which the conveying unit is enabled to convey the original toward the imaging unit, and a notification unit that visually indicates whether or not the image reading device is in an insertion-enabled state enabling the original to be inserted through the insertion slot to the conveying unit based on determination made by the determination unit. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286061 | SMART MODE COLOR WORKFLOW - A technique for achieving optimal color quality in rendered print jobs using a smart mode color workflow is disclosed. A smart mode color workflow provides for a pre-flight check of a print job to determine the job's relevant color attributes. Only relevant color attributes are displayed for review and selection during color transformation of the print job. All irrelevant color attributes are either grayed-out or not displayed to prevent an inexperienced user from selecting irrelevant color attributes during a color transformation. Providing only relevant color attributes for selection allows a user to become more efficient in achieving optimal color quality in a color transformation for a final rendered document. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286062 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product - An image processing apparatus that generates color-reduced image data containing fewer colors than the number of colors in input image data includes a hue identifying unit that identifies to which hue region of a color space a hue of each pixel in the image data belongs; an output-color correspondence determining unit that determines correspondence between the hue regions and respective output colors of the color-reduced image data; and a color-reduced image data generating unit that converts a color of each pixel in the image data to an output color corresponding to the hue region, wherein the output-color correspondence determining unit associates, as the output colors, colors that are generated by mixing mutually-different color materials that are fewer in number than the output colors, at different mixing ratios with the respective hue regions, the color materials forming a representative color that determines a range of the output colors. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286063 | AGILE OPTICAL PHASED ARRAY DEVICE AND APPLICATIONS - A device that provides light beam switching, agile steering of the light beam over a range of angles, and generation of arbitrary wavefront shapes with high spatial and temporal resolution. The agile device can include a volume diffractive structure comprising Bragg planes having one refractive index and the Bragg planes separated by regions containing an active optical medium. Electrodes (which may be the Bragg planes themselves, or may be arrayed adjacent to the active optical medium) are used to control the electric field intensity and direction across the structure, and thereby control the diffraction efficiency of the structure and the local phase delay imposed on a diffracted wavefront. Means are provided for addressing the many thousands of electrodes required for precise and rapid wavefront control. Applications include free-space atmospheric optical communications, near-eye displays, direct-view 3D displays, optical switching, and a host of other applications. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286064 | OPHTHALMIC DEVICE COMPRISING A HOLOGRAPHIC SENSOR - An ophthalmic device which comprises a holographic element comprising a medium comprising a phenylboronic acid group and, disposed therein, a hologram, wherein an optical characteristic of the element changes as a result of a variation of a physical property of the medium, and wherein the variation arises as a result of interaction between the medium and an analyte present in an ocular fluid. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286065 | INTERACTIVE ZOETROPE FOR ANIMATION OF SOLID FIGURINES AND HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS - A zoetrope configured for user interaction. The zoetrope includes an object support that pivotally supports a holographic disc or other projection element containing a plurality of images. A positioning mechanism rotates the holographic disc at a predetermined speed or positions the projection element in numerous positions. The disc or projection element is illuminated by an illumination source in such a manner as to selectively make the images contained therein be projected in a sequence that provides a projected object that may be animated in an interactive manner based on user input such as voice input. The zoetrope may read out holographic images in response to a user's voice input to project a 3D object that appears to be speaking the words or song input by the user such as by illuminating the disc once per revolution in a particular angular orientation associated with a desired one of the holographic images. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286066 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SCANNING LIGHT - A method of scanning a light beam is disclosed. The method comprises scanning the light beam along a first axis and scanning the light beam along a second axis, such that a functional dependence of the scanning along the first axis is substantially a step-wave, and a functional dependence of the scanning along the second axis is other than a step-wave. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286067 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device includes a light source; a scanning unit to deflect/scan a laser beam from the light source; an imaging optical system to focus the deflected and scanned laser beam to a scan-target surface; an electro-optic element to electrically change a refractive index thereof; a controller to control the refractive index of the electro-optic element to adjust deflection amount of the laser beam; and a positional shift detecting unit, disposed away from the light path, to detect a positional shift of the incident laser beam from an ideal position in a sub-scanning direction. The device further includes a beam splitting element, and the controller adjusts a deflection amount of the laser beam from the electro-optic element based on a detection result by the positional shift detecting unit and corrects a positional shift in the sub-scanning direction of the laser beam on the scan-target surface. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286068 | Static Stray Light Removal for MEMS Feed Optics in a Scanned Beam Display - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a scanned beam display comprises a light source to generate a light beam and a scanning platform to receive the light beam and to scan the light beam as a projected image. The scanned beam display further comprises first and second optics, wherein the first optic directs the light beam onto the scanning platform to be reflected through the second optic as the projected image. A reflective surface disposed on at least one of the first optic or the second optic reflect stray light away from the projected image. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286069 | CONNECTING STRUCTURE FOR MICROMECHANICAL OSCILLATING DEVICES - A connecting structure for micromechanical oscillating devices, in particular micromechanical oscillating mirrors. The connecting structure is at least indirectly connectable to a micromechanical oscillating structure, on the one hand, and to an elastic element, on the other hand, for measuring torsions of the micromechanical oscillating structure, and includes at least one, in particular at least two, preferably three, legs which are situated parallel to a rotation axis of the micromechanical oscillating structure, and at least one further leg which is situated perpendicularly to the rotation axis. The extension of the connecting structure parallel to the rotation axis has at least two-and-a-half times, in particular three times, the extension of the connecting structure perpendicular to the rotation axis, and includes at least one resistance element for measuring torsions of the connecting structure, the resistance element being situated in the area of increased mechanical stress when the connecting structure undergoes torsion. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286070 | MIRROR SWING RANGE CONTROL DEVICE OF LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS - The mirror swing range control device is capable of reducing a production cost of the control device and precisely adjusting a swing range of a mirror section. The mirror swing range control device comprises: a swing range detecting section for detecting a swing range of the mirror section swung by driving the vibration source; a signal processing section for arithmetically processing a detection signal, which is generated by the swing range detecting section, so as to generate an inverted detection signal; a standard value generating section for generating a standard value signal indicating a standard time interval; a comparing section for adding the inverted detection signal to the standard value signal, integrating calculated errors and generating an error signal; and a swing range adjusting section for performing feedback control, in which a cancelling signal is applied to the drive circuit for a prescribed time when the comparing section generates the error signal, so as to cancel an increase-decrease value of the error signal. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286071 | TUNABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE AND MODULE - A tunable photovoltaic electrochromic (PV-EC) device and module are provided. The device includes a transparent substrate, a thin film solar cell on the transparent substrate, a transparent conductive layer located on the transparent substrate beside the thin film solar cell, an EC material covering an exposed surface of the transparent conductive layer and the thin film solar cell, a switching apparatus, and a charge-discharge device coupled to the switching apparatus. The transparent conductive layer and a cathode layer of the thin film solar cell respectively serve as the anode and the cathode of the EC material simultaneously. The switching apparatus is electrically connected to the transparent conductive layer and electrically connected to the anode layer and the cathode layer of the thin film solar cell. The switching apparatus enters a control mode through a switch control signal. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286072 | METHOD AND STRUCTURE CAPABLE OF CHANGING COLOR SATURATION - Various embodiments include an interferometric modulator device configured to provide improved saturation. In some embodiments, saturation is improved by optically matching the impedance of two materials with different refractive indices using a multilayer having a refractive index gradient. In various embodiments, the thickness one or more of the layers in the multilayer are selected to provide increased saturation. Accordingly, in various embodiments the multilayer having a refractive index gradient helps to narrow the resonance of a pixel such that the band of wavelengths that are reflected from the pixel is smaller. In turn, a device including a combination of red, green and blue pixels may expand the spectrum of colors that are reflected by the device in operation. Additionally, there may be better contrast between whites and blacks, as darker blacks with less hue are produced. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286073 | DUAL DISPLAY - A dual display is disclosed, including a first substrate and a second substrate comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel comprises a plurality of subpixels. The first substrate comprises a reflective region and a transmissive region for each subpixel, and a first color fluid is movable by an electric field on the reflective region and the transmissive region of a first subpixel, wherein when the first color fluid covers the transmissive region, the dual display provides a first viewing side at the first substrate side under a transmissive mode, and when the first color fluid covers the reflective region or covers the reflective region and the transmissive region, the dual display provides a second viewing side at the second substrate side under a reflective mode. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286074 | Device for Inserting Information into the Finder Beam Path of a Motion Picture Camera - A device for inserting information into the finder beam path of a motion picture camera comprising an imaging optics and a DMD chip are arranged with a multiplicity of micromirrors that are arranged in the form of a grid and can be swiveled under electronic control. One portion of the micromirrors reflects the finder beam path toward the imaging optics, and the other portion of the micromirrors is swiveled at least temporarily out of the finder beam path, and respectively reflects toward the imaging optics a section of an information surface arranged laterally offset from the finder beam path. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286075 | ADAPTIVE MIRROR AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention relates to an adaptive mirror based on a ceramic substrate having a corresponding reflector and piezoelectric actuators, a cooling device being integrated in the substrate. The invention likewise relates to a method for the production of such mirrors. The mirrors according to the invention are used for the modulation or deformation of a laser wavefront of high power. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286076 | Electrophoretic Display Device - The present invention in one aspect relates to a solar cell formed on a substrate, a bottom electrode member formed on the solar cell, an electrophoretic display panel formed on the bottom electrode member, having a plurality of electrophoretic cell structures spatially arranged in a matrix form, each electrophoretic cell structure containing a plurality of charged particles movable in the electrophoretic cell structure responsively to applied fields, and a top electrode member formed on the electrophoretic display panel, where at least one of the bottom electrode member and the top electrode member includes a plurality of in-plane switching (IPS) electrodes. Each IPS electrode is positioned in relation to a corresponding electrophoretic cell structure for controlling movements of the charged particles therein along a horizontal direction parallel to the electrophoretic display panel. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286077 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel, a barrier layer, and a sealant. The display panel includes a backplane and a frontplane disposed on the backplane, wherein the frontplane includes a plurality of frontplane sidewalls. The frontplane sidewalls at least include a first frontplane sidewall and a second frontplane sidewall, forming a frontplane concavity. The barrier layer includes a first barrier layer sidewall and a second barrier layer sidewall, wherein the first barrier layer sidewall and the second barrier layer sidewall form a barrier layer concavity. The barrier layer concavity corresponds to the frontplane concavity, and at least one of the barrier layer concavity and the frontplane concavity does not include a right angle. The sealant is disposed in a sealant accommodating space defined by the frontplane sidewalls of the frontplane, an inner surface of the backplane and an inner surface of the barrier layer. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286078 | FULL COLOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A system for displaying images is provided. The system includes a display device including a display device having a pixel unit array. Each pixel unit is constituted by a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel adjoined thereto. The first sub-pixel includes a plurality of first charged colored particles and a plurality of second charged colored particles to receive a light source that doesn't pass through a color filter. The second sub-pixel includes a plurality of third charged colored particles and a plurality of fourth charged colored particles to receive the light source. The pluralities of first, second, third, and fourth charged colored particles have at least three colors in total. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286079 | PUMPED PIXEL DISPLAY - A display element, comprising an enclosure containing, in use, a fluid containing a plurality of particles, the enclosure having at least one transparent surface and first and second regions, wherein the second region has a greater area of visibility through the transparent surface than the first region; and driving electrodes for driving the fluid and the particles therein between the first and second regions so that the visibility of the particles through the transparent surface can be varied. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286080 | ELECTROPHORETIC MEDIA, AND MATERIALS FOR USE THEREIN - An electrophoretic medium comprises a continuous phase and a discontinuous phase. The discontinuous phase comprises a plurality of droplets, each of which comprises a fluid and at least one charged particle disposed within the fluid and capable of moving through the fluid upon application of an electric field to the electrophoretic medium. The continuous phase surrounds and encapsulates the discontinuous phase and comprising a polymeric binder and a salt, the salt having an anion containing at least one fluorine atom and having a water solubility of at least about 0.25 per cent by weight at 25° C. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286081 | ELECTRONICALLY ADDRESSABLE MICROENCAPSULATED INK AND DISPLAY THEREOF - A system of electronically active inks is described which may include electronically addressable contrast media, conductors, insulators, resistors, semiconductive materials, magnetic materials, spin materials, piezoelectric materials, optoelectronic, thermoelectric or radio frequency materials. We further describe a printing system capable of laying down said materials in a definite pattern. Such a system may be used for instance to: print a flat panel display complete with onboard drive logic; print a working logic circuit onto any of a large class of substrates; print an electrostatic or piezoelectric motor with onboard logic and feedback or print a working radio transmitter or receiver. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286082 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAY WITH EDGE SEAL - Various types of edge seals for protecting electro-optic displays against environmental contaminants are described. In one type of seal, the electro-optic layer is sandwiched between a backplane and a protective sheet and a sealing material extends between the backplane and the protective sheet. In other seals, the protective sheet is secured to the backplane or to a second protective sheet adjacent the backplane. The electro-optic layer can also be sealed between two layers of adhesive or between one layer of adhesive and the backplane. Other seals make use of flexible tapes extending around the periphery of the display. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286083 | BACKSIDE ILLUMINATED SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-RECEIVING DEVICE, OPTICAL RECEIVER MODULE, AND OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER - Provided is a backside illuminated semiconductor light-receiving device enhancing a frequency characteristic without deteriorating assembling operability. The light-receiving device includes a rectangular substrate; a light receiving mesa portion formed on a center portion of one side on a front surface of the substrate and includes a PN junction portion; a P-type electrode formed on the light receiving mesa portion and conductive with one side of the PN junction portion; an N-type electrode mesa portion formed on one corner portion of the one side; an N-type electrode pulled out to the N-type electrode mesa portion and conductive with the other side of the PN junction portion; a P-type electrode mesa portion and a dummy electrode mesa portion formed in a region including three other corner portions; and a dummy electrode formed on the dummy electrode mesa portion. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286084 | RAMAN AMPLIFIER - A Raman amplifier includes a semiconductor laser and an optical amplification fiber connected to an optical transmission fiber used for transmitting optical signals. In the Raman amplifier, excitation light emitted from the semiconductor laser is introduced into the optical amplification fiber while excitation light is incident on the optical transmission fiber, thus amplifying optical signals owing to stimulated emission of Raman scattering in both the optical amplification fiber and the optical transmission fiber. The optical amplification fiber is connected to the upstream/downstream side of the optical transmission fiber along the transmitting direction of optical signals, so that excitation light is introduced into the optical amplification fiber inversely toward the downstream/upstream side of the optical transmission fiber along the transmitting direction. The Raman amplifier including a single semiconductor laser can be reduced in manufacturing cost. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286085 | OPTICAL AMPLIFIER - An optical amplifier includes an input port, an output port, an amplification medium, a light source, a monitor, and a controller. The amplification medium with which doped an rare-earth element for optical amplification is allocated on an optical path between the input port and the output port. The light source supplies the amplification medium with an excitation light. The monitor monitors a total power of an optical signal of each wavelength according to a monitor period which is longer than a transient response time of the amplification medium. The controller controls the light source so that a power of the excitation light is constant when a monitor value of the monitor is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold value and controls the light source so that an optical gain in the amplification medium is constant when the monitor value is larger than the predetermined threshold value. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286086 | MULTI-LAYER SHEET FOR USE IN ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAYS - A multi-layer film, useful as a front sub-assembly in electro-optic displays, comprises, in this order: a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer ( | 2011-11-24 |
20110286087 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A luminous flux optically modulated by an image display device is projected to be magnified on a screen by a projection optical system includes: a first optical system having a positive first lens group including eight lenses, a negative second lens group including three lenses, and a third lens group including an aspheric single lens; and a second optical system including an aspheric reflecting mirror. The projection optical system is an off-axial optical system, and forms the intermediate image between the first optical system and the second optical system. Moreover, the expressions T | 2011-11-24 |
20110286088 | PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A luminous flux optically modulated by an image display device is projected to be magnified on a screen by a projection optical system includes: a first optical system having a positive first lens group including eight lenses, a negative second lens group including three lenses, and a third lens group including an aspheric single lens; and a second optical system including an aspheric reflecting mirror. The projection optical system is an off-axial optical system, and forms the intermediate image between the first optical system and the second optical system. Moreover, the expressions T1/Y<12.5 and T12/f1<6.0 are satisfied where T1 is the overall length of the first optical system, Y is the maximum light ray height on an image display device, T12 is the distance between the first optical system and the second optical system, and f1 is the focal length of the first optical system. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286089 | MINI-SCOPE FOR MULTI-DIRECTIONAL IMAGING - A mini-scope for multi-directional imaging is disclosed. The mini-scope includes an elongated mini-scoped body. An emissions aperture is disposed on the distal end of the elongated mini-scope body, which can be configured to emit a beam of optical energy propagating through a flexible optical conductor. A selective mirror is also positioned at the distal end of the elongated mini-scope body and is configured to selectively pass or reflect the beam of optical energy based on the optical characteristics of the beam. A solid state imaging device is further disposed on the distal end of the elongated mini-scope body for imaging illumination reflected by an external object in response to the beam of optical energy. This illumination is directed to pass through or reflect from the selective mirror to the camera based on optical characteristics of the beam. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286090 | LINKING OF MICROSCOPES FOR ANALYSIS OF OBJECTS COMPRISING TOOL MARKS - There is provided a method for analyzing at least one object under a first microscope and a second microscope concurrently by linking the two microscopes together. Movement of one microscope will result in movement of the other. This is done by computing a transformation to link a first coordinate system and a second coordinate system and generating guidance data when one of the two microscopes is displaced, the guidance data corresponding to a set of operations to be applied to the other microscope to follow movement of the microscope that is displaced. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286091 | Microscope system and observation control method - A microscope system and observation control method. An electric zoom consecutively changes a magnification for a sample. A revolver includes a plurality of objective lenses of different magnifications and switches the objective lens placed in an observation optical path to intermittently change the magnification for the sample. A control section calculates a total magnification at which the sample is observed based on a magnification provided by the electric zoom and the magnification of the objective lens currently placed in the observation optical path. The control section operates when the revolver switches the objective lens placed in the observation optical path, to determine a target magnification that is the magnification of the electric zoom required to keep the total magnification obtained after the switching of the objective lens equal to the total magnification obtained before the switching of the objective lens. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286092 | INTEGRAL PHOTOGRAPHY SHEET BY TOTAL REFLECTION - Disclosed therein is a beautiful and clear three-dimensional sheet, which includes a lens array formed on one side of a plastic sheet and having a plurality of hemispherical convex lenses arranged in columns and rows and embossed or engraved patterns formed on the other side of the plastic sheet by a plane total reflection angle, so that the uneven patterns appear to be enlarged and glitter like diamonds when they are viewed from the front of the convex lenses to thereby provide an effect that the patterns appear to hang in the air or to be sunken from the surface of the sheet. The three-dimensional sheet includes: a convex lens layer ( | 2011-11-24 |
20110286093 | USING 3D EYEWEAR TECHNOLOGY TO VIEW ONE SERIES OF IMAGES FROM MULTIPLE SERIES OF IMAGES - A group of viewers use eyewear to restrict viewing to a single series of images from the multiple series of images displayed independent of other groups of viewers. The eyewear may use any of the following techniques to restrict viewing to a single series of images; active shutter, polarization, wavelength shifting, or anaglyphic. Both lens of the eyewear have the same properties restricting both eyes to see the appropriate series of images from multiple series of images. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286094 | Wire-grid polarizer and process for producing the same - Provided are a wire-grid polarizer, which has not only a high degree of polarization, a high p-polarized light transmittance and a high s-polarized light reflectance but also a low angle dependency and a low wavelength dependency in terms of optical properties in a visible light region, and a process for producing the same. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286095 | MULTILAYER OPTICAL FILMS HAVING SIDE-BY-SIDE POLARIZER/POLARIZER ZONES - A reflective film includes interior layers that selectively reflect light by constructive or destructive interference, the layers extending from a first to a second zone of the film. In the first zone the layers provide a first reflective polarizer characteristic, and in a second zone the layers provide a substantially different reflective polarizer characteristic. The second zone is characterized by at least some of the layers having a reduced birefringence relative to their birefringence in the first zone. In some cases the first reflective polarizer characteristic may have a pass axis that is substantially orthogonal to that of the second reflective polarizer characteristic. The film may have substantially the same thickness in the first and second zones, or a substantially reduced thickness in the second zone relative to the first zone. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286096 | AUTOMOTIVE EXTERIOR MIRROR HEATER CONTROL - An exterior rearview mirror system suitable for use on a vehicle includes an exterior rearview mirror assembly, a mirror heating element and a control. The mirror assembly includes a mirror head portion mountable to a side of a vehicle and a reflective element supported at the mirror head portion. The mirror heating element is disposed at a rear side of the reflective element and operable to heat the reflective element. The control is operable to power the mirror heating element to heat the reflective element. The control controls heating of the mirror heating element responsive at least in part to a signal indicative of air flow at or around the exterior rearview mirror assembly and the reflective element of the equipped vehicle. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286097 | RETROREFLECTIVE ARTICLE - A retroreflective article having excellent retroreflective efficiency, entrance angle characteristic, observation angle characteristic, and rotation angle characteristic is provided. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286098 | MARKER FOR A NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A marker for a navigation system for determining the spatial position (e.g., of a surgical instrument), said marker including a retroreflective ball ( | 2011-11-24 |
20110286099 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE, AUTOFOCUS CAMERA AND CAMERA-EQUIPPED MOBILE TERMINAL - In the lens driving device of the present invention, at least two second coils are disposed at a 90 degree interval in a circumferential direction of a first coil wound around an outer circumference of a lens support in the circumferential direction, at least four magnets are provided at an inner circumferential side of a circumferential wall of a yoke and are provided at even intervals about the circumferential direction of the first coil, each magnet being provided so that an inner circumferential face is the same magnetic pole and opposes an outer circumferential face of the first coil, and in addition is opposite the second coil at the position of providing the second coil. When the lens support is moved in the optical axis direction, an electric current flows in the first coil, and when the lens support is moved in an X-Y direction orthogonal to the optical axis, a predetermined electric current flows in a predetermined second coil. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286100 | HIGH-PRECISION MONOLITHIC OPTICAL ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS FOR FABRICATION AND ALIGNMENT THEREOF - High-precision monolithic optical assemblies are formed using low-cost standard optical components, such as wedge plates and/or wedge second surface mirrors. By rolling and/or shifting the components relative to each other with matched optical surfaces in contact, a precise alignment solution is found for a particular optical assembly. The resulting arrangement of components can be bonded or held together so as to form a high-precision monolithic optical assembly, which can be inserted into an optical system, according to the assembly's function. The functionality of the monolithic optical assembly can be independent of the optical system in which it is used. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286101 | BEAM FORMING DEVICE FOR LASER DIODE ARRAYS - A device forms laser radiation which has partial beams interspaced in a first direction that is perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the laser radiation, especially for forming laser radiation which is emitted by a laser diode bar. The device contains a plurality of reflective surfaces on which at least one of the interspaced partial beams can be reflected in such a manner that the distances of the partial beams are smaller relative to each other after reflection than before reflection. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286102 | Optical Adaptor - An optical adaptor is disclosed for use in combination with an optical imaging system. The adaptor is specifically configured so that when it is positioned within the optical path between an object and the imaging system, the adaptor corrects the field curvature of the imaging system so as to produce a substantially flat image of a curved object. The adaptor comprises a primary lens unit of positive power which in use is towards the object and which preferably takes the form of a thick meniscus lens having an overcorrect Petzval Sum, and a secondary lens unit of negative power which in use is towards the imaging system and which preferably takes the form of a relatively thin meniscus lens. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286103 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE ZOOM LENS - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a positive or negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. In the zoom lens, the first lens unit is stationary during zooming. At least the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fifth lens unit move along an optical axis during zooming. Furthermore, in the zoom lens, a focal length of the entire zoom lens at a wide-angle end (fw) and an amount of movement of the second lens unit during zooming from the wide-angle end to a telephoto end (m2z) are appropriately set. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286104 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same - A zoom lens including, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens group including a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, an image side lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group changes during zooming, and a refractive optical element A, which has a positive refractive power when its object side surface and image side surface are exposed to air, is provided in the first lens group and located closest to the object side in the first lens group, and the refractive optical element A is cemented together with an optical element B. The Abbe constant νd and the relative partial dispersion θgF of the refractive optical element A satisfies certain conditions. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286105 | ENHANCED VARIABLE POWER ZOOM LENS - The present invention is directed to provide an enhanced variable power zoom lens that is lightweight as a whole, and especially, has its focusing lens optics reduced in weight so as to relieve of a load on a focusing drive system, and that has its anti-vibration lens optics reduced in both diameter and weight so as to relieve of a load on an anti-vibration drive system and downsize the same. The enhanced variable power zoom lens is adapted to have the foremost or first lens group of positive refractivity, the second lens group of negative refractivity, the third lens group of positive refractivity, the fourth lens group of negative refractivity, and the fifth lens group arranged in this sequence from a position closer to the object where a distance between each pair of the adjacent lens groups is varied during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, each lens group comes closer to the object at the telephoto end than at the wide-angle end, the third lens group and the fourth lens group separating the farthest apart from each other at the intermediate zooming range, and the fourth lens group is moved closer to the image plane for shifting from infinity focusing to proximity focusing. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286106 | ENHANCED VARIABLE POWER ZOOM LENS - The present invention is directed to provide an enhanced variable power zoom lens that has focusing lens optics reduced in weight so as to relieve of a load on a focusing drive system, and that has its anti-vibration lens optics reduced in both diameter and weight so as to relieve of a load on an anti-vibration drive system and downsize the same. The enhanced variable power zoom lens is adapted to have the foremost or first lens group G | 2011-11-24 |
20110286107 | ENHANCED VARIABLE POWER ZOOM LENS - An enhanced variable power zoom lens is lightweight in whole and in part, especially, having its focusing lens optics reduced in weight so as to relieve of a load on a focusing drive system, and having its anti-vibration lens optics reduced in both diameter and weight so as to relieve of a load on an anti-vibration drive system and downsize the same. The zoom lens has the foremost or first lens group of positive refractivity, the second lens group of negative refractivity, the third lens group of positive refractivity, the fourth lens group of negative refractivity, and the fifth lens group arranged in sequence from a position closer to the object. The fourth lens group moves toward the image plane for focusing on from the infinity to a proximity object while part of the third lens group moves orthogonal to the optical axis for shifting an image. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286108 | ZOOM LENS, OPTICAL APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ZOOM LENS - A zoom lens ZL installed in an electronic still camera | 2011-11-24 |
20110286109 | Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same - A zoom lens including, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, an image side lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group changes during zooming, a refractive optical element A, which has a positive refractive power when its object side surface and image side surface are exposed to air, is provided in the first lens group and located closest to the object side in the first lens group, and the refractive optical element A is cemented together with an optical element B. The Abbe constant νd and the partial dispersion ratio θgF of the refractive optical element A satisfies certain conditions. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286110 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel has a first lens unit that is disposed at the object side and changeable between a first state, a spacing of the lenses is a predetermined spacing, and a second state, the spacing of the lenses is narrower than in the first state; a second lens unit that is disposed at the image side and capable of changing a focusing state by moving along the optical axis; a restricting member that restricts the change of the first lens unit from the first state to the second state; and driving unit that, in a state in which the change to the second state is restricted by the restricting member, moves the second lens unit toward the image side, wherein the restricting member releases the restriction in association with a completion of the movement of the second lens unit by the driving means. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286111 | LENS BARREL, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND LENS BARREL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lens barrel includes a fourth lens, a prism, and a sixth lens. The fourth lens receives a light flux incident along a first optical axis. The prism includes a reflecting surface reflecting the light flux passing through the fourth lens to a direction along a second optical axis intersecting with the first optical axis. The sixth lens receives the light flux reflected by the prism. A second group frame includes an opening portion, a prism retaining frame that is arranged in a more inner position than the opening portion and in which the prism is contained, and a plurality of adhesive pockets arranged on an area around the prism retaining frame and being open to the side of the opening portion. Adhesive agent is filled in the adhesive pockets. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286112 | Objective optical system - An objective optical system includes, in order from an object side, a negative-powered first lens, an aperture stop, a positive-powered second lens, and a third lens, wherein: a surface of the first lens which is closest to an image side is a concave surface turned toward the image side; a surface of the second lens which is closest to the image side is an aspheric surface; a surface of the third lens which is closest to the object side is a convex surface turned toward the object side; the objective optical system has a three-group, three-lens configuration in which each of the first to third lenses is made up of a single lens and all surfaces of the three lenses have power; a distance d_L | 2011-11-24 |
20110286113 | LENS BARREL, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND LENS BARREL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lens barrel includes a fourth lens, a prism, and a sixth lens. The fourth lens receives a light flux incident along a first optical axis. The prism includes a reflecting surface reflecting the light flux passing through the fourth lens to a direction along a second optical axis intersecting with the first optical axis. The sixth lens receives the light flux reflected by the prism. A second group frame includes an opening portion, a prism retaining frame that is arranged in a more inner position than the opening portion and in which the prism is contained, and a plurality of adhesive pockets arranged on an area around the prism retaining frame and being open to the side of the opening portion. Adhesive agent is filled in the adhesive pockets. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286114 | LENS BARREL, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND LENS BARREL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lens barrel includes a fourth lens, a prism, and a sixth lens. The fourth lens receives a light flux incident along a first optical axis. The prism includes a reflecting surface reflecting the light flux passing through the fourth lens to a direction along a second optical axis intersecting with the first optical axis. The sixth lens receives the light flux reflected by the prism. A second group frame includes an opening portion, a prism retaining frame that is arranged in a more inner position than the opening portion and in which the prism is contained, and a plurality of adhesive pockets arranged on an area around the prism retaining frame and being open to the side of the opening portion. Adhesive agent is filled in the adhesive pockets. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286115 | LENS BARREL, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND LENS BARREL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A lens barrel includes a fourth lens, a prism, and a sixth lens. The fourth lens receives a light flux incident along a first optical axis. The prism includes a reflecting surface reflecting the light flux passing through the fourth lens to a direction along a second optical axis intersecting with the first optical axis. The sixth lens receives the light flux reflected by the prism. A second group frame includes an opening portion, a prism retaining frame that is arranged in a more inner position than the opening portion and in which the prism is contained, and a plurality of adhesive pockets arranged on an area around the prism retaining frame and being open to the side of the opening portion. Adhesive agent is filled in the adhesive pockets. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286116 | MACRO LENS - The present invention is directed to an inner focusing macro lens that has a large aperture ratio as expressed by 2.5 or even smaller in F-number and still remains compact, and that is adapted to compensate for spherical aberration, astigmatism, and comatic aberration during photographing throughout the entire object distance ranging from infinity to proximity for an up to 1:1-magnification image. The inner focusing macro lens has the leading or first lens group of positive refractivity, the second lens group of negative refractivity, the third lens group of positive refractivity, and the trailing lens set succeeding to the third lens group in sequence from a position closest to an object being photographed. During focusing from a point infinitely far to that as proximal as desired, the first lens group is static while the second lens group is moved toward the imaging plane, and the third lens group is moved toward the object. The first lens group has at least four lens pieces of comprehensively positive refractivity and at least one lens piece of negative refractivity, and three of the lens pieces closest to the object in the first lens group are of positive refractivity. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286117 | Camera lens for industrial camera - A camera lens for use in an industrial camera for enabling the industrial camera to calculate the length and height of an object focused by the industrial camera and the distance between the focused object and the industrial camera is disclosed to include a cylindrical lens holder, and a lens, which is fixedly mounted in a mounting portion inside the cylindrical lens holder, having a reference point located on the inner surface thereof at the center and a positioning frame extending from the reference point to the outer surface thereof at an angle about 45°. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286118 | Lens Module And Wafer Level Lens Module Manufacturing Apparatus - Example embodiments are directed to a lens module manufactured from a wafer and a wafer level lens module manufacturing apparatus. The wafer level lens module manufacturing apparatus to mold lenses on a wafer provided with lens holes includes a first master substrate and a second master substrate disposed such that the wafer is between the first master substrate and the second master substrate. The wafer level lens module manufacturing apparatus also includes lens molding parts that enter the lens holes and are on at least one of the first master substrate and the second master substrate. The lens is molded to have a thickness less than that of the wafer using the first lens molding parts and second lens molding parts, and both surfaces of the lens are inside the lens hole. Therefore, even if wafers provided with lenses are stacked on each other, the lens does not contact the surfaces of the neighboring wafers or the lenses molded on the neighboring wafers. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286119 | LENS BARREL, IMAGING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A lens barrel and imaging device with a low likelihood of optical characteristics being degraded by an impact from a fall or the like may be provided. A lens barrel including: a retention member that retains an optical system; and a first guide shaft that guides the retention member to be movable along an optical axis of the optical system, wherein the retention member includes, a first engaging portion that engages with the first guide shaft, and an abutting portion disposed at the opposite side of the optical axis from the side thereof at which the first engaging portion is disposed, at a position that is offset in the optical axis direction from the engaging portion, the abutting portion being abuttable against an abutted portion when a force in the optical axis direction is applied at least to the retention member. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286120 | OPTICAL LENS SNAP ATTACHMENT - An optical apparatus is provided that directs, diffuses, magnifies or otherwise alters light. The optical apparatus may include a lens that can be physically attached to a circuit board without glue, adhesive tape, or melting. The optical apparatus can be snapped onto the circuit board. The optical apparatus may then be glued or otherwise adhered to the circuit board after being snapped on. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286121 | Node, apparatus, system and method regarding a frame support for solar mirrors - A node for a solar frame including an elongate portion having a channel extending through it in which a structural element is disposed or a solid elongate portion on to which a structural element is disposed. The node comprises a fin extending radially outward from the elongate portion where at least 5% of the volume of the fin is replaced by at least a single void extending essentially in parallel with the channel or the extrusion direction of the solid elongate portion. An apparatus for transmitting torque in a solar frame having structural elements and a support. A system for solar mirrors. A node for a solar frame. A method for connecting a structural element with a strut having a strut end piece of a solar mirror support frame. A method for producing a node for solar minor frame. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286122 | Method and System For Dual Resolution Translation Stage - A dual resolution translation stage includes a stage assembly operable to receive an optical element and a low resolution adjustment device mechanically coupled to the stage assembly. The dual resolution stage also includes an adjustable pivot block mechanically coupled to the stage assembly. The adjustable pivot block includes a pivot shaft. The dual resolution stage further includes a lever arm mechanically coupled to the adjustable pivot block. The lever arm is operable to pivot about the pivot shaft. The dual resolution stage additionally includes a high resolution adjustment device mechanically coupled to the lever arm and the stage assembly. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286123 | MANAGING WRITE OPERATIONS TO AN EXTENT OF TRACKS MIGRATED BETWEEN STORAGE DEVICES - Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for managing write operations to an extent of tracks migrated between storage device. An operation is processed to migrate an extent of tracks from the second storage to the first storage. A determination is made as to whether an extent object exists for the extent to migrate. The extent object exists if the extent was previously migrated from the first storage to the second storage at a previous time. The extent object includes for each track a write indicator indicating whether the track was updated in the second storage since the previous time when the extent was previously migrated to the second storage. In response to determining that the extent object exists, a determination is made of the tracks in the extent having the write indicator indicating that the track was updated in the second storage since the previous time. The data for the determined tracks is copied from the second storage to free locations in the first storage. For each determined track, the entry for the determined track in the extent object is updated to indicate the free location to which the data for the track was copied as an active address for the track. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286124 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD - In a magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording medium manufacturing method, it is possible to easily separate a conjoined body without carrying out shape processing in a transfer master in order to separate a conjoined body, and without scratching the magnetic recording medium in a separating step. Moreover, it is possible to mass-produce the magnetic recording medium efficiently without increasing the size of a device. As the central portion of a transfer master is caused to bow convexly in an upward direction, in a condition in which a press receiving surface portion of the transfer master is restrained by a pressing surface of a pressing member, the outer periphery of a magnetic recording medium in a conjoined body is easily separated from a transfer receiving medium contact region of the transfer master in such a way that a predetermined gap is formed. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286125 | PATTERNED-MEDIA MAGNETIC RECORDING DISK DRIVE WITH DATA ISLAND MISPLACEMENT INFORMATION IN THE SERVO SECTORS - A disk drive with patterned-media disks has information recorded in the servo sectors that identifies misplacement of the data islands in the data regions between the servo sectors. This misplacement information is read from the servo sectors prior to writing to correct either or both the radial position of the write head and the timing of the write pulses to the data islands. The misplacement information may include radial deviation of the data tracks, circumferential or along-the-track misplacement of the data islands, or the location of defective data islands. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286126 | METHOD OF MAKING A MULTI-CHANNEL TIME BASED SERVO TAPE MEDIA - A thin film magnetic recording head is fabricated by forming a substrate from opposing ferrite blocks which have a ceramic member bonded between them. This structure is then diced to form a plurality of columns, wherein each column has a ferrite/ceramic combination. Each column represents a single channel in the completed head. A block of ceramic is then cut to match the columned structure and the two are bonded together. The bonded structure is then cut or ground until a head is formed, having ceramic disposed between each channel. A ferrite back-gap is then added to each channel, minimizing the reluctance of the flux path. The thin film is patterned on the head to optimize various channel configurations. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286127 | NEAR FIELD TRANSDUCER WITH SHAPED ENERGY RADIATING END - A magnetic recording head consists of a write pole and a near field transducer close to the write pole that focuses light energy to a focal point. A near field transducer is positioned to receive light energy from a waveguide. The near field transducer comprises an energy-receiving end and an energy-radiating end. The energy-receiving end is located near the focal point of the waveguide and the energy-radiating end is shaped such that it is narrower closer to the write pole and wider farther from the write pole. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286128 | THERMALLY-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD INCLUDING PLASMON GENERATOR - A plasmon generator has an outer surface including a plasmon exciting part that faces an evanescent light generating surface of a waveguide. The outer surface further includes first and second inclined surfaces that increase in distance from each other with increasing distance from the plasmon exciting part, and a front end face. The front end face has first and second portions that are connected to each other into a V-shape. The first portion includes a first side lying at an end of the first inclined surface. The second portion includes a second side lying at an end of the second inclined surface. An angle formed between a lower part of the first side and a lower part of the second side is smaller than that formed between an upper part of the first side and an upper part of the second side. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286129 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAPPING THE SHAPE OF A HEAD UNDER OPERATING CONDITIONS - A method and system for determining a shape of a portion of an air-bearing surface (ABS) of a head residing on a slider are described. The ABS is configured to fly at a fly height from and with a velocity with respect to a disk during normal operating conditions. The method and system include driving at least one heater residing in the head while the slider is substantially at the normal operating conditions with respect to the disk and the fly height. The shape of the portion of the ABS changes in response to the heater(s) being driven. The method and system also include performing Doppler measurements on the slider while the heater is driven. The shape may then be determined based on the Doppler measurements. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286130 | ENERGY-SAVING OPERATION OF A STORAGE DEVICE - A computer implemented method is disclosed, for energy-saving operation of a storage device with a read/write head. The method includes monitoring workload of the storage device, calculating current mean workload and adjusting seek speed of the read/write head of the storage device to one of a plurality seek speeds depending on the calculated current mean workload. The step of adjusting the seek speed of the read/write head includes adjusting the seek speed of the read/write head to be a first seek speed if the calculated current mean workload is below a first threshold, adjusting the seek speed of the read/write head to be a second seek speed if the calculated current mean workload is between the first threshold and a second threshold, and adjusting the seek speed of the read/write head to be the first seek speed if the calculated current mean workload is greater than the second threshold. A computer program product and a data processing system are also disclosed. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286131 | DIRECTING WINDAGE ESTABLISHED BY A ROTATING DISC - An apparatus and associated method for directing windage involves a body defining an aperture. A fastener is operably disposed in the aperture and is selectively engageable with a fixed support member between a first mode permitting rotation of the body around the fastener longitudinal axis, and a second mode affixing the body in place to the support member at a desired rotational orientation. A shroud depends from the body and is sized at a distal end for an operable mating relationship adjacent an arcuate edge of a disc that is rotatable around a disc axis. The shroud distal end is operably disposed a first distance from the fastener longitudinal axis in a direction of a plane including the fastener longitudinal axis and the disc axis. A leading edge of the shroud, with respect to a direction of windage established by disc rotation, is disposed a second distance from the fastener longitudinal axis that is the same or less than the first distance from the fastener longitudinal axis. | 2011-11-24 |
20110286132 | Suspension board with circuit and producing method thereof - A suspension board with circuit includes a metal supporting board, an insulating layer formed on the metal supporting board, and a conductive pattern formed on the insulating layer and having a terminal portion connected to connecting terminals of a magnetic head mounted on a slider. A slider mounting region where the slider is disposed is defined, and a plurality of the terminal portions are spaced apart from each other in the slider mounting region, and in the metal supporting board, an opening which opens so as to expose the insulating layer where the terminal portions are disposed is formed at the slider mounting region. | 2011-11-24 |