Optical: systems and elements inventions 06/07

20070146842 - Hologram projection screen and its manufacturing method and system as well as its applications: The present invention provides a hologram projection screen and its manufacturing method and system as well as its applications. The present hologram projection screen includes a screen body, wherein an array of hologram lenses are arranged onto said screen body, the hologram lenses are arranged equably onto the screen body... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070146846 - Hologram reproduction method and apparatus: A hologram reproduction method for reproducing a hologram from an optical recording medium in which the hologram is recorded by Fourier transforming a signal light, in which digital data is represented by an image of intensity distribution, and a reference light, and simultaneously irradiating the lights in a state in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070146837 - Holographic recording medium: A holographic data storage medium is provided, which includes a first substrate; a second substrate which has a dimension larger than that of the first substrate; and a holographic-recording layer which is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein the second substrate has a support portion which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070146836 - Holographic recording medium, holographic writing system and holographic reading system: A holographic recording medium including a recording layer on a substrate, which records data information in a light interference pattern is provided. In the holographic recording medium, information on a thermal expansion characteristic of a recording material contained in the recording layer and/or information on temperature dependency of the refractive... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070146835 - 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 at least one wavelength at which the optically transparent substrate has an absorbance in a... Agent: Andrew J. Caruso General Electric Global Research

20070146838 - Hologram recording device, hologram reproductive device, hologram recording method, hologram reproduction method, and hologram recording medium: A hologram recording device can easily perform multiplex recording/reproduction on a hologram recording medium. The hologram recording device includes an optical system and a distance controlling mechanism. The optical system focuses on a substantially same location of a hologram recording medium a signal light modulated at a light modulating element... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146839 - Holographic recording medium: A holographic recording medium 10 includes: a recording layer 12; two substrates 14 and 16 sandwiching the same; and a photosensitive protective layer 18 covering these recording layer 12 and substrates 14 and 16 entirely. The recording layer 12 is set so that its photosensitivity corresponding to a recording wavelength... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070146841 - Instrument for measuring particle parameters: Values for one or more particle properties, such as an aerosol asymmetry parameter g, can be measured directly using a detector that measures scattered light. The detector can comprise two or more diffusers coupled to optical sensors responsive to scattered light that is incident on the surfaces of the diffusers.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070146840 - Method and arrangement for positioning a structure to be imaged: The invention is directed to a method and a device for imaging structures either in the focal plane of the objective of a microscope or in the pupil of the objective or in the respective conjugate planes. For this purpose, the optical data of the imaging systems and the illumination... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070146844 - Holographic recording medium, holographic recording apparatus, holographic recording medium, and holographic memory reproducing method and apparatus: A holographic recording and reproducing apparatus 10 can simultaneously reproduce a plurality of data images by the single application of a reproduction reference beam in reproducing holograms. In the holographic recording and reproducing apparatus 10, an object beam is projected from a fixed object beam incident optical axis 18A to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070146843 - Laminated holographic medium, recording apparatus/method, reproduction apparatus/method for the same and design method of laminated hologram medium: A medium 1, that is a laminated holographic medium of the present invention is composed of two or more core layers 2; 3 or more cladding layers 3 set so as to bind the core layers 2; one or more diffraction grating layers 4 storing information data and set at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070146845 - Three-dimensional image reproducing apparatus and method: A multi-ocular three-dimensional image reproducing apparatus reproduces a three-dimensional image by reproducing a plurality of light rays passing through a reproduction position of the three-dimensional image by means of a plurality of different parallax images, with a traveling direction of the light rays as a viewing direction. The apparatus includes... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070146847 - Device capable of light modulation and light reception and optical information recording and reproducing apparatus using same: A holographic memory system comprises a spatial light modulator having multiple modulators for spatially modulating at least a part of a light beam emitted from a light source and rendering it as an information light beam, and a light sensing device for reading the information light beam taken out of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146848 - Laser scanning optical system and image forming apparatus: A laser scanning optical system converts a plurality of beams emitted from the laser diode (LD) into parallel light using a collimator lens, shapes the parallel light using an aperture, and executes exposure of a plurality of lines simultaneously on a photoreceptor drum. To cause a necessary emitting point interval... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070146849 - Optical scanning unit and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning unit includes a light source that emits a light beam, a light deflector that deflects the light beam from the light source, and a scanning optical system that focuses the light beam deflected by the light deflector on a scanning surface. The light beam from the light... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146851 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: A disclosed optical scanning device includes an oscillating mirror supported by a torsion beam for deflecting light beams from a light source unit to scan an object surface backward and forward. A window member transmits light beams incident on and reflected from an oscillating mirror. A sealing member holds the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146850 - Electronic imaging apparatus with high resolution and wide field of view and method: Electronic imaging apparatus includes a main mirror that rotates about two transverse axes to reflect light for an array of subimages through a lens to a correcting mirror that reflects the light to an image detector. The correcting mirror moves in translation and tilts to correct for loss of focus... Agent: Ancel W. Lewis, Jr.

20070146852 - Optical deflector, optical scanning apparatus, and image forming apparatus: An optical deflector including a rotary member supported by a bearing shaft and rotatively driven by a motor for deflecting a plurality of laser beams separated from each other in a rotational axis direction of the rotary member is disclosed. The optical deflector includes a polygon mirror having four sides... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146853 - Optical device with raster elements, and illumination system with the optical device: The invention relates to an optical device that includes (a) a first optical element with at least one first raster element, where the first raster element has a first axis, (b) a second optical element with at least one second raster element, where the second raster element has a second... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070146854 - Light deflecting method and apparatus efficiently using a floating mirror: Method of deflecting light includes the steps of providing a substrate and forming a supporting member on the substrate. Next forming step forms electrodes at predetermined positions on the substrate. Next forming step forms a plate-like-shaped thin film member including light reflecting means. Placing step places the plate-like-shaped thin film... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146855 - Apparatus for measuring eccentricity of optical module: An exemplary apparatus (100) for measuring eccentricity of an optical module (23) includes a worktable (10), an image sensor device (17), a driving device (13), and a processing device (19). The worktable is configured for supporting the optical module. The image sensor device is configured for receiving an image of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070146856 - Light deflector, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus: A light deflector is disclosed that includes a movable mirror serving as a deflector supported by a rotary shaft and configured to deflect a light beam emitted from a light source and scan an area to be scanned; a rotation part configured to cause the movable mirror to vibrate in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146858 - Optical deflector and light beam scanning apparatus: An optical deflector and a light beam scanning apparatus characterized by stable amplitude and speed wherein the fluctuation of the resonant frequency resulting from various factors such as a temperature change is corrected to a predetermined level, and the amplitude of the resonant scanner is kept to a predetermined level.... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070146857 - Torsional hinge mirror assembly with reduced flexing: A torsional hinged mirror assembly having a hinge plate having a central portion and a pair of torsional hinges extending outwardly in opposite directions from the central portion along a first axis and a first pair of support spines extending from the central portion in a second direction substantially perpendicular... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070146859 - Optical modulator: An optical modulator having a junction layer is disclosed. An optical modulator may be provided which includes a substrate, an insulation layer positioned on the substrate, a ribbon layer positioned with an intermediate portion spaced apart from the insulation layer by a predetermined distance, a protective layer positioned on both... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070146860 - Optical modulation device, optical transmitter, and optical transmission equipment: In the bias stabilization control using average optical power of signal light, there is a case where a control algorithm (maximum control or minimum control) changes depending on the amplitude of clock voltage, or it becomes out of control. In an optical modulation device for performing CSRZ optical modulation on... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070146861 - Flexible display: A display is disclosed, which can be fabricated without a high-temperature process, and also realize color images, the display including a reflective electrode formed on a flexible substrate; a transparent insulation layer having a predetermined color formed on a surface of the flexible substrate including the reflective electrode; an opposite... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070146862 - Electroded sheet: A sheet in an electronic display is composed of a substrate containing an array of wire electrodes. The wire electrodes are preferably electrically connected to patterned transparent conductive electrode lines. The wire electrodes are used to carry the bulk of the current. The wire electrodes are capable of being extended... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20070146863 - Dynamic optical phase shifter compensator: A birefringent, electrically-controlled, wavelength selective, pixelated optical phase shifting device, in which the correct drive voltage for a desired phase shift through any pixel can be determined independently of changes in the drive voltage arising from changes in the environmental conditions, generally temperature. This is achieved by mounting a monitor... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070146865 - Digital micromirror device and method of fabricating the same: A digital micromirror device has a substrate having a plurality of electrodes each spaced apart at a predetermined interval; fixed bases having a predetermined height above a surface of the substrate and arranged between the electrodes; and a plurality of micromirrors provided on the fixed bases and independently driven by... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070146864 - Magneto-optical device: Magneto-optical device comprising a magneto-optical read and/or write head with a coil (5), and a means for generating a laser beam (1), wherein the laser beam is passed through an aperture (12) in the coil (5) during operation, characterized in that the coil holder comprises a recess at or around... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070146866 - Optical converter: A device for conversion or amplification of the frequency of optical radiation, both continuous wave and pulsed, with a cheap and compact structure. The device includes a multilayer structure including a metal layer and a dielectric layer, and a transparent dielectric material disposed on the top layer of the multilayer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146868 - Broadband antireflection coating: A broadband antireflection coating formed on at least one of an incident surface or an emission surface of an optical element and reduces reflected-light quantity of incident light or emission light, includes: a structure laminating seven layers of a thin film.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070146867 - Optical element: There is provided an optical element which can achieve more reduction in the number of components, downsizing, low cost, and an improvement in the mass-productivity while maintaining an excellent optical property. The optical element comprises: an optical block having a cavity part formed on an optical path and an inclined... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070146869 - Confocal optical scanning device: a first spatial filtering system (1203) arranged in the first image plane and designed to filter the luminous point (FEO) to obtain a beam to be detected (FD). The optical system and the first spatial filtering system (1203) are designed to send back the beam to be detected (FD) on... Agent: Vincent Lauer

20070146870 - Method for particle analysis and particle analysis system: In a known method for particle analysis, at least part of a particle accumulation is illuminated on a substantially planar substrate and imaged, a measurement area of the particle accumulation being displaced grid by grid, and imaging data obtained on the measurement area being evaluated with respect to particle characteristics.... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20070146871 - Microscope and sample observation method: For a semiconductor device S as a sample of an observed object, there are provided an image acquisition part 1 for carrying out observation of the semiconductor device S, and an optical system 2 comprising an objective lens 20. A solid immersion lens (SIL) 3 for magnifying an image of... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070146873 - Extended depth of field imaging for high speed object analysis: A high speed, high-resolution flow imaging system is modified to achieve extended depth of field imaging. An optical distortion element is introduced into the flow imaging system. Light from an object, such as a cell, is distorted by the distortion element, such that a point spread function (PSF) of the... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20070146872 - Invertible light-optical microscope: An optical microscope can be converted by the user quickly with a few movements of the hand so that it can be used as an upright variant or as an inverted variant. The required optical elements are accommodated in components that can be mechanically separated from one another and variously... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070146874 - Apparatus for mounting for multiple lasers: An apparatus for mounting multiple lasers (16a, 16b, 16c) and at least one electronic unit (33) is disclosed. At least three legs (60), which space the multiple lasers (16a, 16b, 16c) and the at least one electronic unit (33) away from a support (70), are mounted on a mounting plate... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070146876 - Microlens front projection screen: A display screen is provided. The display screen may be configured to receive an image from a display device, and includes a first surface with a topography configured to transmit light from the image, and a second surface configured with light reflecting portions and light absorbing portions. The light reflecting... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070146875 - Reflective screen: A reflective screen that uses an aluminum-foil reflecting layer, wherein speckling can easily be suppressed in the reflective screen. The reflective screen is composed of a surface diffusion layer 1, a transparent adhesive layer 2, and an aluminum-foil reflecting layer 5 layered together. A diffusing material is added to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070146877 - Image display, fresnel lens and screen: In a Fresnel screen for displaying an image, comprising, a screen surface, and a reverse surface opposite to the screen surface in a thickness direction of the screen to be prevented from facing to the viewer, the Fresnel screen has first prism surfaces extending to have respective longitudinal arc-shapes juxtaposed... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070146878 - Display unit: A display unit includes: a housing having a front end defining a front opening, and an inner wall formed with first nut seats and support seats; screw rods, each of which extends through a respective support seat, a respective first nut seat, and the front opening, and each of which... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070146879 - Image display device and fresnel lens sheet used therefor: A Fresnel lens sheet used for an image display device is disclosed. The Fresnel lens sheet is provided with a first prism group in an area of a light entrance plane of the Fresnel lens sheet where the incident angle of light is equal to or more than a predetermined... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070146880 - Optical device for splitting an incident light into simultaneously spectrally separated and orthogonally polarized light beams having complementary primary color bands: The present invention relates to an optical device for splitting incident unpolarized white light into simultaneously spectrally separated and orthogonally polarized light beams having complementary primary color bands by using interference filters for primary color bands such as the Infitec filters. The optical device embodying the present invention can be... Agent: Michael J. Berger, Esq. Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20070146881 - Optical prism and optical transceiver module for optical communications: A sub-mount is provided on the substrate. The composite optical prism is formed with an optical lens provided with mounting supports and a wavelength division film in an integrated fashion. By using marks on the sub-mount for alignment, the composite optical prism can be mounted accurately on the sub-mount. In... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070146882 - Polarizer, optical film and image display: A polarizer including a film having a structure having a minute domain dispersed in a matrix formed of a translucent water-soluble resin including an iodine light absorbing material and a divalent metal. The iodine based polarizer realizes a high polarization degree even on the short wavelength and excels in durability.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070146883 - Optical apparatus: An optical apparatus is disclosed which is capable of acquiring images with a good quality and saving power. The optical apparatus comprises a movable unit which is supported by an elastic member and movable for image stabilization and a controller. The controller performs a first control operation which controls drive... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070146884 - Diffraction grating element, production method of diffraction grating element, and method of designing diffraction grating element: In a diffraction grating element 10, between a first medium 11 and a fourth medium 14, a second medium 12 and a third medium 13 are disposed alternately to form a diffraction grating. The light, which enters the diffraction grating from the first medium 11, is diffracted at the diffraction... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070146885 - Polarization phase difference plate: The object of the present invention is to provide an excellent-quality polarization phase difference plate that enables, by a simple structure: decrease in light loss and in oscillation of the intensity of the transmitting emission light through effectively suppressing Fresnel reflection in the polarization phase difference plate; improvements in the... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070146886 - Unitary optical element providing wavelength selection: An apparatus and method for integrated grating feedback and retro-reflection are disclosed herein. An unitary optical element is designed to provide a feedback output at one end and an ancillary output at an opposite end. A desired output wavelength is determined by the geometry and index of refraction of the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070146887 - Antireflection film, polarizing plate, method for producing them, liquid cryatal display element, liquid crystal display device, and image display device: To provide an antireflection film which is easily and inexpensively producible and which has an antireflection property, a scratch resistance and a stain resistance in a sufficient level, and a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device utilizing the antireflection film of such excellent ability, the antireflection film includs... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070146888 - Propagating light to be sensed: Light to be sensed is spreaded across an entry surface of a transmission structure with a laterally varying energy transmission function. For example, the light could be output from a stimulus-wavelength converter, provided through an optical fiber, or it could come from a point-like source or broad area source. Output... Agent: Leading Edge Law Group, PLC/xerox-parc

20070146889 - Optical diffuser with uv blocking coating: A diffuser is provided in an illumination system, where the diffuser is capable of blocking significant amounts of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In certain example embodiments of this invention, the diffuser includes a glass substrate which supports a UV coating(s) that blocks significant amounts of UV radiation thereby reducing the amount... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070146890 - Lenslet array for beam homogenization: Apparatus for homogenizing a laser beam includes a lenslet array. In some embodiments, the lenslets have a negative power. The lenslet array may include from 16 to 36 effective lenslets in some embodiments, or any other suitable number in alternative embodiments. Some embodiments additionally include a re-focusing lens for directing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070146891 - Lenslet array for beam homogenization: Apparatus for homogenizing a laser beam includes a lenslet array. In some embodiments, the lenslets have a negative power. The lenslet array may include from 16 to 36 effective lenslets in some embodiments, or any other suitable number in alternative embodiments. Some embodiments additionally include a re-focusing lens for directing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070146892 - Optical pickup and optical information reproducing apparatus using same: An optical pickup module with enhanced aberration correctability is disclosed. This pickup includes more than two different types of laser light sources, an objective lens for collecting and focusing any one of the laser beams leaving the light sources onto an optical disc, and an aberration correction device of the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070146895 - Method of fabricating liquid lens using electrowetting and liquid lens fabricated thereby: A method of fabricating a liquid lens which can prevent unstable movement of liquids while sealing a hole containing the liquids by applying voltage to a chamber containing the liquids to induce electrowetting, and a liquid lens fabricated thereby. The method includes providing a chamber with a hole formed therein... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070146893 - Electrowetting device: An electrowetting device comprises a variable element (28) and a control system (11) for the variable element (28), wherein the control system (11) is adapted to provide an asymmetric voltage waveform to the variable.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070146894 - Liquid lens with piezoelectric voltage converter: An electronic camera module includes a lens or refractive element formed by a pair of immiscible liquids and having optical properties which can be varied by applying a voltage so as to deform the meniscus. One of the two liquids extends from the meniscus all the way to the front... Agent: Tessera Lerner David Et Al.

20070146896 - Optical lens module and variable focal length lens assembly having the same: An optical lens module and a variable focal length lens assembly are provided. The optical lens module includes multiple portions distributed around a central axis of the optical lens module, wherein each portion of the optical lens module has a thickness different from its neighboring portions. The variable focal length... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070146897 - Zoom lens system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same:

20070146898 - Zoom lens: A zoom lens is provided and has a first group having a positive refractive power, a second group having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, a third group having a positive refractive power and a fourth group having a positive refractive power, which groups are arranged in this order... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146899 - Wide-angle optical system for solid-state image pickup device: z

20070146900 - Diaphragm device: A diaphragm device with which individual wavelengths or ranges of wavelengths in the path of a beam of spectrally dispersed light can be suppressed. Such a diaphragm device comprises at least one array of diaphragms, wherein the individual diaphragms of the array are arranged in a definite relation to each... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070146901 - Four-piece lens assembly: A four-piece lens assembly, from the object side, comprises: an aperture, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a flat parallel glass and an image plane. The first lens is a double convex positive lens. The second lens is a double concave negative lens or... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070146903 - Image capture lens and image capture apparatus: f

20070146902 - Image-forming lens set: An image-forming lens set includes a first lens, a second lens, an aperture and a third lens arranged orderly from an objective side toward an image side in sequence. The first lens is made of plastic material and has a positive diopter and two opposite surfaces including a convex surface... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070146904 - Submersive doublet for high numerical aperture optical system: The invention features a doublet at one end of a high numerical aperture imaging system. The doublet includes two members coupled together by a fluid medium. The first member is arranged for receiving converging rays within a region of medium power density, and the second member further converges the rays... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20070146905 - Lens device and lens holding method: A lens device comprises a lens element having round depressions formed in the back thereof and a lens barrel provided with round projections formed correspondingly in position to the round depressions each of which has an axial length shorter than an axial depth of the round depression and an outer... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070146907 - Axis-adjustable optical device and optical instrument utilizing the same: An axis-adjustable optical device includes: a base; a first adjustment unit including a biasing component disposed between a support seat and the base, and a plurality of screw fasteners for coupling the support seat to the base; a second adjustment unit including a guide hoop coupled and pivotable relative to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070146906 - Optical element module: There is provided an optical element module comprising a first optical element and an optical element holder. The first optical element has a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The optical element holder holds the first optical element and has a second coefficient of thermal expansion, the second coefficient of thermal... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070146908 - Focal length compensation structure for a lens assembly: A focal length compensation structure for a lens assembly is used in a portable electronic product having an image taking lens assembly. The lens assembly comprises mounting seat, lens tube and expandable and shrinkable member, the expandable and shrinkable member is disposed between the portable electronic product and the mounting... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070146909 - Lens barrel and image pickup apparatus: A lens barrel includes a lens moving frame configured to hold an image pickup lens; a barrel member configured to support the lens moving frame for back and forth linear movement along the direction of an optical axis of the image pickup lens; the lens moving frame having a magnetized... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070146910 - Light steering assemblies: Techniques and assemblies for steering light rays are described. An electro-optic prism is operable to provide controllable steering of light rays. The electro-optic prism includes a first electrode including multiple substantially parallel linear electrodes on a first substrate and a reference electrode on a second substrate. An electro-optic material is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070146911 - Vehicle mirror device: A holding member includes a bearing that receives a thrust force of at least one of a first gear and a second gear. The first gear and the second gear are in a non-contact state in a thrust direction.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070146912 - Blind spot reduction system: An embodiment of a variable field of view mirror includes a reflective mirror portion defined, at least in part, by a reflecting surface selectively defining, with respect to a viewer, a visible frustum. The visible frustum has a viewing segment defining a predetermined arc taken normal to an axis. At... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070146913 - Universal mounting for a vehicle rear view mirror: A universal mounting (1) for a vehicle rear view mirror (2) adapted to fit on a mirror arm (4) of any cross-section comprising a mirror arm engaging surface (3, 8, 18) and clamping means (5), in which the clamping means are adapted to extend around or through a mirror arm... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070146914 - Color filter: A main object of the present invention is to provide a high-quality color filter wherein the shapes of colored layer, as individual pixels, are even in the whole. To achieve the object, the present invention provides a color filter comprising: a base material; a light shielding part formed on the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070146915 - Color filter array and organic light-emitting display device using the same: A color filter array is provided that is capable of implementing full color with improved light-emitting efficiency and color coordinate values from a mixed light of blue and red, and an organic light-emitting display device using the same. A color filter array receiving a mixed light of blue wavelength light... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070146916 - Filter device: A filter device including a red filter unit, a green filter unit, a blue filter unit and at least one of a yellow filter unit, a cyan filter unit and a magenta filter unit is provided. Red light, green light and blue light are produced when white light passes through... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070139744 - Security device with metameric features using diffractive pigment flakes: A metameric optical structure is disclosed having first optical structures comprising diffractive flakes having diffractive structures thereon, and a second optical structures having non-diffractive flakes which may have other special effect properties, such as color shifting. At one angle of incidence or one viewing angle, near normal. The hues match... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070139745 - Optical writing unit and an image forming apparatus including the same: An optical writing unit, e.g., that can be included in an image forming apparatus includes a housing within which are disposed additional components of the optical writing unit including the following, a plurality of optical elements, a polygon mirror configured to deflect a laser light beam, and a collecting member... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070139747 - Image forming apparatus: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image forming apparatus, which includes: a first to fourth image bearing members on which toner images of four colors of yellow, magenta, cyan, and black are formed respectively; a first rotatable polygon mirror for deflecting and scanning laser beams on the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070139746 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A magnification correction controller corrects magnification in a main scanning direction by changing a timing of an image signal based on a time difference between a first detection time in a predetermined position along a main scanning line of the image carrier to which the laser beam is irradiated and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070139748 - Optical component for introducing optical aberrations to a light beam: An optical component (48) for introducing optical aberrations to a light beam defining an optical axis (28) is described, comprising a fluid chamber (46) having a first fluid (56) and at least a second fluid (58) therein, the first and second fluid (56, 58) being nonmiscible, the first fluid (56)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070139749 - Method and apparatus for free-space optical interconnects between arbitrary locations in a field using lenses, steering elements and a curved reflecting surface: A method and apparatus for achieving high-density and misalignment tolerant short-reach free-space optical interconnects between arbitrary locations in a field, using microlenses, steering elements and a curved reflecting surface.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070139750 - Oscillating mirror having a plurality of eigenmodes: Geometric-waveform oscillator for processing light, the geometric waveform oscillator including a plurality of masses, at least one force producing element, and a plurality of elastic elements, each of the force producing elements being coupled with a respective one of the masses, at least one of the masses including a light... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070139751 - Variable mirror: A variable mirror (100; 200; 300; 400; 500; 600; 740; 922) includes a fluid chamber (130; 230), an optical axis (90) extending through at least a portion of the fluid chamber, and a first polar and/or conductive fluid (110; 210) and a second fluid (120; 220) in contact over an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070139752 - Systems, methods and devices for actuating a moveable miniature platform: Presented herein are systems, methods and devices relating to miniature actuatable platform systems. According to one embodiment, the systems, methods, and devices relate to controllably actuated miniature platform assemblies including a miniature mirror.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070139753 - Confocal microscope apparatus: A confocal microscope apparatus comprises a first optical scanning system which obtains a scan image of a sample using a laser beam from a first laser light source, a second optical scanning system which scans specific regions of a sample with a laser beam from a second laser light source... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070139755 - Electro-optic modulator: A beam modulator (14) for modulating a beam (20) includes a modulator element (26) and a housing assembly (24). The modulator element (26) is positioned in the path of the beam (20). The housing assembly (24) retains the modulator element (26). The housing assembly (24) can include a housing (234),... Agent: The Law Office Of Steven G Roeder

20070139754 - Optical transmission device and optical phase modulator: An optical transmission device includes an optical phase modulator and a signal generation function. The optical phase modulator is controlled, so that when the state of an intensity-modulated optical signal shifts from a first luminescent state, through a non-luminescent state, to a second luminescent state, the phase of the optical... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070139756 - Stable electro-chromic device: A stable electrochromic stack is provided that is able to persistently hold a desired optical state. The stable electrochromic stack has at least two states. One state may be, for example, a bleached state in which light may readily pass, and the other state may be a colored state that... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20070139758 - Moveable micro-electromechanical device: A MEMS device is provided. The MEMS device may include a first plate, a second plate and a third plate. The MEMS device may also include a first power supply configured to provide a voltage to the first plate and a second power supply configured apply a voltage to the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070139757 - Slm direct writer: The present invention relates to an apparatus (100) for patterning a workpiece arranged at an image plane and sensitive to electromagnetic radiation, comprising a source emitting electromagnetic radiation onto an object plane and at least two spatial light modulators each comprising numerous of object pixels, adapted to receive said electromagnetic... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070139759 - Reflective display device with divided electrodes: Disclosed herein is a reflective display device. The reflective display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a first electrode group and a second electrode group, and electrically charged particles. The first substrate and the second substrate are located parallel to each other and configured to form a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070139760 - Optical path length adjuster: An optical path length adjuster (53) enables electro-optical control of a physical path length between two optical elements, suitable for use in the adjustment of an optical path length within three dimensional display devices that generate a virtual image within a defined imaging volume. The adjuster varies an optical path... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070139761 - Light source for wavelength conversion: A light source for wavelength conversion which can control gray scale includes a semiconductor laser including at least two radiators, to which different gray scale levels are allocated. Further included is a second-harmonic generator for performing wavelength conversion on lights radiated from the radiators, and outputting the wave-converted lights.... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070139762 - Translation of individual and entangled states of light by four-wave mixing in fibers: Optical frequency conversion by four-wave mixing in a fiber is considered. If the frequencies and polarizations of the waves are chosen judiciously, four-wave mixing enables the translation of individual and entangled states, without the noise pollution associated with parametric amplification (modulation instability or phase conjugation) and with reduced noise from... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070139763 - Microscope objective: A microscope objective including an front optical element, a plurality of optical elements spaced apart from the front element and from each other, as well as an adjusting unit. At least one of the optical elements can be displaced along the optical axis by the adjusting unit to adjust the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070139764 - Simultaneous observation of darkfield images and fluorescence using filter and diaphragm: An annular diaphragm and filter used for the simultaneous observation of darkfield images and fluorescence. The diaphragm has a variable diameter controlled by a lever and a removable filter. The diaphragm is used to adjust the amount of unfiltered incident light which produces darkfield images when directed on a sample.... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070139765 - Microfabricated light collimating screen: A microfabricated light collimating screen is provided. A microfabricated screen, in one form, is made from a photopolymer such as SU-8 material. It is able to collimate light in two dimensions and for improved degrees of collimation. It may also be directly patterned onto image sensors or light sources in... Agent: Joseph D. Dreher Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070139766 - High contrast front projection screen: A front projection screen and a projection system incorporating same are disclosed. The front projection screen includes a plurality of cholesteric liquid crystal layers and one or more retarder layers. Each cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a reflectance curve characterized by a reflectance peak and a reflectance full width at... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070139767 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus: A 3D display apparatus of simple construction enabling many people to observe 3D images having many viewing points in a near-natural condition is provided. The apparatus includes picture image display parts, lenses forming images from the picture image display parts, and a screen diffracting and condensing picture images formed by... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070139768 - Autostereoscopic display apparatus: An autostereoscopic display apparatus includes multiple micro-display devices for exporting an 3-dimensional image. Each of the micro-display devices produces a portion image of the image. The portion image has multiple viewing-zone portion images with respect to multiple viewing zones. An image guiding unit has multiple micro-image output terminals, which are... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070139769 - Universal stereographic trigger peripheral for electronic equipment: A universal hardware adapter for conversion of video game platform USB signals to standard stereoscopic personal computer connection signals.... Agent: Eugene I. Shkurko IBM Corporation

20070139770 - Polarizing glass: In order to be able to obtain polarizing glass having favorable polarization characteristics in the visible light region, there is provided polarizing glass which is obtained by dispersing and orienting metal particles having anisotropy in shape within base glass and which exhibits dichroism, wherein the base glass is transparent glass... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070139771 - Optical retarders and methods of making the same: In certain aspects, the disclosure features an article that includes a first layer having spaced-apart rows of a first material, and a multilayer film adjacent the first layer. The first layer and the multilayer film are each independently birefringent for light of a wavelength λ propagating along an axis that... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070139773 - Method of producing elliptically polarizing plate and image display using the elliptically polarizing plate:

20070139772 - Optical birefringence filters with interleaved absorptive and zero degree reflective polarizers: A wavelength discriminating optical filter has birefringent retarders stacked between polarizing filters, in relative rotational orientations causing passband wavelengths to emerge in a polarization state aligned to a second such polarizing filter, for transmission, whereas wavelengths at orthogonal polarization states are blocked. The second polarizing filter can be a wiregrid... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070139774 - Light power adjusting method, optical transmitter, and optical receiver: w

20070139775 - Methods for producing low-visibility retroreflective visual tags: One embodiment of the present invention provides a process for producing a low-visibility retroreflective visual tag, which can be used to identify and/or determine the position of an object. This process involves placing an infra-red-blocking material over a retroreflective substrate to form the low-visibility retroreflective visual tag. This infra-red-blocking material... Agent: Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Flem

20070139776 - Brightness enhancement film with protective layer and backlight module and liquid crystal display with same: An exemplary brightness enhancement film (15) includes a main body (154), a plurality of first prism structures (152), a plurality of second prism structures (156), and first and second protective layers (150, 158). The main body includes a first side, and a second side opposite to the first side. The... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139778 - Diffraction grating device and optical apparatus: A diffraction grating device for splitting or coupling light beams permits the divergence of the light beams to be minimized easily. A first light beam is incident on a diffraction grating from the side thereof facing the inside of the device, and a second light beam is incident on the... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070139777 - Reconfigurable zone plate lens: A reconfigurable zone plate lens is disclosed. Some embodiments may include a central annular element having a first a first circumference centered about a central axis. Embodiments may also include a plurality of concentric annular elements of increasing circumference centered about the central axis and the central annular element, where... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate

20070139779 - Wide-angle beam steering system: A beam steering system having first diffraction gratings, each one being associated with a corresponding one of a first plurality of grating vectors disposed substantially in a first plane. The gratings diffract optical energy from any one of a plurality of input directions of resonance to a corresponding one of... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070139780 - Process for producing coating film, antireflection film and process for producing the same, sheet polarizer using the film, and image display device using these: The present invention provides a process for producing an antireflection film comprising applying, using a slot die, a coating solution onto a web which is backed up by a back-up roller and runs continuously to form at least one layer which has a thickness of 200 nm or less in... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070139782 - Diffusion film comprising transparent substrate and diffusion layer: An anti-reflection film which includes a transparent substrate, a diffusion layer and a low refractive index layer in this order, wherein the diffusion layer shows such a scattered light profile measured by a goniophotometer that a ratio of an intensity of scattered light at an angle of 30° to an... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070139781 - Optical film, and polarizing plate, image display device and liquid crystal display device including the same: An optical film comprising a transparent support and a light scattering layer, wherein the light scattering layer contains at least two translucent particles including first translucent particles and second translucent particles in a matrix of the light scattering layer, the first translucent particles have an average particle size of larger... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070139783 - Antiglare film and image display: The present invention provides an antiglare film having the reflectance at an angle of reflection of 30° for incident light 13 at an incident angle of 30° of not more than 2%, and the reflectance of not more than 0.003% at an angle of reflection of 40° in an antiglare... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070139784 - Extended optical traps by shape-phase holography: A method and system for establishing extended optical traps for commercial use. The method and system employs a diffractive optical element (DOE) to process a light beam wherein the DOE includes phase information and amplitude information to create the extended optical trap. Such extended traps can be line traps and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070139785 - Variable lens: A variable lens (100; 200; 300; 400; 500; 600) is described. The lens (100; 200; 300; 400; 500; 600) comprises a chamber (125) defined by at least one side wall and having an optical axis (90) extending longitudinally through the chamber. The chamber (125) contains a first fluid (130) and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070139786 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus: Provided is a zoom lens allows size reduction in the depth direction and compactness. The zoom lens includes a plurality of lens groups (GR1 to GR5) and performs zooming by changing an inter-group distance. Of the plurality of lens groups (GR1 to GR5), a first lens group (GR1) on the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070139787 - Compact zoom lens: where G1 denotes a thickness of the first lens group, G2 denotes a thickness of the second lens group, G2 denotes a thickness of the third lens group, and fw denotes an overall focal length at the wide angle position. Accordingly, the zoom lens can ensure a high zoom ratio,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070139788 - Bent zoom lens: The bent zoom lens is configured to include, arranged in order from an object side, a first lens group GR1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens group GR2 having a negative refractive power, a third lens group GR3 having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens group GR4... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070139789 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus including the zoom lens system: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens system, which includes a first, a second, a third, and a fourth lens units of positive, negative, positive, and positive refractive powers, respectively, in this order from an object side to an image side. At a telephoto end, the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070139790 - Zoom lens driving apparatus: A zoom lens driving apparatus achieves the object of driving multiple lens groups by a single motor and low production cost. When a first lens group, which includes a first lens, moves along guide rods, a leading cam of a leading member drives a leading pin of a follower, so... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070139791 - Illumination system optimized for throughput and manufacturability: An optimized illumination system that efficiently produces uniform illumination for exposure, photoablation, and laser crystallization systems. The illumination system includes a homogenizer that uniformizes and shapes a light beam, which is directed onto a mask by condenser optics. The illumination system recycles radiation by directing light reflected by the mask... Agent: Carl C. Kling

20070139792 - Adjustable apodized lens aperture: An adjustable apodized lens aperture is described which is constructed using photochromic material. As the excitation energy increases, the aperture constricts so as reduce the amount of light through the aperture. As the excitation energy decreases, the aperture dilates so as increase the amount of light through the aperture.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070139793 - Fisheye lens unit: To provide a technique to constitute a fisheye lens unit with a small number of lenses. A fisheye lens unit uses a predetermined projection method, wherein a variation for the predetermined projection method is not less than the variation for an equidistant projection method, the variation being expressed by an... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070139794 - Optical system and optical apparatus including optical system:

20070139795 - Image lens assembly: An image lens assembly comprises a lens array and a transparent material. In the lens array are defined a plurality of spaces. The transparent material is injected into the spaces until the spaces are full of the transparent material, and the transparent material will be solidified after being injected into... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070139796 - Head magnifier: A head magnifier is provided, comprising magnifying optics as well as a coupling mechanism for attaching the magnifying optics to a head mount which can be placed on a user's head. The coupling mechanism has a swivel mechanism enabling swiveling of the magnifying optics relative to the head mount about... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070139797 - Clamping fixture and method for washing optical members: An exemplary clamping fixture (100) for washing optical members (60) includes a base (10), two clamping elements (20, 30), and a securing member (40). The base defines a plurality of holding grooves (13) configured for holding a first portion (61) of each of the optical members therein. The clamping elements... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070139798 - Led emitter with radial prismatic light diverter: An optical assembly includes a light emitting diode (LED) and a structured surface. The structured surface has a plurality of prismatic structures arranged radially with respect to a reference point, and is disposed relative to the LED such that the reference point is substantially aligned with a light emission axis... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070139799 - X-ray device for imaging at least one part of an examination object: An X-ray device for imaging at least one part of an examination object. The X-ray device includes a support arm that supports an emitter head and an X-ray detector. The emitter head includes an X-ray source. A first light source is operative to illuminate a surface, which is to be... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070139800 - Vehicle mirror device: A holding member integrally includes a bearing pair that rotatably support at least one gear of rotation-force transmission mechanism.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070139801 - Magic mirror and method for manufacturing a magic mirror: A method for manufacturing a magic mirror has a reflective surface forming step, a pattern preparing step and a solidifying step. The reflective surface forming step is forming a reflective surface on a mirror substrate. The pattern preparing step is attaching an adhesive to a rear surface of the mirror... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070133075 - Holographic recording medium: A holographic recording medium is provided, which has a first substrate which has a recess on a surface; an information-recording layer which is formed in the recess of the first substrate; and a second substrate which is formed on the information-recording layer; wherein an area of a surface of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070133076 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus has: a display element for displaying an image; a light source section for supplying an illumination light to the display element; a reflection type hologram for diffracting and reflecting the illumination light so as to guide the illumination light to the display element; and an eyepiece... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070133077 - Optical spot grid array scanning system: A method for scanning a surface, consisting of focusing an array of optical beams using optics having an axis, so as to illuminate a region of the surface intercepted by the axis, such that each optical beam illuminates a portion of a respective sub-region within the region. The method further... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc. C/o Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070133078 - Transparent window panel with a field of view that can be partially darkened and method of controlling a surface element that can be electrochromically lightened inside a transparent window panel: A transparent glazing, and a control method thereof, with a field of view that can be darkened over a portion of its surface by electrically controlling at least one functional element incorporated into a multilayer composite, the light transmission of which glazing can be varied reversibly. The functional element, for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070133079 - Devices an methods for redirecting light: A device for redirecting light may comprise a plurality of liquid prisms configured to transmit incident light from an image display element. The liquid prisms may be configured to selectively modulate a direction of the transmitted light relative to the incident light so as to selectively alter an angle at... Agent: Kurt Luther, Esq. Honeywell International, Inc.

20070133080 - Electrophoretic dispersion liquid and electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic dispersion liquid for an electrophoretic display apparatus includes a plurality of electrophoretic particles each surface of which is modified by one of a basic group and an acidic group, a liquid for holding said electrophoretic particles to be dispersed therein; and a polydiene, having the other group, dissolved... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070133081 - Micro-electromechanical system (mems) polyelectrolyte gel network pump: According to embodiments of the present invention, a first layer of electrically conductive material may be disposed in a recess in a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) base. An electrically charged gel network may be disposed in the recess on the first layer of electrically conductive material. A second layer of electrically... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070133082 - Amplitude modulation for quasi-phasematched nonlinear optical frequency converters: Quasi-phasematching design to provide an approximation to a desired spectral amplitude response A(f) is provided. An initial phase response φ(f) corresponding to A(f) is generated. Preferably, d2φ(f)/df2 is proportional to A2(f). Alternatively, φ(f) can be a polynomial in f. A function h(x) is computed such that h(x) and H(f)=A(f)exp(iφ(f)) are... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20070133083 - Waveguide apparatus with integrated amplifier and associated transitions: An waveguide apparatus and associated method are provided. Included is a waveguide and an integrated circuit positioned, at least in part, in the waveguide. The integrated circuit includes an amplifier and at least one transition between the amplifier and the waveguide.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070133084 - Apparatus and method for all-optical control of gain and gain flattening on an optical amplifier: Provided is an apparatus and method for all-optically controlling both a gain and a gain flattening. The apparatus includes: a first amplifier automatically controlling a gain of the apparatus through a feedback loop while amplifying a received optical signal; a fixed gain flattening unit receiving the amplified optical signal from... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070133085 - Microscope control device: A microscope control device comprises a coarse focus control, a manual navigation control, and a fine focus control. The microscope control device also includes a clutch configured to alternatively activate one of the coarse focus control and manual navigation control. The fine focus control, coarse focus control, manual navigation control,... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070133086 - Method and apparatus for the examination of probes: A method in which probes are examined by means a microscope. For an illuminated sample, spatially coherent light with at least one continuous wavelength range or a continuously tunable wavelength range is generated, and one or more wavelengths or wavelength ranges in the illumination light are selected in dependence on... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070133087 - Generation of image data subsets: A method comprising generating a first value in a first image data subset using a portion of image data and a splitting factor, and generating a second value in a second image data subset using the portion of image data and the splitting factor is provided. The first value and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070133088 - Selective reflecting: Selective reflective optical apparatus includes a projection screen. The projection screen has structure constructed and arranged to selectively reflect only incident optical energy of a predetermined number of narrow bands of optical wavelength regions.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070133089 - Projection screen with virtual compound curvature: A compound curved projection screen having a curvature about at least one region, such as a cylinder cross section curved about an axis or an ellipse about a plurality of axes, is provided. The compound curved screen comprises a plurality of angled planar reflective surfaces oriented to generally provide light... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070133090 - Luminous intensity distribution control device and display having the same: A liquid crystal display apparatus including: a liquid crystal display element having a liquid crystal layer; a backlight apparatus arranged at one side of the couple of substrates of the liquid crystal display element; a polarizer arranged between the liquid crystal display element and the backlight apparatus; a luminous intensity... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070133091 - Optical apparatus: An optical apparatus is disclosed which can prevent displacement of subject images due to the initializing operation of the image stabilizing unit from being seen by a photographer through a finder. The apparatus comprises an image-stabilizing unit which includes a movable unit movable for image stabilization and balls movable in... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070133092 - Lens device and imager apparatus: A lens device is provided. The lens device includes: an image stabilizer having a lens holding frame which holds a correcting lens, a first driver which moves the lens holding frame in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis direction of the correcting lens, and a second driver which... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070133093 - Projection lens: In imaging optics with main optics having several optical elements, and in which the main optics are corrected for an observation radiation, there is further provided a transmissive, diffractive element, which is arranged and provided in the observation beam path of the imaging optics such that, due to the diffractive... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070133094 - Optical film, illuminator and display: An optical film is provided for use in a light source or display to provide rapid cut-off of illumination with angle. The film comprises a light-transmissive substrate of a material having a refractive index greater than one and having first and second major surfaces. A surface relief is formed on... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070133095 - Day and night film: An optical element having a front side and a back side operates in an ambient lit mode and a backlit mode. The optical element includes a diffusely reflecting layer facing the front side for reflecting ambient light. A light absorbing layer faces the back side and is positioned to prevent... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070133096 - Birefringence-compensated liquid crystal display and projection system using same: A projection system includes an image-forming device and a polarizing beamsplitter. Illumination light illuminates the image-forming device via the first polarizing beamsplitter. A retardation element is disposed between the image-forming device and the polarizing beamsplitter. A bias controller applies a bias to pixels of the image-forming device in the dark... Agent: Attention: George W. Jonas Office Of Intellectual Property Counsel

20070133097 - Integrated sub-assembly having a light collimating or transflecting device: Integrated sub-assemblies for light management are disclosed herein. The integrated sub-assemblies include a plurality of films and/or elements, including a light collimating device and/or a transflecting device. At least two of the elements are coupled such that there is no air layer between the coupled elements.... Agent: Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, LLP

20070133098 - Head light detailer: The Headlight Detailer (HLD) is a three part process utilizing specific compounds and procedure for the purpose of detailing automobile headlights and restoring the functionality of the headlight lens. The first part of the process consists of using readily available glass cleaner applied to the headlight lens for initial cleaning.... Agent: Charles M. Young

20070133099 - Light guide panel and back light unit having the same: A light guide panel and a back light unit having the same are provided. The light guide panel includes an isotropic layer and an anisotropic layer. The isotropic layer includes an incident light surface, a transmission surface, and a polarization recycling unit, disposed opposite the transmission surface, which changes a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070133101 - Optical element and illuminating device: The present invention provides an optical element and an illuminating device. The optical element includes: an incident surface; and an emitting section formed on an opposite side to the incident surface. The emitting section includes a plurality of protrusions. When each of the plurality of protrusions is projected onto a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070133100 - Optical system and optical apparatus including the same: An optical system includes an optical member made of a solid material being a mixture prepared by dispersing inorganic particles in a transparent medium. The transparent medium and the inorganic particles of the solid material, and the volume ratio of the inorganic particles to the transparent medium are set so... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070133102 - Reduced-footprint illumination system using highly-efficient optical collection and reflection surface(s) and method for manufacturing optical elements used therein: An improved optical collection and transmission surface includes a plastic mold injection surface including staggered multiple transmission sites each with a recessed portion in which incident light is not lost during reflection towards the propagation surface. A device implementing the surfaces is plastic-mold injected of high quality acrylic at in... Agent: Dort Patent Corporation

20070133103 - Hermetic electrowetting device: The invention concerns an electrowetting device comprising first and second immiscible fluids, the liquids being sealed within a structure comprising a cap portion, a base portion, a gasket formed of a first material positioned between a first contact surface on said cap portion and a second contact surface on said... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070133104 - Slim liquid lens: A depth of a hole for housing a liquid is minimized to obtain a slim liquid lens. In the liquid lens, a chamber has a hole formed therein. Insulating and electrolytic non-miscible fluids are housed in the hole, with the insulating fluid located at a bottom side, to form a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070133105 - Photochromic/vitroceramic window assembly: A photochromic/vitroceramic window assembly that restores some of the natural illumination and warm blue-green colors normally excluded from the interior of an enclosed space after blocking at least a portion of infrared and/or UV light, comprising: a) A transparent window pane; b) a first self-adhesive material adhered to the exterior... Agent: Jerome J. Norris

20070133106 - Optical system and method for fabricating the same: An optical system includes at least one lens, and a barrel in which the lenses are mounted, the barrel having, at one end, a stair-shaped opening perpendicular to an optical axis so as to enable light to be incident into the optical system, the opening having at least two stepped... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070133107 - Ultra wide angle imaging optical system, ultra wide angle imaging lens device, and image sensing apparatus: where Ph: an optical power in the first direction where a viewing angle is large; Pv: an optical power in the second direction where the viewing angle is small; fh: a focal length in the first direction with respect to the entirety of the optical system; and fv: a focal... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070133108 - Imaging lens: An imaging lens including, in order from an object side towards an image surface side, a diaphragm, a first lens which is a meniscus lens having a positive power whose convex surface faces the object side, and a second lens which is a lens having a positive power whose convex... Agent: Koda & Androlia

20070133109 - Projection display apparatus: The projection display apparatus includes rotation regulating elements for inhibiting a rotation of the mount ring in a tightening direction, and a stopper element displaceable between a non-locked position and a locked position, wherein the stopper element is displaced to the non-locked position when the mount ring is rotated to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070133110 - Voice coil motor type focusing actuator: A voice coil motor type focusing actuator, which includes a fixed unit formed of a bracket having a rectilinear sliding groove and two magnets mounted in the bracket at two sides, a movable unit formed of a lens holder holding a lens and mounted inside the bracket and slidably coupled... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070133111 - Interactive control system for image display device: An interactive control system for an image display device includes a case with an opening, a luminous source image display, a focusing element, and an interactive device. The luminous source image display displays a first image and the source image display is positioned within the case. The focusing element receives... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070133112 - Structure for concealing an automobile rear-view mirror display: A structure for concealing an automobile rear-view mirror display that uses an automobile rear-view mirror of a front wind shield, within which is disposed a concealable multipurpose display. The automobile rear-view mirror is further internally fitted with a withdraw device. A fixed member is affixed to a side of the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070133113 - Hologram recording method and hologram recording device: There is proposed a hologram recording method that includes: generating signal light by superimposing a periodic intensity distribution or phase distribution on an intensity distribution of light that expresses binary digital data as a light/dark image; Fourier transforming the signal light; illuminating Fourier transformed signal light and reference light simultaneously... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070127096 - Hologram methods for signature security, consolidated content, and an accelerometer: Techniques for identifying encoded digital data in a multichannel hologram are described. A method can include steps of reading a first channel of a multichannel hologram, extracting first content data stored in the first channel, reading a second channel of the multichannel hologram, extracting second content data stored in the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070127097 - Fabrication method for a computer-generated hologram or a holographic stereogram in which a three-dimensional object having visualized cross-sectional surfaces is recorded and computer-generated hologram/holographic: The present invention relates to a method for fabricating a computer-generated hologram or a holographic stereogram which can reconstruct a three-dimensional object having visualized cross-sectional surfaces, wherein the three-dimensional object composed only of surface data is processed to have the visualized cross-sectional surfaces on a given cross section thereof by... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070127098 - Contrast enhancement films for direct-view displays and fabrication methods therefor: Contrast enhancement films for a direct-view display include a substrate having first and second opposing sides, an array of optical microstructures on the first side, and an optically blocking film including an array of apertures on the second side. The contrast enhancement film is configured to mount between a direct-view... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070127099 - Holographic recording method, apparatus therefor, and holographic recording and reproducing apparatus: A holographic recording method and apparatus capable of performing phase code multiplex recording without employing a phase spatial light modulator. The holographic recording apparatus 10 performs phase spatial modulation of a reference beam to be projected onto a holographic recording medium by means of a phase code mask 26 in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070127100 - Short stack recording in holographic memory systems: The present invention provides one or more books of holograms recorded in a recording medium, wherein two or more short stacks of the one or more books have locations that differ from each other by a movement difference. The present invention also provides methods and devices for recording and reading... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20070127101 - Method for automatic stereo measurement of a point of interest in a scene: A method for performing automatic stereo measure of a selected point in a scene. A sensor image is initially obtained from a sensor providing an image of a scene. First and second reference images of the scene that are a stereo pair of images are also provided. The sensor image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070127102 - Liquid lens: There is provided a liquid lens in which a voltage is applied to control the shape of the interface between a polar liquid and a nonpolar liquid so as to control a transmitted light path at the interface. The liquid lens has a cavity with a polygonal upper side, into... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070127103 - Powder and particle processing apparatus and baffle device: A powder and particle processing apparatus comprising multifunctional baffle devices is capable of not only mixing and stirring powders and particles but also ventilating and cooling a processing container by itself. The boot-shaped baffle devices 22 are arranged in the granulation/coating apparatus 1 having a rotary drum 2. Each of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070127104 - Scanner apparatus: The present invention provides a scanner apparatus provided with both a flatbed-type mechanism and an ADF-type mechanism. The ADF mechanism can be set at an arbitrary position with an arbitrary orientation for use, whereby convenience for the user is improved while ensuring freedom with regard to the setting place of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070127105 - Optical scanning system and image forming apparatus using the same: are satisfied where φp is a power of the imaging optical element at an optical axis with respect to the main-scan direction, φm is a power of the imaging optical element at an outermost abaxial portion with respect to the main-scan direction, dp is a thickness of the imaging optical... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070127106 - Illumination system with integral modulation technique: A system and method for the modulation of light propagating along an optical path, for example the optical path in a projection display system. As light in the optical path travels from a light source to a display screen, it is shaped and modulated by the various components of the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070127107 - Wavelength conversion element having multi-gratings and light generating apparatus using said element, and wavelength conversion element having cylindrical ferroelectric single crystals and light generating apparatus using said element: A wavelength conversion element having multi-gratings free from damage propagation and a light generating apparatus using it, and a wavelength conversion element having multi-gratings to make a thermal distribution centrosymmetric, and being free from damage propagation, are provided. The wavelength conversion element is realized by comprising a holder and plural... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070127108 - Display device: An optical switch, e.g. a display device based on layer break up or layer displcement having at least t