Optical: systems and elements inventions 07/07

20070171494 - Hologram reconstructing apparatus and hologram reconstructing method: A hologram reconstructing apparatus configured to irradiate a hologram recording medium that stores an interference pattern of a signal beam spatially modulated by data displayed on a spatial modulator and a reference beam emitted simultaneously with the signal beam with a reconstructing reference beam and to reconstruct data by capturing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070171491 - Holographic or diffraction devices: A holographic or diffraction device responsive to interrogation, the device comprising an image-former and an image-concealer; wherein the image-former is adapted such that light reflected from or transmitted through it forms at least one image; wherein the image-concealer acts to attenuate the image; and wherein the attenuation of the image... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070171492 - Transformable, applicable material and methods for using same for optical effects: Optical elements and methods of forming optical elements are described. In one example, a method applies a photosensitive ink to a substrate and exposes the ink to create an optical element, such as an optical lens or holographic recording medium.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070171493 - Display apparatus and electronic device: In the present display apparatus, the directivity of light emitted from a backlight is set high in the direction along which a pixel pitch is long, and such light is caused to spread by a lenticular lens. In this manner, in the present display apparatus, the light entering the lenticular... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070171495 - Hologram apparatus and recording method of the same: A hologram apparatus comprises a light detection unit detecting a light intensity of at least one of the data beam and the reference beam; a determination unit determining whether light intensities of the data beam and the reference beam reach to a reference value which can form a hologram having... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070171496 - Rotational micro mirror: A rotational micro mirror is rapidly driven, has a large driving angle, and is structurally stable. The rotational micro mirror includes: a substrate; a reflection plate which is rotatable and reflects light; a pair of torsion springs which support opposite ends of the reflection plate so that the reflection plate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171497 - Optical scanning apparatus and scanning image display apparatus: An optical scanning apparatus in which keystone distortion non-linearity distortion in a projected image can be excellently corrected is provided. An optical scanning apparatus has light source means and deflecting means for deflecting a light beam emitted from the light source means two-dimensionally in a first direction and a second... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070171498 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus equipped with the same: An optical scanning device is configured in such a manner that, of four light beams for colors corresponding to black, cyan, magenta, and yellow, the angle of the reflection surface of the last folding mirror disposed in the optical path of a light beam corresponding to an image in black... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070171499 - Reflective member: Example embodiments of a reflective member are illustrated and described.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070171500 - Micro mirror employing piezo actuator: A micro device and a micro mirror employing a piezo actuator are provided. The micro mirror includes a substrate; a plate which is rotatably suspended about a rotation axis over the substrate; at least two cantilevers, each comprising a fixed end fixed to the substrate, and a free end perpendicularly... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171501 - Micromirror and micromirror device: There is provided a micromirror, which is provided with a reflection mirror, a first pair of torsion bars formed to protrude from the reflection mirror, a first supporting frame that supports the reflection mirror such that the reflection mirror is torsionally rotatable about a first rotation axis via the first... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070171502 - Beam deflector and scanning microscope: A scanning microscope comprises a beam deflector with at least one movable deflector to adjust the deflection of a light beam. The scanning microscope is characterized in that the movable deflector is positioned in a largely soundproof housing with one entrance window and/or one exit window.... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20070171503 - Display device and method and keyboard using them: A display device has a light source for back-lighting a display surface, a modulator for modulating at least one physical characteristic of the light source, and at least two filters provided in the display surface. Each of the two filters corresponds to a physical characteristic value modulated by the modulator... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070171504 - Light control device and light control system using the same: A light control device includes a substrate, a first reflective layer, a light modulating film in which the refractive index varies according to an applied electric field, a transparent electrode, and a second reflective layer having a reflection characteristic such that the reflection band and transmission band exhibit a steep... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070171505 - Acousto-optic tunable filter control apparatus automatically adjusting frequency and power of radio frequency signal: An AOTF control apparatus, which applies an RF signal to an AOTF to allow a selected light to pass through the AOTF, includes: a first calculating unit calculating a relationship between a frequency of the RF signal and a wavelength of the selected light based on a frequency of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070171506 - Thermochromic ink to hide/reveal graphics: An article on which a message or a design appears when a certain temperature is reached is described. The article comprises a substrate, a first layer printed on said substrate using regular ink, and a second layer printed on said substrate or first layer using thermochromic ink. The substrate must... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070171507 - Intensity distribution of incident light flux: Additional control flexibilities to generate more gray scales for an image display system is achieved by controlling the intensity distribution of the light projection from a light source to a deflecting mirror to further coordinate with the control of the intermediate states of the deflecting mirror. The control light source... Agent: Bo-ln Lin

20070171508 - Micromirrors having mirror plates with tapered edges: Disclosed herein is a micromirror device having a reflective mirror plate with reduced dimensions. The micromirror device can be a member of an array of micromirror devices for use in optical signal modulations, such as display applications and optical signal switching applications.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070171509 - Reflective spatial light modulator: A micro-mirror array that is useful, for example, in a reflective spatial light modulator. In one embodiment, the micro mirror array includes spacer support walls, a vertical torsion hinge, and a mirror plate, all being fabricated from a single wafer. The micro-mirror array has a large fill ratio.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070171512 - Electrophoretic indication display: An electrophoretic display having a pair of substrates separated by a microcapsule layer, a plurality of pixels formed at the intersections of rows of gate lines and columns of data lines on at least one of the substrates, wherein at least one of said substrates is sufficiently flexible when touched... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070171510 - Electrophotographic display apparatus: In an electrophoretic display apparatus, a surface of the charged particle, the dispersion medium, and a surface of an inner wall on which charged particles are to be deposited satisfy any one of the following (A) to (D): (A) the charged particle surface is hydrophilic, the dispersion medium is hydrophobic... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070171511 - White color particles for display media and information display device utilizing them: White color particles for display media used for an information display device, in which particles including at least the white color particles or liquid powders including at least the white color particles (3W) are sealed between two substrates 1, 2, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171513 - Silicon acousto-optic modulator: An acousto-optic modulator includes a (100), (010) or (001) single crystal silicon acousto-optic interaction medium, and at least one transducer for emitting an acoustic wave attached to the single crystal. The transducer has a first electrode layer disposed on one side and a second electrode layer disposed on its other... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070171514 - Semiconductor waveguide based high speed all optical wavelength converter: A semiconductor-based all optical wavelength converter is disclosed. An apparatus according to aspects of the present invention includes an optical waveguide disposed in semiconductor material. An optical pump source is optically coupled to direct an optical pump beam having a first wavelength into the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070171515 - Electroabsorption duplexer: An electroabsorption (EA) duplexer in which an optical amplifier, a photodetector, and an optical modulator are monolithically integrated to obtain a high radio frequency (RF) gain in radio-over fiber (RoF) link optical transmission technology is provided. The EA duplexer includes a substrate, a separation area, an optical detection/modulation unit, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070171516 - Optical amplification module and laser light source including the same: The present invention relates to an optical amplification module having a construction which effectively suppresses photodarkening, and to a laser light source including the same. The laser light source comprises a light source for outputting light to be amplified, and an optical amplification module. The optical amplification module comprises two... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171517 - Optical fiber amplifier and dispersion compensating fiber module for optical fiber amplifier: The invention provides an optical fiber amplifier which assures stable operation of a pump light source and efficiently makes use of residual pump power to achieve improvement in conversion efficiency. The optical fiber amplifier includes a rare earth doped fiber. Pump light from a pump light source is introduced into... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070171518 - Apochromatic condenser: The invention is directed to an optical system with reduced chromatic aberration, particularly for use in microscopes for imaging the light source in the aperture diaphragm of a condenser. According to the invention, an adapter assembly is associated with a collector assembly. The adapter assembly has an apochromaticizing action and... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070171519 - Microscope with heightened resolution and linear scanning: Microscope with heightened resolution and linear scanning wherein the sample is illuminated with a first and a second illuminating light, whereby the first illuminating light excites the sample, and the second illuminating light is generated through the refraction of coherent light at a periodic structure and displays a periodic structure... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070171520 - Prism for ergonomic position: A single view angle deflector or a pair of viewing angle deflectors located proximal to the user's eye[s] and below the user's normal straight-ahead vision, with the eyepiece tilted at 22.5° or less relative to the horizontal and the deflector providing a deflection of light rays of preferably 37.5°.... Agent: Edwin L. Hartz

20070171521 - Screen and image projection apparatus: Light emitted from a light source is modulated and projected on a screen. The screen includes a securing member, a diffuser plate supported by the securing member using a plurality of elastic members, where the elastic members are disposed so that the diffuser plate is resiliently displaced in two directions... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070171522 - Masking device for a cinema screen: The invention relates to a masking device (1), for a cinema screen, comprising at least two masks arranged in front of said screen (2) and arranged in pairs, symmetrically along at least two sides thereof, left and right, and/or top and bottom, each mask comprising a rolling axle (7) and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070171523 - Wide angle film unit, projection screen and display apparatus comprising the film unit: A projection screen and a projection display apparatus include a film unit. The projection screen includes a total reflection prism lens having a plurality of total reflection prism unit lenses formed on the rear surface on which imaging light is incident; and a lenticular lens installed close to the total... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070171524 - Focusing mechanism for stereoscopic systems: A hand held stereoscopic system in which the focusing to the eye and image detector of images of near and distant objects are adjusted simultaneously by moving the objective lens system. Fine adjustments of the focus of images provided to the image detector are also performed automatically.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070171525 - 3d stereo oled display: A switchable stereoscopic display system, wherein the switchable stereoscopic display system can display two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, includes: an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device; Electronics that rapidly updates individual OLEDs; and a linearly polarizer for the OLED display device. Additionally, a circular polarizing layer changes light from linearly... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070171526 - Stereographic positioning systems and methods: Methods and systems for determining position relative to a stereographic pattern generator including capturing an image of a stereographic pattern from a known stereographic pattern generator with a viewer. The location of portion of the stereographic pattern is determined relative to the stereographic pattern generator is then determined with a... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20070171527 - Gel, polarizer laminated by the gel, and polarizer fabrication method: A gel utilized in polarizer lamination. The gel includes a polyvinyl alcohol solution and a water-soluble organic dye dissolved therein. The invention also provides a polarizer laminated by the gel and a fabrication method thereof.... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070171528 - Polarized wave coupling optical isolator: A polarized wave coupling optical isolator comprises a plane-parallel birefringent element for optical path control, which is provided to control an optical path according to a polarizing direction, a plane-parallel birefringent element for coupling and splitting, which is provided with a certain interval from the birefringent element for optical path... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070171529 - Method for manufacturing optical element: The present invention provides an optical element for diffusing and focusing light. The optical element comprises an optical substrate and a plurality of convexes thereon, wherein the convexes are micrometer-scaled or smaller pyramid structures.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171530 - Optical device: An optical device includes a movable portion and a fixed portion having a first light reflection portion. The movable portion has a second light reflection portion facing the first light reflection portion with a first gap. The first and second light reflection portions are configured to reflect light repeatedly between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070171531 - Optical device: An optical device includes a movable portion and a fixed portion having a first light reflection portion. The movable portion has a second light reflection portion facing the first light reflection portion with a first gap. The first and second light reflection portions are configured to reflect light repeatedly between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070171532 - Compact optical apparatus for head up display: In a head up display apparatus adapted to be mounted on a head in the goggle type or the head gear type and enable a video image to be observed, wherein an original image is directed to an eyeball through a reflecting optical system to enable the image to be... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070171533 - Superposition system comprising micro electro mechanical systems: The superposition system with micro electromechanical systems (MEMS, e.g. DMDs from Texas Instruments) superposes the “ON”-lights of two MEMSs. More specifically, the invention relates to the chirality (handedness) of MEMS and the geometric problems associated with this handedness for superposition systems. In this application we uncover a solution to superpose... Agent: Dr. Bernhard Rudolf Bausenwein

20070171537 - Enhanced color contrast lens: A color contrast enhancing lens made from adhering two different lenses and a membrane together. It includes a color enhancing lens whose specific component will selectively absorb the yellow light in the visible spectrum, which enhances the user vision by enhancing the distinction between red and green. It also includes... Agent: Michael D. Yablonsky Law Office Of Sergei Orel

20070171536 - Image detection method and image detecting apparatus: An image detection method includes steps of transferring image information in which, information of an object image on a sample (object plane) is transferred to a detection plane (image plane) of an imaging element via an optical system which includes a negative refraction lens formed of a material exhibiting negative... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070171534 - Lens with ir-cut function: A lens (10) and a method for forming the lens (10). The lens (10) including a base (12) with plurality of nano-particles (14) therein. The base (12) is made of glass. The nano-particles (14) can filter infrared rays from incoming light and are evenly distribute throughout the base. The method... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070171538 - Hybrid lens using translucent ceramic: A hybrid lens (3) has a structure in which a resin layer (2) composed of an ultraviolet curable resin is formed on the surface of a lens base material (1) composed of translucent ceramic. The lens base material (3) is composed of translucent ceramic containing as a main component an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070171535 - Rectangular monobloc optical lens and manufacturing method thereof: A rectangular monobloc optical lens and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. A monobloc optical lens includes a rectangular surround and a central mirror-surface area. The rectangular surround is mounted inside a clipping part of a lens holder. The central mirror-surface area consists of a convex aspherical surface and a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070171539 - Projection exposure system: A projection exposure system, intended in particular for microlithography, is used for generating, in an image plane, an image of a mask arranged in an object plane. The projection exposure system has a light source emitting projection light and projection optics arranged between the mask and the image. Starting from... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070171540 - Devices and methods for grasping an elongated medical element: Devices and methods to grasp a medical element. The device may include a first member, a second member that fits within the first member, and a locking element. The first and second members may move relative to one another to move the locking element between locked and unlocked positions. In... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070171541 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus having the system: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a negative optical power; a second lens unit having a positive optical power; and a third lens unit having a positive optical... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070171542 - Zoom lens: A zoom lens suitable for imaging an object on a photosensitive element is provided. The zoom lens includes a first lens group, a second lens group disposed between the first lens group and the photosensitive element, a third lens group disposed between the second lens group and the photosensitive element,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070171543 - Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus: An imaging optical system which is a small-sized and wide angle of view a zoom lens, and whose aberration is finely corrected, is provided. In the imaging optical system, it has the first lens group of negative power, the second lens group of positive power, the third lens group of... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070171544 - Variable-power imaging optical system and imaging device: A variable-power imaging optical system is provided and includes three, negative, positive and positive lenses. A first group includes a negative lens and a positive lens. A second lens group includes a positive lens, a negative lens and an aberration-correcting lens. A third lens group includes an aberration-correcting lens L6.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171545 - High distorted lens: A lens with a very high degree of barrel distortion at the image plane (or pincushion distortion in object space).... Agent: David Klein Dekel, Patent Ltd.

20070171546 - Compact zoom lens: The present invention is directed to a compact zoom lens that attains a reduction in outermost diameter of the lens barrel and weight and that greatly enhances a forward stroke of a first group of lenses. The compact zoom lens has a telescopic structure of a grouped-lens sliding frame, a... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070171547 - Broad band duv, vuv long-working distance catadioptric imaging system: A high performance objective having very small central obscuration, an external pupil for apertureing and Fourier filtering, loose manufacturing tolerances, large numerical aperture, long working distance, and a large field of view is presented. The objective is preferably telecentric. The design is ideally suited for both broad-band bright-field and laser... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070171548 - Optical device assembly method: Our improved optical device assembly method uses a compressible item such as a spring to separate and seat the internal components. Our method is affordable and easy to manufacture. It also eliminates the need for special tools, adhesives or a considerable amount of time to assemble an optical device. Our... Agent: Robert Kulakofsky

20070171549 - Focusing module: A focusing module includes a casing, at least one fixed magnetic element, a membrane, a movable magnetic element, and a lens. The fixed magnetic element is fixed in the casing for generating a first magnetic field. The membrane is received and retained in an upper section of the casing. The... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070171550 - Lens device and lens barrel: A lens device comprises a lens device having elastic bracing struts arranged at regular intervals which are deformed by a lens element supported in a lens barrel so as thereby to hold a periphery of the lens element in directions perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens element with... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070171551 - Lens module with magnetic focusing mechanism: An exemplary lens module includes a lens barrel (10), a lens (20) and a sleeve barrel (30). The lens barrel includes an adjusting magnet (15). The lens is mounted in the lens barrel. A part of the lens barrel is slidably mounted in the sleeve barrel, the sleeve barrel includes... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070171553 - Adjustable optical mount with locking devices and methods: An adjustable optical mount embodiment includes a first plate configured to mount an optical element and a second plate disposed adjacent the first plate with a pivot point between the plates. At least one adjustable threaded member has a contact end in contact with a rear surface of the first... Agent: Grant Anderson LLP C/o Portfolioip

20070171554 - Lens barrel: There is disclosed a lens barrel including a fixed frame, a rotary frame rotatable with respect to the fixed frame to advance or retract in an optical axis direction, and a rectilinear guide frame rotatable relative to the rotary frame to displace integrally with the rotary frame in the optical... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070171555 - Refractive optical unit: A refractive optical unit is provided and has a regulator mechanism that can easily align between a lens of a lens group to be fixed in a housing and a lens of a lens group freely moving along the optical axis at their lens centers, by operation. In a lens... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171552 - Method for connection of an optical element to a mount structure: The invention relates to a method for connection of an optical element to a mount structure, whereby in a first step the optical element is connected to the mount structure and in a second step the optical element is welded to the mount structure in the region of the connection.... Agent: Gray Robinson, P.A.

20070171556 - Method and apparatus for high power diode laser incoherent beam combination utilizing an image rotating beam combining element: A prism includes a plurality of internal surfaces that reflect a beam incident on the prism.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070171557 - Optical head, optical information storage apparatus, and their fabrication method: A method of manufacturing an optical head includes joining of a first substrate on which a plurality of lenses are formed in an array, a second substrate on which a plurality of prisms and mirrors are formed in an array, and a third substrate on which a plurality of detectors... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070171558 - Reflective projection lens for euv-photolithography: A projection lens for imaging a pattern arranged in an object plane onto an image plane using electromagnetic radiation from the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) spectral region has several imaging mirrors between its object plane and image plane that define an optical axis of the projection lens and have reflective coatings. At... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165290 - Intensity profile correction for data pages for holographic storage: P

20070165292 - Apparatus and method for displaying image: An apparatus and method are provided for displaying an image by raster scanning using a mirror. The apparatus includes a mirror control unit that controls a vertical motion of the mirror to be a triangle wave motion, and a scanning unit that repeatedly performs a forward scan and a reverse... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165291 - Light scanning device and image forming apparatus: A light scanning device which exposes a photoconductor of an image forming apparatus, includes: a light emitting unit which emits a light; a mirror which reflects a light emitted by the light emitting unit in a direction toward the photoconductor; an obtaining unit which obtains data on a speed of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070165293 - Microscopic electro-mechanical systems, radio frequency devices utilizing nanocoils and spiral pitch control techniques for fabricating the same: Novel applications of nanocoil technology and novel methods of fabricating nanocoils for use in such applications and others. Such applications include microscopic electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices including nanocoil mirrors, nanocoil actuators and nanocoil antenna arrays. Inductors or traveling wave tubes fabricated from nanocoils are also included. A method for fabricating... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070165294 - Integrated circuit for adjusting bias in optical transmitter with external modulator: An integrated circuit microcontroller for use in an optical transmitter that generates a modulated optical signal for transmission over dispersive fiber optic links in which a broadband radio frequency signal input is applied to first and second RF inputs of an external modulator for modulating the output of a semiconductor... Agent: Casey Toohey Emcore Corporation

20070165295 - Terahertz or infrared filter using shape resonance: A filter having a high transmittance is disclosed. The filter comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, and a periodic or random array of through-holes formed so as to pass through the first surface and the second surface. The through-hole has a size of subwavelength at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070165296 - Method of designing a projection system, lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method: Optimization of a projection system is performed to obtain a starting configuration that is at a local minimum of the merit function or simply a previously known minimum system is used as the starting configuration. A zero-thickness meniscus lens is inserted at a surface in the local minimum starting configuration... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070165297 - Microoptic reflecting component: The invention relates to active microoptic reflecting components for adapting or changing the focal length or focal position in optical systems. It is the object of the invention to make available a miniaturised reflecting microoptic component for focusing or defocusing incident electromagnetic radiation, with which a variation in the focal... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070165299 - Multi-wavelength light amplifier: A multi-wavelength light amplifier includes a first-stage light amplifier which has a first light amplifying optical fiber amplifying a light input, a second stage light amplifier which has a second light amplifying optical fiber amplifying a first light output from the first-stage light amplifier, and an optical system which maintains... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070165298 - Optical amplifier apparatus: An optical amplifier apparatus capable of dealing with different wavelength bands and capable of outputting an amplified light with reduced noise for any one of the wavelength bands. In a case of amplifying a light of C-band, terminals (51,52) of an optical switch (50) are connected to each other. An... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070165300 - Wave plate for laser optical system: A wavelength plate laser optical system which is a wavelength plate using a stretched and oriented film containing a cyclic olefin based resin, and which has values of the formula (a): Re(λ)/λ, (wherein λ represents a wavelength (nm) of the laser beam; and Re(λ) represents a retardation value (nm) of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165301 - Variable focal length lens: A variable focal length lens (12) includes a central transparent elastic portion (120) having a first wall (1200) and a second wall (1202) intersecting an optical axis and a peripheral portion (122) surrounding the body. The first wall and the second wall joined with the periphery form a container (124).... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070165302 - Mouth switch arrangement and microscopy system having a mouth switch: A microscopy assembly comprises a stand, a stereo microscope supported by the stand, and a mouth switch assembly mounted to a holder, the mouth switch assembly including a mouth piece grippable by a user's teeth, and with a force sensor actuatable by the exertion of pressure by a user's lip... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070165303 - Fresnel lens sheet and rear projection screen: m

20070165306 - Stereo-measurement borescope with 3-d viewing: Two stereo images are created by splitting a single image into two images using a field of view dividing splitter. The two images can be displayed side by side so that they can be viewed directly using stereopticon technology, heads-up display, or other 3-D display technology, or they can be... Agent: Ge-gpo-marjama & Bilinski LLP General Electric / Global Patent Operation

20070165304 - Stereoscopic image display: The present invention provides a stereoscopic image display which controls display mode of the stereoscopic image display according to the entered image signal and displays both 2D images and stereoscopic images at high resolution with better viewing. The stereoscopic image display is constituted of a device for comparing the image... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070165305 - Stereoscopic imaging apparatus incorporating a parallax barrier: An improved apparatus is disclosed for providing a stereoscopic image for viewing by a viewer, with improved resolution. The apparatus includes a generally planar display comprising a two-dimensional array of uniformly spaced pixels, and it further includes a generally planar parallax barrier having an area substantially coextensive with the display... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070165307 - Inorganic, dielectric, grid polarizer and non-zero order diffraction grating: An inorganic, dielectric grid polarizer includes an optical stack with a diffraction grating and an inorganic, dielectric grid polarizer. The inorganic, dielectric grid polarizer includes a stack of film layers with an array of parallel ribs in accordance with PGP<λ/2 where PGP is the period of the ribs and λ... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070165308 - Optical retarders and methods of making the same: In one aspect, the disclosure features an article that includes a first layer having spaced-apart rows of a first material, and a second layer supported by the first layer, the second layer having spaced-apart rows of a second material. The rows of the first layer extend along a first direction... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070165309 - Diffractive color system: A method in a diffractive color system that specifies visual color effects and/or target colors that are formed by mixing together two or more diffractively produced primary colors. The primary colors and the characteristics of the elementary gratings used in producing them are selected in such a manner that they... Agent: Venable LLP

20070165310 - Variable reflectivity coatings with constant optical thickness and phase: A method of controlling phase on at least one of reflectance and transmission in an optic device. The optic device includes a multiple layer stack. At least one dimension of a first layer in the stack is varied in at least a first direction. At least one dimension of a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070165311 - Housing structure for mounting optical elements: In a housing structure for mounting optical elements, in particular of a projection lens housing in a projection exposure system for manufacturing semiconductor elements, attachment locations, which have connecting parts, for connection to a supporting structure are provided on structural elements. Supporting elements, which are provided with mounting flanges for... Agent: Gray Robinson Attorney At Law

20070165312 - Deformable mirror device, deformable mirror plate: A deformable mirror device compensates the spherical aberration caused by the difference of thickness of the cover layers covering recording layers of an optical disc. Circular projections are concentrically arranged on a flexible member (2) where a mirror surface (3) is formed to produce a strength distribution pattern (2a). Attractive... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165313 - System and method for finding integer solutions: A system and a method for finding integer solutions of equations whose graphs are conic sections. The system provides a physical implementation of a geometric formulation of integer solutions of conic sections. The system includes a first source of waves and an arrangement of a plurality of reflectors to provide... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070165314 - Mirror for improved visibility of danger zone area on right side of school buses: The present invention relates to a mirror and mirror system which can be used in connection with large vehicles, such as school buses, to provide the driver of such vehicles with the ability to view the entire side of the vehicle. While such vehicles currently include side view mirrors attached... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070165316 - Modular rearview mirror assembly: A vehicle rearview mirror assembly including a mirror, an electronic component unit, a protective housing exposing the mirror through a viewing aperture and enclosing the electronic component unit, an RF antenna connected to the electronic component unit, and a support bracket assembly adapted to mount the mirror assembly to an... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070165315 - Wear-proof detente for folding mirrors: A folding assembly for a vehicle side mirror that employs specialized ramped détentes. The folding assembly includes a pivot tube and a pivot spring rotatably coupled to a case frame and rigidly coupled to a base frame. The base frame includes a series of ramped détentes that are seated within... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Lalone, .p.c

20070165317 - Sequential colour illumination system, method for producing a colour wheel for said system and a colour segment device: The invention relates to a sequential illumination system for a visual display unit comprising a light source emitting a polychromatic light beam towards said visual display unit within a wavelength range comprising at least three primary colours, and a colour wheel provided with at least three transmissive or reflective segments... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070159671 - Discrimination medium and discrimination method using the same: A discrimination medium 10a includes a first double layered body 101 having a right-handed circular polarization polymer cholesteric liquid crystal layer 11 and a left-handed circular polarization polymer cholesteric liquid crystal layer 12 which are stacked. The right-handed circular polarization polymer cholesteric liquid crystal layer 11 reflects a specific right-handed... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070159672 - Optical relay: An optical relay includes a first lens, a lens module, and a second lens. The first lens is configured to receive modulated light from a first spatial light modulator. The first lens is configured to refract the modulated light into the lens module. The lens module is configured to collimate... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070159673 - Substrate-guided display with improved image quality: A display system includes and image-guiding substrate with input and/or output structures configured to improve image quality.... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070159674 - Optical scanning unit having more maintenance-friendly adjustable lens, image forming apparatus including the same, and method thereof: An optical scanning unit includes: a light source configured to emit a light beam; a lens arranged so that the light beam emitted from the light source passes therethrough; a rotatable deflector configured to deflect the light beam coming from the lens, the deflected light beam being guided to a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070159675 - Scanning device:

20070159676 - High performance dynamic mirror: An imager comprising a photosensitive surface; a light source which produces at least one scaning light beam; a deflector, arranged to deflect the at least one scanning light beam onto the photosensitive surface; and a sensor which measures the orientation of the deflector. The imager also comprises a controller operative... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070159677 - Light closure and method for controlling the same: The present invention is directed to a motor-operated optical shutter for opening and closing the illumination beam path in optical devices. The optical shutter, according to the invention, for the illumination beam path in optical devices comprises a mounting unit which is provided with a diaphragm aperture, a stepper motor... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070159678 - Switchable transflector and transflective display: A switchable transflector (1) comprises a suspended particle device (SPD). The transflector (1) may be switched into transmissive, reflective or intermediate states by applying one or more electric fields to a particle suspension (2). An enhanced reflectivity state may be achieved by applying two mutually orthogonal electric fields simultaneously. An... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070159680 - 2-channel display system comprising micro electro mechanical systems: The 2-channel display system with micro electromechanical systems (MEMS, e.g. DMDs from Texas Instruments) simultaneously generates a right and a left image in two discrete modulation channels, which differ by the polarization of their light beams. More specifically, the invention relates to the chirality (handedness) of MEMS and the geometric... Agent: Dr. Bernhard R. Bausenwein

20070159679 - Methods and apparatus for spatial light modulation: Improved apparatus and methods for spatial light modulation are disclosed which utilize optical cavities having both front and rear reflective surfaces. Light-transmissive regions are formed in the front reflective surface for spatially modulating light.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070159681 - Electrophoretic sheet, electrophoretic device, method for manufacturing electrophoretic device, and electronic apparatus: An electrophoretic sheet, comprises: a substrate having a first side; a microcapsule contained layer having a second side and a third side facing the second side, the second side being disposed on the first side of the substrate, the layer including: a microcapsule; and a binder having viscid property at... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20070159682 - Optically controlled optical-path-switching-type data distribution apparatus and distribution method: Data 12010, 12020, etc. to be sent to each of client devices 1201, 1203, etc. from a data server device 1000 are, in a data communication unit 1100, first divided into electric signal packets by a data transmission/receipt control unit 1140, whereby an electric signal sequence tag is added to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070159683 - Frequency shifter in an optical path containing a pulsed laser source: The present invention relates to a frequency shifter in an optical path containing a pulsed laser source, and it is characterized in that it comprises at least one frequency shifter (12, 13) containing an optical propagation medium, the optical path length of which is modified according to the desired frequency... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070159684 - Welding mask: A welding mask comprising a face shield for at least partially covering the face of a user. The face shield has a viewing portion made of opaque translucent material. The opaque material provides for high-intensity visible light associated with welding to be visible therethrough. Also disclosed herein is welding mask... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20070159685 - Telescope with variable magnification: A telescope has an optical axis. As seen from an object side, there are provided along the optical axis an objective lens, two lens groups adapted to be shifted along the optical axis independently from one another and having together a variable magnification, an inversion system, and an eyepiece. An... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070159686 - Device and method for the configuration of a microscope: A partially or fully automated microscope includes one or more configurable subassembly Each subassembly has at least one element. The element can be configured in various positions. A computer, associated with the microscope and having an input device and display, also includes a database configured to store configurations of the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070159688 - Slide-borne imaging instructions: In a scanning microscope, slides are fed automatically from a magazine to the imaging system. Each slide is labeled in some fashion with information for selecting the appropriate modality of operation of the scanner for that slide and the modality is implemented automatically. The information is preferably tied to and... Agent: Antonio R. Durando

20070159687 - Specimen imaging apparatus and specimen analyzer: A specimen imaging apparatus is provided that is capable of improved high-speed operation compared to conventional apparatuses. The specimen imaging apparatus is provided with a microscope for enlarging the image of a specimen, and taking the enlarged image of the specimen obtained by the microscope. The apparatus is provided with... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070159689 - Tube-type revolver with at least four positions for injecting or extracting light into or from a laser scanning microscope: Arrangement for changing the uncoupling of the object beam and/or the coupling of the beam in a Laser Scanning Microscope, whereby a rotatable tube revolver is provided, which has at least four switching positions and each tube position is associated with a separate tube lens as well as deflecting elements... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070159690 - Microscope with evanescent wave illumination: A microscope with a first and a second illumination light beam for illuminating a sample, wherein the first and/or the second illumination light beam evanescently illuminates the sample. For the purpose of CARS testing, the first illumination light beam can be a pump light beam, and the second illumination light... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20070159691 - Light diffusing screen: A light diffusing screen for a single light source-type rear projection television, for use in combination with a Fresnel lens sheet, which can reduce scintillation and, regulate the surface roughness of the screen and provide good images. The light diffusing screen includes: a lens layer which can horizontally refract projected... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070159692 - Fresnel lens sheet and rear projection screen using it: A Fresnel lens sheet which is bright due to a small light quantity loss, is restricted in speckles and ghosts, does not produce moires, and can be used in an inexpensive transmitting screen, wherein the sheet satisfies the diffusion characteristics of the following expressions (1) and (2), or the following... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070159693 - Complex polarizer system for reciprocal polarization (cross-polarizer): Polarization beam splitters (P1, P2, P3, P4) are coupled in pairs along optical axes such that their planes of polarization are perpendicular. Said complementarity P1/P2, P1/P3, P4/P2, P4/P3 enables reciprocal coupling of a polarizing transmission to a polarizing reflexion for both partial beams. During cross-polarization, two complementarily linear polarized partial... Agent: Bernhard Bausenwein

20070159694 - System and method for converting the polarization state of an optical beam into an inhomogenously polarized state: A system for converting the polarization state of an optical beam which propagates along a path from an initial polarization state into an inhomogeneous polarization state includes a first isotropic material and a first anisotropic material. The first anistropic material is positioned adjacent to the first isotropic material in a... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20070159695 - Surveillance window: A surveillance window including at least one set of linear polarizer and quarter-waveplate and a reflecting surface. The surveillance window appears dull and opaque to a subject, while allowing a relatively high percentage of light to be transmitted to an observer. Various enhancements including an illuminator and detector, camouflaging, fire... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070159696 - Retroreflection sheeting and film for use in retroreflection sheeting: An object of the present invention is to provide a retroreflective sheeting that exhibits proper retroreflection even at a small incident angle with no or less halation, and has superior incident angularities and superior direction characteristics, as well as a film for use in the retroreflective sheeting. The retroreflective sheeting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159697 - Antireflection film: An antireflection film is disposed on a surface of an optical substrate, and consists of first to tenth layers to stacked sequentially from the opposite side to the optical substrate. The first layer, the fourth layer and the ninth layer are low-refractive index layers made of a low-refractive index material... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159698 - Antireflective member, optical element, display device, method of making stamper and method of making antireflective member using the stamper: where λmin is the shortest wavelength of the incoming light ray, θimax is the largest angle of incidence of the incoming light ray, ni is the refractive index of an incidence medium, Λx is the period of the uneven surface pattern in the x direction, and Λy is the period... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070159699 - Diffuser plate with higher light diffusion efficiency and brightness: A diffuser plate with higher light diffusion efficiency and brightness applied to backlight module of Liquid Crystal Display TV (LCD TV) for providing uniform light is disclosed. An optical lens with a diffusion layer is disposed on one side of the substrate. The diffusion layer is arranged above the optical... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070159700 - Apparatus for illuminating and inspecting a surface: The present invention relates to an apparatus for illuminating and inspecting a specular surface, comprising a light source, a collector optics for collecting the light from the light source, a homogenizing optics for transmitting the light from the collector optics having a first micro-lens array downstream of the collector optics,... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20070159701 - Electro-optic zoom lens system: A fast, electro-optically switched zoom lens system operates across a broad spectral and thermal range while correcting for birefringent aberrations by means of a polarizing system that preferably includes polarizing reticles.... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20070159702 - Pickup unit and disk drive unit provided with such a pickup unit: The invention relates to a pickup unit (1) for reading and/or writing data on a disk (2). The pickup unit (1) comprises a lens (5) in a lens holder (6) which is connected to a frame (7) of the pickup unit (1) by a plurality of elastic support members (8).... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070159703 - Optical module and method for assembling an optical module: An optical module includes a lens holder having at least one lens, a housing having a mounting surface, and an image sensor unit. The lens holder a peripheral edge on its side facing the housing in the assembled state, which is insertable into a corresponding groove located in the mounting... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070159704 - Optical solar collector: The present invention provides an optical solar collector, in which a couple of opposite spherical or aspheric reflectors coated with specular coating are set upon the optical circuit; wherein the smaller spherical or aspheric reflector is built upon the front of the bigger spherical or aspheric reflector oppositely, and a... Agent: Banger Shia

20070159705 - Optical solar collector: The present invention provides an optical solar collector, in which a spherical or aspheric reflector coated with specular coating is set upon the optical circuit; on the other hand, an optical concentrator is built upon the front of the spherical or aspheric reflector oppositely and directly. Due to applying above-mentioned... Agent: Banger Shia

20070159706 - Mirror for improved visibility of danger zone area on right side of school buses: The present invention relates to a mirror and mirror system which can be used in connection with large vehicles, such as school buses, to provide the driver of such vehicles with the ability to view the entire side of the vehicle. While such vehicles currently include side view mirrors attached... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070159707 - Method and device for fabricating a release structure to facilitate bonding of mirror devices onto a substrate: A method of fabricating a spatial light modulator. The method includes providing a first substrate having a mirror layer, the mirror layer having an upper surface and a lower surface. The method also includes forming a standoff structure from the first substrate, the standoff structure having an integrated surface coupled... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070153344 - System and method for recording and reproducing holographic interferogram with optical servo: A system and method for recording and reproducing holographic interferogram with servo is provided. A servo process is provided by the system and method to continuously recording a holographic interferogram in a holographic recording medium with servo trace layers. By the servo process, reproducing signals are captured rapidly and correctly.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070153347 - System and method for holographic storage: A system and a method for holographic storage mainly involve forming a holographic interference pattern in a holographic recording medium. The holographic storage system utilizes a light source to emit a coherent beam. The coherent beam is irradiated to a first reflector to form a divergent beam. The divergent beam... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070153343 - Holographic sensor: A sensor (8) comprises a medium and a hologram disposed throughout the volume of the medium, wherein an optical characteristic of the hologram changes as a result of a variation of a physical property of the medium, and wherein the hologram is formed as a non-planar mirror.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070153345 - Holographic recording method and holographic recording apparatus: A holographic recording apparatus 10 realizes multilevel gray-scale recording by: controlling a reflection type spatial light modulator (DMD 18D) via a control unit 24 so that an object beam in an object optical system 18 is reflected in an exposure direction so as to be incident on a holographic recording... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070153346 - Planar light source module for fingerprint recognition apparatus: A planar light source module for a fingerprint recognition apparatus is disclosed. A planar light source module comprises a planar light source and an optical element that includes a reflector. A planar incident light emitted by the planar light source can be reflected by the reflector of the optical element... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai & Associates, P.C.

20070153348 - Optical element damping systems: The present invention is directed to optical element damping systems. In particular, an eddy current damper is disclosed. The eddy current damper includes a rod, a series of conducting plates coupled to the rod, and layers of magnets. The alternating layers have alternating magnetic fields. When an optical element moves,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070153349 - Optical deflector, production method thereof, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus: An optical deflector, a method of producing the optical deflector, an optical scanning device, and an image forming apparatus are disclosed that are able to save resources, provide high reliability at low cost, and enable stacked and relatively-offset polygon mirrors to be arranged precisely. The optical deflector includes a rotary... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153350 - Laser projection display: Disclosed herein is a laser projection display. The laser projection display includes a light source for emitting light beams each having a predetermined wavelength, and reflective means for reflecting the light beams emitted from the light source and scanning the light beams across a screen.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070153351 - Micro optical scanner capable of measuring operating frequency of micro mirror: A micro optical scanner, which is capable of measuring the operating frequency of a micro mirror, includes: a substrate; the micro mirror which is integrally formed with the substrate and rotates to scan incident light; a package block sealing the substrate and the micro mirror and including a transparent window... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153352 - Wavelength selection device: A housing 20 is equipped for supporting, from a side, a platform of a wavelength selection device comprising an input/output port 10, a collimator 11, an expanding optical system 12, a spectroscopic element, a collecting optical system 14 and a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) mirror array 15. Because the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070153353 - Nanostructured thin-film networks: An electrode for an electro-optic device according to an embodiment of this invention has a network of carbon nanotubes. The electrode has an electrical conductivity of at least 600 S/cm and a transmittance for 550 nm light of at least 80%. An average thickness of the network of carbon nanotubes... Agent: Venable LLP

20070153354 - Minimizing lensing in electro-optic prisms: Techniques and assemblies for steering light rays are described. An electro-optic prism includes a variable resistance electrode on a first substrate, a reference electrode positioned on a second substrate and an electro-optic material positioned between the variable resistance electrode and the reference electrode. The electro-optic prism is operable for generating... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070153355 - Electrochromic film: The present invention relates to an electrochromic film. The invention demonstrates the electrochromic effect of a single substrate film by applying electronic current to induce a reversible oxidation-reduction reaction of an organic electrochromic layer. The electrochromic film can attach to a surface of an object with the using of an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070153356 - Electro-optic reflective element assembly: A rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes an electro-optic reflective element with an overhang region at an edge region of a first substrate that extends beyond a corresponding edge region of a second substrate. A transparent electrical conductor is disposed at a second surface of the first substrate and... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070153357 - Flexible electrochromic device and method of manufacturing the same: A flexible electrochromic device including a flexible transparent electrode including a predetermined pattern, an insulating layer formed on a portion of the transparent electrode other than the predetermined pattern, a semiconductor layer formed on the predetermined pattern, an electrochromic monolayer formed on the semiconductor layer, a flexible counter electrode disposed... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070153358 - Dispersive electro-optic prism: Techniques and assemblies for steering light rays are described. A system includes an electro-optic prism configured to provide controllable steering of solar rays and a photovoltaic device. The electro-optic prism includes a first electrode including multiple substantially parallel linear electrodes positioned on a first substrate and a reference electrode positioned... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070153359 - Method and system to automatically correct projected image defects: An apparatus is provided that includes a light source, an array of light-reflecting devices, and a processor for positioning the light-reflecting devices so as to display an image on the display screen. Each of the light-reflecting devices selectively reflects the light from the light source onto a corresponding pixel of... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070153361 - Components and testing methods for use in the production of electro-optic displays: A laminate comprising a solid electro-optic medium and an electrically conductive layer is tested by passing it over a pair of electrodes at different potentials, with the electrically conductive layer lying on the opposed side of the electro-optic medium from the electrodes. An article which can be tested by this... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070153360 - Magnetophoretic and electromagnetophoretic displays: The present invention is directed to a display device which comprises two layers of insulating substrate, at least the substrate on the viewing side is transparent, an array of display cells sandwiched between the two layers of substrate, a writing means, and optionally an erasing means to magnetically or electrically... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070153362 - Fabric having nanostructured thin-film networks: An electrode for an electro-optic device according to an embodiment of this invention has a network of carbon nanotubes. The electrode has an electrical conductivity of at least 600 S/cm and a transmittance for 550 nm light of at least 80%. An average thickness of the network of carbon nanotubes... Agent: Venable LLP

20070153363 - Multilayered device having nanostructured networks: An electrode for an electro-optic device according to an embodiment of this invention has a network of carbon nanotubes. The electrode has an electrical conductivity of at least 600 S/cm and a transmittance for 550 nm light of at least 80%. An average thickness of the network of carbon nanotubes... Agent: Venable LLP

20070153364 - Tunable fiber amplifier and laser using discrete fundamental-mode cutoff: The present invention uses short-pass filters to suppress the optical gain in C-band of an Er-doped optical fiber by discrete fundamental-mode cutoff so that S-band with shorter wavelength can obtain enough optical gain for signal amplification.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070153365 - Semiconductor optical amplifier pulse reshaper: A method and system includes a pulse reshaper for reshaping and re-amplifying optical signals in a communications network. In one embodiment, a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) device, including first and second reflective regions optically cooperating at each of an input signal wavelength (λs) and an offset wavelength (λs±n) proximate the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070153366 - Device and method for adjusting two object lenses in 4pi-system: A method for adjusting two objective lenses in a 4Pi system of a scanning microscope includes imaging a reference object in respective pupils of the objective lenses so as to form a respective Fourier image for each of the objective lenses from a respective image of the reference object. The... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070153367 - Laser scanning type fluorescent microscope: A laser scan type fluorescence microscope comprises a laser light source section, an objective lens optical system by which excitation light from the laser light source section is condensed on a sample, a scanning means by which the excitation light from the laser light source section is scanned on a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070153368 - Maximal-aperture reflecting objective: Objectives and other optical assemblies include a reflective surface that is truncated at or near a focus based on a curvature of the reflective surface. A specimen is situated at or near the focus of the reflective surface, so that the reflective surface captures and collimates optical radiation emitted from... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070153369 - Microscope table and insert: The present invention relates to a microscope table (1) having a recess (6) for receiving at least one object-holder means. Said recess (6) is dimensioned in such a way that it is suitable for receiving a standard microtiterplate. For this purpose, said recess preferably comprises a substantially rectangular region with... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070153370 - Multi-spectral whole-slide scanner: An array microscope scans a slide in rapid sequence at different wavelengths to record multiple spectral images of the sample. Full spatial resolution of the image sensor is realized at each color because pixels are not shared between spectral bands. The object and detector are placed at conjugate distances selected... Agent: Antonio R. Durando

20070153371 - Display device, method of manufacturing the same, and composition for use in manufacturing the same: A display device includes an insulating substrate, barriers surrounding predetermined regions on the insulating substrate, wherein ink composition is supplied in the predetermined regions, the ink composition including a first solvent which remains in a solid state in a temperature range between 10° C. and 30° C., a second solvent... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070153372 - Fluorescence illumination method and apparatus for stereomicroscopes: The invention provides a fluorescence illumination adapter capable of being fitted to a wide range of existing stereomicroscopes. The fluorescence illumination adapter attaches to the stereomicroscope barrel that contains the imaging optics, and has high intensity light-emitting diodes that stimulate fluorescence in a specimen. A removable barrier filter is positioned... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070153373 - Microscope device: There is provided a method for a microscope device for optionally examining a sample by at least a first light beam bundle from a first direction or a second light beam bundle from a second direction different to said first direction, comprising a microscope objective and a beam deflection element,... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070153374 - Binocular display with improved contrast uniformity: A binocular display deals with an optical contrast imbalance problem between display screens manifest over a range of interpupillary distances by orienting contrast asymmetries between the display screens in opposite directions.... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20070153375 - Reconfigurable projection-screen system: A reconfigurable projection-screen system. The projection-screen system includes a flexible screen and a frame assembly. The flexible screen includes a screen perimeter and a viewing region interior the screen perimeter. The frame assembly includes a plurality of frame members, where at least some of the plurality of frame members include... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070153376 - High definition thin film reflective screen: A thin film reflective screen includes a surface layer, a transmission layer, a diffusion layer and a reflection layer, which are formed in a single screen, which has functions such as an image forming on a surface, scattering, transmission, diffusion, and reflection, which are duplicated by re-reflecting light such that... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070153378 - Rear projection screen with spatial varying diffusing angle: A Fresnel lens of the prior art is split into two Fresnel lenses to allow easier control of the horizontal and vertical viewing angles. In a second embodiment, the Fresnel lens is entirely eliminated. Instead, the diffuser contains elliptical microstructures so that the diffusing cones in orthogonal directions are different,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070153377 - View angle control sheet and display device: A view angle control sheet having a wide view angle, in which diffuse light from a screen image source is effectively utilized to suppress a decrease in screen brightness while a decrease in image contrast caused by an outside light beam is suppressed to prevent generation of a ghost to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070153379 - Front projection screen assembly: A front projection screen assembly comprising, a rectangular sheet of a flexible screen material and a roller on which said flexible screen material may be wound and unwound, said flexible screen material defining a first plane in the unwound condition. The front projection screen assembly comprises top, bottom, left-hand and... Agent: Butler, Snow, O'mara, Stevens & Cannada PLLC

20070153380 - High-resolution field sequential autostereoscopic display: Provided is a high-resolution field sequential autostereoscopic display. The display includes a display panel including display elements which display images, a lenticular array receiving a signal from the display panel and outputting a directional signal to be viewed with both eyes of a viewer, an anisotropic element arranged parallel to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153381 - Polarizing device, cross dichroic prism, liquid crystal projector, and method for fabricating polarizing device: A polarizing device having a synthetic resin film of a polarizing plate sandwiched and bonded between two glass members. At least a surface on one side of the polarizing plate is bonded to one of glass members by the use of a tackiness agent. Adjoining surfaces of the two glass... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153382 - Security entrance system: The invention is related to the systems of so-called “security entrance” and, in particular, to the systems for preventing the entry of forbidden articles and/or substances from an unprotected area to a protected one. The simplicity, efficiency and secrecy of examination in a security system for preventing the entry of... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20070153383 - Method for making a wide optical polarizer using extrusion: The invention is directed to a method for preparing wide strip optical polarizers by extruding glass and stretching the extruded glass to thereby elongate the polarizing metals or metal salts within the glass. The invention enables one to form a optical polarizers that have a width of 300 mm or... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20070153384 - Reinforced reflective polarizer films: An optical film has a first layer and a second layer. The first and second layers each include fibers embedded within respective polymeric matrices. A third layer having a reflective polarizer layer is mounted between the first and second layers.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070153385 - Dust-proof, light-transmitting member and its use, and imaging apparatus comprising same: A dust-proof, light-transmitting member disposed on a light-receiving surface of an imaging device, comprising a light-transmitting substrate, at least a light-entering surface of which is provided with a dust-proof coating having fine roughness on the surface.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070153386 - Observation system: An observation system is provided with: an observation unit having an image information obtaining device that obtains image information of an observation target, an image signal processing device that performs image signal processing of image information obtained by the image information obtaining device, and a transmission device that transmits an... Agent: Thomas Spinelli Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070153387 - Compact lens for digital image acquisition and image acquisition device: The invention relates to a compact lens with fixed or variable focal length for digital image acquisition. According to the invention, a refractive optical element of the lens or a group of elements on a light entry side of the lens is provided as a compound lens having a first... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20070153388 - Apparatus and method for controlling optical output of mobile display using diffractive light modulator: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for controlling the optical output of a mobile display using a single-panel type diffractive light modulator. The apparatus includes a surrounding light amount information storage unit and an optical output adjusting means. The surrounding light amount information storage unit stores information about the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070153389 - Optical diffuser having frit based coating with inorganic light diffusing pigments with variable particle size therein: A diffuser is provided that includes a glass substrate with a diffusing coating thereon. The diffusing coating may include one or more layers. In certain example embodiments, the diffusing coating comprises inorganic pigments therein for light diffusing purposes, and the inorganic pigments are sized so as to permit a diffuser... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070153390 - Powdery catalyst, exhaust-gas purifying catalyzer, and powdery catalyst production method: In a powdery catalyst (1), a porous carrier (2) has a complex part (3) configured to hold a noble metal particle (4), the complex part being composed of a transition metal material and a constituent material of the porous carrier (2).... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070153391 - Optical module: An optical module is provided. The optical module comprises a light source, a first lens array and a second lens array. The first lens array is located on the light source and the second lens array is located on the first lens array. There are a plurality of curved bumps... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070153392 - Apparatus and method for illumination of light valves: In an illumination system the radiation from one or more laser arrays is directed into a light pipe. The light pipe mixes the individual radiation contributions from the laser arrays and forms a uniform illumination line. The pointing direction of each of the laser arrays is monitored and controlled to... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070153393 - Peak power and speckle contrast reduction for a single layer pulse: A system and method for reducing peak power of a laser pulse and reducing speckle contrast of a single pulse comprises a plurality of beamsplitters, mirrors and delay elements oriented to split and delay a pulse or pulses transmitted from a light emitting device. The design provides the ability to... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070153394 - Microlens array: A microlens array includes a plurality of microlens arranged in a matrix. An angle between a lens surface and a bottom surface of the microlens is 65 degrees-80 degrees. The boundary between adjacent microlenses may have an undulation on a surface vertical to an optical axis direction. Each of the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070153395 - Optical system for image transmission, particularly for projection devices of the head-mounted type: An optical system for image projection, particularly for projection devices of the “head-mounted” type, includes a display, an optical system for focusing an image formed by the display, and a light guide having an extended body, with two opposite, longitudinal, plane and parallel faces, and opposite ends which define first... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070153396 - Light colliminating device: A collimating device and a transflector for use in a system having a backlight is disclosed herein. In one embodiment of the application, the collimating device and the transflector each include an immersing layer, a reflecting layer, and an optical element layer formed from a plurality of three-dimensional, optical elements.... Agent: Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, LLP

20070153398 - Microlithographic reduction projection catadioptric objective: A photolithographic reduction projection catadioptric objective includes a first optical group having an even number of at least four mirrors and having a positive overall magnigying power, and a second substantially refractive optical group more image forward than the first optical group having a number of lenses. The second optical... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070153397 - Projection system with beam homogenizer: A projection system having a prescribed relationship between the condenser and the projection lens is disclosed, where an imager gate normally coinciding with a projection object plane is between and spaced away from a condenser back focal plane and a condenser image plane. The condenser images an extended source onto... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070153400 - Variable focus lens having a plurality of protrusions at one end of fluid chamber: The present invention relates to a variable focus lens including a fluid chamber containing first and second fluids which are non-miscible and have different refractive indices, the fluid chamber having a plurality of protrusions formed along a circumference of one open end thereof. The variable focus lens also includes a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070153399 - Zoom optical system: A zoom optical system is provided which has a lens system which comprises a first lens which is arranged to provide a continuously variable focus for a beam of radiation. The lens system further comprises a switchable optical element including a first fluid, a second fluid and a wavefront modifier... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070153401 - Optical system: The invention relates to an optical system with well corrected aberrations, which is adapted to take images from a full panoramic scene on a cylindrical, conical or other three-dimensional image surface or project such a three-dimensional display surface onto a full field of view in the distance. In an optical... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070153402 - Fresnel lens combination: A focusing unit includes a Fresnel lens combination, where the Fresnel lenses are oriented to reduce shadowing losses. Shadowing is a scattering of light from reflection at the facet walls that separate adjacent Fresnel zones on a given Fresnel lens. Two substantially adjacent Fresnel lenses make up the focusing unit,... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070153403 - Lens barrel and method of operation of lens barrel: A lens barrel having a first moving barrel, second moving barrel, and a third moving barrel. The first moving barrel has first cam grooves configured corresponding to a focusing operation and holds an optical system used in a focusing operation. The second moving barrel has second cam grooves and is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070153404 - Digital camera system with piezoelectric actuators: A digital camera is constructed with multiple lenses mounted in a pair of tubular elements which are nested together for relative axial movement. Movement is provided by piezoelectric actuators mounted externally to a support tube on flexible printed circuit board elements. Each lens tube is provided with a drive rail... Agent: Perman & Green

20070153405 - Variable focus lens: A variable focus lens for an eye comprising a transparent rear wall, a transparent front wall, a cavity formed between the transparent front wall and the transparent rear wall, first and second immiscible fluids of differing refractive index contained within said cavity, and electrodes to which a voltage is able... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070153406 - Integrated mirror: An intergrated mirror for automobiles through which the driver of an automobile can confirm the situation of vehicles in the rear and side rear with a light burden in the movement of eyes or the recognition of the rear image when the driver changes the lane, for example. The integrated... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070153407 - Re-positionable mirror: A re-positionable mirror in accordance with an exemplary embodiment is provided. The re-positionable mirror includes a control lever and a reflective surface. The control lever is secured to the mirror and manipulates the reflective surface into one of a first position, a second position, and a third position. The reflective... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070153408 - Nd filter for aperture device and aperture device comprising nd filter: This invention decreases deformation of a plastic substrate caused by thermal expansion and contraction in an evaporation process of forming a multi-layered film of an ND filter, thus arising of wrinkles is prevented. The plastic substrate serving as the base of the ND filter is made of a polyimide-based plastic... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto