| 49th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 27 |
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| 20080297810 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus comprises a scaling correction circuit that corrects scaling in a sub-scanning direction of image data according to scaling data, a screen processing circuit that, of image data whose scaling in the sub-scanning direction has been corrected by the scaling correction circuit, performs screen processing on image data included in a screen area; and an image forming unit that forms an image based on the image data that has been processed by the screen processing circuit. The scaling correction circuit changes the scaling in the sub-scanning direction such that a pixel arrangement of the screen area after the scaling is changed becomes a pixel arrangement of image data before the scaling was changed. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297811 | User interface presentation of page layout output mimics for multiple-image up jobs - An image forming device capable of copying and/or scanning a physical original document is provided. The image forming device includes a User Interface providing an accurate output mimic illustrating a representation of the output sheet having a long edge and a short edge with representations of the one or more original documents arranged in rows and columns thereon each including a long edge, a short edge and an image top for indicating the orientation of the output. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297812 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - To provide a technique capable of making a contribution to control of execution of processing according to an erroneous setting content in an image processing apparatus that applies processing according to the setting content to image data. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297813 | ASYMMETRICAL DIGITAL FILTERS FOR DOT GAIN ADJUSTMENTS - A method for adjusting dot-gain for a halftone binary bitmap file comprises inputting a halftone binary bitmap file consisting of binary pixels ( | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297814 | Softproofing Via Modeling Print Engine Rendering Characteristics - A softproofing system and method render an input document for display on a monitor to faithfully represent projected output from a target print engine, where the displayed document representation rendering is modeled to include internal print engine specific enhancements or characteristics of the target print engine. The system and method identify the target print engine and print engine specific rendering characteristics from the specified content, such as an input file, which may be a raster image or an electronic file in a PDL format. Specific print engine characteristics may include halftone screen identification, error diffusion identification, halftone dot shape, write white, write black, anti-aliasing, line width compensation and specific tone reproduction curves. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297815 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTENUATION OF NEAR-NEUTRAL IMAGE COLORS - A method for attenuation of near-neutral image colors is described. The pixel chroma is determined. A chroma control point is determined. A pixel color is shifted toward neutral. An imaging device that is configured for attenuation of near-neutral image colors is described. The imaging device includes a processor. The imaging processing device includes memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions are stored in the memory. The instructions are executable to determine pixel chroma. The instructions are also executable to determine a chroma control point. The instructions are further executable to shift a pixel color toward neutral. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297816 | Method and system for black-level correction on digital image data - The black level in raw image data captured from an image sensor does not always stay fixed at a constant level, but may change as a function of the analog gain and exposure time and may vary from one spatial location of the pixels to another. To carry out black-level correction on the raw image data, the black level of each of the color components is measured at one or more sampling locations. A look-up table is generated based on the measured black levels and a computation module is used to carry out black-level correction based on the information stored in the look-up table. The look up table may have information indicative of the analog gain level and the exposure time and the variations of black-levels in different spatial locations. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297817 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COLOR CONVERTING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus including a scanning unit to scan an image and to output corresponding digital color coordinates; a determining unit to determine a local color gamut including the digital color coordinates, based on a reference matrix computed from a standard color gamut, which includes the local color gamut, and the plurality of digital color coordinates; a matrix selecting unit to select a color conversion matrix that corresponds to the determined local color gamut; and a computing unit to compute LAB color coordinates based on the selected color conversion matrix and the digital color coordinates. A method of color conversion using the image forming apparatus is also provided. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297818 | COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COLOR PROCESSING METHOD - A color processing apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction value from reference color information in an input color gamut and reference color information in a reference color gamut, a correction unit configured to correct reference target color information in the reference color gamut based on the correction value to calculate target color information, and a color conversion unit configured to convert an input color in the input color gamut into an output color within an output color gamut by using the target color information. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297819 | SERVO CONTROL APPARATUS IN OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SERVO - A servo control apparatus in an optical disc device and a method of controlling a servo are provided. When an image is printed on a surface of an optical disc, an irregular reflective surface results. A servo control apparatus that is adapted for such irregular surfaces includes: an optical pick-up unit configured to output an error detection signal, the error detection signal associated with a positional error of an objective lens, the positional error associated with light that is reflected from an optical disc; a signal compensation unit coupled to the optical pick-up unit, the signal compensation unit configured to amplify the error detection signal to produce an amplified error detection signal; a filter coupled to the signal compensation signal, the filter configured to remove a noise component from the amplified error detection signal to produce a filtered error detection signal; and a control unit coupled to the filter, the control unit configured to output a control signal to a positional actuator associated with the objective lens based on the filtered error detection signal. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297820 | Image Forming Apparatus, Communication Device, and Cartridge - This invention provides an image forming apparatus which communicates with a plurality of cartridges without increasing its circuit dimension. To accomplish this, the apparatus includes a control circuit having an output terminal for outputting a clock signal and data signal used to generate a transmission signal to the cartridge, and an input terminal for receiving a transmission signal from the cartridge. The apparatus includes N connectors each having the first electrode which is connected to the first electrode surface of each cartridge, and the second electrode which is connected to the second electrode surface. The apparatus includes a 1-to-N first signal line for connecting the input terminal to the N first electrodes, and a 1-to-N second signal line for connecting the output terminal to the N second electrodes. The apparatus includes N switching units which are interposed between 1-to-N branch points and the second electrodes on the second signal line. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297821 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, SYSTEM, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To enable for a user to easy recognize plural counter information notifications even when plural image input and output processes performed by using plural input and output paths are administrated by plural kinds of counter information, any of counters that a remaining number is necessary for a setting mode is selected by an administration apparatus from among plural counters (independently administrating plural kinds of number-of-image information representing the number of scanner-read images, the number of own-apparatus-output images, the number of externally received output images, and the like) administrated in regard to each ID, the selected counter is displayed on an operation unit, and it is controlled by a CPU to notify the user of impossibility of process continuation with alert when the counter reaches an upper limit value. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297822 | IMAGE-PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing system includes a printing unit configured to print an image, a managing unit configured to manage charging information that can be reduced according to print processing performed by the printing unit, and a control unit configured to slow down the print processing performed by the printing unit if an available printing remaining amount indicated by the charging information is less than a predetermined value. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297823 | Print Control Device, Printing System and Computer-Readable Recording Medium Storing Printing Program - A print controlling device is provided with an image data processing module configured to apply an image processing operation to an image data, a transmitting module configured to transmit the processed image data which is processed by the image data processing module to a printing device, and a modifying module configured to modify the image processing operation in accordance with the printing device to which the modified image data is to be transmitted. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297824 | Data-processing device - A data-processing device is capable of connecting to a storing unit storing a plurality of image files, each of the plurality of image files including image data and additional information. The data-processing device includes a acquiring unit, a creating unit, a determining unit and a recording unit. The acquiring unit acquires the additional information from each of the plurality of image files. The creating unit that creates an annexed information set with respect to each of the plurality of image files. The annexed information set includes the additional information and identifying information corresponding to the additional information, the identifying information identifying the image file. The determining unit determines one of a plurality of pieces of the additional information included in the annexed information sets corresponding to the plurality of image files. The recording unit records, on a recording medium, the image data of the image file identified by the identifying information corresponding to the additional information determined by the determining unit. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297825 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT RESTRICTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system which is capable of preventing print restriction information from affecting the embedding of copy restriction information, thereby being capable of positively performing copy restriction on printed documents. An information processing apparatus includes a print restriction information-receiving section that acquires print restriction information for restricting use of functions concerning printing processing, a copy restriction information-acquiring section that acquires copy restriction information for restricting copying of a document printed based on print data, and a copy restriction information and print restriction information-adding section that adds the copy restriction information and print restriction information to the print data. A management server includes a copy restriction information and print restriction information incompatibility-determining section that determines compatibility between the print restriction information and printing conditions of the copy restriction information, and changes the print restriction information based on a result of determination of the compatibility. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297826 | Printing apparatus - A printing apparatus is supplied, which receives print job; generates print data from the print job; prints the print data; and has an error eliminating method for easily eliminating error when error occurred. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297827 | Image Forming System and Print Job Renewal Management Method - The invention provides an image forming system in which an image forming apparatus (MFP) is connected to a host device through a network, wherein a command for a processing of print data of a user is accepted, a presence of a print job specifying a storage processing by the user is detected from the command, the print job thus detected is displayed on the host device, the user can select whether the detected print job can be renewed or not, and renewal information of the print job is added and data are transmitted from the host device to the MFP when the renewal of the print job is selected. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297828 | Image Processing System Including Image Processing Device and Information Processing Device Which Communicate With Each Other - Provided is an image processing system which reduces the load of destination registration on the user. To accomplish this, in an image processing system including a PC ( | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297829 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED SETTINGS ON A MULTI-FUNCTION PERIPHERAL (MFP) - A system and method for providing personalized settings on a multi-function peripheral (MFP) are described. The system comprises a MFP with a user interface such as a front panel. The system further comprises a preference unit configured to store a group of settings for each of a plurality of user accounts. The MFP is configured to a) log on a user to a user account, b) retrieve a group of settings associated with the user account from the preference unit, and c) customize the user interface of the MFP with the retrieved settings. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297830 | PRINTER WITH OUTSOURCING CAPABILITY FOR COLOR COPIES - A printing system includes first and second communicatively linked printers, each including a print engine and a processor which controls the operation of the respective print engine. A scanner, associated with the first printer, scans a hardcopy document and generates image data therefrom. The scanner is for communicating the image data to the first printer. A graphical user interface is provided through which user selections are communicated to at least one of the scanner and the first printer. The first processor has a first mode of operation in which a print job derived from the image data is printed on the first print engine and a second mode of operation in which a print job is exported to the second printer for printing. At least one of the first and second modes of operation is invoked at least in part by user interaction with the graphical user interface. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297831 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SIGNAL - An image forming apparatus and a method of transmitting a signal. The image forming apparatus includes a main controller to convert a plurality of image signals corresponding to printing data into differential signals, and to combine the converted differential signals into a plurality of transmission signals, a printing engine unit to restore the image signal after the plurality of transmission signals are transmitted from the main controller, and a plurality of transfer cables to transmit the plurality of transmission signals between the main controller and the printing engine unit. The number of cables to transmit an image signal is reduced, which is economically efficient, additionally, the size of the image forming apparatus is minimized. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297832 | Image-forming system and image-forming apparatus used in the image-forming system - An image-forming system includes an image-forming apparatus, and a terminal device capable of communicating with the image-forming apparatus. The terminal device comprises a signal-transmitting unit. The image-forming apparatus comprises an image-forming unit; a signal-receiving unit; a first storage unit for storing a starting condition of a preparing action for image formation in the image-forming unit; a first determining unit for determining whether the starting condition is satisfied at the time the signal-receiving unit receives the signal from the terminal device; and an instruction unit for providing an instruction to start the preparing action in the image-forming unit when the first determining unit determines that the starting condition is satisfied. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297833 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - This invention enables to change the settings of each hot folder when the configuration of a printer has changed. In order to achieve the object, this invention provides a client for transmitting electronic data to a printer via a hot folder which sets attribute information. The client includes an unit which detects a change in processing contents executable by the printer, an unit which holds information about an operation of the client upon detection in association with the hot folder, an unit which determines whether the printer can execute output processing complying with the attribute information by comparing the changed processing contents with the attribute information set in the hot folder, and an unit which controls the operation of the client based on the information about the operation held in association with the hot folder which sets the attribute information determined not to allow the execution. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297834 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND PRINT SYSTEM - In outputting printed products in a sorted state, an additional print job should also be output in a sorted state. For this purpose, when information representing the necessity of additional print of a printed product is input to a variable data printing application, a VD obtaining unit obtains a target record. A VDP generation unit generates a VDP job based on the record. Information for specifying the processing order of the additional print job is determined on the basis of the processing order of print jobs already sent to the print device and the information of the additional print job. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297835 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING IMAGE, AND EXTERNAL DEVICE - An image forming system includes an external device that stores therein image data, and an image forming device that is directly connected to the external device. The external device sets an output mode to either one of a one-sided output and a two-sided output. The external device transmits the image data and output-mode data indicative of the output mode to the image forming device. The image forming device receives the image data and the output-mode data from the external device and outputs the image data in the output mode specified in the output-mode data. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297836 | ADAPTER APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Media data, which includes an image file recorded on a disk recording medium of a connected image sensing apparatus, management information including the recording position of the image file on the disk recording medium, and backup information of the management information, is received from the image sensing apparatus. Finalize processing of the disk recording medium is virtually executed using the received media data, and a generated disk image is stored on a memory. In response to a request from a data receiving terminal, the media data of the virtual disk image on the memory is transmitted to the data receiving terminal via a communication unit. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297837 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which receives print data transmitted from an information processing device, includes: a storage for storing the received print data when the data is confidential print data, together with its ID information; an input control portion for allowing for input of ID information; and a controller having the function that, when detecting input of ID information, outputs the confidential print data corresponding to the input ID information and the function of switching the image forming portion from normal power status to power saving status when no print request has been made for a fixed period of time. When the confidential print data has been stored in the storage, the controller gives notice that the image forming portion will transition to the power saving status to the information processing device before the image forming portion transitions to the power saving status, and the controller delays the transition by a predetermined period of time when the controller receives an extension request from the information processing device to postpone the transition of the image forming portion to the power saving status. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297838 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a setting-information storage unit that stores plural pieces of print setting information each indicating a list of settings on printing, in association with logical printer names, a data receiving unit that receives PJL data, print drawing data, and a logical printer name from a client terminal, a parameter setting unit that compares settings included in the received PJL data and the settings in the print setting information that is stored in the setting-information storage unit and corresponds to the received logical printer name, to specify the settings included in the PJL data as print parameters, and a printing unit that prints the print drawing data using the specified print parameters | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297839 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus that improves operability, productivity and flexibility in print setting when collectively executing print jobs. If a print instruction is input, a job list display unit determines whether the instruction is directed to a plurality of job data items. If the instruction is directed to a plurality of job data items, it is determined whether or not to allow the user to confirm output settings for each individual print job. If the user confirms the output settings, a user interface for making a change to the output settings associated with each individual print job is displayed. The displayed output settings are the output settings saved together with the job data item. If the user does not confirm the output settings, the user interface is not displayed, and output settings and the corresponding job data item are associated with each other, and they are transferred to a printer. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297840 | Method and Computer Readable Medium for Printer Driver and Information Processing Device - There is provided a method for providing information from a printer driver. The method comprises the steps of: accepting a request for information concerning the printer driver; inquiring of at least one function filter about function information in accordance with configuration information containing a reference to the at least one function filter, in response to receipt of the request; obtaining, from the at least one function filter, the function information containing at least one current function of the at least one function filter, as a response to the inquiring; and providing the obtained function information for a requesting source of the request. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297841 | Printing Device and Computer Readable Medium Therefor - A printing device, which is configured to execute a print job and perform a printing operation based on the print job, includes an interruption unit configured to perform an interruption process for interrupting a first print job in execution and executing a second print job, a calculating unit configured to calculate a ratio of a second time taken for a printing operation for the second print job to a first time taken for a printing operation for unprinted pages of the first print job, and a control unit configured to allow the interruption unit to perform the interruption process based on the ratio calculated by the calculating unit. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297842 | Print Control Device, Printing System and Computer-Readable Recording Medium Storing Printing Program - A print controlling device for transmitting printer controlling information to a printer connected thereto is configured such that print setting data is generated based on desired print settings which may include operational control setting data in accordance with a setting by a user. The print controlling device is capable of generating print data including the print setting data as header information thereof, and converting the print data to the printer controlling information. When the print data is converted, it is judged whether the print setting data included in the print data contains the operational control setting. If the print setting data includes the operational control setting, job controlling information which corresponds to the operational control setting is transmitted to the printer. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297843 | Printing Device, Method, and Computer Readable Medium Therefor - A printing device includes a plurality of sorts of interfaces each of which is configured to receive therethrough a print job sent by a sending source device, a printing unit configured to perform a printing operation for the print job received by each of the interfaces, a determining unit configured to determine a print priority of each of the print jobs based on a sort of an interface through which the print job is received, a control unit configured to control the printing unit to preferentially perform a printing operation for a print job with a higher print priority given thereto by the determining unit. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297844 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus that determines, when performing color calibration, whether or not a calibration chart is usable. A scanning unit acquires image data by optically scanning an original document. A usability determining unit determines, in accordance with conditions for colors indicated by standard image data acquired by scanning the original document, whether or not the original document is usable as the calibration chart. A calibration unit performs, only when the determination is made that the original document is usable as the calibration chart, color calibration by using an image value at a predetermined position indicated by the standard image data. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297845 | Image Formation Device - There is provided an image formation device, comprising: at least two connection units including a first connection unit and a second connection unit configured such that first and second external storage devices are detachably connectable to the first and second connection units, respectively; a judgment unit configured to make a judgment as to whether user information concerning a user of a file stored in the first external storage device connected to the first connection unit matches user information concerning a user of a file stored in the second external storage device connected to the second connection unit; and a permission unit configured to permit a direct print operation for a file for which the judgment unit judges that the user information of the file stored in the first external storage device matches the user information of the file stored in the second external storage device. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297846 | IP COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, IP COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - An IFAX has a call controller that transmits and receives a SIP message to and from a destination apparatus via a SIP server, a file transmitter/receiver that transmits and receives image data to and from a Web server, and a communication manager that exchanges information for managing the image data transfer to and from the destination apparatus, by adding predetermined information to the SIP message. Thereby, the IFAX transfers the image data via the Web server while performing SIP-based communication with the destination apparatus. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297847 | Work instruction sheet preparing device, method and program - A property of connection relationship information for identifying an internal/external connection of each point is registered in a part DB | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297848 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an input unit which inputs a keyword; a preparation unit which prepares list data relating to a print file containing the keyword among a plurality of print files stored in a storage unit; and a printing unit that prints a list based on the list data. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297849 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus storing an image data to an external memory medium connected to the image processing apparatus is provided. Where there is not enough usable capacity in the external memory medium, the image processing apparatus generates medium identification information and stores the generated medium identification information to the external memory medium. After a user detaches the external memory medium from the image processing apparatus and uses his or her computer to delete or move unnecessary files in the external memory medium to increase the usable capacity therein, the user attaches the external memory medium to the image processing apparatus again. At this moment, the external memory medium is authenticated by the medium identification information stored therein. Thus, this authentication performed using the medium identification information prevents a third person from obtaining the image data of the user while the user is away from the image processing apparatus. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297850 | PRINTER CONTROLLER FOR A PAGEWIDTH PRINTHEAD HAVING HALFTONER AND COMPOSITOR UNIT - Provided is a printer controller for controlling a pagewidth printhead. The controller includes an interface for receiving an image having a bi-level black data layer compressed in an Edge Delta and Runlength (EDRL) compression format and a continuous tone (contone) CMYK data layer. Also included is an EDRL expander and a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) decoder unit for expanding the image by simultaneously decompressing the two data layers in parallel, as well as a halftoner and compositor unit for halftoning the contone CMYK data layer into bi-level CMYK data layer and compositing the bi-level black data layer over the bi-level CMYK data layer to form a composited bi-level CMYK image. The controller further includes a processor and memory arrangement configured to control the interface, the expander and decoder unit, and the halftoner and compositor unit, and further configured to transmit the composited bi-level CMYK image to a memory buffer of the pagewidth printer via a printhead interface. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297851 | METHODOLOGY FOR SUBSTRATE FLUORESCENT NON-OVERLAPPING DOT DESIGN PATTERNS FOR EMBEDDING INFORMATION IN PRINTED DOCUMENTS - The teachings as provided herein relate to a watermark embedded in an image, and methodology for same, that has the property of being relatively indecipherable under normal light, and yet decipherable under UV light. This fluorescent mark comprises a substrate containing optical brightening agents, and a first dot design printed as an image upon the substrate. The first dot design has as a characteristic, the property of strongly suppressing substrate fluorescence. A second dot design having a property of providing a differing level of substrate fluorescence suppression from that of the first dot design such that when rendered in close spatial proximity with the first dot design image print, the resultant image rendered substrate suitably exposed to an ultra-violet light source, will yield a discernable image evident as a fluorescent mark. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297852 | VARIABLE DATA PERIODIC LINE PATTERNS FOR COMPOSING A FONT SYSTEM - A method and system is provided for generating a variable data differential line pattern font comprising forming a periodic line pattern suitable for tessellation disposition within a printed document and selectively distorting a portion of the periodic line pattern in a predetermined manner wherein the distorting comprises generating a distinguishable font corresponding to the distorting. A plurality of different distinguishable fonts are formed by a corresponding plurality of distorted line patterns, respectively. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297853 | Methods and Apparatus for Embedding and Detecting Digital Watermarks in a Text Document - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for embedding or detecting watermarks in a text, which belong to the field of document protection. The method and apparatus overlay an additional layer of shade in a document for recording a large amount of information from watermarks. The shade comprises the dots arranged under certain rules. Shifts of the dots record each bit string within the watermark. According to the method and apparatus, a large amount of information can be embedded and the watermarks embedded in the shade are dispersed together with the document which can be digitized by a scanner for being detected. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297854 | Reader Apparatus - A reader apparatus is provided that includes a reading part configured to read the image of an original material; a coding part configured to code the data of the read image; an image memory configured to contain the coded image data; and a controller configured to control the image reading and the image data coding. The coding part includes a part configured to count the number of lines of the image indicating its size in the original material feed direction; a part configured to code the image data with a provisional number of lines in response to the image size in the original material feed direction being unknown; and a part configured to determine the number of lines at the end of the image reading. The controller includes a part configured to replace the provisional number of lines in the coded data with the determined number of lines. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297855 | MOBILE PHONE HANDSET - Provided is a mobile phone handset which includes a front cover moulding with user interface buttons and a display. A chassis moulding houses telecommunication components in connection with the buttons and display. The chassis moulding has a cradle and a drive mechanism, as well as a print cartridge operatively received in the cradle. The cartridge has a printhead and an ink storage and distribution assembly. The handset also includes a rear cover molding defining an inlet and an outlet slot. The drive mechanism is configured to feed print media from the inlet slot to the outlet slot past the print cartridge for printing on the media. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297856 | Image forming apparatus and image scanning device - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device and an image scanning device. The image forming device forms an image on a recording medium on the basis of image information of an image scanning target scanned by the image scanning device including a conveyance device and a plurality of image sensors. The conveyance device includes a movable surface which moves to convey the scanning target in contact therewith to have the scanning target pass through a predetermined image scanning position. The image sensors are arranged in a perpendicular direction to a conveyance direction of the scanning target and at positions facing the conveyance device across the predetermined image scanning position to scan the scanning target and obtain the image information. Adjacent two of the image sensors have mutually overlapping scanning areas in the perpendicular direction, and have mutually different positions in the conveyance direction. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297857 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus capable of preventing the occurrence of a streak and reading a quality image from the leading edge to the trailing edge of a original. An original is conveyed along a convey pass. The original being conveyed is guided by a guide member, at least part of the guide member being transparent. An image of the original being conveyed is read by an image sensor through the guide member. Airflow is generated, the airflow being blown into the convey pass from a location upstream in a conveying direction compared to a location of the image sensor. The guide member has a convex portion disposed at a location upstream in the conveying direction compared to the location of the image sensor. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297858 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image reading apparatus is provided which allows a reading device fixed at a reading position to read images from a document while transporting the document. The apparatus includes a correcting unit adapted to perform correction processing associated with image reading performed by the reading device; a calculating unit adapted to calculate a time interval from one document to the next document that are being transported; a scheduling unit adapted to divide the correction processing into a plurality of steps and schedule the execution of the steps on the basis of the calculated time interval; and an executing unit adapted to sequentially execute the steps scheduled by the scheduling unit every time a document passes through the reading position. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297859 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE - An image-processing device includes a first image data acquiring unit, a display unit, a display control unit, an area designating unit, an image area setting unit, a margin area setting unit, a second image data acquiring unit, a margin data creating unit, and an image data creating unit. The first image data acquiring unit acquires first image data. The display unit has a display area. The display control unit controls the display unit to display a first image on the display area based on the first image data, the first image occupying a first image area defined within the display area. The area designating unit enables a user to specify his/her desired area as a designated area in the display area. The image area setting unit sets, in the designated area, an image area that is located within the designated area and is located also within the first image area. The margin area setting unit sets, in the designated area, a margin area that is defined as an area other than the image area. The second image data acquiring unit acquires second image data corresponding to the image area. The margin data creating unit creates margin data corresponding to the margin area. The image data creating unit creates output image data by adding the margin data to the second image data. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297860 | Color scanning - Among various embodiments of the present disclosure, image scanning can be performed by scanning an object in a forward direction and capturing a first image of the object, scanning the object in a reverse direction and capturing a second image of the object, and combining the first image and the second image to produce a single image. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297861 | IMAGE PROCESSING OF A PORTION OF MULTIPLE PATCHES OF A COLORBAR - An image processing apparatus for use with a printed substrate is disclosed. The image processing apparatus comprises an imaging device configured to receive light reflected from a portion of multiple patches of a colorbar on the printed substrate and configured to process color data from the light reflected from the portion of multiple patches of the colorbar. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297862 | IMAGE READING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND READING-UNIT INSTALL METHOD - An adjusting unit adjusts an output level of digital data converted from image data, based on a correction coefficient for each color. A color correction unit performs a color-correction process of correcting a fluctuation of adjusted output level based on a color-correction parameter that differs from one image reading device to another. The correction coefficient is generated before a reading unit is installed in the image reading device such that the output level becomes a predetermined value when reading the original document without the color-correction process, and then adjusted without the color-correction process at a time of installing the reading unit. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297863 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - In an image processing method for carrying out an image quality correction for correcting an image quality on each of a plurality of images in an image group to obtain corrected images, an image processing method includes the steps of carrying out a temporary image quality correction for correcting an image quality on each images in the image group to obtain a temporarily corrected image. A characteristic value representing an image quality for each temporarily corrected image is calculated and a target characteristic value is calculated so that dispersion of each characteristic value to the target characteristic value is minimized on the basis of the characteristic value of each temporarily corrected image. A correction value of each of the plurality of images in the image group which corrects the characteristic value thereof to the target characteristic value is obtained, and the image is corrected with the correction value. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297864 | Use of Holographic Sensor to Determine Sterilisation - In a method of determining the effectiveness of a sterilization procedure using a biological indicator, the biological indicator comprises a holographic sensor and spores or an enzyme. The method and the biological indicator rely on the holographic sensor to indicate the effectiveness of me sterilisation procedure and do not require a conventional pH indicator, a fluorophore or chromophore. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297865 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING METHOD - A reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, recording apparatus, and recording method are provided. A reproducing apparatus reproduces data from a hologram recording medium in which data inserted with syncs at predetermined intervals is recorded in each predetermined page unit by interference fringes of reference light and signal light includes a reference-light irradiating unit that irradiates the reference light on the hologram recording medium, a signal readout unit that receives diffractive light corresponding to the data recorded on the hologram recording medium, a sync-position detecting unit that detects a position of a detection object sync on the basis of positions of plural syncs selected with the position of the detection object sync as a reference, and an amplitude-value calculating unit that specifies positions of respective recording pixels in the readout signal on the basis of the positions of the respective syncs detected by the sync-position detecting unit and calculates amplitude values of the respective pixels. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297866 | HOLOGRAM OPTICAL ELEMENT, FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A volume-phase reflection hologram optical element is fabricated by exposing a hologram photosensitive material to two coherent light beams. One exposure light beam has an axis-asymmetric wavefront, and the other exposure light beam has focus points different in the optical axis direction (Z-direction) between on a plane (ZX-plane) including one of two directions (X- and Y-directions) mutually perpendicular on a sectional plane perpendicular to that light beam and on a plane (YZ-plane) including the other of those two directions. Thus, an image display apparatus is realized in which at the time of reproduction, the component of a predetermined wavelength of the image light diffraction-reflected by the hologram optical element is focused at positions different in the optical axis direction between on the ZX-plane and on the YZ-plane, offering different image viewing characteristics between in the X- and Y-directions. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297867 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING DRIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF SCANNER DRIVER OF GALVANOMETRIC SCANNER - A scanner driver of a galvanometric scanner system includes an analog drive circuit; a control unit | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297868 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus capable of displaying an image on a plane of projection by beam raster scanning associated with resonant oscillation in a horizontal scanning direction (the main scanning direction), includes a resonance-point detector for detecting a mechanical resonant frequency in the horizontal scanning direction. Out of frequencies that are multiples of a vertical synchronizing frequency in image display, for example a frequency nearest to the mechanical resonant frequency detected in the resonance-point detector is determined as a horizontal scanning frequency of the raster scanning. The image display apparatus can thus provide a stable image display with ease. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297869 | OSCILLATOR DEVICE AND DRIVE CONTROL METHOD FOR OSCILLATION SYSTEM OF OSCILLATOR DEVICE - An oscillator device includes an oscillation system having at least one oscillator configured to oscillate, the oscillation system having a plurality of natural oscillation modes with a plurality of frequencies which frequencies are mutually in a relationship of integral-number ratio, a driving system configured to drive the at least one oscillation system, and a drive control system configured to control the driving system, wherein the drive control system applies to the driving system a driving signal in the form of a rectangular pulse based on combining a plurality of rectangular pulse signals corresponding to the plurality of natural oscillation modes, respectively. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297870 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical scanning device including a light source, a deflection device to deflect a light beam from the light source, an image focus optical system to focus the light beam deflected by the deflection device on a scanned surface to form an image thereon and scan a surface by the light beam deflected by the deflection device to form an image thereon, a light path switching device provided between the light source and the deflection device, which switches a light path of the light beam emitted from the light source to deflect the light beam on different timings such that the light beam scans different surfaces. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297871 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An optical scanning device includes plural light source devices, a deflecting device having deflecting surfaces, an input optical system and a plurality of imaging optical systems, wherein a plurality of scan surfaces are simultaneously scanned by the deflecting device, wherein each of the plurality of imaging optical systems includes at least one transmission type imaging optical element and at least one reflection optical element, wherein each of at least two light beams scanningly deflected by the different deflecting surfaces of the deflecting device passes through the at least one transmission type imaging optical element constituting the imaging optical system and is thereafter reflected by the at least one reflection optical element and, subsequently, it passes again through the transmission type imaging optical element, and wherein, after passing again through the transmission type imaging optical element, the at least two light beams scanningly deflected by the different deflection surfaces of the deflecting means intersect with each other within a sub-scan section. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297872 | OPTICAL BEAM SCANNING DEVICE, OPTICAL BEAM SCANNING METHOD - There is provided a technique in which in an optical beam scanning device, optical characteristics can be suitably corrected according to a change in environmental temperature. The optical beam scanning device is configured to shape a divergent light from a light source into a light flux having a specified sectional shape by a pre-deflection optical system and to guide the light flux, which is shaped by the pre-deflection optical system | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297873 | OPTICAL BEAM SCANNING DEVICE, OPTICAL BEAM SCANNING METHOD - There is provide a technique in which in an optical beam scanning device, optical characteristics can be suitably corrected according to a change in environmental temperature. The optical beam scanning device is configured to shape a divergent light from a light source into a light flux having a specified sectional shape by a pre-deflection optical system | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297874 | Spatial light modulator - A high contrast spatial light modulator for display and printing is fabricated by coupling a high active reflection area fill-ratio and non-diffractive micro-mirror array with a high electrostatic efficiency and low surface adhesion control substrate. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297875 | PIEZOELECTRIC DRIVING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF AND OPTICAL MODULATING DEVICE USING THE SAME - Disclosed are a piezoelectric driving device and a driving method thereof, and an optical modulating device using the same. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the optical modulating device can include an optical modulator, having a piezoelectric element causing a displacement object to be displaced by being contracted or expanded according to a supplied driving voltage; and a driving unit, generating the driving voltage to be supplied to the piezoelectric element. Here, the driving voltage can be a square-wave signal having a shorter reset time than a minimum reaction time necessary to allow the displacement object to be displaced. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297876 | Projector - The projector has an intensity-modulable light source to emit a light beam onto a projection surface, as well as an optical switch connected after the light source for intensity modulation of the light beam emitted by the light source, and a control unit to control intensity modulation of the light source and the optical switch. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297877 | Image display device, image display method, and image display program - An image display device having an optical modulation element, which modulates light emitted from a light source according to display information, and displaying a display image based on the display information includes: a unit adjusting the amount of illumination light with respect to light emitted from the light source on the basis of brightness information on the brightness of the display image based on the display information; a color conversion processing unit that performs a color conversion process according to the brightness information with respect to the display information so that the display image can be color-reproduced within a predetermined color space; and a display and driving unit that drives the optical modulation element on the basis of the display information having been subjected to the color conversion process so as to display the display image. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297878 | Compositions, methods and systems for making and using electronic paper - The present invention is a device, method and system for making a display and displaying information that includes a fibrous organic substrate, e.g., multiribbon cellulose or cellulose substrate, and a variable reflectivity dye disposed in the fibrous substrate, wherein the reflectivity of the dye is modulated in situ. The display device may use a dye selected from an electrochromic, a thermochromic, a magnetochromic, an ionochromic, a light sensitive, a fluorescent, a fluorescent effect energy transfer dye or combinations thereof and may be used as high storage, high contrast and/or high definition paper. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297879 | Electrochromic rearview mirror assembly incorporating a display/signal light - According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electrochromic rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes an electrochromic mirror having a variable reflectivity, a glare sensor for sensing levels of light directed towards the front element from the rear of the vehicle, an ambient sensor for sensing levels of ambient light, a display positioned behind the partially transmissive, partially reflective portion of the reflector for displaying information therethrough. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297880 | Display Capable Electrowetting Light Valve - The invention relates to light transmissive, transflective, or reflective flat panel display devices and, more specifically, to light emissive flat panel displays constructed from high performance electrowetting light valve (ELV) devices ( | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297881 | Information Display Panel and Information Display Device - Disclosed is a panel for information display wherein one or more display media are sealed between two opposite substrates at least one of which is transparent and information such as an image is displayed by moving the display media using the electric field generated in the substrates. A multilayer substrate wherein a first plate, a low elasticity layer and a second plate are sequentially arranged is used as at least one of the substrates (as both substrates in the embodiment shown in the drawings) so that stress concentration in a rib bonding portion of a partition wall can be relaxed. Such a panel for information display is improved in the mechanical strength against external forces by using a multilayer substrate having a multilayer structure which includes a buffer layer for relaxing stress concentration. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297882 | Apparatus and method for controlling optics propagation based on a transparent metal stack - A device and method of optics propagation and signal control integrated with micro-electro-mechanical-switches (MEMS). This device modifies optical transmission properties of a transparent multilayer metal stack by mechanically varying the thickness of an air gap between layers in the stack This is accomplished by utilizing MEMS coupled with the stack to change the optical path in a given layer of the transparent multilayer metal stack. This can be accomplished by developing a hybrid combination of transparent multilayer stacks and MEMS, wherein an air gap is used as one of the dielectric layers. The air gap thickness can be controlled by the MEMS device thereby enabling dramatic control of the optical path. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297883 | Raman Amplifier Structure - A Raman amplifier structure ( | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297884 | PROJECTION OBJECTIVE AND PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS FOR MICROLITHOGRAPHY - Projection objective, projection exposure apparatuses and related systems and components are disclosed. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297885 | Dual band night vision device - A night vision device provides both an amplified visible light image and an infrared image, overlayed upon each other so that they appear to be a single image. A user may select to utilize either an intensified visual image only, an infrared image only, or ratios of both images simultaneously. Dichroic surfaces within the night vision device are utilized first to separate light into visible and infrared portions, and then to recombine the visible and infrared images to a single image. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297886 | Interference filter and method for producing it - The invention is based on the object of providing UV interference filters having improved long-term stability. For this purpose, a method for producing a dielectric transmission interference filter is provided, in which an alternating layer system having the constituents magnesium fluoride, lead fluoride and antimony oxide is produced on a substrate by co-evaporation. After deposition, the substrate is subjected to heat treatment and irradiated with UV light in order to stabilize the layer system. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297887 | Lens array sheet and method for manufacturing same - A lens array sheet is provided. The lens array sheet includes: a transparent sheet-like lens side base material | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297888 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CURING OF UV-PROTECTED UV-CURABLE MONOMER AND POLYMER MIXTURES - Methods are disclosed for curing UV-curable monomers and monomer/polymer mixtures that are in an environment in which they are protected from UV radiation. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297889 | CATADIOPTRIC PROJECTION OBJECTIVE - A catadioptric projection objective for imaging a pattern provided in an object plane of the projection objective onto an image plane of the projection objective comprises: a first objective part for imaging the pattern provided in the object plane into a first intermediate image; a second objective part for imaging the first intermediate imaging into a second intermediate image; a third objective part for imaging the second intermediate imaging directly onto the image plane;
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| 20080297890 | OBSERVATION APPARATUS - Various kinds of observation can be accurately realized using different types of image-acquisition unit. Low-magnification observation is possible and return light from a single specimen is acquired by a plurality of image-acquisition units. The invention provides an observation apparatus including an illumination light source for emitting illumination light for irradiating a specimen mounted on a stage; an objective lens for collecting return light from the specimen; an image-forming lens for imaging the return light collected by the objective lens; an image-acquisition unit for acquiring the return light imaged by the image-forming lens; and an attaching-and-detaching mechanism for attaching and detaching the image-acquisition unit in such a manner that the image-acquisition unit is capable of being positionally aligned with an optical axis of the image-forming lens. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297891 | Microscope and method of providing image data using the same - A microscope includes optics configured to direct beams onto an object including a reflective material, a detector configured to receive a field spectrum formed by beams reflected by the object, and a calculator configured to reconstruct an image of the object from the field spectrum detected by the detector. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297892 | Surgical microscope having an illuminating arrangement - A surgical microscope ( | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297893 | Pressure sensitive positioning projection screen - A pressure sensitive positioning projection screen is provided for displaying a first projected image and providing a coordinate signal of a pressed position. The pressure sensitive positioning projection screen comprises a screen body having a first and a second insulation layers, a plurality of mutually separated and isolated first electrodes arranged along a first direction and configured in the first insulating layer, and a plurality of mutually separated and isolated second electrodes arranged along a second direction and configured in the second insulating layer, wherein the first electrodes are interlaced with the second electrodes for providing the coordinate signal of the pressed position along the first and the second directions. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297894 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a display device including an image source unit shaped like a plate to form an image; and an image magnifying unit including a plurality of light transfer members each extended in a first direction and arrayed in a second direction transverse to the first direction, each light transfer member is shaped like a plate, of which a longitudinal direction is parallel with a surface of the image source unit and a height direction is transverse to the surface of the image source, and includes a plurality of cutting parts arrayed in the longitudinal direction and form a plurality of light guide channels. With this configuration, there is provided a display device which can reduce a problem that a joint is distinctive to a user's eye. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297895 | REFLECTIVE SCREEN AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A disclosed reflective screen is configured to display an image projected from a projection device located within a short distance. The reflective screen comprises a first reflective surface configured to reflect, in a substantially same direction, projection light beams projected from a first position, and a second reflective surface configured to reflect, in the substantially same direction, projection light beams projected from a second position different from the first position. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297896 | Switchable Lens Systems and Methods of Manufacturing such Systems - Switchable lens systems and methods of manufacturing switchable lens systems are provided. A representative switchable lens system includes an imaging area and a seal line. The imaging area includes a first glass plate, a second glass plate and a lenticular structure. The lenticular structure is arranged in between the first and second glass plates and is provided with a plurality of cavities in between the lenticular structure and one of the first and second glass plates. The seal line surrounds the imaging area at its periphery, and is provided with a fill opening. A filling channel is located between at least a portion of the periphery of the imaging area and the seal line to provide a connection between the fill opening and multiple ones of the cavities. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297897 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY AND PHASE DIFFERENT PLATE - A stereoscopic display is provided. The stereoscopic display includes: an image displaying section that generates a right eye image and a left eye image and emits the same; and a phase differential plate disposed on an exit side of the image displaying section that orthogonalizes to each other or rotates reversely the polarizing directions of the right eye image and the left eye image which are incident from the image displaying section and emits the same. The phase differential plate is disposed on the image displaying section side and has an image light-antireflective film that prevents the right eye image light and the left eye image light from reflecting from the image displaying section. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297898 | Controlling light transmission in a vehicle with polarization and ellipticity adjustment - Light transmission in a vehicle may be controlled using a system that includes a linear polarizing means and an ellipticity increaser associated with a display in the vehicle. The ellipticity increaser is configured and oriented with respect to the linear polarizing means for increasing the ellipticity of light passing from the linear polarizing means through the ellipticity increaser. The system also includes an ellipticity adjuster and a linear polarizer associated with a window of the vehicle. The ellipticity adjuster is oriented with respect to the linear polarizer for increasing the ellipticity of light passing from the linear polarizer through the ellipticity adjuster. The ellipticity increaser and adjuster are disposed between the linear polarizing means and the linear polarizer, and are configured and oriented with respect to each other for reducing ellipticity of light passing from the linear polarizing means through the ellipticity increaser and adjuster to the linear polarizer. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297899 | CAMERA MODULE - A camera module that can obtain a clear image even in the case where dust is generated inside the camera module due to a shock applied thereto is provided. The camera module includes a base and a cover attached to the base so as to define a space therebetween in which the holder can be displaced. The base has an upper surface which faces the cover, and the upper surface of the base includes a concaved dust collecting portion and a dust falling preventing wall formed on the upper surface so as to surround an entire circumference of an opening of the base, and wherein a surface of the concaved dust collecting portion includes a dust sticking layer to which fallen dust is adapted to stick, whereby when dust is generated in the space between the cover and the base and such dust is fallen onto the upper surface of the base, it is possible to prevent such dust from entering into the opening by the dust falling preventing wall and such dust is stuck to the dust sticking layer of the dust collecting portion provided on the upper surface of the base. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297900 | REFLECTIVE ACCESSORIES - Reflective accessories for increasing the visibility of persons engaged in night-time (or other low-light) activities. Reflective accessories include a mechanism configured for attachment of the accessory to an object associated with the person engaging in a low-light activity by looping the accessory around at least a portion of the object and twisting the mechanism about itself to thereby secure the accessory to the object, and a flexible body supported by the mechanism and having an outer surface with a portion configured to reflect light to a degree that the portion is generally more visible than the object to which the accessory is attached when a light source is directed at the accessory and the object. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297901 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR FORMING AN IMAGE - Providing a zoom lens system having a high zoom ratio being compact with high optical performance. The system includes, in order from an object along an optical axis, a first lens group G | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297902 | COMPACT INFRARED SPECTROMETER, AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURE AND ASSEMBLY OF COMPONENTS USED IN SAME - A compact spectrometer operable in a wavelength range of 4.5 or more microns includes an entrance slit, a collimating mirror, a grating, a focusing mirror and a first focal plane. At least some radiation passing through the slit follows an optical path in which at least some radiation passing through the slit is reflected by the collimating mirror onto the grating, which in turn reflects at least some radiation onto the focusing mirror, which in turn reflects and focuses at least some radiation at a first focal plane and onto the two-dimensional array of detectors. Each column in the two-dimensional array of detectors corresponds to a wavelength in the 4.5 or more micron range, the two-dimensional array includes a plurality of columns that collectively correspond to wavelengths spanning the 4.5 or more micron range, and each adjacent pair of columns in the two-dimensional array of detectors corresponds to two wavelengths that differ by an equal amount. The entrance slit, the collimating mirror, the grating, the focusing mirror and the first focal plane are positioned within a volume that is equal or less than 192 cubic inches in size. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297903 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT OR OPTICAL MODULATOR INCLUDING PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - Disclosed are a method for driving a piezoelectric element or an optical modulator including a piezoelectric element and a recorded medium recorded with a program for executing the same. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the method for driving a piezoelectric element causing a displacement object to be displaced by being contracted or expanded according to a supplied driving voltage, including supplying a driving signal to the piezoelectric element during a first driving period in a first voltage range; supplying a control signal for controlling a polarization hysteresis of the piezoelectric element according to a driving, performed during the first driving period, to the piezoelectric element; and supplying the driving signal to the piezoelectric element during a second driving period in a second voltage range. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297904 | METHOD FOR COMBINATION OF LIGHT OF DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS - A method for dividing substantially nonpolarized white light into three substantially nonpolarized fractions includes splitting the substantially nonpolarized white light into a first fraction and a second fraction, the first fraction being substantially nonpolarized light of a first wavelength interval and the second fraction of substantially nonpolarized light of a second and a third wavelength interval, the first wavelength interval being located between the second and the third wavelength interval and splitting the second fraction into a third fraction with substantially nonpolarized light of the second wavelength interval and into a fourth fraction with substantially nonpolarized light of the third wavelength interval. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297905 | Optical filter, plasma display device including the optical filter, and method of forming the optical filter - An optical filter includes a base film and at least two conductive layers stacked on the base film, a first conductive layer of the two conductive layers having a first thickness and a first refractive index, and a second conductive layer of the two conductive layers having a second thickness and a second refractive index, the first and second refractive indices and the first and second thicknesses being configured to generate a destructive interference of external light reflected from the first and second conductive layers. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297906 | Anisotropic Diffusion Film - An anisotropic diffusion film has a high brightness, high luminance uniformity ratio and a high productivity, and is suitable essentially for a surface light source of planar display devices for liquid crystal display devices and the like, such as a direct backlight. In the anisotropic diffusion film, a stripe-shaped convex lens is formed on one surface of a substrate film. The cross-sectional shape of a plane vertical to the stripe direction satisfies the following conditions that (A-C) and the whole of light transmittance of the anisotropic diffusion film is 70% or more: A: the contour of the projecting part of the cross-sectional shape is a curved line; B: the aspect ratio of the projecting part of the cross-sectional shape is 1 or more but not more than 3; and C: the distance between the apexes of the adjacent projecting parts of the cross-sectional shape is 10 μm or more but not more than 100 μm. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297907 | Seamless molded reflectant material - A reflector device for reflecting light from an LED and the like is provided. The reflector device comprises a reflectant material and a three-dimensional reflector formed from the reflectant material with the reflector having a top and a base and the reflector being entirely free from seams from the top to the base. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297908 | OPTICAL SHEET AND DISPLAY UNIT USING THE SAME - Provided is a contrast enhancing sheet having an excellent bright room contrast function and laid on the screen of a display unit, comprising a plurality of light transmitting portions each having a trapezoid-like sectional shape in a predetermined direction, and a plurality of light absorbing portions each having a wedge-like sectional shape, the top side of the trapezoid-like sectional shape of the light transmitting portion being adjacent to the bottom side of the wedge-like sectional shape of the light absorbing portion, wherein a light diffusion means is provided at the top side of the trapezoid-like sectional shape of the light transmitting portion. | 2008-12-04 |
| 20080297909 | Reflective occulting mask and method for manufacturing the reflective occulting mask - A optical instrument (e.g., coronagraph) is described herein that has a pick-off mirror with a surface having an array of reflective structures (reflective occulting mask) machined therein which enables an optical image of one or more low intensity objects (e.g., planets) to be obtained when the low intensity object(s) are located in close proximity to a high intensity object (e.g., sun). Also described herein, is a method for manufacturing the pick-off mirror which has a surface with an array of reflective structures (reflective occulting mask) that are machined therein. | 2008-12-04 |
