Optical: systems and elements inventions 10/07

20070247683 - Optical information processing apparatus, optical information recording method, optical information reproducing method and optical information servo controlling method: An optical information processing apparatus is provided. The optical information processing apparatus includes: an optical system which irradiates a reference beam on an optical information recording medium having a plurality of recording regions adjacent to each other so that the reference beam is wider than each of the recording regions;... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070247684 - 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

20070247685 - Access method for multi-layer holographic recording medium: An access method for a multi-layer holographic recording medium which method enables rapid access to the recording position of desired data. In a multi-layer holographic recording medium 16, data pages formed by two-dimensionally arranging a plurality of data blocks for recording data are angle-multiplex-recorded in respective holographic recording layers. In... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070247686 - Hologram recording/reproducing apparatus, hologram reproducing apparatus and method, and computer program: A hologram recording/reproduction device reproduces recording information from a holographic recording medium where interference fringes formed by a reference light and an object light corresponding to the recording information are recorded. The hologram recording/reproduction device includes: irradiation means for irradiating the reference light to a holographic recording medium; data generation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070247687 - Spatial light modulators with changeable phase masks for use in holographic data storage: A holographic data storage system that includes a write head that includes a pixellated spatial light modulator and a separate or integral phase mask that varies the phase depending on the location in the phase mask that light passes through. The phase variation can be changed over time in a... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070247688 - Variable-beamwidth angle encoding laser scanner: A laser apparatus includes a laser capable of generating a laser signal; means for conditioning the laser signal; and means for varying the beamwidth of the laser signal as it is scanned into the field of view.... Agent: Jeffrey A. Pyle, Williams Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20070247689 - Image reading apparatus and multi-function machine: An image reading apparatus has a light source and an image capturing device disposed to face each other with a document table interposed therebetween. The image reading apparatus includes: an image capturing device moving mechanism, operable to perform a moving operation for moving the image capturing device in a scanning... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070247690 - Laser display apparatus: An improved laser display apparatus is disclosed, which comprises a LED device array in which a plurality of laser diode devices are arranged in a straight shape for thereby scanning a laser diode in accordance with an image signal inputted, with the laser diode devices being designed to generate laser... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070247691 - Variable diaphragm, lighting device, optical observation device as well as optical observation apparatus: Among other things, a variable diaphragm is described for a lighting device and/or for an observation device inside an optical observation apparatus for imaging an object and/or an intermediate image produced by an object, particularly for a stereoscopic observation apparatus, wherein the variable diaphragm is provided for at least one... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20070247692 - Optical device for providing prescription correction to a mirror: An optical device for providing prescription correction to a mirror so that a person who normally wears prescription glasses may clearly see, and also have unobstructed access to, their face in order to apply makeup. A magnifying lens in the form of an eyeglass blank of an appropriate corrective power... Agent: Mrm, LLC

20070247694 - Light pipe based projection engine: A light pipe based projection engine includes a X-prism transmitting substantially light of a useful polarization in an output direction and reflecting substantially light of a non-useful polarization in a first orthogonal direction substantially orthogonal to the output direction. An initial reflector may reflect the non-said low, said medium, and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070247693 - Method and system for packaging a mems device: A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a backplate and the backplate can contain electronic circuitry for controlling the array of interferometric modulators. The backplate can provide physical support for... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070247697 - Electro-optic displays, and materials for use therein: A flexible electro-optic display comprises a layer of solid electro-optic material; a backplane comprising at least one electrode arranged to apply an electric field to the layer of electro-optic material; and an adhesive layer disposed between the layer of electro-optic material and the backplane and adhesively securing the layer of... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070247696 - Microelectromechanical device and method utilizing a porous surface: A microelectromechanical device (MEMS) utilizing a porous electrode surface for reducing stiction is disclosed. In one embodiment, a microelectromechanical device is an interferometric modulator that includes a transparent electrode having a first surface; and a movable reflective electrode with a second surface facing the first surface. The movable reflective electrode... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070247695 - Pixel circuit to electrode translation: A spatial light modulator has an array of elements organized into element rows and element columns and an array of electrodes organized into electrode rows and electrode columns to activate the array of elements. The modulator has pixel circuitry organized into circuit rows and circuit columns with the pixel circuitry... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070247698 - Large dynamic range shack-hartmann wavefront sensor: A wavefront sensor for measuring a wavefront contains an array of lenslets, a detector array, and a mask having a temporally fixed pattern containing one or more opaque regions that are substantially opaque to light from the wavefront. The mask comprises one or more transmissive regions that are transmissive of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070247699 - Electrostatic fins for a mems device: A MEMS device includes a hinge that is disposed outwardly from a substrate and capable of at least partially supporting a conductor that is disposed outwardly from the hinge. The conductor being capable of pivoting about a first axis. The device also includes one or more electrostatic fins that are... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070247700 - Systems and methods for sensory stimulation: The invention relates generally to cognitive stimulation apparatuses and systems, and methods of manufacturing the same. In certain exemplary implementations the invention provides an at least partially transparent, pliable gel having an optical property, such as brightness or color, and a circuit for delivering electromagnetic radiation to the gel to... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070247702 - Optical fiber for raman amplification, optical fiber coil, raman amplifier, and optical communication system: An optical fiber for Raman amplification amplifies a signal light with a pumping light. A chromatic dispersion at a wavelength of 1,550 nm is in a range between −70 ps/nm/km and −30 ps/nm/km. Raman gain efficiency with a pumping light of 1,450 nm is equal to or more than 5... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247701 - Raman amplifier, optical repeater, and raman amplification method: A Raman amplifier according to the present invention comprises a plurality of pumping means using semiconductor lasers of Fabry-Perot, DFB, or DBR type or MOPAs, and pumping lights outputted from the pumping means have different central wavelengths, and interval between the adjacent central wavelength is greater than 6 nm and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247703 - Optical transmission systems including optical amplifiers and methods of use therein: Optical transmission systems including a plurality of optical amplifiers configured to provide optical amplification of one or more information carrying optical signal wavelengths. At least two of the optical amplifiers are operated to provide net losses or net gains along corresponding spans, while the cumulative gain provided by the plurality... Agent: Dickie, Mccamey & Chilcote, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20070247704 - Method and apparatus for providing brightness control in an interferometric modulator (imod) display: Methods and systems for providing brightness control in an interferometric modulator (IMOD) display are provided. In one embodiment, an interferometric modulator display pixel is provided that includes a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) interferometric modulator having an associated first color spectrum, and a color absorber located substantially in front of the interferometric... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070247705 - Micromirror system with electrothermal actuator mechanism: The disclosed embodiments combine an electrothermal actuator system with an electrostatic attraction system, in order to orient bistable micromirrors in digital micromirror devices (DMDs). The micromirror, pivotally supported, can switch between two orientations. While typical DMD systems use electrostatic electrodes to orient the micromirror, stiction forces can restrict micromirror motion,... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070247706 - Interpupillary viewpoints distance minimizer (ivdm): A viewing device for minimizing the distance between interpupillary viewpoints of the left and right eyes to effect biocular viewing or minimized viewpoints viewing by partially reflecting the view of one eye to the other eye or by partially reflecting the view near one eye to the other eye through... Agent: George M. Calm

20070247707 - Image electric projector and image displaying method: An image display projector and a method of displaying images are provided so as to enable reducing the occurrence of scintillation. The image display projector comprises: an optical engine for emitting light according to an inputted imaging signal; a Fresnel lens disposed to receive the light emitted from the optical... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247708 - Stereoscopic display apparatus: In a stereoscopic display apparatus having optical directory elements such as lenticular elements (4) extending parallel to each other and being slanted at an angle to one of the rows and columns of picture element the picture elements (2) are positioned out of focus at the optical directory elements, in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070247709 - 3-d projection full color multimedia display: Methods and systems are described herein which produce polarization-independent full color images suitable for rear-projection television sets and other multimedia displays. The system uses illumination with R, G, B light from two different light sources for each color. A viewer wears glasses with narrowband optical filters, preferably holographic filters. The... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070247710 - Antistatic laminated body and polarizing plate using the same: There is provided an antistatic laminate that can simplify the production of a polarizing plate and, at the same time, can satisfactorily meets requirements of IPS and VA modes. The antistatic laminate is adapted for use in polarizing plates and comprises a light transparent base material and an antistatic layer... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070247711 - Method of producing optical film and anti-reflection film optical film, anti-reflection film, polarizing plate and image display device comprising same: A method of producing an optical film comprising at least two ionizing radiation-curing layers on a transparent substrate, the method comprising: Step 1 of irradiating a layer A, which comprises two or more kinds of polymerization initiators having different absorption ends at a longer wavelength side in wavelength range of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070247712 - Optical elements having reverse dispersion: This invention relates to an optical element comprising a first component having a birefringence dispersion of D1>1, and a second component having a birefringence dispersion of D2>1 and a maximum peak absorption at a wavelength less than 400 nm, wherein the birefringence ratio at any wavelength of the first and... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070247713 - Colored anti-fog mirror: A colored anti-fog mirror that emits reflected light in response to incident light, the colored anti-fog mirror comprising a substrate, a hydrophilic functional layer containing a photocatalytic substance, and a metallic reflecting film provided between the substrate and the hydrophilic functional layer, wherein a material of the metallic reflecting film... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247714 - Security device: A security Device comprises a zero order diffractive microstructure (5) buried within a substrate (3). One or more further optical structures, such as 5 microlenses (1), may be formed on a surface (2) of the substrate (3). The further optical structures modify the optical characteristics of the zero order diffractive... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070247715 - Projection illumination systems lenses with diffractive optical elements: An optical assembly for a projection illumination system has a refractive lenses and a diffractive lens for imaging a sheet of light from a light source onto a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). One embodiment utilizes a fresnel lens having kinoforms formed on a surface. Such a lens may be molded... Agent: Jennifer L. Bales

20070247716 - Fabricating method for optical multilayer thin film structure: A fabricating method for optical multilayer thin film structure is disclosed wherein a QWOT stacked film structure is formed on a substrate from which a deposition rate is analyzed, and a non-QWOT stacked film structure is formed using the analyzed deposition rate, and the analyzed deposition rate is applied to... Agent: Rodman Rodman

20070247717 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus (100) comprise a display section (110) that displays image on a display screen; a viewer position reading section (520) that reads a relative position of at least one viewer with respect to the display screen; a glare detection section (111 to 114) that detects light reflected from... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070247718 - Light-absorbing member: A light-absorbing member has a substrate (101, 111) made of a material capable of absorbing light of which reflection is to be prevented, and an antireflection structure (102, 112, 303) having structural elements arranged on the surface of the curve in an array form at a period smaller than the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070247719 - Micro-lenses for imagers: A micro-lens and a method for forming the micro-lens is provided. A micro-lens includes a substrate and lens material located within the substrate, the substrate having a recessed area serving as a mold for the lens material. The recessed can be shaped such that the lens material corrects for optical... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070247720 - Dichroic filters on flexible polymer film substrates: Now, according to the present invention, dichroic filters are provided that incorporate a flexible polymer film substrate, such as poly(ethylene naphthalate), onto which a dielectric and/or reflective metal stack has been formed. Filters of the present invention are durable, flexible, and lightweight, and can be advantageously used in many specialty... Agent: Brenc Law Andrew Brenc

20070247721 - Optical glass, preform for precision press molding and method of manufacturing thereof, optical element and method of manufacturing thereof: The present invention relates to an optical glass having a refractive index (nd) of greater than or equal to 1.65 and an Abbé number (ν (nu)d) of greater than or equal to 50 for use in precision press molding. The glass exhibits that a ratio α (alpha)1/α (alpha)2 is less... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070247722 - Refractive projection objective: Refractive projection objective with a numerical aperture greater than 0.7, consisting of a first convexity, a second convexity, and a waist arranged between the two convexities. The first convexity has a maximum diameter denoted by D1, and the second convexity has a maximum diameter denoted by D2, and 0.8<D1/D2<1.1.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070247723 - Liquid lens having improved sealing structure: A liquid lens for adjusting a focal length by electro-wetting. A body houses a non-conductive fluid and a conductive fluid therein. A cover is capped on the body. A first adhesive bonds the body to the cover, the first adhesive curing rapidly. Also, a second adhesive bonds an outer periphery... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070247724 - Liquid lens with curved contact surface: A liquid lens having a curved contact surface with inner fluids. The liquid lens is configured to adjust a focal distance using electro-wetting and includes a base having an insulator film formed thereon and connected with an electrode. The liquid lens also includes a first fluid disposed on the base... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070247725 - Zoom lens systems with wavefront coding: Zoom lens systems and methods for imaging incoming rays over a range of ray angles are disclosed. The incoming rays are characterized by at least phase. The zoom lens system includes an optical axis and is characterized by a plurality of modulation transfer functions (MTFs) corresponding at least to the... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070247727 - Zoom optical system having liquid lens: A zoom optical system mountable in an ultra-small camera module. A first lens group is disposed stationary and has a negative refractive power. The first lens group includes at least one lens and a prism for converting the paths of light incident through the lens. A second lens group is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070247726 - Zoom lens, imaging device and camera device and mobile information terminal using the zoom lens: A zoom lens, including: a first group optical system having a negative focal length; a second group optical system having a positive focal length; a third group optical system having a positive focal length, the first group optical system, the second group optical system and the third group optical system... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070247728 - Optical unit of a laser module: An optical unit of a laser module is installed at front end of a laser diode of a drive circuit board. The optical unit includes a sleeve that is integrally injection molded from plastic material. Moreover, an optical lens is formed at the top of the sleeve. The inner wall... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070247729 - Reflective objective: A reflective objective is disclosed, in which essentially all the optical power is in a single, off-axis, concave mirror, which is oriented generally perpendicular to the central axis of the objective. An incident beam is directed to and from the concave mirror by a pair of flat mirrors, so that... Agent: Dicke Billig & Czaja, PLLC Attn: Christopher Mclaughlin

20070247730 - Display device: A display device for displaying information is provided with an optical system for guiding the light of the display device to the eye, the optical system having, in the order in the proceeding direction of the light, an entrance face for receiving the light, a curved face for totally reflecting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070247731 - Electro-optical device and projector: An electro-optical device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; an electro-optical material, the electro-optical material being disposed between the first and second substrates; prismatic portions that collect light incident on the first substrate, each prismatic portion being in the form of a groove having an opening, disposed in the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070247732 - Positinoing ring for combining convex mirror and back board: A convex mirror assembly includes convex mirror and a back board, wherein each of the convex mirror and the rear box has a bent portion and a positioning ring encloses the bent portions. The positioning ring is composed of a plurality of sections and each section has a substantially C-shaped... Agent: Yi Cyuan Shih

20070247733 - Optical low pass filter and image -capturing device: An optical low pass filter includes: a light transmitting member (41); and a refractive index distribution generation means (42) that generates a refractive index distribution cyclically changing within the plane of the light transmitting member (41). The refractive index distribution generation means includes a piezoelectric element, for example, and generates... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242324 - Method for producing an active, real and three-dimensional image: A method for producing an active, real and three-dimensional image includes a three-dimensional region evenly spread with fluorescent agents, and a plurality of invisible lasers projecting in the three-dimensional region from different directions. The fluorescent agents positioned at a location focused by all of the invisible lasers are excited to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070242326 - Method for wavelength mismatch compensation in a holographic storage system: According to the invention, the wavelength mismatch is determined and the direction of at least part of the readout reference beam relative to a holographic storage medium is adjusted in dependence on the determined wavelength mismatch by defocusing the readout reference beam or by adjusting the focal length of an... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070242323 - Holographic recording composition and optical recording medium therewith: in the General Formula (1), R1, R2 and R3, which may be identical or different each other, each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an amino group or an acyl group; the alkyl group, the aryl group, the amino group or the acyl group may further have a substituent.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070242321 - Holographic recording medium and recording and reproducing method thereof: A holographic recording medium is superior in moisture resistance, thermal resistance, and rigidity and can certainly detect positional information to carry out a sophisticated recording and reproducing control and a recording and reproducing method thereof. The holographic recording medium 10 is configured to have substrates 12 made of a glass... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242322 - Photoresponsive heterocyclic azo compound, method for producing the same, and optical information recording medium: wherein HC1 and HC2 each represent a ring structure, at least one of them being a heterocyclic structure containing 1 or more heteroatom in the ring, R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent connected to the ring structure and may be the same or different ones,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070242325 - Optical element: A complex amplitude type spatial optical modulation element, with which the amount of generation of 0th-order diffraction light is low, is provided. An optical element is arranged by aligning a plurality of three-dimensional cells C1(x, y) two-dimensionally on an XY plane. Each individual cell is made of a light transmitting... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070242327 - Scanned beam source and systems using a scanned beam source for producing a wavelength-compensated composite beam of light: According to embodiments, scanned beam source may include a first beam shaping optical element aligned to receive a composite beam of light carrying a plurality of wavelength components and a second beam shaping optical element aligned to receive the composite beam of light from the first beam shaping optical element... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070242328 - Tiltable-body apparatus, and method of fabricating the same: The tiltable-body apparatus including a frame member, a tiltable body, and a pair of torsion springs having a twisting longitudinal axis. The torsion springs are disposed along the twisting longitudinal axis opposingly with the tiltable body being interposed, support the tiltable body flexibly and rotatably about the twisting longitudinal axis... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070242329 - Multibeam internal drum scanning system: An internal drum scanning system comprising a cylinder with an imaging surface, a laser source for generating a first and a second laser beam, a rotating deflector for deflecting the beams towards said imaging surface, a focussing lens for focussing the laser beams onto respective positions on said imaging surface,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070242330 - Tuning-fork-type scanning apparatus with a counterweight: A scanning method and apparatus, the apparatus comprising a fork with first and second forwardly extending tines and a rearwardly extending counterweight member, a mount for supporting the fork at a point between the tines and the counterweight member, and a drive for effecting relative vibration between the tines to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070242332 - Method for controlling image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that previously rotates a polygonal mirror drive motor before starting a job and forms a latent image by using an optical scanning unit including the polygonal mirror drive motor is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform control such that, in... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070242331 - Magnetic recording tape edge processing: A method for manufacturing magnetic recording tape includes applying a front coat including a magnetic component to a substrate to provide a coated substrate. The coated substrate defines a first face and an opposing, second face, the first face extending between a first corner and an opposing, second corner, and... Agent: Attention: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20070242333 - Scanner apparatus and image forming apparatus: A cylindrical lens is positioned between and a polygon mirror and a second slit plate through which light beams from two light beam emitting units pass, and the cylindrical lens has a thin portion where the thickness between the entrance plane and the emission plane is reduced by forming the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070242334 - Corner-cube retroreflectors for displays: Enhancement of the contrast ratio of optical flat panel displays by integrating an array of corner-cube retroreflectors into the front face of the optical display, said integration involving mutual adaptation of both the display and the corner-cube retroreflector geometry to unite the two disparate optical systems. The light emission from... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070242335 - Translational filter, shutter, aperture apparatus for selecting and combining filtered and unfiltered light: A method and apparatus for filtering and mixing light is provided. The apparatus comprises a translational filter, aperture and shutter. A light beam and the translational filter, aperture and shutter are moved relative to each other to precisely control the proportions of filtered, unobstructed and blocked light. A method for... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070242336 - Applications for mixing and combining light utilizing a transmission filter, iris, aperture apparatus: The present invention involves methods to combine light and apparatuses to accomplish the same. In some embodiments of the present invention, light from two light sources is combined to achieve multiple functions within one application. In some embodiments of the present invention, light from the light source is filtered using... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070242338 - System and method for vehicular communications: A method for communicating with a vehicle has a generator for producing a data stream that can indicate, street sign information, house number, lead vehicle information, traffic information, oncoming vehicle information, juxtaposed vehicle information, a voice channel, etc. vehicle information can indicate braking, low beam requests, direct or indirect traffic... Agent: The Law Offices Of Thomas L. Adams

20070242339 - System and method for vehicular communications: A method for communicating with a vehicle has a generator for producing a data stream that can indicate, street sign information, house number, lead vehicle information, traffic information, oncoming vehicle information, juxtaposed vehicle information, a voice channel, etc. vehicle information can indicate braking, low beam requests, direct or indirect traffic... Agent: The Law Offices Of Thomas L. Adams

20070242337 - System and method for vehicular communications: A method for communicating with a vehicle has a generator for producing a data stream that can indicate, street sign information, house number, lead vehicle information, traffic information, oncoming vehicle information, juxtaposed vehicle information, a voice channel, etc. vehicle information can indicate braking, low beam requests, direct or indirect traffic... Agent: The Law Offices Of Thomas L. Adams

20070242340 - Polarization controlling apparatus and polarization operation apparatus: The polarization controlling apparatus includes a permanent magnet itself or a permanent magnet to which a part capable of being magnetized is applied, an electromagnet capable of changing the magnitude of a magnetic field to be generated thereby, and a Faraday rotation effect element, disposed at a position at which... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070242341 - Mems devices and processes for packaging such devices: A package structure and method of packaging for a MEMS device is described. A transparent substrate having an interferometric modulator array formed thereon is shown. A single or dual-layered backplate is joined to the transparent substrate with a seal. The interferometric modulator array may be exposed to the surrounding environment... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070242344 - Color high-resolution scanning display system: A display system includes one or more rows of tiltable micro mirrors, each of which is configured to be selectively tilted to an “on” position to reflect incident light in an “on” direction and to be selectively tilted to an “off” position to reflect incident light in an “off” direction;... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070242342 - Mems mirror with parallel springs and arched support for beams: A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror device includes (1) a mirror, (2) a first group of spring elements coupled to one half of the mirror, (3) a first beam coupled to the first group of spring elements, (4) a first spring coupled to the first beam, and (5) a first stationary... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070242345 - Packaging a mems device using a frame: A package structure and method of packaging for a MEMS device is described. A transparent substrate having an interferometric modulator array formed thereon is shown. A single or dual-layered backplate is joined to a frame that circumscribes the modulator array. The frame is bonded to the transparent substrate and to... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070242343 - System and method for increasing image quality in a display system: System and method for maximizing image quality by eliminating vias on a reflective surface. A preferred embodiment comprises depositing a first portion of a mirror surface over a support surface, applying a protective coating on the mirror surface, and then inverting the via. The preferred embodiment also comprises removing a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070242346 - Laser oscillator: To extend the temperature range for a stable operation without mode hopping and obtain a stable laser oscillation, a laser oscillator is provided. The laser oscillator includes: an optical circulator in which light incident on a first port is exited from the second port, light incident on the second port... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070242347 - Optical transmission system: A reliable optical transmission system with an improved signal control mechanism that avoids abrupt power variations of light beams, thereby preventing optical supervisory channel (OSC) signals from experiencing errors. An optical amplifier amplifies main signals under the control of an optical amplifier controller, which spends a first predetermined time to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070242348 - Uv-blocking filter comprising a layer of temperature stable silver-containing diffusion paint on a borosilicate glass body: The UV-blocking filter is a disk-shaped glass body made of borosilicate float glass, which has a layer of silver-containing diffusion paint adhering to it, which blocks ultraviolet light, so that the UV-blocking filter resists a high thermal load up to temperature of about 500° C. The preferred borosilicate float glass... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070242349 - Automated microscope slide read system: A system for reading microscope slides in an automated fashion.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070242350 - Molded part, die for forming the part, optical element using the molded part, and optical device using the optical element: A molded part prepared by a mold transfer method using a die, including a surface which includes a slope, wherein a direction of a normal line of the slope is different from a die releasing direction; and a pattern which is formed on the surface and which includes grooves located... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242351 - Screen, rear projector, and image display apparatus: A screen is disclosed. The screen includes: a main screen body having a diffusion layer provided in a loop shape; a support member that is provided at an inner side of the loop shaped diffusion layer and supports the loop shaped diffusion layer to be stretched thereover; and a driving... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242352 - Wire-grid polarizers, methods of fabrication thereof and their use in transmissive displays: Wire-grid polarizers (WGPs) and their use in transmissive displays are disclosed. The displays containing these WGPs possess high contrast and brightness characteristics in comparison to prior art displays.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070242353 - 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, provides a high polarization degree in short wavelength side. The polarizer has a high transmittance and a high polarization degree, and is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070242354 - Optical head device with film wavelength plate incorporated therein: Members such as a laser diode (10) that is a light source, a diffraction grating (11), a polarizing beam splitter (12) and a collimator lens are arranged in a casing (20). An optical head device having such a casing (20) is improved, so that a film wavelength plate (14) is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070242355 - Wavelength plate and optical head device: A wavelength plate including an organic thin film adhered to a glass substrate through an adhesive is built in an optical head optical system used in a predetermined using temperature range. The adhesive has a glass transition temperature higher than the predetermined using temperature range, and the linear expansion coefficient... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070242357 - Microstructured articles comprising nitrogen containing ingredient: Microstructured articles, such as a retroreflective articles, having a plurality of (e.g. cube-corner) microstructured elements projecting from a major surface are described. The microstructured (e.g.) cube-corner elements or interface with an adjacent layer comprises certain nitrogen-containing ingredients. The inclusion of such nitrogen-containing ingredients can improve the adhesion of the (e.g.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070242356 - Retroreflective articles comprising olefinic seal films: Microstructured articles, such as a retroreflective articles, having a plurality of (e.g. cube-corner) microstructured elements and a seal film layer adhered to portions of the cube-corner elements and/or portions of a (e.g. flexible) body layer. The seal film is a thermoplastic polymeric material comprising reaction products of alkylene in an... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070242358 - Fabry-perot tunable filter: A tunable Fabry-Perot filter is supported on a substrate which may be transparent. A transparent support body is supported by the substrate and carries a first reflector. A second reflector is supported on the substrate. The first and second reflectors define a gap therebetween. The size of the gap is... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070242359 - Zinc-based film manipulation for an optical filter: An optical filter is formed of a layer stack that includes metallic layers and dielectric layers, with at least one dielectric layer being defined by more than one zinc-based film. These zinc-based films have different percentages of zinc. The selections of the percentages are based upon the positions of the... Agent: Law Offices Of Terry Mchugh

20070242360 - Tunable negative refractive index composite: A composite having a stack of a repeating pattern of layers of: a layer of a nonconductive magnetic material, a first layer of a dielectric material; a layer of a semiconducting material; and a second layer of the dielectric material. The composite has a magnetic resonance frequency and a magnetic... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20070242361 - Optical sheet, backlight and liquid crystal display apparatus: An optical sheet has a large number of cylindrical lens elements provided successively on one of principal faces thereof. The cylindrical lens elements have a hyperboloidal face or a paraboloidal face and have a finite focal distance on the emission side of illumination light. Where a Z axis is taken... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070242362 - Hard-coated antiglare film, method of manufacturing the same, optical device, polarizing plate, and image display: A hard-coated antiglare film is provided that has high hardness, high scratch resistance, and good antiglare properties. In the hard-coated antiglare film of the present invention including a transparent plastic film substrate, a hard-coating layer containing fine particles is formed on at least one surface of the transparent plastic film... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070242363 - Illumination optical apparatus, projection exposure apparatus, projection optical system, and device manufacturing method: An illumination optical apparatus, used in a projection exposure apparatus for projecting and exposing a pattern arranged in a first plane to a second plane, for supplying the first surface with illumination light from a light source comprises an optical path combiner arranged in an optical path between the light... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242364 - Dlc film and method for forming the same: The present invention provides a DLC film that functions as an optical element and that can easily be miniaturized or integrated, and a method for forming the DLC film. A DLC film that has a refractive index varying continuously in at least one width direction from the center O of... Agent: Venable LLP

20070242365 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus using zoom lens: To provide a zoom lens which attains high zoom ratio and high optical performance over the entire zoom range, enables vibration control and miniaturization, and is compatible with a solid-state imaging device with a large size and a large number of pixels, the zoom lens 10 includes a first lens... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070242366 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens which includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a stop, a third lens unit having a positive... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070242367 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus including the same: There is disclosed a zoom lens system comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; a third lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070242368 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having same: A zoom lens comprises a first positive lens unit, a second negative lens unit, a third positive lens unit, and a fourth positive lens unit, the lens units being arranged in order from the object side to the image side. The position of the first lens unit at the telephoto... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070242369 - Optical lens system for taking image: An optical lens system for taking image comprises three lens elements with refractive power, from the object side to the image side: a first positive lens element having a convex front surface and a concave rear surface, and the front surface being aspheric; a negative plastic second lens element having... Agent: Banger Shia

20070242370 - Image pickup lens, image pickup apparatus and mobile terminal: The present invention provides an image pickup lens for forming a light flux from a subject into an image on an image pickup element, and the image pickup lens includes, in order from an object side thereof: an aperture stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070242371 - Lens module and electronic device using the same: A lens module includes a frame, a guide bar, a lever, a first lens and a second lens. The frame is for carrying an image sensor with a photosensitive surface. The guide bar is disposed on one side of the frame and parallel to a normal of the photosensitive surface.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070242372 - Reflectors and reflector light and sound source systems: A reflector employs materials and design features that can transfer both light and sound emission simultaneously, from sources to planes or volumes, in an efficient and controlled manner. Compound orthogonal parabolic reflectors employ an extension onto conventional orthogonal parabolic reflectors to efficiently deliver light and/or sound to a focal volume... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070242373 - Retractable door mirror: A retractable door mirror to prevent wind noise during running of an automobile and achieving a simplified form of a base plate having a function as a stopper for regulating a retractable angle of a mirror body, thereby reducing production cost. The retractable door mirror has a mirror base and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242374 - Kit for extending a holder of a side mirror mounted to a vehicle: A mirror extension kit providing a mirror extension bracket (10) for holding a mirror structure (31) to the side of a vehicle (41) at various possible lengths from the vehicle.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070236763 - Optical recording method, optical reproducing method, and optical reproducing apparatus: An optical recording method includes providing an optical recording medium capable of forming both a refractive index grating and an absorption grating by light irradiation; Fourier transforming with the same lens a signal beam that represents binary digital data with a brightness image and a reference beam such that they... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070236765 - Optical information reproducing apparatus and optical information reproducing method using the same: An optical information reproducing apparatus and an optical information reproducing method using the same are provided. The optical information reproducing apparatus includes: a light source; a beam splitter which splits a beam emitted from the light source into a reference beam and a temporary beam; a temporary beam splitter which... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070236764 - Silver halide holograhic sensitive material and system for taking holograhic images by using the same: A silver halide-holographic sensitive material is provided and has a support and at least one photosensitive emulsion layer, with the photosensitive emulsion layer containing silver halide particles whose number average projected-area diameter is from 10 nm to 80 nm.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070236766 - Holographic laser scanning system having multiple laser scanning stations for producing a 3-d scanning volume substantially free of spatially and temporally coincident scanning planes: A holographic laser scanner of ultra-compact design capable of reading bar and other types of graphical indicia within a large scanning volume using holographic optical elements and visible laser diodes. The holographic optical elements are arranged on the scanning disc in such a manner so that none of the laser... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20070236767 - Frequency tunable resonant scanner: Provided is a one-axis driving optical scanner which includes a substrate, a stage separated from the substrate to a predetermined height and having an upper surface where an optical scanning surface is formed, a torsion spring supporting the stage from middle portions of both edge sides of the stage, a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070236768 - Display method and display device: The invention provides a display method for displaying an image by deposition of metal fine particles. The display method includes at least depositing metal fine particles, from an electrolytic solution that has at least a metal ion of the metal particles and that is provided between a pair of substrates... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070236770 - Display system with clock-dropping to compensate for lamp variations and for phase locking of free running sequencer: A display system includes a light source 110 and a spatial light modulator 122 located to receive light from the light source. The spatial light modulator (e.g., a DMD) includes a number of independently controllable elements that are activated for a period of time to display light of a desired... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070236769 - Optical method and system for extended depth of focus: An imaging arrangement and method for extended the depth of focus are provided. The imaging arrangement comprises an imaging lens having a certain affective aperture, and an optical element associated with said imaging lens. The optical element is configured as a phase-affecting, non-diffractive optical element defining a spatially low frequency... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070236771 - Method and system for laser amplification using a dual crystal pockels cell: A system for laser amplification includes a dual-crystal Pockels cell which is used to control emission of laser pulses from an ultra-fast laser. The Pockels cell is constructed to enable adjustment of the rotational orientation of one crystal relative to the other crystal. The rotational orientation of one or both... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070236772 - Acousto-optic devices having highly apodized acoustic fields and methods of forming the same: An acousto-optic (AO) device for generating a highly apodized acoustic wave field includes a piezoelectric transducer crystal for emitting an acoustic wave having a ground electrode disposed on one side of the piezoelectric crystal, and a patterned electrode layer disposed on a side of the piezoelectric crystal opposite the ground... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070236773 - High-resolution scanning display system: A display system includes one or more rows of tiltable micro mirrors, each of which is configured to be selectively tilted to an “on” position to reflect incident light in an “on” direction and to be selectively tilted to an “off” position to reflect incident light in an “off” direction;... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070236774 - Interferometric optical display system with broadband characteristics: Broad band white color can be achieved in MEMS display devices by incorporating a material having an extinction coefficient (k) below a threshold value for wavelength of light within an operative optical range of the interferometric modulator. One embodiment provides a method of making the MEMS display device comprising depositing... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070236775 - Piano mems with hidden hinge: The micro-electro-mechanical mirror device according to the present invention includes a platform pivotable about two perpendicular axes, and a hinge structure disposed beneath the platform. The hinge structure includes first and second hinges and a gimbal ring fabricated in a single layer beneath the platform layer. One end of the... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20070236776 - Particles for display media and information display panel using the particles: In the particles for display media constituting the display media used for an information display panel, in which the display media having optical reflectance and charge characteristics are sealed between two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070236777 - Particle movement-type display device and particle movement-type display apparatus: A particle-movement display device includes a front-side first substrate and a rear-side second substrate disposed opposite to each other with a spacing therebetween, a partition wall, disposed between the first and second substrates, for partitioning the spacing into a plurality of sections, and charged particles disposed in each of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236778 - Analog mems with non-linear support: The disclosed embodiments reveal an analog MEMS device with a pivotal micromirror that is supported by one or more beams that provide non-linear resistance. An electrode can electrostatically attract the micromirror, while the beam(s) provide resistance to deflection. When the forces equalize, the micromirror is held at a target angle.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070236779 - Laser display radiation source and method: In general, in one aspect, the invention features a method that includes converting radiation at a first wavelength λi to radiation at a second wavelength λg and exposing an article to the radiation at λg to convert the radiation at λg to radiation at a third wavelength λr and radiation... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070236780 - Multi-port optical parametric oscillator: An optical parametric oscillator includes a source of coherent energetic pump optical signals and an optical resonator cavity which includes a set of optical parametric amplifying (OPA) crystals and a set of optical elements such as mirrors disposed along an optical path. The optical elements are configured (1) to direct... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070236781 - Bi-directionally pumped optical fiber lasers and amplifiers: An optical system including a gain material pumped by pump energy bands delivered to the gain material from different directions and separated sufficiently to prevent crosstalk between pump energy sources. Embodiments of the pump energy sources may be configured to pump the gain material with pump energy bands that correspond... Agent: Grant Anderson LLP C/o Portfolioip

20070236782 - Confocal endoscope system: There is provided a confocal endoscope system which is provided with an electronic endoscope having a confocal optical unit configured to emit illumination light toward an object and to obtain only light from a certain point of the object, and a processor to which the light obtained by the confocal... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070236783 - Stabilizer for in vivo examination: Dynamic movement of a specimen in a pressing direction and in directions intersecting the pressing direction is effectively suppressed, while maintaining the viability of the specimen. A stabilizer for in vivo examination that is placed in contact with a biological specimen during examination of the specimen to suppress movement thereof... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070236784 - Illumination system with zoom objective: Illumination systems which are designed to illuminate a field in a field plane and simultaneously illuminate a pupil plane with radiation from a light source are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070236785 - Microscope: A microscope includes an objective lens and a microscope body to support the objective lens. The microscope body has inside a hollow portion. The microscope further includes an illumination unit including an illumination optical system to apply illumination light to a sample in cooperation with the objective lens and an... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070236786 - Systems and methods for a scanning boom microscope: A scanning boom microscope comprises an optical axis that can be varied into any axis or direction relative to a circular displacement about an optical boom that supports the scanning boom microscope's objective in free space. Accordingly, scanning boom microscope can be positioned to observe free standing samples away from... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070236787 - Optical scanning microscope with linear scanning: Optical scanning microscope with linear scanning and with illumination of a specimen via a beam splitter, which is arranged in an objective pupil and consists of at least a reflecting first portion and at least a transmitting second portion, whereby the reflecting portion serves to couple in the illumination light... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070236788 - Imaging device for imaging microscopic or macroscopic objects: The present invention relates to an imaging device (1) for imaging microscopic or macroscopic objects (5). The imaging device (1) comprises a light source (2), an illumination beam path (6), an imaging beam path (7) and an imaging optical means (4), in particular in the form of an objective. The... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070236789 - Optical scanner with improved scan time: A method and apparatus is provided for scanning an object, featuring scanning an incident beam in a substantially curved scan pattern; and moving an object at a predetermined rate along an axis substantially orthogonal to a plane of the curved scan pattern so that a two dimensional image can be... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070236790 - Night vision attachment mountable on a firearm and intended for a sighting telescope: A night vision attachment (NSV) mountable on a firearm and intended for a sighting telescope (ZF), comprising an objective (1) of the night vision attachment, a low-light-level amplifier (2), an optical assembly (3) and an eyepiece (4) of the night vision attachment, is formed in such a way that a... Agent: Mcculloch PLC

20070236791 - Rear projection display apparatus and transmission type screen: Disclosed herein is a rear projection display apparatus, including: an apparatus body; a transmission type screen disposed on the front face of the apparatus body; and an image projection apparatus disposed in the inside of the apparatus body and configured to project an image to the transmission type screen from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070236792 - Optical filter and visual display device with optical filter: An aspect of the present invention provides an optical filter that includes a plurality of slits arranged in parallel, each slit corresponding to a pair of displays including at least a first display of a first image, and a second display of a second image, wherein the slits form a... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070236793 - Polarization converter reflector: Disclosed are designs for a reflector optic that acts as a polarization converter optic, available in various combinations of the embodiments features, used to convert non polarized radiation into a single polarization state, which may be utilized in many devices requiring polarized radiation. Disclosed is a unique geometric configuration and... Agent: Daniel Lee Stark

20070236794 - Optical element and moisture-proof coating method thereof: An optical element includes glass substrates adhered to surfaces of a birefringent material film through an adhesive. The optical element has a coating for moisture-proof. The moisture-proof treatment is performed by applying a mixed solution of a soluble fluorine resin and an ethylenic compound to end surfaces of the glass... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070236795 - Conformable retroreflective film structure: The present invention includes conformable retroreflective structures. In some embodiments, the conformable retroreflective structures are also shrink resistant. The conformable retroreflective structures include a transparent plasticized polyvinyl chloride film having a first side and a second side; a first transparent polymer layer overlying the first side of the plasticized polyvinyl... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070236796 - Method of manufacturing of a diffraction grating-based optical identification element: A method for manufacturing a diffusion grating-based optical identification element is provided. The optical identification element includes a known optical substrate, having an optical diffraction grating disposed in the volume of the substrate. A large number of substrates or microbeads having unique identification codes can be manufactured by winding a... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070236797 - Wavelength dispersion compensation device: A wavelength dispersion compensation device includes an etalon 100 having a slab shape. Reflective films are formed on each side of the etalon 100. The reflective films respectively have predetermined reflectance. Reflectance of one of the reflective films differs according to a light incident angle by using a portion of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070236798 - Antireflective coating and substrates coated therewith: a second low index of refraction coating layer over the second high index of refraction coating layer, wherein the first high index of refraction coating layer has an optical thickness defined by the following equation within a range of ±25%: [−2.1643×(optical thickness of the second low index of refraction coating... Agent: Jacques B. Miles Ppg Industries, Inc.

20070236799 - Mirror for solid-state laser: A mirror for a solid-state laser, has a multilayer film formed by alternately laminating a low-refractive-index film layer and a high-refractive-index film layer on a substrate. In the mirror, each of the film layers has an optical film-thickness set at a fundamental value in conformity to a wavelength of target... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070236800 - Imaging systems for eyeglass-based display devices: Disclosed are imaging systems and eyeglass-based display devices. In one embodiment, an imaging system includes an image source and a partial mirror that defines a non-rotationally symmetric surface, wherein the partial mirror reflects images generated by the image source to an eye of an observer.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070236801 - Time-multiplexed 3d display system with beam splitter: A time multiplexed 3D display incorporates a beam splitter so that multiple viewers can watch the same content in a plurality of different positions.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070236802 - Optical device, optical unit and imager: An optical device comprises: a liquid container that contains water-based liquid and oil-based liquid that are different in refractive index from each other and immiscible with each other to have respective optical-transmission properties so that light can transmit in a predetermined optical-axis direction; a coat film that covers at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236803 - Optical element and imaging apparatus: An optical element is disclosed. The optical element may include a container having a holding chamber, a polar or conductive first liquid filled in the holding chamber, a second liquid filled in the holding chamber and not mixing with the first liquid, first and second electrodes for applying an electric... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070236804 - Projection lens and projection type display device using the same:

20070236806 - Variable power optical system: A variable power optical system is provided and includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive fifth lens group, a positive third lens group, and a negative fourth lens group containing first to third sub lens groups, in order from the side of an object.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236805 - Objective lens: An objective lens comprises a housing, an iris diaphragm and a plurality of lens groups. For focusing the objective lens while minimizing the variation of the image angle at least two lens groups are adapted to be moved relative to the housing. The one lens group is arranged in front... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070236807 - Collapsible lens barrel and imaging device: A lens barrel has a base, a second lens holder frame holding a second lens group, a first lens holder frame holding a first lens group, a cam ring, and a fixed ring. The second lens holder frame has three guides projecting axially from an outer circumferential portion of an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070236808 - Method for adjusting of lens tilt, imaging apparatus and lens barrel thereof: There is provided a lens barrel including a lens barrel body for fixably and/or movably supporting a plurality of lenses, lens holding members for holding one of the plurality of lenses, and an alignment device for aligning the lens holding members such that optical axes approximately agree with an optical... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070236809 - Forming spectral filters: A lens bears a plurality of roll-coated layers to pass, to one eye of a viewer, a first image, in a first band of wavelengths, that is appropriate for 3D viewing of a stereoscopic image.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070236810 - Projection lens unit: A projection lens system 1A enlarges and projects onto a screen 8, via a plurality of lenses G1 to G16, image light emitted from, a light source 4 and modulated by DMDs 3r to 3b. A movable lens barrel 25 holds the lens G16, having positive power, which is positioned... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070236811 - Imaging lens and imaging apparatus: An imaging lens comprises, in order arranged from an object side: a first lens of a negative meniscus lens which is curved to be convex towards an object; a second lens of a positive lens which is curbed to be convex on an object side surface thereof; a diaphragm; a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236812 - Optical lens assembly: An optical lens assembly comprises two plastic lenses with refractive power: from the object side to the image side: a first lens with positive refractive power, and a second lens with negative refractive power. A front surface and a rear surface of the first lens is convex and aspherical, a... Agent: Banger Shia

20070236813 - Magnifying apparatus: A magnifying apparatus removably attached to a menu, check wallet, billfold, wine list, and the like. The magnifying apparatus includes illumination means to illuminate an area viewed using the magnifying apparatus. The magnifying element may be a fresnel lens. The fresnel lens preferably has a power of 2-4 times. However,... Agent: Ian Blum

20070236815 - Method and device for aligning an optical element: A device for adjusting optical elements, in particular, for X-ray analysis, comprising a holding device (2) for receiving the optical element and at least two adjusting units at least one of the two longitudinal ends of the holding device (2), wherein the adjusting units each comprise one plunger (6, 6a,... Agent: Kohler Schmid Moebus

20070236814 - Method of aligning optical elements: A method of aligning an optomechanical assembly and an optomechanical assembly are described.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070236816 - Balancing method for color wheel: The invention relates to a color wheel for use in the illumination system of a projector. The color wheel according to the present invention comprises a rotor and a motor for rotating the rotor, the rotor comprising a ring shaped translucent area formed by color filter segments, the translucent area... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070229927 - Method of recording an exposure pattern in a recording layer of a holographic mask, method of forming an exposure pattern in a photosensitive material film, method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and method of manufacturing an electro-optic device: A method of recording an exposure pattern in a recording layer of a holographic mask, using an original reticle that has the exposure pattern formed therein, the recording method comprising: illuminating a first recording light and a first reference light to the recording layer simultaneously, the first recording light being... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229928 - Security element and process for producing the same: The present invention relates to a security element for securing value documents, having a first light-polarizing layer (64) that is present at least in some areas and comprises a cholesteric liquid crystal material, that selectively reflects light having a predetermined circular polarization, and that selectively reflects light of a first... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20070229929 - Method and system for correcting angular drift of laser radar systems: A method of calibrating angle drift of a laser radar system is provided, in one aspect of the present invention. The method includes, providing a plurality of virtual fiducials into an xy scanner; and providing a plurality of auxiliary laser sources into the xy scanner. The method also includes, routing... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070229930 - Diffraction element, optical pickup and optical disc apparatus: A diffraction element includes: an injection-molded transparent first member having two optical surfaces; and a second member firmly attached to one of the optical surfaces of the first member and provided with a first diffraction pattern on a surface, wherein the second member is a first ultraviolet curable resin having... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229931 - Image forming apparatus, and scanning optical unit and optical element used for the apparatus: In an image forming apparatus in which light fluxes emitted from at least two light sources are brought close to one another to be allowed to enter the rotating reflector 35 to be allowed to scan the photoreceptor 39, the cylindrical lens presser spring 12 provided on the cylindrical lens... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070229932 - Actuator comprising mechanic filter: An actuator which is actuated by an external input and also can remove noise caused by a high frequency by providing a low pass filter capable of preventing a particular high frequency through its mechanical structure. The actuator includes an external gimbal, an internal gimbal, and a connection axis which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229933 - Display drive device and display device: A display drive device comprises a display element being colored by injecting an electric charge into an electrolyte via an display electrode due to an oxidation-deoxidization reaction and being decolored by injecting an electric charge having an inverse polarity of the electric charge into the electrolyte, at least one constant... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070229934 - Optical apparatus and imaging apparatus: An optical apparatus is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes: a first optical element having a first polarizing layer containing a material having a refractive index that changes in accordance with the magnitude of applied voltage and first and second transparent electrodes sandwiching both sides of the first polarizing layer in... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070229935 - Display device using single-panel diffractive light modulator: Disclosed herein is a display device using a single-panel diffractive light modulator. The display device includes a light source unit, a condensing unit, an illumination unit, a diffractive light modulator, a projection unit, a filter unit, and a distortion correcting means.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070229936 - Method of making a light modulating display device and associated transistor circuitry and structures thereof: An Interferometric Modulator (IMod) is a microelectromechanical device for modulating light using interference. The colors of these devices may be determined in a spatial fashion, and their inherent color shift may be compensated for using several optical compensation mechanisms. Brightness, addressing, and driving of IMods may be accomplished in a... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070229937 - Inexpensive terahertz wave generator: Terahertz waves are generated by modulating the output of a cw laser to produce an optical signal with equally spaced frequency components. The modulated optical signal is supplied to a nonlinear optical waveguide in which it undergoes self-phase modulation, thereby producing at least two further frequency components that are separated... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20070229938 - White light-emitting device using fluorescent fiber: A white light-emitting device using a fluorescent fiber includes a blue semiconductor light-emitting element (2) for emitting an excitation light (a), and an optical fiber (3) having one side end face and the other side end face, the excitation light (a) emitted from the blue semiconductor light-emitting element (2) being... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070229939 - Method and apparatus for spectral-beam combining of fiber-amplified laser beams using high-efficiency dielectric diffractive gratings: Apparatus and method for spectral-beam combining light from a plurality of high-power fiber lasers that, in some embodiments, use two substantially identical diffraction gratings in a parallel, mutually compensating configuration to combine a plurality of separate parallel input beams each having a slightly different successively higher wavelength into a single... Agent: Lemaire Patent Law Firm, P.l.l.c.

20070229940 - High power fiber amplifier: A high power fiber amplifier including a double clad fiber including a protective outer jacket (41), an outer clad (44), an inner clad (42, 35) and a doped core (43, 34, 32), and a source of pump power coupled to the inner clad through coupling optics (22) and at least... Agent: Dekel Patent Ltd., David Klein

20070229941 - Optical amplifier: An optical amplifier of the present invention comprises: first and second optical amplifying sections connected in series to each other between an input port and an output port; a first variable optical attenuator arranged on a former stage of the first optical amplifying section; a second variable optical attenuator arranged... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229942 - Method of producing mold having uneven structure, mold for optical element, and optical element: A method of producing a mold having an uneven structure and a mold for an optical element are provided. The method includes forming on a nickel substrate a mixed film using nickel and a material which phase separates from nickel simultaneously, the mixed film including a plurality of cylinders including... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229943 - Optical and infrared periscope with display monitor: The present invention includes a periscope, which has two camera objectives. The cameras are housed on top of the viewing monitor inside of a housing cell, so as to efficiently utilize the cabin space of the vehicle. One camera objective is a day camera bullet that may be used during... Agent: Attn: Thomas A. O'rourke Bodner & O'rourke, L.L.P.

20070229945 - Optical multilayer filter, method for manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus: An optical multilayer filter comprises a substrate, and an inorganic thin film that is composed of a plurality of layers and formed on the substrate. An uppermost surface layer of the inorganic thin film is a silicon oxide layer having a density of from 1.9 g/cm3 to 2.2 g/cm3.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229944 - Reducing extreme ultraviolet flare in lithographic projection optics: An extreme ultraviolet lithography system may have a spatial filtering system in projection optics that reduce flare. A flare filter may be provided at the pupil plane to pass the required diffraction orders (at minimum 0th and +1 or 0th and −1 orders) of the light from the mask, while... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070229946 - Multiphoton-excitation observation apparatus: The invention provides a multiphoton-excitation observation apparatus comprising a light-source unit for emitting pulsed laser light; an observation apparatus main unit for irradiating a specimen with laser light emitted from the light-source unit and observing fluorescence emitted from the specimen; an incidence adjusting device, disposed between the light-source unit and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070229948 - Projection type image display apparatus: A screen is hung from a screen frame with hanging members bonded to the upper side of a front sheet. Supporting members are disposed on the lower side of the front sheet and, by mounting a Fresnel lens sheet on the supporting members, a tension is given by its weight... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070229949 - Rear projection display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a rear projection display apparatus, including: a housing; a screen provided on the front face of the housing; a mirror provided at a predetermined position in the inside of the housing and configured to reflect image light toward the screen; an optical unit including a projection lens... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070229947 - Projection screen control apparatus: Systems and methods for automatically controlling electrical devices including a system and method for automatically controlling a retractable projection screen based on the sensed electrical state of an associated projection device.... Agent: Ken Burraston Kirton & Mcconkie

20070229950 - Reinforced optical films: Optical films having structured surfaces are used, inter alia, for managing the propagation of light within a display. As displays become larger, it becomes more important that the film be reinforced so as to maintain rigidity. An optical film of the invention has a first layer comprising inorganic fibers embedded... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070229951 - Time sharing type autostereoscopic display apparatus and method for driving the same: A time sharing type autostereoscopic display apparatus and a method for driving the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel; a polarization switch; and a control unit which controls the polarization switch so that each of N segments of the polarization switch is driven in synchronization with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229952 - Visual display apparatus: The invention relates to a visual display apparatus suitable for use with a viewing apparatus capable of providing stereoscopic view of an image from 360-degree directions around it, or a display apparatus capable of displaying an observation image that changes depending on what angle it is viewed at or who... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070229953 - Optical film with super low retardation and polarizing plate containing the same: An optical film with super low retardation, including metal oxide nano-particles dispersed in a transparent resin having a three-dimensional crosslinking structure. The optical film has about 0-2 nm in-plane retardation (Ro) and almost zero out-of-plane retardation (Rth). The optical film can replace conventional triacetyl cellulose (TAC) as a polarizer protective... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229954 - Means and method to prevent liquids and flying debris from blocking the viewing pathway of an optical element: The invention comprises of a means and a method to keep clean a plurality of transparent surfaces, through which a plurality of images are captured by an optical element, which may be an optical sensor or a camera, where there is flying debris or liquids or liquids that can potentially... Agent: Pourang Bral

20070229955 - Diffraction device: A diffraction device having, on a transparent substrate plate, a diffraction pattern composed of periodically alternating array of first and second phase control zones. Each one of the first and second phase control zones is provided with an infinitesimal ruled structure in a pitch of the order of sub-wavelength, i.e.,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229956 - Light reflective sheet: Means to solve: A light reflective sheet wherein the void containing light reflective layer (B) is laid on the light receiving side of a substrate layer (A) composed of a thermoplastic resin composition (a1) containing an inert particle of 5 to 40% in weight, the backing layer (C) is laid... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070229957 - Incidence surfaces and optical windows that are solvophobic to immersion liquids: Optical windows are provided that transmit light such as deep-UV (DUV) light. An exemplary window includes a window substrate that is transmissive to at least one wavelength of the light. The window substrate has an incidence surface decorated with sub-wavelength asperities arranged so as to render the incidence surface solvophobic... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070229958 - Structure of optic film: An optic film has a surface on which a plurality of rib-like micro light guides is formed. Each light guide includes a plurality of ridges, which are of different height and shows variation of height. Either a high ridge or a low ridge of the light guide is made a... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070229959 - Light box barrier system for a projection display: A projection display with a shield surrounding an output end of a light engine to prevent dust and stray light from entering a light box of the projection display is described. The projection display includes a cabinet, a light engine mounted in the cabinet and having an output end and... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070229961 - Vehicle mirror with adjustable reflective properties: A vehicle mirror comprises a lens, a reflective member disposed so as to receive light from the lens, and a support disposed so as to support the lens and the reflective member. A control system is connected to the reflective member and is effective to control the reflection of the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070229960 - Pneumatically operated, dimmable mirror assembly: A dimmable mirror assembly operates responsive to changes in the thickness of a light absorbing fluid contained between a transparent glass plate and a high reflectance, first surface mirror. The thickness of the light absorbing fluid layer is pneumatically or hydraulically controlled. Variations in pressure are typically developed responsive to... Agent: Cohen, Gary M. Strafford Building Number Three

20070229962 - Protective film application kit and method: A kit apparatus has a molded support card holding a plurality of film sheets each having an adhesive layer on one side, a spray bottle containing a cleaning and activating solution enabled for activating the adhesive layers of the film sheets, and a squeegee. The film sheets are secured within... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20070229963 - Color separation/combination prism and image-projection apparatus: A color separation/combination prism is disclosed which has an optical film arrangement capable of performing color separation, light analysis and color combination. The prism includes four prism members and at least five optical surfaces as outer surfaces thereof. Each of the prism members has at least three optical surfaces including... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070229964 - Method of manufacturing a molded article, manufacturing device and objective lens for optical pickup: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a molded article in the form of an optical element such as a glass lens by heat-softening a glass material such as optical glass and press molding it with high precision in a pressing mold as well as an objective lens... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229965 - Lens array, exposure device, and image forming apparatus: A lens array has a plurality of rod lenses with optical axes in parallel with one another, in which the rod lens has a refractive-index distribution in a radial direction. The lens array has a radius ratio r0/r set to 0.9 or smaller, in which a radius r of the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070229966 - Image pickup optical system and image pickup apparatus: An image pickup optical system according to the present invention is provided for forming a light flux from an object into an optical image on an image pickup element. The image pickup optical system includes: a first lens group having a positive power; a second lens group having a negative... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070229967 - Zoom lens and projection display device using the same:

20070229968 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus using the same: A zoom lens system comprises, in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; a third lens unit having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a fifth... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070229969 - Variable-magnification optical system: A variable-magnification optical system includes a first lens group having a positive power, a second lens group having a negative power, and a third lens group having a positive power disposed from an object side, and at least one subsequent positive-power lens group having a positive power disposed on the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070229970 - Autofocusing optical system of camera module: An autofocusing optical system of a camera module which can be installed in a subminiature camera module. In the optical system, a first lens group has an overall positive refractive power. A second lens group has an overall negative refractive power. The second lens group includes a liquid lens having... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229971 - Variable magnification optical system and image-taking apparatus: A variable magnification optical system having at least a first lens group having a negative optical power, a second lens group having a positive optical power, a third lens group having a negative optical power, and a fourth lens element having a positive optical power, in the optical axis direction... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070229973 - Variable magnification optical system and image-taking apparatus: A variable magnification optical system including at least: a first lens group having a negative optical power, a second lens group having a positive optical power, a third lens group having a negative optical power, and a fourth lens group having a positive optical power moves the second lens group... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070229972 - Zoom lens system: A zoom lens system which includes, in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; a second lens unit having a positive refractive power; and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a space between the lens units is changed to perform... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070229974 - Zoom lens system: Object is to provide an inner-focusing type zoom lens system carrying out focusing by moving a portion of a first lens group suitable for an auto-focus SLR camera. A zoom lens system includes, in order from an object, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070229976 - Projection zoom lens and projection display device: j

20070229975 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having same:

20070229977 - Zoom lens system and display apparatus: A zoom lens system that has two lens groups with respectively negative and positive refractive powers in that order from a display medium, such as a screen, side is provided. The first lens group and the second lens group respectively include at least one aspherical surface. An air distance dw... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20070229978 - Camera system: Disclosed is a camera system equipped with a pair of photographing systems and a drive mechanism. Each of the pair of photographing systems of the camera system is equipped with an image pickup element and a zoom lens for forming an object image on the image pickup element. The entrance... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070229979 - Lens apparatus and image-pickup apparatus: Provided is a lens apparatus mounted to a camera including an image-pickup element, including: a focus lens means movable in an optical axis direction for focusing; a zoom lens unit; a zoom detector for detecting a zoom value of the zoom lens unit; an aperture-stop device; a stop-value detector; a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070229980 - Zoom lens device: A cam barrel 19 rotates in one way in varying a power to move four lens holding frames in the same direction by displacements of four cam openings 33 to 36. Cam barrel cam followers 48 are provided on an outer periphery of the cam barrel 19. The cam barrel... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229981 - Imaging lens: c

20070229982 - Imaging lens unit: An imaging lens unit comprising, in order from the object side, a first lens having a meniscus shape with its convex surface on the object side, an aperture stop and a second lens having a meniscus shape with its convex surface on the image side. A maximal value of a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229983 - Intermediate telephoto lens system:

20070229984 - Imaging lens:

20070229985 - Image pickup optical system and image pickup apparatus: An image pickup optical system according to the present invention includes: a first lens group having a positive power; a second lens group having a negative power; a third lens group having a positive power; and a fourth lens group having a positive power which consists of a front group... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070229986 - Imaging lens:

20070229987 - Imaging lens:

20070229988 - Imaging lens:

20070229989 - Clear vieu: Clear Vieu is a magnifying sheet with an adhesive layer that is dimensioned to fit on a variety of display screens for computers, cell phones, personal digital assistants, game boys, blackberries and a variety of other electronic equipment. The preferred embodiment of the invention utilizes a thin, transparent plastic sheet... Agent: Raymond M. Galasso Galasso & Associates Lp

20070229990 - Clear walled containers with lenticular inserts: A container for producing a graphical image within the container. The container includes a container wall with a front portion and a rear portion. A label is included that extends about the circumference of the container with an inner surface contacting an exterior surface of the rear portion of the... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070229991 - Zoom lens lens-barrel and imaging apparatus: A zoom lens lens-barrel is capable of stabilizing movement of a lens holding frame along an optical axis, ensuring retraction of the lens-barrel into the main body, and reducing the size of the zoom lens lens-barrel. A zoom lens lens-barrel which supports at least one of a plurality of lenses... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070229992 - Reflection sheets: A reflection sheet includes a transparent substrate, a directional reflection layer formed on a first surface of the transparent substrate, and a shield reflection layer formed on the directional reflection layer. As light enters into the transparent substrate from a second surface of the transparent substrate, a first portion of... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070229993 - Compensating for a telescope's optical aberrations using a deformable mirror: An optical system and associated method are provided. Included is at least one telescope. Further provided is a deformable mirror operable to compensate for optical aberrations resulting from the telescope.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070229994 - Pointable optical system with coude optics having a short on-gimbal path length: A coude gimbal structure includes a two-axis gimbal system having an outer gimbal pivotable about a first rotational axis, and an inner gimbal supported on the outer gimbal and pivotable about a second rotational axis which intersects the first rotational axis at an intersection point. A folded afocal three-mirror anastigmat... Agent: Raytheon Company Intellectual Property & Licensing

20070229995 - Back chassis integrating reflector, back light and liquid crystal display: A modularized reflector is produced by integrating or laminating: a sheet metal back chassis in which a light source supporting section, a through-hole or a groove for extracting a light source electrode terminal, and a frame for supporting a light diffusing plate and an optical film are integrally formed through... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229996 - Color wheel and assembly method thereof: A color wheel including a first sheet, a second sheet, a ring filter and a motor is provided. The second sheet is disposed opposite to the first sheet, and has positioning pins. The ring filter is disposed between the first sheet and the second sheet, and has a plurality of... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.