Optical: systems and elements inventions 06/06

20060139710 - Method and device for computing computer-generated video holograms: The data defining an object to be holographically reconstructed is first arranged into a number of virtual section layers, each layer defining a two-dimensional object data sets, such that a video hologram data set can be calculated from some or all of these two-dimensional object data sets. The first step...

20060139711 - Method of computing a hologram: A method of computing a hologram by determining the wavefronts at the approximate observer eye position that would be generated by a real version of an object to be reconstructed. In normal computer generated holograms, one determines the wavefronts needed to reconstruct an object; this is not done directly in...

20060139712 - Optical processor: Method and apparatus are disclosed for optical packet decoding, waveform generation, and wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing using a programmed holographic structure. A configurable programmed holographic structure is disclosed. A configurable programmed holographic structure may be dynamically re-configured through the application of control mechanisms which alter operative holographic structures....

20060139713 - Scanning micro-mirror package, method for fabricating the same, and optical scanning device employing the same: Disclosed herein are a scanning micro-mirror package for use in optical scanning devices in which micro-mirrors reflect incident beams and modulate the optical path of the reflected beams in response to input signals and a method for fabricating the same. The scanning micro-mirror package comprises a suitable lid having therein...

20060139717 - Inner drum exposure apparatus: An exposure process is executed by multi-beams divided by polarizing and combining laser beams (La, Lb) modulated based on an image signal so as to be emitted by a light source side optical system by using a polarized light beam splitter, and by converting the laser beams (La, Lb) emitted...

20060139715 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: A first holder plate that holds a first laser emitting portion and that has a first insertion hole formed therein, a second holder plate that holds a second laser emitting portion and that has a second insertion hole formed therein, and a base plate that supports a first collimating lens...

20060139714 - Optical system having extended angular scan range: System and method for scanning light across a light-receiving surface. A system for scanning light across a light-receiving surface to project a scanned line on the light-receiving surface has a light beam generator for generating a plurality of light beams. A scanning mechanism simultaneously scans each light beam of the...

20060139716 - Scanner apparatus and image forming apparatus: A polygon mirror is placed so that its rotation axis is positioned on a center line in a main scanning direction of an image forming area scanned by each light beam. Moreover, two light beam irradiating optical units are placed so that the light beams are incident on reflective surfaces...

20060139718 - Optical scanning device and image display apparatus using the same: An optical scanning device is disclosed, which comprises a light source unit, a scanning unit for scanning a scanning surface with a light from the light source unit in a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and an optical unit for guiding the scanning light...

20060139719 - Deflector: A deflector which enables to have a sufficient degree of freedom of designing and also to detect accurately a displacement angle of a movable plate can be provided. In order to accomplish this, the deflector includes a mirror, a base frame, a pair of torsion bars which pivotably support the...

20060139720 - Scanner apparatus and image forming apparatus: A cylindrical lens is positioned between and a polygon mirror and a second slit plate through which light beams from two light beam emitting units pass, and the cylindrical lens has a thin portion where the thickness between the entrance plane and the emission plane is reduced by forming the...

20060139721 - Substrate for electrooptic device and method of manufacturing the same, electrooptic device, and electronic equipment: A substrate for an electrooptic device comprising a light-transmissive base member, a reflection layer formed on the base member so as to include each reflection portion and a corresponding transmission portion having a transmission factor higher than that of the reflection portion, a light transmission layer formed over the base...

20060139722 - Method of calibrating light delivery systems, light delivery systems and radiometer for use therewith: A light delivery device (10) having a light source (12) and a variable aperture unit (18) is temporarily connected by a light guide (24; 24, 26) to a radiometer (38) for detecting irradiance of the delivered light. The light delivery device has a memory (30) for storing irradiance levels. The...

20060139723 - Visible spectrum modulator arrays: Light in the visible spectrum is modulated using an array of modulation elements, and control circuitry connected to the array for controlling each of the modulation elements independently, each of the modulation elements having a surface which is caused to exhibit a predetermined impedance characteristic to particular frequencies of light....

20060139725 - Electrochromic device: A method of manufacturing an electrochromic device, which includes the steps of: (a) forming a plurality of nano-electrochromic elements on a transparent conductor of a transparent conductor substrate, wherein the nano-electrochromic elements are bonded together to form an electrochromic layer on the transparent conductor substrate so as to define a...

20060139726 - Electrochromic medium having a self-healing, cross-linked polymer matrix and associated electrochromic device: An electrochromic medium for use in an electrochromic device comprising: at least one solvent; an anodic electroactive material; a cathodic electroactive material; wherein at least one of the anodic and cathodic electroactive materials is electrochromic; and a self-healing, cross-linked polymer matrix....

20060139724 - Electrochromic or electrodeposition display and novel process for their manufacture: The present invention is directed to an improved electrodeposition and an electrochromic display. The display cells formed from microcups are filled with an electrolyte fluid and are individually sealed with a polymeric sealing layer....

20060139727 - Hybrid fiber polarization dependent isolator, and laser module incorporating the same: A polarization dependent isolator includes a Faraday element, a linear polarizer positioned at a first end of the Faraday element to polarize light entering the first end of the Faraday element, and a single polarization fiber positioned at a second end of the Faraday element to receive light emerging from...

20060139728 - Electrostatic control of a membrane for adaptive optics and the like: A membrane receives an incident energy signal at a first surface of the membrane. An actuating electrode, located adjacent to the membrane on a side opposite the first surface, applies an actuating pressure to the membrane if an actuating potential is applied between the actuating electrode and the membrane. A...

20060139731 - Fast optical shutter using micromirror motion: The present invention provides a fast optical shutter function by use of the fast movement of the micromirrors. In a micromirror array lens (MMAL), all the micromirrors reflect the incident light to form an image on the image plane. If the micromirrors reflect the incident light out of the optical...

20060139730 - Illumination system with compact turning prism and projection system using same: In a projection system, an illumination unit directs light to a spatial light modulator, via a prism having first, second and third sides. At least some of the illumination light from the illumination unit enters the prism through the first side, is totally internally reflected at the second side and...

20060139729 - Method and apparatus for creating a phase step in mirrors used in spatial light modulator arrays: A method and apparatus for patterning an array of SLM mirrors with a phase step is disclosed. Additional embodiments of the present invention describe a method for processing a substrate, wherein the processed substrate is used in the apparatus for patterning an array of SLM mirrors with a phase step....

20060139733 - Electrophoretic display and method of manufacturing thereof: A electrophoretic display is provided, which includes: a thin film transistor array panel including a plurality of data lines having a plurality of source electrodes and a plurality of drain electrodes, a plurality of organic semiconductor islands at least covering the portion of the source and the drain electrodes and...

20060139732 - Electrophoretic display device and method of manufacturing same: An electrophoretic display device uses a liquid-phase electrophoretic material not confined in a shell. An electrophoresis chamber with the electrophoretic material hermetically sealing therein is mounted in a substrate. Also, a display section, a data communication section, a driver section, and a power reception section are mounted on the substrate....

20060139734 - Air gap autogenesis method: A circuit for implementing a registration-free, contiguous conductive plane. A circuit may include a plurality of conductive structures in a first plane. The circuit may further include a contiguous conductive equipotential surface in a second plane parallel to the first plane. The circuit may further include activation means configured to...

20060139735 - Multi-channel dpsk receiver: An optical, multi-channel, Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) receiver demodulates multiple Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) channels using a single interferometer. This distributes expense of the interferometer over all channels of an optical signal, allowing for deployment of cost-effective, scalable, wideband, WDM DPSK systems. For example, for an 80 channel WDM...

20060139736 - Optical receiver: In an optical receiver of the present invention, a signal C generated by converting a low-frequency current component of a current signal generated in a light sensing device and a signal G outputted by a duty ratio detecting circuit that detects a duty ratio of an output of a signal...

20060139738 - Method and apparatus for controlling a soa-mzi wavelength converter: A method and apparatus for controlling an optical gain difference and an optical phase difference in a semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach-Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI) wavelength converter having two arms and that outputs probe output signals POH and POL, corresponding to pump input signals of logic high and logic low, respectively. The controlling...

20060139737 - Optical equalization: A device and method for processing a signal e.g. equalizing a signal, is disclosed. Such processing involves dividing a signal into two portions that each traverses a wavepath and then are combined. The respective wavepaths impose a non-linear frequency-versus-phase dependency on a signal portion. The frequency-versus-phase dependencies that characterize the...

20060139739 - Quasi-optical array amplifier: The present invention is an array amplifier designed to alleviate thermal limitations and to provide better power combining efficiency for an array of high power density semiconductor devices. A semiconductor device having an aggregate size required to provide a desired output power is split into many small thermally isolated “unit...

20060139740 - Devices and methods for dynamic dispersion compensation: The present invention provides devices and methods for dispersion compensation. According to one embodiment of the invention, a dispersion compensating device includes a negative dispersion fiber having an input configured to receive the optical signal, the negative dispersion fiber having a length and dispersion sufficient to remove any positive chirp...

20060139741 - Evanescent-field optical amplifiers and lasers: An optical amplifier and a laser generator based on the fiber side-polished technology, having a high pumping efficiency, a low noise figure and a small footprint are provided in this application. The optical amplifier and the laser, which have a very long effective interaction length in conjunction with highly doped...

20060139742 - Differentiation of power and channel count changes in optically amplified links: Exemplary embodiments of the invention are drawn to a method and apparatus for the differentiation of power and channel count changes in optically amplified links. Additionally, configuration of a corresponding optical amplifier can be based on the determination of the power and channel count changes....

20060139743 - Semiconductor optical device with beam focusing: An integrated optical device formed in a semiconductor substrate incorporated an integral lens element in the substrate for providing focusing of the output beam. The device includes an optically active region for generating and confining optical radiation and having an output end for emitting an output beam from the optically...

20060139744 - Metal reflector and process for producing it: The invention provides a process for producing a high-precision reflector and its coating. A reflector is produced from a solid material using a material-removing process and is coated with a cold-light mirror layer....

20060139745 - Projection system for a lithograhic apparatus: A projection system for a lithographic apparatus having a plurality of mirror imaging systems. In an embodiment, the mirror imaging systems are arranged in two rows with each row being perpendicular to a scanning direction of the projection system. Each mirror imaging systems has an associated imaging field. The mirror...

20060139747 - Microscope: The invention is directed to a microscope comprising a base body or stand, a stage support, a guide for adjusting the stage support or an objective changer device with inserted objectives, and a stage for holding the object or specimen. In the microscope, a supporting cell is provided which is...

20060139746 - Optical device for observing samples on a support, designed in particular for a cytometer: An optical device (12) includes a front surface located on the side of the sample to be observed and a rear surface oriented towards the elements for acquiring (18, 19) an image or a user. It further includes a combination of four aligned lenses. The lenses are arranged in the...

20060139748 - Color electrophoretic display and method of manufacturing the same: Provided are a color electrophoretic display and a method of manufacturing the same. The color electrophoretic display includes: a plurality of lower electrodes arranged on a lower layer and disposed with a predetermined interval therebetween; a plurality of first to third photoresist chambers arranged on the plurality of lower electrodes;...

20060139749 - Contrast improving sheet and rear projection screen provided with the same: A contrast improving sheet to be disposed on the viewing side of a display, such as a rear projection display or a liquid crystal display, to display images in high contrast and in excellent directivity, and a rear projection screen provided with the contrast improving sheet are provided. A contrast...

20060139750 - Performance display system: The present invention discloses an improved method and device for the display of a images incorporating the audience in a performance together with the integration of independently translocated three-dimensional displays. Improved methods for manufacturing a visual display incorporating a scanned light source and presenting visual information are also disclosed....

20060139751 - 3-d image display device: An image display device to display both a 2-D image and a 3-D image. The image display device includes a display element, an image separation unit, a polarization conversion switch, and a birefringence element. The display element emits light according to image information for a left eye and image information...

20060139752 - Optical filter and optical device provided with this optical filter: Light emitted from a taking lens 20 enters a first birefringent plate 1a to be spatially divided along a first direction extending perpendicular to the direction in which the light advances to achieve two separate rays L10 and L20. The vibrational planes of the two light fluxes L10 and L20...

20060139753 - Microscope drape coupling system and method: According to one embodiment of the invention, a microscope drape coupling system includes a first adapter configured to couple to a first objective lens barrel of a first microscope, a housing configured to rotatably couple to the first adapter, and a substantially flat transparent protective lens coupled within the housing...

20060139754 - Prismatic retroreflective article and method: A prismatic retroreflective article has a transparent body portion and a layer of internally reflecting cube-corner optical elements having an open air-exposed rear surface at least a portion of which is more hydrophobic, more oleophobic, or both more hydrophobic and more oleophobic than the underlying cube-corner optical element. The article...

20060139755 - Terahertz time-domain differentiator: A device and method for differentiating an incident electromagnetic pulse. A conductive grating is provided with a sub-wavelength period, an area larger than the electromagnetic beam diameter, and a grating conductor thickness greater than the skin depth of the electromagnetic pulse. The grating conductors are oriented essentially parallel to the...

20060139756 - Diffraction grating element, production method of diffraction grating element, and method of designing diffraction grating element: In a diffraction grating element 10, between a first medium 11 and a fourth medium 14, a second medium 12 and a third medium 13 are disposed alternately to form a diffraction grating. The light, which enters the diffraction grating from the first medium 11, is diffracted at the diffraction...

20060139757 - Anti-reflective coating for optical windows and elements: Generally, the invention is for a neutral color, anti-reflective coating for optical elements transmitting light in the visible range, said coating having a 3-layer or 4-layer structure comprising at least two coating materials selected from the group consisting of: (a) a coating material A having an index of refraction in...

20060139758 - Microlens array sheet and method of producing the same: A microlens array sheet includes a light-shielding base having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and a microlens array attached to the first surface of the light-shielding base, the array having a plurality of microlens. The light-shielding base has a plurality of apertures that...

20060139759 - Stereoimage formation apparatus and stereoimage display unit: A stereoimage formation apparatus includes two lens array plates, each of which includes microlenses having optical axes and peaks. The optical axes of the microlenses are parallel to one another. The optical axes of the microlenses in one of the lens array plates are aligned with the optical axes of...

20060139760 - Image display apparatus: There disclosed is an image display apparatus having a light source, a scanning member for deflecting a light from the light source to scan a predetermined surface with the light to form a two-dimensional image thereon, a first optical system for guiding a light deflected by the scanning member to...

20060139761 - Optical pick-up apparatus and optical disk apparatus: An exemplary optical pick-up apparatus of the invention comprises: an optical base; a collimator lens provided on the optical base; a laser source disposed adjacent the collimator lens on the optical base and emitting light that produces heat; and temperature gradient control means, provided between the collimator lens and the...

20060139762 - Projection image display apparatus and color correction method for the same: A holding unit holds a plurality of types of white balance adjustment color data with respect to colors of the plurality of projection surfaces. A projection control unit causes a projection unit to simultaneously project patterns having a plurality of colors based on the plurality of types of held color...

20060139763 - Focusing device: A focusing device with a refractive index profile changing from the center of the focusing device towards its perimeter, is made of a material wherein the lateral refractive index distribution of the focusing device material is homogeneous and wherein the focusing device comprises holes for introducing a graded refractive index...

20060139765 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus: A zoom lens including a first lens unit exhibiting a positive refractive power and always being statically positioned along an optical axis when a power of the zoom lens is varied or the focusing is conducted and including a reflective optical element for bending an optical path, a second lens...

20060139764 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus including the same: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens system which includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit with positive optical power, a second lens unit with negative optical power, a third lens unit with positive optical power, a fourth...

20060139766 - Zoom lens system: where fw is a combined focal length of the zoom lens system at a wide-angle end, f2 is a combined focal length of the second lens group, and Δvd4 is a difference in the respective Abbe numbers vd of lenses composing the cemented lens in the fourth lens group G4....

20060139767 - Inner zoom lens system: An inner zoom lens system for use in a camera module having an image sensor and appropriate for an inner-focus type is provided. The inner zoom lens system includes, sequentially from an object side, a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, and a fourth lens...

20060139768 - Zoom lens system: wherein f1 designates the focal length of the negative first lens group; f2 designates the focal length of the positive second lens group; fw designates the focal length of the entire the zoom lens system at the short focal length extremity; and ft designates the focal length of the entire...

20060139769 - Uniformity correction system having light leak and shadow compensation: A system and method for uniformity correction having light leak and shadow compensation is provided. The system includes multiple correction elements and an optical compensation plate. Adjacent correction elements are separated by a gap. The optical compensation plate includes a pattern having multiple gap compensation segments. The pattern has an...

20060139770 - Miniature digital camera lens: Miniature camera lenses (100, 300) include in order an object side (116, 302) to the image side (118, 304) a first double concave lens (102, 306), a lens group including first convergent meniscus lens (104, 318), a first double convex lens (106, 312), a second convergent meniscus lens (108, 318),...

20060139771 - Composite lens system, and lens unit provided with such composite lens system, as well as image pickup device provided with such lens unit: The present invention provides a composite lens system, a lens unit and an image pickup device, wherein the productivity is enhanced, while maintaining an optical performance, by achieving an axis-aligning adjustment for the composite lens system easily and appropriately. The positioning of adjacent lenses in a direction of optical axes...

20060139772 - Method of fixing optical member and optical unit: In a method of fixing an optical member for fixing the optical member to a supporting member, an intermediate member that is fused upon irradiation light is disposed between the optical member and the supporting member. By irradiating the light that is transmitted through the optical member onto the intermediate...

20060139776 - Compound lens assembling method, compound lens assembled by the same, and camera: Disclosed is a method of assembling plural single lenses of a compound lens such that optical axes of the single lenses are aligned with each other. The method includes: pressing the single lenses disposed respectively on the opposite sides of a cylindrical spacer against the spacer by a pair of...

20060139777 - Lens barrel and optical device: A lens barrel and an optical device that can be reduced in size while maintaining high optical performance. A lens barrel has a cam ring (3) that is disposed for rotation about an optical axis. A linked member (37) can advance and recede in a direction of the optical axis...

20060139774 - Lens mount assembly for optical components: A lens mount assembly for securing a lens in a predetermined position within an optical device is disclosed. The lens mount assembly is configured so as to retain the lens in a press fit arrangement, thereby eliminating the need for adhesives or other mechanical means in order to secure the...

20060139773 - Optical element fixing structure, optical element fixing body, optical element, and optical element holder: The present invention provides an optical element fixing structure, an optical element fixing body, an optical element and an optical element holder which make tightening with a fixing screw unnecessary, prevents thereby a decrease in performance, such as the generation of strain in the optical element such as a crystal,...

20060139775 - Optical element holding device, lens barrel, exposing device, and device producing method: A frame member of an optical element holding device integrally includes an inner ring, an outer ring, six arms, and a lever connected to each arm. Each arm is rotatably connected to the inner ring and the lever. The lever is rotatable with respect to the outer ring. The orientation...

20060139779 - Beam manipulation using sets of wedges: Compact beam manipulators employ one or more Risley prism sets with or without a parallel plate translator. One beam manipulator contains a plate mounted to permit pitch and yaw adjustments and a prism set mounted to permit rotations. The rotations of the prisms adjust a beam direction, and adjustment of...

20060139778 - Silicone rubber surfaces for biometric print tir prisms: Molded silicone rubber sheets with optical quality surfaces and methods for making the same. The silicone rubber sheets are made by molding liquid silicone rubber in a mold. In embodiments, the mold forms parallel optical quality flat surfaces. In one embodiment, a stiffening plastic is molded in the middle of...

20060139780 - Variable transmittance optical element and imaging optical system including the same arranged at distal end of an endoscope: A variable transmittance optical element is provided in an imaging optical system of an endoscope, and includes small etalons or multiple microscopic mirror that have an effective part that allows passage of a light beam received at a unit light receiving area that corresponds to an individual pixel, or a...

20060139781 - Two component mirror and method of assembly: In inside or outside rearview mirrors of motor vehicles, the mirror housing (2) and the frame (4) constitute two parts, whereby the frame (4) is held on the mirror housing (3) by means of clips. In order to produce the component (2, 4) in a simple and economical manner, the...

20060139782 - Interior rearview mirror system with compass: An interior rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly and a compass sensor having first and second magnetoresponsive sensing elements. A physical mount mounts the compass sensor at the rear of the reflective element whereby the compass sensor adjusts in tandem with adjustment of the reflective element by...

20060139783 - Glazing panel carrying a coating stack: A glazing panel has a coating stack comprising in sequence at least a base antireflective layer, an infra-red reflecting layer, a top antireflective layer and a top coat layer comprising at least one material selected from the group consisting of nitrides, oxynitrides, carbides, oxycarbides and carbonitrides of the elements of...

20060139784 - Uniformity correction system having light leak compensation: A system and method for uniformity correction having light leak compensation is provided. The system includes multiple correction elements. The correction elements can be moved within an illumination slot. Adjacent correction elements are separated by a gap. Each correction element includes a compensation portion and a normal attenuation portion. The...

20060132877 - Lithographically fabricated holographic optical identification element: A method for fabricating an optical identification element is provided, wherein a removable plate or substrate having photosensitive material fabricated thereon, one or more gratings are written on the photosensitive material, then lines are etched to create one or more separate optical identification elements. The one or more gratings may...

20060132882 - High speed, high efficiency optical pattern generator using rotating optical elements: An optical pattern generator includes one or more multi-faceted rotating optical elements that introduce an offset that is rotation insensitive. The component that generates the offset is rotationally symmetric around the rotational axis of the optical element. Thus, as the optical element rotates, the effect of the offset component does...

20060132878 - Method of scanning and light collection for a rare cell detector: An apparatus images a surface. An imager stage has a planar surface for supporting a sample. A fiber optic bundle has a first end of parallel first fiber ends that are arranged to define an input aperture for viewing the sample on the imager stage. A distal bundle end is...

20060132879 - Mirror support device and optical scanning apparatus adopting the same: In a mirror support device and an optical scanning apparatus adopting the same, a mirror is installed in a holder, an elastic clasp elastically urges the mirror toward a vertical wall of the holder, and a mirror aligning part is arranged at the vertical wall with a predetermined pattern to...

20060132881 - Mirror support device and optical scanning apparatus adopting the same: A mirror support device has a frame with a mounting surface on which a mirror is mounted at an angle. An elastic member has a first end, a second end, and a plurality of pressing portions. The first end is fixed to the top of the frame, and the second...

20060132880 - Optical-element holding device, method of adjusting shape of optical element, optical-element shape adjusting device, method of correcting scanning line variation, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus: An optical-element holding device includes an elastic member that presses an optical element with an elastic force in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical element and orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the optical element, and a support member that forms a pair with the elastic...

20060132883 - Scanner element having a constant resonance frequency, and optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using such a scanner element: A scanner element includes a frame part formed by a substrate, a movable plate formed inside the frame part and a torsion bar swingably supporting the movable plate on the frame part. One of the movable plate and the torsion bar has an adjusting part formed by a process of...

20060132884 - Semiconductor optical modulator integrated resistor for impedance matching using semiconductor doped layer and method of fabricating the same: Provided is a semiconductor optical modulator device in which a resistor for impedance matching is integrated in a device in order to improve performance and to reduce cost during the fabrication of an ultra high speed optical modulator module. A doped layer in an epitaxial layer of the optical modulator...

20060132885 - Electrochromic display device: The invention concerns an electrochromic device comprising a single supporting substrate (1) on which are disposed a working electrode (6) which is electrochromic per se and/or bears an electrochromic material on at least a portion thereof; a counter electrode (3); and a layer of an electrically insulating material (4) separating...

20060132886 - Optical device and photographic unit: An optical device comprises; an electromotive force generating element that generates an electromotive force; and an electrochromic element to be driven by the electromotive force, wherein at the time when the optical device is turned on and an optical density of the electrochromic element becomes constant, a consumed electric current...

20060132888 - Actuator for tilting reflecting mirror of digital micromirror device for digital light processing type projection: A reflecting mirror tilting actuator comprises a base having an inner space defined therein, a mirror holder having a fixing part fixed to the base and a horizontal part integrally connected with the fixing part by a resilient connection part, the mirror holder being provided with at least one resilient...

20060132887 - System, apparatus and method for maskless lithography that emulates binary, attenuating phase-shift and alternating phase-shift masks: A tilting mirror design for maskless lithography is proposed. In this mirror, the tilting portion occupies about 60% of the entire element area. The surrounding space is made 100% reflective and out-of-phase with respect to the tilting portion. The ratio between the tilting portion of the mirror and the out-of-phase...

20060132890 - Bias voltage routing scheme for a digital micro-mirror device: An apparatus for use with a digital micro-mirror includes a hinge disposed outwardly from a substrate and capable of at least partially supporting a micro-mirror disposed outwardly from the hinge. The micro-mirror capable of being selectively transitioned between an on-state position and an off-state position based at least in part...

20060132892 - Double substrate reflective spatial light modulator with self-limiting micro-mechanical elements: A spatial light modulator includes an upper optically transmissive substrate held above a lower substrate containing addressing circuitry. One or more electrostatically deflectable elements are suspended by hinges from the upper substrate. In operation, individual mirrors are selectively deflected and serve to spatially modulate light that is incident to, and...

20060132891 - Mems switch and method of fabricating the same: A micro electro mechanical system switch and a method of fabricating the same. The micro electro mechanical system switch includes a substrate a plurality of signal lines formed at sides an upper surface of the substrate and including switching contact points and a plurality of immovable electrodes on the upper...

20060132889 - Method for increasing the resolution of a patial light modulator: In a method for increasing the native resolution of a spatial light modulator, the light-modulating elements of the spatial light modulator are illuminated with spots of light that are smaller in size than the light-modulating elements. The spots of light are moved to different positions with respect to the light-modulating...

20060132893 - Optical modulator with a traveling surface relief pattern: A variable modulator assembly includes a deformable layer adhered to a compliant layer surface, and an n-phase electrode configuration, n>2, adhered to an opposite surface of the compliant layer. A controller is configured to selectively apply a variable signal to the selected electrodes of the electrode configuration. Application of the...

20060132894 - Bisymmetrical electric paper and a system therefor: The presently described embodiments provide electric paper, in one form, that is bisymmetrical, both sides of the paper have the same thicknesses of mylar layers and the same thicknesses and patterns of ITO islands. In another form, a disordered layer of conductive particles, non-conductive particles and display elements has the...

20060132896 - Core-shell particles for electrophoretic display: The invention relates to electrophoretic displays comprising core-shell pigment particles having a core of low specific gravity and low refractive index and a shell of high refractive index....

20060132897 - Process for imagewise opening and filling color display components and color displays manufactured thereof: This invention relates to the field of electrophoretic displays. In particular, it relates to imagewise opening, filling and sealing multicolor display components and the manufacture of multicolor displays....

20060132895 - Process for producing sheet for electrophoretic display, sheet for electrophoretic display, and its use: A process for producing a sheet for electrophoretic display including steps of: (a) continuously running a strip-shaped substrate sheet in which an electrically conductive layer is formed on a substrate film, and coating, on the substrate sheet, a coating solution containing a microcapsule for electrophoretic display, using a coating apparatus...

20060132899 - Micromechanical optical switch: An optical switch element is described, which includes a fixed layer disposed outwardly from a substrate and a movable mirror assembly disposed outwardly from the fixed layer. The moveable mirror assembly is operable to move relative to the fixed layer responsive to a voltage applied to the movable mirror assembly....

20060132898 - Structure and method for reducing thermal stresses on a torsional hinged device: Method and structure for mounting a torsional hinged device, such as a mirror, having a first TCE (thermal coefficient of expansion) on a substrate having a second TCE different than said first TCE. The structure comprising a plurality of compliant support posts between the substrate and the torsional hinged device...

20060132900 - Electrooptical element: An electrooptical element is disclosed, made from a crystal (4), for an electrooptical modulator (EOM), for example, a Pockels cell, comprising a housing (5), with the crystal (4) arranged therein in the form of a vertical cylinder, the both end surfaces of which form a front plane, for entry of...

20060132902 - Design of quasi-phasematched optical frequency converters: Quasi-phasematching design to provide an approximation to a desired spectral amplitude response A(f) is provided. An initial phase response φ(f) corresponding to A(f) is generated. Preferably, d2φ(f)/df2 is proportional to A2(f). A function h(x) is computed such that h(x) and H(f)=A(f)exp(iφ(f)) are a Fourier transform pair. A domain pattern function...

20060132901 - Optical power combining for optical frequency conversion having nonlinear feedback: Wavelength combining for nonlinear frequency conversion is provided having nonlinear feedback to the sources being combined. Power that is fed back to the sources is obtained from within a wavelength conversion device. Therefore, the feedback power to a source has a nonlinear dependence on input power provided by that source...

20060132903 - Passive phasing of fiber amplifiers: A method passively locks and phases an array of fiber amplifiers in a fiber amplifier system that emits a beam, such as a laser beam. The method locks the fiber amplifiers so that the fiber amplifiers operate at same or similar frequencies. The method samples a small portion of the...

20060132904 - Microchip-yb fiber hybrid optical amplifier for micro-machining and marking: The invention describes techniques for the control of the spatial as well as spectral beam quality of multi-mode fiber amplification of high peak power pulses as well as using such a configuration to replace the present diode-pumped, Neodynium based sources. Perfect spatial beam-quality can be ensured by exciting the fundamental...

20060132905 - Passive broad long wave and mid-wave infrared optical limiting prism: Method for limiting the amount of radiation impinging on a radiation sensitive detector that is responsive to signals of interest having infrared wavelengths of approximately 3 to 14 microns, such as an infrared camera. The method includes: directing a radiation signal through a prism and toward the radiation sensitive detector;...

20060132906 - Passive broadband long wave and mid-wave infrared optical limiter device: Method for limiting amount of radiation impinging on a radiation-sensitive detector device by directing radiation toward the detector, permitting the radiation to impinge upon the detector device when the radiation is below a predetermined threshold, and utilizing radiation having wavelengths different from signals of interest to initiate limiting of the...

20060132907 - Solid catadioptric lens with two viewpoints: A dual viewpoint solid catadioptric lens has a first spherical refractive surface S1 having a center C1 located on an optical axis of the lens and having a radius r1, and a second spherical refractive surface S2 having a center C2 located on the optical axis of the lens and...

20060132908 - Apparatus and methods for focusing and collimating telescopes: A telescope capable of motorized focus and/or collimation. The telescope includes control electronics capable of correcting the focus and/or collimation based on identified information, such as, for example, information about optical or other elements of the telescope, information about a user or imaging device, or the like. In various embodiments,...

20060132910 - Efficient illumination for display systems and in methods for displaying: A display system (100, 200, 300, 350, 400, 450) for displaying an image is described. The display system (100, 200, 300, 350, 400, 450) typically comprises one or a plurality of individual light sources (102) and a light collecting stage (110, 210, 310, 410) which comprises a separate light collecting...

20060132909 - Mobile screen storage compartment (mssc): A mobile screen storage compartment that stores a video display screen and is attached to one side of a truck trailer. The screen is extended, retracted and held in place using hydraulic lift devices and stabilizing devices stored in the compartment along with the display screen. Command and control of...

20060132912 - Substrate materials for transparent injection-molded parts: A substrate material, preferably polycarbonate, suitable for producing transparent injection-molded coated disks is disclosed. The material is characterized in that a substrate molded therefrom has an electrical field (measured within 5 minutes of its molding and at a distance of 100 mm from the surface) of −30 to 0 kV/m....

20060132911 - Transmission type screen and rear projection display: In a transmission type screen structured to have at least two layers, namely, a first layer having a lenticular lens and having black stripes on the viewer's side relative to the lenticular lens and a second layer adjacent to the first layer, which are disposed sequentially as viewed from the...

20060132913 - Screen, a fresnel lens sheet used for the screen, and an image display apparatus using the screen: The present invention provides a technology suitable for shortening a depth of a image display apparatus while obtaining a picture of high quality. According to the invention, a total reflection prism portion is provided on a side of a Fresnel lens sheet toward a picture source. The total reflection prism...

20060132914 - Method and system for displaying an informative image against a background image: Incident image displaying device for displaying at least one incident image against a scene image of a scene, the incident image displaying device including at least one light guide, at least one input beam transforming element, at least one output beam transforming element and a scene image reflector, each of...

20060132916 - Autostereoscopic display: An image of a stereoscopic display 27 with a display 1 and a lens array 2 integrated with each other is taken by a camera 3, and a positional relation of each pixel of the display 1 and each lens center of the lens array 2 is determined by a...

20060132915 - Visual interfacing apparatus for providing mixed multiple stereo images: A visual interfacing apparatus for providing mixed multiple stereo images is provided. The visual interfacing apparatus includes: an external image processor receiving the actual image of the object and the external stereo images, dividing the received image into left/right viewing images, and outputting the left/right images; a viewing information extractor...

20060132917 - Method for making an optical system with coated optical components and optical system made by the method: In a method for making an optical system for imaging a radiation distribution from an input surface of the optical system into an output surface of the optical system, the optical system has a multiplicity of optical components which determine an imaging quality of the optical system, which are arranged...

20060132918 - Retroreflector with controlled divergence made by the method of localized substrate stress: A cube corner array with minute modifications of the dihedral angles of some of the cube corners is produced by introducing a stress or change via the opposite side of the substrate. The array having aberrated elements can be replicated for use in the manufacture of a tool, and the...

20060132920 - Blazed diffractive optical element and projection objective for a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus: A blazed diffractive optical element has a support and a plurality of blazed diffraction structures. The diffraction structures are applied on the support and are spaced apart by a locally varying grating constant. In a first region, the diffraction structures have an at least approximately ramp-shaped profile. In a second...

20060132919 - Composite for beam shaping: The present invention relates to beam shaping elements, such as for example lenses, diffractive elements or mirrors, which exist as composites, comprising an inorganic substrate and an organic substrate in the form of a polymer, which can be thermally cured at temperatures between 0 and 180° C. Preferably, the organic...

20060132921 - Method and system for generating substantially uniform speckle patterns: A diffractive optical element is positioned in an optical path between a coherent light source and a surface. The diffractive optical element is designed to disperse the light across one or more spots on the surface in a manner designed to create speckle patterns having substantially uniform intensities....

20060132922 - Hard-coated antiglare film and method of manufacturing the same: There are provided a hard-coated antiglare film with high hardness, high scratch resistance and good antiglare properties, a method of manufacturing the film, an optical element using the film, and an image display including the film or the optical element. The hard-coated antiglare film of the invention includes a transparent...

20060132923 - Rearview mirror: A rearview mirror includes a housing, a frame, a front and a rear glass members retained between the housing and the frame. The front and the rear glass members are sealably bonded together in a spaced-apart relationship to define a chamber receiving an electrochromic medium. The front glass member made...

20060132925 - Optical arrangements for head mounted displays: A mechanism for adjusting an apparatus for the inter-pupilar distance of a user is disclosed. Example embodiments of the disclosed mechanism use gears that link the movements of eye-optics and reflectors placed along the optical path. When the eye-optics are adjusted, this movement causes a movement in the linked reflectors...

20060132924 - Portable adaptor and software for use with a heads-up display unit: A heads-up display (HUD) adaptor for use in combination with an existing heads-up display (HUD) unit, wherein the HUD adaptor receives an electronic peripheral device in order to display electronic data and information from the peripheral on the screen of the existing HUD unit on a vehicle's windshield. The HUD...

20060132926 - Complex lens: An embodiment of a complex lens (1) includes a central substrate (10), two opposite glass layers (12), and two opposite IR-cut layers (13). The substrate is made of transparent plastic, such as polycarbonate or polymethyl methacrylate. The glass layers are deposited on opposite surfaces of the substrate. The IR-cut layers...

20060132927 - Electrowetting chromatophore: A biomimetic optical stack that operates on the basis of electrowetting. The stack is comprised of several layers of solid and liquid materials sandwiched together to form a single hermetic panel. The first layer in the stack is a dielectric (10). The second layer in the stack is an electrode...

20060132928 - Taking optical system and image sensing apparatus: The present invention provides a compact, high-performance, and easy-to-manufacture taking optical system that offers an extremely high zoom ratio. The taking optical system includes, from the subject side, a first lens group having a positive optical power, a second lens group having a negative optical power, a third lens group...

20060132929 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus having the system: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a negative optical power; a second lens unit having a positive optical power; and a third lens unit having a positive optical...

20060132930 - Lens for a laser-ignited internal combustion engine: Lens for a laser-ignited internal combustion engine, with an at least approximately spherical basic shape, the lens (1) having an aspherical region (3) which is formed so that the lens (1) is at least approximately free from spherical aberration....

20060132931 - Catadioptric projection objective: A catadioptric projection objective for imaging a pattern arranged in the object plane (102) of the projection objective into the image plane (104) of the projection objective has a catadioptric first objective part (105) having at least one concave mirror (106), and a dioptric second objective part (108) in which...

20060132932 - Concentrating type solar collection and daylighting system within glazed building envelopes: A Fresnel lens comprising a substantially polygonal focusing portion adapted to focus solar radiation to a area having the same geometry as the focusing portion of the lens. Also a solar module comprising the Fresnel collecting lens and a substantially polygonal photovoltaic cell. The photovoltaic cell is mounted at distance...

20060132933 - Lens apparatus: From an object, a first lens that is a meniscus lens having a convex surface that faces an object, a second lens that faces a concave surface of the first lens, a third lens having a concave surface that faces the second lens, and a fourth lens that is a...

20060132934 - Light fixture lens retaining device and method: The present invention provides a retainer assembly and method for securely retaining a lens in a housing such as a light fixture bezel. An exemplary retainer assembly includes a lens and lens seal within a light bezel having threads and a contact surface formed on the bezel interior, a retaining...

20060132935 - Manufacturing method of camera module: A lens holder, which supports a light receiving lens, is screwed into a barrel portion of a body holder by respectively engaging hooks, which are provided in a screwing piece, with engaging-grooves formed in an end surface of the lens holder and then rotating the screwing piece. The screwing position...

20060132936 - Electromagnetic focusing module: A focusing module (100) for use in a digital camera module (200) includes a lens barrel (10), a first lens (12), a magnetic element (14), a second lens (11), and an electromagnetic element (15). The first lens (12) is disposed in the lens barrel (10). The magnetic element (14) is...

20060132937 - Optical pickup actuator: There is provided an optical pickup actuator for actuating a lens holder having an object lens according to an interaction between coils and magnets. The optical pickup actuator includes a lens-seating portion formed on the lens holder to support the object lens and a lens guide portion protruding from the...

20060132938 - Compact and high performance opto-mechanical switch: A 2×2 opto-mechanical switch is disclosed. A first embodiment of the present invention utilizes a transmitting compact parallel prism and four or two pieces of the 45-degree prism to increase the beam separation. The compact parallel prism keeps a much smaller load to the relay arm. This makes the current...

20060132939 - Interior rearview mirror system with compass: An interior rearview mirror system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly, a casing having a reflective element, a compass sensor and a control. The compass sensor is disposed within the mirror casing and has a first magnetoresponsive sensing element and a second magnetoresponsive sensing element. The control...

20060132940 - Forward view apparatus for motor vehicles: Forward view apparatus (10) for a motor vehicle, to enable the driver of the vehicle to view an image of objects which are located forward of the apparatus (10), includes a housing (12) in which a rear view mirror (14) is located. A two-mirror arrangement (20, 24) within the housing...

20060132941 - Vehicle rearview mirror system with protocol detection: An automatic dimming vehicle mirror system includes an automatic dimming mirror assembly having automatic dimming circuitry. The automatic dimming circuitry includes a mirror control and at least a first silicon-based photo sensor and a second silicon-based photo sensor. The first silicon-based photo sensor is sensitive to both visible light and...

20060132942 - Motor vehicle rear view safety mirror: A rear view safety mirror (100) provides a full view of the rear area or a rear interior portion of a motor vehicle. The rear view safety mirror (100) includes a frame (106) that is adjustably attachable to a front portion of the motor vehicle. At least one mirror is...

20060132943 - Outer mirror: An outer mirror includes a mirror base having a protrusion extending laterally from a side face of a vehicle body; a shaft fixed onto the protrusion; a mirror housing rotatably mounted on the shaft; a mirror for reflecting a rear view mounted on the mirror housing; and an auxiliary mirror...

20060132944 - Vehicle side mirror assembly with rearward and forward viewing: Disclosed is an outer mirror in which individual components are easy to assemble and which is superior in durability. An outer mirror includes a mirror base having a protrusion which sticks out outward from a side face of a vehicle body, a shaft being placed on the protrusion, and a...

20060132945 - Microstructured optical film and production process thereof: To provide an optical film (10) which is improved in visibility without the adhesive of a fingerprint and the deterioration of the contrast, is capable of resisting of scratch or the like, and is useful particularly for a touch panel or an image display device. The optical film (10) comprises...

20060132946 - Plasma display panel (pdp) assembly: A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) assembly includes: a panel assembly including a front panel and a rear panel disposed to face the front panel; a chassis base adapted to support the panel assembly; driving circuit units adapted to be attached to the chassis base; flexible printed cables adapted to have...

20060132948 - Color wheel and color filter assembly thereof: A color filter assembly rotates around a central axis thereof and includes a carrier defining a radially extending holes, a color filter fixed to the carrier, and a balancing element movably received and selectively positionable along each hole. Selectively positioning the balancing with respect to the central axis allows for...

20060132947 - Color wheel and motor thereof: A color wheel includes a color filter and a motor. In this case, the motor has an shaft, a rotor-oriented element, and a motor shell. The shaft is vertically installed on the rotor-oriented element. The motor shell has an opening in a direction of the shaft. The rotor-oriented element and...

20060126141 - Holographic recording medium and holographic recording medium manufacturing method: A holographic recording medium includes a transparent layer having a servo surface and a light incidence surface which face each other; a reflecting layer formed on the servo surface-side transparent layer; and a holographic recording layer formed on the light illuminating-side transparent layer. The transparent layer includes resin films laminated...

20060126142 - Illumination apparatus for display device using hologram-based light guide plate (lgp): An illumination apparatus and method for a display device designed such that light is incident on a hologram or hologram pattern at an angle for which diffraction efficiency is the highest. The illumination apparatus includes at least one point light source which emits light and a light guide plate (LGP)...

20060126143 - Hologram recording device, hologram reproduction device, hologram recording method, and hologram reproducing method: In recording of an interference fringe of a reference beam and a signal beam in a hologram recording medium, at the time of multiple recording of holograms in the same recording region by varying the angle of incidence of the reference beam on the hologram recording medium, the angular pitch...

20060126145 - Methods and apparatus to make substantially uniform losses in optical cross connects: A method for cross connecting optical signals includes using a common beam steerer to direct a set of optical signals from a set of input ports to a set of output ports. The method further includes adjusting a curvature of the common beam steerer so that paths of the optical...

20060126144 - Optical microscanning system and method with embedded scannable photo-pumped light source: An optical microscanning system for selectively emitting a highly coherent, collimated, and monochromatic beam of light (122) in a desired trajectory and selectively redirecting the trajectory within a scan field. The system includes a fixed light source (112) of substantially coherent, collimated, and monochromatic light (118) and an optically pumped...

20060126146 - Light beam deflector: A light beam deflector for recording an image at a recording medium, at which a light beam modulated in accordance with image information passes through an incidence face of a cubic prism which is driven to rotate, the light beam deflector reflecting the light beam at a reflection surface, emitting...

20060126147 - Scanning optical system: A scanning optical system is provided with a light source configured to emit a plurality of beams, a deflecting device configured to deflect the plurality of beams simultaneously to scan in a main scanning direction, and an imaging optical system configured to converge the plurality of beams on a plurality...

20060126148 - Optical scanning unit and image forming apparatus: An optical apparatus for irradiating a surface to be scanned with laser light comprises rotary deflecting means for deflecting laser light emitted by a laser emitting means in a shape of a plane, a mirror for reflecting the laser light, an enclosure for housing the mirror, a first mirror supporting...

20060126149 - Technique for inducing frequency selective changes in a photosensitive material: This invention relates to a technique for inducing frequency selective changes in photo-sensitive materials. It is known to store data in photo-sensitive materials using frequency selective optical data storage (FSDS). In order to improve the storage density, the present invention proposes storing data in the photo-sensitive material using a single...

20060126150 - Electrochromic rearview mirror incorporating a third surface reflector with at least on graphical indicia: The inventive electrochromic mirror may be used in a vehicle rearview mirror assembly having a light source positioned behind the electrochromic mirror for selectively projecting light through the mirror. The electrochromic mirror includes front and rear spaced elements each having front and rear surfaces and being sealably bonded together in...

20060126152 - High-resolution spatial light modulation: Methods and apparatus for providing a high-resolution spatial light modulator. A spatial light modulator includes a cell that includes: a substrate portion; a first support post and a second support post, each having a top surface; and a micro mirror. The micro mirror includes a bottom layer that includes a...

20060126153 - High-resolution spatial light modulation: Methods and apparatus for providing a high-resolution spatial light modulator. A spatial light modulator includes a cell that includes: a substrate portion; a first support post and a second support post, each having a top surface; and a micro mirror that includes a hinge member having a first end and...

20060126151 - Segmented mems mirror for adaptive optics or maskless lithography: An apparatus having a plurality of arrayed MEMS devices, each device having a parallel-plate actuator and a reflective plate, both of which are mechanically coupled to a flexible beam attached between two anchors. Advantageously, the use of parallel-plate actuators in the apparatus alleviates stringent requirements for the alignment of lithographic...

20060126154 - Electrophoretic display, method for making the electrophoretic display, and electronic apparatus: An electrophoretic display comprising a plurality of microcapsules disposed between a pair of substrates, wherein each microcapsule comprises a capsule body containing an insulating fluid and charged particles dispersed in the fluid. The microcapsules are contacted with at least the substrate arranged at a display face side of the pair...

20060126155 - Speckle reduction for display system with electromechanical grating: A display system (10) with reduced speckle has a light source (70) providing an illumination beam and a linear light modulator (85) having at least one linear array of light modulating devices for forming a modulated beam. The modulated beam has a plurality of orders of diffracted light. An obstructing...

20060126156 - Display: A display is provided for providing a restricted viewing mode, for example a private viewing mode where the display may be viewed from a limited region of space by a single viewer and not by other people outside the viewing region. The display comprises a source of polarised light and...

20060126157 - Monolithic integrated semiconductor modulator-soa-led broad band light source and method of fabricating the same: Provided is a monolithic integrated semiconductor broad band light source. In the monolithic integrated semiconductor broad band light source, an electro absorption modulator, a semiconductor optical amplifier, and a light emitting diode are integrated on an InP substrate. Ions are implanted among the electro absorption modulator, the semiconductor optical amplifier,...

20060126160 - Dispersion compensating fiber for s-band discrete raman amplifier: A dispersion compensating fiber (DCF), which is an amplification medium of an S-band discrete Raman amplifier (RA), has a trapezoid core, an inner cladding surrounding the trapezoid core; and an outer cladding surrounding the inner cladding. A ring is disposed between the inner cladding and the outer cladding. The refractive...

20060126161 - Optical fiber: Provided is an optical fiber. The optical fiber includes a core and a cladding, the core containing a first element for inducing non-linear Raman phenomenon, either of the core and the cladding containing a second element which is a rare earth element, wherein when the optical fiber is pumped by...

20060126162 - Optical fiber for raman amplification, optical fiber coil, raman amplifier, and optical communication system: An optical fiber for Raman amplification amplifies a signal light with a pumping light. A chromatic dispersion at a wavelength of 1,550 nm is in a range between −70 ps/nm/km and −30 ps/nm/km. Raman gain efficiency with a pumping light of 1,450 nm is equal to or more than 5...

20060126159 - Parallel-structured raman optical amplifier: A parallel-structured Raman optical amplifier includes a very wide gain band for use in Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) scheme—based optical transmission. The parallel-structured Raman optical amplifier for amplifying an input optical signal of a plurality of channels having different center wavelengths received via a single optical path includes: a...

20060126158 - Raman amplifier: A Raman amplifier for amplifying WDM radiation propagating along an optical fiber, the WDM radiation comprising a plurality of radiation components each having a selected waveband, comprises a plurality of optical radiation generators operable to generate pump radiation of a selected wavelength and power, the radiation being coupled into the...

20060126163 - Continuous wave pumped parallel fiber optical parametric amplifier: A number of nonlinear optical fibers are configured in a parallel configuration. The fibers are pumped with optical pumps having a wavelength slightly longer than the zero dispersion wavelength for each fiber. By a demultiplexer optical signals within a certain wavelength interval are admitted to enter and exit the different...

20060126164 - Gain-clamped fiber amplifier: Provided is a gain-clamped fiber amplifier for amplifying the magnitude of an input optical signal in an optical communication system. The gain-clamped fiber amplifier includes a first amplifier for amplifying a predetermined optical signal and a second amplifier for compensating for a noise figure characteristic of the first amplifier and...

20060126165 - Method and system for determining gain for an optical signal: A method for determining gain for an optical signal includes measuring a first power level that is an output power level of an optical signal at a first optical node, communicating the optical signal to a second optical node, and communicating the first power level to the second optical node...

20060126166 - Side-pumping laser and optical fiber system: An optical system couples laser light into an optical fiber, such as a optical amplifier fiber, from the side of the fiber by side-pumping of the fiber that is in contact with the laser such that refracted laser light is redirected into and through the fiber using direct attachment of...

20060126167 - Surgical microscope support system: A microscope system includes an adjustable arm attached at one end to a support mount. A suspension member is configured at an opposite end of the adjustable arm and supports a scope assembly. The scope assembly includes a head harness and a microscope adjustably connected to the harness such that...

20060126168 - Method for improved forensic detection: An apparatus and method for improved forensic detection using multi-view digital imaging of forensic specimens at a plurality of reflected, scattered, emitted, transmitted or absorbed wavelengths to provide new detailed information to distinguish and differentiate forensic materials and samples....

20060126169 - Construction element, method and apparatus for manufacturing a construction element, computer program and mirror: A construction element comprising: a first side with at least one first opening; a second side with at least one second opening; at least one first space between the first and second side connected to the first opening; at least one second space between the first and second side connected...

20060126170 - Microscope apparatus, sensitivity setting method for photo detector, control unit, and storage medium: Light emitted from a light source is condensed and a sample is irradiated by the condensed beam by an optical system. The light emitted from the sample because of the irradiation is incident on a light detection unit via a wavelength selective optical device having different transmittances depending on wavelengths,...

20060126171 - High dynamic range display devices: A display has a screen which incorporates a light modulator. The screen may be a front projection screen or a rear-projection screen. Elements of the light modulator may be controlled to adjust the intensity of light emanating from corresponding areas on the screen. The display may provide a high dynamic...

20060126173 - Rear projection screen: There is provided a rear projection screen for transmitting image light. The rear projection screen has a plurality of single lenses arrayed evenly on an incident plane for inputting the image light and having focal points in the vicinity of an outgoing plane of the rear projection screen, an incident-side...

20060126172 - Rear projection-type screen and rear projection-type image display device: A rear projection-type screen includes two sheet-like members having lenses prevented from being deformed and scratched. In the rear projection-type screen (5) for passing and focusing image light L emitted from an image light source (3), two sheet-like members (a lenticular lens sheet 7 and a Fresnel lens sheet 8)...

20060126174 - Retroprojection screen: A rear projection screen has successively, starting from the projector and moving outwards, a Fresnel lens (6), a surface diffuser (8), a thin support (10) bonded onto a thick substrate (24) provided with an outer anti-glare (26) layer. Light emitted by the projector (2) is collimated by the Fresnel lens...

20060126175 - Viewing screens including carbon materials and methods of using: Viewing screens having highly light absorptive carbon nanotubes, fullerenes and/or fullerides dispersed in a resinous or polymeric material as part of the light absorbing material located between the light transmission apertures. The highly light absorptive composite of carbon nanotubes, fullerenes and/or fullerides and polymeric material may be conductive. A voltage...

20060126176 - Stereoscopic-endoscope display control apparatus and stereoscopic endoscope system: The present invention provides a system including a stereoscopic endoscope having left and right image pickup units for picking up parallactic images of an object through objective lenses laterally arranged at a distance from each other and CCDs laterally arranged at a distance from each other. In the stereoscopic endoscope,...

20060126177 - Barrier device and stereoscopic image display using the same: The present invention relates to a stereoscopic image display device including an active barrier for varying a barrier display pattern so as to display various stereoscopic images. In further detail, the stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel, a barrier, a barrier driver, and a controller. A stereoscopic image...

20060126178 - Etendue efficient combination of multiple light sources: A multi-colored illumination system comprising a beam combiner. The beam combiner comprises two triangular prisms and a filter for transmitting a first light and reflecting a second light, each light having a different wavelength. The beam combiner combines the transmitted first light and the reflected light to provide a combined...

20060126179 - Method and system for beam expansion in a display device: An exit pupil extender wherein the relative amount of different color components in the exit beam is more consistent with that of the input beam. In order to compensate for the uneven amount in the diffracted color components in the exit beam, the exit pupil extender, comprises a plurality of...

20060126180 - Objective lens system and optical pickup apparatus using the same: An objective lens system and an optical pickup apparatus using the same are provided. The objective lens system includes a diffractive optical element, and a half-ball lens disposed between the diffractive optical element and the medium, the half-ball lens having a spherical surface on a side facing the diffractive optical...

20060126181 - Method and system for beam expansion in a display device: An exit pupil extender with one input optical element and two exit optical elements disposed on different sides of the input optical element. The exit pupil extender also comprises two intermediate optical couplers, each disposed between the input optical element and one exit optical element. The couplers serve as exit...

20060126182 - General diffractive optics method for expanding an exit pupil: An exit pupil extender with one input optical element and two exit optical elements disposed on different sides of the input optical element. The exit pupil extender also comprises two intermediate diffractive optical couplers, each disposed between the input optical element and one exit optical element. The couplers serve as...

20060126183 - Geometrical phase optical elements with space-variant subwavelenght gratings: A space variant polarization optical element for spatially manipulating polarizationdependent geometrical phases of an incident light beam. The element comprises a substrate with a plurality of zones of gratings with a continuously varying orientation. The orientation denoted by θ(x-y) is equal to half of a desired geometrical phase (DGP) modulus...

20060126184 - Illumination system to eliminate laser speckle and projection system employing the same: An illumination system designed to remove laser speckle and a projection system including the same. The illumination system includes a laser light source having at least one laser, a diffractive optical element to divide a laser beam emitted from the laser light source into a plurality of sub-beams and to...

20060126185 - Microlens array sheet and method for manufacturing the same: Disclosed herein are a microlens array sheet using micro machining and a method for manufacturing the same. The microlens array sheet comprises a microlens array having a convex and concave surface including curved portions and boundary grooves formed between respective neighboring microlenses via laser micro machining, and a void filler...

20060126186 - Lenticular lens sheet, rear projection type screen, and rear projection type projector, and lenticular lens sheet producing method: The rear projection screen of the present invention has a lenticular lens sheet 1. In the input surface of the lenticular lens sheet 1, a first lens array 12 is formed on a first lens layer 14. In the boundary between the first lens layer 14 and a second lens...

20060126187 - Radiation detection apparatus: A radiation detection apparatus comprises a radiation detector and a lens arrangement. The lens arrangement comprises a polarising element and an optical corrector. The optical corrector is preferably located between the polarising element and the radiation detector and has at least one surface designed to correct optical aberrations present in...

20060126188 - Display optical system, image display apparatus, imae taking optical system, and image taking apparatus: A display optical system for guiding light from an original picture to an eye of an observer or a surface to have an image projected thereon is provided with a first optical system and a second optical system. The first optical system is provided with a first surface that is...

20060126189 - Optical member and method of producing the same: A plurality of optical members (lenses) for use in ultraviolet region are mutually stuck. A fluorine-based organic compound (for example, fluorine-based oil) is provided between them. The periphery of the optical members is sealed with a sealant. As the sealant, an adhesive fluorine resin, for example, a soluble fluorine resin...

20060126190 - Lens of variable focal length: A lens assembly of variable focal length comprises two transparent plates (24, 38) at least partially facing each other and parallel to one another and delimiting, at least in part, an internal volume (15) containing two non-miscible liquids having different optical indices. The lens comprises an elastic element (36) capable...

20060126191 - Zoom lens: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. The first, second, and third lens units are arranged in that order from an object side to an...

20060126192 - Wide-angle lens system: wherein f: the focal length of the entire lens system; f1a: the focal length of the negative first-sub-lens group ; f1b:the focal length of the positive second-sub-lens group ; f1bi: the focal length of the most image-side surface of the positive second-sub-lens group; r1bi: the radius of curvature of the...

20060126193 - Lens assembly for an image sensor background of the invention: A lens assembly for an image sensor comprises an aperture, a first lens, a second lens and a third lens, which are arranged sequentially from the object side. The first lens is a planoconvex lens or a positive meniscus lens whose convex surface faces the object side; the second lens...

20060126194 - Image pickup module, method of manufacturing the same, and spacer with infrared ray cut film: An image pickup module comprises a substrate mounting an image pickup element thereon, a holder mounted on the substrate so as to cover the image pickup element, the holder including a barrel portion for supporting a light receiving lens, the barrel portion having a stopper portion at its inner circumferential...

20060126195 - Device for receiving an optical module in an imaging unit: An apparatus is used for holding an optical assembly in an imaging device which has a number of optical assemblies. The optical assembly is suspended via at least one decoupling element in at least one area in a supporting structure. The resultant effect of the at least one decoupling element...

20060126196 - Transparent window with non-transparent contact surface for a soldering bonding: A transparent pane, in particular a glass pane, having at least one electroconducting, non-transparent contact surface placed on one of its surfaces, to connect it by soldering to a connection piece. In the region of the soldering location, the contact surface has at least one cutout via which the soldering...

20060126197 - Vehicular rearview mirror system with microcontroller: A vehicular rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror system that has an interior reflective element, a drive circuit, a tire pressure monitoring system and a microcontroller. The drive circuit supplies a drive signal to the interior mirror reflective element, which assumes a partial reflectance level in response thereto....

20060126199 - Color wheel and its manufacturing method: A color wheel, for use in a Digital Light Processing (DLP), capable of preventing a color filter from escaping away is disclosed. The color wheel includes a motor having a spindle to which a rotating disc is mounted, and a filter element mounted to the rotating disc. The filter element...

20060126198 - Color wheel, and color wheel assembly incorporating same: There is provided a color wheel including a plurality of color filters arranged so as to form a disk, and a retainer member disposed at a center of the disk and formed into a C-ring defining an open mouth portion through which an area of one color filter is exposed....

20060126200 - Method for dividing substrate and method for manufactruing substrate using such method: A main scribe line (MS) is formed along an intended divide line of a mother glass substrate (10) by sequentially forming vertical cracks (Vm) along the intended divide line. The vertical cracks (Vm) extend in the thickness direction of the mother glass (10). Next, a subsidiary scribe line (SS) is...

20060114530 - Continually variable dementalization of metalized films and similar objects: A method of generating a variable demetallized pattern in a holographic web and a security device using such method. A holographic microstructure pattern is imparted to an oligomer disposed on a surface of a substrate. A metal layer, such as aluminum, is deposited to the holographic microstructure pattern of the...

20060114534 - Digital focus lens system: A digital focus lens systems that can provide an optical system with a plurality of selectable focal powers is described. The system includes a number of switchable elements, each of which is capable of being switched between a first state and a second state, whereby the states represent unique focal...

20060114532 - Holographic printer: A single method and apparatus for producing many of the most common types of hologram from digital data is disclosed. In one embodiment the data are generated entirely by a computer as a 3-D (animated) model. In another embodiment the data are generated from multiple 2-D camera images taken of...

20060114533 - Switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal optical elements: Transmission and reflection type holograms may be formed utilizing a novel polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) material and its unique switching characteristics to form optical elements. Applications for these switchable holograms include communications switches and switchable transmission, and reflection red, green, and blue lenses. The PDLC material of the present invention...

20060114531 - Systems and methods for automated vehicle image acquisition, analysis, and reporting: The present invention relates to methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing automated vehicle image acquisition, analysis, and reporting. One embodiment of the invention includes a method for providing vehicle damage information to an interested party. The method can include receiving simultaneously captured image data associated with a vehicle. The method...

20060114535 - Laser light source device, hologram apparatus, and method for detecting laser light: A laser light source device includes a laser diode that emits multimode laser light, a first optical element that collimates the laser light emitted from the laser diode, a diffraction grating that reflects zero-order light in the collimated laser light in a predetermined direction other than a direction toward the...

20060114536 - Hologram recording medium: A hologram recording medium includes a hologram recording layer and a transparent substrate layer stacked on the hologram recording layer. The recording layer records an interference pattern of a recording beam and a reference beam. The transparent substrate layer has an inner surface facing the hologram recording layer, and this...

20060114537 - Beam deflector, light scanning unit using the same, and image forming apparatus using the light scanning unit: A beam deflector including a driving source for providing a rotation force, a beam deflection unit rotatably arranged on the driving source to deflect and scan an incident beam, and a cover member configured to cover the driving source and the beam deflection unit. The cover member has an aluminum...

20060114539 - Displaying least significant color image bit-planes in less than all image sub-frame locations: A color image is produced from image data. Color image bit-planes are generated from the image data. Each color image bit-plane represents a time increment for displaying one color of a plurality of colors for each pixel of the color image. For each of the colors, color patterns are displayed...

20060114538 - Light scanning device: A light scanning device includes a mirror that is disposed in the light path of scan light emitted from a light source and changes the light path by reflecting the scan light. The light scanning device also includes a reinforcement member that is fixed to the mirror. The reinforcement member...

20060114540 - Optical deflector and optical scanner having the optical deflector: The present invention provides an optical deflector capable of reducing a rise in heat of integrated circuits and a housing without increasing noises caused by a wind sound of a rotative polygon mirror, and an optical scanner having the optical deflector. Heat in a lover face of an integrated circuit...

20060114541 - Transducer and electronic device: The transducer (1) comprises an electrically conductive resonator element (20) extending in a longitudinal direction having a length (l). It can be elastically deformed by an electrically conductive actuator (30) such that the elastic deformation comprises a change of the length (dl). The resonator element (20) is electrically connected to...

20060114542 - Differential interferometric light modulator and image display device: A light modulator incorporates a polarization sensitive prism and a novel MEMS ribbon device to impart a relative phase shift to polarization components of an incident light beam. A linear array of phase shifting elements in the MEMS device creates a linear image which is scanned to form a two...

20060114543 - Differential interferometric light modulator and image display system: A differential interferometric light modulator and image display system comprises a polarizing beam splitter, a polarization displacement device and a linear array of MEMS optical phase shifting devices to modulate a line image. The polarizing beam splitter acts as both the polarizer and the analyzer in an interferometer. The polarization...

20060114544 - Polarization light modulator: Polarization light modulators are based on an interferometric design in which a polarizing beam splitter serves as a polarizer and analyzer. A polarization displacement device shifts orthogonally polarized light beams parallel to the long axis of their elongated cross sections. Phase shifts are imparted to the orthogonally polarized beams by...

20060114545 - Light modulating mirror device and array: A deformable reflector includes a plurality of MEMS devices, each having an electrode membrane having a reflective surface thereon, a flat surface, and a pulldown electrode formed in the flat substrate. The electrode membrane has substantially a same flatness of the flat substrate when the electrode membrane comes into contact...

20060114546 - Using time and/or power modulation to achieve dose gray-scaling in optical maskless lithography: In lithography applications, it is desirable to control, for example, a position or width of a printed line. An effective method of controlling these patterns and their resolution is by having as many grayscale levels as possible. The present invention comprises methods of grayscaling wherein modulation of the exposure time...

20060114547 - Projection system: An apparatus includes a mirror array to form a projected image that includes pixels. The apparatus also includes a circuit to, for each pixel, control the mirror array to selectively combine reflected light from at least two mirrors of the array to regulate an intensity of the pixel....

20060114548 - Multi-stage optical switching device: An optical switching device contains an active stage coupled to a passive stage. The index of refraction in the active stage is variable to change the entry direction of a light beam into the passive stage, which has a fixed index of refraction. Because the light beam can enter the...

20060114549 - Method and apparatus for imaging latent fingerprints: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for clearly imaging samples such as fingerprints on substrates of forensic samples. The present invention overcomes the problems of the Laser-Induced-Fluorescence (LIF) technique to distinguish fluorescence from the sample from that of the substrate. The method of the present invention uses...

20060114550 - Nonlinear pulse oscillator methods and apparatus: Methods and apparatus for implementing stable self-starting and self-sustaining electrical nonlinear pulse (e.g., soliton, cnoidal wave, or quasi-soliton) oscillators. In one example, a nonlinear pulse oscillator is implemented as a closed loop structure that comprises a nonlinear transmission line, an improved high-pass filter, and a nonlinear amplifier configured to provide...

20060114552 - Fluorinated crosslinked electro-optic materials and electro-optic devices therefrom: A nonlinear optical chromophore having the formula D-π-A, wherein π is a π bridge including a thiophene ring having oxygen atoms bonded directly to the 3 and 4 positions of the thiophene ring, D is a donor, and A is an acceptor....

20060114551 - Imaging device and an imaging method: An optical lens 1 makes three components of visible light and near infrared light in different wavelength regions severally form images at different locations according to their wavelengths. An imaging element 2 has a plurality of pixels, which include pixels having a visible light detection section 6 and pixels having...

20060114553 - Optical system for cell imaging: A microscope system (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″) includes a laser (18) or light emitting diode (18′″) that generates source light having a non-uniform spatial distribution. An optical system includes an objective (40) defining a field of view, and an optical train (22, 22′, 22″, 22′″) configured to convert the source...

20060114554 - Zoom microscope: It is an object to provide a zoom microscope of a simple structure which can expand a variable-power range. In order to achieve the object thereof, the zoom microscope includes a replaceable infinity correction objective lens, an aperture stop, an afocal zoom system, and an imaging optical system which are...

20060114555 - Tilt lens barrel for microscope: A lens barrel movable portion to which an eyepiece lens is attached is swiveled with respect to a main body. A first reflecting member which reflects a light beam from a microscope main body swivels in conjunction with swiveling of the lens barrel movable portion. An angle of swiveling is...

20060114556 - Panoramic field of view acquiring and displaying system: A panoramic field of view acquiring system comprises three telescopes, which acquire three separate images, each typically covering a little over one third of the total required scene and a multiplexer, which is used to transmit the three images, one at a time, to an appropriate detector. Standard imaging techniques...

20060114557 - Projection type display apparatus: A projection type display apparatus, wherein a common case can be used for housing an illumination optical system even when a shape of an image display element and an optical path length in a prism are different, is provided: wherein a light source for emitting an illumination light, an image...

20060114558 - Member with concave portions, a method of manufacturing a member with convex portions, a transmission screen, and a rear projection: A member 6 with concave portions used to manufacture a member with convex portions is disclosed. Each of the member with concave portions and the member with convex portions has two major surfaces, and a plurality of convex portions are formed on one of the two major surfaces of the...

20060114559 - Projection-type picture display apparatus and screen used thereby: A screen for use in a projection-type image display apparatus having an image displaying element which includes a plurality of pixels for modulating light from a light source so as to form an enlarged picture on the screen. The screen includes a Fresnel lens sheet having Fresnel lenses on a...

20060114560 - Projection screen and its manufacturing method: The invention provides a projection screen, wherein clear images can be obtained without being influenced by projection environments, the flexibility can be obtained, and its manufacturing cost can be reduced and its manufacturing method. An optical multilayer film is formed on a transparent substrate by alternately layering metal films and...

20060114561 - Image display unit: An image display that separates by a separating means respectively different images displayed on a screen so as to be introduced to an observer, and is constituted as a stereoscopic image display, and others. In a case of a four-viewpoint stereoscopic image display, an image {circle around (1)}, an image...

20060114562 - Optical element and optical pickup device used therewith: An optical element for reflecting light has a substrate and a thin film formed on the substrate. The thin film reflects light in a predetermined reflection wavelength band so that the thin film adjusts a difference in phase differences between a P-polarized light component and S-polarized light component of an...

20060114563 - Optical film with co-continuous phases: An optical film is provided which comprises a disperse phase of polymeric particles disposed within a continuous birefringent matrix. The film is oriented, typically by stretching, in one or more directions. The size and shape of the disperse phase particles, the volume fraction of the disperse phase, the film thickness,...

20060114565 - Optical splitting device and optical communication terminal comprising such a device: An optical splitting device is intended to receive at an input two beams of different wavelengths. The device includes a polarizing beam splitter designed to selectively transmit part of the beam having one of the wavelengths towards a first output or a second output depending on the polarization of said...

20060114564 - Switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal optical elements: Transmission and reflection type holograms may be formed utilizing a novel polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) material and its unique switching characteristics to form optical elements. Applications for these switchable holograms include communications switches and switchable transmission, and reflection red, green, and blue lenses. The PDLC material of the present invention...

20060114566 - Diffraction grating device and optical apparatus: A diffraction grating device for splitting or coupling light beams permits the divergence of the light beams to be minimized easily. A first light beam is incident on a diffraction grating from the side thereof facing the inside of the device, and a second light beam is incident on the...

20060114567 - Optical film for backlight unit and method for manufacturing the same: The present invention relates to an optical film for a backlight unit and a method for manufacturing the same. The optical film of the present invention comprises a light diffusion layer in which light diffusing particles are distributed, a first refraction layer which has a relatively low index of refraction...

20060114568 - Method and apparatus for combining optical beams: According to one aspect of the present invention, an apparatus for optically combining light beams is disclosed. The apparatus includes a set of prism shaped doorways configured to receive output beams from at least one optical device. Each of the plurality of doorways has a common refractive index. The apparatus...

20060114569 - Brightness enhancement film, and methods of making and using the same: In one embodiment, a brightness enhancement film comprises: a diffusing film comprising a front surface and a back surface, a coating on the front surface, and light redirecting structures disposed in the coating. The brightness enhancement film is capable of collimating light, and wherein, without the coating, the diffusing film...

20060114570 - Solid-state imaging device and method for manufacturing the same: A solid state imaging device includes a substrate having a plurality of pixels and a plurality of on-chip lenses arranged above the substrate, each on-chip lens having a lens surface formed by subjecting a transparent photosensitive film to exposure using a mask having a gradation pattern and development so that...

20060114571 - Flush-fitted instrument cluster for a motor vehicle: A flush-fitted instrument cluster for a motor vehicle includes a first display device, a second display device, and a reflecting optical combination device. The first display device (2) displays a first image located in a direct field of vision (3) of a viewer. The first image includes a background surface...

20060114572 - Optical radiation generation apparatus and method: A radiation generating apparatus includes an emitter bar having an array of optical radiation emitters arranged along a line, each emitter causing optical radiation to be emitted in substantially a common direction. The apparatus also includes one or more lenses, positioned adjacent the emitters, so as to collimate the radiation...

20060114573 - Optical element for use in eye protection devices and methods for its manufacture: An optical element is described comprising an optical part dyed so as to have a curve of the factor of spectral transmittance in a wavelength range comprised between 400 and 700 nm comprising: i) at least one relative maximum at a wavelength comprised between 400 and 510 nm, and ii)...

20060114574 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus having the same: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens system which includes, in order from an object side to an image side a first lens unit having negative optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, and a third lens unit having positive optical power. In...

20060114575 - Panoramic attachment optical system, and panoramic optical system: The invention relates to a panoramic attachment optical system and a panoramic optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image at a full 360°-direction angle of view. These optical systems are reduced in size and flare light and improved in resolving...

20060114576 - Panoramic attachment optical system, and panoramic optical system: The invention relates to a panoramic attachment optical system and a panoramic optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image at a full 360°-direction angle of view. These optical systems are reduced in size and flare light and improved in resolving...

20060114577 - Original reading lens, original reading lens unit, original reading device, and image forming device: An original reading lens includes a four-group, five-element lens configuration including three positive lenses and two negative lenses, wherein the positive lens is constructed by a glass material of low dispersion, and the negative lens is constructed by a glass material of high dispersion, a partial dispersion θgd is defined...

20060114578 - Fixing structure, lens block, image reading unit and image forming apparatus: A lens block according to the present invention includes a lens cylinder; and at least one lens accommodated in the lens cylinder and dividing a space in the lens cylinder into a first space and a second space, wherein the lens cylinder includes at least one hole into which a...

20060114579 - Optical element holding structure, optical element lens-barrel and optical communication module: An optical element holding structure, having: an optical element including an optical section having optical function, an outer peripheral portion which is positioned at the outer peripheral side of the optical section and a mounting portion which protrudes from the outer peripheral portion in a direction substantially parallel to the...

20060114580 - Beam shaping optical device, optical head, and optical information medium drive device: An object of the present invention is to suppress the deterioration of a collimation quality resulting from a temperature change. A lens surface of a collimating lens closer to a light source is in contact with a retracted surface at one end surface of a barrel. On a projecting surface...

20060114581 - Lens barrel assembly and assembling method therefor: An opening direction of guide grooves formed in sub bearing portions 55, 58 are different from an opening direction of guide grooves formed in the main bearing portions 54, 57. Therefore, when the first, second lens holders 31, 32 can easily be assembled to the main guide shaft 50 and...

20060114582 - Light modulator module package: Disclosed herein is a light modulator module package, which is advantageous because a size of the module package is minimized and heat is efficiently dispersed while the optical properties of a light modulator device are maintained....

20060114583 - Lens actuating device, camera module and portable electronic equipment: Power from a focusing motor (14) is transmitted via a gear (35a) to a focusing lead screw (15) so that a first lens holder (4) is moved in a direction of an optical axis. Power from a zooming motor (10) is transmitted via a gear (35b) to a zooming lead...

20060114584 - Method for coating leather: A method for coating leather with a metallic film, includes the steps of placing a piece of leather in a vacuum environment; cleaning at least one surface of the piece of leather and of the vacuum environment by a glow discharge; forming a metallic film by a thermoforming process; and...

20060114585 - Bi-directionally actuated thin membrane mirror: A deformable membrane mirror and a related method for its use, the mirror including a deformable membrane having a reflective front face and a back face, and further including electrodes located on both sides of the membrane, to provide a desired surface contour without imparting a concave bias to the...