Optical: systems and elements inventions 09/08

20080231922 - Container seal with removal tab and holographic security ring seal: A holographic sealing member for a container is designed for attachment to the rim of an opening in the container. The holographic sealing member comprises a holographic layer having an upper plastic layer on its upper side and a lower embossed image layer on its lower side. A sealant or... Agent: Perry Hoffman And Associates, P.C.

20080231923 - Holographic recording apparatus: The present invention relates to a holographic recording apparatus that records on a multiple basis information on a holographic memory. An object of the present invention is to provide a holographic recording apparatus capable of avoiding problems of recording error of data and destruction of the existing data, which will... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080231924 - Hologram element, illuminator, and projector: The disclosure is directed to hologram elements, illuminators, and projectors. In one example, a hologram element comprises a relief structure configured to diffract incident light to form a first illumination pattern and a second illumination pattern on an illuminated surface. The second illumination pattern may form a specific mark for... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080231925 - Two-dimensional modulation method for hologram recording and hologram apparatus: To provide a two-dimensional modulation method for hologram recording which is capable of preventing degradation of reconstructing performance when positional shift occurs and which enables information to be stably recorded or reproduced. The hologram recording carrier employs the two-dimensional modulation method for hologram recording for generating coherent light containing therein... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080231926 - Systems and methods for updating dynamic three-dimensional displays with user input: A dynamic three-dimensional image can be modified in response to poses or gestures, such as hand gestures, from a user. In one implementation, the gestures are made by a user who selects objects in the three-dimensional image. The gestures can include indications such as pointing at a displayed object, for... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080231927 - Apparatus and method to store information in a holographic data storage medium: A method is disclosed to store information in a holographic data storage medium. The method provides a hologram comprising an alignment pattern, and disposes that hologram into a holographic data storage medium during manufacture.... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080231928 - Optical scanning device with low building height: An optical scanning device (20) for low building height optical recorder applications is disclosed in which a radiation source (1) is emitting a radiation beam along a first optical portion (8) towards a folding mirror (4), which folding mirror is reflecting the radiation beam along a second optical path portion... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080231929 - Frequency-addressing matrix routing head for light beams: The collimated colinear group of beams is built from a combination of spectral sources and a certain number of mirrors or filters of a certain size and shape, defined according to the targeted application, enabling appropriate frequential filtering linked to the configuration of mirrors or filters. At its center the... Agent: Jean-marc(joseph) Desaulniers

20080231930 - Oscillator device, method of driving the same, optical deflector and image display device using the same: An oscillator device includes a first oscillator, a second oscillator configured to support the first oscillator for torsional rotation about a first rotational axis, through a first torsion spring, a supporting member configured to support the second oscillator for torsional rotation about a second rotational axis, through a second torsion... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080231931 - Mems cavity-coating layers and methods: Devices, methods, and systems comprising a MEMS device, for example, an interferometric modulator, that comprises a cavity in which a layer coats multiple surfaces. The layer is conformal or non-conformal. In some embodiments, the layer is formed by atomic layer deposition (ALD). Preferably, the layer comprises a dielectric material. In... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080231932 - Rear projection type display apparatus: Provided is a rear projection type display apparatus having a structure capable of performing projection magnification correction with a small depth. A projection unit is mounted on a projection magnification correcting member, and the projection magnification correcting member includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080231934 - Controllably displayable motor vehicle window and method of advertising or messaging with the same: A controllably displayable motor vehicle window is (20) disclosed provided with at least one optically transmittable glass or plastic panel (22) and an electrically actuated variable light transmission medium (24, 25) disposed in close proximity to the at least one glass or plastic panel. The image displayed on the vehicle... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20080231933 - Optical modulator: A driving circuit and Mach-Zehnder EAM optical modulator exhibiting negligible chirp that generates a PSK signal when driven by a single drive signal. Two such Mach-Zehnder EAM optical modulators and drive circuits may be configured in parallel, thereby generating DQPSK signals with only two drive signals, one for each individual... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC - (lucent)

20080231935 - Ornamental display device: An ornamental display device having an interferometric modulator for displaying an ornamental image. The ornamental device may have a patterned diffuser formed on a transparent substrate to provide an ornamental image or information. The ornamental device may also be a piece of jewelry or an article that may be worn.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080231936 - Display system comprising a mirror device with micromirrors controlled to operate in intermediate oscillating state: A display system includes a spatial light modulator for displaying a image by the modulation state of a plurality of micromirrors, and a control device for controlling the spatial light modulator. The control device includes a data conversion device for converting the digital image data into non-binary data, and a... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080231937 - Spatial light modulator using an integrated circuit actuator and method of making and using same: A spatial light modulator (SLM) includes an integrated circuit actuator that can be fabricated using photolithography or other similar techniques. The actuator includes actuator elements, which can be made from piezoelectric materials. An electrode array is coupled to opposite walls of each of the actuator elements is an electrode array.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080231938 - Encapsulated spatial light modulator having improved performance: Devices and methods for forming a spatial light modulator with high contrast are described. Light absorbing materials are used within a chamber that houses a spatial light modulator. The light absorbing materials absorb reflected light that is not intended for forming a part of a display image. The light absorbing... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080231939 - Optical manipulation system using a plurality of optical traps: The present invention relates to an optical manipulation system (10) for generation of a plurality of optical traps for manipulation of micro-objects including nano-objects using electromagnetic radiation forces in a micro-object manipulation volume (14), the system comprising a spatially modulated light source (16) for emission of a first light beam... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080231940 - Laser drawing method and apparatus: A method of laser drawing includes steps of causing laser light from a light source to be incident to an acousto-optical diffraction element, and deflecting the light incident to the element by changing a frequency of a high frequency signal to be inputted to the element to diffract the light,... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080231941 - Optical receiver having fsr phase compensation: An optical receiver apparatus and methods for mitigating intersymbol interference (ISI) in a differentially-encoded modulation transmission system by controlling constructive and destructive transfer functions. The receiver includes a bandwidth control element for controlling transfer function bandwidth, a transfer phase controller for controlling transfer function phase and/or an imbalancer for imbalancing... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080231942 - Mobile charge induced periodic poling and device: Devices and methods are disclosed for realizing a high quality bulk domain grating structure utilizing mobile charges that are generated by means of photo-excitation in a substrate. An effect of light exposure (UV, visible, or a combination of wavelengths) is to generate photo-induced charges. The application of a voltage across... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080231943 - Periodically filtered broadband light source: Embodiments of a periodically filtered broadband light source are described. The periodically filtered broadband light source includes a periodic spectral filter coupled to an optical gain element to generate a light and to filter the light into a plurality of individual spectral slices. The broadband light source includes an isolator... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080231944 - Optical equalization of multi-level symbol constellations: A method of optically equalizing a multi-level (amplitude or phase) optical signal through the effect of an optical equalizer wherein the optical equalizer (OEQ) is placed at either a transmission end or a receiver end of the optical communications link and a tap delay characteristic of the OEQ need not... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC - (lucent)

20080231945 - Apparatus and methods for optical communication: An optical circuit is disclosed, which may include a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); an optical filter operable to filter light emerging from the SOA; and a PIN for converting the light output from the optical filter into an electrical signal, wherein the gain profile of the optical filter is configured... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080231946 - Method of making a close proximity filter and multi color mwir sensor and resultant devices: The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for attaching a close proximity filter to an FPA (focal plane array) and more particularly, to a method and apparatuse that allows improved spectral discrimination of an MWIR detector by applying a an improved multi-color filter to an FPA, while... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080231947 - Day/night-vision device: In a day/night-vision device according to the invention, provision is made to view observations made via a day- or night-vision channel (T, N) in a shared receiving channel (E) or via an eyepiece unit (4) as day image or night image by designing and arranging a deflecting means such that... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080231948 - Surgical microscope system: A surgical microscope system is disclosed. The surgical microscope is comprised of a stand which is comprised of a movable base and a support capable of free motion with keeping a particular orientation relative to the movable base; a stereoscopic surgical microscope linked with the support, which is comprised of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080231949 - Relay set for a rigid endoscope: A relay set (1, 11, 23) for the optical system of a rigid endoscope, the optical system comprising an objective (20) at the distal end, an ocular (22) at the proximal end and between them a relay lens system consisting of several relay sets (1, 11, 21, 23), the relay... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080231950 - Reading machine with camera polarizer layers: A reading machine includes an image input device including a lens and a polarizer disposed over the lens, a flash and a second polarizer disposed over the flash. The image input device also includes a computing device coupled to the image input device for capturing images, the computing device, including... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080231951 - 3d display with an improved pixel structure (pixelsplitting): A display apparatus comprising a display device (104, 200, 301, 401) configured to display an image is disclosed. The display device comprises a plurality of picture elements, and one or more lenticular means (203). The lenticular means comprises one or more refracting layers (303, 403) configured to direct light emanating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080231952 - Highly efficient 2d/3d switchable display device: Provided is a high efficient 2-dimensional (2D)/3-dimensional (3D) switchable display device including: a light source unit; a first reflective polarizer reflecting a first polarized light beam and transmitting a second polarized light beam orthogonal to the first polarized light beam from among light beams irradiated from the light source unit;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080231953 - System and method for led polarization recycling: Systems and methods for creating high-intensity, polarized light, where one or more embodiments of the present invention use light polarization recycling to allow multiple light sources of the same or different wavelengths to be combined into a single source output where the individual source etendue is equal or substantially similar... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080231954 - Reflex reflector: A reflex reflector can include: a first indicator member composed of a light transmissive resin and including at least one substantially plate-like first reflector with a reflex reflective surface formed thereon and at least one first link plate, in which the first reflector and the first link plate are linked... Agent: Cermak Kenealy & Vaidya, LLP

20080231955 - Image stabilizing actuator and camera furnished therewith: Solution Means: The present invention is an actuator (10) for stabilizing images by moving an imaging lens, comprising a fixed portion (12), a movable portion (14) to which an imaging lens is attached, a plurality of spherical bodies (18) for supporting the movable portion, a fixed portion spherical body receiving... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080231956 - Diffractive optical element, optical system and optical apparatus: The diffractive optical element includes two diffraction gratings made of different materials and being in contact with each other at their grating surfaces. The materials satisfy the following conditions, and the second material is obtained by mixing a resin material with a particulate material satisfying the following conditions: nd1≧1.48, νd1≧40,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080231957 - Antireflection film, optical element and optical system: An antireflection film includes a multilayer film having six layers, in total, provided between an optical substrate and an adhesion layer. The respective layers of first to sixth layers are laminated in order from one side of the adhesion layer. A refractive index of the antireflection film as a whole... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080231958 - Apparatus and methods for forming a reflector: The invention relates an apparatus and method for forming a diffuse reflector. In one embodiment of the invention, a diffuse reflector is formed by exposing transmissive particles of a pre-determined purity to pressure and forming a material having desired diffuse reflective properties. The transmissive particles may further be thermally treated,... Agent: Gardere Wynne-houston

20080231959 - Visibility display device using an index-matching scheme: Display module (10) for use in an electronic device, comprising a front window (12) and a display unit (13, 100), wherein an intermediate layer (24) of transparent material is sandwiched between the front window (12) and the display unit (13, 100). The intermediate layer (24) consists of a material which... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080231960 - Optical separating filter: An optical separating filter separates impinging light into a first and a second part having different properties. The separating filter comprises reflective filters (FR) arranged in funnel shaped structures (F1). Each one of the structures (F1) have an inlet area (IA1) to receive the impinging light (IL) and an outlet... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080231961 - Enhanced parfocality: Devices and methods that reduce or eliminate chromatic or comatic variations in the location of the excitation or emission in an optical system such as a confocal microscope, by enhancing parfocality are provided. Such devices include an optical collimator comprising a parabolic reflector and a convex aspheric reflector, wherein the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080231962 - Projection type zoom lens and projection type display apparatus: Disposed in order from a magnification side are a negative first group which is fixed during zooming to effect focusing, second to fifth groups of positive refractive power which move with mutual relationship during magnification variation, and a fixed sixth group. A negative lens made of a glass material which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080231964 - Composite layer having improved adhesion, and fluid focus lens incorporating same: A composite material (10, 20) includes a substrate (12, 22) with an electrically conducting metal or metal oxide surface (22B), a layer (14, 24) of an electrically insulating material such as parylene, and an intermediate adhesion-improving metal layer (16, 26) between the substrate and the electrically insulating layer. A fluid... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080231963 - Fluidic optical devices: A fluidic optical device, systems utilizing fluidic optical devices, methods for manufacturing fluidic optical devices and actuators are disclosed.... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080231965 - Variable focus lens package in which a sealing ring is used for compensating for volume variations of fluids contained by the package: A variable focus lens package (1) comprises an annular body (10) having a through-hole (11), which is closed off by means of lens members (30, 70), and which is sealed by means of sealing rings (50, 60). The through-hole (11) is filled with quantities of water (86) and oil (87),... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080231966 - Variable lens system: A compact and substantially achromatic optical lens system (100, 200) comprising an electrowetting lens (104, 204) is provided. The optical lens system is using an electrowetting lens in which at least one of the entrance window surface (117, 217) or exit window surfaces (219), being in contact with one of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080231967 - Zoom lens and image projection apparatus having the same: A zoom lens comprises a plurality of lens units including a first lens unit disposed most adjacent to an enlargement side and having negative refractive power, wherein one or more lens units of the plurality of lens units are moved in the direction of the optical axis thereof during magnification... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080231968 - Zoom optical system, image sensing device, and digital apparatus: z

20080231969 - Zoom lens system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same: A zoom lens system includes a rear lens group having in order from an object side, a first lens unit G1 having a positive refracting power, a second lens unit G2 having a negative refracting power, and a third lens unit G3 having a positive refracting power, and an aperture... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080231970 - Linear drive systems and methods thereof: A drive system and methods thereof include at least one actuator assembly that detachably engages a moveable system and at least one control system. The control system voltage biases the actuator assembly in at least one direction at a rate which causes the at least one actuator assembly to slip... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080231971 - 3-dimensional image detector: The present invention relates to a 3-dimensional image detector adapted to simultaneously detect images of an object viewed from multi-directions, including: a lens barrel; a refraction section mounted at a front end side of the lens barrel; a lens section mounted at the rear of the refraction section; and an... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080231972 - On-vehicle camera lens glass material and on-vehicle camera lens: An on-vehicle camera lens glass material satisfies at least one of conditions in which a measurement result in water resistance based on a powder method prescribed by Japanese Optical Glass Industrial Standard is 1st Class, a measurement result in Knoop hardness based on a measurement method prescribed by Japanese Optical... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080231973 - Mechanism for a microscope objective changer and filter changer: A mechanism is disclosed for incorporation into automatic microscope which permits the interchanging of optical path components such as objective lens assemblies, filters, and imaging devices. The mechanism features good placement accuracy and repeatability to permit the maintenance of system calibrations.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080231974 - Lens driving motor and elastic member of the same: Provided are a lens driving motor and an elastic member of the lens driving motor. The elastic member of a lens driving motor, the elastic member includes a first spring and a second spring. The second spring is different from the first spring and disposed together with the first spring... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080231975 - Voice coil motor type focusing actuator: A voice coil motor type focusing actuator, which includes a fixed unit, the fixed unit comprises a receiving chamber, a slide fitting channel, a first coil, and a magnet. A movable unit, the movable unit is received inside the receiving chamber of the fixed unit, having a first magnetic conducting... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080231976 - Security device based on customized microprism film: A security device comprises at least two regions, each region comprising a prismatic surface structure defining an array of substantially planar facets. Each region forms a reflector due to total internal reflection when viewed at least one first viewing angle and is transparent when viewed at least one second viewing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080231978 - Mirror and representations: A mirror is combined with a mirror decoration. The mirror decoration may be secured to the mirror. The mirror decoration is comprised of one or more mirror decoration pieces. The one or more mirror decoration pieces are adapted to be assembled on the mirror to form one or more representations.... Agent: James C. Eaves Jr. Greenebaum Doll & Mcdonald PLLC

20080231977 - Reflective layer: A reflective layer for attenuating electromagnetic radiation, the layer comprising at least one reflective component, the latter being selected from the group containing the following substances: carbon particles or fibers, in particular carbon black and/or graphite and/or an electrically conductive graphite compound, metal particles and/or fibers, in particular copper, aluminum,... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080231979 - Low-emissivity glass: A Low-E glass includes a glass substrate and a multilayer Low-E film formed on at least one surface of the glass substrate. The multilayer Low-E film includes a number of high refractive index layers and a number of low refractive index layers stacked on one another. An innermost layer contacting... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080231980 - Mirror system for a trucking rig having a tractor and an articulated trailer: A mirror system for a tractor with an articulated trailer includes a mirror housing. The mirror housing is attached to the front end of the tractor on the passenger side. The mirror housing has a planar mirror. The planar mirror is adapted to move. The planar mirror moves allowing continuous... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080231981 - Partial curved on-vehicle rear view mirror: A partial curved on-vehicle rear view mirror, wherein a center main portion (1) is formed in a flat surface, but an outer portion (2) is formed in a gentle convex surface toward the outside, a lower portion (4) is also formed in a gentle convex surface toward the lower side,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080231982 - Optical reflector and display device using it: It is an object of the invention is to provide an optical reflector having a directivity of reflection and a display device using it. Depressions of a projection/depression forming member (46) is relatively spread in the right-and-left direction of a display surface. The depressions of the member (46) are provided... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225359 - Computer hologram and creation method thereof: An original image (10), a recording surface (20), and a reference light (R) are defined and a large number of calculation points (Q(x, y)) are defined at a predetermined pitch on the recording surface (20). For each of the calculation points, intensity of interference wave, formed by an object light... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080225360 - Hologram recording/reproducing apparatus: A hologram recording/reproducing apparatus includes: a coherent light source; a spatial light modulator which spatially modulates light from the coherent light source; a Fourier transform lens which concentrates light modulated by the spatial light modulator upon a hologram medium; and a two-dimensional light-receiving element array which receives light from the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080225361 - Light source device, and two-dimensional image display device: There is provided a light source device which can miniaturize a two-dimensional image display device as small as possible. The light source device is provided with three coherent light sources (11a), (11b), and (11c) corresponding to red, blue, and green; prisms (12a) and (12c) for reflecting lights emitted from the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080225362 - All-optical logic gates using nonlinear elements claim - set v: An all-optical logic gates comprises a nonlinear element such as an optical resonator configured to receive optical input signals, at least one of which is amplitude-modulated to include data. The nonlinear element is configured in relation to the carrier frequency of the optical input signals to perform a logic operation... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080225363 - Optical deflector and optical device: An optical deflector includes a plurality of piezoelectric unimorph oscillating bodies (210a to 210d) that cause a reflecting plate (1) to oscillate rotationally, centering upon a pair of flexible support units (2a and 2b). The optical deflector forms a single structure of the oscillating plates (23a to 23b), the reflecting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225364 - Moving apparatus: A moving apparatus includes a cylindrical cam barrel provided with a cam groove; a moving member configured to be rotated relative to the cam barrel and moved in a perpendicular direction that is an axis direction of the cam barrel; and a bearing for supporting a support shaft fixed on... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080225365 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the device: An optical scanning device for scanning surfaces of an even number of photoconductors simultaneously includes a rotating deflecting device arranged substantially at a center in a housing to deflect optical beams, and a plurality of scanning optical systems corresponding to the even number of photoconductors, arranged to be substantially symmetrical... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225366 - Distortion and polarization alteration in mems based projectors or the like: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a prism capable of being utilized in a scanned beam projector comprises a first window disposed on a first surface through which the beam is capable of passing to impinge upon a scan engine at an angle of incidence off axis from... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20080225367 - Optical deflecting device: An optical deflecting device including a mirror member having a light reflective area. The optical deflecting device includes a plurality of electrodes that are formed on a substrate, a fulcrum member that functions as an electrode and a regulation member. The range of movement to a respect direction of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225368 - Scanning device for an optical code reader: A scanning device (40, 40′) for an optical code reader (1) is described, comprising a printed circuit board (2), an electric motor (42) having a stator (44), a magnetic rotor (43) and a plurality of coils (64), and a polygonal mirror (41) integral with the rotor (43) of the motor... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080225369 - Discretely controlled micromirror device having multiple motions: A discretely controlled micromirror device provides multiple motions of a micromirror using stepper plate and micromirror bottom support. The discretely controlled micromirror device can be controlled in a low driving voltage. Also, simple motion control is applied by digital controlling and only single voltage is needed for driving the micromirror... Agent: Stereo Display Inc.

20080225370 - Low-cost continuous phase sheet deformable mirror: This continuous phase sheet deformable mirror leverages advances in polymer manufacturing to create a low-cost alternative to the existing microelectromechanical system (MEMS) and bulk (piezoelectric and electrostrictive) deformable mirror technology. These novel mirrors can be used for any form of phase control including but not limited to piston control, beam... Agent: Active Optical Systems - Justin D. Mansell

20080225371 - Illuminator: The present invention relates to an illuminator (10, 30, 40) comprising a spatial light modulator (14) including an array of elements (16) each adapted to selectively transmit incoming light without altering the direction of the light, or alter the direction of incoming light; a lamp (12) arranged to illuminate the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225372 - Electronically controlled stage lighting system: A lighting system operating using a digital mirror as its operative device. The digital mirror is used to shape the light which is a passed through advanced optical devices in order to produce an output.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20080225373 - Image display apparatus and optical member therefor: An image display apparatus capable of switching a display mode between a directional display mode of displaying a first image in a first viewing direction and a second image in a second viewing direction and a non-directional display mode of displaying the same image in both the first and second... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080225374 - Display device based on electrowetting effect: In a reflective a display device based on layer break up or layer displacement having at least two different states, in which one of the fluids (5) e. g oil in a first state adjoins at least a first support plate (3) and in the second state the other fluid... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080225375 - Optically frequency generated scanned active array: A system for scanning an antenna array of the present invention. The system includes a first mechanism for modulating a desired signal on an optical carrier signal. The first mechanism includes a frequency-tunable optical oscillator with a phase shifter for changing an output frequency of the optical oscillator. A second... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080225376 - Acousto-optic modulators for modulating light signals: Devices for modulating light signals. A modulator includes a rolled optical fiber cable having a preset tensile stress along the longitudinal axis thereof, a coating layer applied to the rolled optical cable, and at least one piezo acoustic transducer secured to the coating layer. The piezo acoustic transducer is operative... Agent: Patent Office Of Dr. Chung S. Park

20080225377 - Bi-directional optoelectric conversion: An apparatus and to a method of optoelectrical conversion, comprising the steps of: providing a first electrical signal to an electrical directional element, using the electrical directional element to direct the first electrical signal to an optoelectric converter, using the optoelectric converter for converting the first electrical signal into an... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080225378 - Dielectric coatings for electrowetting applications: A dielectric coating is provided which has both a dielectric constant greater than 2.5 and a hydrophobic surface. The dielectric coating may be provided by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) of organosilane, organosiloxane, organosilazane, organometallic, and/or hydrocarbon precursors. Methods are also provided for altering the contact angle of a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080225379 - High speed piezoelectric optical system with tunable focal length: A varifocal optical system includes a substantially circular membrane deposited on a substrate, and a ring-shaped PZT thin film deposited on the outer portion of the circular membrane. The membrane may be a MEMS-micromachined membrane, made of thermal oxide, polysilicon, ZrO2 and SiO2. The membrane is initially in a buckled... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080225380 - Delay line interferometer having a movable mirror: An optical receiver apparatus and methods for mitigating intersymbol interference (ISI) in a differentially-encoded modulation transmission system by controlling constructive and destructive transfer functions. The receiver includes a bandwidth control element for controlling transfer function bandwidth, a transfer phase controller for controlling transfer function phase and/or an imbalancer for imbalancing... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080225381 - Delay line interferometer having a stepped delay element: An optical receiver apparatus and methods for mitigating intersymbol interference (ISI) in a differentially-encoded modulation transmission system by controlling constructive and destructive transfer functions. The receiver includes a bandwidth control element for controlling transfer function bandwidth, a transfer phase controller for controlling transfer function phase and/or an imbalancer for imbalancing... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080225382 - Enhanced continuum generation in nonlinear bulk optic materials: In accordance with the present invention, a bulk optic material (for example, silica) is processed to form a spatially microstructured element, such as a photonic bandgap (PBG) structure. An ultra-short laser pulse source is used as an input signal that is applied to the bulk optic PBG structure to generate... Agent: Wendy W. Koba

20080225383 - Method and devices for generating stable and tunable light pulses: Methods and devices for generating stable, tunable and intense output light pulses are provided. A primary beam of light pulses is used to form a filament in an interaction zone. A secondary bean of light pulses is superposed with the filament and interacts therewith to generate the output light pulses.... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080225384 - Laser amplifier power extraction enhancement system and method: A high extraction efficiency laser system. The novel laser system includes a laser amplifier and a laser source adapted to provide a laser beam to the amplifier such that polarization states for incident and reflected light within the amplifier are perpendicular one to another. In an illustrative embodiment, the laser... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080225385 - Multi-stage optical amplifier and method of controlling the same: The present invention provides a multi-stage optical amplifier including a high SN ratio and a method of controlling the same. A multi-stage optical amplifier is configured such that the gain of an amplifying unit in a first stage is greater than that of an amplifying unit in another stage. Therefore,... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080225386 - Fiber laser arrangement with regenerative pulse amplification: A fiber laser arrangement with regenerative pulse amplification, having a femtosecond fiber oscillator as a pulse-generating unit, a fiber amplifier designed both as a pulse-amplifying and pulse-stretching device to amplify and to stretch the femtosecond pulses generated by the femtosecond fiber oscillator, a regenerative amplifier, which has a disk-shaped laser... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson

20080225387 - Collector for illumination systems with a wavelength less than or equal to 193 nm: Collectors are disclosed. The collectors can be for illumination systems with a wavelength ≦193 nm, including ≦126 nm, and the EUV range. The collectors can serve to receive the light rays emitted from a light source and to illuminate an area in a plane. The collectors can include at least... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080225388 - Optical scanning observation apparatus: The invention provides a compact optical scanning observation apparatus having an internal focusing mechanism and which is suitable for in-vivo observation of animals. The optical scanning observation apparatus comprises a light source for illuminating a sample; an objective optical system for focusing illumination light onto the sample; a detection-light splitting... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080225389 - Polarizer and flat panel display apparatus including the same: A polarizer and a flat panel display apparatus including the polarizer are provided. The polarizer includes: a base; and a plurality of grids on the base, the plurality of grids including a first component and a second component, and having a thickness in a thickness direction of the polarizer. The... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080225390 - Optical microstructure plate and fabrication mold thereof: An optical microstructure plate and mold for fabricating the same is disclosed. The optical microstructure plate comprises a substrate. An optical microstructure element is formed on the substrate. A period alignment mark is disposed on the substrate to provide alignment for fabricating the optical microstructure element by a mold. A... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080225391 - Zero-order diffractive filter: A Zero-order diffractive filter comprising a first layer (1) with a periodic diffractive microstructure, forming a waveguide, and at least one adjacent second layer (2, 4, 5), wherein said first layer (1) has a refractive index that is higher than the refractive index of said second layer (2, 4, 5)... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080225392 - Optical system: The invention concerns an optical system. The optical system comprises an input for receiving an optical signal, a predetermined output plane, and a diffraction grating for separating the optical signal received at the input into spectral elements thereof. The grating has a diffraction surface with a first predetermined profile. The... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080225393 - Light outcoupling structure for a lighting device: A diffractive light outcoupling unit for forming a part of a directive light outcoupling system of a lighting device including a plurality of diffractive outcoupling units. The diffractive light outcoupling units each include a carrier element for accommodating a diffractive surface relief pattern, and a diffractive surface relief pattern including... Agent: Venable LLP

20080225394 - Optical element: An optical element is provided in the present invention, which comprises an element body and a plurality of microlens elements. The element body has a first surface disposed thereon. The plural microlens elements are arranged two-dimensionally on the first surface. The size and shape for each microlens elements may be... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080225395 - Light sensor embedded on printed circuit board: A system and/or method for sensing the presence of moisture (e.g., rain) and/or other material(s) on a window such as a vehicle window (e.g., vehicle windshield, sunroof or backlite). Such techniques may be used in connection with a light sensor. In certain example embodiments, a flexible printed circuit board (PCB)... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080225396 - Electro-optic mirror cell: A reflective element assembly for a variable reflectance vehicular mirror includes a front substrate having a transparent conductive coating disposed on a second surface thereof, and a rear substrate having an electrically conductive metallic reflective coating disposed on a third surface thereof. At least an edge portion of the rear... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080225397 - Control circuit for dimming an electrochromic mirror glass of a rearview mirror of a motor vehicle: A rearview mirror incorporates the use of electrochromic mirror glass capable of dimming via electronic controls. The electrochromic mirror glass dims when glare from vehicle driving aft of the motor vehicle impinge on the rearview mirror. The rearview mirror includes a control circuit with a single sensor. The sensor receives... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080225398 - Jet trapping in a cutting beam processing machine: A beam-catching device is provided for a cutting-beam processing machine configured to deliver a cutting beam to a workpiece. The beam-catching device includes a housing which has a line-like opening pointing toward the cutting beam, the cutting beam discharging from the underside of the workpiece during processing of the workpiece... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080225399 - Line head and image forming apparatus: A line head includes: a first lens array having a plurality of first lenses each having a convex surface as a light incidence surface; a second lens array that is arranged at a light-emitting surface side of the first lens array so as to be opposite to the first lens... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080225400 - Photochromic materials and photochromic compositions and articles including the same: Photochromic materials and photochromic compositions and articles including the photochromic materials are disclosed. The photochromic materials may be the reaction product of a hyperbranched polyester polyol having, on average, at least two reactive hydroxyl groups, and at least one photochromic indeno-fused naphthopyran.... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080225401 - Compact imaging lens system: A compact imaging lens system includes three lenses. The first lens is a positive meniscus lens having a convex side facing toward the image side, which has a big focusing power and is provided to capture image and for balance of aberration. The first lens serves to make the lens... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080225402 - Optical component with cells: An optical component (10) comprises a transparent set of cells (15; 25) juxtaposed in parallel to a surface of the component. Each cell is hermetically sealed and contains a substance with an optical property. The set of cells comprises cells of several sizes. The size of the cells can be... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080225404 - Motionless lens systems and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide zoom and/or autofocus lenses. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a lens is provided with at least one tunable lens. The focal length and/or focus of the lens may be varied without mechanically moving or changing the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080225403 - Variable focus lens package having clamping means for fixing the various lens package elements with respect to each other: A variable focus lens package (2) comprises an annular body (10) having a through-hole (11), which is closed off by means of lens members (30, 70), and which is sealed by means of sealing rings (50, 60). The through-hole (11) is filled with quantities of water (86) and oil (87),... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225405 - Image pickup apparatus and zoom lens: where W_ate(X) is an aberration amount of the lateral chromatic aberration from the C-line to the g-line, at a wide-angle end, corresponding to a (X×10) % image height, T_ate(X) is an aberration amount of the lateral chromatic aberration from the C-line to the g-line, at a telephoto end, corresponding to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080225406 - Close-up lens, imaging apparatus, and method for focusing close-up lens: Providing a close-up lens with superb optical performance capable of focusing from infinity to a close distance allowing a life-size magnification by an internal focusing system with small moving amounts of focusing lens groups, an imaging apparatus, and a method for focusing a close-up lens. The close-up lens includes four... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080225407 - Lens apparatus and image taking apparatus using the same: Data related to an object distance which is sent from a camera apparatus is captured. A focus lens position instructed value CL is calculated based on an object distance instructed value CD and a zoom position information value ZP. An object distance returned value PL to be transmitted to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080225408 - Subminiature imaging optical system: There is provided a subminiature imaging optical system installed in a mobile telecommunication terminal or a PDA, or used in a surveillance camera or a digital camera. The subminiature imaging optical system including: first, second, third and fourth lenses sequentially positioned from an object side to an image side, the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080225409 - Wide band achromatic visible to near-infrared lens design: A lens design comprising a positive lens made of barium fluoride crystal material and a negative lens element made of glass with dispersive properties common to the family of Schott type materials enabling an object to be imaged with superior chromatic aberration correction in the spectral range extending from the... Agent: Christopher Alexay Stingray Optics LLC

20080225410 - Optical assembly for medical imaging devices: Optical assemblies for use in medical or other devices so as to image an object under examination onto an image sensor include a plurality of lens elements that can be retained in lens barrel. The lens elements and the lens barrel can be sealed with a compressible gasket. In one... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080225411 - Subminiature imaging optical system: There is provided a subminiature imaging optical system utilizing only three sheets of lenses having positive, negative and positive refractive powers, respectively. The subminiature imaging optical system comprising, sequentially from an object side: a first lens having a meniscus shape with a convex object-side surface, the first lens having at... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080225412 - Lens device: A lens device is provided and includes: a lens barrel body in a box form opened in an upper surface thereof; a lid member attached to the upper surface of the lens barrel body; three fixing units that fix the lid member and the lens barrel body; and at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225413 - Lens device: A lens device is provided and includes: at least two lenses; and a lens frame holding the at least two lenses. The lens frame includes a first lens frame holding one of the at least two lenses and a second lens frame holding another of the at least two lenses,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225414 - Lens device: A lens device is provided and includes: a lens barrel body; a lens frame swingably attached to the lens barrel body; and a swing mechanism being adapted to swing the lens frame so that alignment of an optical axis of the lens device can be effected, the swing mechanism including:... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225415 - Actuated stepper lens camera module: A camera module includes an integral motor for rotating a lens unit of the camera module within a housing of the camera module. The housing includes a plurality of electromagnetic coils that function as a stator of the motor. The lens unit includes a plurality of ferrite elements and functions... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080225416 - Corrector ring driving device of microscopic objective lens provided with corrector ring: A device driving a corrector ring of a corrector ring mounting objective lens mounted to an objective mounting and dismounting section of a revolver includes a rotation driving mechanism having a motor and a turning effort transmitting section which transmits a turning effort of the motor to the corrector ring... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080225417 - Rearview mirror with illuminated area: The rearview mirror comprises a mirror glass, which is mounted to a carrier plate. A display unit is disposed behind the mirror glass and the carrier plate, which generates a light beam by means of an illuminant, wherein said light beam is coupled into a light conductor. The light beam... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080225418 - Methods and systems for improving optical flatness in a path length control driver: A piezoelectric transducer is described that is configured for use within a path length control apparatus of an optical device. The transducer comprises at least one void formed within a central region of the piezoelectric transducer, the one void or alternatively, the multiple voids, utilized at least in part to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080225419 - Varifocal mirror and camera module comprising the same: A varifocal mirror and a camera module comprising the same are disclosed. The varifocal mirror comprises a substrate, a thin film having a circumference supported by the substrate and a variable radius of curvature, and a reflective plane attached to the thin film to reflect light. The reflective plane has... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080225420 - Multiple aperture optical system: A multiple aperture optical system is provided that overcomes many limitations of wide field of view imaging systems. A basic component of the multiple aperture optical system is an “eye strip”, which comprises an array of imaging apertures physically mounted onto a flexible circuit strip and a master processor. Each... Agent: Geoffrey L. Barrows Centeye, Inc.

20080225421 - Compound automotive rearview mirror: A composite mirror adapted for use as an outside rearview mirror of a motor vehicle includes a main or primary viewing mirror and an auxiliary blindzone viewing mirror juxtaposed to expose the vehicle blindzone to the vehicle operator. The main viewing mirror is generally of unit magnification. The auxiliary mirror... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080225422 - Optical filter: An optical filter for filtering light rays having mutually different light intensity and direction of incidence on the optical filter along a number of mutually different directions and having a predetermined wavelength or wavelengths, has a carrier body which is transmissive for light rays having the predetermined wavelength or wavelengths... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225423 - Filter and plasma display apparatus including the same: A filter to improve contrast and shield electromagnetic waves, and a plasma display apparatus including the filter. The filter includes a base film, a first color pattern unit having strips disposed in parallel, at predetermined intervals, on both surfaces of the base film, and a second color pattern unit formed... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080225424 - Optical device and method of making the same using combination of light energy sensitive materials: A method of making optical devices includes applying an energy sensitive protective material and an energy sensitive advanced optical material to a surface. The surface can be on the optical device or on a carrier, such as a thin sheet, to be applied to the optical device. Light energy is... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080225425 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: The invention provides a heat dissipater such as a heat dissipation member that dissipates heat of an integrated circuit that is formed on a flexible substrate such as a flexible printed circuit board. The heat dissipater according to an aspect of the invention includes; a main body section that is... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080218817 - System and method for making seamless holograms, optically variable devices and embossing substrates: Apparatus and method for producing optically variable devices, optically variable media, dot matrix holograms or embossing substrates. The system includes: a laser beam generator, a laser beam shaper, a spatial light modulator, imaging optics and an image positioner. The laser beam generator generates a laser beam, which is shaped by... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080218818 - Apparatus and method to store information in a holographic data storage medium: A method is disclosed to store information in a holographic data storage medium. The method supplies a holographic data storage medium comprising an encoded focusing hologram and one or more encoded data holograms. The method disposes the holographic data storage medium in a holographic data storage system such that a... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080218819 - Printing apparatus and method: In a printing apparatus, a recording material ejection nozzle is configured to eject a holographic recording material in dots onto a support, and a hologram recording optical system is configured to emit a plurality of beams of laser light simultaneously onto the holographic recording material ejected on the support by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080218820 - Device for holographic storage:

20080218821 - Method and apparatus for synchronous laser beam scanning: A scanner system. The system includes a mirror assembly having multiple reflective surfaces arranged to form one polygonal shape about an axis. A plurality of the multiple surfaces are each positionable to reflect radiation propagating from the source at a reflective angle and a position on the reflective surface to... Agent: Ferdinand M. Roman, Esq. Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.a.

20080218822 - Scanned-beam heads-up display and related systems and methods: A heads-up display that includes a scanner and a projection assembly. The scanner generates an image by sweeping a beam of electromagnetic energy, and the projection assembly directs the image into a predetermined viewing space having a region with a substantially uniform intensity profile. Such a heads-up display can often... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20080218823 - Actuator, optical scanner and image forming apparatus: An actuator includes: a first vibrating system having a frame-like driving member and a pair of first axis members holding the driving member from both sides so that the driving member is rotatable about an X axis; a second vibrating system having a movable plate provided inside the driving member... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080218824 - Methods of driving a scanning beam device to achieve high frame rates: The present invention provides methods and systems for scanning an illumination spot over a target area. The present invention removes stored energy from a scanning element to stop the scanning element from vibrating and to substantially return the scanning element to its starting position so as to enable high frame... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080218825 - Optical scanning apparatus and image display apparatus using the same: The optical scanning apparatus converts a rotational motion of a motor to a reciprocating linear motion such that light modulated by a light source is scanned in two dimensions. In addition, direction changers are formed on both ends of a route of the linear reciprocating motion of the light source... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080218826 - Digital beam engine for a soft video projector: The invention concerns a system for projecting a digital video image sequence using a light beam capable of being generated by a source (1) on a 3D swivel joint (2), of low/medium power laser type or white light laser type. The system comprises a shutter microdisc (4) with slots (3),... Agent: Jean-marc(joseph) Desaulniers

20080218827 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning device includes a light source, a light-beam splitting unit, a deflector, and a scanning optical system. The light-beam splitting unit splits a light beam from the light source into a plurality of light beams, so that the light beams are each incident to any one of reflecting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218828 - Optical scanning unit and image forming apparatus incorporating same: An optical scanning unit used for scanning a photoconductor includes a light source, a rotatable deflector, a driver, a scan lens, an optical element, a first casing, a second casing, a first cover, and a second cover. The rotatable deflector deflects a light beam generated by the light source to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080218831 - Control methods for micromirror devices implemented with a single address electrode: A method for controlling a micromirror device including mirror elements each composed of a micromirror supported on a substrate by an elastic hinge, and a address electrode arranged across the deflection axis of the micromirror comprises deflecting the micromirror by changing a potential to a predetermined waveform for the address... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080218830 - Micromirror device with a single address electrode: A micromirror device comprises a plurality of mirrors arranged on a substrate, an elastic hinge for supporting any each of the mirrors to be deflectable in a plurality of directions, an electrode arranged to face the mirror, and a driving circuit, which is connected to the mirror via the elastic... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080218829 - Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus: In an optical scanning apparatus, an aperture is provided between a semiconductor laser in a light source unit and an oscillating mirror, and between a cylindrical lens and the oscillating mirror. When a light beam from the semiconductor laser comes into an reflection surface of the oscillating mirror, the optical... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080218832 - Actuator, optical scanner, and image forming device: An actuator includes: a first oscillatory system including a frame-shaped driving member and a pair of first axial members holding the driving member from both ends so as to allow the driving member to rotate around an X-axis; a second oscillatory system including a movable plate provided inside the driving... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080218833 - Laser repair system: A laser repair system including a laser light oscillator for generating laser light, and a slit unit on which the laser light is irradiated and which includes a laser light-blocking section, a first slit section and a second slit section, wherein the laser light-blocking section of the slit unit does... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080218836 - Interferometer and demodulator: An interferometer of the present invention includes: a splitting element which splits an incident light beam into a first split beam and a second split beam; and a first phase compensator which is positioned in an optical path of the first split beam, and which compensates a phase difference occurring... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080218834 - Method and apparatus for providing a light absorbing mask in an interferometric modulator display: A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) is provided. In one embodiment, the MEMS includes a transparent substrate, and a plurality of interferometric modulators. The plurality of interferometric modulators includes an optical stack coupled to the transparent substrate, in which the optical stack includes a first light absorbing area. The plurality of interferometric... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080218835 - Projection apparatus for scanningly projection: A projection apparatus for scanningly projecting an image onto an image field by means of a radiation beam includes a modulator for modulating an intensity of the radiation beam such that the intensity of the radiation beam changes in a time interval during which a scan point to which the... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett , LLP

20080218837 - Apparatus for calibrating displacement of reflective parts in diffractive optical modulator: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for calibrating the displacement of reflective parts in a diffractive optical modulator. The apparatus includes a diffractive optical modulator, a light intensity measurement unit, a projection unit, and display electronics. The light intensity measurement unit is disposed near one side of the diffractive optical modulator... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080218838 - Method for producing a device defining a volume for retaining a fluid or a sensitive material: s

20080218839 - Electro-optic displays, and materials for use therein: A first electro-optic display comprises first and second substrates, and an adhesive layer and a layer of electro-optic material disposed between the first and second substrates, the adhesive layer comprising a mixture of a polymeric adhesive material and a hydroxyl containing polymer having a number average molecular weight not greater... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080218840 - Methods for etching layers within a mems device to achieve a tapered edge: Certain MEMS devices include layers patterned to have tapered edges. One method for forming layers having tapered edges includes the use of an etch leading layer. Another method for forming layers having tapered edges includes the deposition of a layer in which the upper portion is etchable at a faster... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080218841 - Magneto-optical device and manufacturing method thereof: Disclosed is a magneto-optical device including a non-magnetic substrate, a magneto-optical crystal embedded in recessed portions formed in the surface of the non-magnetic substrate at positions where pixels are to be located, and a partitioning wall monolithic with the non-magnetic substrate and magnetically separating the magneto-optical crystal from each other... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080218842 - Method of repairing micromirrors in spatial light modulators: Disclosed herein is method of operating a device that comprises an array of micromirrors. The method comprises a process usable for repairing stuck micromirrors of the micromirror array during the operation. The reparation process applies, at the ON state, two consecutive refresh voltages to the mirror plates of the micromirrors... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080218843 - Microelectromechanical device and method utilizing a porous surface: A microelectromechanical device (MEMS) utilizing a porous electrode surface for reducing stiction is disclosed. In one embodiment, a microelectromechanical device is an interferometric modulator that includes a transparent electrode having a first surface; and a movable reflective electrode with a second surface facing the first surface. The movable reflective electrode... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080218844 - Mems devices with an etch stop layer: This invention discloses a MEMS device supported on a substrate formed with electric circuit thereon. The MEMS device includes at least an electrode connected to the circuit and at least a movable element that is controlled by the electrode. The MEMS device further includes a conformal protective layer over the... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080218845 - Electrophoretic display medium and method of forming the same: A method of accurately forming lower partitions than spacers on a substrate in an electrophoretic medium includes a first resist application step where a first negative resist is applied on the first substrate, a first exposure step where the first negative resist is exposed to light through a first mask... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080218846 - Method for preparing a periodically poled structure: A method for preparing a periodically poled structure according to this aspect of the present invention comprises the steps of providing a ferroelectric substrate and performing a poling process by applying a poling current to at least one portion of the ferroelectric substrate according to a current waveform. The current... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080218847 - Wavelength conversion devices: It is provided a wavelength conversion device 1 having a ridge optical waveguide 8 and a periodic domain inversion structure formed in the waveguide 8. The optical waveguide 8 has side wall faces 8c, a upper face and edge areas 8a formed between the upper face and the side wall... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080218848 - Optical amplifier, optical amplifier controller and control method of the same: An optical amplifier includes a detecting section configured to detect a part of an input optical signal from a first node on an input side optical fiber; and a rare earth element doped optical fiber amplifier configured to amplify a remaining part of the input optical signal supplied from the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080218849 - Device for confocal illumination of a specimen: There is provided a device for confocal observation of a specimen, comprising an objective, a mask, which is located in the illumination beam path and the image beam path and which is rotatable around a central axis, the mask being imaged onto the specimen by means of the objective and... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.c.

20080218850 - Light profile microscopy apparatus and method: An apparatus and method allowing an optimized illumination in a light profile microscope by excitation of a sample with an elliptically collimated beam. The beam, which is typically supplied by a laser is collimated with unequal beam waist radii (and Rayleigh ranges) along major and minor axes orthogonal to a... Agent: Lesperance & Martineau

20080218851 - Coded aperture wide field of view array telescope: A sensor assembly including a detector; a first arrangement for enhancing the resolution of the detector; and a second arrangement for increasing the field-of-view of the detector. In a specific implementation, the detector is a focal plane array of detectors, the first arrangement is a Hadamard mask and the second... Agent: Raytheon Company Patent Docket Administration

20080218852 - Viewing systems for selective viewing of artisan's activities: A viewing system associated with a permanent building structure includes a first reflective optical arrangement, mechanically associated with the permanent building structure, for viewing by a person in a first location. The system also includes a passive optical projection system including at least a second reflective optical arrangement mechanically associated... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080218853 - Micro-structure based screen system for use in rear projection array display systems: The viewing angle brightness sensitivity typically encountered in tiled rear projection display systems cannot be solely overcome by edge blending and calibration techniques. The rear projection array display-screen system of this invention, being comprised of a micro-structure array screen combined with a conventional diffusion screen, overcomes this viewing angle brightness... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080218854 - Stereoscopic display device: A mirror is provided on flat side surfaces of a polygonal conic surface, respectively, to form a polygon mirror. Moreover, in a flat panel display, planar real images are displayed facing the respective mirrors of this polygon mirror, and these planar real images are arrayed in a ring shape about... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080218855 - Autostereoscopic display apparatus and filter therefor: An autostereoscopic display apparatus (8), comprising: a plurality of individually addressable display elements (2) arranged in an array of rows and columns; and light directing means (15) comprising a plurality of light directing elements (16) at a slant angle (α) to the column direction (6); wherein the shape of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080218856 - Stereoscopic display device and method: In a one-dimensional IP (vertical disparity discarding system), it is made possible to obtain a perspective projection image with no distortion or reduced distortion. A stereoscopic display device is provided with a display device including a display plane in which pixels are arranged flatly in a matrix shape; and a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080218857 - Surface relief grating image machining process and product: A product with a surface relief grating (SRG) image effect has a surface with rotational cuts effected therein to create the SRG image effect. The SRG image has an effect based on a rotational speed of a cutting tool effecting the cuts, a travel speed of a cutting tool effecting... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080218858 - Polarizing turning film with reduced color separation: p

20080218859 - Rotating window: A rotating window includes a circular base member, a transparent window, and a magneto-conductive element, which are assembled into an electric motor device. By this rotating window, area of transparent region of the transparent window is increased, an outer diameter of a central shaft hole is decreased, and a support... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080218860 - Optical sensor based on surface electromagnetic wave resonance in photonic band gap materials: A sensing method and apparatus using photonic band gap multilayered material. Photonic band gap multi-layers are formed from alternating layers of higher refractive index and lower refractive index materials, and may be deposited or disposed on a optically transparent substrate or a reflecting face of a prism. Light is directed... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20080218861 - Zoom lens capable of image stabilization and imaging apparatus: A zoom lens capable of image stabilization is provided and includes: in order from the object side, a positive first group fixed in variable magnification, a negative second group having a variable magnification function, a positive third group fixed in variable magnification, and a positive fourth group having a correction... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218862 - Electronically controlled volume phase grating devices, systems and fabrication methods: Electrically controlled volume phase gratings and electrically controlled Bragg Gratings can provide variable diffraction gratings that can be operated in a transmissive and/or reflective mode. They can be made from electro-optic materials placed directly on glass or semiconductor materials, utilizing conventional Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) processes and equipment. Highly... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080218863 - Color compensating retinal safety filter: A filter and method for filtering an optical beam are disclosed. One embodiment of the filter is an optical filter for filtering an incident light beam, comprising an optically effective material characterized by: a light transmittance of less than 1% for wavelengths below 420 nm; and a light transmittance for... Agent: Alcon

20080218864 - Optical security system using fourier plane encoding: A method of verifying the authenticity of an object is disclosed. The method may include encoding a primary image, convolving the encoded primary image with a random code, generating thereby a first reference image, transforming the first reference image, and correlating the first reference image with a second reference image.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080218865 - Method and apparatus for producing optical multilayer body: An optical laminate produced by a process for producing an anti-dazzling laminate comprising a light transparent base material and an anti-dazzling layer provided on the light transparent base material. The process includes providing the light transparent base material and forming the anti-dazzling layer having a concavoconvex shape on the light... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080218866 - Display element: On the back surface of a window member and a display surface of a liquid crystal display panel, the same antireflective structures having a plurality of convexities with predetermined dimensions not more than the wavelength of visible light are formed, respectively. While the liquid crystal display panel is protected by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080218868 - Image correction using individual manipulation of microlenses in a microlens array: A system constructs a composite image using focus assessment information of image regions.... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080218867 - Image display device and portable terminal device: An image display device includes a display panel, a lens, a backlight, and a light dispersing member. The display panel includes a plurality of display units including at least pixels for displaying an image for a first point of view and a second point of view, arrayed in a matrix... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080218869 - Injection molded microlenses for optical interconnects: Disclosed are a microlens array, and a method of positioning and aligning the microlens array on another device. Generally, the microlens array comprises an array of injection molded microlens elements, and a supporting flange. Each of the microlens elements has a generally spheroid or spherical shape, and the supporting flange... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080218870 - Head-up display comprising a deformable mirror: The invention relates to a head-up-display (1) comprising an image generating unit (13, 7, 8) and at least one mirror (9, 10) which is arranged in the beam path (2) downstream from the image generating unit (13; 7, 8). Traditional head-up-displays (1) require an expensive adjusting element by taking into... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080218871 - Mirror assembly: A mirror assembly is described and which includes a semitransparent mirror, a circuit substrate positioned adjacent to the semitransparent mirror, and a first heater borne by the circuit substrate, and which is coupled with the source of electricity, and which is disposed in juxtaposed heat transmitting relation relative to the... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080218872 - Optical device with stable optical configuration: An optical device for a wavelength division multiplexing system has a telecentric lens system and a signal-processing optical element, where the signal-processing optical element performs switching, attenuation, or other optical signal processing for the optical device. The telecentric lens system acts as a self-compensating optical system to minimize sensitivity of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080218873 - Fluidic optical devices: A fluidic optical device, systems utilizing fluidic optical devices, methods for manufacturing fluidic optical devices and actuators are disclosed.... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080218874 - Zoom lens, optical apparatus, and method for forming an image of an object: In a zoom lens having a plurality of lens groups which are disposed in that order from an object, a first lens group that is disposed to closest to the object among the plurality of lens groups has positive refractive power and comprises a light path bending element which bends... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080218875 - Zoom lens system and imaging device:

20080218876 - Zoom lens, optical apparatus, and method for forming an image of an object: In a zoom lens ZL having a plurality of lens groups which are disposed in order from an object, a first lens group that is disposed to closest to the object among the plurality of lens groups has positive refractive power and comprises a light path bending element which bends... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080218877 - Fixed focal length lens system: A fixed focal length lens system comprises a first lens unit and a second lens unit. The first lens unit comprises a plastic minus lens, wherein the first lens unit has a negative diopter, and the plastic minus lens comprises at least one non-spherical surface. The second lens unit comprises... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080218878 - Zoom lens, optical apparatus, and method for forming an image of an object: In a zoom lens ZL1 having a plurality of lens groups G1 to G2 which are disposed in order from an object, where a refractive index average value of the lens components which constitute the zoom lens ZL1 is defined as ndav and a refractive index average value of the... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080218879 - Magnifier with slidable cover: A magnifying assembly comprising a housing; a magnifying lens coupled to the housing; and a cover slidable along the housing; wherein the cover is slidable relative to the housing in a first direction so as to cover at least part of the magnifying lens and slidable relative to the housing... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20080218880 - Magnifier with slidable cover: A magnifying assembly, the magnifying assembly comprising a housing comprising a frame to which a magnifying lens is secured; and a battery compartment; a cover assembly slidable along the housing; wherein the cover is slidable relative to the housing in a first direction so as to cover at least part... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20080218881 - Compact spotting scope with side focus control: A compact spotting scope includes a housing with an outer surface having a grasping region sized and shaped to fit in a user's hand. An optical element positioned within the housing is adjusted by manually rotating a side-mounted adjustment knob that extends laterally from the outer surface of the housing... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20080218882 - Lens assembly and imaging device: A lens assembly includes: a lens group including a plurality of lenses; and a lens holder accommodating the lens group and having an opening in each of a front end face of the lens holder and a rear end face of the lens holder. The opening of the front end... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218883 - Optical element holding apparatus: A holding apparatus that holds an optical element above a base includes three holding units provided at different positions along an outer periphery of the optical element. Each holding unit includes a first member provided on the optical element, a second member provided on the base, a columnar third member... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080218886 - Light source apparatus: A conventional light source apparatus that combines incident light from a plurality of light sources by using prism sheets has the problem that the beam aspect ratio of incident light is undesirably changed so that exiting light has an extremely elliptical beam profile. The present invention provides a light source... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080218884 - Optical element for improving laser beam position: An optical element with improved deflection of a laser light beam calls for combination of a pentaprism with one or more glass blocks or an afocal optical system. A rotational angle-dependent parallel offset of emerging beams is eliminated for the most part.... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.c.

20080218885 - Prism, imaging device and lighting device including the same, and prism manufacturing method: A prism 30 includes a prism body 30. The prism body 31 is formed into a polygonal column. At least one of a plurality of ridges 35, 36 of the prism body 31 is formed into an R-plane.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080218887 - Broadband asymmetric mirrors: An asymmetric mirror is composed of a dielectric substrate [500] and a coating [502] on the dielectric substrate. Within an operational wavelength range Δλ, the mirror has a transmission symmetry ΔT=0% and a reflection asymmetry ΔR>10%, where the reflection asymmetry ΔR varies by less than 5% within the operational wavelength... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080218888 - Vehicle mirror device: A vehicle mirror device includes a base unit configured to be fixed to a vehicle, a body unit that includes a mirror and is rotatably attached to the base unit, and a driving unit that drives the body unit to rotate with respect to the base unit. The driving unit... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080212151 - Rain sensor, for a motor vehicle in particular, and method for producing the rain sensor: The invention relates to a rain sensor, especially for a motor vehicle, said sensor comprising an optical waveguide (22) which can be arranged in a windscreen. According to the invention, the planar holographic coupling elements for coupling and decoupling radiation (4) are formed from layered photo-polymer parts (3) into which... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080212152 - System and method for encryption of a holographic image: A system and method for encryption of a holographic image is disclosed. The method includes the operation of producing a beam of light having at least two wavelengths of light. The beam of light can be split to form an illumination beam and a reference beam. Amplitude information can be... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080212153 - Controllable illumination device: The invention relates to a controllable illumination device for an autostereoscopic or holographic display, which illumination device contains an illumination matrix of primary light sources having at least one luminous element per light source and a controllable light modulator (SLM) and a reproduction matrix. A computer-generated hologram (CGH) illuminated by... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080212154 - Motion compensated light-emitting apparatus: A light-emitting apparatus, for enabling a beam of light to be projected on a desired target located a distance away to project the beam on the desired target without any or substantially any undesired movement. The apparatus may include a housing, a light generating device located within the housing and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080212155 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same: An optical scanning device including a light beam emission unit configured to emit a light beam, a main scanning line deflection unit configured to deflect the light beam in a main scanning direction to emit a scanning beam, a scanning lens configured to focus the scanning beam in the main... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080212156 - Optical scanning device, optical scanning method, program, recording medium, and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning device is configured to identify a light-emitting unit at the start of writing on the basis of a sub-scanning resist displacement and selects a combination of four light-emitting units according to the light-emitting unit at the start of writing. The optical scanning device predicts the amount of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080212157 - Optical switching system and control method for micro mirror: An optical switching system includes a connection information memory portion (21) that stores connection information between input ports and output ports, a control characteristic memory portion (23) that stores control characteristic data of micro mirrors with respect to each of a plurality of temperatures, a temperature sensor (25) that senses... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080212158 - 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.

20080212159 - Direct optical image projectors: An apparatus includes a reconfigurable spatial light modulator, a light source, and a transmission filter. The reconfigurable spatial light modulator is capable of producing spatially varying amplitude and/or phase modulations of an incident light wavefront. The light source is configured to direct an illumination light beam towards the reconfigurable spatial... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20080212160 - Electronically controlled device with variable optical and/or power properties and power supply method therefor: Electrically controllable system having variable optical/energy properties in transmission or reflection, comprising at least one carrier substrate provided with a multilayer allowing the migration of active species, especially an electrochromic multilayer comprising at least two active layers that are separated by at least one layer having an electrolyte function, said... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212161 - Actuating device having a flexible diaphragm controlled by electrowetting: An actuation device with plural positions and including a support, at least one flexible membrane attached to the support forming at least one closed containment with the support with volume filled with at least one first liquid in a form of one or plural drops, and at least a second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212162 - Method for aligning die to substrate: A method for aligning a micro-mirror device die having a plurality of micro-mirror devices formed on a semiconductor substrate and fixing the micro-mirror device die on the semiconductor substrate can be provided. The method comprises a first alignment step of aligning a first guide portion of the micro-mirror device die... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080212165 - Bistable display devices: A bistable display device comprises a first substrate (22) carrying, on one side, a plurality of electrode segments (28, 30) and supply lines (26) connecting to the segments. The electrode segments comprise a first set of electrode segments (30) which define the display regions for providing information to the user,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212163 - Image display element, image display sheet, image display and image displaying method: An image display element comprises a multilayer film optical filter in which layers of two or more types of materials which reflect or transmit therethrough light of a specific color and have different refractive indexs are alternately superimposed or stacked. The multilayer film optical filter is shaped like a fine... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20080212164 - Information display panel and method for manufacturing the same: In an information display panel, in which display media are sealed between a transparent front substrate and a rear substrate, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied from electrodes arranged respectively to the front substrate and the rear substrate, are made to move so... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080212166 - Four-wave mixing source of squeezed light for image processing and interferometry: A four-wave mixing squeezed light source includes: a mixing medium having chi(3) non-linear characteristics including two atomic ground states coupled to each other by transitions through optically-excited states; a pump beam having a polarization and a frequency, said frequency being near the ground-to-excited atomic transition but far enough from the... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080212167 - Cascaded optical amplifier and control method thereof: A cascaded optical amplifier including a first optical amplifier and a second optical amplifier in cascaded arrangement is provided. Each of the first optical amplifier and the second optical amplifier has a respective input for receiving an optical signal, an output for outputting an amplified optical signal, and a control... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080212168 - Extended depth of field imaging system using chromatic aberration: An imaging system (FIG. 3) is disclosed that has a wavelength dependent focal shift caused by longitudinal chromatic aberration in a lens assembly (203) that provides extended depth of field imaging due to focal shift (213,214) and increased resolution due to reduced lens system magnification. In use, multiple wavelengths of... Agent: Datalogic - Stoel Rives LLP C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20080212169 - Reflector for an infrared radiating element: The invention relates to a reflector for an infrared radiating element. The reflector comprises a metal foil coated with—a first oxide layer deposited on the metal foil; —an infrared reflecting metal layer deposited on said first oxide layer; and—a second oxide layer deposited on said infrared reflecting layer. The first... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080212170 - Catadioptric projection objective: e

20080212171 - Microscopy system: The invention relates to a microscopy system for representing an object that can be placed on an object plane (1) of the microscopy system, the latter comprising a representation system (26) containing several optical elements for providing at least one optical representation path (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d). According to one... Agent: Jones Day

20080212172 - Image processing method for a microscope system: An embodiment is disclosed for performing the image processing for analyzing the results of a fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) microscopic automated sample analysis to determine specific chromosomal characteristics.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080212173 - Illumination optical apparatus and optical apparatus: There are provided an illumination optical apparatus and an optical apparatus using this illumination optical apparatus that are capable of efficiently collecting light emitted from a light-emitting section for illumination with less illumination nonuniformity, without having to employ a complicated structure. There are provided a light-emitting sections; a lens system... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080212174 - Positioning mechanism and microscope using the same: The positioning mechanism is provided with a supporting shaft possessing a spherical surface part at a prescribed position and guides disposed substantially parallel to the supporting shaft and is characterized, on the assumption that of the three-dimensional directions, the axial direction of the supporting shaft constitutes the z direction, by... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080212176 - Self-aligning telescope: Embodiments of the present disclosure include self-aligning telescope control systems and self-alignment methods. In an embodiment, a telescope control system orients a telescope with respect to the celestial sphere by pointing the telescope in the direction of an alignment star or alignment area of the sky. The telescope control system... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080212175 - Telescope mount: A mounting and adjustment device for an optical observation system includes at least one optical observation instrument and a pedestal, and at least one element integrally associable with said optical observation instrument and at least one element integrally associable with the pedestal. The at least one element is also integrally... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20080212177 - Diffusion sheet, rear projection screen provided with diffusion sheet, method of manufacturing mold for diffusion sheet, and method of manufacturing diffusion sheet: In a diffusion sheet 101, a plurality of approximately trapezoidal columnar unit lens portions 11 are disposed such that the long-axis directions thereof are in parallel with each other, and all the surfaces of the unit lens portions, which correspond to the long bottom segments 112 of the approximately trapezoidal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080212178 - Diffusion sheet, rear projection screen provided with diffusion sheet, method of manufacturing mold for diffusion sheet, and method of manufacturing diffusion sheet: In a diffusion sheet 101, a plurality of approximately trapezoidal columnar unit lens portions 11 are disposed such that the long-axis directions thereof are in parallel with each other, and all the surfaces of the unit lens portions, which correspond to the long bottom segments 112 of the approximately trapezoidal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080212179 - Method of optical manipulation of small-sized particles: Method and system of optical manipulation of micrometer-sized objects, which comprises the steps of placing a pattern (2) of a certain material on a surface (1), wherein said material is capable of sustaining surface plasmons; placing a solution (4) comprising micrometer-sized objects in contact with said surface (1) and said... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080212180 - Polarization independent raman imaging with liquid crystal tunable filter: A high passband transmission ratio in microscopic Raman spectral imaging and other applications is obtained by splitting a light beam from an objective lens into two orthogonal polarized components processed along laterally spaced paths through the same liquid crystal tunable filter (LCTF) and imaging lens. At least one of the... Agent: Chemimage Corporation

20080212181 - Retroreflective sheet structure: A retroreflective sheet structure (10) comprising a transparent layer (20) having a front light-receiving surface (30) and a rear retroreflecting surface (32). Light incident on the front surface (30) will pass through the layer (20), impinge on the rear retroreflective surface (32) and reflect back out through the front surface... Agent: Cynthia S. Murphy Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080212182 - Two-sided corner-cube retroreflectors and methods of manufacturing the same: In a retroreflective sheeting, and methods of formation thereof, the sheeting comprises a body of material, the body having a first surface and a second surface. A plurality of first full-square-sided corner-cube structures are on the first surface of the body, the first full-square-sided corner-cube structures each having three facets... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080212183 - Lithographic apparatus, aberration correction device and device manufacturing method: An aberration correction device useable in lithography comprises two elements, at least one of which is relatively rotatable to the other about, for example, an optical axis. One surface of each element has an aspheric form describable by higher Zernike polynomials. When the two surfaces are rotationally aligned, the device... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080212184 - Zoom lens and imaging apparatus: Provided are a zoom lens and an imaging apparatus using the zoom lens, the zoom lens being suited for achieving compactness without increasing the number of lenses and being capable of implementing motion blur compensation. The zoom lens includes lenses arranged in order from an object side into a first... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080212185 - Laser optical device: In a laser optical device including a beam shaping optical system 3 for shaping a laser beam 2 into a predetermined cross-sectional intensity distribution and converging the light and an image formation optical system 6 for forming an image of a shaped beam 4 shaped and converged through the beam... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080212186 - Long-distance quantum communication: The invention provides systems and methods enabling high fidelity quantum communication over long communication channels even in the presence of significant loss in the channels. The invention involves laser manipulation of quantum correlated atomic ensembles using linear optic components (110, 120), optical sources of low intensity pulses (10), interferers in... Agent: OpticusIPLaw, PLLC

20080212187 - Antiglare film: An antiglare film is disclosed comprising of an antiglare layer having a surface irregularity on a transparent base material, wherein the antiglare layer includes a binder matrix, an organic particle A and a particle B, and the value that an average particle size of the organic particle A is divided... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080212188 - Low glare rear-view mirror for vehicles: A low-glare motor-vehicle includes a color reproduction index Ra of at least 70 and a reduced reflection for each of the illuminants A and C in scotopic vision (at night) as compared with photopic vision (in the daylight) by at least 3%. In one embodiment, the mirror consists of a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080212189 - Vehicle mirror assembly with indicia at reflective element: A rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a reflective element having at least one substrate with a reflective coating thereon. A specularly reflective indicia reflector is established to form indicia or information at the reflective element. The indicia reflector provides a visible contrast to the main mirror reflector so... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080212190 - Antiglare film: An antiglare film is disclosed including a transparent substrate; and an antiglare layer including a binder matrix and a particle, wherein reflectivity of 5° angle of a surface of the antiglare film which surface is in the antiglare layer side among both sides of the antiglare film is 2.4-4.4%, wherein... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080212191 - Optical arrangement and optical method: An optical arrangement comprising at least one first light-emitting element (LE1) and at least one second light-emitting element (LE2), and at least one light addition device (1) arranged in such a way that the light from the first and the second light-emitting element (LE1, LE2) are added to form a... Agent: Thomas Langer

20080212192 - Micro-optic security and image presentation system: 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

20080212193 - Micro-optic security and image presentation system presenting a synthetically magnified image that appears to lie below 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

20080212194 - Scanned-beam heads-up display and related systems and methods: A heads-up display that includes a scanner and a projection assembly. The scanner generates an image by sweeping a beam of electromagnetic energy, and the projection assembly directs the image into a predetermined viewing space having a region with a substantially uniform intensity profile. Such a heads-up display can often... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20080212195 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus is disclosed in which the position of an exit pupil can follow the movement of a pupil of an observer even with a small size. The apparatus includes an image-forming element which forms an image, an ocular unit which causes light from the image-forming element to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080212196 - Display device for vehicle and supporting method for adjusting display position thereof: A display device for a vehicle is provided, by which a driver of the vehicle is free from a trouble of adjusting a display position of the virtual image without cost-up of the device. When the support start detecting means detects a support start timing of adjusting a reflection angle,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080212197 - Aberration correction apparatus: An aberration correction apparatus comprising a liquid crystal device which includes a first electrode layer that is formed with regions divided concentrically, a second electrode layer that is formed with regions divided concentrically, and a liquid crystal that is sandwiched in between the first electrode layer and the second electrode... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080212198 - Molded lens and molding tool: A lens is manufactured by hardening soft material filled inside a molding tool by cooling. The lens includes a convex lens portion having an optical axis, and a marking portion located outside of an effective diameter of the lens portion. The shape or the position of the marking portion is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080212199 - Microscope objective lens: A microscope objective lens is disclosed that includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractive power that is movable along the optical axis, and a third lens group. The first lens group includes, in order from... Agent: Arnold International

20080212200 - Telephoto zoom lens: m

20080212201 - Zoom lens and optical apparatus having zoom lens: Providing a compact zoom lens exhibiting optical performance, of which a chromatic aberration in a telephoto state is well corrected. The zoom lens includes a plurality of lens groups, the plurality of lens groups includes at least three lens groups with positive refractive power, each of the three lens groups... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080212203 - Zoom lens: A zoom lens includes a first and a second lens group respectively having negative and positive refractive power, and changes a focal length by changing a distance between the first and the second lens group. The second lens group includes a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080212202 - Zoom lens system and optical apparatus using the same: Providing a zoom lens system excellently correcting various aberrations with accomplishing to be compact, lightweight, and slim upon being accommodated, and to provide an optical apparatus using the zoom lens system. The system consists of, in order from an object, a first group G1 having negative power, a second group... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080212204 - Lens module: Combining one or more elements of a beam shaping assembly in a lens module to, for example, reduce the mechanical tolerances in construction of the assembly. An exemplary lens module comprises a molded plastic lens with alignment features, a cylindrical surface, a focusing surface, and an aperture. The aperture is... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080212205 - Optical lens system for taking image: An optical lens system for taking image, from object side along the optical axis comprises an aperture stop, a first lens element, a second lens element, and a third lens element. The first lens element is a positive meniscus lens element with its convex surface facing the object side. The... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080212206 - Zoom lens having image stabilizing function:

20080212207 - Imaging lens:

20080212208 - Lens set adapted to webcam: The invention discloses a lens set adapted to a webcam. The webcam has a first focal length. The lens set according to the invention includes a first lens and a second lens. The first lens is used to refract a light to generate a refracted light substantially parallel to an... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080212209 - Optical lens device solderable to substrate and method of manufacturing the optical lens device: A method of manufacturing an optical lens device includes the steps of forming a lens barrel into the shape of a quadrangular prism having corners that have a shape having a radius of curvature or that are chamfered, and installing a lens into the lens barrel; disposing in parallel a... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080212210 - Optical element and optical element holder: An optical element including a first groove extending from first end of the outer peripheral face in an optical axis direction towards second end, and a second groove connected to the first groove and extending from second end of the outer peripheral face in the optical axis direction towards first... Agent: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP Koda/androlia

20080212211 - Immersion lithography objective: An immersion lithography objective has a housing in which at least one first optical element is arranged, a second optical element, which follows the first optical element in the direction of the optical axis of the objective, an immersion medium that adjoins the second optical element being located downstream of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080212212 - Magnetic coupled actuator: A magnetic coupled actuator includes a lens which is movable in an optical axis direction AX, a lens frame which is coupled with the lens, a lens barrel which seals and accommodates the movable lens and the lens frame to be airtight, a permanent magnet which is disposed at an... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080212213 - Light-shielding highly reflective multilayer sheet, and thermoformed body and case using same: The present invention provides a light shielding highly reflective laminated sheet, which is a multilayer sheet comprising at least two layers, wherein the total light reflectance (Y value) of the surface of the first layer is 96% or more, the total light reflectance (Y value) of the surface of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212214 - Fixing structure of optical element: A fixing structure of an optical element such as a half mirror may include an optical element, a fixing member such as a frame which is formed with a reference surface, a first adhesive and a second adhesive which are used to fix the optical element on the reference surface.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080212215 - Information display system for a vehicle: An information display mirror system suitable for use in a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly configured for mounting at an interior portion of a vehicle and having a casing, a mirror support arm and a reflective element. The interior rearview mirror assembly includes an information display screen disposed... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080212216 - Optical multipass cell for repeated passing of light through the same point: The present invention is a multipass unipoint optical cell used for the improved analysis of samples by transmission, reflection, Raman or fluorescence spectroscopy by the multiple reimaging of light through the same analysis point. The cell comprises two or more identical optical reimaging elements each consisting of two symmetrically opposing,... Agent: Milan Milosevic

20080212217 - Multiple reflection optical system: The invention relates to a multiple reflection optical system comprising a light beam input (E) and output (S) means, a first mirror (M1) having a curvature radius (R1) and arranged at a distance (d2) in front of a second mirror (M2) having a second curvature radius (R2) and arranged at... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment

20080212218 - Mirror assembly: A mirror assembly mountable to a wall is provided. The mirror assembly includes a mirror platform having a front surface and a rear surface, and a chassis mountable to the mirror platform. At least one electrical component is disposed between the mirror platform and the chassis. An electrical passageway is... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080212219 - Astrometry and photometry with coronagraphs: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an optical device comprises a telescope, a coronagraph device coupled to the telescope and having a focal plane occulting mask to provide a coronagraphic image, and a reticulate grid element arranged in a light path propagated through the telescope, at a... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080212220 - Color filter substrate and method for manufacturing the same: In a color filter substrate and a method for manufacturing the color filter substrate, the color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a first blocking pattern, a second blocking pattern and color filters. The base substrate includes a plurality of pixel areas. The first blocking pattern extends along a direction... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP