Optical: systems and elements inventions 02/08

20080049280 - Display device and backlight unit: A display device is provided, including: a display panel; a hologram part that is disposed behind the display panel; and a laser light source part that is behind the hologram part and provides light to the hologram part.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049281 - Security hologram, method of recording same, and method of using same: A security hologram is disclosed that is invisible to a human eye or to various optical detectors until the hologram is optically coupled to a suitable modifier (e.g., a prism). Also disclosed is a method of recording the security hologram and a method of using the hologram in security applications... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080049283 - Shift tolerant lens optimized for phase conjugating holographic systems: A new type of FT lens is provided that improves phase conjugation in holographic data systems. This type of FT lens has a uniquely large isoplanatic patch. This enables relaxed assembly tolerances, asymmetric reader/writer architectures, and compensation for tilted plate aberrations in the media.... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20080049278 - Optical information recording medium and hologram forming method for optical information recording medium: An optical information recording medium provided with a hologram is disclosed. The optical medium comprises a recording layer formed on one surface of a first substrate, and a semipermeable reflective layer formed on the recording layer. The optical medium further comprises a second transmittance substrate bonded to the first transmittance... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080049279 - Computer-generated hologram and its fabrication process, reflector using a computer-generated hologram, and reflective liquid crystal display: The invention provides a computer-generated hologram which can be viewed in white at the desired viewing region and a reflective liquid crystal display using the same as a reflector. The computer-generated hologram H is designed to diffuse light having a given reference wavelength λSTD and incident thereon at a given... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049282 - Color separated display imaging system: A system is disclosed for recording a diffraction optical element providing a stereographic image to an observer includes a monochromatic light source having a characteristic wavelength providing a single source beam and a recording plate made from a material sensitive substantially to the characteristic wavelength. The system also includes at... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080049284 - Laser display apparatus: A laser display apparatus which reduces speckles, includes: a laser illuminating system emitting a laser beam; and a speckle reducing unit including a birefringent device that separates the laser beam emitted from the laser illuminating system into a plurality of partial beams, and a plurality of spots formed by the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049285 - System and method for employing a resonant scanner in an x-y high speed drilling system: A laser processing system is disclosed for providing a relatively small velocity of a laser beam at target location while at least one scanner scans at a relatively larger velocity. The system includes a laser source, a first scanning unit, a beam expander, a second scanning unit and focusing optics.... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080049286 - Beam scanning lens, beam scanning apparatus having the same, and image forming apparatus and method thereof: A beam-scanning lens used in a scanning image forming optical system includes a single lens molded from plastic having a refractive index distribution curve and an effective area, such that a gap between a center axis of the refractive index distribution curve and a width centerline of the effective area... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080049288 - Prism scanner and display device using diffractive optical modulator and prism scanner: Disclosed herein are a prism scanner and a display device using an optical modulator and the prism scanner. The prism scanner includes a prism scanning unit, a drive motor, and a scanner driving circuit. The prism scanning unit has a prism shape, includes a light entry surface for passing incident... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080049287 - Optical element, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus: An optical element having an optical surface and at least three convex portions on a surface different from the optical surface, wherein, among the at least three convex portions, two convex portions a space between whose centers is a maximum and one convex portion a length of a perpendicular from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080049289 - Optical deflector, light scanning appratus and scanning type image display apparatus: An optical deflector is disclosed which is capable of preventing unnecessary reflection by a member disposed behind a reflecting portion. The optical deflector includes a substrate portion, a reflecting portion can swing about a swinging motion axis with respect to the substrate portion, and an aperture stop portion which includes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080049290 - Micromirror and post arrangements on substrates: A micromirror of a micromirror array of a spatial light modulator used in display systems comprises a mirror plate attached to a hinge that is supported by two posts formed on a substrate. Also the mirror plate is operable to rotate along a rotation axis that is parallel to but... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080049291 - Micromirror arry lens with optical surface profiles: A Micromirror Array Lens comprises a plurality of micromirrors arranged on a flat or a curved surface to reflect incident light. Each micromirror in the Micromirror Array Lens is configured to have at least one motion. The Micromirror Array Lens forms at least one optical surface profile reproducing free surfaces... Agent: Stereo Display Inc.

20080049292 - Micro-mirror array device: A micro-mirror array device includes a plurality of micro-mirrors, a plurality of elastic members which deflectably support each of the micro-mirrors, and which are disposed symmetrically in a direction of an arrangement of the micro-mirror array which includes the plurality of micro-mirrors, and a plurality of beams which support each... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080049293 - Spectroscope with spatial resolution control: In a spectrometer, preferably in a spectrometric microscope, light from a specimen is collected at a collector objective element and delivered to a camera element, which in turn provides the light to a photosensitive detector. A focal plane is provided between the collector objective element and the camera element, and... Agent: Thermo Finnigan LLC

20080049294 - Installable pinhole: Adjustable pinhole, particularly for the illumination beam path and/or detection beam path of a laser scanning microscope, wherein the pinhole is defined by foil edges which are adjustable relative to one another, and at least two foils, each with at least one straight edge, are advantageously arranged relative to one... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080049295 - Electrochromic devices with thin bezel-covered edge: A mirror includes an electro-optic mirror subassembly, and a thin-profiled bezel attached around a perimeter of the electrochromic mirror subassembly. The electro-optic mirror subassembly is supported on a carrier by an adheringly bonded heater and foam tape in a laminar arrangement. The bezel may be bonded to an edge of... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt, & Litton, LLP/gentex Corporation

20080049296 - Methods and systems for micro machines: A micro machine may be in or less than the micrometer domain. The micro machine may include a micro actuator and a micro shaft coupled to the micro actuator. The micro shaft is operable to be driven by the micro actuator. A tool is coupled to the micro shaft and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080049297 - Spatial optic modulating system with speckle reduction and method thereof: A spatial optic modulating system with speckle reduction and a method thereof are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a spatial optic modulating system includes a spatial optic modulator, which modulates and reflects an image transferred in accordance with an upward or downward movement of a ribbon... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080049300 - Optical method and system for analyzing or inspecting patterned materials: A method to determine at least one characteristic of a material having a spatially modulated nonlinear susceptibility includes measuring scattered light in response to an incident beam provided to at least one surface of the material. An indication of patterning of the material is determined based on the measured scattered... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080049299 - Packaging of frequency-doubled, extended-cavity, surface-emitting laser components on a common substrate: In one embodiment, a laser module comprising an optical element, a frequency converter, a selective reflector, and one or more surface-emitters, each coupled to a common substrate, wherein the emitters, the optical element, the frequency converter, and the selective reflector are positioned with respect to each other such that at... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080049298 - Wavelength converter structure and method for preparing the same: A wavelength converter structure according to one aspect of the present invention comprises a ferroelectric substrate, a ridge positioned on the ferroelectric substrate, a plurality of first domains positioned in the ridge and a plurality of second domains interleaved between the first domains in the ridge. The first domains have... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080049301 - Generation of radiation with stabilized frequency: Method and device for the generation of a comb of stabilized frequency lines and/or a train of ultrashort laser pulses for stabilization of the position of the carrier wave with respect to the amplitude envelope of few cycles laser pulses. Interference between spectral components generated by means of difference frequency... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080049302 - High-luminance quantum correlation photon beam generator: A high-luminance quantum correlation photon beam generator a photon beam of a quantum correlated pair characterized by includes: a laser light source (1) operable to emit a laser pumped light; a parametric crystal (2) operable to generate a pair of two photons of a signal photon and an idler photon... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080049303 - Raman amplifier for amplifying signal light for optical communication, optical communication system equipped with raman amplifier, and method for controlling raman amplifier: A Raman amplifier that amplifies a signal light intensity by using a Raman amplification effect of an optical fiber transmission channel has an excitation unit that supplies excitation lights of a plurality of wavelengths to the optical fiber transmission channel and performs Raman amplification, a signal light monitor that monitors... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080049304 - Spectroscope with vignetting reduction: In a spectrometer, preferably in a spectrometric microscope, input light is provided from a light source to a specimen via a source objective element (e.g., a Schwarzchild objective), and the aperture of the light source is matched to the aperture of the source objective element to maximize light throughput to... Agent: Thermo Finnigan LLC

20080049305 - Image display device and evaluating method of glass substrate for use in it: The present invention provides an image display device capable of displaying a good image by suppressing yellowing of a glass substrate, and an evaluating method of the glass substrate. The image display device is formed using the glass substrate where reflectance at wavelength of 220 nm is 5% or lower.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080049306 - Projection optical system and method for photolithography and exposure apparatus and method using same: An optical system for ultraviolet light includes a plurality of optical elements made of a material transparent to ultraviolet light. At least two of the optical elements are utilized for forming at least one liquid lens group that has a first delimiting optical element, a second delimiting optical element, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080049307 - Multilayer mirror, method for manufacturing the same, and exposure equipment: A multilayer mirror aims to reduce incidence angle dependence of reflectivity. A substrate is made of low thermal polished expansion glass with 0.2 nm RMS or less roughness of the surface. On the surface thereof formed is a Ru/Si multilayer having a wide full-width half maximum of peak reflectivity, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080049308 - System and methods for filtering electromagnetic visual, and minimizing acoustic transmissions: A combination of filters for filtering selected wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation is provided on a transparent substrate such as a plastic film or glazing of a window. The combination of filters prevents or attenuates the passage of wavelengths through the substrate which would pose a security risk. The combination of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080049309 - Examination apparatus: The invention provides an examination apparatus that is capable of observing a specimen in a stationary state while suppressing blurring caused by a control delay. The examination apparatus includes a first optical system and a second optical system for imaging light produced in a specimen, a first image-acquisition unit provided... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080049310 - Microscope: A microscope device comprising a microscope objective and a plate-like body limited by a flat top face and a flat lower face essentially parallel thereto, with the microscope objective being connected to the plate-like body, and with a portion of a beam path of the microscope device extending above and/or... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20080049311 - Alignment method, alignment apparatus, and alignment screen for objective-lens guiding device: An end face of a narrow-diameter end portion is easily disposed at a correct position on an examination object without setting an examination site, thus enabling rapid and straightforward acquisition of an image of the examination site. The invention provides an alignment method for a guiding device which is attached... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080049312 - Illumination device for a microscope having a system of microlight sources and a variable focus lens: Among other things, an illumination device is described, particularly for an observation device, having a light source and optics arranged after the light source, the light source being formed from an arrangement made up of one or more micro light sources. In order to create an illumination device that is... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080049313 - Illumination optics for an optical observation device: The invention is directed to illumination optics for an optical device for observing a sample, particularly for TIRF microscopy (Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy), wherein the sample is positioned on the side of a carrier glass remote of the illumination optics and the illumination light exiting from the illumination optics... Agent: Gerald H. Kiel, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20080049314 - Surgical microscope having an illuminating arrangement: A surgical microscope (100) is especially suited for use in neurosurgery. The surgical microscope has an illuminating arrangement (101) for making available illuminating light in an operating region (117) to be examined with the surgical microscope (100). The illuminating arrangement (101) contains a high-power light source (102) which includes an... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20080049315 - Screen and projector: There is provided a screen and a projector using a simple configuration and operation to make speckles less visible. A screen 10 on which light beams are incident includes a lenticular lens 11 as a first layer having viewing angle control means for enlarging the viewing angle and a Fresnel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080049316 - Wavelength locker: A wavelength locker includes: a birefringent plate for separating light emitted from a light source into two beams of light which are approximately in parallel to each other; a first light receiving element for directly receiving one of the two beams of light separated by the birefringent plate; a λ/4... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080049317 - Optical element, polarization plane light source using the optical element, and display device using the polarization plane light source: The present invention provides an optical element including: a translucent resin; minute regions dispersedly distributed in the translucent resin and having a birefringence different from the translucent resin; and at lest one kind of luminous body dispersed in the translucent resin and/or the minute regions and having a particle size... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080049318 - Polarizer device adapted to polarized light: The invention provides a polarizer device. The polarizer device according to the invention is adapted to a polarized light having an electric field direction. In particular, the polarizer device according to the invention enables the polarizer to be automatically adjusted to a proper viewing angle.... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20080049319 - Polymerizable monomer, an optical compensation film and a method for producing the optical compensation film: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted group; Y1 represents an oxygen atom or —NR3—, wherein R3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represents an aromatic ring having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and each of Ar1 and Ar2 may... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080049320 - Projection objective for microlithography: A projection objective for microlithography for imaging a pattern arranged in the object plane of the projection objective into the image plane of the projection objective has at least one polarization splitter device that is operated only once in transmission or reflection. By using this device, polarization-dependent differences in the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049321 - Passive depolarizer: The present invention relates to a passive depolarizer for use in an optical system having an image plane. The passive depolarizer includes a patterned half wave plate incorporating a monolithic layer of birefringent material. The monolithic layer includes a plurality of regions having fast axes with at least four different... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080049322 - Polarizing monochromator: A polarizing monochromator comprising a uniaxial birefringent crystal prism, the prism has the geometry of a triangular block having a triangular base, a face including a side of the hypotenuse is an input-output face, where light enters and exits, and a face including the longer side of the right angle... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark, LLP

20080049323 - Optical film, production method of optical film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device: p

20080049324 - Polarizing plate protective film, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device: A polarizing plate protective film comprising a cellulose ester, and a saccharide ester compound in which all or a part of OH groups in Compound (A) or in Compound (B) are esterified, wherein Compound (A) consists of one of a furanose structure and a pyranose structure, and Compound (B) consists... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080049325 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of effectively removing dust attached to an optical member due to mounting/removing of a photographic lens in a power-off state, to thereby prevent degradation of image quality. In the image pickup apparatus, when position information of a contact brush that moves in a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080049326 - Optical articles with thin hydrophobic layers: Optical articles such as ophthalmic lenses containing a thin hydrophobic surface layer of a fluorinated material adsorbed thereon are disclosed.... Agent: William J. Uhl

20080049327 - Lamina comprising cube corner elements and retroreflective sheeting: The present invention is directed to lamina(e) comprising cube corner elements, a tool comprising an assembly of laminae and replicas thereof. The invention further relates to retroreflective sheeting.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080049328 - Tunable diffraction grating having electro-optic material and method for operating same: A tunable diffraction grating includes electro-optic material between a first electrode and a second electrode and an electric bias element coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode, whereby an optical characteristic of the electro-optic material is alterable by the electric bias element so as to dynamically alter a... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080049329 - Optical device including multilayer reflector and vertical cavity surface emitting laser: Provided are an optical device including a multilayer reflector having a layer whose optical thickness is not λ/4, and a vertical cavity surface emitting laser using the optical device. A resonance frequency shift or a reduction in reflectivity which is caused by a deviation from an optical thickness of λ/4... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080049330 - Light directing laminate: A light management film package includes a first optical film having a structured surface and a second major surface, a second optical film having a first major surface and a second major surface disposed adjacent to and making contact with the structured surface of the first optical film via an... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080049331 - Cover for head-up display: A display includes a case and a display source received in the case, and allows a virtual image of an image displayed on the display source projected on a windshield of a vehicle through an opening of the case to be superimposed on a foreground image through the windshield which... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080049332 - Zoom lens system and electronic image pickup apparatus: d

20080049333 - Zoom lens system and electronic image pickup apparatus using 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 refractive power,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080049334 - Zoom lens optical system and digital photographing device having same: Disclosed is a zoom lens optical system. The optical system includes a first lens group, which is fixed and has a total reflection prism, the prism turning an optical axis from an object side to an image side, and the first lens group having a positive lens power, a second... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080049335 - Zoom lens: A first group 10 having a negative refractive power, a diaphragm St and a second group 20 having a positive refractive power are arranged in order from the object side. Power variation from the wide angle end to the telephoto end is executed by moving the second group 20 to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080049336 - Projection optical system and method for photolithography and exposure apparatus and method using same: An immersion optical system includes a plurality of lenses disposed along a light beam path of the immersion optical system. The plurality of lenses include a liquid immerged lens which is contactable with a liquid layer. An optically conjugate point of an object surface is formed in the light beam... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080049337 - Image-formation optical system, and imaging system incorporating the same: The invention relates to an image-formation optical system that meets both demands for high performance and compactness, and an imaging system that incorporates the same. The imaging system is built up of an image-formation optical system comprises, in order from its object side, an aperture stop S, a first positive... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon

20080049338 - Lens barrel and photographing apparatus: A lens barrel includes a first and second movable frames provided coaxially on an optical axis of a lens, and telescopically moved in and out from a stationary main frame; a first support member engaged with the first movable frame as a first pivot orthogonal to the optical axis, and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080049339 - Ohthalmological display including a device for adjusting to the users's pupil spacing: The invention relates to an ophthalmological display comprising an optical imager (10) for shaping light beams emitted by a miniature screen (20) of a light beam generator system and for directing the beams towards the eye (O) of the wearer to enable an image (I) to be viewed, said imager... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080049340 - Lens barrel and photographing apparatus: A lens barrel is provided with: a first movable frame and a second movable frame of a plurality of movable frames that are coaxially disposed to be movable back and forth to a stationary main frame and are inserted telescopically into the stationary frame; and two U-shaped support and drive... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080049341 - Optical film having microreplicated structures and methods: An optical film for use in transparent displays, such as reflective LCDs. The optical film has three-dimensional, prismatic structures that reflect incoming light. The prismatic structures are configured so that the reflecting facets orient the reflected light in desired reflective light pattern. The pattern shape and intensity can be controlled... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080049342 - Balanced radiation concentrating device: A balanced radiation concentrating device used to focus radiation from a moving source onto a stationary receiver is disclosed. The primary application of such an invention relates to concentrating the radiation from the sun onto a stationary target. In such an application the device may be termed a “ganged heliostat”,... Agent: David Dobney

20080049344 - Vehicle interior rearview mirror assembly with actuator: A rearview mirror system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having a mounting structure, an electrical actuator and a reflective element. The mounting structure may be configured to be detachably mounted at an attachment element adhered to an inner surface of the vehicle windshield. The mounting structure... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080049343 - Vehicle mirror assembly with reduced mirror shaking: A housing supporting a reflective mirrored element and having an internal support structure. A stationary mounting rod passing through the internal support structure and extending from the housing for attachment to a vehicle support arm. The housing and internal support structure rotate about the mounting rod. A stabilizing unit interconnecting... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080049345 - Color wheel unit: A color wheel unit includes: a color wheel including a plurality of color regions; a motor adapted to rotate the color wheel and including a rotor with a rotary shaft; and a case adapted to house the color wheel and the motor and including a heat radiating means disposed at... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080049346 - Color wheel: A color wheel has one or a plurality of color filter segments made from a first material, typically glass, having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is substantially different from a carrier, which is made from a second material, typically aluminum. An intermediate washer or coating is disposed in between... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080043301 - Holographic display and methods of manufacture and use: A rewriteable diffraction grating contains first nanoparticles and second nanoparticles. Each first nanoparticle is configured and arranged to generate one or more charge carriers in response to a write beam. Each second nanoparticle is configured and arranged to substantially alter its response to light from a read beam upon receiving... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080043302 - Color dispersion compensated holographic light guide plate: A holographic light guide plate has a transparent substrate and a plurality of diffraction patterns formed thereon. The diffraction patterns are arranged on one of a top surface and a bottom surface of the transparent substrate. The diffraction patterns diffract light incident on the transparent substrate. Each of the diffraction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080043303 - Hdr displays with overlapping dual modulation: A display has a screen which incorporates a light modulator. The screen may be a front projection screen or a rear-projection screen. Elements of the light modulator may be controlled to adjust the intensity of light emanating from corresponding areas on the screen. The display may provide a high dynamic... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080043304 - Methods and systems for micro transmissions: Methods and systems for micro transmissions for a micro machine may comprise an input shaft assembly coupled to a micro actuator, an output shaft assembly coupled to a micro shaft, and one or more power conversion elements operable to convert a first type of movement from the micro actuator into... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080043305 - Deflection scanner for laser projection system of mobile terminal: Disclosed herein is a deflection scanner for the laser projection system of a mobile terminal. The deflection scanner includes a rotating axis, a magnet, at least one pair of armatures, at least one detection sensor, and a circuit board. The rotating axis is configured to reciprocally rotate a reflecting mirror... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080043306 - High speed, high efficiency optical pattern generator using rotating optical elements: An optical pattern generator includes one or more multi-faceted rotating optical elements that introduce an offset that is rotation insensitive. The component that generates the offset is rotationally symmetric around the rotational axis of the optical element. Thus, as the optical element rotates, the effect of the offset component does... Agent: Reliant / Fenwick C/o Fenwick & West, LLP

20080043307 - Optical scanner and image forming apparatus: An optical scanner includes a light source, an optical coupler, an optical line image unit, a deflector, and an optical scanning unit. The optical scanning unit includes scanning lenses that guide the beams to a surface to be scanned. A surface on the deflector side of the scanning lens closest... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043308 - Method to improve scan-line alignment by adjusting the pixel rate: A method for improving the alignment of the bi-directional scan lines of a resonant mirror imaging system is disclosed. The method includes sensing the position of the mirror and selecting a portion of each scan line, such as the exact middle 50% and the start points of the scan lines... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080043309 - Micro-device and electrode forming method for the same: An electrostatically driven micro-device includes a base substrate configured to have an electrically insulated surface, a rotatable electrode configured to be rotatable with respect to the base substrate, at least one recessed area configured to be recessed by a predetermined depth from surface of the base substrate, and a fixed... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080043310 - Vibrating mirror, light writing device, and image forming apparatus: A vibrating mirror is disclosed that is able to stably adjust a resonating frequency. The vibrating mirror includes a frame, a torsional beam, and a mirror substrate supported by the torsional beam and installed inside the frame. The mirror substrate is able to vibrate with the torsional beam as a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080043311 - Thin film tunable optical filter: The tunable optical filter is provided, comprising an optical means for separating an input optical signal into a tunable drop optical signal and an output optical signal, wherein the output optical signal is directed back along the same path as the input optical signal. One embodiment of the invention comprises... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20080043312 - Projection display apparatus: A projection display apparatus is provided which offers improved contrast while smoothly controlling the amount of light, with a simple structure and without deterioration of lifetime due to the heat of the light from a light source. This projection display apparatus includes a light valve, a light source for emitting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080043313 - Spatial filter, a system and method for collecting light from an object: A spatial filter that includes multiple opaque regions and multiple transparent regions; wherein at least a pair of opaque regions out of the multiple opaque regions are much longer than a cross sectional dimension of a light beam that impinges onto the spatial filter; and wherein an axial distance between... Agent: Patent Counsel, Ms/2061 Legal Affairs Dept.

20080043314 - Two-dimensional spatial radiation modulator: A two dimensional spatial radiation modulator rotated about a rotation axis to modulate components of an incident radiation beam to encode the beam. The modulator includes sub-regions in a first annular segment being patterned to form a pair of radiation filters having substantially complementary modulation functions. The pair of radiation... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080043315 - High profile contacts for microelectromechanical systems: In certain embodiments, an interferometric modulator includes a substrate, a first electrode layer over the substrate, and a second electrode layer over the first electrode layer. The second electrode layer includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the second electrode layer is configured to move... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080043317 - E-ink display panel: An E-ink display panel is provided. In the E-ink display panel, a dielectric layer having a thickness of 1˜4 μm is disposed on bottom-gate thin film transistors to prevent the pixel electrodes from being interfered by noise generated by the bottom-gate thin film transistors, the scan lines and the data... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20080043316 - Building window control system: A scalable apparatus and a network environment dynamically changes the light transparency of a single SPD device, a small number of SPD devices or thousands of such SPD devices installed in windows in automobiles, aircraft, trains, marine vehicles, residential homes, commercial buildings and skyscrapers. A scalable apparatus and a network... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC

20080043318 - Color electro-optic displays, and processes for the production thereof: A color filter array is provided in an electro-optic display by ink jet printing a plurality of colored areas (22R, 22G, 22B) on one surface of a layer of electro-optic material (12), an adhesive layer or a protective layer. Alternatively, the ink jet printing may be effected on the same... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080043319 - Scan-type optical apparatus: A scan-type optical apparatus includes a light source device that emits a laser beam, an electro-optic element that conducts scan of the laser beam emitted from the light source device by varying refractive index distribution in accordance with the level of voltage to be applied, and a light blocking member... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080043320 - Optical frequency mixer and method for the same: An optical frequency mixer according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a V-shaped resonant cavity including a first reflective surface, a second reflective surface and an output coupler, a pumping unit configured to emit a pumping wave to the laser gain medium to generate a resonating wave in... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080043321 - Euv optics: In a first aspect, a method of fabricating an EUV light source mirror is disclosed which may comprise the acts/steps of providing a plurality of discrete substrates; coating each substrate with a respective multilayer coating; securing the coated substrates in an arrangement wherein each coated substrate is oriented to a... Agent: Matthew K. Hillman Cymer, Inc.

20080043322 - Clip-on night vision device: A night viewer (10) is adaptable to generate an enhanced image suitable for viewing through an optical scope (16). An input end (18) of the viewer (10) receives the image to be enhanced through an objective lens (20). An image enhancing unit (22) enhances the image. The enhanced image is... Agent: Marsteller & Associates, P. C.

20080043323 - Microscope examination apparatus: The invention provides a microscope examination apparatus including a light source; an illumination optical system configured to guide light from the light source to a specimen; an objective lens configured to collimate return light from the specimen, the objective lens being provided in such a manner as to be displaceable... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080043324 - Solid state fluorescence light assembly and microscope: An illumination system for a fluorescence microscope is provided. The illumination system includes a carriage removably receivable within the microscope and a plurality of filter cubes movably arranged on the carriage, wherein each filter cube is moveable between an active position and an inactive position. Each filter cube includes a... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080043325 - Motorized table apparatus and microscope stage: A motorized table apparatus comprises: a support unit for supporting a movement table so as to allow it to move in a single axis direction relative to a stationary unit which is fixed to the movement table; a slide member which is equipped on the movement table and which has... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080043326 - Variable optical arrays and variable manufacturing methods: The invention divides the lens focusing process into two or more surfaces that incorporate multiple curved axial optic elements on each surface. The axial optics may be manufactured by molding, machining, or by suspended film. If suspended film is used, then both sides of an optic may have a suspended... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080043327 - Screen: A projection screen includes a plurality of passive elements each having a sidewall surrounding a surface, wherein said sidewall is configured to attenuate light.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080043329 - Display device with birefringent substrate: A display device comprising at least one substrate, a first and a second electrode, a display medium and an optically active layer, wherein said optically active layer comprises a polarizer and is arranged between said substrate and said display medium, and wherein said substrate is made of a birefringent material.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080043328 - Wave retardation plate and optical pickup device has them: The present invention relates to a phase retardation plate including a thin organic film with a phase retardation function due to birefringence and a fixed substrate bonded to at least one surface of the thin organic film using an adhesive, and to an optical pickup device having the phase retardation... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080043330 - Tandem polarization beam splitters for real-time polarization difference sensing: A tandem beam splitter for real-time polarization difference sensing, consisting of at least one body having two faces that isolate two orthogonal planes of information from a common stimulus input in series, with a first of the two faces isolating a first plane of information and a second of the... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080043331 - Projection objective of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus: Projection objectives of micro-lithographic projection exposure apparatuses, as well as related methods and components, are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080043332 - Optical compensation layer-attached polarizing plate, liquid crystal panel, liquid crystal display, image display, and method for producing optical compensation layer-attached polarizing plate: An optical compensation layer-attached polarizing plate of the invention comprises a polarizing plate, an optical compensation layer (1) and another optical compensation layer (2) that are laminated in this order, wherein the optical compensation layer (1) has the relation nx1>ny1=nz1, comprises a resin with a photoelastic coefficient absolute value of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080043333 - Lens device: The invention provides a lens device comprising: an imaging optical system in which a vibration proof optical system for image shake correction is arranged in a main optical path for focusing a subject image for recording or reproduction and at the same time a light splitting optical system for branching... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080043334 - Diffractive optical relay and method for manufacturing the same: An optical relay device, comprising a substrate, and at least one diffractive optical element is disclosed. The substrate is made, at least in part, of a light transmissive polymeric material characterized by a birefringence, Δn, satisfying the inequality |Δn|<ε, where ε is lower than the birefringence of polycarbonate. In a... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080043335 - 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

20080043336 - Method of fabricating microlens structure: The present invention provides a method of fabricating a microlens, comprising providing a substrate with at least a dielectric layer thereon, forming a first thin film on the dielectric layer surface, etching the first thin film to form at least a micro bump, and forming a second thin film on... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080043337 - Structure for pattern formation, method for pattern formation, and application thereof: A structure for pattern formation adapted for optically forming a pattern, characterized by comprising: a photocatalyst-containing layer provided on a substrate, the photocatalyst-containing layer containing a material of which the wettability is variable through photocatalytic action upon pattern-wise exposure.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080043338 - Laser scanning unit housing: A cover is adapted to form part of a housing of a laser scanning unit. The cover comprises a main body having walls for defining at least one opening adjacent a lens located in a base of a laser scanning unit housing. At least one of the walls comprising seal... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080043339 - Method and apparatus for designing transmissive optical surfaces: A method of designing a transmissive optical element for converting a profile of a light beam from a predetermined input profile to a predetermined output profile is disclosed. The method comprises: calculating a stationary function of a predetermined cost functional selected such that the stationary function satisfies a mapping condition... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080043340 - Lens unit: A lens unit includes a lens having a focal length variable responsive to an applied electrical field, and an electrical connector. The electrical connector is a flexible circuit element that connects the lens to an electrical power supply.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080043341 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus: A zoom lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side thereof, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a stop; a second lens group having a positive refractive power; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power. The magnification of the zoom lens... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080043342 - Telephoto zoom lens system: z

20080043343 - Image pickup lens assembly: An image pickup lens assembly comprises three lens groups, from the object side to the image side: a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group. The first lens group includes two lenses with refractive power, namely, a first lens with positive refractive power, and a... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080043344 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus:

20080043345 - Refractive projection objective for immersion lithography: A purely refractive projection objective suitable for immersion microlithography is designed as a single-waist system with five lens groups in the case of which a first lens group of negative refractive power, a second lens group of positive refractive power, a third lens group of negative refractive power, a fourth... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080043346 - 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 a photo-electric converter of a solid image pickup element, and the image pickup lens includes, in order from an object side thereof: and aperture stop; a first lens having a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080043347 - Focusing method and image-taking apparatus: An optical system has a plurality of optical surfaces and an aperture stop, and has an eccentric reflective surface as at least one of the plurality of optical surfaces. For different conjugate distances, focusing for keeping a position of an entire image surface substantially constant while keeping substantially constant an... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080043348 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel of the present invention is of a retractable type. After one frame is retreated from a photographing optical path, another frame moves in an optical axis direction to a position where the one frame has been disposed. The one frame is, for example, a lens frame, and... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080043349 - Holding device for an optical element with support force equalization: Holding devices for optical elements, as well as related modules, systems and methods are disclosed. The devices, modules, systems and methods may, for example, be used in the context of microlithography used in manufacturing microelectronic circuits.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080043350 - Microscope lens barrel: A microscope lens barrel includes a lens barrel section in which a fixed tube is fixed to a lens barrel body, one of two holding tubes arranged parallel to and equidistant from a center axis of the fixed tube is provided to be movable without changing a distance from the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080043351 - Lens device: The invention provides a floating lens device capable of moving a plurality of lens groups by a different amount, wherein the lens device can be miniaturized in a direction of the optical axis. A lens device according to the invention includes: a fixed lens barrel; lens frames respectively holding a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080043352 - Lightweight mirrors and methods of manufacturing lightweight mirrors: A lightweight mirror comprises a plurality of plates including an optical plate, a backing plate, spacer plates, and, if needed, one or more reinforcing plates. The plates are joined to one another thereby forming a unitary structure. The unitary structure comprising the plates is then formed into a predetermined optical... Agent: Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20080043353 - Apparatus and system for steering an optical beam: A system and apparatus for directing a light beam along multiple optical paths are disclosed, one embodiment of the apparatus comprising: a base assembly; a first reflective surface set at a first angle to the optical axis of an incident light beam and operable to direct the light beam along... Agent: Alcon

20080043354 - Mirror angle controller: A mirror angle controller is provided which includes a pivot plate (H) which is attached to a reverse side of a mirror (M), and an actuator (A) which holds the pivot plate (H), in which the actuator (A) includes a housing (A1), a rod (A3) which pushes and pulls the... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080037084 - Electro optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro optical device includes a plurality of electro optical elements arranged on a surface of a first substrate, a plurality of positive diffractive lenses each for focusing a bundle of rays by diffracting light emitted from the each electro optical element, and a light shielding layer on which a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080037086 - Apparatus to control incident angle of reference beam and holographic information recording/reproducing apparatus having the apparatus: An apparatus to control the incident angle of a reference beam, includes a first lens element to allow the reference beam to be incident on a holographic recording medium, and a driving portion to provide the reference beam to the first lens element and to move in a direction perpendicular... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080037087 - Hologram recording/reproducing apparatus, hologram multiplex recording method, and hologram recording medium: An object of the invention is to prevent lowering of a dynamic range of a hologram recording medium without lowering an average data transfer rate, and to provide stabilized recording sensitivity. A scheduler determines a recording interval time from the point of time when light is irradiated to record a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080037082 - Hologram record carrier, hologram apparatus and recording method: A holographic record carrier is a holographic record carrier in or from which information is recorded or reproduced by irradiation of light, comprising: a holographic recording layer for storing a light interference pattern based on components of coherent reference light and signal light as a diffraction grating in the inside... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080037083 - Hologram recording carrier and recording/reproduction method and device: A hologram record carrier has a substrate and a reflective layer, wherein recording or reproducing of information is performed by light irradiation. The hologram record carrier further comprises a holographic recording layer that reserves an optical interference pattern comprising components of coherent reference light and signal light as a diffractive... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037085 - Optical head and multiplexing methods for reflection type holographic storage using spatial filtering: The invention describes a collinear optical head for a reflection-type holographic recording medium, which is capable of obtaining an increased capacity. The optical head presented here allows for high capacity by combining holographic multiplexing methods, based on a shift and/or phase-coded reference beam, and/or scanned reference beam and/or angle and/or... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing

20080037088 - Method for producing a duplicate hologram recording medium, apparatus for producing a duplication master, apparatus for producing a duplicate hologram recording medium, and duplication master: An apparatus for producing a duplicate hologram recording medium includes: a positioning section configured to place the duplication master and the duplicate hologram recording medium at predetermined relative positions; an angle selective plate arranged between the duplication master and the duplicate hologram recording medium, the angle selective plate having an... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080037089 - Apparatus for the distribution of laser light: An apparatus for the distribution of laser light from a light source (3) and/or an entry light waveguide (1) on to at least two and in particular a plurality of exit light waveguides (2), wherein the apparatus has at least one light deflection element (4) which rotates, preferably continuously, in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080037090 - Mems-based projector suitable for inclusion in portable user devices: A MEMS-based projector may be included in various user devices. A selective fold mirror, a MEMS-based projector, and a polarization rotator may be oriented to reflect a beam within the device for external projection. Alternatively, a total internal reflection prism may take the place of a selective fold mirror or... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20080037091 - Mirror device for projection system having plurality of tiltable mirrors tilted: A mirror device of one embodiment of the invention is for a projection system corresponding to one of a pixel and a sub-pixel of image data to be projected by the projection system. The mirror device comprises a plurality of tiltable mirrors. The mirrors are cooperatively tilted based on the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080037092 - Optical apparatus: An optical apparatus is disclosed which is capable of preventing degradation of image quality caused by an ND filter. The optical apparatus includes an aperture stop having an aperture variable in size, and an ND filter movable with respect to the aperture of the aperture stop, an actuator that drives... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080037093 - Method and device for multi-color interferometric modulation: Light in the visible spectrum is modulated using an array of modulation elements, and control circuitry connected to the array for controlling each of the modulation elements independently, each of the modulation elements having a surface which is caused to exhibit a predetermined impedance characteristic to particular frequencies of light.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080037094 - Polarizer and flat panel display apparatus including the same: A polarizer includes a base; a grid formed on the base; and low-reflective members formed on surfaces of the grid. The low-reflective members face an incident direction of an external light, so that a bright room contrast and a visibility can be improved.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080037095 - Reflective light modulator and projector device: A reflective light modulator is provided. The reflective light modulator includes: a transparent electrode passing through light from a light source; a driving substrate configured to reflect the light from the transparent electrode; a light-modulating material sandwiched between the transparent electrode and the driving substrate; and a transparent glass substrate.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080037096 - Method for generating broadband light sideband and apparatus for generating broadband light sideband: A light sideband sequence having a uniform intensity distribution is generated by inputting a light beam to an electro-optic phase modulator from a laser source, subjecting a phase modulation to the light beam and setting a predetermined spatial distribution of the phase modulation index to cancel out the spatial distribution... Agent: Chapman And Cutler

20080037097 - Electro-optical device, drive circuit, and electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is an electro-optical device including: a plurality of electro-optical elements of which the intensity of emitted light is controlled according to drive signals; a plurality of unit circuits which output the drive signals; and a plurality of signal generation circuits which generate control signals according to correction data,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080037098 - Variable optical attenuator: A variable optical attenuator comprising a separation/combination birefringent element, fixed polarization rotation means, a convex lens, variable polarization rotation means, and a mirror which are arranged in that order. The fixed polarization rotation means has a compensation film Faraday element placed in a cylindrical permanent magnet, and the variable polarization... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037099 - Micro-electro mechanical light modulator device: A micro-electro mechanical light modulator device includes a movable reflective plate, a fixed partial reflective plate, an optical gap defined between the reflective plate and the fixed plate, and an actuator configured to move the reflective plate through an operating range wherein a neutral state position of the reflective plate... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080037100 - Acoustooptic device and optical imaging apparatus using the same: The present invention provides an acoustooptic device usable even with light in the ultraviolet region, free from laser damage and optical damage, and excellent in acoustooptic performance and an optical imaging apparatus using the same. The acoustooptic device according to the present invention includes a high-frequency signal input part (65),... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20080037101 - Wire grid polarizer: The invention relates a wire grid polarizer that includes a micropatterned substrate having channels. An electrically conductive material is disposed on the micropatterned substrate in strips having a width of 10 to 20 nm and oriented either parallel or perpendicular to the channels.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20080037102 - Micromirror with multi-axis rotation and translation: The present invention discloses a micromirror device with multi-axis rotational and translational motion. Newly introduced structure of the top electrode plate improves structural stability, flexibility, and more motion efficiency of the micromirror device. The invention also improves controllability of micromirror motion by designing the appropriate flexible structure to generate desired... Agent: Stereo Display Inc.

20080037103 - Nanolaminate deformable mirrors: A deformable mirror formed out of two layers of a nanolaminate foil attached to a stiff substrate is introduced. Deformation is provided by an electrostatic force between two of the layers. The internal stiffness of the structure allows for high-spatial-frequency shapes. The nanolaminate foil of the present invention allows for... Agent: Michael C. Staggs Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

20080037104 - Alignment methods in fluid-filled mems displays: This invention relates to MEMS display apparatus and methods for assembly thereof that include a plurality of light modulators having components substantially surrounded in a liquid that reduces the effects of stiction and improves the optical and electromechanical performance of the display apparatus. The invention also relates to methods for... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20080037106 - Electrophoretic display panel and method of fabricating the same: An electrophoretic display panel with a fast response speed and its fabrication method are disclosed. The electrophoretic display panel includes a first array substrate including a gate line and a data line extending perpendicularly to each other, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080037107 - Electrophoretic apparatus and electronic equipment: A mixture of a first material having high chemical affinity for the electrophoretic particles 6a and a second material having low chemical affinity therefor is used as a binder for fixing microcapsules 5 between a first electrode 3 and a second electrode 4.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037105 - Surface force driven syspended particle devices: An optical device employs a fluid host medium (30) including a polar liquid (31) and an apolar liquid (32). The optical device further employs one or more electro-optically sensitive flakes (40-42) disposed within fluid host medium (30). To facilitate a switching of the optical device among a plurality of optical... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080037108 - Pulse laser beam generating device: To induce a targeted non-linear optical effect by a high-peak-power light by using a light pulse from a semiconductor laser without using a light pulse from a large, high-average-power solid laser such as titanium sapphire laser. A semiconductor laser pulse beam with a wavelength of 1550 nm (for example, repeatability... Agent: Norman P. Soloway Hayes Soloway P.C.

20080037109 - Compensation of gain variations in a multistage optical amplifier: There is described a method for compensation of gain variations in a multistage optical amplifier, for the amplification of an optical wavelength multiplex signal, comprising several amplifier stages in series, each with at least one pumping device. Gain variation occurring after a switching process can easily be compensated for, when... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080037110 - Day/night weapon sight assembly for use on weapon without change in eye relief: A day/night weapon sight assembly that consists of daytime sight and a nighttime sight allows the use of both sights without change in eye relief even when the nighttime sight is attached to the rear end of the daytime sight. This is achieved by supporting the daytime sight moveably in... Agent: Leonid Gaber Atn Corporation

20080037111 - Catadioptric projection objective: A catadioptric projection objective for projecting a pattern arranged in the object plane of the projection objective into the image plane of the projection objective, having: a first objective part for projecting an object field lying in the object plane into a first real intermediate image; a second objective part... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037112 - Projection objective and projection exposure apparatus including the same: A reduction projection objective for projection lithography has a plurality of optical elements configured to image an effective object field arranged in an object surface of the projection objective into an effective image field arranged in an image surface of the projection objective at a reducing magnification ratio |β|<1. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037113 - Stereomicroscope: A stereomicroscope includes a microscope main body and a camera for assistant. The microscope main body includes therein an objective optical system, a zoom optical system and an eyepiece optical system. The camera for assistant is detachably mounted to the microscope main body. The microscope main body provides to a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080037114 - Laser confocal scanning microscope and methods of improving image quality in such microscope: According to a first embodiment the invention provides for increasing the throughput and reducing the striping due to imperfections in the microlens and/or confocal aperture arrays of a Laser Confocal Scanning Microscope by increasing the number of repeat patterns in the microlens and confocal aperture arrays to more than one,... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080037115 - Correct image zoomable reflecting telescope with near stationary eyepiece: A correct image reflecting telescope with zoom capability comprised of a flat mirror, a parabolic primary mirror, and an image correcting system. The flat mirror reflects the incoming light from the telescope aperture into the parabolic primary mirror. The reflected light from the primary mirror passes back through a small... Agent: Dante Duby

20080037116 - Illuminator method and device: A first toroidal ray guide defines an axis of revolution and has a toroidal entrance pupil adapted to image light incident on the entrance pupil at an angle to the axis of revolution between 40 and 140 degrees, and it also has a first imaging surface opposite the entrance pupil.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080037117 - Screen, rear projector, and image display device: A screen includes a screen main body that has a diffusion layer, a frame that is provided along the circumference of the screen main body, and to which the diffusion layer is attached through supporting members to rock, and a driving unit that is mounted on the diffusion layer and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080037118 - Optical multilayer film and reflective screen: An optical multilayer film and reflective screen are provided. An optical multilayer film includes an optical laminate A including a plurality of types of optical layers having different refractive indices laminated on each other, the optical laminate A having a reflection characteristic in which the reflectance peak intensities in the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080037119 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes a light source; a light modulation element modulating illumination light, coming from the light source on the basis of image data; an illumination area modification unit capable of reducing an illumination area for the light modulation element in order to illuminate a specific image-forming area... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080037120 - High resolution 2d/3d switchable display apparatus: A high resolution 2D/3D switchable display apparatus includes a display panel having display elements arranged in pixel units and configured to display an image. A lenticular lens array includes a plurality of lenticular lenses arranged in a horizontal direction and dividing light corresponding to a signal emitted from the display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037121 - Image display device and portable terminal device using the same: In a display panel, a plurality of pixel sections are arranged in the form of a matrix. Each of the pixel sections includes a pixel for displaying an image for the left eye and a pixel for displaying an image for the right eye. Lenticular lens having repeated convex surfaces... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037122 - Reflective type polarizing diffusive film and method of manufacturing the same: In a method of manufacturing a reflective type polarizing diffusive film, a shielding reflection layer is formed on one surface of a substrate, a plurality of grooves are then formed on the shielding reflection layer, and finally, a diffusive layer is formed on the shielding reflection layer. Each of the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080037123 - Optical disc apparatus and method of setting defocus value thereof: An optical disc apparatus is disclosed that comprises a jitter value detecting circuit that detects a jitter value based on the signal read out from an optical disc; and a defocus value setting circuit that adjusts a defocus value used for moving an objective lens along the direction of a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080037124 - Optical member and manufacturing method thereof: An optical member utilizing diffraction, which comprises a substrate having a fine structure comprising microstructures with an interval of 50-1,000 nm between the adjacent microstructures on a substrate surface, wherein the substrate has a surface layer portion comprising a region containing fluorine atoms in an amount larger than that in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080037125 - Image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of suppressing generation of shadows even when the aperture of the photographic lens is stopped down. A digital camera as an image pickup apparatus includes a photographic lens, a image pickup element that picks up an image of an object, and an optical... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080037126 - Diffractive optical element and optical low-pass filter utilizing the same: The invention provides a diffractive optical element that can be used as a light beam splitter device, an optical low-pass filter or the like having a two-dimensionally multi-valued fine periodic structure. The surface of a transparent substrate for the diffractive optical element is divided into fine rectangular areas of identical... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037128 - Coatings for replicating the spectral performance of colored glass: Optical filters are provided that include a coating layer formed of multiple thin film materials deposited on a visually transparent substrate, wherein the optical filters meet or exceed the physical properties and/or the spectral performance properties of comparable long-pass colored glasses regardless of the transmittance transition point of the colored... Agent: Brian F. Swienton Newport Corporation

20080037127 - Wide angle mirror system: Composite mirror systems include a wideband thin film interference stack having a plurality of microlayers and an optically thick layer having a refractive index greater than air but less than the smallest refractive index of the stack. The mirror systems can provide high reflectivity for light propagating in the stack... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080037129 - Multiphoton fluorescence filters: An optical filter is provided which includes a plurality of hard coating layers of alternating high and low refractive index provided on a substrate and has an associated first transmission band. The filter also includes at least one additional plurality of hard coating layers including high and low refractive index... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080037130 - Individual mirror control system: A control system for one or more electrochromic elements used in an outside electrochromic (OEC) mirror used in automobiles or other vehicular applications, to control the glare of both IEC elements used as a rearview mirror (20) as well as the OEC elements (24, 26) used as sideview mirrors (24,... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20080037132 - Solid state imaging device: A solid state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate with photodiodes, transfer electrodes on the semiconductor substrate, a light shielding film with openings above the photodiodes and covering the transfer electrodes, and inner lenses located above the openings. Each inner lens has an upper convex lens surface and a lower... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080037131 - Micro-optic security and image presentation system: A synthetic micro-optic system and security device is disclosed including an in-plane image formed of an array or pattern of image icons and an array of focusing elements, the system producing at least two different synthetic images whereby one synthetic image operates to modulate or control the extent of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080037133 - Apparatus and method for determining presence of curvature in personal vanity mirrors: An apparatus and its method of use by an observer to visually determine what, if any, distortions are introduced by unexpected curvature in a personal vanity mirror. The apparatus remains simple to operate and is convenient for casual use. By providing a familiar reference pattern against which to compare the... Agent: Mr. Doug Preston

20080037134 - Inspection method and apparatus, lithographic apparatus, lithographic processing cell and device method: In a scatterometry apparatus having an illumination aperture stop, a field stop is provided at an intermediate image to control the spot size on the substrate. The field stop may be apodized, e.g. having a transmissivity in the form of a trapezium or a Gaussian shape.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080037135 - Method of making high precision optics having a wavefront profile: A method of generating a high precision optical surface profile includes obtaining a high precision optical surface profile which contains information of the optical path difference map of the profile. A substrate material has a known index of refraction, Ns, while a cover material has an index Nc that is... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080037136 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus: A focusing group G1 is disposed on an object side relative to a variator group G2. The focusing group G1 includes, in order from the object side, a first group G11 having a positive refractive power, a second group G12 having a positive refractive power, and a third group G13... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080037137 - Lens unit, lens barrel, optical device, scanner, and image forming apparatus: A lens barrel includes a communicating passage that communicates between a space inside the lens barrel and outside of the lens barrel. The communicating passage includes a through hole, a circumferential groove, and a vertical groove. Light from outside the lens barrel is prevented from entering an effective optical range... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037138 - Wide-angle objective lens system and camera: A vehicle camera and wide-angle objective lens system are disclosed wherein the wide-angle objective lens has image aberrations or errors that do not deteriorate the detection of obstructions or obstacles in its field of view.... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080037139 - Imaging lens: The imaging lens is used for forming an image of an object on an image-taking surface of a solid image sensor element and comprises, in order from an object side to an image surface side, a diaphragm, a first lens which is a meniscus lens having a positive power whose... Agent: Quinn Emanuel Koda & Androlia

20080037140 - Light-receiving element, optical head using the same, and optical recording/reproducing apparatus using the same: The invention relates to a light-receiving element for receiving light reflected at an optical recording medium capable of preventing qualitative deterioration of an electrical signal obtained by photoelectric conversion of the light received, an optical head using the element, and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus using the element. The light-receiving element... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080037141 - Method for alignment of optical elements in an array: A method for fabricating an array of aligned optical elements. In one embodiment, the optical elements include primary and secondary mirrors that are used to concentrate sunlight onto a photovoltaic cell for direct conversion of the sunlight into electricity. The array is formed using a front panel of plate glass... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080037142 - Actuator and auto-focus imaging system using same: An actuator includes at least one actuator unit. The actuator unit includes a ring, a plurality of first actuator elements, and a plurality of second actuator elements disposed on the ring. Each of the first actuator elements includes a first driving piece and a second driving piece attached to each... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080037143 - Lens assembly with actuating means and auto-focus controlling apparatus having the same: A lens assembly has a driving actuator which includes a magnet, a yoke and a coil and is formed along a lens barrel that accommodates a lens unit for focusing and an auto-focus controlling apparatus comprises the lens assembly for camera module. The magnet or the coil has an internal... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080037144 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel which is capable of attaining further reduction of thickness and size of a lens barrel by making effective use of accommodation spaces for barrier blades. In the lens barrel, barrier blades openably covers an image-taking by changing over its position between an image-taking position and a standby... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080037145 - Rear view system and adjusting method thereof: A rear view system for a transportation device includes a rear view means, a sensor and a controller. The sensor is used for generating a movement signal according to the movement of the transportation device. The controller is used for controlling the rotation of the rear view means according to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080037146 - Heat dissipating layers in deformable mirrors: r

20080037147 - Variable shape mirror: A variable shape mirror includes a support substrate, a mirror substrate that is opposed to the support substrate, a fixing member that is disposed on the support substrate and fixes the mirror substrate, and a piezoelectric element that is disposed on the support substrate and is expanded or contracted so... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080037148 - Variable shape mirror: A variable shape mirror includes a support substrate, a mirror substrate that is opposed to the support substrate, a fixing member that is disposed on the support substrate and fixes the mirror substrate, and a piezoelectric element that is disposed on the support substrate and is expanded or contracted so... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080037149 - Manufacturing method for variable shape mirror: A manufacturing method for variable shape mirrors, which is suitable for mass production, includes a bonding step for sandwiching support pillars and piezoelectric elements between a support substrate and a mirror substrate, and bonding at least the support substrate and the support pillar to each other, the support substrate and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080037150 - Mount for optical component having independent multi-axial control: A mount for an optical component is disclosed that provides the flexibility of independently adjusting the position and orientation of the optical component along and about one or more axes. In an exemplary embodiment, the mount includes a support element for supporting the optical component; one or more rotational adjustment... Agent: Orion Law Group

20080030821 - Hologram recording apparatus, hologram recording method and optical recording medium: A hologram recording method is disclosed in which: signal light includes a plurality of arranged reversal regions in which lightness and darkness of plural pixels of a light and dark image is reversed for an intensity distribution of the light and dark image; the signal light is Fourier-transformed; the Fourier-transformed... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080030819 - Enhanced environment visualization using holographic stereograms: Hologram production techniques can combine source data representing realistic information describing an environment with source data providing representational information describing a feature of the environment and/or some object interacting with the environment. The combined data is used to produce holograms, and particularly holographic stereograms including features that enhance the visualization... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080030820 - Method of recording a hologram: A method of recording a master hologram comprises projecting a beam of coherent light, e.g. using a laser (1) through, in turn, a holographic recording medium (8) and a transparent object (22), into a diffuse reflective surface (23), wherein the object is non-holographic and wherein the medium, the object and... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080030822 - Scanning imaging apparatus: A scanning imaging apparatus comprises an optical system including a curved polariser/reflector, a rotatable reflector, a polarisation twisting plate, and a receiver array, wherein a convex reflective element is incorporated in the optical path that acts as a sub-reflector that increases the optical system focal length. It has been found... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080030823 - Laser irradiating method and device for same: Because a focal distance of a condenser lens is changed due to a change in temperature, when irradiation of a laser beam is restarted after the irradiation has stopped, it takes a long time to restore a temperature of the cooled lens to a given temperature, and the operating efficiency... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080030824 - Deformable mirrors: The invention resides in the innovative use of deposition techniques in deformable mirrors. The use of deposition techniques allows contact pads for electrodes to be located wherever convenient. When applied to bimorph mirrors the invention enables both electro-restrictive layers to become active, increasing the stroke of the deformable mirror whilst... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080030825 - 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

20080030826 - Miniature single actuator scanner for angle multiplexing with circularizing and pitch correction capability: The present invention provides a scanner comprising: a reflector component; means supporting the reflector component for pivoting with respect to the MCR to provide a scan which is stationary with respect to the OCR; means for enabling the support means to provide controlled pivoting of the reflector component; a magnet... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20080030827 - Display methods and apparatus: The invention relates to spatial light modulators for use in display apparatus. In particular, the invention relates to spatial light modulators that include a substrate defining a plane and a shutter suspended over the substrate by a compliant beam. The compliant beam has a cross-sectional thickness, in a dimension parallel... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20080030828 - Display device and method of manufacturing the same: A display device includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate. Black matrixes are formed upon the upper substrate and color filters are formed between the black matrixes. Microshutter electrodes are formed upon the lower substrate and are configured to open and close. The display device also includes fixed electrodes... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080030829 - Polymerizable compositions comprising nanoparticles: Polymerizable compositions comprising nanopartilces particularly useful for brightness enhancing films.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080030830 - Image display medium, image writing device, and image forming apparatus: An image display medium comprising: a display layer; a pair of substrates that retain the display layer therebetween, with at least parts of the pair of substrates configuring a frame portion to which an electrical connection connector for electrical connection to the outside connects, and with at least one of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080030831 - Liquid crystal electro-optical modulator and method of optical modulation: An electro-optical modulator includes a substrate, a first electrode over the substrate, a second electrode over the first electrode, the first electrode and second electrode being capable of providing an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a modulating structure between the first electrode and the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20080030833 - Display device and method for fabricating the same: The present invention provides a display panel of a flat panel display device of a four-color structure in which color mixture may not occur in a white sub-pixel and a method for fabricating the same. The display device includes first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels, and each sub-pixel includes a... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080030832 - Multi-layer light modulator: A light modulator comprises a plurality of discrete variable transmission electro-optic layers arranged so that light will pass successively through the plurality of layers; the light modulator has a higher transmission range than any of the individual electro-optic layers separately.... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080030834 - Adhesive ion-conducting layer for flexible electrochromic devices: A flexible electrochromic device is disclosed, the device including a flexible substrate with at least one electrically conductive surface, and an adhesive ion-conducting layer including a) a polymer binder selected from the group of polyvinylpyrrolidone and copolymers of vinylpyrrolidone, and b) a source of mobile cations, e.g., alkali metal salts,... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080030835 - Electrochromic rearview mirror incorporating a third surface reflector: The inventive electrochromic mirror may be used in a vehicle rearview mirror assembly having a light source positioned behind the electrochromic mirror for selectively projecting light through the mirror and/or a light sensor positioned behind the electrochromic mirror for selectively receiving light through the mirror. The electrochromic mirror includes front... Agent: Brian J. Rees Gentex Corporation

20080030836 - Thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements: Electro-optic elements are becoming commonplace in a number of vehicular and architectural applications. Various electro-optic element configurations provide variable transmittance and or variable reflectance for windows and mirrors. The present invention relates to various thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements.... Agent: Brian J. Rees Gentex Corporation

20080030837 - Chromogenically tunable photonic crystals: Tunable photonic crystals offer an interesting possibility to adjust the photonic band gap (PBG) as per requirement. Various methods of achieving this have been tried that include polarization of liquid crystals, thermal effects and more. Chromogenic devices provided in accordance with the present invention include combinations and subcombinations of electrochromic,... Agent: Stikeman Elliott

20080030838 - Light phase modulator: The invention relates to a light phase modulator, which is based on a multi-gate transistor.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080030839 - Optical instrument and measurements using multiple tunable optical polarization rotators: Devices and techniques for generating and analyzing states of polarization in light using multiple adjustable polarization rotators in various applications.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080030840 - Sloped cantilever beam electrode for a mems device: A method of tilting a micromirror includes providing a substrate, a sloped electrode outwardly from the substrate, and a sloped electrode positioning system outwardly from the substrate. The method also includes applying, by the sloped electrode positioning system, forces sufficient to position the sloped electrode in an orientation that slopes... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080030841 - Sloping electrodes in a spatial light modulator: A method of tilting a micromirror includes forming a substrate, a micromirror outwardly from the substrate, and at least one electrode inwardly from the micromirror. The method further includes applying, by the at least one electrode, electrostatic forces sufficient to pivot the micromirror about a pivot point. In addition, the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080030842 - Hinge design for enhanced optical performance for a digital micro-mirror device: An apparatus for use with a digital micro-mirror 100 includes a hinge 116 disposed outwardly from a substrate 102. The hinge 116 is capable of at least partially supporting a micro-mirror 104 disposed outwardly from the hinge 116. The micro-mirror 104 is capable of being selectively transitioned between an on-state... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080030844 - Electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device having a first array substrate including a first substrate, a common electrode formed on the first substrate, and a plurality of micro capsules containing first pigments with a positive polarity and second pigments with a negative polarity. A second array substrate is provided, the second array... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080030843 - Information display panel: There is provided an information display panel capable of ensuring a proper gap to which a proper electrostatic field is applied by voltage application and having excellent sealing performance without break or deformation of the sealing agent. In an information display panel of the present invention, wherein display media consisting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080030845 - Integrated holding-beam-at-transparency (hbat) configuration for semiconductor optical amplification or emission: An optical device for amplifying or emitting an optical beam of given wavelength comprises an optical source (20) in combination with a primary optical device (10) which is a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), a gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier (GCSOA), a sub-threshold gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifier (SGCSOA), a laser diode (LD)... Agent: Sturm & Fix LLP

20080030846 - Double-pass fiber amplifier: Several examples of double-pass fiber amplifiers including a polarization maintaining (PM) gain-fiber are disclosed. In each example, input and twice-amplified output are separated by an all-fiber, polarization-maintaining polarization splitter combiner. One example includes a double-pass fiber amplifier which relies on a double pass through a 45 degree fiber based rotator... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080030847 - Fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers with reduced out-of-band gain: A method of operating a fiber amplifier characterized by a spectral gain curve includes providing an input signal at a signal wavelength. The signal wavelength lies within an in-band portion of the spectral gain curve extending from a first in-band wavelength to a second in-band wavelength, the in-band portion being... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080030848 - Stereomicroscope: A stereomicroscope includes a first beam path and a second beam path, wherein in the first beam path a first telescope system is provided and in the second beam path a second telescope system is provided. An observation unit comprising a first and a second observation unit is also provided.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080030849 - Microscope optical system, microscope apparatus, and microscope observation method: The present invention enables switching between wide-field observation and high-magnification observation during in vivo examination of a small laboratory animal or the like using a narrow-diameter objective lens, without changing the objective lens. There is provided a microscope optical system including an objective lens for collecting light from an examination... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080030850 - Arrangement for microscopic observation and/or detection in a light scanning microscope with line scanning and use: Arrangement for microscopic observation and/or detection of a sample that is at least partially transparent by way of a microscope objective in a light scanning microscope with line-shaped illumination, whereby an illumination of the sample outside the objective is carried out from at least from one side at an angle... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080030851 - Microscope system comprising arrangement for positioning of a platform: In a flexure arrangement for translating positioning of an object in a microscope system, two actuators both act along a first direction, while the object partly can be positioned along the first direction and partly, with a gear ratio, along the second direction, which is perpendicular to the first.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080030852 - Lighting optical device,exposure system,and exposure method: An illumination optical apparatus is able to accomplish desired annular illumination, circular illumination, and so on, without substantial influence of the zero-order light from a diffractive optical element. The illumination optical apparatus comprises a diffractive optical element (3) which converts a light beam from a light source (1) into a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080030853 - Collapsible projection screen systems: A collapsible projection screen system mountable on or at a moveable carriage (10), the system comprising a flexible projection screen (16) moveable between a collapsed position and an erect position in which the screen (16) is supported by a support arrangement (14, 15), and a screen tensioning mechanism (64, 40,... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080030854 - Application of retroreflective tapes to garments: Techniques for adhering metal backed cube corner Retroreflective tapes to a variety of fabric types, such as Gortex™, by applying a thermoset adhesive to the back of the tape at temperatures below the activation temperature (e.g., at about the melt temperature), and then subsequently applying the tape to the garment... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080030855 - Multi-dimensional measuring system: A laser based tracking unit communicates with a target to obtain position information about the target. Specifically, the target is placed at the point to be measured. The pitch, yaw and roll movements of the target, and the spherical coordinates of the target relative to the tracking unit are then... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080030856 - Breathable retroreflective material for high visibility safety apparel and reflective apparel: A retroreflective system comprising a monolayer of microsphere lenses arrayed in form of duplicative matrixes, the matrix is a group of micro graphic shapes line up in rows and columns, a matching binder layer of the above matrixes and a base layer of fabric or other substance. The reflective system... Agent: Tao-ming Tom King

20080030857 - Optical pickup and optical information recording apparatus using the same: An optical pickup includes a diffraction grating partitioned into three areas, in which the phase of periodic grating groove structure in an area is successively shifted from that in the adjacent area by 90°. In the generation of a differential push-pull signal, an amplification factor K for sub push-pull signals... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080030858 - Optical filter and optical apparatus: An optical filter has a transmission band for transmitting light with a predetermined wavelength, including: a substrate; and a thin film where layers with comparatively high refractive indexes and layers with comparatively low refractive indexes are alternately laminated, in which one side of the thin film is in contact with... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080030859 - Daylighting film, method for producing the same and window equipped therewith: The present invention is to provide a daylighting film that can provide incident sunlight from a window to desired indoor spots such as ceilings, increase indoor illumination, allows for easy installation, easy cleaning, and ensuring efficiency of taking sunlight into the indoors, a method for producing the daylighting film and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080030860 - Light diffusing sheet with two kinds of light diffusion particles: A light diffusing sheet (21) including a main body. The main body is made of a transparent resin matrix material (211), and a plurality of first light diffusion particles (212) and a plurality of second light diffusion particles (213) dispersed in the transparent resin matrix material uniformly. A refractive index... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080030861 - Light diffusing sheet with two kinds of light diffusion particles: The present invention aims to provide an antiglare light diffusing member utilizing internal diffusion and surface diffusion in combination, wherein a surface haze value mainly representing the degree of the surface diffusion and an internal haze value mainly representing the degree of the internal diffusion are easily adjusted independently from... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080030862 - Viewing tunnel: A viewing tunnel for improving the viewability of the display screen of a digital camera under some lighting conditions. The viewing tunnel is a five-panel device that can be used to cradle the digital camera and to shield the display screen from ambient light thereby enhancing an operator's view of... Agent: Vincent Patent Agency

20080030863 - Lens device: A lens device includes a focus lens unit mounted movably to a base, a focus driving unit for driving movement of the focus lens unit, first and second lens units mounted in a main barrel, and a resilient light blocking sheet connected to the focus driving unit. The first and... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080030864 - Lenticular carrying case: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a lenticular carrying case for carrying a disk, the lenticular carrying case comprising a single lenticular sheet having an exterior side, an interior side, parallel longitudinal lenses arranged in a given direction on the exterior side, and the single... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080030865 - Optical detector for a particle sorting system: An optical system for acquiring fast spectra from spatially channel arrays includes a light source for producing a light beam that passes through the microfluidic chip or the channel to be monitored, one or more lenses or optical fibers for capturing the light from the light source after interaction with... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080030866 - Illumination homogenizing optical element: An illumination homogenizing optical element is disclosed that includes at least one optical surface having a plurality of refractive structures formed as either grooves or protrusions that, individually, are wider than the wavelength of light incident onto said illumination homogenizing optical element. At least part of the light incident onto... Agent: Arnold International

20080030867 - Collimator array: A collimator array using a molded element to hold the input fibers and to collimate the light. The input fibers are held within holes in one face of the element, and the collimation of the light emitted from the ends of the fibers is performed by an array of lenses... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080030868 - Camera lcd screen hood and viewing device: In an exemplary embodiment, an LCD screen hood is provided for use with digital cameras. The hood includes a hood tube that defines a light blocking sidewall having an open camera end and an opposite viewing end and enclosing a longitudinally extending viewpath therebetween. An eyepiece mounted on the viewing... Agent: Christopher J. Fildes Fildes & Outland. P.C.

20080030869 - Objectives as a microlithography projection objective with at least one liquid lens: The invention relates to an objective designed as a microlithography projection objective for an operating wavelength. The objective has a greatest adjustable image-side numerical aperture NA, at least one first lens made from a solid transparent body, in particular glass or crystal, with a refractive index nL and at least... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080030870 - Variable-focus lens: The invention relates to a variable-focus lens comprising two opposing walls (21, 22) which are which define a space containing an isolating liquid (31) on the first wall (22) and a conductive liquid (32) which covers the isolating liquid and which comes into contact with the second wall (21). The... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080030871 - Zoom lens and projector employing zoom lens: To provide a thin projector for projecting an image from a light bulb such as a DMD for forming an image by changing reflecting directions of light on to a screen or the like in an enlarged fashion and a compact zoom lens with high performance and which has a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080030872 - Optical apparatus: An optical apparatus has an imaging optical system provided with a deformable mirror and an electronic zoom function that an image recorded in an image sensor by the imaging optical system is magnified by image processing. A ray deflecting function of the deformable mirror is changed in accordance with a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080030873 - Lens unit and photographing apparatus: A lens unit includes: a first lens group arranged in a first optical axis direction of the lens unit, on which a light flux from an object is incident; a second lens group provided closer to an image side than the first lens group and arranged in a second optical... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080030874 - Negative spherical aberration component-based imaging lens assembly in imaging reader: An imaging lens assembly focuses light from indicia in a working range of distances along an optical path onto a solid-state imager of an imaging reader. The lens assembly includes a negative spherical aberration component and an aperture stop that together are operative for extending the working range.... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20080030875 - Image pickup lens system and image pickup apparatus: f1: the focal length of the first lens; f2: the focal length of the second lens; R1: the paraxial radius of curvature of the surface on the object side of the first lens; f: the focal length of the entire system; and D3: the axial surface-to-surface distance between the first... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080030876 - Mold for optical components: A method is provided for manufacturing a high-precision mold whereby a feature matching a desired feature design is carved into a hard mold material (41) using, for example, a diamond grinding wheel and/or a diamond turning point. Inherent imprecision and errors (49) introduced by the use of the grinding wheel/turning... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080030877 - Systems and methods for optimizing the crystallization of amorphous silicon: In a thin beam directional Crystallization System configured anneal a silicon layer on a glass substrate uses a special laser beam profile with an intensity peak at one edge. The system is configured to entirely melt a spatially controlled portion of a silicon layer causing lateral crystal growth. By advancing... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080030878 - Bi-curvature lens for light emitting diodes and photo detectors: A bi-curvature lens for diodes in an infrared wireless communication transceiver is disclosed. Devices having such a bi-curvature lens, such as a light emitting device, a light detecting device, and a transceiver are also disclosed. A method for designing such a lens, and a method for fabricating a device having... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080030879 - Imaging apparatus: The imaging apparatus for imaging a wide area as a subject by dividing the subject into a plurality of subject portions and respectively imaging the subject portions using a plurality of imaging means 11, 12 is configured such that the imaging means 11, 12 include lenses 1, 3A, 3B, and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080030880 - Objective lens actuator and optical pickup device having the same: An objective lens actuator according to the present invention is provided with a gel holder having a gel holding hole into which suspension wires to hold an objective lens holder are inserted, a gel injection hole connected to the gel holding hole is formed in a round shape on a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080030881 - Optical apparatus: An optical apparatus having a grip for gripping a camera body. The apparatus includes a lens element, a lens barrel configured to retain the lens element, a focus detection sensor disposed on an outer peripheral portion of the lens barrel, and a ring-shaped operation member configured to manually adjust at... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080030882 - Reflecting screen, method of manufacturing the same, and reflection-type projection system: A reflecting screen 10 comprises a base portion 11, light transmitting portions 12 provided on the base portion 11, and light absorbing portions 14. Each of the light transmitting portions 12 comprises a unit prism shape 12 which has a generally wedge-like shape with a larger width on the image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080030883 - External rearview mirror for vehicles, preferably motor vehicles: An outside rear view mirror assembly for a motor vehicle includes a mirror housing including a circumferential lateral wall defining an opening, an insertion opening and a back wall. The outside rear view mirror assembly also includes a mirror mounting bracket insertable into the mirror housing through the insertion opening.... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080030884 - Device and method for affecting local climatic parameters: A system for affecting a local parameter, the system comprising a sunlight radiation reflecting surface, and a propulsion mechanism, the propulsion mechanism being adapted to move the reflecting surface to a predetermined position being chosen based on the effect of the system on said local parameter at the position.... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20080030885 - Vehicle pivot mirror: A vehicular pivot mirror assembly comprises a reflective element assembly pivotably attached to a support arm to enable rotation of the reflective element assembly relative to the support arm about a pivot connection. A positioning assembly enables rotation of the reflective element assembly in response to a rotational force applied... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC