Optical: systems and elements inventions 12/07

20070297030 - Holographic storage system based on common path interferometry: P

20070297031 - Optical pickup device: An optical pickup device includes a first semiconductor laser device, a second semiconductor laser device, a third semiconductor laser device, a first diffraction grating, a beam splitter, a quarter-wave plate, a collimator lens, a first polarization hologram device, a second polarization hologram device and a third polarization hologram device. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070297032 - Holographic storage system with single switch access: A holographic data storage system utilizing optic switches. The data storage system includes a holographic data storage media adapted to receive a data beam and a reference beam and store a data pattern associated with the data beam. The stored data pattern is expressed by a holographic representation corresponding to... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070297033 - Hybrid nonlinear optical conversion and optical parametric oscillation: A nonlinear frequency conversion system includes a first element including a first medium configured to perform type II birefringent phase matching (BPM) of a pump beam to provide corresponding seed beams having at least first and second polarization states. A second element includes a second medium configured to perform quasi... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070297034 - Optical logic devices having polarization-based logic level representation and method of designing the same: Apparatus and methods for implementing logical operations using polarization-based logic level representation is provided. An apparatus and method split an input polarized beam into a first beam and a second beam, wherein the first beam and the second beam have an identical or nearly identical relative polarization angle that equals... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070297035 - Light scanning apparatus, method of controlling the same and image forming apparatus equipped with the same: A light scanning apparatus makes a light beam scan along a main scanning direction on an effective scanning region which has a predetermined width. The apparatus comprises: a light source which emits the light beam; a deflector which includes an oscillation mirror which oscillates about an oscillatory axis which is... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070297036 - Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source, a light source driving unit that turns on the light source according to image information, a deflector that deflects and scans a light beam emitted from the light source according to sinusoidal vibration, and a scanning/imaging optical system that guides the light... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070297037 - Mems device having a recessed cavity and methods therefor: A microelectromechanical systems device having a transparent substrate joined to a planar backplate with a raised perimeter structure forming a recessed cavity or cell. The raised perimeter structure is formed by applying a first layer around the peripheral area of the backplate to form a recessed cell. A second layer... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070297040 - Display method, display medium, and display device: A predetermined image is displayed forming an electric field in an electrolytic layer comprising an electrolytic solution containing at least a metal ion, thereby, depositing the metal ion in the electrolytic solution layer as a polygonal metal particle.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070297039 - Electrophoretic display and manufacturing method thereof: An electrophoretic display includes a thin film transistor formed on an insulation substrate, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor, a partitioning wall partitioning the pixel electrode, an ink formed on the pixel electrode exposed between sections of the partitioning wall and in which an electrophoretic member... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070297038 - Electrophoretic display medium containing solvent resistant emulsion aggregation particles: An electrophoretic display medium includes one or more set of colored particles in a dielectric fluid, wherein at least one of the one or more set of particles comprise poly(meth)acrylate/hydrophilic monomer) emulsion aggregation polymer particles such as poly(methyl methacrylate/butyl acrylate/β-carboxyethylacrylate) emulsion aggregation polymer particles. The display medium is included in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070297041 - Movable lens beam steerer: Embodiments of a system are described herein, and include a controller, and an optoelectronic module coupled to the controller. The optoelectronic module has a substrate, and a stage having a lens. An electromechanical subsystem is coupled to the substrate and to the stage, to hold the stage in a suspended... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070297042 - Mems based retroreflector: A deformable reflective surface is disclosed that may be used with a retroreflector to provide a modulated retroreflector. The modulated retroreflector may be used in communication systems such as optical laser communication systems wherein an incident beam is reflected back to the source, as modulated by the modulated retroreflector. In... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070297044 - Method and apparatus for amplified spontaneous emission corrected automatic signal power control of an optical amplifier: An optical amplifier system and controller and a method for automatically controlling the usable signal power of an optical amplifier are provided. The method differentiates between the total optical power that includes the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), and the useful amplified optical signal power at the output of the amplifier.... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070297043 - Method and apparatus for monitoring optical signal-to-noise ratio: Optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring methods and apparatus are described. A tunable optical filter filters an optical channel containing an optical signal and noise. The total signal and noise power at the output of the filter is measured as the transmittance passband of the filter is varied and the maximum... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC - (lucent)

20070297045 - Light-emitting planar body-structured body: A light-emitting planar body-structured body characterized in that it comprises an LED (light-emitting diode) light source which radiates ultraviolet radiation or near ultraviolet radiation and a planar body provided disposed in front thereof, and that the planar body is a light-transmitting resin molding containing dispersed therein at least one type... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070297046 - Infrared reflecting device: The infrared reflecting device comprises a multi-layer infrared reflecting body composed of a plurality of superimposed infrared reflecting members, and temperature-sensitive members positioned surrounding the side faces of the multi-layer infrared reflecting body. The infrared reflecting member comprises colloidal crystal particles arrayed at regular lattice spacing, and a filler interposed... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070297047 - Projection optical system: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a projection optical system that projects an image of a pattern of a first object onto a second object includes a first image forming optical system, a second image forming optical system, and a light-shielding member. The first image forming optical system... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297048 - Fluorescence observation or fluorescence measuring system, and fluorescence observation or fluorescence measuring method:

20070297049 - Illumination device for microscopes: An illumination device for microscopes is detachably connected to the microscope and has at least one unconventional illumination source such as an LED, laser or the like. The microscope has an operating control for adjusting the brightness of the illumination, and the brightness of the unconventional illumination source is adjusted... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070297050 - Screen, rear projector, projection system, and image display unit: A screen that displays images as a result of receiving projection light, includes: a plurality of plate components that are optically transparent and are provided apart from each other; a scatterer that is placed in a light scattering space that is formed between the plurality of plate components, and is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070297051 - Total internal reflection fresnel lens systems, assemblies, and methods: Off-axis total internal reflection Fresnel lenses and projection screens are disclosed that, when combined, enable construction of projection assemblies for rear-projection-type screen devices (e.g., projection television systems) that are thinner, provide easier handling and maintenance, and have improved contrast, focusing, and resolution when compared with conventional projection screen devices. The... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070297052 - Cube wire-grid polarizing beam splitter: A cube wire-grid polarizing beam splitter includes a pair of prisms secured together to form a cube. An array of parallel conductive wires is disposed between the pair of prisms. A pair of continuous film layers is disposed on one side of the wires between the wires and one of... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070297053 - Universal broadband polarizer, devices incorporating same, and method of making same: A polarization dependent device suitable for effecting at least one polarization of a broadband portion of electromagnetic radiation incident upon the device is disclosed. This device includes a substrate, and a plurality of regions of differing refractive indices positioned in an alternating manner and substantially adjacent to the substrate to... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070297054 - Optical depolarizers and dgd generators based on optical delay: Techniques and devices for depolarizing light and producing a variable differential group delays in optical signals. In one implementation, an input optical beam is split into first and second beams with orthogonal polarizations. One or two optical reflectors are then used to cause the first and second optical beams to... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070297055 - Supporting mechanism: A supporting mechanism comprises a movable unit and a fixed unit. The movable unit is movable in a reference plane. The fixed unit has a rectangular frame that is connected with the movable unit, that is composed of strips perpendicular to the reference plane, and that is fixed to another... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070297056 - Light pipe for making an electronic display arrangement: The invention relates to a light pipe for use in particular in an electronic display arrangement, and designed to transmit light signals from one of its ends referred to as an entry surface to its other end referred to as an exit surface going towards the eye of a user... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070297057 - Diffractive optical element and optical system including the same: A diffractive optical element includes a plurality of diffraction gratings. A diffraction grating within the plurality of diffraction gratings includes a plurality of grating parts having a curved grating surface and grating tips which connect to define a curved envelope face. The grating surface has a radius of curvature larger... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297058 - Solar tracking reflector system for structure lighting: A solar tracking device is mounted above a skylight of a building. An array of mirrors is rotated at a rate of one revolution per day to reflect sunlight through the skylight. A control circuit intermittently adjusts the angular position of the tracking device so that the mirrors face the... Agent: Jerry Turner Sewell

20070297059 - Light regulating board for sun visor: A light regulating board includes base plate, and two opaque layers mounted on two opposite side faces of the base plate and each having a plurality of light permeable zones. Thus, the light regulating board is mounted in a car to isolate the light from the light source provide a... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20070297060 - Mastering tools and systems and methods for forming a plurality of cells on the mastering tools: Mastering tools and systems and methods for forming a plurality of cells on the mastering tools are provided. In particular, the systems vary the geometry of the cells or the placement of the cells, or both, for forming a textured surface on a mastering tool.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070297061 - Optical integrator, illuminator and projection type image display: In a projection type image display 50, LED's 51R, 51G and 51B are used as the light source so that the emitted light beam enters into an optical integrator 60. The optical integrator 60 is formed of four block materials 61 to 64 which are joined in the longitudinal direction,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070297063 - Injection molded microlenses for optical interconnects: Disclosed are a microlens array, and a method of positioning and aligning the microlens array on another device. Generally, the microlens array comprises an array of injection molded microlens elements, and a supporting flange. Each of the microlens elements has a generally spheroid or spherical shape, and the supporting flange... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070297062 - Integral optical plate, and backlight assembly and liquid crystal display apparatus having the same: An integral optical plate includes a convex lens plate, a microlens sheet and an adhesion element. The convex lens plate includes a first light incident surface into which light is incident and a first light-exiting surface disposed opposite the first light incident surface and on which a convex tens pattern... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070297064 - Display device: Even if a driver's seat use picture able to be seen from a driver and not able to be seen from a passenger's seat passenger and a passenger's seat use picture able to be seen from a passenger's seat passenger and not able to be seen from the driver are... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070297065 - Optical system and corresponding optical element: The invention relates to an optical system comprising: at least one source of illumination designed to produce an illuminating beam; and at least one imager able to produce an imaging beam when illuminated by the said illuminating beam; the said system being characterized in that it further comprises: collimating means... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20070297066 - Optical device vibrator: An optical device vibrator has a driving mechanism and a controller. The driving mechanism repeatedly changes position or angle of an optical device in predetermined cycles in order to vibrate the optical device. The controller controls driving of the driving mechanism and changes a setting for the position or angle... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070297067 - Large magnification factor zoom lens: This large magnification factor zoom lens includes, in an order arranged from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070297068 - Zoom lens, imaging device, and personal digital assistant: The invention provides a zoom lens capable of achieving a half angle of view over 38 degrees at the wide-angle end, a magnification ratio 6.5 to 10 or more, and a resolving power corresponding to an imaging element of 5 to 8 million pixels, with a configuration of as few... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070297069 - Lens optical system and photoelectric encoder: The present invention provides: a lens optical system having a lens and a plastic block having two parallel planes, the plastic block being provided between the lens and a focal position of the lens to suppress a variation of a focal length due to a temperature change, and a photoelectric... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070297070 - Projector: A projection lens barrel assembly comprises a rotatable cam barrel with cam slots and a restraining slot formed by cutting and a stationary lens barrel formed as a resin product made by injection molding. A restraining roller which is attached to the stationary lens barrel by a support shaft is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070297071 - Optical imaging device for a camera: The invention relates to an optical device for a photographic camera (2), such as a camera, cine-camera or a video camera. The imaging device is arranged in an optical path (3) between a lens (4) at the beginning of the optical path (3) and an image receiving device (5) of... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070297072 - Projection optical system, exposure apparatus, and exposure method: A projection objective includes at least four curved mirrors, which include a first curved mirror that is a most optically forward mirror and a second curved mirror that is a second most optically forward mirror, as defined along a light path. In addition, an intermediate lens element is disposed physically... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070297073 - 3d enhancement system for monitor: System for producing a simulated 3D image from a 2D image having a fresnel lens with two planes of curvature transverse to each other so as to create a substantially convex. The fresnel lens may be flexible and positioned within a mount configured with adjustable tensioning members so as to... Agent: Paul B. Overhauser Overhauser Law Offices, LLC

20070297074 - Replacement apparatus for an optical element: A replacement apparatus for an optical element mounted between two adjacent optical elements in a lithography objective has a holder for the optical element to be replaced, which holder can be moved into the lithography objective through a lateral opening in a housing of the same.... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070297075 - Vehicle accessory module: An accessory system for a vehicle includes an accessory module, at least one accessory and an attachment member at an interior surface of a vehicle windshield. The at least one accessory comprises a camera having a lens, with the camera being disposed in the accessory module, and the accessory module... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20070297076 - Display device: Disclosed is a display device. The display device includes first and second substrates facing each other, a sealant pattern including a first compound attaching the first and the second substrates together, and a separator pattern within the sealant pattern. The separator pattern includes a second compound chemically reacting with the... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070291340 - Method and device for manufacturing a hologram recording medium: Arrangements are made to enable different original images to be reproduced upon observation from different positions and yet enable reproduced images of high resolution to be obtained. In a case of recording two original images, each of the two original images Ia and Ib is defined as a set of... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070291341 - Decorative lighting apparatus: A decorative lighting apparatus includes a structure, a plurality of light emitting elements supported by the structure, and a diffractive surface. The diffractive surface is connected to the structure such that the plurality of light emitting elements is behind the diffractive surface. The plurality of light emitting elements is configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070291342 - Hologram recording method and hologram recording device: A hologram recording method for recording information of signal light as holograms in an optical recording medium, which includes illuminating signal light at the optical recording medium; illuminating reference light at the optical recording medium simultaneously with the signal light such that an interference pattern is formed by the signal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070291339 - Authenticity indicator: An authenticity indicator that is difficult to be forged and whose authenticity can be confirmed easily and accurately is provided. The authenticity of the authenticity indicator 10 can be checked by making light enter the authenticity indicator 10 from front side and observing the light emerging from the front side... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070291343 - Oscillator device, optical deflector and optical instrument using the same: An oscillator device and a method of producing the same, that enables adjustment of an inertia moment or a gravity center position of an oscillating member through wide range and at high speed, wherein the oscillating member oscillates about an oscillation axis 17 and it includes a movable element 11... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070291344 - Optical system for image projection and image projection apparatus: An optical system for image projection is disclosed which is easy to be manufactured and designed and capable of projecting a bright image with high contrast. The optical system includes an illumination optical system introducing a luminous flux emitted from a light source to an image-forming element through an optical... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070291345 - Oriented polymeric sheets exhibiting dichroism and articles containing the same: Provided is an oriented polymeric sheet comprising a photochromic-dichroic material, wherein the sheet exhibits dichroism in an activated state. Also provided is a multilayer composite comprising at least a support layer; and an oriented thermoplastic polymeric sheet having two opposing surfaces and comprising a photochromic-dichroic material. The sheet exhibits dichroism... Agent: Deborah M. Altman Ppg Industries, Inc.

20070291346 - Optical device using polarized variable element: An optical device using an electro-optical element is of great utility value to industry, owing to its fast responsiveness and the like. Prior art has problems such as high cost due to a large number of parts, large device size, and high drive voltage, and it has been a challenge... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070291347 - Area array modulation and lead reduction in interferometric modulators: A light modulator is arranged as an array of rows and columns of interferometric display elements. Each element is divided into sub-rows of sub-elements. Array connection lines transmit operating signals to the display elements, with one connection line corresponding to one row of display elements in the array. Sub-array connection... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070291348 - Tracing method and apparatus: In a tracing method in which tracing is performed by moving a plurality of tracing heads, each including a spatial optical modulation device and an optics system, in a predetermined direction relative to a tracing surface, changes in the relative positional relationship of the tracing heads arising from changes in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070291350 - Drive laser for euv light source: A laser light source is disclosed having a laser oscillator producing an output beam; a first amplifier amplifying the output beam to produce a first amplified beam, and a second amplifier amplifying the first amplified beam to produce a second amplified beam. For the source, the first amplifier may have... Agent: Matthew K. Hillman Cymer, Inc., Legal Dept.

20070291349 - Method, apparatus and system for cost effective optical transmission with fast raman tilt transient control: A method for cost-effective optical transmission with fast Raman tilt or other transient event control uses a combination of Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and Raman fiber amplifiers (RFAs), where EDFAs are used as the primary optical amplifiers to compensate the span loss while the RFA (advantageously a forward-pumped RFA) is... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070291351 - Method, apparatus and system for cost effective optical transmission with fast raman tilt transient control: A method for cost-effective optical transmission with fast Raman tilt or other transient event control uses a combination of Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and Raman fiber amplifiers (RFAs), where EDFAs are used as the primary optical amplifiers to compensate the span loss while the RFA (advantageously a forward-pumped RFA) is... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070291352 - Monitoring device and stage unit: This invention relates to a monitoring device used as a microscope, physiochemical device, medical appliance, or the like, and prevents comparatively easily a defocus of a monitored object caused by a thermal strain of a stage unit on which the monitored object is placed. According to this invention, the stage... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070291353 - Super-resolution microscope: where λp is the wavelength of the first coherent light, λe is the wavelength of the second coherent light, τ is the excited lifetime in which the molecule is excited by the first coherent light from the ground state to the first electron-excited state, Ip is the maximum photon flux... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070291354 - Observation apparatus having thermoregulation mechanism: An observation apparatus comprises a thermoregulation mechanism including a liquid receiving frame (28) that has a heater (43) for heating the outer frame of an immersion objective lens (13) and adapted to heat and maintain the temperature of the immersion liquid (30) contained in the frame (28) by means of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070291355 - Image display apparatus, head-mounted display, and optical axis adjustment method: At least one of right and left image display apparatuses is provided with an optical axis adjustment mechanism. The optical axis adjustment mechanism changes relative positional relationship between an image displayed on a display device and an ocular optical system in a direction intersecting an optical axis to thereby adjust... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070291356 - Polarization separating film and backlight unit including the same: A polarization separating film and a backlight unit including the same are provided. The polarization separating film includes a first layer including an entry surface through which light is incident, and formed of optically isotropic materials, a second layer formed on the first layer and formed of optically anisotropic materials,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070291357 - Laminated half-wave plate, polarizing converter, polarized light illumination device and light pickup device: [Solving Means] A first and a second wave plates using quartz crystal having birefringence are laminated together in such a manner that their optical axes intersect to form a laminated wave plate functioning as a half-wave plate as a whole. Phase differences of the first and the second wave plates... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070291358 - Multi-stage optical isolator: A double stage isolator is formed of a face-to-face slabs or sheets of materials that will suitably split, combine, non-reciprocally rotate to ensure isolation in a reverse direction from output ports to respective input ports of any light launched into the input ports. A right angled Porro-prism is disposed at... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20070291359 - Optical element and image projection apparatus: An optical element is disclosed which includes a multilayer film having a light-transmission function for light in the entire wavelength range impinging thereon at a predetermined incident angle and a polarization splitting function for S-polarized light and P-polarized light impinging thereon at another incident angle. The optical element includes two... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070291360 - Device and method for examining chemical and/or biological samples, and objective cap: A device for examining chemical and/or biological samples comprises a sample carrier for receiving the samples. The sample carrier comprises a sample carrier wall through which a sample is examined with the aid of an objective. The objective comprises an exit lens which defines a gap towards an outer surface... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20070291361 - Lens housing with integrated thermal management: An optical receiver is provided, which includes a housing, an objective lens situated in the housing, a solid immersion lens (SIL) mounted onto the housing, and thermal management element affixed to the housing to control the temperature of the SIL. The thermal management element may be a coolant conduit, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070291362 - Optically variable device with diffraction-based micro-optics, method of creating the same, and article employing the same: A security device includes an optically variable device (OVD) having diffraction-based micro-optics including at least one moiré magnified visual representation of a micro-object. A diffractive structure provides micro-objects with unique optical effects when the OVD is viewed through the micro-object structure from a predetermined relative observation point. In addition to... Agent: Grant E. Coffield Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070291363 - Optical film: An optical film including: a transparent support; at least one hardcoat layer containing a light-transparent resin; and at least one light-transparent organic resin particle, wherein the light-transparent organic resin particle has a refractive index being higher than a refractive index of the hardcoat layer, and a difference between the refractive... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070291364 - Optical module and method of packaging the same: An optical module is configured with a combination of a single-mode oscillating light source and an optical filter. In this optical module, the single-mode oscillating light source outputs a single-mode, frequency-modulated signal. Further, the optical filter converts the frequency modulation to an amplitude modulation. And, the single-mode oscillating light source... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070291365 - Optical system with wavelength selecting device: The object is to provide an optical system with a wavelength selecting device. According to one aspect of the present invention, an optical system with a wavelength selecting device includes, in order from an object along an optical axis, an objective optical system composed of optical elements having refractive power... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070291366 - Anisotropic diffusing medium: An anisotropic diffusing medium in which an amount of transmitted light varies greatly depending on incident angle is provided. An anisotropic diffusing medium of the present invention includes a resin layer of cured material including at least a fluorine-containing photocurable compound and a fluorine-free photocurable compound, and an amount of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070291367 - Hard-coated antiglare film, and polarizing plate and image display including the same: A hard-coated antiglare film is provided that is excellent in antiglare properties and image sharpness and that can prevent glare from occurring. The hard-coated antiglare film includes a transparent plastic film substrate and a hard-coating antiglare layer that is formed on at least one surface of the transparent plastic film... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070291368 - Light source apparatus and display apparatus: A light source apparatus is provided. The light source apparatus includes: a light-emitting portion; a light-guiding plate having the light-emitting portion disposed at a side surface thereof, light beams being emitted from a top surface of the light-guiding plate; and a light path converting sheet above the light-guiding plate, formed... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070291369 - Optical element, lighting device, and liquid crystal display device: A light-diffusing member made of an optically transparent material has a light-emitting surface that emits light while diffusing it. The light-emitting surface has a plurality of parallel elongated lens surfaces arranged side-by-side in a row thereon. The elongated lens surfaces each have a convexly arcuate cross-section. The height of the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070291370 - Method for forming finely-structured parts, finely-structured parts formed thereby, and product using such finely-structured part: In a formation method for forming a fine structure in a workpiece (30) containing an etching control component, using an isotropic etching process, a mask (32, 34) having an opening (36) is applied to the workpiece, and the workpiece is etched with an etching solution (38) to thereby form a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070291371 - Synergetically enhanced multiple-layer optical film and process thereof: A multiple-layer optical film comprises: a supporting layer; a printable intermediate thin layer formed on the supporting layer; and an upper structured-surface or upper prismatic layer formed on the printable intermediate layer. The intermediate thin layer is imprinted with a plurality of notches recessed in the intermediate thin layer to... Agent: Ching-bin Lin

20070291372 - System and method to form unpolarized light: A system and method are used to form an unpolarized light beam from a polarized light beam. A system comprises a source of radiation and a unpolarizing system. The source of radiation produces a linear polarized beam. The unpolarizing system has first and second optical paths and splits the linear... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070291373 - Coupling devices and methods for laser emitters: Embodiments include methods and devices for coupling light energy from laser emitters having a high spectral brightness and purity that may be used for a variety of purposes including the pumping of various laser gain materials.... Agent: Grant Anderson LLP C/o Portfolioip

20070291374 - Dual field of view lens system: A dual field of view lens system comprising a first lens group aligned along an optical axis and a third lens group aligned along the optical axis and positioned a predetermined distanced from the first lens group. A second lens group, having an optical stop attached thereto, is aligned along... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070291376 - Imaging lens: where f represents a focal distance of the imaging lens; D2 represents an air interval between the first lens and second lens along an optical axis of the imaging lens; and TL represents a distance (along the optical axis) from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070291375 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus: A zoom lens includes: a front group including a plurality of movable lens groups; and a rear group that is provided on an image side of the front group and that includes a negative lens and a positive lens. The positive lens has a flat lens surface on its image... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070291377 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus including the same: A compact zoom lens system having excellent optical performance. The zoom lens system includes a first lens unit of negative optical power, a second lens unit of positive optical power, a third lens unit of positive optical power, and an F-number defining member. The second lens unit is disposed on... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070291378 - Opto-ceramics made from in2o3 or oxides of y, lu, sc, yb, in, gd and la, optical elements made therefrom, and mapping optics including the optical elements: The opto-ceramics and optical elements of the present invention are transmissive to visible light and/or to infrared radiation. They consist of a crystal combination in which individual crystallites have a cubic structure of the type Y2O3 and are made from In2O3 or a mixture of oxides of the type X2O3... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070291379 - Laser machine monitoring: A laser processing machine head, a laser processing machine head monitoring system, and a method of monitoring an optical element of a laser processing machine feature a light-transmissive optical element and an optical element holder defining a cavity in which the optical element is retained against rotation. A light source... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070291380 - Lens-barrel and image pickup apparatus: Flow path (70) is provided at a position (A) where a first fixed lens frame (22) faces a movable lens frame (32) and a position (B) where the movable lens frame (32) faces the first fixed lens frame (22) so that air flow resistance can be generated when the air... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070291381 - First surface mirror with chromium nitride layer: A mirror (e.g., first surface mirror) is provided with a layer of or including chromium nitride (CrNx). In certain example embodiments, the CrNx layer may be the primary reflective layer of the mirror. Surprisingly and unexpectedly, it has been found the addition of nitrogen to the chromium to form CrNx... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070291382 - Mirror mounting structures and methods employing shape memory materials for limited rotation motors and scanners: A mirror mounting assembly is disclosed for use in a limited rotation motor system. The mirror mounting assembly includes a collar formed of a shape memory material and a mounting unit including a tapered base that couples with a tapered output shaft of a limited rotation motor under a radial... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070291383 - Rearview assemblies incorporating hands-free telephone components: The rearview assembly of the present invention may include any one or more of the following: a housing for attaching to the vehicle, the housing may define an interior space that is acoustically separated into at least two chambers; a first speaker that may be located in a first one... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt, & Litton, LLP/gentex Corporation

20070291384 - Method of making reflector for solar collector or the like, and corresponding product, including reflective coating designed for improved adherence to laminating layer: A reflector (e.g., mirror) for use in a solar collector or the like is provided. In certain example embodiments of this invention, a reflector is made performing at least the following steps: (a) forming a reflective coating on a flat glass substrate, (b) cold-bending the glass substrate with the reflective... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070291385 - Color filter substrate for liquid crystal display device and method for fabricating the same: A color filter substrate for a liquid crystal display device and a method of fabricating the same includes black matrixes on a transparent insulating substrate, the black matrixes defining pixel areas and having a first region and a second region, color filters in the pixel areas and having areas overlapping... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070291386 - Light absorbing antireflection structure, optical unit and lens barrel unit including the light absorbing antireflection structure, and optical device including the optical unit and the lens barrel unit: An inner circumference surface of a lens barrel is formed so as to be a rough surface having a larger surface roughness than a wavelength of incident light and a plurality of fine concave/convex portions are regularly arranged within a cycle equal to or larger than the incident light.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070285751 - Optical information processing apparatus and optical information recording and reproducing methods: An optical information processing apparatus includes: a light source; a reference beam guiding optical system guiding a reproducing reference beam emitted from the light source to an optical information storage medium in which optical information is recorded at multiplexing angles; a signal beam guiding optical system guiding a reproduced signal... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070285746 - Holographic or diffraction device: A holographic or diffraction device responsive to interrogation, the device comprising an image-former and an image-concealer; wherein the image-former is adapted such that light reflected from or transmitted through it forms at least one image; wherein the image-concealer acts to attenuate the image; and wherein the attenuation of the image... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070285747 - Hologram sheet and method for producing same, hologram sticker, hologram card and method for producing same: A hologram sheet includes a sheet 1 and a translucent DLC film 2 formed on the sheet 1. The DLC film 2 includes a local region having a higher refractive index (high-refractive-index regions 2a) and a local region having a lower refractive index (low-refractive-index regions 2b). Furthermore, a print layer... Agent: Venable LLP

20070285748 - 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

20070285749 - 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

20070285750 - 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

20070285752 - Image combiner and image display device: The present invention aims to provide an image combiner and an image display device which can easily have a wide field of view and reduce a thickness of a substrate while reducing loss of light intensity by means of a PBS. An image combiner includes a substrate transparent to visible... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070285753 - Systems and methods for producing wide field-of-view holographic displays: Hologram recording devices and techniques can be employed to produce wide field-of-view holograms. In one embodiment, a specialized lens is used to couple an object beam into a holographic recording material without substantially changing the angle of incidence of the object beam. When displayed, images from holograms recorded using technique... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070285754 - Scanning apparatuses and related methods capable of locating object to be scanned: Scanning apparatuses and related methods capable of locating object to be scanned are disclosed. One of the proposed scanning apparatuses includes: a tray for supporting objects to be scanned, wherein the tray is provided with a machine detectable mechanism; a detecting module for detecting a pattern of the machine detectable... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070285755 - Scanning optical system, image formation apparatus including the scanning optical system, and imaging optical system used in the scanning optical system: A scanning optical system includes a deflector for deflecting a laser light flux from a light source and a second imaging optical system for focusing the laser light flux deflected by the deflector on a target scanning surface. The second imaging optical system has at least one optical function surface... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070285756 - Plurality of hidden hinges for mircromirror device: A mirror device comprises plural mirror elements, each of which comprises a mirror for reflecting illumination light emitted from a light source, a hinge for supporting the mirror placed on a substrate, a hinge structural body for supporting the hinge, and electrodes for controlling a deflection direction of the mirror... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20070285757 - Yokeless hidden hinge digital micromirror device: A micromirror array 110 fabricated on a semiconductor substrate 11. The array 110 is comprised of three operating layers 12, 13, 14. An addressing layer 12 is fabricated on the substrate. A hinge layer 13 is spaced above the addressing layer 12 by an air gap. A mirror layer 14... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070285758 - Medical apparatus with light flux for biological treatments: The invention refers to a medical apparatus with light flux for biological treatments, which uses the effects of an electromagnetic radiation pencil for obtaining modifications at atomic level, which can be used for treating and ameliorating some diseases. The apparatus is designed for degenerative energetic-diseases, specific to our living in... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070285759 - Variable transmission window system: An electrical control system is disclosed for controlling a plurality of variable transmittance windows. The electrical control system comprises a master control circuit and user input circuits for supplying control signals representing transmittance levels for the variable transmission windows, and a plurality of slave window control circuits coupled to the... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt, & Litton, LLP/gentex Corporation

20070285760 - Concave and convex micromirrors and methods of making the same: A method comprising providing a first substrate and forming a first sacrificial layer over the first substrate, the first sacrificial layer comprising a curved surface portion, and forming a curved micromirror by depositing a reflective material over at the curved surface portion.... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070285761 - Mems device with integrated optical element: MEMS devices are fabricated by a method that involves forming an optical element (e.g., etalon) over a substrate and then forming a light modulating element (e.g., interferometric modulator) over the optical element. In an embodiment, a support structure for the light modulating element is aligned with the underlying optical element... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070285762 - Techniques for using chirped fields to reconfigure a medium that stores spectral features: The term hbar is reduced Plank's constant, ln is a natural logarithm function, and π is a ratio of a circumference of a circle to a diameter of the circle. For ε<<1, the atomic-state populations in the two states are inverted. For ε=1, prior atomic-state populations are erased, with final... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20070285763 - Electro-optic gain ceramic and lossless devices: The present invention provides a neodymium doped, transparent electro-optic gain ceramic material consisting lead, zirconium, titanium and lanthanum. The electro-optic gain ceramic material either has a linear electro-optic coefficient or a quadratic electro-optic coefficient, which is greater than about 0.3×10−16 m2/V2 for the latter, a propagation loss of less than... Agent: Yingyin Zou

20070285764 - Counter-pumped distributed raman amplification in wavelength division multiplex optical communication systems: A Raman pump module for generating pump radiation having a pump wavelength (λp) for coupling into a transmission fiber of an optical wavelength division multiplex (WDM) communication system to provide Raman amplification of WDM radiation counter propagating therethrough is disclosed. The pump module is for use in a communications system... Agent: Kirschstein Ottinger Israel & Schiffmiller

20070285765 - Broadband hybrid two-stage optical amplifier: An optical amplifier is disclosed having a relatively high gain and low noise figure across the broadband wavelength range. In an exemplary embodiment, the optical amplifier comprises an optical fiber including a core doped with a fluorescent material, the optical amplifier having an associated first noise figure. The optical amplifier... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070285766 - Optical filter for flash lamps in pulsed thermal imaging: An optical filter made from a borosilicate optical material is provided for flash lamps used in pulsed thermal imaging. The filter substantially eliminates the infrared radiation from flash lamps to allow for accurate detection of surface temperature during entire pulsed thermal imaging tests.... Agent: Joan Pennington

20070285767 - Catadioptric imaging system with beam splitter: A catadioptric imaging system for imaging an on-axis object field arranged in an object surface of the imaging system onto an on-axis image field arranged in an image surface of the imaging system while creating at least one intermediate image has at least two imaging subsystems concatenated at an intermediate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070285768 - Microscope system and method for synthesizing microscopic images: An obtainment unit obtains microscopic images in a time series obtained by picking up images of a specimen as a motion image and also obtains microscope information that is information correlated with each of the microscopic images and the information that indicates an observation state of the microscope when the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070285769 - Microscope system and method for synthesizing microscopic images: An observation state obtainment unit obtains an observation state of a microscope at the time of obtaining the microscopic image of a specimen obtained by using the microscope. A motion image data generation unit generates data of a motion image from the microscopic images of a time series. A correlation... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070285770 - Microscope with illuminating device: The present invention relates to a microscope (100) having an illumination unit (4) for generating an illumination beam path (4b, 4a), the microscope (100) comprising a main objective (2) that defines an observation beam path (17a) and comprising at least one deflection element (5, 6, 7) for deflecting the observation... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20070285771 - Endoscope system: Observation using a plurality of types of light having different spectrum characteristics is enabled while reducing the diameter of an insertion section of an endoscope, acquisition of a plurality of types of image which is applied with arithmetic processing with respect to each other and is displayed in a superimposed... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070285772 - Low-profile optical mounting assembly: In an ocular support assembly material present in the forward-looking cross-section of the outwardly extending support arms is removed, thereby reducing visual obscuration and enhancing peripheral vision. In the preferred embodiment, the top of each outwardly extending support arm is at or below the middle of the height of the... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070285773 - Fresnel lens, prism array, rear projection display apparatus, and illuminating apparatus: A Fresnel lens is provided. The Fresnel lens includes a plurality of prisms arrayed on an incident surface side thereof, the prisms refracting light incident on a refractive surface, and reflecting the light refracted thereon on the reflective surface to be directed to an exit surface side, in which at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285774 - Augmenting brightness performance of a beam-splitter in a stereoscopic display: An apparatus and method is disclosed for increasing the light output of a stereoscopic three-dimensional display system by reducing the light losses typically present when using a conventional beam-combining half-mirror, i.e. a beam splitting device (BSD). The separate outputs of two LCD monitors are optically superimposed, one for the left... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP - Boeing

20070285775 - Re-writeable optical element and a display, reflector and backlight incorporating the same: An optical element (22) comprises a material (27) thermally switchable between a first stable state and a second stable state different from the first state and a switching mechanism (28a-28c) for switching one or more selected areas of the material (27) between the first state and the second state thereby... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070285776 - Anti-reflection film: An anti-reflection film having a hard coat layer attaining both improvement in resistance to unevenness in interference under an artificial light source and solution to handling problems such as curling and brittleness and sufficient anti-reflection properties, scratch resistance and productivity is provided. The anti-reflection film includes a transparent support, a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070285777 - Deflecting plate and liquid crystal display device: The present invention provides a polarizer plate including at least a protective layer A, a polarizer, and a protective layer B in that order, the protective layer A including at least layers a and b respectively including a thermoplastic resin as a main component, the layer a having a flexural... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070285778 - Optical films comprising high refractive index and antireflective coatings: Reflective polarizing films and brightness enhancing films comprising a preferably durable antireflective film.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070285779 - Optical films comprising high refractive index and antireflective coatings: Reflective polarizing films comprising a preferably durable high refractive index layer.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070285780 - Projection type image display device: Both ends of a transparent cover which is formed of a curved member are fitted to a lens guard and a mirror guard, and a free-shaped surface mirror and a free-shaped surface lens are housed in a sealed space defined within a projection type image display device.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070285781 - Beam shaping optical system and optical system of laser beam printer: There is provided an axially asymmetric beam shaping optical system causing no astigmatism for variation in refractive index incident to an external cause, e.g. variation in wavelength of a light source or variation in ambient temperature. The system has a diffraction grating plane as follows. Assuming the optical axis is... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070285782 - Zero order pigments (zop): One or more zero-order diffractive pigments (ZOP) having both a particle distribution matrix material, and a layer of material in or on such a matrix material and having an index of refraction higher than that of the matrix material, and having a diffractive grating structure with a period in the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070285783 - Spectral apparatus and wavelength dispersion control apparatus: The invention provides a spectral apparatus capable of making the passing wavelength of VIPA board variable easily and at high speed. For this purpose, the apparatus of the invention includes an optical component having two opposing parallel reflection surfaces, for receiving the light focused in one-dimensional direction between the reflection... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070285784 - Antireflection structure and optical device including the same: A diffusing plate has a surface including a plurality of fine concave/convex portions regularly arranged within a cycle equal to or smaller than a predetermined wavelength. The surface has a larger surface roughness than the predetermined wavelength. An average value for an angle between a normal vector of the tangent... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070285785 - Multiple-layer optical film having light concentrating and diffusing functions: A multiple-layer optical film comprising: a transparent base layer, a diffusion layer formed on the base layer, and an upper prismatic layer formed on the diffusion layer having a plurality of root portions protruding downwardly from the upper prismatic layer to be respectively engaged with a plurality of recesses as... Agent: Ching-bin Lin

20070285786 - Reflective screens: This invention discloses a projection screen including a diffusion layer, a cap layer, an interference layer and an absorption layer. The projection screen of this invention is based on the concept of inverse reflection. The interference filter includes a plurality of high and low refractive index layers, both of which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070285788 - Anti-glare device and method for making the same: An anti-glare device includes a transparent anti-glare film incorporating a plurality of water-soluble scattering particles distributed therein. A method for making the anti-glare device includes the steps of: a) mixing a transparent resin solution with an aqueous solution of water-soluble colloid to form an emulsion containing a plurality of water-soluble... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C

20070285787 - Optical limiter having trimetallic nitride endohedral metallofullerence films: An exemplary optical limiter device (100) has an optically transmissive substrate (102) and a layer (104) on a first surface (106) of the substrate, the layer having a trimetallic nitride endohedral metallofullerene. The layer can be a thin film of the trimetallic nitride endohedral metallofullerene, a layer material with a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070285789 - Mirror assembly: An interior rearview mirror assembly includes a human machine interface having at least one user actuatable input accessible at a portion of the mirror casing. The user actuatable input provides user input to at least one element of circuitry that is disposed in the mirror casing, the interior rearview mirror... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20070285790 - Display panel: A display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes an upper substrate through which light used for an image display passes and a plurality of light guides collecting and emitting the light transmitted through the upper substrate. The display panel may further include anti-reflective part, EMI shielding part, infrared filtering... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070285791 - Aerial display system with low cost plastic spherical mirror: An aerial display system comprising inexpensive optical elements and a highly brightened LCD display or similar video image display types provides floating images in an expensive enclosure. In the aerial display system, either an anti-reflective acrylic plastic layer or a circular polarizer is disposed proximate and parallel to a beam... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070285792 - Packaging system providing spatial or focusing gaps between lenticular lenses and paired interlaced images: A packaged container for producing a graphical image. The packaged container includes a container having a side wall defining an interior space and a recessed surface. An interlaced image is provided on the recessed surface, and the packaged container includes a lens element positioned on the side wall to extend... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070285795 - Head-mounted display and image adjustment method for the same: A head mounted display includes two imaging apparatuses and at least one optical compensator. The imaging apparatuses can form two virtual images respectively in front of two eyes of a user. The optical compensator can modulate wavefront of the image beams of the virtual images so as to adjust the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070285794 - Combined image transmitting system for a motor vehicle: A motor vehicle instrument cluster includes an instrument panel in two parts at least arranged on either side of a semi-reflecting window and respectively generally at right-angles and generally parallel to the axis of vision.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070285793 - Method and device for generating retinal images using the stigmatism of the two foci of a substantially elliptical sight: A method for generating retinal images using the stigmatism of the two foci (F, F′) of a substantially elliptical sight (E) with a semi-reflective surface, wherein a so-called object focus consisting of the diaphragm of a pinhole disc forming the convergence point of an image generated by a light-emitting display... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070285796 - Ultra-bright light engine for projection displays: A projector incorporating a prism and a plurality of light valves for modulating light that passes though the prism, wherein the color splitting-converging prism includes a dichroic coating having multiple layers of high and low index of refraction and ¼ wavelength thickness at each desired angle of incidence for reducing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070285797 - Imaging apparatus: Various light converging methods and apparatuses for imaging, viewing and/or projecting images/radiation are shown and described herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20070285798 - Off-axis projection optics and extreme ultraviolet lithograhy apparatus employing the same: r

20070285799 - Materials and methods for producing lenses: The subject invention provides methods for creating wavefront aberrators with a desired refractive index profile that is stable against thermal and/or solar exposure. The invention further provides wavefront aberrators produced according to the methods described herein.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070285800 - Zoom lens system, imaging apparatus and method for varying focal length: A zoom lens system having higher optical performance, a wide angle of view, a high zoom ratio, and compactness include, in order from an object, a first group having negative power, a second group having positive power, and a third group having positive power. At least the first and second... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070285802 - Zoom lens and image projection apparatus having same: A zoom lens telecentric on a reduction side includes a first negative lens, a second negative lens and a first positive lens arranged from the enlargement side to the reduction side. At least one of the first and second negative lenses has an aspherical surface. The zoom lens satisfies −f12/fw<1.4,... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070285801 - Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera: The zoom lens system is used for forming an optical image of an object with a variable magnification, and, in order from the object side, comprises a first lens unit G1 of negative optical power, a second lens unit G2 of positive optical power and a third lens unit G3... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070285803 - Electromagnetic/optical tweezers using a full 3d negative-refraction flat lens: Described herein are electromagnetic traps or tweezers. Desired results are achieved by combining two recently developed techniques, 3D negative refraction flat lenses (3DNRFLs) and optical tweezers. The very unique advantages of using 3DNRFLs for electromagnetic traps have been demonstrated. Super-resolution and short focal distance of the flat lens result in... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070285804 - Lenticular display system with a lens sheet spaced apart from a paired interlaced image: A packaged container for producing a graphical image. The packaged container includes a container having a side wall defining an interior space and a recessed surface. An interlaced image is provided on the recessed surface, and the packaged container includes a lens element positioned on the side wall to extend... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070285805 - Dual field of view lens system: A dual field of view lens system comprising a first lens group aligned along an optical axis and a third lens group aligned along the optical axis and positioned a predetermined distance from the first lens group. A second lens group, having an optical stop attached thereto, is aligned along... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20070285806 - Mirror system for a trucking rig having a tractor and an articulated trailer: A mirror system for a tractor with an articulated trailer includes a mirror housing. The mirror housing is attached to the front end of the tractor on the passenger side. The mirror housing has a planar mirror. The planar mirror is adapted to move. The planar mirror moves allowing continuous... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070285808 - Mirror system for a trucking rig having a tractor and an articulated trailer: A mirror system for a tractor with an articulated trailer includes a mirror housing. The mirror housing is attached to the front end of the tractor on the passenger side. The mirror housing has a planar mirror. The planar mirror is adapted to move. The planar mirror moves allowing continuous... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070285807 - Frameless modular trailer: A frameless modular trailer for towing behind a motor vehicle is provided. The trailer is made of slidably coupled extrusions for easy assembly. The front and side panels include a protrusion on the top surface. This protrusion allows for the stacking of additional panels for vary the height of the... Agent: Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.c.

20070285809 - Apparatus, method and computer product for generating vehicle image: A recognition device includes a component identifying unit, an identification-region defining unit, a vehicle-image generating unit, and a data reduction-level setting unit. The component identifying unit identifies a component of a vehicle in an original image. The identification-region defining unit defines an identification region including an identification component for identifying... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070285810 - Device and system for display of information, and vehicle equipped with such a system: A device is disclosed for displaying information in a vehicle. The device includes a unit for creating a real image containing information relevant to a driver, to be reflected in a reflective viewing surface located directly above the field of vision actively used by the driver to survey the traffic... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070285811 - Aspheric mirror, projection-type image displaying apparatus and method of producing projection-type image displaying apparatus: An aspheric mirror has an aspheric reflective surface symmetrical with respect to an optical axis that goes through the reflective surface and a reference plane provided in the reflective surface. The optical axis may go through the reflective surface at a non-center position on the reflective surface. The reference plane... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20070285812 - Vehicular mirror actuator with single motor actuation and inboard center of gravity and vehicular mirror incorporating the same: A rearview mirror tilt actuator comprises a clutch assembly that selectively transfers torque from an actuator motor to one of at least two output shafts based upon the speed of the motor. One output shaft can pivot the mirror about a first axis of rotation; another output shaft can pivot... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20070285813 - Adjustable pinhole: An adjustable pinhole, in particular for a beam path for illumination and/or detection in a laser-scanning microscope. The pinhole consists of at least two planar basic modules, which have frame-like joints, on which at least one sharp edge is arranged in a displaceable manner in one direction, whereby the basic... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070279718 - Reflective features with co-planar elements and processes for making them: The invention relates to a reflective feature, e.g., reflective security feature or reflective decorative feature, comprising a first element at least partially coplanar with a second element. The first element causes incident light to be reflected with a first intensity that varies as the angle of incidence changes relative to... Agent: Jaimes Sher, Esq. Cabot Corporation

20070279719 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus provided with the same: An optical scanning device has a light source for irradiating a beam; a scanning optical system for allowing the beam to deflectively scan a scanned surface; and a housing for supporting the light source and the scanning optical system. The housing includes opposed facing first and second side surfaces. A... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070279720 - Optical deflector and optical instrument using the same: An optical deflector includes a supporting member, a first movable element having a light deflecting element, at least one second movable element, at least one first torsion spring configured to support the first and second movable elements, for torsional oscillation about an oscillation axis, at least one second torsion spring... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070279721 - Linear optical scanner: A device for linear scanning includes a roof prism. The roof prism includes a roof of two mutually perpendicular reflecting surfaces intersecting in a line of intersection. A scanning mechanism moves the roof prism in a direction perpendicular to a plane of bilateral symmetry. The line of intersection is included... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070279722 - Arrangement for and method of projecting an image with pixel mapping: A laser beam is swept by a scan mirror as a pattern of scan lines on a projection surface. The scan mirror moves at a variable speed along each scan line. Each scan line has a number of pixels. The pixels have time durations proportional to the variable speed of... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070279723 - Optical scanner, image forming device, optical scanning method: An optical scanner comprising: a polygon mirror 80; a pre-deflection optical system 7; and a post-deflection optical system A, wherein the post-deflection optical system A includes a common optical element having a smooth surface acting on all the light fluxes reflected and deflected by each of the plurality of reflecting... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070279724 - Optical scanner, optical scanning method: An optical scanner comprising: a plurality of the light sources that are allocated in positions different from one another in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main-scanning direction; a pre-deflection optical system 7; and a polygon mirror 80 that scans the light flux shaped in the pre-deflection optical system in... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070279725 - Optical deflector and optical instrument using the same: An optical deflector includes an oscillating system and a driving system for driving the oscillating system, the oscillating system including a first oscillator, a first torsion spring, a second oscillator, a second torsion spring and a supporting member, the first oscillator including a first movable element having a light deflecting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070279726 - Optical deflector and optical instrument using the same: An optical deflector arranged to be relatively stably driven regardless of any environmental disturbance such as temperature, includes an oscillating system 160 having plural natural oscillation modes of different frequencies, a driving unit for driving the oscillating unit, and a drive control unit for supplying a driving signal to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070279727 - Display apparatus with optical cavities: A display includes an array of light modulators that define a display plane, a light guide and front- and rear-facing reflective surfaces. The light guide includes a plurality of geometric light redirectors, and at least 50% of the light guide's rear surface is parallel to the display plane. The rear-facing... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20070279728 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an optical sheet for uniformly diffusing light toward a light-emitting face, and a resin frame onto which the optical sheet is attached. The optical sheet has the first fixing portion or the second fixing portion. The optical sheet is attached to the resin frame... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070279729 - Analog interferometric modulator device with electrostatic actuation and release: A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device includes a first electrode, a second electrode electrically insulated from the first electrode, and a third electrode electrically insulated from the first electrode and the second electrode. The MEMS device also includes a support structure which separates the first electrode from the second electrode and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070279731 - Light wave front construction: A method for producing a 3D image includes providing a pixel-by-pixel map over a preselected aperture of relative phases for coherent light scattered by or transmitted through a desired scene. The method includes positioning micro-mirrors of a reconfigurable mirror array to produce reflected light whose wave front has the pixel-by-pixel... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc., Docket Administrator-room 3j-219

20070279732 - Shape-variable optical element, optical device and image pickup apparatus: A shape-variable optical element, which includes: a shape-variable section made up of an organic material that can be expanded and contracted by an electric field, in a direction of the electric field; and a pair of electrode layers to sandwich the shape-variable section, wherein amounts of expansion and contraction of... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070279730 - Process and structure for fabrication of mems device having isolated egde posts: A method of fabricating an array of MEMS devices includes the formation of support structures located at the edge of upper strip electrodes. A support structure is etched to form a pair of individual support structures located at the edges of a pair of adjacent electrodes. The electrodes themselves may... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070279733 - Optical device with increased depth of field: The present invention relates to an optical device for imaging a specimen (16), having a main objective (2) and a device (120) for modifying depth of field, said device (120) representing a micromirror array (5′) having micromirrors (50) that are individually controllable and adjustable as to their spatial orientation. In... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20070279734 - Microscope: A confocal microscope has a specimen holding device for holding a specimen (18). The specimen (18) is illuminated by an illuminating unit (10). An optics unit (12) serves to direct radiation produced by the illuminating unit (10) toward the specimen (18) and to direct the radiation emitted by the specimen... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070279735 - Specimen slide unit for holding a specimen that is to be examined under a microscope or analyzed with a laboratory analysis system: A specimen slide unit for holding a specimen that is to be examined under a microscope or analyzed with a laboratory analysis system includes a specimen slide, a data carrier device and a signal element. The data carrier device has a radio frequency identification tag that can be read out... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070279736 - Transparent screen and projection display unit: A transparent screen and a projection display unit capable of reducing the speckle with maintaining the brightness of the image light. A wavefront-dividing phase-modulating component 21, which divides the wavefront of the image light emitted from a Fresnel lens screen 7 and modulates the phases of the wavefronts divided, is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070279737 - 3- dimensional (3d) display apparatus: Provided is a 3-dimensional (3D) display apparatus which can prevent moirés or spots from being generated and achieve high-quality 3D images. The 3D display apparatus includes: a display panel; a filter disposed in front of the display panel; and a plurality of spacers disposed between the display panel and the... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070279738 - Single-pole optical wavelength selector: A single-pole, wavelength selective switch in which thee input optical signal (18, 19) is converted to a light beam having a defined polarization, such as S-polarization, with respect to the system plane. The beam is laterally expanded in the system plane, and then spatially dispersed in the same plane as... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070279739 - Polarization converting light guide panel unit and display device having the same: Provided are a polarization converting light guide panel unit and a display device having the same. The polarization converting light guide panel unit includes a light guide panel which guides light emitted by a light source, and comprising a light transmission pattern through which the light is incident to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC