Optical: systems and elements inventions 07/08

20080180766 - Hologram and holgraphic viewing device incorporating it: The invention relates to a hologram that enables two or more different images to be simultaneously reconstructed even in a state where the hologram is fixed in terms of relative position with respect to an eye, and a holographic viewing device that incorporates it. The hologram 14 is fabricated by... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080180767 - Hologram recording apparatus and method: A hologram recording apparatus includes a laser light source for emitting laser light, a light splitter for splitting the laser light emitted from the laser light source into a signal beam and a reference beam, a light modulator for modulating the signal beam split by the light splitter, a phase... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080180768 - Photo detecting device and holographic data reproducing apparatus for multilayered holographic data storage medium: Provided are a photo detecting device and a holographic data reproducing apparatus for a multilayered holographic data storage medium using the photo detecting device. The holographic data reproducing apparatus, which can reproduce a large amount of information recorded in multiple layers of a holographic data storage medium, includes a focusing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080180769 - Recording medium, reproducing apparatus, and reproducing method: A recording medium records therein image data for distributing contents as element holograms with interference fringes generated by interference between an object beam representing the image data and a reference beam. The image data to be distributed which are recorded as the element holograms in the recording medium are reproduced... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080180770 - Light deflector and light scanning device: A light deflector includes: an oscillating mirror which includes a reflecting surface and which rotationally oscillates about a first axis; a mirror holder which holds the oscillating mirror; and a wiring drawn out from a surface of the mirror holder at a drawn-out start position, the drawn-out start position lying... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080180771 - Oscillator device and image forming apparatus using the same: An oscillator device includes a supporting base plate, a supporting member, a movable plate supported by the supporting member for oscillating motion relative to the supporting base plate, a first functional device having a first function, a second functional device having a second function, a first wiring connected to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080180772 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning system includes a light source, a polygon mirror, a first optical system, a second optical system, and a monitoring device. The light source includes a plurality of light-emitting units. The first optical system is arranged on an optical path of light beams, and guides the light beams... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080180773 - Light scanning device: A rotational multifaceted mirror (24) deflects a laser light outgoing from a semiconductor laser (21), so that the light scanning device (2) which scans the photoconductive drum (131) has a third optical system (25) having a correction lens (5) whose curvature radii are different on the incident side surface (5a)... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080180774 - Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes a light source that illuminates light on an original document surface, an optical illumination system that leads the light emitted from the light source towards a reading target region, an imaging optical system that images the light reflected from the original document surface, the image... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080180775 - Galvanometric motor with optical position detection device: Disclosed is a Galvanometric motor with a rotor and a position detection device, which comprises the following: a deflection element, which is rigidly connected to the rotor and which has a reflection surface, first illumination means in order to direct a first light beam on to the reflection surface of... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080180777 - Method and post structures for interferometric modulation: An interferometric modulator includes a post structure comprising an optical element. In a preferred embodiment, the optical element in the post structure is a reflective element, e.g., a mirror. In another embodiment, the optical element in the post structure is an etalon, e.g., a dark etalon. The optical element in... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080180778 - Methods and configurations for manufacturing hinges for micro-mirror devices: An image display system includes an improved hinge for a micro-mirror device composed of a conductive-doped semiconductor and immune to plastic deformation at typical to extreme temperatures. The hinge is directly connected to the micro-mirror device and facilitates the manufacturing of an optically flat micro-mirror. This eliminates Fraunhofer diffraction due... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080180776 - Speckle reduction laser and laser display apparatus having the same: A speckle reduction laser and a laser display apparatus having the speckle reduction laser are provided. The speckle reduction laser includes a semiconductor unit that comprises an active layer and emits laser light through a first side surface thereof by resonating light generated from the active layer, and a vibration... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080180781 - Display mirror assembly suitable for use in a vehicle: A display mirror assembly includes a reflective mirror element having a semitransparent mirror reflector coated onto a light-transmitting substrate. Visible light transmission through the reflective mirror element is at least 3 percent and visible light reflectance by the reflective mirror element is at least 40 percent for visible light incident... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080180780 - Interior rearview mirror assembly: An interior rearview mirror assembly suitable for use in a vehicle includes a bezel and a mirror element located behind the bezel and viewable through an opening formed by the bezel. A backplate, formed by molding and having a first pivot element integrally formed on a side thereof, is securely... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080180779 - Reflective mirror assembly: A reflective mirror assembly includes an electrochromic reflective element providing a rearward field of view to a driver of a vehicle equipped with the reflective mirror assembly. The electrochromic reflective element includes an electrochromic medium disposed between a front substrate and a rear substrate in a cavity established by a... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080180782 - Frequency synthesis for acousto-optic devices: A system for controlling an acousto-optic device includes an acousto-optic device having an acoustic transducer and configured to store a number of design specific parameters for a parametric tuning algorithm. the system includes a frequency synthesizer coupled to the acousto-optic device and configured to provide a radio frequency tuning signal... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080180783 - Critical dimension control for photolithography for microelectromechanical systems devices: A method of making a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device is disclosed. The method includes forming a stationary layer and a moving layer spaced from the stationary layer. The method also includes forming at least one support structure configured to support the moving layer. Forming the at least one support structure... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080180784 - Hybrid color synthesis for multistate reflective modulator displays: A display device including a plurality of optical modulators and a plurality of filter elements on a reflective side of the plurality of optical modulators is provided. The plurality of optical modulators includes a first set of optical modulators and a second set of optical modulators. Each optical modulator of... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080180785 - Printer wiper for printing on bichromal or multi-colored electronic paper: An electronic display includes an electronic display material having two opposing outer surfaces, wherein at least one of the outer surfaces is at least partially covered in a plurality of spaced-apart charge-retaining islands comprised of a conductive material with areas of insulating material interposed therebetween. A charge transfer device is... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080180786 - Metamaterial structures for light processing and method of processing light: A metamaterial structure for light processing includes a light guide and a composite resonant electromagnetic (EM) structure having a resonant frequency. The composite resonant EM structure is arranged to interact with light propagating along the light guide to upconvert a frequency of the light to the resonant frequency, which generates... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180787 - High power optical apparatus employing large-mode-area, multimode, gain-producing optical fibers: Optical apparatus includes a multimode, gain-producing fiber for providing gain to signal light propagating in the core of the fiber, and a pump source for providing pump light that is absorbed in the core, characterized in that (i) the pump source illustratively comprises a low brightness array of laser diodes... Agent: Michael J. Urbano

20080180788 - Laser processing method and laser processing apparatus: The present invention relates to a laser processing method and laser processing apparatus for enabling improvement and maintenance of homogenization of a beam intensity distribution in an irradiated region. The laser processing apparatus comprises, at least, an ASE light generation section for emitting ASE light, and a homogenizer for splitting... Agent: Venable LLP

20080180789 - Short infrared zoom lens system: An infrared lens system including a focus section that focus infrared radiation at an image plane, and a zoom section that adjusts a desired focal length of the infrared radiation, the focus section and zoom section including a plurality of lens elements which are located along an optical axis in... Agent: David Klein Dekel Patent Ltd.

20080180790 - Dynamic scanning automatic microscope and method: An automatic microscope is disclosed which incorporates dynamic scanning of the microscope slide and other interchangeable optical path components.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080180791 - Photosensor-chip, laser-microscope comprising a photosensor-chip and method for reading a photosensor-chip: The invention relates to a photosensor-chip, a laser-microscope comprising a photosensor-chip and to a method for reading a photosensor-chip. Said photosensor-chip comprises a light-sensitive area and a light-insensitive area. The light-insensitive area has a surface which is at least the double the surface of the light-sensitive area.... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080180793 - High content screening system with live cell chamber: An apparatus for performing live cell analysis includes a stage housing and a chamber assembly. The stage housing includes a cover having a bottom surface. The chamber assembly is movably disposed below and movable relative to the cover of the stage housing and can removably receive a specimen plate holding... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080180792 - Light field microscope with lenslet array: A light field microscope incorporating a lenslet array at or near the rear aperture of the objective lens. The microscope objective lens may be supplemented with an array of low power lenslets which may be located at or near the rear aperture of the objective lens, and which slightly modify... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.C. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080180794 - Microscope enclosure system: A light-tight enclosure system for housing an automated microscope.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080180795 - Microscope lens barrel: Provided is a microscope lens barrel including a collecting lens and a deflecting optical system. The collecting lens emits observation light toward the deflecting optical system. The deflecting optical system includes a first reflecting plane, a second reflecting plane, a third reflecting plane, and a fourth reflecting plane, and deflects... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080180798 - Apparatus for and method of delivering visual image into air: An image projection system that communicates an image into the air includes screen material particles, a screen generation device, a delivery device and a light projecting system. The screen generation device disperses the screen material particles from the screen generation device at a targeted screen location, thereby forming a projection... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080180796 - Projection screen: A projection screen (10) includes a plurality of asperities (14) extending from a substrate, the asperities having faces oriented in a plurality of directions. A photosensitive material is disposed preferentially on the faces so that a differing amount of photosensitive material is present on faces oriented generally toward a projector... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180797 - Screen having image viewable only in ambient light: A reflective display screen comprises a first component surface responsive to absorb low level ambient light from above the screen and a second surrounding component surface responsive to light of high intensity from an image source. The first component surface is graphically formed to represent a fixed permanent image within... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180799 - Laminated wave plate and optical pickup using the same: r

20080180800 - Device for generating an array of light spots: The invention relates to a device for generating a periodical array of light spots from an input light beam, said device comprising—a periodical array of apertures (202) forming a plurality of interlaced sub-arrays of apertures,—phase shifter elements (PSi) placed in front of said apertures for imposing a phase shift to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080180801 - Optical multilayer film and image display device: e

20080180802 - Deep shadow occulter: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for occulting light. The occulter shape suppresses diffraction at any given size or angle and is practical to build because it can be made binary to avoid scatter. Binary structures may be fully opaque or fully transmitting at specific points. The diffraction suppression is spectrally... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080180803 - Optical elements comprising compatiblizing coatings and methods of making the same: The present invention relates to optical elements, such as ophthalmic elements, including a substrate, a compatiblizing coating that optionally includes a dendritic polymer on at least a portion of the surface of the substrate and a functional organic coating, such as, but not limited to, an alignment coating, a photochromic... Agent: Ppg Industries, Inc. Law Department - Intellectual Property

20080180804 - Projector optical system, projector, and method for forming real image in use of projector optical system: e

20080180805 - Microscope objective:

20080180806 - Variable focus lens: Optical apparatus for modifying a radiation beam, the apparatus including a variable focus lens (1) comprising a first fluid (A) and a second fluid (B) wherein the fluids are immiscible and are separated from each other by a fluid meniscus (6; 106; 206; 306) which is configurable into a configuration... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080180807 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the same: t

20080180808 - Zoom optical system and electronic imaging apparatus having the same: An electronic imaging apparatus includes a zoom optical system having, in order from the object side, a first lens unit with positive power, a second lens unit with negative power, and an aperture stop, in which the first lens unit is composed of a single positive power unit and the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080180809 - Objective optical system for an endoscope: An objective optical system is disclosed that is suitable for a high-precision endoscope that performs focusing by moving a single lens component. The objective optical system includes, in order from the object side, a front lens group, a middle lens group, and a rear lens group. The middle lens group... Agent: Arnold International

20080180810 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the lens: where fW and fT respectively represent the focal lengths of the entire zoom lens at a wide angle end and a telephoto end, f2 represents the focal length of the second lens unit, β2W and β2T respectively represent the imaging magnifications of the second lens unit at the wide angle... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080180811 - Bent type zoom optical system and imaging system using the same: The invention relates to a slimmed-down, small-format, high-zoom-ratio bent type zoom optical system that can be tucked away in a lens mount and an imaging system incorporating the same. The bent type zoom optical system or taking system comprises, in order from its object side, a first lens group G1... Agent: Richard M. Rosati, Esq. Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080180812 - Lens barrel supporting frame, lens retaining structure, lens barrel and camera: Lens barrel 3 includes a stationary frame 20, a drive frame 30, a rotation cam frame 70, and a first lens frame 60. The drive frame 30 is supported by the stationary frame 20 to be movable in a Y axis direction along an optical axis of an imaging optical... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080180813 - Imaging lens: An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, a first lens having a positive refractive power and having a convex surface on the object side; a second lens having a negative refractive power and having a concave surface on the object... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080180814 - Image pickup lens, image pickup apparatus and mobile terminal: The present invention provides an image pickup lens for forming an image of an object on a photoelectrical converter of a solid-state image pickup element. The image pickup lens includes: an aperture stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power and having a meniscus shape whose surface facing the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080180815 - Objective lens for optical pick-up: There is provided an objective lens for an optical pick-up. The objective lens is formed to be a single-element plastic lens having a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is configured to have, within an effective diameter, an inflection point at which a second derivative of a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080180816 - Imaging lens and imaging device including the imaging lens: The imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image surface side, a diaphragm, a first lens that is a biconvex lens having a positive power, a second lens having a negative power, a third lens having a positive power, and a fourth lens that is a... Agent: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP Koda/androlia

20080180817 - Imaging lens: An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, a first lens having a convex surface on the object side and having a positive power; a second lens having a concave surface on the object side and having a negative power; a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080180818 - Magnifying viewer and projector for portable electronic devices: The invention provides a mechanical viewing structure or theater for viewing small screens associated with personal electronic devices. The viewing structure is made of four semi-rigid trapezoid shaped walls joined together to form a hollow trapezoidal viewing structure that optionally is collapsible. The viewing structure has a larger opening that... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20080180819 - Adjustable/non-adjustable precision optical mounts: A highly precision, super stable, structure compact and fully lockable ball joint mechanism optical mounts are presented. Both stationary plate and movable plate have a partial-spherical hole or conical hole. Facing spacing aligns the bases of the partial-spherical holes or conical holes; a space adjustable cavity is formed. An external-spherical... Agent: Xiwen Wang

20080180820 - Lens actuator, and electronic device using the same: A lens actuator is provided for moving a movable part including a lens, with respect to a fixed part in the optical axis direction of the lens. The lens actuator includes (a) a magnet disposed on the surface of the movable part facing the fixed part and magnetized in the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080180821 - Apparatus, method and system for providing enhanced mechanical protection of thin beams: An arrangement for a micro-mechanical beam includes a support structure to provide an increase in bending stiffness of the micro-mechanical beam without significantly influencing torsional stiffness, where the support structure is configured to directly attach to the micro-mechanical beam.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080180822 - Single arm tow mirror assembly: An external rearview mirror assembly is fixedly secured to a motor vehicle. The external rearview mirror assembly includes a mounting bracket which is fixedly secured to the motor vehicle. An arm is pivotally secured to the mounting bracket. The arm defines an elongated channel having an upper arm surface, a... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080180823 - Color wheel: A color wheel includes a motor, a filter and a dark slide. The motor has an adhering section and the filter is affixed to the motor by the adhering section. The filter has a first surface facing the motor and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The dark... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080180824 - Optical device, method of manufacturing the same, replica substrate for producing optical device, and method of producing the same: An optical device, a method of manufacturing the optical device, a replica substrate for manufacturing the optical device, and a method of producing the replica substrate are disclosed. The optical device includes a base, and a plurality of structures arranged at a fine pitch equal to or shorter than a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080174841 - Hologram recording apparatus: A hologram recording apparatus where holograms corresponding to incident angles of reference light are multiple-recorded onto a medium, including a recording light projection unit projecting the recording light onto a region of the medium; a reference light projection unit projecting the reference light onto the medium by intermittently changing an... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080174842 - Time dependent fluorescence measurements: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for collecting optical data pertaining to one or more characteristics of a sample. The apparatus has a light source, one or more illumination optical elements, a scanner, one or more collection optical elements, and a device forming an aperture... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080174843 - Optical scan apparatus, image formation apparatus, optical deflector manufacturing method, polygon mirror processing method, and polygon mirror processing apparatus: In the optical deflector, the mean width of profile elements of a cross section of the deflection surface in the sub scan direction is set to be less than to spacing between spots of the light beams formed in the sub scan direction of the deflection surface. This makes it... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080174844 - Light scanning device: A light scanning device includes: a light source; a lens which converts a light emitted from the light source to a parallel light flux; an oscillating mirror which oscillates rotationally; a mirror support body which supports the oscillating mirror and which includes a first opening; a light shield wall which... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080174845 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes plural laser light sources, a polygonal mirror that scans plural laser beams from the plural laser light sources, and a multiplexing member that combines the plural laser beams scanned by the polygonal mirror. The polygonal mirror is disposed above or below the multiplexing member, and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080174846 - Optical shutter for display device, image display apparatus, and apparatus and method for manufacturing the optical shutter: An optical shutter for a display device includes a partition wall surrounding and isolating a light-transmitting portion; a polar liquid having polarity, allowing light transmission, and placed at the light-transmitting portion; a nonpolar liquid having no polarity, blocking light, and placed at the light-transmitting portion; an insulator having hydrophobic properties... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080174847 - Interferometric method for improving the resolution of a lithographic system: According to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for writing an arbitrary, two-dimensional pattern using interferometric lithography and classical techniques includes the steps of: (1) creating a pixel array defined by a number of pixels having specific coordinates; (2) mapping pixel information based on the desired pattern,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080174849 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus is constituted by display cells, arranged in a row direction and a column direction, each comprising a color filter and an optical modulation device for modulating a brightness and a color of an incident light by voltage application. The optical modulation device modulates color of the incident... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080174848 - Highly efficient 2d/3d switchable display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes a backlight unit where a reflection panel is installed at a bottom thereof, a polarization panel which transmits only light of a particular polarization direction of light emitted from the backlight unit, a polarization switch which changes the polarization direction of incident light, a birefringent... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174850 - Display device: A display device includes a light source that supplies light, a phase modulator that modulates the phase of the light from the light source to form an image, and an imaging optical system that focuses the image formed through the modulation performed by the phase modulator. The phase modulator produces... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080174852 - Display device, method for manufacturing display device, and electronic paper: A display device of active matrix driving type has a plurality of pixel regions arranged in a plane, each of the pixel regions including a selection switching element that controllably switches a supply of a signal to the each of the pixel regions, a pressure sensitive switching element that controllably... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080174851 - Electro-optical panel, electro-optical device, driving method of electro-optical device: An electro-optical panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common electrode disposed on the first substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on the second substrate, and a liquid dispersion medium which is sealed between a pair of substrates including the first substrate and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080174854 - Image display panel and image display device: In an image display panel: in which at least one group of particles or liquid particles is sealed between opposed substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent; in which the particles or the liquid powders, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174853 - Multi-layer sheet for use in electro-optic displays: A multi-layer film, useful as a front sub-assembly in electro-optic displays, comprises, in this order: a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer (114); a light-transmissive first protective layer (112); a light-transmissive moisture barrier layer (108); and a light-transmissive second protective layer (106). This multi-layer film can be used in forming an electro-optic display... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080174855 - Deformable mirror device with oscillating states: A mirror device which deflects incident light includes: a mirror arranged on a substrate and supported by a hinge; an address electrode deflecting the mirror to an ON state, an OFF state, or an oscillating state; a drive circuit applying a voltage to the address electrode; and a first stopper... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080174856 - Semiconductor optical amplifier device amplifying external light signal and driving apparatus therefor: An active layer has a quantum well structure formed of InGaAsP, and includes a saturable absorption region and optical amplification regions. To the saturable absorption region, a voltage is applied through a p-electrode, independent from the optical amplification region. To the optical amplification regions, currents are injected through p-electrodes, respectively.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174857 - Multi-fibre arrangement for high power fibre lasers and amplifiers: An optical fibre arrangement has at least two optical fibre sections, each optical fibre section defining an outside longitudinally extending surface. The outside longitudinally extending surfaces are in optical contact with each other. The invention further provides for an amplifying optical device have an optical fibre arrangement as just described,... Agent: John S. Reid

20080174858 - Projection objective for lithography: In some embodiments, a projection objective for lithography includes an optical arrangement of optical elements between an object plane and an image plane. The arrangement generally has at least one intermediate image plane, the arrangement further having at least two correction elements for correcting aberrations, of which a first correction... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080174859 - In vivo examination apparatus: An in vivo examination apparatus including an objective unit capable of being readily replaced during examination is provided. The in vivo examination apparatus includes a main body, a vibration suppressor configured to suppress vibrations in an examination region of an object under examination, and an objective optical system configured to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080174860 - Systems and methods of all-optical fourier phase contrast imaging using dye doped liquid crystals: Under one aspect, a phase contrast imaging system includes a coherent light source emitting a coherent beam directed toward a sample area; a lens arranged to collect at least part of the beam from the sample area; an element Fourier transforming the collected beam in a Fourier plane; a liquid... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080174861 - Stereomicroscope: d

20080174862 - specimen holder for microscopy: The present invention relates generally to microscopy and, more particularly, to a novel specimen heating and retaining assembly designed to eliminate or reduce z-axis drift during microscopic examination of heated specimens. Attributes of the novel system of the present invention include that it has a minimal thermal mass allowing temperature... Agent: Beck & Thomas, P.c. Suite 100

20080174863 - Star identification and alignment system: Autonomous operation of ground telescope and CCD imaging systems is a highly desirable mode of conducting amateur and professional astronomy. Many current systems allow remote operation to some degree, but no commercial system permits complete autonomous operations suitable for precise pointing and imaging. In particular, the initial alignment of the... Agent: Nasa/marshall Space Flight Center

20080174864 - Laser light irradiation apparatus and laser light irradiation method: An object is to provide a laser light irradiation apparatus and a laser light irradiation method which reduce errors of an irradiation position of laser light to an irradiated object and allow irradiation with laser light of any size when the irradiated object is irradiated with the laser light through... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080174865 - Projection screen with digitally printed overscan border: A projection screen structure and method of making same is described wherein a projection screen material is formed to the desired size and shape and defining a central viewing area of selected shape and aspect ratio surrounded by a digitally printed border. The digitally printed border typically has a matte... Agent: Hasse & Nesbitt Llc

20080174866 - Three dimensional viewing spectacles: an opaque eyeglass frame containing a left lens and a right lens, wherein said left lens is comprised of alternating tinted and clear apertures, and said right lens is comprised of alternating tinted apertures complementary to the alternating clear apertures in the left lens.... Agent: Jerome J. Norris

20080174867 - Optical element and projector: An optical element includes a first rod section that converts an incident light flux into a light flux having a more uniform in-plane light intensity distribution, a reflective polarization beam splitter that reflects a light flux related to one linearly polarization component of light fluxes from the first rod section... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080174868 - Light collectors for projection systems: Disclosed herein are light collectors for use in projection applications. The light collectors gather light from surface emitting sources (e.g., LEDs) of differing color (or same color in some embodiments) using input lightpipes. A light collection system splits the light into orthogonal linear polarization states and efficiently propagates the light... Agent: Real D - Patent Department

20080174870 - Apparatus and method of generating optical tweezers with momentum: An apparatus of generating optical tweezers with momentum is provided for providing optical tweezers with a first momentum on a test piece. The apparatus comprises a laser source, a diffractive optical element (DOE) and a lens. The laser source is for outputting a laser beam. The DOE has a first... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080174869 - Extended depth of field optical systems: An imaging system is characterized at least by an ambiguity function (“AF”) and a point spread function (“PSF”). The AF is a function of parameters u and v related to a misfocus parameter ψ; the PSF is at least a function of ψ. The system includes (1) an image recording... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080174871 - Laminated diffraction optical element: A multi-layered diffraction optical element, comprises a transparent substrate, a first layer having a diffraction grating shape at least on one face and comprised of a relatively high refractive index and low dispersion material, and a second layer having a diffraction grating shape at least on one face and comprised... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080174872 - Electroconductive laminate, electromagnetic wave shielding film for plasma display and protective plate for plasma display: An electroconductive laminate comprising a substrate and an electroconductive film formed on the substrate, wherein the electroconductive film has a multilayer structure having a high refractive index layer containing an inorganic compound and a metal layer alternately laminated from the substrate side in a total layer number of (2n+1) (wherein... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080174873 - Wavelength selective element, manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing wavelength selective element, manufacturing method for manufacturing wavelength selective element, light source device, image display device, and monitor: A wavelength selective element includes: a base member; light selective regions formed in the base member, in which a predetermined selective wavelength is selected from the laser light emitted from a plurality of light emission elements that emit the laser light; and interference regions, each of which is provided in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080174874 - Light diffusing resin composition: A light diffusing resin composition containing a transparent resin, a light diffuser and a dye having a maximum absorption wavelength (λAmax) in a range of 470 nm to 520 nm or a range of 570 nm to 610 nm and a maximum fluorescence wavelength (λPmax) in a range of 380... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174875 - Optical layered body, polarizer and image display device: l

20080174876 - Optical article and manufacturing method thereof: An optical article includes: an optical base; and a layer that is provided on the optical base and contains SiO2 as a main component, the layer being a silicon-nitride-containing silicon oxide layer containing SisOtNu (s>0, T≧0, u>0).... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174877 - Plane lens sheet using light transmission rate difference: Disclosed herein is a plane lens sheet using a light transmission rate difference, which is used for stereoscopic printing for a lenticular system and an integral photography method and has a plane surface while innumerable lenses are arranged on the surface thereof so that it looks like a flat transparent... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080174878 - Scanning image display apparatus: A scanning type image display apparatus is disclosed which is capable of forming an exit pupil with a shape and a size which facilitate observation. The apparatus includes a scanning unit, a first optical system introducing a light flux to the scanning unit, a second optical system converging the light... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080174879 - Focus adjustable optical system: A focus adjustable optical system includes a first lens unit and a second lens unit arranged on an optical axis in direction from the object side to the image side. The two opposite surfaces of each of the lenses of the first lens unit and second lens unit are non-spherical... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080174880 - Zoom lens: The present invention is directed to a “negative lead type” zoom lens advantageous for downsizing the entire lens system, which has a high zoom ratio and provides superior compensation for aberration, retaining a predetermined back focal distance. The zoom lens has at least a first or leading lens unit of... Agent: Jacobson Holman Pllc

20080174881 - Zoom lens and image-pickup apparatus having the same: e

20080174882 - Lens barrel and imaging apparatus including the same: A lens barrel includes a first lens set configured to move manually along an optical axis, a second lens set configured to move electrically along the optical axis, a first holding member configured to hold the first lens set, a second holding member configured to hold the second lens set,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080174883 - Optical device, control method therefor, and program for implementing the control method: An optical device which makes it possible to reduce time for extending lens units while avoiding collision between lens units during a lens units-extending operation. A first-group barrel is driven by a DC motor. A second-group barrel provided rearward of the first-group barrel on the optical axis is driven by... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080174884 - Micro lens: A micro lens, from an object side to an image side, sequentially includes a stop, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power. The third... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080174885 - Laminated lens: Disclosed is a high-definition imaging lens assembly that can reduce the length of an optical path. The high-definition imaging lens assembly includes: first, second, third, and fourth lenses that are sequentially disposed from an object along an optical axis, wherein the first lens has positive refractive power and the second... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080174886 - Image pickup lens, image pickup apparatus, and mobile terminal: The present invention relates to an image pickup lens, an image pickup apparatus, and a mobile terminal. An image pickup lens relating to the present invention is provided for forming an object image on a photoelectrical converter of a solid-state image pickup element. The image pickup lens includes a plurality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080174887 - Imaging lens and imaging device: The imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from the object side, a negative first lens whose concave surface is directed toward the image side; a second lens of a planoconcave lens whose flat surface is directed toward the object side or a biconcave lens whose surface having a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174888 - Method for adjusting optical axis of imaging optical system and lens system: A method for adjusting an optical axis of an imaging optical system is provided. The imaging optical system includes: a first lens element; a right-angle prism; and a lens group, and is incorporated in a lens barrel including: a first holding member positioning and fixing the first lens and the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174890 - Camera module: A camera module which can switch a photographing mode of the camera module between a normal photographing mode and a macro photographing mode is provided without using any hand-manipulated lever. The camera module includes a housing, a holder having a lens unit and displaceable between a first position and a... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080174889 - Optical focusing device: This invention discloses an optical focusing device including a body, a sleeve pivotally connected to the body, a lens screwedly engaged with the sleeve, and a piezoelectric actuator fixedly disposed in the body for contacting and driving the sleeve to rotate. The body and the lens are provided with first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174891 - Lens apparatus and image-pickup apparatus: A lens apparatus includes a first lens barrel member and a second lens barrel member coupled with the first lens barrel member via a cam mechanism. The first lens barrel member includes a stopper portion and a gear portion. The stopper portion comes into contact with a first contact surface... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080174892 - Automotive fixture mounting bracket: A bracket for releasably appending a fixture to the rear view mirror assembly of the vehicle. The rear view mirror assembly includes a windshield mounting bracket pivotably supporting a mirror shaft on its first end and a rear view mirror on its second end. The bracket includes a top element... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080174893 - Exterior rearview mirror for vehicles, preferably for motor vehicles: The exterior rearview mirror is comprised of a mirror housing, having at least one transparent light window, behind which at least one light is disposed, comprising at least one illuminant, whose light passes through the light window to the outside. In order provide the exterior rearview mirror so that different... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20080174894 - Vehicle mirror support assembly with cast brace: A mirror support assembly for a motor vehicle comprising an upper support arm, an upper mounting element for mounting the upper support arms to the vehicle, a lower support arm, and a lower mounting element for mounting the lower support arm to the vehicle. A mirror head brace for uniting... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.a.

20080174895 - High reflection mirror and process for its production: A high reflection mirror comprising a substrate and a silver film formed thereon, characterized in that a protective film is formed on the topmost surface of the high reflection mirror, and the protective film has an extinction coefficient of at most 0.1, and the protective film is a carbon film.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080170281 - Apparatus and method to align the elements of a holographic information data storage system: An apparatus and method are disclosed to align the write channel portion of a holographic data storage system. The method establishes a write threshold correlation factor, provides a reference beam, and illuminates a holographic data storage medium encoded with a write reference orientation image with the reference beam to generate... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080170282 - Optical scanning device, image forming apparatus and liquid crystal device driving method: An optical scanning device includes a laser-beam-phase-modulatable liquid crystal device. The liquid crystal device has stripe-like electrode patterns arranged in one direction, with a provision of a part for changing an effective value of a driving voltage separately for each of stripe-like electrode patterns.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170283 - Optical scanner and image forming apparatus: A scanning optical system is configured such that at least a smaller value of the size in a main scanning direction of optical beams entering into an opening provided in an aperture member relative to the size of the opening of the aperture member in the main scanning direction and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170284 - Light beam scanner: A light beam scanner (1a) comprises a light source device (10) for emitting a laser light of 880 nm and a light deflection mechanism (200) by which a light beam emitted from the light source device (10) is scanned with a light deflector over a predetermined range of angles; the... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080170285 - Illumination light source and 2-d image display device using the same: l

20080170286 - Supervisory control light transmitting method for a wavelength division multiplexing transmission system and wavelength division multiplexing transmission apparatus: In a wavelength division multiplexing transmission system having an optical transmission path which transmits wavelength division multiplexed light that is main signal light, supervisory control light is transmitted through the optical transmission path in the direction opposite to the direction of the main signal light. As a result, it is... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080170287 - Security device: Embodiments of a security device utilizing electrochromic material are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080170288 - Display element and driving method thereof: A display element capable of being driven with a low voltage through a simple member arrangement in which the time for switching the screen is shortened. The display element has an electrolytic layer, containing silver or a compound containing silver in the chemical structure, between opposed electrodes, and performs driving... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080170289 - Multimode raman waveguide amplifier: A Raman waveguide amplifier includes a waveguide comprising a core of a Raman-active medium dimensioned and configured as a self-imaging multimode waveguide. At least one input signal is coupled into the core at a wavelength within a Raman gain spectrum of the Raman-active medium relative to at least one pump... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080170290 - Raman amplifying device and raman amplifying system: A Raman amplifying device includes a plurality of Raman amplifiers having a gain wavelength characteristic with a gain peak at which an amplification gain becomes the largest, including a first Raman amplifier having a gain wavelength characteristic with a plurality of gain peaks including a first gain peak and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170291 - Laser processing apparatus: The present invention relates to a laser processing apparatus which can be miniaturized and has a structure for achieving effective protection of the fiber laser light source. The laser processing apparatus comprises a fiber laser light source, a collimator, a spatial filter, an optical isolator, and a condenser lens. The... Agent: Venable LLP

20080170292 - Observation apparatus provided with immersion objective lens: An observation apparatus for observing an observation object mounted at an observation position on a stage through an immersion objective lens placed below the observation object. The observation apparatus has a liquid pouring device, constructed to be relatively movable with respect to the immersion objective lens, pouring a liquid on... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080170293 - Dynamic autostereoscopic displays: It has been discovered that emissive display devices can be used to provide display functionality in dynamic autostereoscopic displays. One or more emissive display devices are coupled to one or more appropriate computing devices. These computing devices control delivery of autostereoscopic image data to the emissive display devices. A lens... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080170294 - Retardation film and polarizing plate: A retardation film having excellent optical characteristic realizing properties, which is capable of obtaining a highly durable polarizing plate having a viewing angle compensating function by being used as a polarizing plate protection film. The retardation film can be used as a viewing angle compensating film of a liquid crystal... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080170295 - Optical material and optical element, diffraction optical element, and stacked type diffraction optical element molded thereof: Use of an organic optical material whose Abbe's number (vd) and secondary dispersion (θg,F) satisfy the relationship θg,F≦−2vd×10−3+0.59 provides an optical material which causes reduced optical scattering, the optical material having excellent optical scattering characteristics and secondary dispersion characteristics equivalent to those of a compound in which fine particles of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080170296 - Optical devices: An optical manifold for efficiently combining a plurality of blue LED outputs to illuminate a phosphor for a single, substantially homogeneous output, in a small, cost-effective package. Embodiments are disclosed that use a single or multiple LEDs and a remote phosphor, and an intermediate wavelength-selective filter arranged so that backscattered... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080170297 - Optical element and optical unit: An optical unit includes one or more optical elements. At least one 40 of the optical elements has: an optical functional surface, that refracts incident light, within an effective diameter; and a rough surface 49 formed on an optical functional surface 42b that is formed outside the effective diameter and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170299 - Imaging device and an imaging apparatus including the imaging device: An imaging device includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices configured to convert a received light into an electronic signal; a plurality of collector lenses configured to collect a light and to supply the light to the photoelectric conversion devices, the collector lenses being arranged before each of the photoelectric... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080170298 - Production of cavities filled with a fluid material in an optical microtechnological compound:

20080170300 - Zoom lens and electronic imaging apparatus incorporating the same: The invention relates to a less costly zoom lens that can offer a sensible tradeoff between size reductions and high zoom ratios with a well-kept image quality, and that lends itself to an electronic imaging device such as a CCD or CMOS. The zoom lens comprises a positive first lens... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080170301 - Sensor mounting structure and image capture apparatus: A sensor mounting structure for mounting sensors onto sensor mounting portions formed on a case body includes: an elastically deformable mounting flat spring mounted on the case body so as to cover outer surface part of the case body, allowing the sensors to be mounted on the sensor mounting portions... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170302 - Lens module and camera module: Provided is a camera module. The camera module includes an aperture stop, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and an image sensor. The first lens has a positive refractive power to transmit light that has passes through the aperture stop, and the second lens has a negative... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080170303 - Optical assembly: Optical assembly supported in an arrangement, especially in an objective (1, 8) or in an illuminating or exposure system, in the interior of a housing comprising at least one optical element, especially a lens (34, 35), a mirror, or an aperture (9), wherein the at least one element is influenceable... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080170304 - Tilt adjustment device for objective lenses and method of adjusting tilt of objective lenses: A tilt adjustment device K for objective lenses which comprises: a positioning stand 52 for supporting a holder 3 which fixedly holds a first objective lens 1; at least three pins 57a, 57b, and 57c for supporting an inferior surface of an edge of a second objective lens 2 by... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080170305 - Lens module and method for making same: A lens module includes a holder and a barrel. The barrel has at least one lens received therein. At least one given lens is integrated with the barrel and the holder. A method for making a lens module includes the steps of: providing a die assembly having a molding cavity... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080170306 - Lens support structure, lens barrel, and camera: A lens support structure includes a third lens 53, a fourth lens 54, a first frame 50, and an adhesive agent 58. The first frame 50 has a first portion 55 to which the third lens 53 is fitted and a second portion 56 where the second lens element is... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080170307 - Focussing apparatus: A focussing device for a lens, including a frame, a lens carrier movable relative to the frame from a first position along an optical axis, a motor for driving the lens carrier along the optical axis, and at least one biasing member adapted to bias the lens carrier towards the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080170308 - Cover for shielding a portion of an arc lamp: A cover to shield a portion of an arc lamp from electromagnetic radiation is disclosed. The cover has a reflective surface formed from a reflective material suitable to reflect the electromagnetic radiation.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080170310 - Imaging optical system: The disclosure generally relates to imaging optical systems that include a plurality of mirrors, which image an object field lying in an object plane in an image field lying in an image plane, where at least one of the mirrors has a through-hole for imaging light to pass through. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080170309 - Mirrored element: A mirrored element (101) includes a first section (201) that is translucent when a backlight (301) is on and mirrored when the backlight is off (301). A second section (203) provides a mirrored surface when the backlight (301) is on and when the backlight (301) is off. The mirrored element... Agent: Jacek Helenowski

20080170311 - Conic of rotation (cor) optical surfaces and systems of matched cors: An ultracompact, lightweight, reflective telescope is described which has no loss due to central obscuration for a beam being projected from its focus. The optical surfaces are composed of matched conics of rotation.... Agent: Eiji S. Yafuso

20080170312 - Fresnel solar concentrator array with centered universal pivots: This invention deals with novel method and apparatus for positioning and motion control of the optical elements (mirrors and lenses) of a Fresnel solar concentrator tracking array which approximately eliminates gravitational torque by use of a central universal pivot or gimbals. Linkage torque is produced by induced and/or permanent dipole... Agent: Mario Rabinowitz

20080170313 - Playing card viewer: A card viewer having a main body having a cover with at least one transparent portion, a first reflective surface, and a second reflective surface. The image of the first side of the card is received by the second reflective surface, transferred from the second reflective surface to the first... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080170314 - Color wheel assembly: A color wheel assembly includes a motor and a color filter. The motor has a main body and a housing. The housing is integrally formed and covers the main body. The color filter is disposed directly on the housing.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080165398 - Security display assembly: The present invention relates to a security display assembly (10; 50) comprising a display (12; 52) for providing a display image and a hologram (14; 54) for providing a holographic image. The hologram is integrated into the display and occupies essentially the same or less area as the display. Integrating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080165399 - Hologram color filter, method for fabricating the same, and color liquid crystal display comprising it: A hologram color filter diffraction-separates an incident lightwave using a hologram to project thus separated lightwaves having different-wavelengths at intended positions with a specified spatial period. The hologram color filter comprises a light-transmitting substrate (21) and a light-transmitting diamond-like-carbon (DLC) film (22) formed on the substrate. In the DLC film,... Agent: Venable LLP

20080165400 - Holographic optical interleave system and method: A method and system for optical interconnections with backplanes, cache/memory, chip/die stacks, and mass storage in a supercomputing system. The method includes, but is not limited to, matching a plurality of transmitters to a plurality of receivers to a predetermined phase of an optical signal via a plurality of transmit... Agent: Anderson Law Group, PLLC

20080165401 - Two dimensional image forming device: A two dimensional image forming device includes: a laser light source (1) which is a coherent light source; a prism array (2) that changes the traveling direction of a beam exiting from the laser light source (1); a driving portion (3) that rotates the prism array (2); a rod integrator... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080165402 - Actuator, optical scanner and image forming device: An actuator, includes: a movable plate; a supporter to support the movable plate; a pair of linking portions to link the movable plate and the supporter so as to allow the movable plate to rotate relative to the supporter; and a piezoelectric element to rotate the movable plate. The piezoelectric... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080165403 - Micromechanical device with adjustable resonant frequency by geometry alteration and method for operating same: A micromechanical device described has an oscillation system with an oscillation body and an elastic suspension, by which the oscillation body is oscillatorily suspended. The elastic suspension has at least two spring beams. An adjuster for adjusting a resonant frequency of the oscillation system by changing the position of the... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler

20080165405 - Focusing a laser beam: A device for focusing a laser beam includes a first telescopic configuration and a second telescopic configuration. The first telescopic configuration includes a collimating optical element for collimating the laser beam and a downstream focusing optical element for focusing the laser beam onto a focal point. The second telescopic configuration... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080165404 - System and method for providing touchscreen functionality in digital light processing video unit: There is provided a system and method for providing touchscreen functionality in a digital light processing system. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method, comprising assigning each of a plurality of micromirrors (17) on a digital micromirror device (18) a unique identifier, projecting light toward at least... Agent: InternationalIPLaw Group

20080165406 - Subsurface reticle: A reticle device is disclosed, comprising a transparent substrate provided with subsurface reticle design inscribed within the substrate.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080165407 - Projector: A combining lens 43a operating in cooperation with a superimposing lens 35 is provided only in a first section between a first dichroic mirror 41a and a red light reflection mirror 42a as a bending mirror on a first optical path OP1 extending from the superimposing lens 35 to a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080165408 - Method and device for modifying the polarization state of light: A method for modifying the polarization state of light with a magnetically uniaxial crystal which initially has a specific multidomain structure, wherein light enters via predefined areas of the crystal, and wherein a magnetic field pulse having a magnetic intensity H1 is applied to the crystal (1), wherein the crystal... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080165409 - Micromirror unit with torsion connector having nonconstant width: A micromirror unit is provided which includes a frame, a mirror forming base upon which a mirror surface is formed, and a torsion connector which includes a first end connected to the mirror forming base and a second end connected to the frame. The torsion connector defines a rotation axis... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080165410 - Method and device for reduction of polarization-dependent effects in a tunable optical component: A device and a method for reducing polarization-dependent effects in dynamical optical components based on surface modulation of a polymer gel or membrane is disclosed. The device and method modifies, removes or leads away unwanted reflections from incident light or information carrier communicating with said optical component.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080165411 - Process for the manufacture of electrophoretic displays: This invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a multi-color electrophoretic display involving adding colorant solutions or dispersions of different colors and charged pigment particles in separate steps. The process comprises a first step of pattern-wise filling colorant solutions or dispersions into microcups in predetermined areas, followed by... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080165413 - Optical module: The present invention relates to an optical module that has a structure for protecting a pumping light source at a low cost. The optical module comprises an amplification optical fiber, an optical coupler, a pumping light source, a delay optical fiber, a seed light source, an optical fiber, a photodetector,... Agent: Venable LLP

20080165412 - Optical parametric amplifier: In an optical parametric amplifier of the invention, pumping light which is amplified using a practical optical amplifier such as an EDFA is supplied together with signal light having a wavelength outside the amplification band of the optical amplifier, to a nonlinear optical medium via a multiplexer, to thereby amplify... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080165414 - Laser beam alignment devices, systems, and methods: An alignment tool for a laser beam delivery system includes a base having one or more registration elements and an alignment optic operably coupled to the base. The alignment optic has a fluorescent element and a front surface. The fluorescent element is configured to fluoresce when illuminated by electromagnetic radiation... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080165415 - Projection objectives having mirror elements with reflective coatings: An optical system has a plurality of elements arranged to image radiation at a wavelength λ from an object surface to an image surface, the elements include mirror elements having a reflective surface positioned at a path of radiation. At least one of the mirror elements is a pupil mirror... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080165416 - Microscope system and stage control method: A microscope system comprises a microscope for observing a sample, a stage on which the sample is mounted, a stage driving unit for moving the stage, and a control unit for controlling the stage driving unit in such a way that acceleration generated by a movement of the stage does... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080165417 - Container indicia magnifier: A magnifying assembly for use in enlarging information disposed on a container. In a preferred embodiment, the magnifying assembly comprises a container holder assembly for holding the container; and a magnifying lens coupled to the container holder assembly, wherein the magnifying lens is movable towards and away from the container... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20080165418 - Compact, high power, fiber pigtailed faraday isolators: Faraday rotator or isolator with mode stripping ferrules and collimators having fiber pigtailed mode stripping components. An example is a compact Faraday Isolator module employing mode stripping ferrules and mode stripping collimators at the input and/or at the output of a fiber pigtailed Faraday Isolator. Two basic isolator types are... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080165419 - Reflective polarizers containing polymer fibers: A polarizer is formed with an arrangement of polymer fibers substantially parallel within a polymer matrix. The polymer fibers are formed of at least first and second polymer materials. At least one of the polymer matrix and the first and second polymer materials is birefringent, and provides a birefringent interface... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080165420 - Afocal lens, optical head, optical disk apparatus and optical information equipment: [Solution] Using a blue-violet laser beam source with wavelength of about 400 nm, and in an optical head compatible to optical discs having different protective substrate thickness, an afocal lens 105 that expands a diameter of light flux of light from a collimating lens and emits the light as substantially... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080165421 - Light selective transmission filter: The present invention provides a light selective transmission filter which selectively shields light and has a high transmittance of light at a specific wavelength such as visible rays, and which has a sufficiently reduced thickness and excellent heat resistance. The present invention further provides a lens unit including such a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080165422 - Method of controlling an electrochromic mirror and an electrochromic system for a motor vehicle: A method and system for controlling an electrochromic mirror and an electrochromic system which are applicable to a motor vehicle are provided. The invention relates to a method of controlling an electrochromic mirror and to an electrochromic system which are intended for a motor vehicle. The inventive method comprises the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080165423 - Micro-optic security and image presentation system presenting a synthetically magnified image that appears to lie above a given plane: A film material utilizing a regular two-dimensional array of non-cylindrical lenses to enlarge micro-images, called icons, to form a synthetically magnified image through the united performance of a multiplicity of individual lens/icon image systems. The synthetic magnification micro-optic system includes one or more optical spacers (5), a micro-image formed of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080165424 - Image-forming optical system: A high-performance image-forming optical system made compact and thin by folding an optical path using reflecting surfaces arranged to minimize the number of reflections. The image-forming optical system has a single prism. When image-side three surfaces of the prism are defined as a surface A, a surface B and a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080165425 - Rectangular flat-top beam shaper: The invention relates to a beam shaping system for providing a square or rectangular laser beam having a controlled intensity profile (uniform, super gaussian or cosine corrected for example) from an incident non-uniform beam intensity profile laser beam source (a Gaussian profile, a profile with astigmatism or any non-rotationally symmetric... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080165426 - Projection objective and method for optimizing a system aperture stop of a projection objective: In certain aspects, the disclosure relates to a projection objective, in particular for a microlithography exposure apparatus, serving to project an image of an object field in an object plane onto an image field in an image plane. The projection objective includes a system aperture stop and refractive and/or reflective... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080165427 - Image capturing device: An image capturing device includes a base, a lens module, and an electrically conducting mechanism. The lens module includes a fixed lens set and a liquid lens disposed respectively in an adjusting seat with first and second through holes. The liquid lens has first and second electrode portions. The conducting... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080165428 - Zoom lens and image capture apparatus:

20080165429 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus including the same: A zoom lens system includes a first lens unit having a negative optical power and a second lens unit having a positive optical power in order from the object side to the image side. In a zooming operation, the distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080165430 - Three-element photographic objective with reduced tolerance sensitivities: The present invention is a compact lens system for use as a wide-field photographic objective with small format digital image sensors having a pixel dimension less than 0.010 mm. The f-number of the lens system is 2.9740, and the effective focal length of the system is 3.85 mm. The full... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080165431 - Motor drive controller for controlling movement and stop by motor and camera apparatus: A control section (CPU) acquires a stop target position where a stop target lens should be stopped from a zoom tracing table according to zoom operation. Next, a motor driver is controlled to drive a DC motor of a lens unit. Comparison is made between a current state and a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080165432 - Zoom lens module and zoom camera module having same: An exemplary zoom lens includes a first lens and a lens assembly. The lens assembly includes a mounting plate and a plurality of second lenses formed on the mounting plate. The second lenses are integrally formed with the mounting plate. Each of the second lenses has a distinct focal length.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080165433 - Wide angle surface generator & target: An axicon is disclosed comprising a generally cylindrical body having an exterior surface 31, preferably a cylindrical surface. A first outwardly reflective lens surface 32 and a second inwardly reflective lens surface 35 are formed at opposite ends of the body. A light input beam from a suitable source is... Agent: Joseph G. Nauman

20080165434 - Image-forming lens set: An image-forming lens set includes a first lens with positive power, a second lens with negative power, an aperture stop, and a third lens with positive power, which are arranged from an object side in order. The first lens has a concave surface facing the object side and a convex... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080165435 - Optical lens system for taking image: An optical lens system for taking image comprises three lens elements with refractive power, from the object side to the image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and the object-side surface being aspheric; a plastic second lens... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080165436 - Objective lens: There is provided an objective lens used for a plurality of types of optical discs having a front surface and a rear surface, each of which includes an inner region and an outer region. The outer region has a surface shape which suppresses a coma caused when a beam used... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080165437 - Non-imaging facet based optics: A high efficiency and compact optical device comprising two or more active and resonating optical facet surfaces defined by a three-dimensional representation and configured to provide a three-dimensional device. A focal region, remote from the optical surfaces and non-contiguous therewith, is defined by two or more active optical resonant surfaces,... Agent: Leo D. Didomenico

20080165438 - Optical lens unit including lens barrel containing lens and method for producing optical lens unit: A method for producing an optical lens unit, the optical lens unit including a lens and a metallic lens barrel that holds the lens therein, includes forming the lens barrel so as to be a hollow cylinder and so as to have an inclined surface, formed on the inner wall... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080165439 - Mobile communication device: A mobile communication device includes a main body, a cover body, a first lens module, at least one positioning hole, a second lens module, at least one resilient positioning member and an image sensor. The cover body is slidably mounted on the main body between a first position and a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080165440 - Driving device, optical apparatus, and image pickup apparatus: A driving device which is capable of increasing a driving speed at which an object to be driven is driven, enhancing quietness in driving the object to be driven, and positioning the object to be driven with high accuracy. A hollow cylindrical magnet (1) extends along an optical axis, and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080165441 - Device for the positioning of optical elements with retractable stop: d

20080165442 - System, method and apparatus for cloaking: An apparatus and method of cloaking is described. An object to be cloaked is disposed such that the cloaking apparatus is between the object and an observer. The appearance of the object is altered and, in the limit, the object cannot be observed, and the background appears unobstructed. The cloak... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080158627 - Method for storing holographic data: A method for storing holographic data, said method comprising: step (A) providing an optically transparent substrate comprising a polymer composition and a light absorbing chromophore, said polymer composition comprising a continuous phase and a dispersed phase, said dispersed phase being less than about 200 nm in size; and step (B)... Agent: Howard Ip Law Group

20080158628 - Holographic recording method, holographic recording apparatus, holographic recording and reproducing method, holographic recording and reproducing apparatus, and holographic recording medium: There are provided a holographic recording method, a holographic recorder, a holographic recording/reproducing method, a holographic recorder/reproducer and a holographic recording medium as follows. Information is angle-multiplex-recorded as a hologram by a first format in which one of a signal light and a reference light branched from a laser light... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158629 - Light guide: The invention relates to a light guide with at least one photorefractive area, wherein a volume hologram is formed in the photorefractive area in such a way that light coupled into the light guide can be decoupled by the volume hologram at a predetermined angle and/or with a predetermined focus.... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080158630 - Holographic printer: A single method and apparatus for producing many of the most common types of hologram from digital data is disclosed. The data are generated entirely by a computer as a 3-D (animated) model or from multiple 2-D camera images taken of a real 3-D (moving) object or scene from a... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, Pc

20080158631 - Circuit for electrostatically driving a plant such as a comb-drive microelectromechanical system (mems) mirror and related subsystem, system, and method: A drive circuit includes a generator and a driver. The generator generates a signal having a period and a varying amplitude during a driving portion of the period, and the driver is coupled to the generator and drives a plate of an electrostatically drivable plant with the signal. The drive... Agent: Microvision

20080158632 - Scanning type image display device: A scanning-type image display device includes: a light source section; a horizontal scanner; a vertical scanner, and a vertical scanner control section in such manner that, when a discrepancy occurs between a target scan line number and a scannable line number, and when a difference obtained by subtracting of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158633 - Optical scanning apparatus: A compact optical scanning apparatus which can change the focal position of a light beam at high speed is provided. In this optical scanning apparatus, a collimating lens (5) which parallelizes a light beam from a light source (1) is formed by a KTN crystal, and electrodes (7, 6, 8)... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080158634 - Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus comprising the same: An optical scanning apparatus includes a laser diode, electro-optical crystal member, BD sensor, two light detection sensors and voltage control unit. The electro-optical crystal member is arranged in the optical path between the laser diode and a polygon mirror, and deflects the light beam in the sub-scanning direction by applied... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080158635 - Display apparatus and methods for manufacture thereof: Display devices incorporating shutter-based light modulators are disclosed along with methods of manufacturing such devices. The methods are compatible with thin-film manufacturing processes known in the art and result in displays having lower power-consumption.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080158637 - Electromechanical dynamic force profile articulating mechanism: An electromechanical dynamic force profile articulating mechanism for recovering or emulating true parallel plate capacitor actuation behaviors from deformable membranes used in MEMS systems. The curved deformation of flexible membranes causes their MEMS behavior to deviate from known interactions between rigid plates that maintain geometric parallelism during ponderomotive actuation. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080158636 - Methods and apparatus for spatial light modulation: Improved apparatus and methods for spatial light modulation are disclosed which utilize optical cavities having both front and rear reflective surfaces. Light-transmissive regions are formed in the front reflective surface for spatially modulating light.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080158638 - Wavelength conversion optical device, laser light source, and image display optical device: A wavelength conversion optical device is provided with a fundamental wave light source (301) which outputs a fundamental wave (L11) including a P polarized light and an S polarized light that are perpendicular to each other, and two wavelength conversion mechanisms (303a,303b) each having a polarization inversion formation part which... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080158639 - Spectral response modification via spatial filtering with optical fiber: characterized in that the OSR has a central axis, the focusing lens has a central axis, and the optical fiber has a central axis, with the central axis of the optical fiber being laterally offset from at least one of the central axis of the OSR and the central axis... Agent: Mark J. Pandiscio Pandiscio & Pandiscio, P.c.

20080158640 - Optical apparatus utilizing modulation based on a tertiary drive signal, optical transmitter, and optical transmission system: An optical apparatus provided with an optical modulator having an periodic characteristic for input drive signal to output light, and modulating an input light into a signal light based on a tertiary drive signal with a bias level controlled to a level corresponding to a bottom of the periodic characteristic... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080158641 - Backlight unit and an imaging system using the same: A backside light unit employs a light valve having an array of individually addressable pixels for illuminating direct view imaging panels.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158642 - Liquid crystal display device with electrochromic layer: An exemplary LCD device (2) includes a first substrate (210), a second substrate (220) arranged parallel to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer (230) interposed between the first and second substrates, and an electrochromic layer (250) with adjustable transmittance and reflectivity. The electrochromic layer is arranged at one surface... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158643 - Duobinary modulation with a lumped-element mach-zehnder device: Duobinary and NRZ modulation of an X-Gb/s optical signal is achieved with a lumped element InP Mach-Zehnder device configured to operate at X/k-Gb/s where k>1 and arranged in a push-pull configuration.... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, Llc - (lucent)

20080158644 - Polarization scrambler apparatus, transmission apparatus, repeating installation and polarization scrambler method: An apparatus and method scrambling a polarization state of signal light using at least three Faraday rotators and at least two wave plates. The apparatus also scrambles input signal light and outputs the signal light by a capacitor connected in series or in parallel with a Faraday rotator and being... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080158645 - Aluminum fluoride films for microelectromechanical system applications: A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device utilizing an aluminum fluoride layer as an etch stop is disclosed. In one embodiment, a MEMS device includes a first electrode having a first surface; and a second electrode having a second surface facing the first surface and defining a gap therebetween. The second electrode... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080158646 - Electrical characterization of interferometric modulators: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for testing the electrical characteristics of reflective displays, including interferometric modulator displays. In one embodiment, a controlled voltage is applied to conductive leads in the display and the resulting current is measured. The voltage may be controlled so as to ensure that interferometric modulators... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080158647 - Interferometric modulator array with integrated mems electrical switches: An iterferometric modulator array is integrated with collapsible cavity MEMS electrical switches. The electrical switches may have similar physical geometry as the display elements. The switches may form row or column select functions for the display.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080158650 - Method for fabricating microelectromechanical optical display devices: A microelectromechanical optical display devices is provided. An optical layer is disposed on a substrate. A plurality of posts are disposed on the optical layer. A reflective layer is disposed on the plurality of posts. A flexible layer is disposed on the reflective layer, wherein edge of the reflective layer... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080158649 - Optical modulator module package: The present invention relates to a MEMS package, more specifically to an optical module package. According to an aspect of the present invention, the optical modulator module package includes an optical modulator, emitting a beam of light, which is modulated by diffracting and interfering the beam of light by an... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080158648 - Peripheral switches for mems display test: A MEMS (Microelectromechanical system) device is described. The device includes an array of MEMS elements with addressing lines, one or more connection pads, and switches configured to selectively connect two or more of the addressing lines to the connection pads. The arrangement is particularly advantageous for testing the array, because... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080158652 - Display medium and method of forming the same: A display medium includes a first substrate constituting a display surface, a second substrate disposed in opposition to the first substrate for forming a fluid chamber between the first and the second substrates, and a partition wall member for dividing the fluid chamber into a plurality of cells. The plurality... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080158651 - Electrophoretic display sheet, electrophoretic display device, and electronic apparatus: An electrophoretic display sheet includes an electrophoretic display layer; a transparent electrode layer; a transparent substrate provided with the transparent electrode layer, the transparent substrate being laminated on the electrophoretic display layer; and a stress-reducing member that reduces stress applied to a driving substrate including a semiconductor circuit layer in... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, Llc

20080158653 - Laser projector display modules and arrangements of components of laser projector display modules: A laser projector display module for a handheld device may include an electronics module, a miniaturized light source module electrically connected with the electronics module, a scanner module electrically connected with the electronics module, and an optical assembly configured to direct light from the light source onto the scanner module.... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080158654 - Method and system for generating a display: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of displaying an image includes alternating an active state of each of a plurality of light sources. The light sources each generate a light beam when active. The alternating includes deactivating an active light source before an output of a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158655 - Method for preparing a periodically poled structure: A method for preparing a periodically poled structure comprises the steps of providing a ferroelectric substrate having an upper surface and a bottom surface, forming an upper electrode including at least one first block and at least one second block on the upper surface, forming a bottom electrode including at... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080158656 - Optical buffer employing four-wave mixing: An optical buffer employing Bragg scattering (BS), in which two pump signals are combined with an input (data) signal in a four-wave mixing (FWM) medium to frequency convert the input signal into an idler signal, which is applied to a dispersive medium, in which the idler signal propagates at a... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.c.

20080158658 - Distributed raman amplifier and wdm optical transmission system: In a distributed Raman amplifier according to the present invention, a WDM signal light and a reference light are supplied to one end of an optical transmission path to which a pumping light is supplied; the WDM signal light and the reference light, which are propagated through the optical transmission... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080158657 - Raman amplifier and excitation light source used thereof: Also a Raman amplifier provided with a plurality of pump sources outputting a plurality of pumping lights, a plurality of rare-earth doped fibers inputting the each of the plurality of pumping lights and outputting a plurality of excitation lights; a guiding unit guiding the plurality of excitation lights to an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080158659 - Positive optical amplifier power transient suppression: The present invention includes an optical amplifier and method for reducing the impact of transient events within an optical transmission system. Specifically, a positive transient power or amplifier setting adjustment limit is applied based upon a number of active channels or a current “steady state” operating condition. This adjustment limit... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080158660 - Optical processing apparatus: An optical 1-bit comparator has at least two inputs for receiving a respective first input signal A and a second input signal B, each comprising a single bit word, and at least three outputs, each of the three outputs providing a respective solution to the logical expressions: A>B, A<B and... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080158661 - Lens driving system: A lens driving system configured to be mounted on a lens device has: a variable power lens driving section moves a variable power lens group in an optical axis direction; a focus lens driving section moves a focal lens group in the optical axis direction; a receiving section that receives... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158663 - Anti-uv coating composition and the use thereof: The invention provides an anti-UV coating composition comprising inorganic particulates, a resin, and at least one kind of organic particles having a different refractive index from that of the resin. The coating composition of the present invention can be coated onto a substrate and provides good anti-UV effect. The invention... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080158662 - Methods to manufacture contaminant-gettering materials in the surface of euv optics: Methods to manufacture contaminant-gettering materials in the surface of EUV optics are described herein. An optical element is patterned and a contaminant-gettering material is formed on a surface of the optical element. In one embodiment, a photoresist is deposited on an optical coating on the optical element. Trenches are formed... Agent: Michael A. Bernadicou Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080158664 - Arrangement and method for image acquisition on a prober: A focused multi-planar image acquisition in real time, even while a test object is moving is achieved with a system and a method for a focused multi-planar image acquisition in a prober. When a surface of a test object is positioned laterally in relation to tips of separated probe needles,... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti Pc

20080158665 - Catadioptric projection objective with tilted deflecting mirrors, projection exposure apparatus, projection exposure method, and mirror: In general, in one aspect, the invention features a catadioptric projection objective having a plurality of optical elements arranged along an optical axis to image a pattern arranged in an object surface of the projection objective onto an image surface of the projection objective. The optical elements include a concave... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080158666 - Photolithographed micro-mirror well for 3d tomogram imaging of individual cells: A micro-mirror well. In one embodiment the micro-mirror well includes a plurality of planar mirrors arranged around an axis of symmetry and inclined to form a pyramid well, where each of the plurality of planar mirrors is capable of reflecting light emitting from an object of interest placed inside the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080158667 - Sample observation method, microscope, and solid immersion lens, optical contact liquid used in the method: Optical contact liquid containing an amphipathic molecule is dripped onto a semiconductor device which is a sample as an inspection object (S104), and a solid immersion lens is set thereon (S105). The inserted position of the solid immersion lens is then adjusted (S106). The optical contact liquid is then dried... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080158668 - Microscope and image generation method: A microscope apparatus is based on structured illumination that can obtain an excellent super-resolved image by using even an optical system in which distortion aberration remains. Therefore, the microscope apparatus includes an illuminating optical system for illuminating a sample with light from a light source, a modulating unit that is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158669 - Projection screen apparatus for use with portable digital projectors: Projection screen apparatuses that comprise at least a first and a second projection screen member having different optical properties are described. These screen members can be adapted to connect to each other to form a self-supporting structure in which the first projection screen member is oriented in a viewing position... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080158670 - Stable rear projection screen and method for the production thereof: The present invention relates to rear-projection screens which have at least one scattering layer encompassing scattering particles and has at least one backing layer, characterized in that the halved-intensity angle of the scattering layer is greater than or equal to 15° and the halved-intensity angle of the backing layer is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080158671 - Three-dimensional image display apparatus using flat panel display: A three-dimensional image display apparatus using a flat panel display unit is provided. The three-dimensional image display apparatus includes a flat panel display unit, reflecting plate arrays reflecting incident light, and a vibrator vibrating the reflecting plate arrays from left to right or from right to left, wherein the reflecting... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080158672 - Method and apparatus for three dimensional imaging: A display generates a three dimensional image by generating light from light sources having a first set of wavelengths to produce left eye images and generating light from light sources having a second set of wavelengths, different from the first set of wavelengths, to produce right eye images. The left... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158673 - Polarization beam splitter and polarization conversion element: A disclosed polarization beam splitter is effective when light to undergo polarization-splitting has an incidence angle that falls in a range of 54 degrees through 66 degrees. The polarization beam splitter includes, between two transparent substrates, an adhesive layer configured to adhere to a first transparent substrate of the two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080158674 - Waveplate utilizing form birefringence and waveplate manufacturing method: A waveplate including a dielectric substrate and a periodic structure formed on the dielectric substrate, said periodic structure having a period which is equal to or smaller than a wavelength of an incident light, wherein the periodic structure is constructed of a deposited film, and a refractive index of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080158676 - Polarizing plate and image display apparatus: Provided are a polarizing plate which has no defects of unevenness and is excellent in optical characteristics as well as in external appearance, and an image display apparatus of high quality using such a polarizing plate. The polarizing plate of the present invention includes a polarizer and a protective layer... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080158675 - Transparent film and method for manufacturing the same, polarized plate and image display device: A transparent film comprises: a transparent support; and a hard coat layer on the transparent support, wherein the hard coat layer is a layer which is obtained by: applying on a transparent support an applying composition comprising an ionizing radiation curable compound and at least one kind of active halogen... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080158677 - Multi-step eyepiece: The present application relates to an eyepiece for use with a viewing device. The eyepiece is configured to change the distance between a first edge of the eyepiece and a lens near a second edge of the eyepiece. The eyepiece includes a first element having a pin extending therefrom and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080158678 - Manually adjustable ruggedized focus mechanism: The invention provides, in some aspects, devices for image acquisition that use seals (e.g., O-rings) between concentrically disposed portions of an enclosure and an optics assembly (or sub-assemblies thereof) in order to protect image acquisition components from the surrounding environment (and vice versa) while, at the same time, providing adequate... Agent: Tracy Calabresi Cognex Corporation

20080158679 - Image stabilization system: Imaging systems in which an undedicated optical component—-i.e., a component that would be present in the system even in the absence of image stabilization—is configured to undergo corrective motion and/or other correction of image data, and thus to function as a stabilization component. The stabilization component may be a mirror... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.c.

20080158680 - Optical element, optical device, and method of producing optical element: An optical element includes an optical film; a substrate; and an adhesive layer disposed between the optical film and the substrate, wherein the adhesive layer is made of NbOx, where 0<x<2.5.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080158681 - Optical diffuser structure for field emitting display element: An optical diffuser structure for field emitting display element provides uniform lightness contrast to a display, and includes a glass substrate as main body, wherein plural black stripe blocking layers is arranged on the panel of the substrate for covering the light diffusing path of the display element, a transparent... Agent: Hdsl

20080158682 - Antireflection film and display device: It is an object to provide a high-visibility antireflection film having an antireflection function which can further reduce reflection and a display device that has the antireflection film. A plurality of projections in a pyramidal shape (hereinafter, referred to as pyramidal projection) that are adjacent to each other are provided,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080158683 - Image sensor and manufacturing method thereof: An image sensor and method for fabricating an image sensor are provided. The image sensor includes a substrate and a microlens array in a checkerboard pattern. In some embodiments, the checkerboard pattern involves alternating hydrophilic and hydrophobic microlenses.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080158685 - Light guide optical device: The invention provides an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate, optical means for coupling light into the substrate by total internal reflection, and a plurality of partially reflecting surfaces carried by the substrate, characterized in that the partially reflecting surfaces are parallel to each other and are not parallel to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080158684 - Ophthalmological display including a device for adjusting focus: The invention relates to an ophthalmological display comprising an optical imager (10) for shaping light beams emitted by an optical element of a light beam generator system (20) and directing them towards the eye (O) of the wearer as to enable information content (I) to be viewed, said display being... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080158686 - Surface reflective portable eyewear display system and methods: Surface reflective portable eyewear display system and methods are disclosed. Invention comprises of vertical image inverting system that displays image in a mirror-flipped way on projection displays attached to the temples of a frame at an angle facing lenses of an eyewear. Said lenses of invention are half-silvered mirror coated,... Agent: Michael Chechelniker

20080158687 - Optical device, transfer mold, and image pickup apparatus: An optical device includes a refracting surface refracting light, a flat surface transmitting light, and a prism group including prism elements having at least the refracting surface. Here, the prism elements are arranged with a plurality of pitches therebetween on a straight line parallel to a reference surface on which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158688 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus: A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power. When a lens positional state changes from a maximum wide angle state... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080158689 - High variable power zoom lens: The present invention is directed to a high variable power zoom lens that ensures a flange-back or a backfocal distance required for typical 35-mm film cameras while keeping an angle of view sufficient to cover the wide-angle for an APS-size imaging plane dimensioned smaller than 35 mm. The high variable... Agent: Law Offices Jacobson Holman

20080158690 - Standard zoom lens system: e

20080158691 - Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera: The zoom lens system is used for forming an optical image of an object with a variable magnification, and, in order from the object side, comprises a first lens unit G1 of negative optical power, a second lens unit G2 of positive optical power and a third lens unit G3... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158692 - Lens barrel and optical apparatus: A lens barrel includes: first and second movable lens units; first and second drive sources for moving the first and second movable lens units in a direction parallel to an optical axis, respectively; guide members for each retaining the first and second movable lens units and for guiding movements of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080158693 - Fixed-focus lens: A fixed-focus lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The two lens groups have positive refractive powers. The first lens group is composed of a first negative lens, a second negative lens, a third negative lens, a fourth positive lens and a fifth positive lens arranged... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080158694 - Telephoto lens: f

20080158695 - Wide-angle lens: A wide-angle lens includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens element of negative refractive power, a second lens element of positive refractive power, a third lens element of positive refractive power and a cemented doublet element of positive refractive power consisting of a... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080158697 - Barrel for promoting alignment of optical axes of lenses: A barrel is configured for receiving the plurality of lenses therein and for automatically aligning respective optical axes of the plurality of lenses. At least one protruding rib is formed on an internal surface of the barrel and extends along/from the internal surface of the barrel, in a direction parallel... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158696 - Handheld magnifier with releasable magnifying lens: A handheld magnifier comprising a handle; a magnifying lens; and a coupler for releaseably coupling the magnifying lens to the handle; wherein the coupler is coupled to the magnifying lens and comprises at least a first finger and a second finger; and the handle has a first receptacle for receiving... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20080158698 - Lens barrel array and lens array and the method of making the same: The present invention provides a lens barrel array, a lens array and a method of making the same. The lens barrel array is realized all together in collective operation, and intended to be separated later on to be used as lens barrels of individual module. The lens array including plates,... Agent: Sinorica, Llc

20080158699 - Lens-assembling jig, assembling system having same and assembling method: An assembling system for assembling lens includes a base, a lens-assembling jig mounted on the base, an elastic member, and a push rod. The lens-assembling jig includes a first cylinder, a second cylinder coaxially connected to the first cylinder, and a post rod. The elastic member is disposed between the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158700 - Geometrically shaped ellipsoid vehicular mirror: Cross-view mirrors for buses and other vehicles which provide modified image sizes. The mirror assemblies have lens members created from the shape of a portion of an elliptical or circular toroid volumetric shape with an elliptical or circular cross-sectional shape. A first embodiment has an elliptical toroid volumetric shape with... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080158701 - Extensible and pivoting mirror to aid in vehicle backing: An enclosed mechanism having a motor driven mirror assembly 42 that when mounted in positions 104 or 105 on a vehicle 106, extends and pivots to a position (see FIG. 4), that allows the vehicle's driver to have an unencumbered field of vision 103 using a high quality mirror 50.... Agent: William Joseph Hanks

20080158702 - Reflecting mirror: In a reflecting mirror, an adhesive layer formed of a mixture of silicon dioxide and aluminum oxide is formed between a substrate and an aluminum reflective layer, and, on the aluminum reflective layer, a dielectric layer is formed that has, laid one after another on the aluminum reflective layer, a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080158703 - Color filter and manufacturing method thereof: A manufacturing method of a color filter comprising the following steps is provided. At first, a transparent substrate is provided. Next, a black matrix is formed on the transparent substrate to define a plurality of pixel areas on the transparent substrate. Then, an isolation layer is formed and patterned on... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office