Optical: systems and elements inventions 05/07

20070121181 - Method and apparatus for labeling using optical identification elements characterized by x-ray diffraction: An optical identification element for identifying an item comprises a binder material and one or more materials embedded in the binder material. The one or more materials provide an encoded composite X-ray diffraction pattern when illuminated by an X-ray beam. The encoded composite X-ray diffraction pattern is indicative of the... Agent: Foundation Ip, LLC.

20070121182 - Multi-viewpoint image generation apparatus, multi-viewpoint image generation method, and multi-viewpoint image generation program: A multi-viewpoint image generation apparatus includes: a generation screen display unit that controls a two-dimensional image display device to display a two-dimensional image indicating an arrangement of the object in a multi-viewpoint image to be displayed on a the three-dimensional image display device; a modification command acquisition unit that acquires... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070121183 - Holographic device with hexagonal detector structure: The invention relates to an optical holographic device for reading out a data page of a holographic medium (106). The holographic device comprises a pixelated detector (114) having detector elements organized in a staggered structure.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121185 - Holographic recording method, holographic memory reproduction method, holographic recording apparatus, and holographic memory reproduction apparatus: A holographic recording and reproduction apparatus has a spatial light modulator for converting digital information to a two-dimensional image and for intensity modulating an object beam based on the two-dimensional image. The spatial light modulator is configured to employ four or more pixels on the two-dimensional image as a unit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070121184 - Holographic storage device: The invention relates to an optical holographic device for recording a data page in a holographic medium (106). The device comprises means (100) for generating a signal beam, means (201) for modulating the phase of the signal beam so as to encode the data page and means (102, 107, 108)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121186 - Hologram read system: The invention relates to a hologram read system capable of viewing a minute object that is authentication information located behind a block object in a specific direction alone, that is, a hologram read system adapted to view a minute object from a hologram wherein the minute object located behind a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121187 - Scanning optical apparatus: Beam light L falls on Cross section K perpendicular to Rotational axis 1a of Polygon mirror 1 at an angle of 2° or less. When such an incident angle condition is satisfied, the figure of a cross section in the sub scanning direction of Scanning lens 9 is a spherical... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070121188 - Micro mirror and method for fabricating the same: Disclosed is a micro mirror having a structure improved to have an increased driving angle while being driven in high speed. The micro mirror comprises a rotatable mirror section that reflects light, a pair of spring sections for supporting the mirror section and serving as a rotational axis for the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121189 - Data transmission devices for communication facilities of a passive optical network: A passive optical network comprises at least one communication facility, termed network head, coupled to at least two communication facilities, termed remote, by transmission and routing means. The network head is charged with transmitting to the remote facilities an alternation of a first portion of an optical carrier, modulated by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070121190 - Display: The present invention relates to a display for displaying pre-recorded images. The display comprises at least one image stack comprising at least one image sub-stack (13, 14, 15). The image sub-stack comprises a material which optical properties depend on a potential difference (V1) applied between two electrodes (13, 15), wherein... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070121191 - Fast-response micro-mechanical devices: A spatial light modulator includes a mirror plate comprising a reflective upper surface, a lower surface, and a substrate portion comprising a cavity having an opening on the lower surface, a substrate comprising an upper surface, a hinge support post in connection with the substrate, and a hinge component supported... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070121192 - Fast-response micro-mechanical devices: A spatial light modulator includes a mirror plate comprising a reflective upper surface, a lower surface having a conductive surface portion, and a substrate portion having a first cavity having an opening on the lower surface, a second cavity in the substrate portion, and a membrane over the second cavity.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070121194 - Manufacturing method of electrophoretic display sheet, manufacturing method of electrophoretic display device, electrophoretic display device, and electronic apparatus: A method of manufacturing an electrophoretic display sheet, comprising: forming a wall material on a first substrate, the wall material defining a disposing region; disposing a plurality of microcapsules to the disposing region, each of the plurality of microcapsules including an electrophoretic dispersion liquid in a shell; and arranging at... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070121193 - Multicolor display optical composition, optical device, and display method of optical device: The present invention provides a multicolor display optical composition comprising a dispersion medium, a periodic structure having a porous structure inside communicated with the outside, and mobile particles contained in the dispersion medium so as to be movable and having a volume average primary particle diameter from 1 nm to... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070121196 - Method and apparatus for method for viewing and analyzing of one or more biological samples with progressively increasing resolutions: Method, apparatus and arrangement according an exemplary embodiment of the present invention can be provided for analyzing and/or illustrating at least one portion of an anatomical structure. For example, light can be forwarded to such portion so as to generate first information which is related to the portion. For example,... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070121195 - Transmission apparatus: A transmission apparatus designed to be capable of monitoring faults which occur between the input stage of an optical multiplexer and the input stage of an optical amplifier, appropriately switching between automatic gain control and automatic level control, and outputting signal lights with appropriate optical power, without using a spectrum... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070121197 - Optical filter of plasma display panel and fabrication method thereof: An optical filter of a plasma display panel (PDP) and its fabrication method are disclosed. The optical filter includes an electromagnetic wave shield layer having a bias angle formed by cutting a mesh film along a predetermined direction.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070121198 - Microscope imaging apparatus and biological-specimen examination system: A microscope imaging apparatus and a biological-specimen examination system that can accurately carry out measurement even for an object under examination having substantial brightness non-uniformity are provided. The microscope imaging apparatus includes a stage that holds the object under examination, an illumination unit that illuminates the object under examination, an... Agent: John C. Altmiller, Esq. Kenyon & Kenyon

20070121199 - Microscope imaging apparatus and biological-specimen examination system: A microscope imaging apparatus and a biological-specimen examination system that can accurately carry out measurement even for an object under examination having substantial brightness non-uniformity are provided. The microscope imaging apparatus includes a stage that holds the object under examination, an illumination unit that illuminates the object under examination, an... Agent: John C. Altmiller, Esq. Kenyon & Kenyon

20070121200 - Microscope imaging apparatus and biological-specimen examination system: A microscope imaging apparatus and a biological-specimen examination system that can accurately carry out measurement even for an object under examination having substantial brightness non-uniformity are provided. The microscope imaging apparatus includes a stage that holds the object under examination, an illumination unit that illuminates the object under examination, an... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070121201 - Stereomicroscope: A stereomicroscope (1) is disclosed, having a main objective (2) which defines an optical viewing path and determines a beam base (16a) on an object (16) which is to be examined. In addition, at least one deflecting element is provided which deflects the optical viewing path coming from the main... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP

20070121202 - Stereoscopic electronic microscope workstation: A stereoscopic microscope workstation providing high-resolution, real-time data to a display means. Various embodiments are disclosed including desktop and free-standing workstations. An image processing unit can be implemented, providing for natural orientation of the magnified image of the viewed object, also allowing rotation, cropping, filtering and other image manipulation features.... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070121203 - Stereoscopic electronic microscope workstation: A stereoscopic microscope workstation providing high-resolution, real-time video signals to a display means. A stereoscopic microscope workstation providing high-resolution, real-time data to a display means. Various embodiments are disclosed including desktop and free-standing workstations. An image processing unit can be implemented, providing for natural orientation of the magnified image of... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070121204 - Electronic microscope: The invention relates to a microscope having an optics system which represents an object on an image sensor and a screen that shows the image data provided by the image sensor and which is the only output medium for visually observing the object, wherein the representation capability of the optics... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070121205 - Method and device for modulating light: 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.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070121206 - Portable screen assemblies for projectors: A portable screen assembly includes a first side support and a second sides support, where the first side support and the second side support are connected to a fabric. The portable screen assembly also includes a center support brace connected to the fabric. A first support leg extends downward from... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070121207 - Lens sheet, transmission type screen, and rear projection type display: A lens sheet, transmission screen, and a rear projection display are provided. The lens sheet includes fly-eye lens elements periodically arranged on one side of a transparent base, wherein the lens elements are composed of a UV-curing type resin, and the storage elastic modulus at a reference temperature of 25°... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070121208 - Transmissive screen and rear projection display apparatus: A transmissive screen includes a first board member on a light source side, the first board member including a Fresnel lens on the surface of the light source side and one of a vertical lenticular lens or a horizontal lenticular lens on the surface of a viewer side; and a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070121209 - Portable projection screen assembly: A portable screen assembly includes a first side support assembly connected to a fabric, a second side support assembly connected to the fabric, and a center support assembly. The first side support assembly has a first engagement subassembly fastened to the first side support assembly and the second side support... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070121210 - Polarized diffractive filter and layered polarized diffractive filter: A polarized diffractive filter is capable of receiving light having at least two different peak wavelengths so as to shield light having at least one of the peak wavelengths by diffraction and to transmit light having the other peak wavelengths. The polarized diffractive filter comprises transparent substrates 11, 13 on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070121211 - Antiglare antireflective film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display: An antiglare antireflective film is provided and includes: a transparent substrate; and at least one layer. The antiglare antireflective film having a surface having asperities in which: 15% to 70% of the total asperities are asperities, each having a tilt angle of 1° or below, which a line normal to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070121212 - Controlling lens shape in a microlens array: A semi-conductor based imager includes a microlens array having microlenses with modified focal characteristics. The microlenses are made of a microlens material, the melting properties of which are selectively modified to obtain different shapes after a reflow process. Selected microlenses, or portions of each microlens, are modified, by exposure to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070121213 - Tunable micro-aspherical lens and manufacturing method thereof: A tunable micro-aspherical lens is disclosed, which employs two potential differences provided by two sets of electrodes to dynamically change the bottom area and the central height of the liquid polymer lens. The tunable micro-aspherical lens includes a tunable lens, a lower electrode plate, a hydrophobic pattern, an insulation layer... Agent: John S. Egbert Egbert Law Offices

20070121214 - Compact zoom lens: A compact zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group (1) of negative refractive power, and second, third, fourth and fifth lens groups (2, 3, 4, 5) of positive refractive power. The second, third and fourth lens groups are movable to... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070121218 - Variable magnification optical system and imaging device: A variable magnification optical system for forming an optical image of an object onto a light acceptance surface of an image sensor, has in order from an object side: a first lens group having negative optical power; a second lens group having positive optical power; and a third lens group... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070121216 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens includes first, second, and third lens units having negative, positive, and positive refractive powers, respectively, in order from an object side to an image side and performs zooming by moving each lens unit. The first lens unit includes a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070121217 - Zoom lens system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same: A zoom lens system comprising, in order from an object side, 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, wherein during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070121215 - Zoom lens system and image-pickup apparatus including same: z

20070121219 - Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera: A zoom lens system comprising a first lens unit having negative power, a second lens unit having positive power and a third lens unit having positive power, wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit, the lens units move respectively along an optical axis in such a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070121220 - Method for designing and fabricating optical lens unit: A method for designing and fabricating lens unit comprises the steps of: establishing a set of known parameter values of a properly focused lens unit; inputting an image height desired; calculating a corresponding lens wall thickness and an air gap based on the image height inputted; and designing and fabricating... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070121221 - Subminiature optical system: m

20070121223 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel for holding a lens system including at least a plastic lens disposed between two glass lenses separated from each other by a spacer ring comprises a cylindrical lens holding barrel fixedly holding the two glass and the plastic lenses, a cylindrical spacer ring fitted in the cylindrical... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070121222 - Lens barrel, method for fixing lens, and working apparatus for fixing lens: A third holding barrel is set to a stationary work holder, and a lens frame holding an eighth lens group is set to a movable work holder. The movable work holder is moved to insert the lens frame inside the third holding barrel. In this state, a chart image through... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121224 - Optical element holding apparatus: An optical element holding apparatus provided with a holding portion for holding a flange portion of an optical element. The holding portion includes a bearing surface block having a bearing surface, which contacts the flange portion, and a bearing surface block support mechanism, which rotatably supports the bearing surface block... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20070121225 - Optical pick-up actuator: An optical pick-up actuator includes a lens holder, a magnetic circuit, a wire spring, a wire holder, and a damper material receptacle. The lens holder includes an objective lens. The magnetic circuit moves the lens holder. The wire spring is coupled at one end thereof to a side of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070121226 - Actuator for an optical scanning device: Actuator for an optical scanning device The invention relates to an actuator for an optical scanning device, having a focus lens mounted in a lens holder and having a damper base firmly connected to a mount, having a magnet arrangement arranged on the mount, and a coil arrangement interacting with... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070121227 - Brightness enhancement film having curved prism units and light scattering particles: A brightness enhancement film includes a substrate, a plurality of curved prism units and a plurality of light scattering particles. The curved prism units are extended in parallel and formed on a first surface of the substrate. Each of the curved prism units includes at least one meandering surface to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070121228 - Mirror glass component including an integrated luminescent film: A vehicular external mirror module includes a mirror housing. A mirror glass is housed within the mirror housing. The mirror glass includes a non-mirrored surface facing out of the mirror housing and a mirrored surface facing the mirror housing. The vehicular external mirror module also includes a luminescent film fixedly... Agent: Clark Hill, P.C.

20070121229 - Apparatus, method and system for providing enhanced mechanical protection for thin beams: An arrangement for use with a micro-mechanical beam, in which a plurality of support structures are configured to directly attach to the micro-mechanical beam to increase bending stiffness of the micro-mechanical beam without significantly influencing torsional stiffness. At least two of the support structures are arranged to touch each upon... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070121230 - Syringe: The present invention relates to a syringe (1) for use in spectroscopy to identify drugs within the syringe (8). The syringe comprises a optical window section (8) either integral with or attached to the syringe (1). The optical window section (8) has predetermined physical and optical properties that allows radiation... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20070121231 - Color wheel capable of reducing color coordinate deviations after color mixing: A color wheel of a projector includes a red segment, a green segment, a blue segment and a white segment. The white segment is coated so as to provide color temperature of 6500K or 7000K. The red, green and blue segments are coated so as to provide full-segment transmission. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070115519 - Holographic device with magnification correction: The invention relates a to an optical holographic device for reading out a data page recorded in a holographic medium (106). The device comprises means for receiving the holographic medium, means for imaging the data page and means (114) for detecting the imaged data page. It also comprises, between the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115520 - Optical device and optical pickup device: An optical device diffracts incident light with a hologram element 19 and receives the diffracted light with light receiving regions 20A to 29 on a light receiving element 12. The light receiving element 12 separately receives reflected main beams used to read information from an optical disc and reflected sub-beams... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070115521 - Hologram recording sheet, holographic optical element using said sheet, and its production process: The hologram recording sheet according to the invention is made up of a base film and hologram sensitive materials sensitive to different wavelength regions formed therein in a desired pattern, or a film and at least two hologram recording sensitive materials sensitive to different wavelength regions laminated on the film... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115522 - Hologram recording sheet, holographic optical element using said sheet, and its production process: The hologram recording sheet according to the invention is made up of a base film and hologram sensitive materials sensitive to different wavelength regions formed therein in a desired pattern, or a film and at least two hologram recording sensitive materials sensitive to different wavelength regions laminated on the film... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115523 - Holographic memory device: To properly reproduce information from a holographic memory even when a tilt error occurs in a direction vertical to a surface including optical axes of data light and reference light. During reproduction, a holographic memory (10) is fed stepwise from an initial access position with respect to a reproduction target... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070115524 - Optical logic device: The invention uses optically active dyes or other optically active materials to perform digital data processing and logic functions on optical data. The data is carried in pulses of photons of wavelengths appropriate to interact with the optically active materials to excite or de-excite them. The use of the invention... Agent: John B. Woodard

20070115525 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device, which reduces the size of an optical spot formed on an optical disk, and prevents the degradation of a tracking error signal due to coherent light from a layer adjacent a target recording/reproducing layer of the optical disk. The optical pickup device includes a light source... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070115526 - Oscillating device, optical deflector and method of controlling the same: Disclosed is an oscillating device such as an optical deflector, by which a resonance frequency of an oscillating system can be adjusted and controlled without the provision of any additional heating element, wherein, in one preferred embodiment, the oscillating device includes an oscillating system, a stationary member for holding the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070115527 - Light deflecting apparatus: A light deflecting apparatus is employed in a light scanning unit of an image forming device. Such a deflecting apparatus includes a stator having a sleeve disposed at a printed circuit board (PCB), and a core disposed around the sleeve, to which coils are wound; a rotor having a rotor... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070115528 - Multi-beam scanning unit: A multi-beam scanning unit includes a light source having a plurality of light emitting portions, each light emitting portion emitting a laser beam, and a beam deflector deflecting each of the laser beams emitted from the light emitting portions in a main scanning direction of a photosensitive medium. The light... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070115529 - Method for adjusting the resonant frequency of an oscillating device: A method for increasing the resonant frequency of a torsional hinged device having a reduced attaching area between the torsional hinges and the supporting anchors. The resonant frequency is increased by adding a material over the reduced area to stiffen the connection between the torsional hinges and the support anchors.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070115531 - Method of operating a micromechanical device that contains anti-stiction gas-phase lubricant: One embodiment of an micromechanical device includes a first contact surface, a moveable component having a second contact surface, where the second contact surface interacts with the first contact surface during device operation, and a gas-phase lubricant disposed between the first contact surface and the second contact surface, where the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070115532 - Method of using a preferentially deposited lubricant to prevent anti-stiction in micromechanical systems: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a device that has an improved usable lifetime due to the presence of a lubricant that reduces the likelihood of stiction occurring between the various moving parts in an electromechanical device. Embodiments of the present invention also generally include a device, and... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070115530 - Process of forming a micromechanical system containing an anti-stiction gas-phase lubricant: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a process of forming a device that has an improved usable lifetime due to the addition of a gas-phase lubricant that reduces the likelihood of stiction occurring between the various moving parts in an electromechanical device. One advantage of the disclosed device... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070115533 - Microcapsule, electrophoretic display sheet, electrophoretic display device, and electronic apparatus: A microcapsule includes an electrophoretic dispersion liquid including at least one kind of electrophoretic particle having a polarity, and a capsule body encapsulating the electrophoretic dispersion liquid and made of a polymeric material including one of a nonpolar resin without having a polarity and a resin material having a nonpolar... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115534 - Phase change electophoretic imaging for rewritable applications: The present invention relates to a microcapsule that can be used to form a rewritable medium for visual displays that are stable in the presence of electric fields having a strength that is typical in the work environment. The microcapsule of the invention comprises charged particles of one or more... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070115535 - Master-oscillator power-amplifier (mopa) excimer or molecular fluorine laser system with long optics lifetime: The lifetime of optical components used in deep-UV (DUV) excimer laser systems, including systems in a MOPA configuration, can be increased by reducing the intensity of pulses incident upon these components. In one approach, an output pulse can be “stretched” in order to reduce the peak power of the pulse.... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20070115537 - Method and an optical amplifier assembly for adjusting raman gain: A method of adjusting Raman gain in an optical amplifier assembly (1a). The method comprises inputting a plurality (N) of optical signals (OS) on different wavelength channels to a backward-pumped Raman active medium (4a) pumped by means of a Raman pump source (5). The proposed method is characterized in that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115538 - Optical amplification unit with span loss tilt compensation, fiber optical transmission system comprising the same, and corresponding methods: An optical amplification unit comprises at least one optical amplifier for amplifying an optical signal and a filter preceding or following the optical amplifier. The optical amplifier comprises a first measuring device for measuring a property of an input signal of the optical amplifier, a second measuring device for measuring... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115536 - Raman amplifier and optical transmission system: A Raman amplifier for a use in optical transmission systems. The Raman amplifier comprises a Raman active optical fiber and a Raman pump in operative connection with said optical fiber. The Raman pump further comprises a plurality of pairs of pump light sources which emit polarized pump light. Each pair... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115539 - Optical transmission system and optical filter assembly for submarine applications: An optical amplifier assembly for submarine applications. The optical amplifier assembly comprises: a first and a second double stage fibre amplifier with respective first and second fibre amplifiers for amplifying optical signals (OS, OS') each propagated on a respective optical fibre, said optical fibres being operated in opposite operating directions... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115540 - Method and apparatus for electromagnetic resonance and amplification using negative index material: An electromagnetic resonance device includes an input reflector, an output reflector, and a negative index material (NIM) disposed between the input reflector and the output reflector. The input reflector and output reflector are configured to be reflective to radiation having a wavelength of interest. The NIM is configured to have... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070115541 - Very high power pulsed fiber laser: A high power integrated fiber laser system includes cascaded amplifiers that utilize low numerical aperture fiber amplifiers. The system is rugged and lightweight.... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070115543 - Examination method and examination apparatus: An easily viewable examination image in which blurring occurring in an image is reduced without operating an examination optical system in real time matching the motion of a specimen is obtained. There is provided an examination method comprising, prior to examining an examination site of a specimen, acquiring an image... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon

20070115542 - Microscope system: A microscope system having a selectively mountable optical element, comprises: a first noncontact type storage medium, being equipped in the optical element, for enabling a noncontact readout of information externally; and a first readout unit for reading information non-contactingly from the first noncontact type storage medium, wherein the first noncontact... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070115544 - Arrangement for illumination and/or detection in a microscope: A laser scanning microscope comprises at least one selectively switchable micro-mirror arrangement (DMD) in the illumination beam path and/or detection beam path which is used for the wavelength selection of dispersively divided illumination and/or object light such as reflection, fluorescence.... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070115545 - Method for automatically aligning telescope: A manual controller commands a telescope mount to automatically track a specific bright star after the image of the star is located to center of an electronic eyepiece and a timer is started. The average moving speed of the bright star is calculated after a predetermined elapsed time to acquire... Agent: Hdsl

20070115546 - Projection screen coating: A projection screen for displaying an image projected as a combination of primary colors, the projection screen comprising a coating applied to a substrate. The coating contains one or more pigments whose colors correspond to the primary colors.... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20070115547 - High contrast projection system: In a particular, a high contrast projection system configured for front or rear projection includes a screen having a viewing side and a back side opposite thereto. The screen includes a transparent layer of material having louver members disposed therein to provide fractional reflective coverage across the width of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070115548 - Fresnel lens and translucent type screen, and rear projection type display apparatus using the same: The rear projection type display apparatus includes: a translucent type screen having a Fresnel lens sheet in which lens patterns having a Fresnel surface becoming a light beam transmission surface and a rise surface becoming a light beam non-transmission surface are concentrically formed, and an optical axis of the Fresnel... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070115549 - High contrast projection screen: An image display system includes a reflecting screen that has a reflecting surface. The reflecting surface includes micro-ridges having a plurality of reflecting ridge-surfaces wherein the reflecting ridge-surfaces constituting a Fresnel mirror whereby the reflecting ridge-surfaces reflecting parallel reflecting light beams for all incident light beams projected from a light... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20070115550 - Composition for multi-color display material and manufacturing method thereof, and optical device and displaying method thereof: A composition for multi-color display material, including: a periodic structure having a void structure inside that communicates with the outside; and a mobile particle that is selectively disposed inside or outside of the void structure of the periodic structure.... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070115551 - Space-variant waveplate for polarization conversion, methods and applications: Embodiments of the invention are directed to apparatus and methods for converting spatially homogeneously polarized light into spatially inhomogeneously polarized light having a fast axis orientation that varies in a smooth and continuous manner over a pupil aperture. A space-variant waveplate referred to herein as a polarization converter includes an... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070115552 - Polarization beam splitter and combiner: A polarization beam splitter (PBS) and combiner includes a multilayer birefringent stack adjacent to a dichroic coating, sandwiched between glass prisms. This configuration overcomes the reflected wave distortion associated with a conventional multilayer birefringent cube PBS while maintaining excellent polarization performance. An exemplary application of the PBS and combiner is... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070115553 - Ultra broadband mirror using subwavelength grating: A sub-wavelength grating structure that has a very broad reflection spectrum and very high reflectivity comprising segments made of high refractive index material disposed on a layer of low refractive index material and a low refractive index material disposed above and between the segments. The index differential between the high... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20070115554 - Antireflective surfaces, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same: Disclosed herein is an antireflective viewing surface comprising a viewing surface; and a textured layer disposed upon the viewing surface; wherein the textured layer comprises randomly distributed protrusions having randomly distributed dimensions that are smaller than the wavelength of light. Disclosed herein too is a method of manufacturing and antireflective... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070115555 - Method of forming optical images, apparatus for carrying out said method and process for manufacturing a device using said method: An optical image is formed in a radiation-sensitive layer (5), by a number of sub-illuminations, in each of which an array of light valves (21-25) and a corresponding array of converging elements (91-95) are used to form a pattern of spots (111-115) in the resist layer in accordance with a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115556 - Optical display systems and methods: Optical display systems and methods are disclosed.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070115557 - Ambient environment index of refraction insensitive optical system: A refractive optical system may be a collimator, focusing optical system, reducer, or expander and includes an entrance optical element, an exit optical element, and a volume disposed between the entrance and exit optical elements. The volume is configured to have an index of refraction that is insensitive to changes... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070115558 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens, which includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit of negative refractive power, and a second lens unit of positive refractive power. An interval between the first and second lens units changes... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070115559 - Zoom lens system: The invention provides a zoom lens system suitable for an image gathering system using a solid-state imaging device, having a zoom ratio of about three, a small lens length, and superb optical performance. The zoom lens system includes, in order from an object, a first lens group having negative refractive... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070115561 - Zoom lens: A zoom lens for imaging an image onto a photosensitive element includes a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group and a fourth lens group. The second lens group is located and suitable for moving between the first lens group and the third lens group; the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070115560 - Zoom lens and camera: To obtain a high imaging performance even for a relatively long focal length in a zoom lens provided with an optical-path bending member for bending an optical path. The following are included: a first group of lenses G1 having a positive refracting power, a second group of lenses G2 having... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070115562 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus having the same: Disclosed is a zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, including: a first lens unit having a positive optical power; a second lens unit having a negative optical power; a third lens unit having a positive optical power; and a fourth lens unit having... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070115563 - Bifocus lens system and a portable machine using the same: A bifocus lens system that is particularly suitable for being used in the portable machine, which not only can improve the incident angle but also can ensure miniaturization. The bifocus lens system comprises: a first lens group, a second lens group at wide angle side, and a second lens group... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070115564 - Ultra compact mono-bloc catadioptric imaging lens: A mono-bloc catadioptric imaging lens comprising a solid body and a single-focal Maksutov type construction characterized by two refractive surfaces and two reflective surfaces wherein all surfaces are surfaces of revolution and wherein at least one surface is aspheric.... Agent: Zeev Maresse

20070115566 - Lens barrel and lens barrel system: A lens barrel comprises a first frame member having a plurality of cam grooves, a second frame member having a first cam follower and a second cam follower fitted to the plurality of cam grooves, respectively, and an external contact member projecting externally from the end surface of the second... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070115565 - Lens module: A lens module using electromagnetic force to drive the focus-adjusting lens is disclosed. The lens module includes a base, two steel plates, four springs, a bottom plate, a lens holder, a coil, a lens, a top plate, two magnets, a magnet housing and a top cover. The lens holder, the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070115567 - Variable power optical system and image-recording device: A variable power optical system composed of a first optical part (G1) for refraction, a second optical part (G2) for reflection or transmission, and a third optical part (G3) for refraction, with the first optical part being movable with respect to the second and third optical parts to change the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070115568 - Driving control device, portable optical apparatus and driving control method: A driving control device 20 controls supply of driving pulses to expand and contract a piezoelectric element 12 so that an expansion rate is different from a contraction rate, to vibrate a driving rod 17 and move a lens 21 frictionally engaging with the driving rod 17 in two directions.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115569 - Brightness enhancement film having curved prism units and microstructure layer: A brightness enhancement film includes a substrate, a plurality of curved prism units and a light-diffusing microstructure layer. The curved prism units are extended in parallel and formed on a first surface of the substrate. Each of the curved prism units includes at least one meandering surface to provide with... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070115570 - Prism sheet having concave pentagonal: A prism sheet having a concave pentagonal structure is disclosed. The prism sheet comprises a base layer, and a prism array disposed on and supported by the base layer. The prism array is composed of a plurality of prisms aligned in parallel and one beside the other. The transversal cross-section... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070115571 - Distortion free image capture mirror assembly: A distortion free image capture mirror assembly, and more particularly one which can be associated with side view mirrors for use by drivers on all type of vehicles. The distortion free image capture mirror assembly includes a support or housing, a distortion free mirror, and image channeling horizontal surfaces in... Agent: John C. Thompson

20070115572 - Device and method of making a device having a meandering layer on a flexible substrate: A device such as a flexible LCD is described comprising first and second layers wherein the first layer is a flexible substrate and the second layer is a brittle ITO conduction line applied to the substrate. The ITO layer is substantially flat and meanders across the plane of the flexible... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115573 - Optic film: Optical film, including a set of elements disposed adjacent to each other and an external surface made of optically transparent material, each element including a lower pyramid being a truncated pyramid, an upper pyramid being a non-truncated pyramid and a plurality of element planes. A lower base of the lower... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070109617 - Viewing angle enhancement for holographic displays: A holographic display has a pixellated (101, 102, 103) hologram display device (100) with a predetermined resolution and a pixellated (121-126) phase mask (120) arranged such that holograms displayed on the SLM (100) are viewed through the phase mask, wherein the phase mask has a resolution higher than the predetermined... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070109618 - Holographic recording medium, holographic record erasing method, and holographic recording and reproducing apparatus: A holographic record erasing method and a holographic recording and reproducing apparatus in which data reproduction can be disabled without irradiating a holographic recording medium with a high energy erasing beam or physically destroying the medium. A holographic recording medium 16 in a holographic recording and reproducing apparatus 10 has... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070109619 - Information system and method for providing information using a holographic element: correspond to a reflection on the concave side of an area constructed according to a curvature of a rotationally symmetrical ellipsoid. 44. Method according to one of Points 23 to 43, whereby the holographic element has light-refracting characteristics at one or several discrete wavelengths, which correspond to a refraction on... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070109620 - Structure of three-dimensional image data, method of recording three-dimensional image data, and method of displaying and reproducing three-dimensional image data: An apparatus displaying a three-dimensional image is provided with a parallax barrier having optical openings arranged at a horizontal pitch n times as large as that of pixels arranged on a display surface. The parallax barrier reproduces rays from every n pixels on the display surface in a horizontal direction... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070109621 - Light modulator device: A method of reducing stray light contribution of a display system is described. Light rays are directed to at least one pixel of the display system and the light rays are modulated to form modulated light. In addition, the modulated light is directed to display optics, and the reflected light... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070109622 - Display apparatus: A movable particle display (such as an electrophoretic display) in which a plurality of closed spaces are two-dimensionally disposed along a surface of the substrate, a plurality of particles contained in each of the closed spaces, and a reflection surface for reflecting light which enters each of the closed particles... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109623 - Fast dynamic gain control in a bidirectionally-pumped raman fiber amplifier: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling a gain of a bidirectionally-pumped Raman fiber amplifier having both forward optical pumps and backward optical pumps. The overall gain is controlled by adjusting the forward optical pumps, while the power levels of the backward optical pumps are essentially fixed. Gain... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070109626 - Fast dynamic gain control in a bidirectionally-pumped raman fiber amplifier: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling a gain of a bidirectionally-pumped Raman fiber amplifier having both forward optical pumps and backward optical pumps. The overall gain is controlled by adjusting the forward optical pumps, while the power levels of the backward optical pumps are essentially fixed. Gain... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070109624 - Fast dynamic gain control in cascaded raman fiber amplifiers: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling a gain of a bidirectionally-pumped Raman fiber amplifier having both forward optical pumps and backward optical pumps. The overall gain is controlled by adjusting the forward optical pumps, while the power levels of the backward optical pumps are essentially fixed. Gain... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070109625 - Fast dynamic gain control in cascaded raman fiber amplifiers: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling a gain of a bidirectionally-pumped Raman fiber amplifier having both forward optical pumps and backward optical pumps. The overall gain is controlled by adjusting the forward optical pumps, while the power levels of the backward optical pumps are essentially fixed. Gain... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070109627 - Fast dynamic gain control in cascaded raman fiber amplifiers: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling a gain of a bidirectionally-pumped Raman fiber amplifier having both forward optical pumps and backward optical pumps. The overall gain is controlled by adjusting the forward optical pumps, while the power levels of the backward optical pumps are essentially fixed. Gain... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070109628 - Fast dynamic gain control in cascaded raman fiber amplifiers: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling a gain of a bidirectionally-pumped Raman fiber amplifier having both forward optical pumps and backward optical pumps. The overall gain is controlled by adjusting the forward optical pumps, while the power levels of the backward optical pumps are essentially fixed. Gain... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070109629 - 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... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC

20070109630 - Optical amplifier: Optical amplifier which can eliminate the need for an optical detection section before an external attenuating medium, can prevent SN degradation, and can reduce power required for pumping light. An attenuation amount detection section detects an amount of signal light attenuation caused by a variable optical attenuator and the external... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070109631 - Contoured lens for task ambient luminaires: A lens is provided for a task ambient luminaire having an elongated linear lamp tube for providing light, the lens including a refractive surface configured to extend along a portion of a length of the lamp and further configured to extend across the lamp in a direction substantially perpendicular to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070109632 - Optical pickup apparatus: There is provided an optical pickup apparatus whereby the phase of a grating can be adjusted sufficiently even while further reducing the number of parts. A plate spring portion 12b formed in a bent manner is provided in the front part of a cover 12. The plate spring portion is... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070109634 - Microscope apparatus: A microscope apparatus that can observe into the interior of a specimen and that can apply an optical stimulus over a wide area within a short period of time is provided. The microscope apparatus comprises at least one observation scanning optical system including a laser light source for emitting observation... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070109633 - Single plane illumination microscope: The invention relates to a microscope in which a layer of the sample is illuminated by a plurality of thin strips of light (11) passed through a grid (34) and the sample is viewed (5) perpendicular to the plane of the strips of light. To record the image, the object... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070109635 - Device for fastening imaging units on an observing telescope: A Device (1) for fastening imaging units on an observing telescope with exchangeable eyepieces is described that has two cylinders (2, 3) that are supported coaxially with one another and are guided in an axially displaceable fashion, it being possible for one cylinder (3) to be fastened on the eyepiece... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070109636 - Specimen stage array for scanning probe microscope: A specimen stage array includes specimen stages to hold specimens, respectively. The specimen stages include specimen fixing surfaces to which the specimens are fixed, respectively. All the specimen stages are arrayed so that the specimen fixing surfaces are included in a common plane.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070109638 - Fused thermal and direct view aiming sight: A fused thermal and a direct view aiming sight includes an optical gun sight, a thermal sight, and a beam combiner. The optical sight generates a direct view image of an aiming point or reticle superimposed on a target scene. The thermal sight generates a monochromic thermal image of the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070109637 - Multi-telescope imaging system utilizing a single common image sensor: A multi-telescope imaging system includes a first telescope and a second telescope, each telescope having an input line of sight, a ray path that is incident upon a focal surface imaging location at a non-normal angle of incidence, and a shutter lying on the ray path. A single common sensor... Agent: Raytheon Company

20070109639 - Electromagnetic polarizing structure and polarized electromagnetic device: An electromagnetic polarizing structure can polarize a non-polarized (or a partially polarized) electromagnetic (EM) wave completely. The EM polarizing structure includes a layered structure. Several medium nodes are located in such a polarizing layer and distributed as a two-dimensional unit cell array on a plane. The array unit cell has... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070109640 - Refractive boundary elements, devices, and materials: An optical device includes an interface between two or more media. The refractive indices, orientations of media, and alignment relative to a propagating wave define a refractive boundary at which reflections may be reduced or eliminated, and at which, for certain incident angles, rays may be refracted on the same... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070109641 - Triangular-pyramidal cube-corner retroreflective article having curved reflective lateral face: To provide a retroreflective article formed of many triangular-pyramidal cube-corner retroreflective element pairs. One-side groove angle formed between a cross line between a plane vertical to the common plane and a V-groove vertical plane which includes the base line of a V-shaped groove and perpendicular to said the common plane,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109642 - Optical systems including a chromatic diffractive optical element corrector and associated methods: A diffractive optical element (DOE) corrector for use with three different wavelengths includes a first diffractive element on a first surface of a first material, the first diffractive element diffracting a first wavelength of the three wavelengths, while directing a majority of light of second and third wavelengths of the... Agent: Digital Optics Corporation

20070109643 - Method of forming a diffractive device: There is disclosed a method of forming a diffractive authentication device which generates an optically variable image which varies according to the angle of observation. The method comprises the steps of, providing a primary pattern which encodes a latent image, the primary pattern having a plurality of image elements, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070109644 - Brightness enhancement film: A brightness enhancement film, which is disposed beyond a light module, the light source module emits light upward to and through the brightness enhancement film. The brightness enhancement film is composed of a substrate and a diffractive optical element which is disposed on a surface of the substrate, the diffractive... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109645 - Optical filter and optical instrument: In an optical filter, a thin film is formed by laminating low refractive index layers alternatingly from a substrate side with high refractive index layers. The thin film is provided with first, second, and third laminated portions. In the first laminated portion, the refractive indices of the high refractive index... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070109646 - Optical filter and optical instrument: In an optical filter, a thin film is formed by laminating low refractive index layers alternatingly from a substrate side with high refractive index layers. The thin film is provided with first, second, and third laminated portions. In the first laminated portion, the refractive indices of the high refractive index... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070109647 - Optical filter and optical instrument: In an optical filter, a thin film is formed by laminating low refractive index layers alternatingly from a substrate side with high refractive index layers. The thin film is provided with first, second, and third laminated portions. In the first laminated portion, the refractive indices of the high refractive index... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070109648 - Optical filter and optical instrument: In an optical filter, a thin film is formed by laminating low refractive index layers alternatingly from a substrate side with high refractive index layers. The thin film is provided with first, second, and third laminated portions. In the first laminated portion, the refractive indices of the high refractive index... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070109649 - Cwdm filter: A CWDM filter includes a substrate and a multi-layer structure coated on one side of the substrate. The multi-layer structure has the construction of H(LH)24L(HL)3H(LH)34L(HL)3H(LH)44L(HL)4H(LH)34 L(HL)3H(LH)44L(HL)4H(LH)34L(HL)3H(LH)34L(HL)2HLH4LH/NS, wherein Ns is the substrate, L is a low (refraction) index layer with a thickness of λ0/4, H is a high (refraction) index layer... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070109650 - Protective cover for display panel and its use: C

20070109651 - Image sensing system for a vehicle: An image sensing system for a vehicle includes an imaging sensor comprising a two-dimensional array of light sensing photosensor elements and a logic and control circuit comprising an image processor for processing image data derived from the imaging sensor. The imaging sensor is disposed at an interior portion of the... Agent: Timothy A. Flory Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20070109652 - Image sensing system for a vehicle: An image sensing system for a vehicle includes an imaging sensor comprising a two-dimensional array of light sensing photosensor elements, and a logic and control circuit comprising an image processor for processing image data derived from the imaging sensor. The logic and control circuit generates at least one control output... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070109653 - Image sensing system for a vehicle: An image sensing system for a vehicle includes an imaging sensor comprising a two-dimensional array of light sensing photosensor elements. The system includes a logic and control circuit comprising an image processor for processing image data derived from the imaging sensor. The logic and control circuit generates at least one... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070109654 - Image sensing system for a vehicle: An image sensing system for a vehicle includes an imaging sensor comprising a two-dimensional array of light sensing photosensor elements, preferably formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a logic and control circuit, preferably with at least a portion of the logic and control circuit commonly formed on a semiconductor with... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070109655 - Electrically-responsive lenticular display apparatus and method: An integrated electrically-responsive lenticular display apparatus (300) includes a lenticular lens (301) integrally combined with at least one electrically-responsive light-emissive pattern (202). The electrically-responsive light-emissive pattern (202) is a printed electrically-responsive light-emissive pattern. The printed pattern may be printed directly onto the lenticular lens (301) or onto a substrate (502),... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070109656 - Mems device annealing: A method of increasing a quality factor for a micromechanical resonator uses a laser beam to anneal the micromechanical resonator. In one embodiment, the micromechanical oscillator is formed by fabricating a mushroom shaped silicon oscillator supported by a substrate via a pillar. The laser beam is focused on a periphery... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070109657 - System and method for providing a three dimensional image: A system for providing a three dimensional image from at least two plane images is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises i) first and second image display devices substantially simultaneously outputting first and second plane images, each plane image produced at different positions with respect to an object, ii)... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070109658 - Image display apparatus and image display system: An image display apparatus having a compact size and appropriately achieving a larger field angle is disclosed while it has two optical systems guiding light from a single image forming device to both eyes. The apparatus has the single image forming device forming an original image, and a first and... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070109659 - Refractive projection objective for immersion lithography: A purely refractive projection objective suitable for immersion microlithography is designed as a single-waist system with five lens groups, in the case of which a first lens group with negative refractive power, a second lens group with positive refractive power, a third lens group with negative refractive power, a fourth... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109660 - Imaging lens position control device: There is provided a device for controlling an imaging lens position for holding information on high-frequency components distribution at the candidate focus lens positions and selecting information which is considered to have the optimal distribution among the plurality of distribution information, thereby controlling the focus lens position for imaging. Moreover,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109661 - Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera: A zoom lens system comprising a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element, wherein an interval between at least any two lens units among the lens units is changed so that an optical image of an object is formed with a continuously variable magnification, a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070109662 - Zoom lens: A zoom lens is provided and has: a first lens of a negative lens; a second lens of a positive lens; an aperture stop; a third lens of a negative lens; and a fourth lens of a positive lens in this order from an object side of the zoom lens.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109664 - Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus: A compact bent zooming imaging optical system characterized by sufficient aberration correction. The imagining optical system contains, in order from the object, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group with negative power which has a reflective optical element for bending the optical axis and lenses... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070109663 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus: The present invention provides a zoom lens provided with, in order from an object side: a first lens group having a positive refractive power whose position on the optical axis is fixed during a zooming operation and a focusing operation; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070109665 - Zoom lens and imaging system: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens which includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power and is stationary during zooming, a second lens unit configured to move to perform zooming, a third lens unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070109666 - Projection lens unit and rear projection type image display system: An inexpensive projection lens unit in a rear projection type image display system, having a short focal distance (wide angle of viewing field), high focus and high contrast, and as well, including a power lens made of a glass material having a high refractive index in a range from 1.63... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070109667 - Optical focus system and zoom system including at least one deformable mirror therein: An optical zoom system for imaging an object on an image-sensing element comprises at least one first passive optical element disposed on a light traveling path for changing the light direction, at least two deformable mirrors having variable focal lengths and disposed on the light traveling path, and at least... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070109668 - Imaging optical system: An imaging optical system, which is designed in a small size with low manufacturing costs, aberrations such as chromatic aberration of the imaging optical system being appropriately corrected, is provided. The imaging optical system comprises a first lens having positive power, a second lens having positive power and a third... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070109669 - Optical head apparatus and optical information recording and reproduction apparatus: Disclosed is an optical head apparatus comprising: a light source; a collimating means of converting a beam of light emitted from the light source into a substantially parallel beam of light; a focusing means of focusing the light onto an information medium surface; a beam splitting means of splitting the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070109670 - Cam mechanism of a telescoping lens barrel: A cam mechanism of a lens barrel includes a cam ring; and a movable frame which moves along an optical axis when the cam ring is rotated, without rotating relative to the cam ring, by engagement of a cam groove provided on the cam ring with a corresponding cam follower... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070109671 - Lens barrel and image pickup apparatus: A lens barrel includes: a plurality of lens groups arranged on an optical axis; and at least one reflection surface arranged on the optical axis for bending the optical axis into a plurality of optical axis segments. Among the optical axis segments, at least two lens groups are arranged on... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070109672 - Adjusting device for a screen: An adjusting device for a screen has a barrel, a pivotal device and at least one elastic element. The barrel has a frictional device formed on the barrel and an opening longitudinally defined in the barrel. The pivotal device has a shaft inserted into the barrel and a flat axially... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070109673 - Infrared light reflecting film: An infrared light reflecting article is disclosed and includes a visible light transparent substrate including a polymer and an infrared light reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed on the substrate. The substrate and infrared light reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer have a combined haze value of less than 3%.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070109675 - Coordinated pivoting and extending vehicle mirror: A vehicular exterior mirror system comprises an exterior mirror assembly and an electronic control system. The exterior mirror assembly has a fixed support adapted to be mounted to the side of the vehicle and has a mirror housing supported by a support arm and movable along the support arm from... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20070109674 - Extendable side view mirror: An extendable side view mirror in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention is provided. The extendable side view mirror comprises a mirror body configured to hold a mirror; an extendable arm having first and second terminal ends opposite each other, wherein the mirror body is coupled to the... Agent: Farshad Jason Farhadian CenturyIPLaw Group

20070109676 - Reflecting mirror and optical pickup: A reflecting mirror with a reflective multi-layer coating capable reflecting light beams of discrete wavelengths, e.g., laser beams in the wave ranges of CD, DVD and mass storage optical discs, free of the problem of light absorption.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070109677 - Mirror assembly for a towing vehicle: Mirror assembly comprising a mirror support such as a mirror housing and a mirror mounted thereon/therein. From the mirror support an extension extends so that the mirror assembly is suitable for mounting on vehicles with which a trailer such as a caravan is towed The extension is provided at the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070103746 - Security hologram and associated methods of use and of making: A security hologram is described that contains an integral image, which is made up of at least a first holographic image, which is located at or near a surface of a recording medium used to record the hologram, and a second holographic image, which is located in either a foreground... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070103747 - Scanned-beam heads-up display and related systems and methods: A heads-up display that includes a scanner and a projection assembly. The scanner generates an image by sweeping a beam of electromagnetic energy, and the projection assembly directs the image into a predetermined viewing space having a region with a substantially uniform intensity profile. Such a heads-up display can often... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070103748 - Light detecting element and control method of light detecting element: A light detecting element 1. The element 1 includes an element formation layer 22 which contains a well region 31. A surface electrode 25 is formed on the layer 22 through an insulating layer 24. The region 31 contains an electron holding region 32. The region 32 contains a hole... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070103749 - High-speed, high-resolution, wide-format cartesian scanning systems: A scanning system for writing, printing, direct imaging, plotting, computed radiography, and scanning includes an optical system contains at lest one modulatable radiation source for emitting radiation, a movable collimating lens, a reflector, and a focusing lens and a mechanical system containing a first mechanical carrier spinning about a first... Agent: David Pressman, Esq.

20070103750 - Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing optical information: Optical information is stored in an optical information recording medium having an information recording layer utilizing holography with an optical information recording apparatus which includes security features. An input device is used to input individual information which is unique to an individual. An information light carries information to be recorded... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070103751 - Optical component, optical recording medium, and manufacturing method therefor: When an optical material layer such as an organic-inorganic hybrid material is employed as an optical component or an optical recording medium, the effect of thickness unevenness caused by drying is eliminated. An optical recording medium 20 is configured by providing on a substrate 10 an organic-inorganic hybrid material layer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070103752 - Optical deflector: There is provided an optical deflector which has a control means for controlling deflection portion so as to deflect a deflection light beam at a desirable maximal deflection angle. According to the optical deflector, a scanning amplitude of the deflection portion can be suitably controlled by the control means.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070103753 - Alignment of holographic images on detector: The invention relates to an optical holographic device for reading out a data page recorded in a holographic medium (106). The device comprises means (104, 105) for forming an imaged data page, means for detecting (114) the imaged data page, means for detecting a Moiré pattern in the detected imaged... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070103754 - Optical apparatus: An optical apparatus is disclosed which can reliably form AF images and split the AF images to provide excellent focus detection performance in the phase difference detection method. The optical apparatus comprises a light deflection unit including a deflection optical member. The deflection optical member deflects at least one of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070103755 - Laser-induced optical wiring apparatus: A laser-induced optical wiring apparatus includes a substrate, first and second light-reflecting members provided on the substrate separately from each other, an optical waveguide provided on the substrate for optically coupling the first and second light-reflecting members to form an optical resonator, a first optical gain member provided across the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103756 - System, method, and apparatus for conversion bonding of precursor subcomponents into a unitary monolith: A process for converting precursor objects into a unitary ceramic object produces, for example, a ceramic, optical scan mirror that is formed from at least two pieces. An optical section has at least one optical surface and at least one attachment surface, and a support section has at least one... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070103757 - Three-dimensional color image recording apparatus: The invention displays a lattice fringe on a spatial light modulator such as a liquid crystal panel or a digital mirror device panel, irradiates it with laser beams in three primary colors red, green and blue, and uses a primary diffracted beam created by the lattice fringe as an image... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070103758 - Method and device for attenuating light as a function of intensity: An intensity-dependent light modulating device or method for providing same, involves light successively passing through a polarizer, a first phase retardation plate and a first light modulator. The light then strikes a mirror and from there on, it passes once again through the light modulator and the phase retardation plate... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070103759 - Applications of light movable liquid crystal: Practical applications of a class of nematic elastomer which has light avoidance characteristics are disclosed. Such practical applications include a switching device, a load carrying device and programmable mask. The use of different light sources, including the use of an autonomous device are further disclosed.... Agent: Reveo, Inc.

20070103760 - Optical image reading device having adjustable amplification rate and method for adjusting the same: An optical image reading device that has an adjustable amplification rate and a method for adjusting the same. The optical image reading device includes a transparent object being disposed within the object distance or the image distance. Since the refractive index of the transparent object is larger than that of... Agent: Hdsl

20070103761 - Electrically-controllable device with variable optical and/or energy properties: Electrically controllable device having variable optical/energy properties in transmission or in reflection, comprising at least one carrier substrate provided with a stack of electrochromically functional layers, including at least two electrochromic active layers, separated by an electrolyte, the said stack being placed between two current leads, namely the lower current... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103763 - Electrochromic windows and method of making the same: An electrochromic window assembly is disclosed that includes a first substrate and a second substrate that is maintained in a parallel and spaced relation from the first substrate by means of a window frame and spacer. The window assembly further includes an electrochromic device mounted within the airtight chamber formed... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt, & Litton, LLP/gentex Corporation

20070103762 - Portable communication device with changeable color cueing: An exemplary portable communication device (100) includes a main body (10), an electrically conductive layer (20), and an electrochromic layer (30). The main body has an outer surface. The electrically conductive layer is coated onto the outer surface of the main body. The electrochromic layer contains an electrochromic material. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070103764 - Optical configuration for generating polarization conversion: The present invention presents a method to enhance polarization conversion reflection from an anisotropic thin film. The total reflection effect or the high reflection at the interface of an anisotropic thin film leads to enhanced polarization conversion. Polarization conversion is an interesting phenomenon by which a fraction of p(s)-polarized light... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20070103765 - Modular, high energy, widely-tunable ultrafast fiber source: A modular, compact and widely tunable laser system for the efficient generation of high peak and high average power ultrashort pulses. Modularity is ensured by the implementation of interchangeable amplifier components. System compactness is ensured by employing efficient fiber amplifiers, directly or indirectly pumped by diode lasers. Peak power handling... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070103766 - Method for monitoring an optical transmission line by means of an optical amplifier and optical amplifier therefor: The invention relates to a method for monitoring an optical transmission line by means of an optical amplifier, in particular a Raman amplifier, wherein the pump power (Pp) generated by a pump source (13) of the optical amplifier (7) is coupled into the optical transmission line (9), wherein the power... Agent: Russell D Culbertson The Culbertson Group

20070103767 - Method for controlling the pump power of an optical amplifier: The present disclosure relates to a method for regulating a pump power of an optical amplifier, where a multiplexed broadband optical signal having several channels is amplified at a certain gain value while a change in power is detected at the input or output of the amplifier. A new pump... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070103768 - Image display apparatus with night vision goggle compatibility: Image display apparatus (10) comprising projector means, a first light source, at least one primary modulator (12) for modulating light from the first light source, a second light source, optical means (14, 18) for combining light from the second light source with the modulated light from the at least one... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska Jason D Shanske

20070103770 - Filter module, optical module and method for fabricating the same: A filter module 21 has an excellent high temperature and high humidity resistance. In the filter module 21, an optical filter assembly 1 including multilayer filters and transparent members is dropped into a bore 3 formed in a metallic base 2, and an adhesive 4 is injected into a space... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070103769 - Optical element having antireflection film, and exposure apparatus: An optical element includes a substrate that transmits a light having a central wavelength in a wave range between 150 nm and 250 nm, and an n-layer antireflection film that is formed on the substrate, and includes, from the substrate, an n−2-th layer made of a high refractive index material,... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070103771 - Two-mirror telescope with central spider support for the secondary mirror: A telescope has a primary light mirror structure including a central base, and a concave primary mirror having a central opening in which the central base is received and extending radially outwardly from the central opening. The concave primary mirror has an inner margin adjacent to the central opening. A... Agent: Raytheon Company

20070103772 - Slide feeding unit for an automatic scanning microscope: A slide feeding unit for a microscope includes a slide magazine having a base plate; a toothed rack secured to a magazine side wall; and slide guiding elements perpendicular to an open magazine side. The unit further includes a magazine moving mechanism having a magazine-receiving trough including opposite side plates.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070103773 - Vision system with eye dominance forced to fusion channel: A fusion vision system has a first eyepiece through which a fused viewable image is larger than an image viewed through a second eyepiece to help the operator more easily view the fused image in their brain. The fusion vision system may employ image intensification and infrared imaging capabilities.... Agent: Insight Technology, Inc. Attn: Peter W. Murphy

20070103774 - Locking inter-pupillary distance and convergence adjustment mechanism: Improvement to an adornable binocular device having a telescope pair and an adjustable inter-pupillary distance (IPD) where both telescopes move simultaneously and substantially the same distance when the IPD is adjusted, the improvement including a mechanism for releasably preventing unintentional adjustment the IPD and including a first releasably pivoting coupling... Agent: Richman And Associates

20070103775 - Projection display device and electronic apparatus with the same: A projection display device includes a screen for having projected images displayed thereon, a main frame overlaying the top edge and the bottom edge of the screen, a pair of side frames adjustably secured to opposite two sides of the main frame to change transverse distances between the side frames,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070103776 - Desktop display with continuous curved surface: A curved display device comprising a continuous, curved, concave viewing surface having a surface width W greater than or equal to 48 cm and less than or equal to 200 cm, and wherein a distance D from the center of a straight line segment which connects the centers of the... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070103777 - Printer and printing method: A printer for executing a printing on a lens sheet in which a plurality of lenses is disposed, includes: lens detection means which, by scanning the lens sheet, outputs a lens signal corresponding to a lens resolution of the lenses in the lens sheet; encoder signal output means which, by... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070103778 - Device for dispersing light pulses of which the spectral amplitude is programmable: Device for dispersion of light pulses of an optical beam (Fi) constituted by two dispersive prisms (P1, P2), with the same vertex angle (α), mounted head to tail, the optical input surface of the first prism (P1) being parallel to the optical output surface of the second prism (P2), the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070103779 - Refractive boundary elements, devices, and materials: An optical device includes an interface between two or more media. The refractive indices, orientations of media, and alignment relative to a propagating wave define a refractive boundary at which reflections may be reduced or eliminated, and at which, for certain incident angles, rays may be refracted on the same... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070103780 - Optical surface clearing arrangement: A vehicle side-view mirror water removal arrangement is easily retrofitted to vehicles having an existing source of compressed air and a side-view mirror with a reflective surface. The arrangement includes a valve having an input port connected to the existing source of compressed air and an output port, the valve... Agent: Eric R. Katz

20070103781 - Metallized cube corner retroreflective sheeting having a high measured daytime luminance factor: Both a metallized cube comer retroreflective sheeting having a high measured daytime luminance factor and a method of manufacture thereof are provided. The sheeting is formed from a transparent planar sheet material including on one side a dense array of retroreflective cube comers having height H. The cube comers are... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070103782 - Binary type diffractive optical elements for wide spectral band use: A binary type diffractive optical element for scalar optics uses a composite artificial material comprising, in a first portion Ma1, microstructures according to a first geometry for which the effective index decreases with the fill factor and, in a second portion Ma2, microstructures according to a second geometry for which... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070103783 - Faraday rotator, optical isolator, polarizer, and diamond-like carbon thin film: A diamond-like carbon (DLC) film having refractive indices distributed in a pattern oriented within the plane of the film or on a bias with respect to the thickness of the film. Such films may be useful in low-cost Faraday rotators, in polarizers (analyzers), and in magnetic substances, and in Faraday... Agent: Judge & MurakamiIPAssociates

20070103784 - Optical filter and optical instrument: In an optical filter, a thin film is formed by laminating low refractive index layers alternatingly from a substrate side with high refractive index layers. The thin film is provided with first, second, and third laminated portions. In the first laminated portion, the refractive indices of the high refractive index... Agent: John C. Altmiller Suite 700

20070103785 - Optical filter and optical instrument: In an optical filter, a thin film is formed by laminating low refractive index layers alternatingly from a substrate side with high refractive index layers. The thin film is provided with first, second, and third laminated portions. In the first laminated portion, the refractive indices of the high refractive index... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070103786 - Optical film, anti-reflection film, polarizing plate and image display device: An optical film, which comprises: a transparent support; and a light-diffusing layer containing: at least one kind of resin particles having a particle size of from 5 μm to 20 μm; and a binder matrix, wherein the resin particles have a compressive strength of from 2 to 10 kgf/mm2; an... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070103787 - Closure for fuel-tank filler pipe: A closure system, incorporated into a fuel-tank filler-pipe head, including a shutter and a protection shield, for the shutter, which is movable substantially in one plane, preferably substantially perpendicular to the pipe axis.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103788 - Color-splitting optical element and an optical system utilizing the color-splitting optical element: A color-splitting optical element is disclosed that includes a first prism having a first transmissive curved outer side, a second transmissive curved outer side and an inner side. The color-splitting optical element also includes a second prism having a first transmissive curved outer side, a second side and an inner... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070103789 - Optical system, lithographic apparatus and method for projecting: An optical system is configured to process a radiation beam along an optical axis. The optical system includes an optical element. The optical system defines a numerical aperture, the numerical aperture being a measure of the ability of the optical system to gather and focus light. The numerical aperture has... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070103790 - Drop centering device: A method for centering a drop of liquid on a given point on a surface. The inventive method consists in forming a bell-mouthed recess, whereby said recess has a curvature at any point at the limit of contact between the drop and the recess that is lower than or opposite... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070103791 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus using the same: A three-unit zoom lens system comprising, in order from an object side, 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 or negative refractive power, wherein during magnification change from a wide-angle end... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070103793 - Zoom lens and image projection apparatus having the same: A zoom lens comprises a plurality of lens units including a first lens unit disposed most adjacent to an enlargement side and having negative refractive power, wherein one or more lens units of the plurality of lens units are moved in the direction of the optical axis thereof during magnification... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070103792 - Zoom lens, digital camera and portable information device: A zoom lens in the present invention is composed of a first lens group G1 having a fixed distance from the image plane side and negative refracting power, a second lens group G2 having positive refracting power and moving during zooming, a third lens group G3 having positive refracting power... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070103794 - Imaging apparatus: First, second, third and fourth lens groups of a zoom lens portion are arranged on an optical axis in order from an object to be imaged side toward an electronic imaging device. The first lens group has a negative refracting power and a fixed position on the optical axis. The... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070103795 - Fast zoom lens system: r

20070103796 - Collimated optical system: An optical system provides a lens cell having a generally cylindrical lens cell body and an optical lens system therein. The lens cell body has a lens cell central longitudinal axis and a lens cell optical axis, eccentrically offset from the lens cell central longitudinal axis. A sleeve has a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070103797 - Mount for an optical structure and method of mounting an optical structure using such mount: An improved mount for, and method of mounting an, optical structure is provided, wherein the optical structure has at least one mounting surface. The mount has a mounting section with at least one surface extending therealong for receipt thereagainst of a portion of the at least one mounting surface of... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070103798 - Lens barrel and image pickup device: A lens barrel, includes: an image pickup optical system comprising a plurality of lens groups; a plurality of barrel members which house the image pickup optical system therein; and a drive source which moves at least two lens groups in the image pickup optical system in a direction of an... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070103799 - Brightness enhancement print medium and brightness enhanced print with optical structures: The invention provides a brightness enhancement print medium and a brightness enhanced print with optical structures to create a print showing lenticular effects, such as 3D, flip, and animation effects with high image quality and excellent visibility. The brightness enhanced print with optical structures according to the invention comprises a... Agent: Wpat, PC

20070103800 - High definition vehicular mirror: A vehicle mirror assembly having a housing or base member, a mirror lens and a connecting gasket member. The mirror lens is provided in the shape of a portion of an end of an ellipsoid. The lens has a varying radius of curvature, The center portion of the lens has... Agent: Artz & Artz, P.C.

20070103801 - High definition vehicular mirror: A vehicle mirror assembly having a housing or base member, a mirror lens and a bezel member. The mirror lens is provided in the shape of a portion of an end of an ellipsoid and has a varying radius of curvature. The center portion of the lens has a smaller... Agent: Artz & Artz, P.C.

20070103802 - Optical assembly with removable section: An optical assembly (16) for a precision apparatus (10) includes an optical element (234) and a housing (230) that defines a housing cavity (244). The housing (230) includes a body section (238), a removable section (240) and a fastener assembly (242). The body section (238) is secured to an apparatus... Agent: The Law Office Of Steven G Roeder

20070103803 - Holding arm connection for exterior vehicle mirror assembly: An exterior vehicle mirror assembly is disclosed having a holding arm connection with reduced wind turbulence comprising a holding arm having a first end and a second end for attachment to the vehicle. A mirror head is carried by the holding arm having a mirror element. A connection device is... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20070103804 - Cover glass: The present invention is directed to a cover glass comprising a glass substrate having at least one printed image thereon wherein the printed image includes a plurality of clear viewing fields of a predetermined dimension.... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070097469 - Methods for making holographic data storage articles: A method of making a holographic data storage medium is provided. The method comprises: (a) providing an optically transparent substrate comprising at least one photochemically active dye; and (b) irradiating the optically transparent substrate at least one wavelength at which the optically transparent substrate has an absorbance in a range... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070097470 - Zero-alignment method for tunable fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals by multiple-exposure laser interference using diffraction gratings patterned on a single mask: A method for fabricating three-dimensional photonic crystal structures includes providing a layer of photosensitive material; introducing a laser beams into the material; reintroducing the laser beams into the photosensitive material during a second exposure; combining results from at least the first and second exposures to produce a three-dimensionally periodic pattern... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070097471 - Fabrication process for cholesteric liquid crystal media having a volume hologram: The invention provides a process capable of fabricating a cholesteric liquid crystal medium having a volume hologram with efficiency yet without recourse to complicated steps such as an alignment step. This is achievable as follows. A volume hologram layer is formed on a substrate, and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097472 - Method and system for producing multiple images in a single image plane using diffraction: The present invention is directed to methods for creating pseudo-holographic images viewable under different selected angles on optical storage devices and other photosensitive surfaces. The present invention also discloses novel optical storage devices with super-imposed pseudo-holographic images. Generally, a photosensitive surface is exposed with multiple diffraction patterns creating super-imposed pseudo-holographic... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070097473 - Reflecting mirror supporting mechanism: In a reflecting-mirror supporting mechanism, elastic rotation about the lateral X axis is made possible by providing first spring elements 2 and second spring elements 3 in a bipod 1. In addition, elastic rotation about the lateral Y axis is made possible by a spring member 6, and elastically translational... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097474 - Light scanning apparatus having a liquid crystal deflector and image forming apparatus using the same: A light scanning apparatus that scans a scanned face with a light beam includes an adjusting unit that adjusts the position of a light spot of the light beam formed on the scanned face, and a compensating unit that compensates the light intensity of the light beam at the scanned... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097475 - Optical beam scanning device and image forming apparatus: An object of the invention is to provide an optical beam scanning device and an image forming apparatus capable of suppressing adverse effect due to ambient temperature change on plural optical elements. The optical beam scanning device of an aspect of the invention includes a single light deflector, a pre-deflection... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070097476 - Display system having a charge-controlled spatial light-modulator: A display system includes a housing having at least one optical window and at least one charge-controlled spatial light-modulator disposed within the housing. The at least one spatial light-modulator is configured to project an image-bearing light beam to a viewing surface through the at least one optical window. The system... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097477 - 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.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070097478 - Charge responsive optical material: Embodiments including a charge responsive optical material are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097479 - Etalon device and manufacturing method thereof: An etalon device comprises a pair of parallel plates each of which is arranged to be faced each other, a pair of holder portions which hold individually a pair of the parallel plates respectively, and a housing portion arranged at the outside of the pair of the holder portions, wherein... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070097481 - Electrochromic devices having improved ion conducting layers: An improved ion conductor layer for use in electrochromic devices and other applications is disclosed. The improved ion-conductor layer is comprised of at least two ion transport layers and a buffer layer, wherein the at least two ion transport layers and the buffer layer alternate within the ion conductor layer... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070097480 - Electrochromic material: An electrochromic material having improved durability and more pleasing color characteristics is composed of a single-phase compound of formula W1-xTaxO3-x/2, x having a value in a range of from about 0.15 to about 0.5. Thin films of the electrochromic material can be manufactured by pulse laser deposition (PLD). Thin films... Agent: National Research Council Of Canada 1200 Montreal Road

20070097482 - Electrode structure of electrochromic device: Disclosed is an electrochromic device, which includes a first electrode formed on a first region of a first substrate, a second electrode formed on a second region of the first substrate, an electrochromic layer formed on the first electrode, an electrolyte layer formed on both of the electrochromic layer and... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070097483 - Electrode structure of electrochromic device: Disclosed is an electrochromic device including at least one display region and at least one non-display region, which are separated from each other, the electrochromic device including a first substrate, a first electrode, an electrochromic layer, an electrolyte layer, optionally an ion storage layer, a second electrode, and a second... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070097484 - Electrochromic glass control device: A light control system having a full range of dimming for smart-glass by providing an interface between an off-the-shelf dimmer and a electrochromic glass device is disclosed herein. The light control system or electrochromic glass control device acts as an interface that converts an asymmetric alternating current (AC) power signal... Agent: Paul J. Sutton, Esq., Barry G. Magidoff, Esq. Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070097485 - Fabrication of a high fill ratio silicon spatial light modulator: A method for forming an optical deflection device includes providing a semiconductor substrate comprising an upper surface region and a plurality of drive devices within one or more portions of the semiconductor substrate. The upper surface region includes one or more patterned structure regions and at least one open region... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070097486 - Projection display system including a high fill ratio silicon spatial light modulator: A display system includes a light source and a first optical system coupled to the light source and adapted to provide an illumination beam along an illumination path. The display system also includes a spatial light modulator positioned in the illumination path. The spatial light modulator includes a semiconductor substrate... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070097487 - High fill ratio silicon spatial light modulator: An optical deflection device for a display application. The optical deflection device includes a semiconductor substrate including an upper surface region and one or more electrode devices provided overlying the upper surface region. The optical deflection device also includes a hinge device including a silicon material and coupled to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070097488 - Spatial optical modulator with passivation layer: Disclosed is an optical modulator including: a substrate; an insulation layer disposed on the substrate; a ribbon layer, a center portion of which is spaced apart from the insulation layer by a predetermined gap; a piezoelectric element that is disposed on the ribbon layer and allows the center portion of... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070097489 - Electro-optic displays, and materials for use therein: A first electro-optic display comprises first and second substrates, and an adhesive layer and a layer of electro-optic material disposed between the first and second substrates, the adhesive layer comprising a mixture of a polymeric adhesive material and a hydroxyl containing polymer having a number average molecular weight not greater... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070097490 - Electrophoretic display sheet, electrophoretic display, electric apparatus, and method of manufacturing electrophoretic display sheet: A method of manufacturing an electrophoretic display sheet that includes: applying a mixture of a plurality of microcapsules and a binder on a substrate, the substrate having a first contact angle θ1 between a reference liquid, each of the microcapsules having a second contact angle θ2 between the reference liquid,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070097491 - Optical fibre amplifier: An optical amplifier is described that comprises at least two sections of amplifying optical fibre and pumping means for optically pumping the amplifying optical fibre. Optical fibre support means, for example a channel or channels in a substrate, are also provided to hold the two or more sections of amplifying... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070097492 - Method for manufacturing mold: A mold manufacturing method for manufacturing a mold with which a diffractive lens array of high accuracy can be molded by the following steps: creating a set of coordinates of form points indicating a form of a concave portion which has a saw-toothed surface; deriving a set of coordinates of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070097493 - Image recording device for microscopy applications: Disclosed is an image acquisition unit (1) for microscopic applications, including at least one microscope objective (7) which is mounted on a housing. The housing (9) is formed by a plurality of individual separate modules, said plurality of modules including at least an electronic module (2), a camera module (4),... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070097494 - Objective lens unit, objective lens insertion tool, microscope, objective optical system fixing device, and microscope system: The invention aims to make it unnecessary to reposition an objective lens when repeatedly carrying out examinations. It is possible to carry out in vivo examination of tissue such as cells and muscle tissue or various internal organs, such as the heart, liver, and so forth, of mammals, especially small... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070097495 - Apparatus for the automatic adjustment of the viewer settings in microscopes: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for the automatic adjustment of viewer settings in microscopes, particularly viewing height and viewing angle, interpupillary distance and/or dioptric compensation. In the apparatus according to the invention for the automatic adjustment of viewer settings in microscopes, the viewer settings with respect to... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070097497 - Method for the adjustment of a light source in a microscope: The present invention is directed to a method by which the illumination radiation to be coupled into the illumination beam path of a microscope can be exactly monitored and/or adjusted. In the method according to the invention for adjusting a light source for a microscope, an imaging optical reflection unit,... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070097496 - Microscope lens for total internal reflexion microscopy and microscope: A microscope objective includes an optical fiber. The optical fiber can deliver light for total internal reflection microscopy. The optical fiber can couple illumination light directly into the microscope objective through the optical fiber.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070097498 - Device for varying and adjusting transmitted illumination for microscopes: The present invention serves to vary and adjust the transmitted light illumination in microscopes, particularly with respect to the numerous, different illumination situations. The device, according to the invention, for varying and adjusting the transmitted illumination for microscopes comprises modules for darkfield illumination, brightfield illumination, and/or diffuse illumination and/or for... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070097500 - Method and apparatus for improving image quality in a reflecting telescope: A method and apparatus for improving image quality in a reflector-type telescope are provided, through utilization of one or more nozzles disposed about the periphery of a reflecting mirror of the telescope, for directing a flow of air from a backside of the mirror across a concave reflecting surface of... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20070097499 - Telescope with invariable display of digital data: A telescope includes an objective lens to receive an optical signal from an object and an electronic signal generator that generates an electronic signal representing for example distance and direction of the object. Both signals travel through a magnification system to from images on a viewer side image plane. The... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070097501 - Color image projection system and method: An image projection system projects an image on a projection screen having phosphor particles for converting incident violet light into green light which, together with red and blue light, creates the image in full color. The phosphor particles are bound in a binding material whose index of refraction matches the... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070097502 - Temperature compensation for the differential expansion of an autostereoscopic lenticular array and display srceen: A method and system for displaying autostereoscopic images is presented. The design comprises a display device, a lenticular array and a computational engine associated with the lenticular array. The computational engine is configured to assess temperature expansion effects for the lenticular array and perform an interdigitation function based on the... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070097503 - Light blocking device: A light blocking device includes a main polarizing plate unit and first and second movable polarizing plates. The main polarizing plate unit includes first and second polarizing sections having first and second polarization directions. The first movable polarizing plate has a polarization direction that is substantially the same as the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070097504 - Dual panel display: A dual panel display has a backlight module, a first display panel, a second display panel, and a plurality of reflective polarizers deposited between the first light-exit surface and the first display panel or the second light exit surface and the second display panel of the light guide plate in... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070097505 - Illuminated signaling device: Signaling devices are for enhancing the visibility of an object or location. The signaling device has a first layer, a reflective layer, and a plurality of lights electrically connected to a power source. The signaling device has a mounting mechanism located at a plurality of locations on the first layer... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20070097506 - Image stabilizing optical system: An optical system with an optical axis is provided. The optical system includes at least a lens group and a light deflection element. The lens group includes a plurality of lenses lined along the optical axis. The light deflection element is disposed along the optical axis and located inside or... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070097507 - Objective for a projection apparatus, and corresponding front-projection or backprojection apparatus: The invention relates to a projection objective comprising at least one lens and intended to transmit a divergent light beam onto a flat screen. A hyperbolically shaped mirror is oriented so as to receive, on its convex face, the light emanating from the lens. The invention also relates to a... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070097508 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus: A zoom lens including a varifocal lens unit having a plurality of movable lens groups, and a prism disposed on an image side of the varifocal lens unit. The prism has an incident plane on which a light flux from the varifocal lens unit enters, and an exit plane from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097509 - Optical elements for high contrast applications: The present application discloses optical elements for use in applications where high contrast is desirable. The optical elements comprise a multilayer optical film having a plurality of reflection bands at design wavelengths of incident light, wherein at least one of the reflection bands is a narrow reflection band, wherein each... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070097510 - Reflective organic layers: The present invention pertains to organic reflective layers comprising an organic radical cation compound, wherein the layer reflects in the infrared region. Preferably, the organic radical cation compound is a salt of an aminium radical cation. Provided are solar window films comprising such infrared reflective layers.... Agent: Optodot Corporation Suite 305

20070097511 - Systems and methods for generating laser light shaped as a line beam: Systems and methods are disclosed for shaping a laser beam for interaction with a film in which the laser beam travels along a beam path and defines a short-axis and a long-axis. In one aspect, the system may include a first short-axis element having an edge positioned at a distance,... Agent: Matthew K. Hillman Cymer, Inc., Legal Dept.

20070097512 - Compound-eye imaging device: A compound-eye imaging device comprises: an optical lens array with integrated optical lenses; a stop member for shielding unnecessary ambient light from entering the optical lens array; a photodetector array placed at a predetermined distance from the optical lens array for imaging images formed by the optical lenses; and a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070097513 - Substrate-guided optical devices: There is provided an optical device, having a light-transmitting substrate having at least two major surfaces (26) parallel to each other and edges; optical means (16) for coupling light waves located in a Field-of-view into the substrate by internal reflection, and at least one partially reflecting surface (22) located in... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070097514 - Antireflective film and exposure method: e

20070097515 - Liquid zoom lens: A liquid zoom lens mounted on a portable terminal is provided. In the liquid zoom lens, a cylindrical body has upper and lower openings to which one pair of lenses is coupled. An auto-focus lens part includes a first insulating liquid layer, a first electrolyte layer, and a first lens.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070097516 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus: A zoom lens includes a varifocal lens unit including a plurality of movable lens groups, and a prism disposed on an image side of the varifocal lens unit. The prism has an incident plane into which a light flux from the varifocal lens unit enters, and an exit plane from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097517 - Zoom lens unit, imaging device and photographing device: A zoom lens unit includes: a positive first lens group; a negative second lens group; and a positive subsequent lens group as a whole, the subsequent lens group includes a third lens group, and an aperture stop is disposed between the second lens group and the third lens group, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097518 - Camera module and electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is a camera module including: a camera body including a lens-barrel holding a shooting optical system, a substrate attached to the lens-barrel, an image pickup device incorporated in the lens-barrel and operative to pick up an image of an object focused by the shooting optical system and to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070097519 - Lens barrel, camera and portable information terminal: A lens barrel including a telescopic cylinder accommodated within a fixed cylinder, and lenses retained in the telescopic cylinder. The lens barrel includes lens retaining frames to retain at least one of the lenses and a lens driving device to drive the lens retaining frames so as to drive the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097520 - Imaging lens, imaging unit, and optical device: l

20070097521 - Zoom lens optical system: A compact zoom lens optical system suitable for use in a camera using a solid state photographing device and providing excellent correction of color aberrations, high zooming ratio, and telecentricity. The zoom lens optical system includes: a first lens group having a positive refractive power, the first lens group including... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070097522 - Image reading lens and image reading apparatus: An image reading lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the image reading lens, a first negative lens having a meniscus shape; a second lens having a double-convex shape; an aperture stop; a third positive lens having a meniscus shape with a convex surface on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070097523 - Single lens element, light source device and scanning optical device: here, f is a focal length of the entire single lens element, fr is a focal length due to the refraction effect of the single lens element, T is a thickness of the single lens element on an optical axis, and NA is a numerical aperture of a single lens... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070097524 - Optical member driving device: An optical member driving device having a movable member formed integrally with a frame member holding an optical member, without requiring a reinforcement of any abutting regions on the driving friction member is comprising a driving friction member capable of a reciprocation in an axial direction thereof, a movable member... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070097526 - Lens barrel assembly: A lens barrel assembly (30) is described that includes a hollow lens barrel (3), at least one lens (4) and a filter (5). The lens barrel has a mounting portion (311). The at least one lens is received in the lens barrel, and the filter is transversely mounted in the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070097527 - Lens unit and imaging device: A lens unit includes a lens barrel having an imaging optical system arranged therein and a movable unit having a movable lens, the movable unit being movable in an optical axis direction with respect to the lens barrel. The lens barrel includes a first member and a second member adapted... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070097525 - Method for trimming a spectacle lens: A method of trimming a lens held between two clamping pads, and the lens periphery is ground away following a controlled trajectory having a programmed terminal portion that corresponds to the desired lens shape, which includes the method comprising: while in a lightly clamped condition, taking first measurements of a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070097528 - Optical barrel, optical controller,and image taking apparatus: An optical barrel includes an outer wall and space members. The outer wall has a plurality of tube members which are each in tube form and are engaged one another in such a manner that one tube is inserted inside another and are relatively moved by a driving force. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097529 - Apparatus for the thermal compensation of an optical system: An apparatus for the thermal compensation of an optical system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a housing, at least one optical element adapted to be displaced relative to the housing, and at least one piston-and-cylinder unit positioned directly between the housing and the optical element. The piston-and-cylinder unit acts on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070097530 - Optical devices: An optical device. At least one guide bar is connected to a base. A coil is disposed in the base. A central axis of the coil in an optical axis direction of the optical device is parallel to a central axis of the guide bar in the optical axis direction.... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070097531 - Optical devices: An optical device. A guide bar is connected to a base, with a first central axis in an optical axis direction of the optical device. A coil slides on the guide bar and has a second central axis in the optical axis direction and a first central elevation axis. The... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070097532 - Optical devices: An optical device. At least one guide bar is connected to a base. A coil is disposed in the base. A central axis of the coil in an optical axis direction of the optical device is parallel to a central axis of the guide bar in the optical axis direction.... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC