48th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110292341 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED EYE MEASUREMENT - An imaging method according to some embodiments of the present invention includes obtaining working distance information from an optical coherence tomography system, the working distance being the working distance to the sample; obtaining information from one or more ocular systems; combining the information from said optical coherence tomography information and said ocular system; and displaying said combined information. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292342 | PUPILLARY ASSESSMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A system and method for assessing the function of parts of the nervous system of a subject by measuring the pupillary responses to at least one stimulus ensemble comprising a plurality of individual stimuli; the method comprising: presenting a sequence of selected individual stimuli from the at least one stimulus ensemble to the nervous system of a subject thereby evoking pupillary responses in at least one pupil of the subject, selected individual stimuli being concurrently presented in the sequence, wherein the individual stimuli are each individually balanced such that the pupillary responses evoked by individual stimuli in the ensemble are balanced according to the strength of the neural responses evoked by the individual stimuli; detecting responses of the pupil or pupils evoked by the stimuli using a sensor; and processing the detected responses to relate them to the function of the subject's neural responses to some or all of the individual stimuli of the ensemble. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292343 | Spectrally-adjustable ophthalmic illumination with discrete sources - An ophthalmic illuminator includes a one or more light combining stages arranged in series to augment a white light source with various color spectral bands. A first stage combines white light from a white light source with colored light from a first color source. Each subsequent stage in the series adds its own respective colored light. The color sources may be selectively turned on/off or driven with variable amounts of power. In this fashion, a combined light is produced by the final stage that represents a desired chromaticity and brightness as desired for a particular ophthalmic therapeutic procedure. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292344 | Real-time spectrally-adjustable ophthalmic illumination - An ophthalmic illuminator is provided that includes a plurality of color sources, each color source producing a light of a corresponding color; a combiner for combining the light from the color sources to produced a combined light; at least one optical fiber configured to receive the combined light and propagate the received combined light towards a distal end of the ophthalmic illuminator; and a controller configured to control an intensity for each of the color sources responsive to a sampling of a spectral content for the combined light. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292345 | DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR MEASURING A CHARACTERISTIC READING DISTANCE OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN A NEAR VISION NATURAL POSTURE - A measurement device ( | 2011-12-01 |
20110292346 | Hybrid Illumination System for Head-up Display - A head-up display including a hybrid illumination system is provided. A light mixing unit provides a substantially homogenous light source to a reflective display unit. A concentrating optics unit collects ambient light and directs it towards the light mixing unit. At the same time, an electrically-powered light source emits light which is directed towards the light mixing unit. One or more optical elements direct the ambient light and the light source light into the light mixing unit for homogenization. A condensing unit receives the homogenized light mixture and outputs the condensed light to a polarizing beam splitter. A reflective display modulates the light from the polarizing beam splitter with information from a source of electrical information signals back towards the polarizing beam splitter. A projection unit projects the modulated light to create an image on a windshield. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292347 | 3D Interaction for Mobile Device - Techniques for utilizing an infrared illuminator, an infrared camera, and a projector to create a virtual 3D model of a real 3D object in real time for users' interaction with the real 3D object. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292348 | BALLOON AND BALLOON CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a balloon including an envelope and a projecting unit that projects an image, which switches display mode between first display mode that displays the image projected by the projecting unit on the envelope and second display mode that displays the image projected by the projecting unit on an external object through the envelope. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292349 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, LIGHTING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING SUCH LIGHT DEVICE - For a lighting device for obtaining output light in the wavelengths of light of three colors of red, green, and blue, a lighting device using a semiconductor laser for the blue light has been proposed. When using this lighting device in an image display device, etc., there are problems in blue color rendering properties and reduced image quality due to speckle noise. A light source device designed to emit red light, green light, a first blue light, and a second blue light, the light source device including: a red solid-state light source; a green solid-state light source; a semiconductor laser for emitting the first blue light; and a blue light generation part for emitting the second blue light, wherein the main component of the second blue light is light in a wavelength range of wavelengths longer than that of the first blue light. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292350 | 2-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, ILLUMINATION LIGHT SOURCE AND EXPOSURE ILLUMINATION DEVICE - A 2-dimensional beam scan unit reflects emission beams from a red laser light source, a green laser light source and a blue laser light source and scans in a 2-dimensional direction. Diffusion plates diffuse the respective light beams scanned in the 2-dimensional direction to introduce them to corresponding spatial light modulation elements. The respective spatial light modulation elements modulate the respective lights in accordance with video signals of the respective colors. A dichroic prism multiplexes the lights of the three colors after the modulation and introduces the multiplexed lights to a projection lens so that a color image is displayed on a screen. Since the 2-dimensional light emitted from the beam scan unit is diffused to illuminate the spatial light modulation element, it is possible to change the optical axis of the beam emerging from the light diffusion member for irradiating the spatial light modulation element moment by moment, thereby effectively suppressing speckle noise. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292351 | IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS AND INTERCHANGEABLE LENS THEREFOR - The image projection apparatus includes a light modulating element modulating light according to an image signal, a correcting part performing correction processing on the image signal to decrease geometric distortion in a projection image by using correction data, a memory storing first correction data corresponding to interchangeable optical units, and a controller acquiring identification information of the interchangeable optical unit attached to the apparatus, reading the first correction data corresponding to the acquired identification information from the memory, and setting the read first correction data as the correction data for the correction processing. The controller acquires, when no first correction data corresponding to the acquired identification information is stored in the memory, second correction data stored in a memory in the attached interchangeable optical unit, and sets the acquired second correction data as the correction data for the correction processing. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292352 | POSITION ADJUSTMENT AMOUNT CALCULATION METHOD OF LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE, POSITION ADJUSTMENT AMOUNT CALCULATION DEVICE OF LIGHT MODULATION DEVICE AND PROJECTOR - A method for calculating a position adjustment amount of projected image includes a first image step of obtaining first image data which is obtained by an image capturing device imaging first feature points which are displayed using light modulated by a first light modulation device, a second imaging step of obtaining second image data which is obtained by the image capturing device imaging a second feature point which is displayed using light modulated by a second light modulation device, an adjustment amount calculation step of calculating an adjustment amount based on the first image data and the second image data. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292353 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND PROJECTION DEVICE - An optical device includes: a light synthesis prism that synthesizes incident light beams which are incident to a plurality of incidence surfaces and outputs the synthesized light beams; a light modulation unit that includes an optical compensation element and a reflective light modulation device; and a fixing member that fixes a reflective polarization element and the light modulation unit to the light synthesis prism so as to correspond to one of the incidence surfaces, wherein the light modulation unit includes a light blocking member that blocks light from reaching the light modulation unit and limits light with which the optical compensation element and the reflective light modulation device are irradiated, to light passing an aperture portion; and a heat insulating member that comes into contact with the light blocking member and the fixing member. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292354 | Device for Projecting an Image on a Surface and Device for Moving Said Image - The invention relates to a device for projecting an image on a surface, comprising: a light source generating a light beam; a mask arranged in the path of the light beam; a lens arranged behind the mask to focus the image of the mask on a surface, wherein the surface is not parallel to the lens, wherein at substantially each position along the edges of the mask the distance v to the lens and the distance b of the corresponding position at the edges of the image of the mask to the lens correspond substantially to the formula 1/v+1/b=1/f, wherein f is the focal length of the lengths. The invention also relates to a device for moving the image on the surface. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292355 | REFRACTIVE OPTICS AND PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed are a projection display apparatus and a projection optics provided in the projection display apparatus. The projection optics has a refractive optics and a reflective optics. In the refractive optics, a lens (non-circular lens) provided on a reflective optics side has a non-circular shape forming part of an imaginary circular region whose center is an optical axis center of the refractive optics. In other words, the non-circular lens has a shape of a cut-out portion of an imaginary circular lens having an optical axis center coinciding with the optical axis center of the refractive optics. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292356 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a substrate processing system including a group controller which determines a combination of processing apparatuses having the shortest total processing time including the processing end time in a final processing apparatus, determines a predictable elapsed time up to a processing start time by a predetermined downstream processing apparatus for a wafer lot from a processing end time of the wafer lot by a predetermined processing apparatus in the combination of the processing apparatuses, and determines a timing of discharging the substrate to the predetermined processing apparatus or an upstream processing apparatus of the predetermined processing apparatus so that the predictable elapsed time is set within a predetermined time when the predictable elapsed time exceeds the predetermined time. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292357 | FLUID HANDLING STRUCTURE, A LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND A DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A fluid handling structure to confine immersion liquid in a space between a projection system and a facing surface of a substrate, of a table to support the substrate, or both, is disclosed. The fluid handling structure includes a transponder to dissolve at least some of the gas in a bubble in the immersion liquid or to control a bubble in the immersion liquid so that it avoids entering an optical path of a beam from the projection system. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292358 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - Various types of pressure regulating devices are disclosed to reduce a pressure gradient in a liquid supply system of a lithographic apparatus, the liquid supply system having a liquid confinement structure configured to at least partially confine a liquid between a projection system and a substrate table of the lithographic apparatus. A high pressure gradient may cause particulate contamination in the liquid supply system and/or liquid confinement structure. A pressure gradient can be reduced by, for example, the use of slow switching in one or more valves, a bleed flow around or through one or more valves, diversion of liquid to a drain rather than or in addition to switching a valve off, a pressure regulator or flow restrictor to prevent shock waves, and a buffer volume/damper to compensate for pressure fluctuation. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292359 | CLEANING DEVICE AND A LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS CLEANING METHOD - A cleaning tool to clean a surface of a component of a lithographic apparatus is disclosed. The cleaning tool includes a sonic transducer, a liquid supply device configured to provide liquid to a reservoir between the surface to be cleaned and the sonic transducer, and a liquid outlet configured to remove liquid provided by the liquid supply device, the cleaning tool constructed and arranged such that, in use, liquid flows into the outlet under the influence of gravity. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292360 | PATTERNING NON-PLANAR SURFACES - A system for forming a pattern on a part comprises a chamber base, a pressure vessel and a retaining device. The retaining device is positionable between the chamber base and the pressure vessel to secure a deformable mask therebetween. The system further comprises a first pressure source, a second pressure source and a third pressure source. The first pressure source provides a negative pressure within the chamber to draw the mask towards a part installed within the chamber base. The second pressure source provides a positive pressure within the pressure vessel to direct the mask towards the part so that the mask corresponds to at least one complex non-planar surface of the part. The third pressure source provides a negative pressure within pressure vessel. An exposure source exposes the part through the mask while the mask is deformed corresponding to the at least one complex non-planar surface of the part. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292361 | Exposure apparatus - An exposure apparatus including a warp deformation forming mechanism having a plane-parallel plate for warp deformation provided on a projection optical path of a mask pattern to be projected to a work substrate, and configured to be deformed by warping, a restraint member configured to cause an intermediate part of the plane-parallel plate between neighboring two of corner parts to serve as a fulcrum, each corner part formed by two intersecting sides of the plane-parallel plate, and a pressure member configured to warp and deform the plane-parallel plate with the restraint member used as a fulcrum by applying a pressurizing force to the corner parts of the plane-parallel plate in an optical axis direction of the projection optical path. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292362 | Exposure apparatus - An exposure apparatus which forms a predetermined mask pattern on a target workpiece through exposure by: casting exposure light upon a mask in which the pattern and a mask-side alignment mark are formed, and forming an image of the mask on the target workpiece by projecting the exposure light, which passes the mask, on the target workpiece through a projection lens, includes: an alignment lighting unit configured to cast, as alignment light, light in a wavelength range included in the exposure light onto the mask-side alignment mark of the mask; and an alignment camera unit including an image pickup device for capturing images, and configured to receive the incident alignment light coming from the alignment lighting unit through the mask and the projection lens. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292363 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND METHODS - A light beam collimated by illumination optics ( | 2011-12-01 |
20110292364 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus ( | 2011-12-01 |
20110292365 | Calibration Method, Inspection Method and Apparatus, Lithographic Apparatus, and Lithographic Processing Cell - Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and lithographic systems for calibrating an inspection apparatus. Radiation is projected onto a pattern in a target position of a substrate. By making a plurality of measurements of the pattern and comparing the measured first or higher diffraction orders of radiation reflected from the pattern of different measurements, a residual error indicative of the error in a scatterometer may be calculated. This error is an error in measurements of substrate parameters caused by irregularities of the scatterometer. The residual error may manifest itself as an asymmetry in the diffraction spectra. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292366 | MULTILAYER MIRROR AND LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A multilayer mirror to reflect radiation having a wavelength in the range of 2-8 nm has alternating layers. The alternating layers include a first layer and a second layer. The first and second layers are selected from the group consisting of: U and B | 2011-12-01 |
20110292367 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM - The disclosure generally relates to imaging optical systems that include a plurality of mirrors, which image an object field lying in an object plane in an image field lying in an image plane, where at least one of the mirrors has a through-hole for imaging light to pass through. The disclosure also generally relates to projection exposure installations that include such imaging optical systems, methods of using such projection exposure installations, and components made by such methods. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292368 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS - An exposure apparatus is provided with: a conveying device that conveys the subject to be exposed in a given direction; a spatial light modulating device having a plurality of light modulating elements, which are composed of an electro-optical crystalline material and arranged at least in one row in a direction intersecting a conveying direction of the subject to be exposed; an optical beam shaping device that limits the width of light emitted from each light modulating element in the conveying direction to a predetermined width; and a control device that on/off-controls light transmitted through the spatial light modulating device so as to generate a predetermined pattern. The light modulating element is formed tilted by a predetermined angle with respect to an axis parallel to the conveying direction. The control device shifts the optical beam shaping device in the conveying direction. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292369 | SUBSTRATE TABLE, A LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, A METHOD OF FLATTENING AN EDGE OF A SUBSTRATE AND A DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A substrate table to support a substrate is disclosed. The substrate table includes a substrate support to support the substrate and to apply a bending force to an edge of the substrate in a first direction. A substrate edge manipulator is provided that is configured to apply a variable bending force to the edge of the substrate in a second direction, which second direction has at least a component opposite in direction to the first direction. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292370 | Method and system to maximize space-time resolution in a Time-of-Flight (TOF) system - Phase-based TOF systems operate with reduced depth error due to motion blur, and/or spatial blur, and/or pixel offset by intelligently determining how best to combine pixel values, and how best to compensate for individual pixel offsets. Such determination(s) may be carried out on a per pixel basis, dynamically, in real-time during TOF operation, or on archived TOF data. Offsets for individual pixels may be dynamically calculated and subtracted from the values acquired by those pixels Individual pixel offsets may be calculated for example by combining data acquired by the same pixel at two acquisitions, 180° out of phase with respect to each other. Calculated offsets may be averaged, or on a per pixel basis, and if target object motion is detected, one or more offset calculations can be discarded rather than averaged to reduce motion blur. Offsets acquired a priori during a TOF system calibration procedure may be used. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292371 | Method and Apparatus for a Pulsed Coherent Laser Range Finder - Systems and methods are disclosed for measuring a distance, a velocity, etc., of a target using coherent laser radiation. In one example, a method is provided comprising measuring a time required for a light pulse to travel to and from a target, the light pulse reflecting from the target, and determining the distance to the target based on the measuring. The method also comprises measuring a Doppler shift of the reflected light pulse using an optical detection technique and determining the velocity of the target from the Doppler shift. In a further example, a system is disclosed comprising a transceiver, a coherent source, an optical system and a detector configured to measure the distance to the target based on a measured time for a light pulse to travel to and from the target. The system is also configured to determine the velocity of the target from a measured Doppler shift. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292372 | WIND TURBINE BLADES STRAIN MEASURING SYSTEM DURING STATIC TESTS - A current transformer ( | 2011-12-01 |
20110292373 | THIN FILM MONITORING DEVICE AND METHOD - A method for determining a quality of an etched thin film deposited onto a transparent substrate is provided. The method includes depositing the thin film onto the transparent substrate. Then, the thin film is etched at least at portions of the transparent substrate. At least one transparency level of the transparent substrate having deposited thereon the at least partially etched thin film is measured at least at one wavelength in a wavelength range from 280 nm to 340 nm. Then the quality of the etch process is evaluated on the basis of the at least one measured transparency level. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292374 | Nadir Emissive Hyperspectral Measurement Operation (NEHMO) - A method for measuring spectral characteristics includes capturing spectral-spatial data that includes radiance measurements over spectrally flat, highly emissive surface portions of a sample material and heater at least two different heater temperatures for transmissive and/or emissive configurations. Temperatures of the sample material and heater are determined at the different heater temperatures for each configuration using, in each instance, radiance measurements taken after the temperatures of the heater and sample material have both stabilized. The transmissivity of the sample material is determined using the temperatures determined in the transmissive configuration and spectral-spatial data collected at selected points of interest over the sample material. The emissivity of the sample material is determined using the temperatures determined in the emissive configuration, the spectral-spatial data collected at selected points of interest over the sample material, and the transmissivity. The reflectivity of the sample material is determined using the emissivity and transmissivity. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292375 | System for directly measuring the depth of a high aspect ratio etched feature on a wafer | 2011-12-01 |
20110292376 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING RAMAN AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA OF A SUBSTANCE - An apparatus and method for detecting Raman and photoluminescence spectra of a substance and identifying said substance by Raman and/or photoluminescence spectral characteristics of said substance are disclosed. An apparatus comprises a replaceable laser source aggregate with a laser source, a collimating system, a socket for receiving said replaceable laser source aggregate, while ensuring the operation of said apparatus with no further adjustment of a positioning of said collimating system or said laser source, a filtering system, a light dispersing system optimized for a spectral resolution and a spectral range sufficient to simultaneously obtain Raman and photoluminescence spectra of said substance, a detector, and at least one controller for processing electrical signals. The disclosed and claimed method provides for obtaining Raman and photoluminescence spectra of a substance simultaneously, for separating said spectra into components based on Raman and photoluminescence contents, for analyzing said Raman and photoluminescence contents, and for identifying said substance by utilizing a set of spectral processing methods. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292377 | FIBER OPTIC MEASURING APPARATUS - The invention relates to a fibre-optic measuring apparatus ( | 2011-12-01 |
20110292378 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING OPTICAL FEEDBACK TO DETECT FIBER BREAKDOWN DURING SURGICAL LASER PROCEDURES - Failure events detected by a laser surgery monitoring feedback circuit are analyzed in order to distinguish between events that result from fiber breakdown and those arising from other sources, such as burning of tissues. If the number of failure events within a predetermined time exceeds a predetermined count, then it is determined that the radiation is the result of fiber breakdown. If the number of failure events within the predetermined time is less than the predetermined count, then it is determined that the failure events result from other causes, such as heating of tissues by the laser. Based on the analysis, an override switch or alarm may be initiated. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292379 | REFRACTIVE INDEX DISTRIBUTION MEASURING METHOD AND REFRACTIVE INDEX DISTRIBUTION MEASURING APPARATUS - A method includes the steps of measuring a first transmitted wavefront in a first medium having a first refractive index and a second transmitted wavefront in a second medium having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index, and obtaining a refractive index distribution projected value of the object in each orientation by removing a shape component of the object utilizing measurement results of the first transmitted wavefront and the second transmitted wavefront and each transmitted wavefront of a reference object that has the same shape as that of the object and a specific refractive index distribution and is located in one of the first medium and the second medium with the same orientation as that of the object, and calculating a three-dimensional refractive index distribution of the object based on a plurality of refractive index distribution projected values corresponding to the plurality of orientations. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292380 | CMOS three-dimensional image sensor detectors having reduced inter-gate capacitance, and enhanced modulation contrast - A CMOS detector with pairs of interdigitated elongated finger-like collection gates includes p+ implanted regions that create charge barrier regions that can intentionally be overcome. These regions steer charge to a desired collection gate pair for collection. The p+ implanted regions may be formed before and/or after formation of the collection gates. These regions form charge barrier regions when an associated collection gate is biased low. The barriers are overcome when an associated collection gate is high. These barrier regions steer substantially all charge to collection gates that are biased high, enhancing modulation contrast. Advantageously, the resultant structure has reduced power requirements in that inter-gate capacitance is reduced in that inter-gate spacing can be increased over prior art gate spacing and lower swing voltages may be used. Also higher modulation contrast is achieved in that the charge collection area of the low gate(s) is significantly reduced. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292381 | METHOD FOR MEASURING OPTICAL INPUT POWER BY AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE - A method to monitor an output of an APD is disclosed. The method includes steps of, (a) measuring dark currents of the APD at several temperatures in advance to a practical operation of the APD, (b) measuring an output current of the APD by illuminating the APD practically at a measured temperature, (c) estimating a dark current at the measured temperature from measured dark currents, and (d) subtracting the estimated dark current from the output current. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292382 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ASPHALTENE CONTENT OF CRUDE OIL - A system for determining the asphaltene content of crude oil includes a first optical flow cell, a first spectrometer operably associated with the first optical flow cell, and a mixer in fluid communication with the first optical flow cell. The system further includes a crude oil injection/metering device configured to receive the crude oil, the crude oil injection/metering device being in fluid communication with the first optical flow cell; a titrant injection/metering device in fluid communication with the mixer, the titrant injection/metering device configured to receive a titrant; and a filtration unit in fluid communication with the mixer. The system further includes a second optical flow cell in fluid communication with the filtration unit, and a second spectrometer operably associated with the second optical flow cell. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292383 | MICRO CUVETTE ASSEMBLY AND USE THEREOF - Micro cuvette assembly for examining biological samples has a first partial plate with one or more first cuvette surfaces and a second partial plate opposite the first and which also has one or more second cuvette surfaces. In an active position of the assembly, the second cuvette surfaces are arranged parallel and in register with the first cuvette surfaces and are spaced apart from the first cuvette surfaces whereby one or more micro cuvettes are formed. The first and second partial plates also have openings arranged in register with the cuvette surfaces and transparent bodies are provided as the cuvette surfaces. The first and second plates are completely penetrated by these openings and the transparent bodies are manufactured from a different material than the partial plates and span the openings close to a first surface of the partial plates. The first and second cuvette surfaces of a micro cuvette in the active position are wetted by a liquid volume which has previously been applied to one of the cuvette surfaces so that the liquid volume is held between these two cuvette surfaces. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF FLEXIBLE PIPE ARMOR WIRE RUPTURES - A system and method for detecting breakage, rupture or malfunctioning of a pipe or cable structure, including sensing elements for monitoring the structure and placed in, on or around the structure for monitoring the breakage, rupture or malfunctioning of the structure. The sensing elements provide sensing data regarding events related to breakage, rupture or malfunctioning and are placed near the structure so as to perform a breakage, rupture or malfunction detection function, and within a distance sufficient to obtain a measureable strain, tension, torsion, vibration, acceleration, and/or temperature response signal based on the breakage, rupture or malfunctioning of the structure. One of the sensing elements is based on Coherent Rayleigh Noise (CRN) sensing techniques, and the system is configured to interpret the sensed data for determining the breakage, rupture or malfunctioning of the structure. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292385 | Producing images of a specimen - Producing images of a specimen includes introducing a specimen into a specimen chamber of a particle-beam device, selecting a specific position on the surface of the specimen, supplying a contrast-agent precursor on the specific position, providing a particle beam and/or a light beam, guiding the particle beam and/or the light beam onto the specific position, applying a contrast-agent layer to the specific position as a result of the interaction of the particle beam and/or the light beam with the contrast-agent precursor, leaving the contrast-agent layer on the surface of the specimen for a predetermined amount of time. During the predetermined amount of time, a first part of the contrast-agent layer diffuses into the specimen and a second part of the contrast-agent layer remains on the surface of the specimen. The specimen is imaged using an optical device and/or a particle-optical device and/or using the particle beam. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292386 | SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE - A spectral measurement device includes an optical band-pass filter section having a spectral band of first to n-th wavelengths (n is an integer of 2 or more), a light receiving section, a correction operation section, and a signal processing section. When an m-th wavelength band (1≦m≦n) is an interest wavelength band, and a k-th wavelength band (k≠m and 1≦k≦n) other than the m-th wavelength band is a non-interest wavelength band, the optical band-pass filter section functions as a m-th band-pass filter corresponding to the m-th wavelength band and a k-th band-pass filter corresponding to the k-th wavelength band. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292387 | Circular Dichroism Spectrophotometric Method And Circular Dichroism Spectrophotometry Apparatus Using ATR Method - A simple method and apparatus for circular dichroism spectrophotometry are provided that allow a liquid, cream-type, and gel-type specimens having a low degree of transparency to be measured directly and nondestructively without passing light through the specimens. Right-handed or left-handed circularly polarized light enters a prism from an entrance face and hits a specimen mounting face of the prism, on which a specimen is placed, at an angle of 80°. Then, after being totally reflected by the specimen mounting face and going out from an exit face, the light is detected, and the absorbance is determined. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292388 | Optically Active Functional Fluid Markers - The present invention relates to a method of identifying in a fluid by measuring the amount of optical rotation the fluid causes in a beam of polarized light. The invention further provides for the use of an optional optically active marker in the fluids in order the impact the amount of rotation the fluid will cause. The invention provides a convenient and reliable means for identifying the fluid before, during and/or after the fluid's use. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292389 | Device and Method for Determining a Piece of Polarisation Information and Polarimetric Imaging Device - The invention relates to a method and to a device for determining at least one piece of polarisation information on a measurement point of a target sample, the device comprising: —a light source capable of emitting a rectilinearly polarised light beam, the light beam being intended to be reflected by the measurement point; —a means for computing polarisation information on the measurement point using the beam reflected by the target sample; —at least one waveguide for guiding the incident beam towards the target sample and the reflected beam towards the computing means; and—a means for rotating the polarisation, capable of rotating two orthogonal polarimetric components of the incident beam after passing through the waveguide and two orthogonal polarimetric components of the reflected beam before passing through the waveguide. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292390 | Apparatus For Inspecting Defects - A defect inspection apparatus includes an illumination optical system, a detection optical system which includes a reflecting objective lens, and wavelength separation optics for conducting wavelength separation, and after the wavelength separation, branching the scattered light into at least a first detection optical path and a second detection optical path. The detection optical system further includes, on the first detection optical path, a first sensor, and on the second detection optical path, a second sensor. A signal processor is provided which, in accordance with at least one of a first signal obtained from the first sensor and a second signal obtained from the second sensor, discriminates defects or defect candidates present on a surface of a sample. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292391 | COMBINATION OF READER AND INCUBATOR - A detection arrangement for detecting presence of an analyte in a sample includes a processor, a memory, a display, a color measuring device, and a temperature controller for maintaining a constant temperature or a temperature profile of the sample. A method is also provided for determining the presence or absence of an analyte in a fluid by analysis of image data from an assay that generates an image result on an assay medium | 2011-12-01 |
20110292392 | ABSORPTION OPTICAL PROBE PROVIDED WITH MONITORING OF THE EMISSION SOURCE - The invention relates to an optical probe for measuring absorption in order to produce an absorption value Am, which probe comprises an analysis cell CA, said analysis cell including an emission module LED, F | 2011-12-01 |
20110292394 | OPTICAL SENSING DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING SAMPLES USING THE SAME - Disclosed are optical sensing devices and methods for detecting samples using the same. The optical sensing device comprises a source unit configured to generate a polychromatic light beam containing p-polarized and s-polarized components; an interferometric unit configured to split the light beam into a probe beam passing a first path and a reference beam passing a second path and to recombine the probe beam output from the first path and the reference beam output from the second path; a sensing unit disposed in the first path to introduce a first SPR effect associated with a target sample to the probe beam; and a detection unit configured to detect target sample characteristics by obtaining an intensity spectrum of the recombined light beam. The introduction of a polychromatic light source in the optical sensing device increases the detection dynamic range and the detection sensitivity. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292395 | INTERFEROMETRIC SAMPLE MEASUREMENT - A device for the interferometric measurement of a sample, in particular the eye, including an interferometer arrangement with a first measurement beam path, through which a measurement beam falls onto the sample, and a first reference beam path, through which a reference beam runs, which is applied to the measuring beam for interference. The interferometer arrangement includes a second measuring beam path and/or second reference beam path. The optical path lengths of the second measuring beam path and/or second reference beam path are different from one of the first beam paths. The wave length difference is selected according to a distance of two measuring areas which are arranged at a distance in the depth direction of the sample. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO OF A RESONATOR FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPE - A resonator fiber optic gyroscope includes a sensing resonator having a first resonance frequency for a first laser beam propagation direction and a second resonance frequency for a second laser beam propagation direction; an intensity modulator coupled to an output of the sensing resonator and configured to modulate the intensity of a signal output from the sensing resonator, wherein the intensity modulator modulates the output signal at an intensity modulation frequency; and resonance tracking electronics coupled to an output of the intensity modulator and configured to demodulate the intensity modulated signal output from the intensity modulator at a resonance tracking modulation frequency to produce a first demodulated signal; the resonance tracking electronics further configured to demodulate the first demodulated signal at the intensity modulation frequency, wherein the intensity modulation frequency is different from the resonance tracking modulation frequency. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292397 | BEAM SCANNING SYSTEM FOR SENSING BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES - Embodiments of adaptively performing clutter filtering are disclosed. In one embodiment, a beam scanning system includes a light source configured to generate a supercontinuum light beam; an optical device configured to receive the supercontinuum light beam for guidance thereof to at least two output ports; and a power supply unit configured to supply voltage to one output port of the at least two output ports to change a phase of the light beam from said one output port. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292398 | Integrated Optical Waveguide Interferometric Sensor - Integrated optical waveguide interferometer for evanescent sensing of chemical and/or physical quantities, comprising a substrate carrying a waveguide layer structure provided with: a first waveguide core layer sandwiched between two first cladding layers formed by a first lower and a first upper ( | 2011-12-01 |
20110292399 | Discrete Spectrum Broadband Optical Source - A new broadband source having a discrete set of spectral emission lines having high peak power in each line is provided by placing a gain medium in a reflective cavity comprising reflective front and back surfaces. A cavity feedback factor less than unity is achieved by providing reflectivity of one surface substantially lower than the reflectivity of the other surface such that spontaneous emission in the gain medium is linearly amplified just below the lasing threshold. In an alternative arrangement, a movable external back surface placed at a prescribed distance from the gain medium provides a means to achieve a free spectral range and finesse of the emission lines to match a pitch of a detector array in a SD-OCT system. By simultaneously providing high power to each detector element of the array, sensitivity and imaging speed of SD-OCT system are significantly improved. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292400 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES - According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, apparatus and method can be provided for generating information for at least one structure. For example, using at least one first arrangement, it is possible to receive at least one first radiation from the at least one structure and at least one second radiation from a reference, and interfere the first and second radiations to generate at least one third radiation. Further, with at least one second arrangement, it is possible to generate spectroscopic data as a function of the at least one third radiation, and reduce at least one scattering effect in the spectroscopic data to generate the information. In addition or as an alternative, according to a further exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, it is possible to classify a type of the structure based on the spectroscopic data to generate the information. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292401 | Apparatus and method for optical interrogation - An interrogation apparatus and method use a partial shear optical interference apparatus to interrogate the optical properties of an array of target specimen probe volumes as compared to an array of reference sample probe volumes. The apparatus produces a formatted probe beam that contains a partially sheared probe beam pair that is formatted into an array of completely sheared probe beam pairs. Target specimen probe volumes and reference sample probe volumes are suitably organized and exposed to the array of completely sheared probe beam pairs. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292402 | INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING INTERFERENCE - An embodiment of the present invention realizes an interference measurement apparatus which can obtain an interference image to be used for obtaining three-dimensional information of a subject which dynamically changes. An interference measurement apparatus of the present invention, which captures an interference image formed by the reference light beam and the object light beam which has reached the image-capturing element via a subject, the interference measurement apparatus includes: a laser light source; a beam splitter which splits a laser beam into a reference light beam and an object light beam; and an image-capturing element; a polarization splitting section which splits the object light beam into two types of object light beams which are different in polarization direction so that an angular difference is caused between respective propagation directions of the two types of object light beams; and a polarizer array device which allows (i) the reference light beam and (ii) the two types of object light beams which have reached the polarizer array device via the subject to pass through the polarizer array device ( | 2011-12-01 |
20110292403 | INTERFEROMETRIC DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD WITH SPECTRALLY SEPARABLE DOUBLE CHIRP AND DEVICE - In a distance-measuring method, chirped laser radiation with two separable radiation components is emitted to at least one target to be surveyed and via a local oscillator path, the radiation components having an opposite chirp as a time dependency of the modulated wavelengths (λ | 2011-12-01 |
20110292404 | METHOD FOR MACHINE MEASUREMENT - A method for machine measurement for an NC processing machine is provided. The processing machine has a machine head, for example, a fork head and an associated mechanical and electrical spindle changing interface for holding a motor spindle. A laser interferometer with a beam generator and a beam detector is also provided and at least one measurement optic which interacts with the laser interferometer, for example, in the form of a reflector, and laser interference measurements, which are directed at a measurement optic, in particular distance measurements, carried out for machine measurement. The laser interferometer has an interface which corresponds to the spindle changing interface, and the laser interferometer is substituted for the motor spindle via the spindle changing interface for machine measurement, and is aligned by means of the machine axes for the laser interference measurements. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292405 | FREQUENCY-SHIFTING INTERFEROMETER WITH SELECTIVE DATA PROCESSING - A frequency-shifting interferometer is arranged for measuring an optical profile of a test object with a continuously tunable light source. A succession of the interference images of the test object are captured together with a measure of the beam frequencies at which interference images are formed. A limited number of the captured interference images of the test object are selected so that the monitored beam frequencies approximately match a predetermined beam frequency spacing pattern. Further processing proceeds based on the selected interference images. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292406 | SCANNER WITH FEEDBACK CONTROL - The present invention relates to non-contact optical scanning of an object for generation of a three-dimensional surface model of the scanned object. In particular the invention relates to a scanner for obtaining the three-dimensional geometry of at least a part of the surface of an object, said scanner comprising: —at least one light source, preferably a laser light source with adjustable power, —projection means for directing light from the at least one light source to a moving spot on the surface of the object, —at least one image sensor adapted to record at least one image of at least a part of the surface, —detection means, other than the at least one image sensor, for monitoring at least a part of the light reflected from the surface, —regulation means for adjusting the intensity of the at least one light source based on the amount of light reflected from the surface, and—means for transforming the at least one image to a three-dimensional model of the surface. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292407 | OPTICAL PARALLELISM MEASUREMENT DEVICE - A high precision, rapidly operable optical parallelism measurement device includes a light source module, a light beam splitting module and at least two photoelectric detectors. The light source module has a light source and a light beam splitting element such that the light source module is able to produce two light beams perpendicular to each other. One of them is parallel to the moving direction, and is received by one of the detectors, while the other beam is split into two beams perpendicular to each other by the light beam splitting module. One beam is parallel to the former parallel by moving beam and is received by the other detector. With this scheme, the measurement can be performed by means of those perpendicular and parallel light beams without being affected by the structure of the machine platen to cause errors. The device can be manufactured with low cost and high precision. It is very compact in size and easy to carry and build up for rapid measurement. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292408 | PRINTER AND METHOD THEREOF - A standalone printer includes a configuration module, a screen, a process module, and a print module. The configuration module can arrange two digital images in a print layout. The screen is configured to display a preview of the print layout with the two digital images. The process module is configured to decode the print layout of the two digital images into a raster image along a decoding orientation. The print module is configured to print the raster image along the decoding orientation. The process module is configured to stream partial raster image to the print module when decoding the print layout. The printer module is configured to print received partial raster image. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292409 | REPROGRAPHIC SYSTEM - A probabilistic network, in particular a Bayesion network, is used for control of a printing system in order to realize an adaptable printing system. A reprographic system, includes at least one sensor, providing a sensor signal; at least one actuator, responsive to an actuator signal; and a control unit for generating the actuator signal for the at least one actuator in dependence on the sensor signal of the at least one sensor. The control unit includes a signal processing module configured to generate the actuator signal based on at least one sensor signal with involvement of a probabilistic network. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292410 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING A COLOR BAR AS A RENDERING JOB TICKET ATTRIBUTE - A system and method for automatically adding a color bar as a rendering job ticket attribute and dynamically generating the color bar based on the rendering job attribute. The color bar can be added in association with the rendering job ticket along with a set of sub-attributes that include parameters associated with the color bar. The dynamic color bar can be automatically configured to include spot colors associated with the rendering job and the parameters can be specified in a device-independent way. Upon receiving the rendering job with the dynamic color bar attribute, the rendering device can render each page of the job in association with the color bar. The dynamic color bar generation instructions can be detected in the job ticket generated by a print driver thereby enhancing the use of the color bar in a color rendering application. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292411 | MARGIN ADJUSTMENT - In one embodiment, a width of a print media is measured. A margin adjustment decision is made utilizing a margin instruction if the measured width is within an acceptable variance from a standard width of the media. The margin adjustment decision is applied to a plot of an image to be printed on the media. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292412 | PAGE PARALLEL RASTER IMAGE PROCESSING - According to an aspect of the disclosure, a printing system is provided comprising a plurality of resources including idle and non-idle resources having a at least one image marking engine. The plurality of resources includes a page parallel RIP system wherein the RIP system supports configurable sized print chunks. The RIP system adaptively adjusts the size of the chunks according to the busyness of receiving RIP nodes. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A BILLING STRUCTURE FOR DOCUMENTS BASED ON MARKING MEDIUM PREDICTIONS - Disclosed is a method for processing raster image data and determining via a reference device (e.g., LUT), an amount of marking medium (toner, ink) to be used for printing a document. Then billing costs based on the amount of medium is determined. In particular, a calibration method may be performed on an apparatus to determine the amounts of medium used for that particular apparatus. The calibration method includes printing pages with test patches for a plurality of colors at a particular dot value (or density), and weighing similar printed test pages so that the amount of medium used to print colors at particular dot values is determined by subtracting a weight of the pages before printing from the weight of the printed test pages. The change in weight (or mass) of the medium is used to populate the reference device for that apparatus. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292414 | TWO-SIDED DOCUMENT COPYING - Methods and apparatus pertaining to copying two-sided documents are provided. An all-in-one, multi-function device provides an identification card copy selection to a user by way of a user interface. The device prompts the user during scanning of the front and back sides of the ID card. The device prints images of both the front and back sides of the ID card on the same side of a sheet of media. Identification card scanning and printing are performed as a walk-up procedure without need for user computer or network entity intervention. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292415 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC PRINTER PERFORMANCE TUNING USING BAYESIAN ANALYSIS - A method and a printing implementing the method for dynamic printer performance tuning. The method includes the steps of processing a page to be printed by a printer description language interpreter to generate a Display List, selecting tuning parameters from the Display List data, analyzing the tuning parameters by a Bayesian analyzer to obtain a score for each tuning parameter, and based on the score of each tuning parameter, adjusting rendering settings of the tuning parameters for printing the page. The steps of training the Bayesian analyzer includes creating a set of training pages, rendering each page to determine best performance settings for each tuning parameter, grouping the pages based on tuning parameter settings, generating Display List data of each page, rendering the training pages in each group to compile training data that are saved for future printing jobs. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292416 | PRINTER AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL IMAGE THEREIN - A stand-alone printer includes a storage module, a user interface module, a touch screen, a processing module, and a printing module. The storage module stores a digital image. The user interface module creates an adjusting scroll. The touch screen detects a slide operation and displays the digital image and the adjusting scroll. The processing module adjusts the digital image in response to the slide operation on the touch screen. The processing module outputs an adjusted digital image to the touch screen. The printing module prints the adjusted digital image. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292417 | Imaging processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product - An image processing apparatus includes a patch forming unit that forms a plurality of mixed-color patches by superposing single color patches of a plurality of colors with different gradation ratios according to gradation values; a color measuring unit that performs color measurement of the mixed-color patches; an estimating unit that estimates color values of single colors present in the mixed-color patches based on color measurement values obtained by performing color measurement; and a correction table setting unit that sets a correction table in order to correct the estimated color values of the single colors to target color values. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292418 | COLOR PRINTER WITH POWER SAVING RECORDING HEAD - The present invention relates to a color printer and particularly to a color printer reducing power consumption and complying with international criteria ensuring sustained earth environment. In a color printer having multiple optical writing heads for individual recording colors, the activated periods of individual color recording heads are set to different periods and one writing period of individual recording heads is divided into multiple periods, video data for recording one dot line are divided into multiple blocks in the main scan direction, and the divided video data are used for emission at different times in the sub-scan direction, whereby a smaller number of optical writing elements are simultaneously driven for emission and the peak power consumption of the entire apparatus is reduced. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292419 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a printer section and a control section which controls the printer section. The control section controls a developing roller driving section to stop the rotation of a developing roller when an image on a recording medium is erased when the printer section operates in an image erasing mode, alternatively, the control section includes an image formation fee counter and an erasure fee counter provided separately from the image formation fee counter. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING ART PIECE - A multi-step, computer-based process for creating a stylized art piece using collage and layering techniques. The process comprises acquiring and arranging high resolution digital images or photographs to form a gestalt or single cohesive piece using a computer. These images or photographs may involve sporting events, players, participants, areas of play, and related subjects. When arranged, the images or photographs may be overlapped, blended or merged in whole or in part. Digital processing techniques are used to make some or all of the images and photographs look older or aged. Several layers of diagrams or text are added. The piece is then printed on canvas, paper or other suitable material using the Giclee' printing process. The print is mounted on a frame, and then covered with one or more layers of a clear or translucent coating or over-laminate. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292421 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS RECORDED - The embodiment described herein can prompt setting of processing conditions to be set by using a display of a weight value used in a quota function. There is provided an image forming apparatus, including: a residual amount detection unit that detects a residual amount of each disposable product; a residual amount information acquisition unit that acquires residual amount information; a determination unit that determines whether there are the disposable products in which a residual amount is disproportionately small; a weight value setting unit that sets the weight value used for weighting so that the weighting for calculating the processing amount of the image forming processing corresponding to setting conditions not using the disposable products having a disproportionately small residual amount is relatively smaller than the weighting corresponding to other setting conditions; and a display control unit that displays the set weight value on a screen. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292422 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA - A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units each performing a respective one of process parts into which a predetermined process to be performed on data is divided, and a changing unit that changes a connection between the plurality of processing units on the basis of setting parameters that are set to enable a plurality of types of processing procedures. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292423 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD AND PRINTER - A print control apparatus comprising: a first receiving unit that receives, from a printer, support language information indicating whether a particular kind of language is supported by the printer; a judging unit that judges, by referring to the support language information received by the first receiving unit, whether the particular kind of language which is supported by the print control apparatus is supported by the printer; a transmitting unit that transmits, to the printer, a specification information acquisition command for acquiring specification information relating to a specification supported by the printer if the judging unit judges that the particular kind of language is supported by the printer; a second receiving unit that receives the specification information which is transmitted from the printer in response to the specification information acquisition command; and a controller that performs processing according to the specification information received by the second receiving unit. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292424 | Computer Readable Medium Having Common Printer Driver, and Print Port Managing Method - A non-transitory computer readable medium having a common printer driver to be executed by a print control device communicatively connected to one or more printers and mounting an operating system is provided. The common printer driver, when executed by the print control device, causing the print control device to perform the steps of: selecting any printer from one or more of the printers; generation requesting the operating system to generate a logical print port for communication with a printer selected in the selecting step, recording usage history of the print port generated in the generation requesting step, and deletion requesting for determining whether the print port is necessary or not based on the usage history and requesting the operating system to delete the print port determined to be unnecessary. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292425 | Method and apparatus for forming an image - A method and an apparatus for forming an image by rendering content according to a digital living network alliance (DLNA) standard. According to the method and the apparatus, content that may be processed by the apparatus is acquired from the host by using at least one of services defined in the DLNA standard, and an image corresponding to the acquired content is formed and output. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292426 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus that stores at least one address of transmission destination, at least one file to be transmitted, and messages registered for each file that are received from an external device via an interface, and transmits the files and the messages registered for each file to a transmission destination terminal when receiving a transmission instruction of the files via the interface. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292427 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an output image on a medium based on image information, and a control unit configured to calculate a merit value that benefits a user according to a maintenance work of the apparatus carried out by the user. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292428 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, SCREEN CONTROL SYSTEM, AND SCREEN CONTROL METHOD - An image processing device in which a plurality of applications each having multiple functions can be installed includes a display device and an application control unit. When screen definition information acquired from a first application includes definition information of a second application corresponding to a screen change destination, the application control unit displays an application screen in which a display component for selecting a function of the second application is arranged, on the display device. When an input manipulation on the application screen by a user is received, the application control unit specifies a function of the second application based on a result of determination of an event type of the received input manipulation and displays a functional screen of the specified function of the second application on the display device as a result of the operation of the screen change. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292429 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENTS ON AN IMAGE-PROCESSING APPARATUS - The invention relates to a method for processing documents on an image-forming apparatus, which is able to handle a plurality of settings, each setting settable to any of a number of setting values, the method comprising the steps of defining a first subset of the settings, defining a second subset of the settings, disjunctive from the first subset, for each setting of the first subset setting any of a number of setting values, which are selectable for the setting, for each setting of the second subset leaving the corresponding setting values unset, and for each document to be processed, creating a job for processing the digital document, associating the first and second subset and the setting values of the first subset with the job, interactively setting a setting value for each setting of the second subset, submitting the job with the setting values of the first and second subset to the image-forming apparatus, and processing the document by means of the image-forming apparatus according to the setting values of the first and second subset. The invention also relates to an image-forming apparatus and a computer program product for performing the steps of the claimed method. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292430 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SCANNING AND/OR PRINTING AN IMAGE - A scanning apparatus and a method thereof include a scanning unit scanning a document and outputting a scanned result, at least one external storage unit detachably attached to the apparatus, at least one internal storage unit, and a controller detecting an attachment state of the external storage unit and storing the scanned result in one of the external storage unit and the internal storage unit according to the attachment state of the external storage unit. The scanning unit of the scanning apparatus is combined with a user scanning unit and a user printing unit into a combination apparatus, and the scanned result is printed in a printing apparatus spaced-apart from the scanning apparatus by a distance, thereby removing cables between the scanning or printing apparatus and a personal computer. Regardless of an attachment state of the external storage unit, the document is scanned in the real time, and the scanning apparatus is commonly used with a plurality of personal computers which are not connected to the scanning apparatus. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292431 | PRINTER WITH IN-LINE SCANNER - A printing apparatus for variable pre-printed stock stores customer data and two or more different pre-printed stocks. A scanner scans the printed area of the pre-printed stocks and produces tray stock information identifying the stocks. Received electronic customer orders include the customer data and selection data for one or more of the pre-printed stocks. A controller receives the tray stock information and the electronic customer orders for matching the tray stock information to the electronic orders to produce print instructions. A printer receives the print instructions and prints the customer data corresponding to the match onto pre-printed stocks identified by the match. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292432 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR A DISPLAY PORTION OF AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a connection portion for performing communication with a keyboard; and a display portion for performing displaying of disabled keys when the keyboard is connected to the connection portion, the disabled keys being unusable keys among keys provided to the keyboard. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292433 | PRINT WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT - A method for managing print workflow performed by a physical computing system includes, with an add-on application executed by the physical computing system, interfacing with a printing-capable application executed by the physical computing system; with the add-on application, interfacing with hardware components of a printing device; and with the add-on application, providing additional printing related functionality to the printing-capable application. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292434 | MULTIPLE SHEET MEDIA PICK DETECTION - Methods and apparatus pertaining to scanning or copying documents are provided. Sheet media are individually transported away from an input location. Optical scanning of the sheet media is initiated in accordance with detecting the passage of leading edges of the sheet media. Electronic signals resulting from the scanning are automatically analyzed to detect trailing edges of overlapping sheet media. A user notification is issued if a multiple sheet pick event is detected. A user can resume scanning or copying of a multiple sheet document at the location where the multiple sheet pick occurred. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292435 | PRINTER WITH IN-LINE SCANNER - A printing apparatus for variable pre-printed stock comprises storage for customer data, a variety of different pre-printed stocks, printer trays for holding the pre-printed stocks, a scanner for scanning the printed area of each of the pre-printed stocks and for producing tray stock information identifying each of the pre-printed stocks, storage for electronic customer orders, each electronic customer order including one or more of the customer data and selection data for one or more of the pre-printed stocks, a controller for receiving the tray stock information and the electronic customer orders, for matching the tray stock information to the electronic customer orders to produce a match between each pre-printed stock and corresponding tray stock information and for producing print instructions for the match, and a printer for receiving the print instructions and for printing the customer data corresponding to the match onto the matched pre-printed stock. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292436 | METHOD FOR SELECTING ONE OF A PLURALITY OF PRINT MODES FOR PRINTING A DOCUMENT AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A method and a print apparatus are described. The method and the print apparatus allow for selecting from a plurality of print modes a print mode for a whole page of a document to be printed dependent on a print material coverage of the whole page of the document to be printed. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292437 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A SET OF IMAGES - Methods for operating a printer are provided. In one aspect, a method has the steps of receiving image data and production data for printing a set of images with each image having a defined size and shape, determining a finishing configuration of a finishing system; and determining a priority setting between an output rate priority and an efficiency priority. The images are organized for printing on the receiver in the defined sizes and shapes based upon the determined priority and the finishing configuration and the images are printed on the receiver as organized. The receiver is finished to provide prints of the images each having the defined size and shape for that image. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292438 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit, a touch panel, a storage unit, and a control unit, wherein the storage unit includes a storage-location-information storage unit that stores storage location information related to a storage location of an image file of a document read by the image reading unit, and the control unit includes an image displaying unit that displays a storage location icon representing the storage location and an image display area showing the image file, a display mode changing unit that changes, when an image selection instruction to select the image file is input, a display mode of the image display area so that the storage location icon can be viewed, and a storing unit that stores, when an icon selection instruction to select the storage location icon is input, the image file in the storage location corresponding to the storage location icon. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292439 | Image processing apparatus and Image Processing method - An image processing apparatus includes a first determination part that determines whether an image in which a feature image is embedded is to be modified when the image is printed, based on the image and a state of the image processing apparatus; and a second determination part that determines a condition for avoiding the modification determined by the first determination part. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292440 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A printing control device includes a web page data acquiring portion configured to acquire web page data of a prescribed web page from the web server and a display configured to display the prescribed web page. The printing control device further includes an extraction portion configured to extract data for constituting a duplication object. The printing control device still further includes a print data creation portion configured to create print data for forming at least two duplicated images of the duplication object based on the extracted data. Moreover, the printing control device includes a printing instruction portion configured to instruct the printing unit to form an image on the recording medium based on the created print data. | 2011-12-01 |
20110292441 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND SETTING AUTOMATION METHOD - An image reading apparatus includes a paper type sensor that detects a paper type of paper, a control unit, and a reading unit that performs an image reading. The control unit includes a mode setting unit that sets a mode of the image reading performed by the reading unit based on the paper type detected by the paper type sensor. | 2011-12-01 |