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20080259416 - Optically variable elements comprising an electrically active layer: There is described a security element having at least one optically variable device, in which at least one layer of the optically variable device is in the form of an electrically active layer (13, 14) of an electronic component and/or an electronic circuit.... Agent: Charles R. Hoffmann Hoffmann & Baron

20080259417 - Holographic recording media: e

20080259418 - Delete recycling of holographic data storage: Data hologram recycling systems, methods and computer program products are configured to arrange data for storage in the intermediate data storage as data segments which are replicas of holographic storage segments for destaging to the holographic data storage, and to determine retrieval for recycling of the destaged holographic storage segments... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20080259419 - Computer generated hologram: A three dimensional display apparatus includes a diffraction panel for displaying a computer generated hologram and a look-up table. The look-up table includes a plurality of phase entries corresponding to a plurality of image points within a three dimensional image replay volume of the computer generated hologram. The apparatus further... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080259420 - Apparatus for reading from and/or writing to holographic storage media: According to the invention an apparatus for reading a data page from and/or writing a data page to a holographic storage medium, with a coaxial arrangement of one or more reference beams and an object beam or a reconstructed object beam, has one or more spatial light modulators for generating... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080259421 - Methods for implementing page based holographic rom recording and reading: According to one aspect, methods and systems for recording and reading holographic storage media are provided. In one aspect, a method includes illuminating a data mask with a beam and recording a resulting modulated beam in a holographic storage medium, wherein the data mask includes an information layer that is... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080259422 - Selective photocoagulation: A method of scanning a laser beam across a set of cells includes during a first interval, scanning a laser beam across a set of cells; and during a second interval, deflecting the laser beam away from the set of cells. The first interval is selected to cause microcavitation in... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080259423 - Scanner arrangement and method for optically scanning an object: A scanner arrangement (50), in particular a scanning microscope, for optically scanning an object (101) in a sequence of scanning steps, has: a drivable moving object stage (40) and an objective assembly (4, 7-10), which has a front objective lens (9, 103) on an objective lens carriage (8) which can... Agent: Cahn & Samuels LLP

20080259424 - Hydrodynamic bearing unit, and optical deflector, optical scanner and image forming apparatus using the same: A hydrodynamic bearing unit using oil includes a shaft to be driven, a bearing member configured to support the shaft in a non-contact manner through a bearing gap by a hydrodynamic pressure of the oil, which is generated in the bearing gap while the shaft relatively rotate with respect to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259425 - Scanner head for a laser machining device: A scanner head is provided for processing a workpiece by means of a focused laser beam. The scanner head includes a first module, rotatably supported in a first direction in order to deflect the laser beam from the first direction into a second direction, preferably perpendicular to the first direction,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080259426 - Light scanning device and image forming apparatus: A light scanning device includes: a light source; an aperture stop regulating a width of a light beam emitted from the light source; a deflector deflecting and scanning the light beam emitted from the light source; at least one scanning lens forming an image on a scanned surface with the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259427 - Lens system and scanner device equipped therewith: An F/theta lens system for focusing high-power laser radiation in a flat image field including at least two lenses. The at least two lenses are arranged sequentially in a beam path, where the at least two lenses are made from a material that is stable when exposed to laser radiation... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080259428 - Optical delay: An optical delay line device includes a rotatable wheel and one or more prisms mounted about the circumference of the wheel. The one are more prisms are positioned to retroreflect the optical beam that passes approximately tangent to the wheel to cause a delay or phase shift to the beam... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/ann Arbor

20080259429 - Image generating apparatus: The present invention relates to an image generating apparatus (1) which comprises an illumination unit (20) having an intermediate face (21, S), as well as an image modulator (30) for generating an image (1). In addition a deflecting means (10) for deflecting a received light beam (L) of primary illumination... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259430 - Light-scanning device and image-forming apparatus: A light-scanning device includes a polygon scanner having a rotatable polygon mirror which deflects a laser beam emitted from a light source, an optical image-forming element which images the deflected laser beam on a predetermined position, and an optical housing which supports the light source, the polygon scanner and the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080259431 - Laser projection system based on a luminescent screen: The present invention relates to a laser projection system consisting of at least one first laser light source (1), a projection screen (7) and a spatial light modulator (6) for projecting a laser beam of said laser light source (1) to form an image on said projection screen (7). The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259432 - Electrophoresis display device and electronic apparatus: The invention provides an electrophoresis display device that includes: a pair of a first substrate and a second substrate that are provided opposite to each other; an electrophoresis material layer that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of pixel areas that is formed on... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080259433 - Multi-color electrochromic apparatus and methods: The present disclosure provides apparatus and methods for multi-color electrochromic devices. In one embodiment, pixels of a first color electrochromic material (i.e. pigment) are arranged in first areas on a substrate with pixels of a second color electrochromic material in second areas to define a two-dimensional pattern of the first... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080259434 - Complex pointillistic printing: A method of printing an image of a three-dimensional object includes printing multiple dots of a colored ink to form an image of the object and printing dots of a transparent ink having a refractive index greater than 1 within the image. The dots of transparent ink local alter the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080259435 - Electro-optic crystal, diffraction-based, beam-steering element: A beam-steering element made of a more optically-active material, potassium tantalate niobate, with an improved diffraction efficiency, having a plurality of electrode layers and one electro-optic crystal layer interposed between every two adjacent electrode layers. Each electro-optic crystal layer and the electrode layer adjacent thereto have an aspect ratio of... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080259436 - Laser light source device, illumination device, image display device, and monitor: A laser light source device includes: a light source; an external resonator constituting a resonator structure with the light source; a wavelength conversion element disposed between the light source and the external resonator, and converting the wavelength of the light emitted from the light source; and a first spacing member... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259437 - Tunable light source apparatus, and adjustment method and control program of the same: The present invention aims to provide a tuning light source apparatus including a multiple-optical resonator, where the resonance frequencies of the respective optical resonators in a multiple-optical resonator are exactly coincided with the set frequency, and the frequency of the output laser beam is locked within a range of about... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080259438 - Bidirectional optical amplifier: A bidirectional amplification system and method are disclosed. A single optical line amplifier and isolation loss filters are used to amplify signals in both the east and west directions with sufficient gain along a fiber.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080259439 - Multilayer-film reflective mirror, exposure apparatus, device manufacturing method, and manufacturing method of multilayer-film reflective mirror: Multilayer-film reflective mirrors are disclosed. An exemplary such mirror has a base and a multilayer film formed on the base. The multilayer film includes multiple layer pairs. Each layer pair includes a respective first layer and a respective second layer, wherein the first and second layers are laminated together in... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080259440 - Projection optical system, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: A projection optical system for forming an image of a first surface on a second surface has a first imaging optical system and a second imaging optical system, and a folding member for guiding light from the first imaging optical system to the second imaging optical system. Every optical element... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080259441 - Imaging system: An imaging system for imaging an object field arranged in an object surface of the imaging system onto an image field arranged in an image surface of the optical system while creating at least one intermediate image including: a first imaging subsystem for creating the intermediate image from radiation coming... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259442 - Scanning microscope and adjusting method for the same: A scanning microscope includes an objective lens for focusing illumination light onto a specimen; a scanning device for deflecting and scanning the illumination light; a pupil-projection optical system for illuminating a pupil of the objective lens with the scanned illumination light; and a total-magnification specifying unit for specifying a total... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080259443 - Contact microscope using point source illumination: The embodiments of the invention include a microscope having a transparent specimen holder and a digital imaging device positioned within the transparent specimen holder. The digital imaging device can include a wireless transmitter. The transparent specimen holder can have a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein the transparent specimen... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080259444 - Contact microscope using point source illumination: The embodiments of the invention include a microscope having a transparent specimen holder and a digital imaging device positioned within the transparent specimen holder. The digital imaging device can include a wireless transmitter. The transparent specimen holder can have a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein the transparent specimen... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080259445 - Laser microscope: A laser microscope is provided which includes a laser light source, a first optical fiber through which the ultrashort pulse laser light propagates while being positively chirped, a negative dispersion optical system that negatively chirps this propagated laser light, a second optical fiber through which the laser light that has... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080259446 - Adaptor for microscope and microscope apparatus (microscope-use adaptor and microscope device): Providing a microscope apparatus supplying efficiently and collecting a liquid upon observation with local liquid immersion. The apparatus including an objective of a liquid immersion system, discharging means discharging the liquid between a front edge of the objective and a substrate, and sucking means sucking the liquid. Inclined faces are... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080259447 - Spectroscopy of exoplanets from a ground-based telescope: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an optical device comprises a telescope and a pipescope arranged as a spatial filter to light propagated through the telescope, to confine a field of view to θDL.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080259448 - System and method for telescope guiding utilizing an artificial reference star: A system and method for telescope guiding requires creating an artificial reference star which is locked to the line of sight of the imaging means of a main telescope in the field-of-view (FOV) of a guide scope. A real guide star is selected using the guide scope, such that both... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20080259449 - Telescope and panfocal telescope comprising planoconvex or planoconcave lens and deflecting means connected thereto: The invention relates to a telescope which is used to inject and/or to extract, by reflection, emitting and/or capturing bundles of beams. According to the invention, at least one deflecting means is joined to the planar surface by means of at least one lens of the telescope objective unit, which... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080259450 - Illumination optical apparatus, relay optical system, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: An illumination optical apparatus guides to an illumination object a light beam emitted from a light source. The illumination optical apparatus includes an enlarging optical system, disposed between the light source and the illumination object, and a reduction optical system, disposed between the enlarging optical system and the illumination object.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259451 - Electric roll-up limit detection device: An electric roll-up limit device includes a tube coupled by a tube rotor to an electric motor. The tube rotor contains a rocker bar that extends from the tube and activates a lower limit switch when a sheet of material is fully unrolled from the tube. A base below the... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080259453 - Retardation compensation element and manufacturing method of the same: Two types of layers are simultaneously formed on a substrate and another substrate under the same layer forming condition, the heights of which are equal to a half height of an intended retardation compensation layer. Physical properties of the respective two types of layers formed on the substrates are identical... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259452 - Retardation compensation element and method for manufacturing the same: Substrates 7a to 7e are held by a rotating drum 6, and a retardation compensation layer is formed by means of sputtering by releasing particles from target materials 9, 10 while rotating the drum 6. After a first unit layer corresponding to a half of the retardation compensation layer is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259454 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the lens: A zoom lens easily performs image stabilization with a compact and light image-stabilizing lens unit, properly corrects an aberration change during image stabilization, and achieves high optical performance. The zoom lens includes a first positive lens unit, a second negative lens unit, a third positive lens unit, a fourth negative... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080259455 - Nano-structured zero-order diffractive filter: A zero order diffractive filter for polarised or unpolarised polychromatic light, comprises a grating line (10) microstructure (1) formed by a surrounding medium (12) with low index of refraction nlow and a waveguiding layer (11) with high index of refraction nhigh, the grating lines (10) having a period length Λ... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080259456 - Security document: Described is a security document with a transparent security element (12) which is arranged in a window or in a transparent region of the security document and has a structure layer, in which a first region (12f) of the structure layer has an asymmetrical diffractive relief structure, wherein the first... Agent: Charles R. Hoffmann Hoffmann & Baron

20080259457 - Optical element, master prototype, resin master, resin molded article and metal mold: For generation of optical elements, a master prototype, a resin master, a resin molded article or a metal mold is used. In the master prototype, the resin master, the resin molded article or the metal mold, a fine relief structure is formed on a plane through which an object light... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080259458 - Euv diffractive optical element for semiconductor wafer lithography and method for making same: According to one exemplary embodiment, an EUV (extreme ultraviolet) optical element in a light path between an EUV light source and a semiconductor wafer includes a reflective film having a number of bilayers. The reflective film includes a pattern, where the pattern causes a change in incident EUV light from... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080259459 - Reflective filter: A reflective filter including a substrate and an optical film structure disposed on the substrate is provided. The optical film structure includes a reflective layer, a spacing layer, a transflective layer and a transparent layer in sequence. Depending on the reflection and interference phenomenon form the layers of the optical... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080259460 - Light-pipe integrator with mask for uniform irradiance: A non-uniform light source is combined with a system including an integrating light pipe, a mask placed at the output of the light pipe, and a focusing element placed one focal length beyond the light pipe output at an angle appropriate for directing the light toward the illumination plane of... Agent: Antonio R. Durando

20080259461 - Methods and apparatus for processing a large area pulsed laser beam to create apertures through microlens arrays: A pulsed laser beam is used to create apertures in a layer on a back side of a substrate that includes a microlens array on a front side thereof. The pulsed laser beam is focused in a vacuum spatial filter. A profile of the pulsed laser beam that emerges from... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080259462 - Mirror assembly for vehicle: An interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror reflective element having a front surface, a rear surface and a reflector. A display element is disposed to the rear of the rear surface and is operable to emit light when actuated, the emitted light passing through the mirror reflective element to... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080259463 - Variable focal length lens: A variable focal length lens, comprises a chamber arrangement containing two transparent liquids adjacent one another with an interface therebetween, the chamber arrangement allowing light to pass along an optical axis through the transparent liquids and across the interface, the lens focusing the passing light. A piezoelectric actuator is arranged,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080259464 - Zoom lens and image pick-up apparatus: v

20080259465 - Zoom optical system and imaging apparatus incorporating the same: The invention relates to a zoom optical system that, albeit having high zoom capabilities, has its total length reduced in consideration of size reductions upon received at a lens mount, and an imaging apparatus using the same. The zoom optical system comprises, in order from its object side, a positive... Agent: Richard M. Rosati, Esp. Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080259466 - Platform transport systems: A transport system for moving and positioning an object comprising: a tube (24) having an axis of rotation and formed with threads (36) on at least a portion of its surface; at least one platform (126) to which the object (116) is mountable having threads that mesh with the threads... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20080259467 - Voice coil type lens drive assembly: In a voice coil type lens drive assembly for adjusting the focus of a lens, a spring 6, a yoke 6 with magnets 5 and a movable unit M1 attached thereto, and electrically conductive springs 2, are accommodated in this order on a base 1 and a connecting portion of... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080259468 - Voice coil type lens drive assembly: A voice coil type lens drive assembly for adjusting the focus of a lens is provided which can prevent the occurrence of trouble in the event of exertion on an external force on the lens not only in a completed state of assembly but also during assembly or during disassembly... Agent: Mcglew And Tuttle, P.C. Counselors At Law

20080259469 - Optical element holding apparatus, barrel, exposure apparatus, and manufacturing method for device: An optical element holding apparatus includes an annular vibration attenuation plate, which covers a peripheral portion of a lens, and a connection member, which is formed of a damping alloy and which fixes the vibration attenuation plate to a frame body in a state of non-contact with the surface of... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080259470 - Voice coil type lens drive assembly: The voice coil type lens drive assembly comprises a lower base 1, a pair of electrically conductive springs 2 disposed on the base 1, a metallic yoke 6 disposed on the electrically conductive springs 2, magnets 5 mounted within the yoke 6, a movable unit M1 inserted into the yoke... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080259471 - Variable focus device: A variable focus device is adapted for focusing an image on an image sensing module, and includes a hollow fixing seat, a lens module and a lens coupling unit. The fixing seat is adapted for mounting the image sensing module therein. The lens coupling unit includes a piezoelectric layer and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080259472 - Lens alignment apparatus: A lens alignment apparatus includes a main lens holding frame having a main lens secured thereto; an adjusting lens holding frame to which an adjusting lens to be aligned with the main lens is secured; at least one radial groove formed in one of adjacent end surfaces of the main... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080259473 - Light reflector and planar light source device: A light reflector including a laminate film having a light-diffusive layer on one surface of a substrate layer, wherein the surface roughness index of the light-reflective surface is at least 1, the reflectance thereof is at least 95%, and the regular reflectance thereof is at most 3%. The light reflector... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259474 - Vehicle outside mirror device: A rotation range control mechanism includes a clutch holder provided around a shaft, a washer fixed to a casing, a control convex portion arranged on the clutch holder, and contact portions arranged on the washer.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080259475 - Two-mode \"grow with me\" mirror: A two-mode mirror and entertainment device for use in vehicles, particularly for observing infants and children, and for the entertainment of infants and children. In a first mounting arrangement, a rear seating area attachment subsystem is employed to attach a mirror assembly including child entertainment devices generally near the rear... Agent: Steven C. Schnedler Carter & Schnedler, Pa

20080259476 - Retainer clip for a mirror assembly housing bezel: An exterior vehicle mirror assembly comprising a housing including at least one retainer clip slot; a bezel carried on said housing; a retainer clip flange extending from said bezel generally adjacent said retainer clip slot; at least one retainer clip carried by said retainer clip flange having a slanted bearing... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080259477 - Rear vision activity mirror: The described invention embodies the design of a rear vision activity mirror for use in several recreational and sports activities. The rear view mirror is designed to attach to a glove, armband, helmet, wristband, goggles or a Velcro strip that can be connected to several apparatuses, sports equipment and/or activity... Agent: Janice Gorton

20080259478 - Optical filter for display apparatus: Disclosed is an optical filter for a display filter in which an adhesive layer excluding organic acidic substances is used, thereby achieving superior durability. The optical filter includes an anti-reflection film, a transparent substrate, a mesh film, and a color correction film. In this instance, an inorganic acidic adhesive layer... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

10/23/2008 > patent applications in patent subcategories. patent listing

20080259417 - Holographic recording media: e

20080259464 - Zoom lens and image pick-up apparatus: v

10/16/2008 > patent applications in patent subcategories. patent listing

20080252950 - Video hologram and device for reconstructing video holograms for large objects: A video holographic display device operates so that the size of a reconstructed three dimensional scene is a function of the size of the hologram-bearing medium; the reconstructed three dimensional scene can then be anywhere within a volume defined by the hologram-bearing medium and a virtual observer window through which... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20080252951 - Reference beam coupler for an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to holographic storage media: v

20080252952 - Method and apparatus for recording one-step, full-color, full-parallax, holographic stereograms: The present invention concerns methods and devices for creating and printing variable size and variable resolution holographic stereograms and holographic optical elements using computer rendered images of three-dimensional computer models or using computer processed images. The present invention is an apparatus and method for printing one-step, full-color, full-parallax holographic stereograms... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080252953 - Holographic storage and regeneration system having servo mechanism: A holographic storage and regeneration system includes a holographic recording medium, a light source, a spatial light modulator, and a conjugate servo light guidance portion. The light source generates a signal light and a reference light. The spatial light modulator modulates the incident signal light and makes it incident onto... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080252954 - Laser confocal microarray scanner: The invention provides a laser microarray scanner for microarray scanning, comprising an optical system, a scanning platform, and a data processing system. During scanning, the optical system remains fixed, and the microarray placed on the scanning platform moves relative to the optical system. The microarray scanner disclosed herein has high... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080252955 - Stereoscopic display apparatus and system: A stereoscopic display apparatus includes a source of illumination for emitting light, an imaging system for imaging the source of illumination at a viewing region, a spatial light modulator for modulating light from the source of illumination with two-dimensional images, and a control unit for controlling a relative position of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252956 - Optical pattern generator using a single rotating component: An optical pattern uses a single rotating component. The rotating component includes a number of deflection sectors. Each sector deflects an incident optical beam by a substantially constant angular amount although this amount may vary from one sector to the next. The rotating component may be combined with an imaging... Agent: Reliant / Fenwick C/o Fenwick & West, LLP

20080252959 - Mems display: A display comprising: a plurality of MEMS elements arranged in rows, wherein the MEMS elements of each of the rows are further arranged in subrows and wherein the subrows of each row are electrically connected; and wherein the physical property of at least one MEMS element in at least one... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080252957 - Piezoelectric-motor-driven two-axis orientation turret: In the orientation device of a transmission assembly for orienting at least one beam in elevation and/or in bearing, said assembly pivots on a fork about an elevation axis and is driven about this axis by a motor supported by said fork, which fork can pivot on a base about... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080252958 - Two-sided reflector and two-sided target object: A two-sided reflector (1′, 1″) for the reflection of a diffraction-limited optical beam bundle is embodied according to the invention such that a planar first and second reflection element such as, for example, a reflection film and a cat's eye reflector (3) are arranged with respect to a reference axis... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080252960 - Optical element: An optical element comprises a fluid chamber and a device for providing a magnetic field over at least a portion of the fluid chamber The fluid chamber has side portions and end portions, and contains a first fluid and a second fluid. The fluids are non-miscible and the second fluid... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252961 - Optical transceiver: In an optical transceiver of the invention, a magnet-free Faraday rotator is arranged on an optical axis between a light-emitting part and an end face of an optical fiber, and after rotating a plane of polarization of light of a first wavelength output from the light-emitting part, the light is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080252962 - Electronic ink display device and method for manufacturing the same: The invention provides an electronic ink display device having a panel structure of reduced thickness and enhanced moisture resistance and a method for manufacturing the same. The electronic ink display device has a first substrate (10) having display pixels, a second substrate (16) laid over the first substrate and having... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252963 - Display filter, display device and method for forming display filter: A display filter is disclosed. The display filter includes a base portion having a recess, a first part disposed in the recess and having a first refractive index different from a refractive index of the base portion, and a second part disposed in the recess and having a second refractive... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252964 - Light collimating system for schmidt-cassegrain telescope: Disclosed is a light collimating system for mounting at the primary focus of a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (SCT) in place of the secondary mirror. The system comprises a housing containing a plurality of lens elements optimized to reduce optical aberrations. The resulting system has a focal ratio of approximately f/2, a... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20080252965 - Epi-illumination optical system for microscopes: The invention relates to an epi-illumination optical system for microscopes which relies upon a Köhler illumination system using a collective lens array, having simplified adjustment function capable of adjusting the image position of a light source to the back focal position of each microscope objective lens in operable association with... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080252966 - Fluorescence microscope apparatus: A clear fluorescence image is obtained by preventing external light from mixing with weak fluorescence emitted from a specimen, while reducing the size of the overall apparatus. The invention provides a fluorescence microscope apparatus including a stage for mounting a specimen; an objective lens for collecting fluorescence from the specimen;... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080252967 - Microscope apparatus: An image can be prevented from becoming unclear over time during long-term observation. The invention provides a microscope apparatus including a specimen container for containing a specimen; an objective lens disposed opposite the specimen container for collecting light from the specimen in the specimen container; an immersion-liquid supplying unit for... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080252968 - Projection-type image display apparatus: A Fresnel lens collimates a light modulated by an image signal and outputs a collimated light. A diffusion member diffuses the collimated light and outputs a diffused light. A driver continually moves the Fresnel lens or the diffusion member on a predetermined trajectory within a plane parallel with a screen.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252969 - Imaging apparatus: Imaging apparatus including image creation means for creating a moving image, means for enlarging the image, and a screen on which the image is displayed in use to a viewer. The image creation means includes a substantially planar image creation screen on which the image is created.... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20080252970 - Stereoscopic display unit and stereoscopic vision observation device: A stereoscopic display unit and stereoscopic vison observation device are disclosed that include a projector that projects left-eye and right-eye images via two apertures that serve as exit pupils of the projector onto the same image surface and a display panel. The display panel is positioned at, or in the... Agent: Arnold International

20080252971 - Three-dimensional/two-dimensional convertible display device: A display device convertible between two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) is provided. The convertible display device is based on integral imaging (II) or integral photography (IP) and displays 2D or 3D images. An image processor generates and transmits elemental images to reconstruct a 3D image or transmits a desired two-dimensional... Agent: LexyoumeIPGroup, LLC

20080252972 - Multi-layered polarizing sheet, and a non-glaring product and a polarizing sheet for a liquid-crystal display comprising the polarizing sheet: [Means to Solve the Problem] In a multi-layered polarizing sheet comprising a laminated body in which a polarizing layer consisting of a polarizing film is held between two transparent plastic materials and is adhered to them, the polarizing layer is produced by dyeing a film made of poly(vinyl alcohol) and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252973 - Polarizing plate, optical film and image display: A polarizing plate of the present invention comprises a polarizer; an adhesive layer; and a transparent protective film bonded to at least one side of the polarizer with the adhesive layer interposed therebetween, wherein the adhesive layer is formed from an active energy ray curing adhesive containing at least one... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080252974 - Elliptically polarizing plate, optical film and image display: An elliptical polarization plate includes: a scatter/two-color absorption composite type polarizer formed by a film of such a structure that minute areas are scattered in a matrix formed by a translucent resin containing iodine-based light absorber; a transparent support body; and discotic liquid crystal or nematic liquid crystal having an... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080252975 - Lens barrel and camera with lens barrel: A lens barrier is opened/closed by a barrier drive cylinder disposed on an outer peripheral side of a lens. The barrier drive cylinder is rotated by a rotation of a cam cylinder together with a first cylinder so as to move forward and backward. In the course of a movement... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080252976 - Method of producing perforated retroreflective trim: Perforated retroreflective fabric, trim or tape that comprises a substrate (30) having a first and second sides and a plurality of openings (39) extending between the sides, providing a backing (50) on the first side of the substrate, providing a retroreflective layer (40) on the second side of the substrate,... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080252977 - Image display method: Disclosed herein is an image display method wherein an image display apparatus which includes a light source and an optical system is used, the optical system including, an optical modulation section, a Fourier transform image forming section, a Fourier transform image selection section, and a conjugate image forming section, the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080252978 - Laser irradiation apparatus, laser irradiation method, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device: Providing a method and apparatus for efficiently irradiating a uniform laser light on an irradiation surface even when a laser light of high coherence or a large size substrate is used. The laser irradiation apparatus of the invention comprises a laser; means for dividing a laser light emitted from the... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080252979 - Terahertz-band optical filter, designing method thereof, and manufacturing method thereof: A terahertz band optical filter having a dielectric multilayer periodic structure in which a plurality of dielectric materials are periodically layered. Multi-cavity layers each having an optical path length of n times λ/2 (n is an integer greater than or equal to 1) and made of a low-refractive index medium... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080252980 - Optical article and method of making: Disclosed herein is an optical article having a top layer with a structured surface that collimates light, a core layer secured to the top layer opposite the structured surface, and a bottom layer secured to the core layer opposite the top layer. Either the top layer or the core layer... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080252981 - Optical space transmission module: An optical space transmission module is provided, which reduces an upper limit of light output based on safety standard of laser, reduces light returned to a laser, and is made smaller in size. The optical space transmission module comprises a light emitting section 100 which outputs a transmission light, a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080252982 - Vertically mounted kaleidoscope: A kaleidoscopic device is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the kaleidoscopic device may have a housing mounted within a wall and a collection drum that has a plurality of display elements. The collection drum may be intermittently rotated and/or rotated at various speeds by a driving system that has... Agent: J. Bennett Mullinax, LLC

20080252983 - Methods and apparatus for creating apertures through microlens arrays using curved cradles: Methods for creating apertures in a layer on a back side of a substrate that includes a microlens array on a front side thereof include curving the substrate into a cylindrical surface segment that defines an axis, so that the microlens array on the front side of the substrate faces... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080252984 - Optical film and backlight unit having the same: An optical film and a backlight unit having the same are disclosed. The optical film includes a base film and a first prism disposed on the base film, the first prism having a first peak height and a second prism disposed on the base film, the second prism having a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252986 - Thin and efficient light collimating device: A light collimation device comprising a wave guide plate (100) having a first surface (101), an opposing faceted second surface (102) comprising a plurality of essentially planar parallel portions (103) and a plurality of facets (104) connecting said planar parallel portions (103) and at least one surface (105) for receiving... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252985 - Tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system for use in retail point-of-sale environments: A tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system capable of generating and projecting coplanar illumination and imaging planes into a 3D imaging volume within a tunnel structure. The tunnel structure is supported above a package conveyor in a retail POS environment, and employs automatic package identification, profiling and tracking techniques during self-checkout... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., PC Soundview Plaza

20080252987 - Projection objective for microlithography: A projection objective for imaging a pattern arranged in an object surface of the projection objective into an image surface of the projection objective with a demagnified imaging scale has a plurality of optical elements which arc arranged along an optical axis of the projection objective and are configured in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252988 - Method of fabricating tridimensional micro- and nanostructures as well as optical element assembly having a tridimensional convex structure obtained by the method: A method is for forming three-dimensional micro- and nanostructures, based on the structuring of a body of material by a mould having an impression area which reproduces the three-dimensional structure in negative form. This method includes providing a mould having a substrate of a material which can undergo isotropic chemical... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080252990 - Optical apparatus: To provide an optical apparatus which controls an interface state to change a focal length by using an optical element having a container sealing first liquid that is conductive or polarized and second liquid that does not mutually mix with the first liquid with their interface in a predetermined form... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080252989 - Variable focus lens: Disclosed is a variable focus lens, having an optical axis, comprising: a fluid chamber, the fluid chamber comprising a first fluid and an axially displaced second fluid, the fluids being non-miscible, in contact over a meniscus and having different indices of refraction; a fluid contact layer arranged on the inside... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252991 - Zoom lens: A zoom lens including a first lens group with a negative refractive power and a second lens group with a positive refractive power is provided. The first lens group is composed of a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. Refractive powers of the first lens, the second... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080252992 - Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera: An object is to provide: a zoom lens system that has a reduced overall length, a high resolution, and a variable magnification ratio as high as 9 or greater and that is satisfactorily adaptable for wide-angle image taking where the view angle at a wide-angle limit is 70° or greater;... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080252993 - Wide-angle zoom lens system:

20080252994 - Zoom lens and imaging device: A zoom lens includes, in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, first to sixth lens groups respectively having positive, negative, positive, positive, negative, and positive refracting powers. The first lens group includes a reflecting member for bending the optical axis by substantially 90... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080252995 - Lens adjusting mechanism capable of two-dimensional adjustment: A lens adjusting mechanism includes a fixed board, a movable board, two first sliding blocks, a first driving device and two second sliding blocks. The movable board is provided on the fixed board. The first sliding blocks, each of which has two first driving members connected to the first sliding... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080252996 - Telephoto lens system: wherein f: a focal length of the telephoto lens system; f1: the focal length of the first lens group; f12: the combined focal length of the first lens group and the second lens groups; and f3: a focal length of the third lens group.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080252997 - Objective lens design for miniature endoscope: An endoscope objective lens system design is disclosed, generally comprising a first lens group having overall negative refractive power, a second lens group having overall positive refractive power, and an aperture diaphragm disposed between the first and second lens groups wherein the first lens group includes a plano-concave lens with... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080252998 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel has a first group frame provided with a rotating frame having a cam groove and made of a synthetic resin and a cam follower made of a synthetic resin integrated with the circumferential face for relative movement with the rotating frame and engaged with the cam groove,... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080252999 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel, including, a moving frame (2) to hold a lens (8), a direct-advance ring (4) provided on an outer periphery of the moving frame and movable relative to the moving frame in an optical direction, a resilient member (6) provided between the moving frame and the direct-advance ring,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080253000 - Vehicle lamp: A vehicle lamp includes a lens formed from a resin material and a lens holding member for holding the lens formed from the resin material. The lens and the lens holding member are adapted to be joined together through laser welding. A joining annular portion is provided on the lens... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080253001 - Actuating device comprising bimetal disks: The invention relates to an actuating device comprising at least two coaxial bimetal disks and at least one axial strut arranged between the disks, the bimetal disks being mounted opposite each other and being deformable in opposite directions according to the thermal variations. The invention can be especially applied to... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080253002 - Object lens unit and optical pickup device employing the unit: An object lens unit for an optical pickup device is disclosed. The object lens unit includes a first optical element positioned facing an optical information recording medium; a second optical element positioned on a light source side of the first optical element; and a frame in which the first optical... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080253003 - Camera lens assembly: A camera lens assembly providing focal length adjustment to permit mounting in a personal portable terminal. The camera lens assembly includes a lens assembly; a driving unit provided in one side of the lens assembly; and a guide section provided between the lens assembly and the driving unit, wherein the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080253004 - Interchangeable lens incorporating a lens drive motor: An interchangeable lens includes a lens drive mechanism for driving a movable lens group provided in the interchangeable lens; a lens-motor for driving the movable lens group via the lens drive mechanism; and a power transmission mechanism for transmitting a driving force of a body-motor provided in a camera body... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080253005 - Illumination system: An illumination system including at least one coherent light source, a light uniforming element, and a prism is provided. The coherent light source is capable of emitting a coherent beam. The light uniforming element is disposed on a transmission path of the coherent beam. The prism is disposed on the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080253006 - Mirror mounting assembly: A mirror mounting assembly for mounting a mirror on a vehicle bulkhead. The assembly includes a mirror element and a main support arm having a first end and a second end. The mirror element is connected to the first end of the main support arm. The second end of the... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080253007 - Deformable mirror: A deformable mirror includes a flexible thin film. A holding member holds the flexible thin film. An operating member is configured to be actuated as the flexible thin film bends. A film-side opposite electrode is disposed on the flexible thin film. Holding-member-side bonding pads are disposed individually in positions symmetrical... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080253008 - Foldable exterior rearview mirror for motor vehicle: A foldable exterior rearview mirror includes a housing, a bracket fixed to a side of a motor vehicle, and a connecting arm mounted in the housing and including a sleeve portion suitable for receiving an electric adjusting device or manual adjusting device. The manual adjusting device includes a pivot shaft... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080253009 - Front surface mirror: In a front surface mirror used for a rear projection television, in which a metal film and a metal oxide film are formed on a glass substrate in this order, the front surface mirror being characterized in that a surface of the glass substrate is reformed by ion etching and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080253010 - Distributive optical energy system: A system for generating and transmitting energy and methods of manufacturing and using the same. The system for generating and transmitting energy includes prisms, lenses, mirrors, optical cables or optic conduits, heat filters, light filters, and electricity filters. The lenses comprise lens systems to capture electromagnetic signals (wave and particle)... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

10/09/2008 > patent applications in patent subcategories. patent listing

20080247011 - Data storage method and device: A method for storing data including: providing a first substrate having a plurality of micro-holograms therein, the micro-holograms being indicative of the data; providing a second hologram-supporting substrate; illuminating the plurality of micro-holograms in the first substrate through the second substrate, thereby producing a holographic pattern in the second substrate... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20080247010 - Hologram recording and reproducing apparatus and hologram recording method: There is provided a hologram recording and reproducing apparatus for a hologram recording medium that stores optical interference fringes therein as a diffraction grating generated by coherent reference light and signal light. The hologram recording and reproducing apparatus includes a control circuit that is connected to a spatial light modulator... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080247009 - Optical component made of an inorganic-organic hybrid material for the production of refractive index gradient layers with high lateral resolution and method for the production thereof: An organic-inorganic hybrid material comprising (a) at least one soluble organic polymer and (b) at least one mono- or polynuclear metal complex having at least one ligand which comprises at least one photochemically and/or thermally polymerizable functional group. Also disclosed is an optical component which is made by using the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080247013 - Image transfer apparatus: An apparatus includes a light source configured to provide a path of light and a spatial light modulator located in the path of light and configured to modulate the light source. Relay optics are configured to receive the modulated light from the spatial light modulator and to project a computer... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080247012 - Variable optical phase modulator: A variable optical phase modulator includes an array of movable, micro-electromechanical conductive plates. Each conductive plate has a substantially reflective surface, and is responsive to an applied voltage to move the conductive plate normal to a plane of the array to a predetermined distance with respect to other conductive plates... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080247014 - Data system for storing holographic media: A master holographic media storing large quantities of holographic media is disclosed. Holographic images may be recorded onto individual Child Plates. A Child Plate may be obtained by culling a portion of a starting or working parent holographic plate with the Child Plate portion comprising all the necessary data required... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080247015 - Hologram optical device, compatible optical pickup including the hologram optical device, and optical information storage medium system including the compatible optical pickup: A hologram optical device, a compatible optical pickup including the hologram optical device, and an optical information storage medium system including the compatible optical pickup are provided. The hologram optical device includes: a first hologram area having a hologram that is asymmetric with respect to an optical axis to diffract... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080247016 - Illumination device and method for illuminating uniformly an image generating micro display: Illumination device (100) for uniformly illuminating an image generating micro-display (108), comprising: a coherent light source (102); a beam shaping and speckle reduction device (104) located on an optical path (106) between said coherent light source (102) and said image generating micro-display (108), wherein said beam shaping and speckle reduction... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080247017 - System and method for printing a hologram: A system and method for printing a hologram are disclosed. The method includes the operation of transmitting a laser light beam. The laser light beam can be split into an object beam and a reference beam. Phase information can be added to the object beam using a spatial phase modulator... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080247018 - Reconfigurable and integrable optical logic gate based on a single soa: An optical logic gate (10) comprising inputs (12) for optical signals on which to perform a chosen logical operation. An SOA (11) element receives such input signals to be piloted thereby in saturation and its output is connected to at least one optical filter (14, 15, 16) that filters components... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080247019 - Compact switchable optical unit: A switchable optical unit, capable of controlling a beam of radiation (b) passing through an optically active portion (8) of the unit, comprises a fluid chamber (10) including an electrically conductive liquid (18), which chamber comprises at least one first electrode (20,22) fixed to the chamber inner walls (12,14) at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080247020 - Post-objective scanning beam systems: Scanning beam systems, apparatus and techniques in optical post-objective designs with two beam scanners for display and other applications.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080247021 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: A coupling optical system that includes a coupling lens, a linear-image forming lens, and an aperture couples light beams emitted from a light source to form a light flux. A deflector scans the light flux in a main scanning direction to form an image as a scanning line on a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080247022 - Light source device and projector: A light source device which produces illumination light for illuminating a target illumination area on a predetermined light receiving surface includes: a light source which emits light; a superimposing illumination element which superimposes the light emitted from the light source and applies the light to the target illumination area; an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080247023 - Method and apparatus for maximum light intensity for an optical illumination system: An illumination system using, in place of a more typical beam splitter, two right angle triangular prisms that are aligned to each other along their respective hypotenuses to form a cube, but without any reflective materials being used at their interface, and with the two halves separated by some distance... Agent: Steven R. Scott

20080247024 - Optical system for a wash light: The present invention generally relates to an optical system for a wash light and specifically to a variable beam angle system which provides an improved range of beam angles and efficient light output. The present invention includes a light modulating optical element that has a central aperture that can be... Agent: Heinz Grether PC G2 Technology Law

20080247025 - Optical system for a wash light: The present invention generally relates to an optical system for a wash light and specifically to a variable beam angle system which provides an improved range of beam angles and efficient light output. The present invention includes a light modulating optical element that has a central aperture that can be... Agent: Heinz Grether PC G2 Technology Law

20080247026 - Optical diplexer with liquid crystal tunable waveplate: An optical diplexer having a birefringent crystal for providing substantially a whole number of wavelength retardation to first optical energy having said first polarization type, and having a first wavelength, fed to a first end of said crystal, and exiting a second end of said crystal with said first polarization... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080247027 - Rf phase modulation technique for performing acousto-optic intensity modulation of an optical wavefront: An acousto-optic modulator includes an acousto-optic bulk medium and transducer attached to the acousto-optic bulk medium and formed as a linear array of electrodes. A transducer driver is connected to each electrode and is coherently phase driven to alter the angular momentum distribution of an acoustic field and alternately allow... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080247028 - Method and device for multistate interferometric light modulation: A multi-state light modulator comprises a first reflector. A first electrode is positioned at a distance from the first reflector. A second reflector is positioned between the first reflector and the first electrode. The second reflector is movable between an undriven position, a first driven position, and a second driven... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080247029 - Micro-electro-mechanical system micro mirror: A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) micro mirror and a method of making the same. The micro mirror includes a body having a mirror support, opposed anchor s and flexible hinges which connect the mirror support to the anchor s. The mirror support has opposed comb edges with comb fingers. Electrodes, which... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080247031 - Acousto-optic devices having extended temperature reliability: An acousto-optic modulator includes an acousto-optic bulk medium and transducer attached to the acousto-optic bulk medium. The transducer includes an electrode circuit and plurality of piezoelectric platelet segments attached to the bulk medium and supporting the electrode circuit. The piezoelectric platelet segments are configured for reducing shear stress and susceptibility... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080247030 - Low cost system and method that implements acousto-optic (ao) rf signal excitation: An acousto-optic modulator includes an acousto-optic bulk medium. A transducer is attached to the acousto-optic bulk medium and formed as a linear array of electrodes. A transducer driver is connected to each electrode and comprises a plurality of amplifiers connected to the electrodes such that each electrode is driven by... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080247032 - Pulse width modulation algorithm: In display systems employing spatial light modulators, the OFF-state light from OFF-state pixels of the spatial light modulator can be captured and directed back to the pixels of the spatial light modulator so as to recycle the OFF-state light in the display system. Bitplanes derived from the desired image to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080247033 - Device and method for the demodulation of modulated electric signals: A demodulation device (1) in semiconductor technology is disclosed. The device (1) is capable of demodulating an injected modulated current. The device (1) comprises an input node (IN1), a sampling stage (DG1, IG1, GS1 IG2, DG2) and at least two output nodes (D1, D2). The sampling stage DG1, IG1, GS1,... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080247034 - Fast dynamic gain control in a bidirectionally-pumped raman fiber amplifier: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for controlling a gain of a bidirectionally-pumped Raman fiber amplifier having both forward optical pumps and backward optical pumps. The overall gain is controlled by adjusting the forward optical pumps, while the power levels of the backward optical pumps are essentially fixed. Gain... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 003493

20080247035 - Catadioptric imaging system employing immersion liquid for use in broad band microscopy: A reduced size catadioptric inspection system employing a catadioptric objective and immersion substance is disclosed. The objective may be employed with light energy having a wavelength in the range of approximately 190 nanometers through the infrared light range, and can provide numerical apertures in excess of 0.9. Elements are less... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20080247036 - Catadioptric microscope objective employing immersion liquid for use in broad band microscopy: An objective for imaging specimens is disclosed. The objective receives light energy from a light energy source configured to provide light energy in a wavelength range of approximately 480 to 660 nanometers, employs a Mangin mirror arrangement in conjunction with an immersion liquid to provide a numerical aperture in excess... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20080247037 - Lens changer for a stereomicroscope: An objective changer for a telescope-type stereomicroscope which has two telescope systems whose entrance-side beam paths are oriented parallel to one another comprises a carrier and an objective holder which is held at the carrier so as to be movable relative to the carrier between a first stereoscopic working position... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080247038 - Scanning confocal microscope: A scanning confocal microscope can provide an image while preventing a decrease in brightness and blurring due to strain caused in optical and mechanical systems by thermal effects in a high-temperature, high-humidity incubation container. This scanning confocal microscope includes an incubation container that has a space in which a specimen... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080247039 - Observation optical system: An observation optical system has a negative lens unit placed at the most object-side position; an annular prism placed on the image side of the negative lens, having a reflecting surface on the negative lens side; and an imaging lens unit arranged on the image side of the negative lens... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080247040 - 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

20080247041 - Portable screen assembly: A portable screen assembly includes: a casing having an opening extending in a longitudinal direction on the upper surface thereof, and formed by a pair of separable case members that extend in the longitudinal direction; a spring-biased roll rotatably mounted in the casing; a screen wound around the spring-biased roll... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080247042 - Sweet spot beam splitter for separating images: The invention relates to an optical imaging system for separating images, more specifically a sweet spot beam splitter, for an autostereoscopic display, which allows for greater freedom of movement of at least one observer in a lateral direction as well as regarding the distance from the display by expanding sweet... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080247043 - Membrane grating for beam steering device and method of fabricating same: A method of fabricating a membrane structure for a diffractive phased array assembly is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a wafer having a body and at least a membrane layer and a backside layer disposed on opposite faces of the body, forming a grating pattern on a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080247044 - Reflective optical element and exposure apparatus: A reflective optical element for a projection optical system includes a base member and a dielectric multilayer film laminated thereon. The multilayer film includes, in an order from a base member side, a first multilayer group constituted by laminating at least four dielectric material layers including at least two dielectric... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080247045 - Antiglare film, polarizing plate and image display device: An antiglare film includes a transparent support; and an antiglare layer containing a binder and a fine particle, wherein the antiglare layer has an average thickness smaller than an average particle diameter of the fine particle, and the antiglare layer has a surface roughness skewness (Rsk) of from 0.5 to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080247046 - Glare free mirror pane as well as a rear view mirror with such a mirror pane: Proposed is a glare free pan for a rear view service in motor vehicles, possessing a curved transparent substrate, the front surface of which forms the exposed surface of the said mirror. Upon the rear surface of said substrate is applied, in appropriate thicknesses, by sputtering at least four successive... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080247047 - Homogenizing optical beam combiner: An optical homogenizing and combining apparatus, comprises a one piece, hollow, tubular body having a first input leg, a second input leg and an output leg, each leg having a polygonal cross-section and highly reflective interior surfaces in accordance with an embodiment. The body has a shape corresponding to first... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080247048 - Optical device for superposing electronic images in front of an objective: The field of the invention is that of optical devices allowing the superposition of an electronic image on an image coming from an external scenery. The subject of the invention is an optical device for superposing images, designed to be positioned in front of an optical module comprising at least... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080247049 - Zoom lens and image projection apparatus: The zoom lens includes a plurality of lens units. The first lens unit is disposed closest to a magnification side in the plurality of lens units and has a negative optical power, and magnification-varying lens units that are disposed closer to a reduction side than the first lens unit and... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080247050 - Microscope objective: The defined arrangement of the phase plate and the associated shift of the real pupil into the air space between the first two lenses or groups of lenses, respectively, of the microscope objective allows a microscope objective, initially designed as a bright-field variant, to be redesigned as a phase contrast... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080247052 - Optical element for correcting refractive index related abberations: An optical element (1) for correcting refractive index related aberrations comprises a fluid chamber (5) which is provided with an electrode configuration (2,12) and includes a first, electrically conducting, fluid (B) and a second, non-conducting, fluid (A), and an interface (14) between the fluids, the fluids having different Abbe numbers.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080247051 - Variable lens: A variable lens (20) of electrowetting type comprise a fluid chamber (22) including a first, electrically conductive, fluid (40) and a second, nonconductive, fluid (50) and further comprises a first electrode (34) connected to the first liquid and second electrode means (30,32) arranged on the inner side of the chamber... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080247053 - Zoom lens and image pick-up apparatus using zoom lens: A zoom lens composed of plural groups and adapted for changing group spacing or spacings, and includes, in a first group GR1 fixed during zooming operation, a reflection member M for bending or folding the optical axis substantially by 90 degrees and a negative group at the object side relative... Agent: William S. Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080247054 - Zoom lens: A zoom lens is provided and has a first group having a positive refractive power, a second group having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, a third group having a positive refractive power and a fourth group having a positive refractive power, which groups are arranged in this order... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080247055 - Zoom lens system: where Y is a maximum diagonal length of the image side 170, L is a total track length of the zoom lens system 100, fW is a focal length of the zoom lens system 100 at a wide status, fT is a focal length of the zoom lens system 100... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080247056 - Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera: A zoom lens system comprising a first lens unit having negative power, a second lens unit having positive power and a third lens unit having positive power, wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit, the lens units move respectively along an optical axis in such a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080247057 - Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera: A zoom lens system comprising a first lens unit having negative power, a second lens unit having positive power and a third lens unit having positive power, wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit, the lens units move respectively along an optical axis in such a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080247058 - Macro lens system: z

20080247059 - Miniature piezoelectric motor and method of driving elements using same: The present invention provides a piezoelectric ultrasonic motors and a method of driving a motor with a standing wave. The motors include a thin ring/cylinder-type stator having one or two piezoelectric (ceramic or single crystal) rings/cylinders, coated with a segmented top/outer electrode and a bottom/inner electrode and poled in a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080247060 - Image sensor having inner lens: An image sensor includes an inner lens to enable incident light to reach a condensing lens, so that the incident light may further reach photodiodes. Light loss can be reduced and photosensitivity can be improved. The image sensor includes at least one microlens that focuses incident light onto at least... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080247061 - Integrated panoramic and forward optical device, system and method for omnidirectional signal processing: A device, system and method integrating forward and panoramic fields is disclosed, comprising: a primary reflector, comprising a convex surface in relation to the forward field, reflective on at least part of the convex surface; a secondary reflector, forward of the primary reflector relative to the forward field, reflective on... Agent: Law Office Of Jay R. Yablon

20080247062 - Observation optical system: An observation optical system has a negative lens unit including a cemented lens, arranged at the most object-side position; an annular reflecting mirror placed on the image side of the negative lens unit, with a reflecting surface facing the image side; and an imaging lens unit arranged on the image... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080247063 - Lens driving apparatus: A lens driving apparatus may include a movable body holding lenses; a support body for supporting said movable body to move in the optical axis direction of said lenses; and a drive mechanism for driving said movable body in the optical axis direction; wherein said movable body is provided with... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080247064 - Optical module with adhesively mounted filter: An optical module includes a lens barrel (10). At least one lens (20) and a spacer (30) are mounted in the lens barrel. A filter (40) is glued to the lens barrel and the spacer with an adhesive so as to prevent the at least one lens and the spacer... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080247065 - Method of making structured optical films: Methods for fabricating an optical film characterizable by a relationship between gain and thickness to prism pitch ratio (S/p) that varies cyclically are described. The thickness and the prism pitch of the optical film are selected based on the relationship between gain and S/p ratio, to obtain a desired gain.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080247066 - Method and apparatus for compensation of mechanical disturbances in optical interferometers: A fundamental limit to the sensitivity of optical interferometry is thermal noise that drives fluctuations in the positions of the surfaces of the interferometer's mirrors, and thereby in the phase of the intracavity field. A scheme for substantially reducing this thermally driven phase noise is provided in which the strain-induced... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080247067 - Catoptric reduction projection optical system, exposure apparatus, and method for manufacturing device: A projection optical system is configured to project a reduced pattern of an object surface onto an image surface. The projection optical system includes, in order of reflecting light from the object surface, a first reflective surface having a concave surface shape, a second reflective surface having a convex surface... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080247069 - Linear tensioned membrane reflector: An improved solar reflector utilizing end forms supporting a tensioned reflective membrane, where the end forms have a corrected periphery shape different from the ideal cross sectional shape of the reflector, that produces the idea cross sectional shape along most of the tensioned membrane, and with additional means to increase... Agent: Jill L. Robinson

20080247068 - Vehicular mirror device: A vehicular mirror device includes a housing which is comprised of two housing components at least partially opposed to each other, and which is adapted to cover a mirror from the front during traveling of a vehicle. A collar is integrally and projectingly provided on one of the housing components... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080247070 - Motor assembly: A motor assembly includes a motor, a circuit board on which a control circuit to control the motor and a plug unit are mounted, and a supporting member which supports the motor and the circuit board. The motor is provided with a socket unit in which the plug unit is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080247071 - Color wheel with segment fixing mechanisms, and manufacturing method of same: A color wheel comprises sectorial color filter segments and a support member. Protrusions are disposed at the support member and engaged with either through-holes or cavities as segment fixing mechanisms formed at the color filter segments, whereby the color filter segments are fixedly positioned with respect to the support member... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

10/02/2008 > patent applications in patent subcategories. patent listing

20080239420 - Agile holographic optical phased array device and applications: A device that provides light beam switching, agile steering of the light beam over a range of angles, and generation of arbitrary wavefront shapes with high spatial and temporal resolution. The agile device can include a volume diffractive structure comprising Bragg planes having one refractive index and the Bragg planes... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080239421 - Hologram recorder: A hologram recorder is provided, in which coherent light from a light source is split into a signal beam and a reference beam, and the signal beam is modulated by a spatial light modulator to be directed to a hologram recording medium, while the reference beam is directed to the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080239419 - Hologram reproduction apparatus and hologram reproduction method: A hologram reproducing apparatus is provided that can be reduced in size. A hologram reproducing apparatus of the invention reproduces signal information from a recorded media having a domain of diffraction grating that is irradiated with a record light beam containing a coherent reference light component and a signal light... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080239422 - Joined optical member, image display apparatus, and head-mounted display: In a joined optical member, let the adhesion strength between a surface coating layer and an eyepiece prism be A1, the adhesion strength between the surface coating layer and a deflector prism be A2, the adhesion strength between the surface coating layer and adhesive be A3, and the adhesion strength... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080239423 - Method for preparing hologram recording medium: Two adjacent images are recorded in a state smoothly blended at a boundary portion. On a recording plane Rec, provided is a region M1 in which an original image Pic(A) is recorded, a region M2 in which an original image Pic(B) is recorded, and a middle region Mm positioned therebetween.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080239424 - Optical device and virtual image display device: A virtual image display device is provided which displays a two-dimensional image for viewing a virtual image in a magnified form by a virtual optical system. The virtual image display device includes an optical waveguide (13) to guide, by internal total reflection, parallel pencil groups meeting a condition of internal... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080239425 - Hologram recording apparatus and method, hologram reproducing apparatus and method, and computer program: A hologram recording apparatus is provided with a modulating device for modulating information data in accordance with a modulation rule related to hologram recording/reproduction, to thereby generate a modulation pattern; a judging device for judging whether or not the modulation pattern includes a pattern portion which matches a predetermined target... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080239426 - Holographic storage medium, recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and recording and/or reproducing method: A holographic storage medium includes a hologram including data recorded in a plurality of pages in a superimposed fashion by interference of a signal beam and a reference beam, and an additional page recorded between two adjacent pages in the plurality of pages, wherein a portion of the data is... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080239427 - Multiplexing hologram recording and reconstructing apparatus and method therefor: A hologram recording and reconstructing apparatus includes a rotating mirror, a rectangular aperture and a medium drive unit, records interference fringes of a reference beam and a signal beam in a hologram recording medium and reconstructs the hologram recorded in the hologram recording medium. The rotating mirror changes the angle... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080239428 - Non-ft plane angular filters: Non-Fourier Transform (FT) plane angular filters and their use in holographic storage systems or devices for angular filtering of a data beam prior to recording holographic data or for angular filtering of a recovered beam prior to detecting the recovered holographic data. The non-FT plane filters may be a macrotube... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20080239430 - Energy signal processing system: An energy signal processing system (10) includes a first shaft assembly (14) rotatable about an azimuth axis (16), and a second shaft assembly (18) coaxially mounted for rotation about the azimuth axis (16). The first shaft assembly (14) defines a zenith plane (20) inclined with respect to the azimuth axis... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080239429 - Method of fabricating a micromechanical structure out of two-dimensional elements and micromechanical device: In a method of fabricating a micromechanical structure, first, a deflectably supported two-dimensional structure is formed in a substrate and, then, is arranged in a package such that an integrated micromanipulator is arranged between the package and the two-dimensional structure so as to effect a deflection of the two-dimensional structure... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett , LLP

20080239431 - Micromechanical device of increased rigidity: A micromechanical device includes a deflectable micromechanical functional structure and a non-rigid biased suspension positioning the micromechanical functional structure in the micromechanical device.... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett , LLP

20080239432 - Optical deflector, method of manufacturing optical deflector, optical scanning apparatus, and image forming apparatus: An optical deflector is disclosed that includes a rotary shaft; plural rotary polygon mirrors laminated in an axis direction of the rotary shaft, the rotary polygon mirrors having reflection surfaces and the reflection surfaces of one rotary polygon mirror and those of another rotary polygon mirror facing in different directions;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080239433 - Light source device, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus: An optical splitting member splits a light beam emitted by a light source into first light beam and second light beam. A coupling member couples the first light beam. An optical system converges the second light beam on a light receiving unit. A holding member holds the light source, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080239435 - Light source module and optical scanning apparatus using the same: The present invention provides a light source module that scans beams so as to realize various images at one time and realizes three-dimensional images, and an optical scanning apparatus using the same. The light source module includes a plurality of light emitting elements that emit modulated light so as to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080239434 - Multi-beam scanning optical system: A multi-beam scanning optical system configured to scan a plurality of laser beams on a scanned surface in a predetermined scanning direction includes a light source emitting a plurality of laser beams from respective laser emitters spaced from each other in the predetermined scanning direction, a diverging property changing element... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080239440 - Imaging optical system and image reading apparatus using the same: Obtained are an imaging optical system having a simple structure in which imaging position deviation due to deformation caused by a weight of an off-axial optical element is reduced and an image reading apparatus using the same. According to an imaging optical system for image reading, image information on an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239437 - Optical beam scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus provided with an optical beam scanning apparatus according to the invention includes a semiconductor laser device, a pre-deflection optical system, a polygon mirror, and a post-deflection optical system, wherein at least one imaging lens for imaging the luminous flux is provided in the post-deflection optical system... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080239438 - Optical beam scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus provided with an optical beam scanning apparatus according to the invention, an optical beam scanning apparatus of an overillumination scanning optical system includes a semiconductor laser device as a light source, a pre-deflection optical system, a polygon mirror, and a post-deflection optical system, with a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080239436 - Optical beam scanning apparatus, method of manufacturing optical beam scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus and method of manufacturing image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus according to the invention, an optical beam scanning apparatus of an overillumination scanning optical system includes a laser, a pre-deflection optical system, a polygon mirror, and a post-deflection optical system, wherein the post-deflection optical system includes at least one optical element configured by allowing a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080239439 - Scanning optical system: A scanning optical system configured to scan laser light on a scanned surface in a scanning direction, includes a light source emitting the laser light, a converging element converging the emitted laser light in the predetermined scanning direction, a deflector deflecting the converged laser light to scan the laser light... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080239441 - Mirror device and optical apparatus: The present mirror device for suppressing PDL on the assumption of multiple modes of angles of input light and output light to movable mirrors with respect to the crystal axis of a crystal member at the time light passes through the crystal member. The mirror device includes a mirror system... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080239442 - Array of micromirrors with non-fixed underlying structures: The present invention discloses an array of micromirrors with non-fixed underlying structures which can be oriented to have principal rotational axis with no structural and mechanical interference and with no electrical conflict. The micromirror array in the present invention can reproduce various surfaces including spherical, aspherical (e.g. parabolic, hyperbolic, elliptical,... Agent: Stereo Display Inc.

20080239443 - Optical switch module: The present invention provides an all optical cross connect switch utilizing two-axis MEMS mirrors for cross connecting optical fibers in a first set of optical fibers to optical fibers in a second set of optical fibers. The optical fibers in the first and second sets of optical fibers are precisely... Agent: Trex Enterprises Corp.

20080239444 - Wavelength selective switch: A wavelength selective switch for suppressing degradation of pass band characteristics when the temperature rises. The wavelength selective switch includes a spectroscopic element for separating input light and providing angular dispersion depending on wavelengths, a collective lens for gathering light output from the spectroscopic element, and a movable reflection block... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080239445 - Optical deflection apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method of driving optical deflection apparatus: An optical deflection apparatus including a light source; an optical deflector including first and second oscillators and first and second torsion springs, the first torsion spring connecting the first and second oscillators, the second torsion spring being connected to the second oscillator, and the first and second torsion springs sharing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080239446 - Micromechanical device with tilted electrodes: A micromechanical device includes a micromechanical functional structure, which can be deflected about a main axis from a rest position, a movable electrode, which is mounted to the micromechanical functional structure, and a fixed electrode, which can be tilted about a tilting axis with respect to the movable electrode in... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett , LLP

20080239447 - Illumination system: An illumination system including a coherent light source and a speckle-reducing module is provided. The coherent light source is adopted for providing a light beam. The speckle-reducing module is disposed at an optical path of the light beam. The speckle-reducing module includes a rotator, a carrier and an optical path... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080239449 - Electrode and interconnect materials for mems devices: A microelectromechanical (MEMS) device is presented which comprises a metallized semiconductor. The metallized semiconductor can be used for conductor applications because of its low resistivity, and for transistor applications because of its semiconductor properties. In addition, the metallized semiconductor can be tuned to have optical properties which allow it to... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080239448 - Optical modulation device and optical modulation method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an optical modulation device includes a Mach-Zehnder modulator and a controller. The Mach-Zehnder modulator is supplied a drive signal and a bias voltage. The Mach-Zehnder modulator modulates inputted light on the bases of the drive signal and the bias voltage. The drive signal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080239450 - Controllable optical lens: A controllable optical lens comprises a chamber housing first and second fluids, the interface between the fluids defining a lens surface. An electrode arrangement controls the shape of the lens surface and is also for sensing the shape of the lens surface. The electrode arrangement comprising a plurality of electrode... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080239451 - Control system for dimmable windows: Electrically dimmable windows for aircraft are powered by energy harvesting devices on-board the aircraft. The harvested energy is stored and used to control the opacity of the windows based on individual window opacity settings selected either by passengers or a cabin attendant. Each window has an associated control circuit that... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080239452 - Smart sunglasses, helmet faceshields and goggles based on electrochromic polymers: Eyewear exhibiting a variable light transmittance functionality is achieved by including a smart lens incorporating an electrochromic (EC) polymer, switchable between a first state and a second state in response to a voltage selectively applied thereto. The smart eyewear includes the smart lens, a voltage source, and a support. The... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20080239453 - Thermal control of optical filter with local silicon frame: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a thermally controlled optical filter comprises a frame coupled to an etalon where the frame includes a resistive thermal device disposed on the frame to obtain thermal measurements of the etalon during operation. The frame may be generally L-shaped or generally square-shaped.... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Intellevate

20080239454 - Mirror device: A spatial light modulator supported on a device substrate includes a plurality of light modulation elements to modulate a light emitted from a light source. The spatial light modulator and the device substrate further comprises a cyclic structure on a surface of the spatial light modulator and/or the device substrate... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080239456 - Micro oscillating device and micro oscillating device array: A micro oscillating device includes a frame, an oscillating part including a first drive electrode for application of a reference electric potential, and a connecting part for connecting the frame and the oscillating part to each other, where the connecting part defines an axis of an oscillating motion of the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080239455 - Microelectromechanical device and method utilizing conducting layers separated by stops: A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device includes a reflective element that includes at least one stop member. The device also includes an electrode and an aperture that extends at least partially through the electrode. The aperture has a boundary. The device has an electrically nonconductive surface within the aperture or on... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080239457 - Optical modulation: An optical modulator comprising a spacing-controllable etalon having at least one sprung micro-mirror suspended above a substrate. At least one electrically insulating stop is provided between the micro-mirror and the substrate to avoid short-circuit when the micro-mirror is drawn towards the substrate by an applied voltage. An optical detector detects... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080239458 - Transmissive, optically addressed, photosensitive spatial light modulators and color display systems incorporating same: An optically addressed, photoconductive spatial light modulator (SLM) operates in a transmissive mode and is capable of modulating a wide spectrum of visible light. There is no pixel structure or native pixel resolution in the SLM. The SLM has no photodiodes and does not rectify. A light projection system (100)... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080239459 - Display device and method of manufacturing the same: Disclosed in an electrophoretic display device having a charged ink layer. In this disclosed device, the ink layer is disposed on the active region (an image display region) and the peripheral region located around the active region, and an electric field is applied to a portion of the electrophoretic ink... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080239461 - Electrophoresis display device and electronic apparatus: The invention provides an electrophoresis display device having a plurality of pixels that is arrayed in a two-dimensional pattern. The electrophoresis display device according to an aspect of the invention includes: a first electrode that is formed in each of the pixels; a second electrode that is formed opposite to... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080239460 - Method of driving organic transistor and electrophoretic display device: Provided is a method of driving an organic transistor formed on a substrate, wherein the substrate is sealed by a sealing material, and a bias voltage for compensating for threshold voltage of the organic transistor is supplied to the organic transistor at least at the time of an operation of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080239462 - Composite material with controllable resonant cells: An apparatus for controlling propagation of incident electromagnetic radiation is described, comprising a composite material having electromagnetically reactive cells of small dimension relative to a wavelength of the incident electromagnetic radiation. At least one of a capacitive and inductive property of at least one of the electromagnetically reactive cells is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080239463 - Optical scanning device: An optical scanning device provides a radiation source 2,200), a collimator lens (4,40), an objective (7,90) for converting a beam (5,30′) to a scanning spot at the position of an information layer (101) of a record carrier (1,100). The device also includes an electrowetting cell (6). The electrowetting cell (6)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080239464 - Transmissive active grating device: Provided is a transmissive active grating device that transmits light or diffracts light according to an applied voltage. The transmissive active grating device includes: an electro optical material layer which transmits light; a first electrode formed on a bottom surface of the electro optical material layer; and an array of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080239465 - Delay-line demodulator and method of adjusting a phase shift in the demodulator: In a method of phase adjustment for the demodulator 1 of the present invention, the phase adjustment is performed by driving any one of the heaters on the two waveguides 10 and 11 in the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) 6 and on the two waveguides 14 and 15 in the MZI... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080239466 - Device and method for the demodulation electromagnetic wave fields: A new pixel in semiconductor technology comprises a photo-sensitive detection region (1) for converting an electromagnetic wave field into an electric signal of flowing charges, a separated demodulation region (2) with at least two output nodes (D10, D20) and means (IG10, DG10, IG20, DG20) for sampling the charge-current signal at... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080239467 - Optical amplifier: An optical amplifier including: a first amplifying unit amplifying an input light by utilizing a first excitation light and thereby outputting a first amplified light; a second amplifying unit amplifying the first amplified light by utilizing a second excitation light and thereby outputting a second amplified light; and a control... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080239468 - Optical direct amplifier for wdm optical transmission: An optical direct amplifier lowers the power consumption with a simple structure at a low cost. This amplifier includes an optical amplification medium (e.g., optical fiber) that carries out an optical amplification function in response to optical excitation by an exciting light source (e.g., semiconductor laser); a temperature controller for... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080239469 - Gain control apparatus, optical transmission apparatus, gain control method for optical amplifier, and wavelength multiplex optical transmission system: The present invention relates to an apparatus for controlling a gain of an optical amplifier, and the apparatus comprises a target gain calculating unit for calculating, as a target gain for an optical amplifier, a value obtained by increasing or decreasing a gain (output) of signal light as the number... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080239470 - Individual band gain equalizer for optical amplifiers: A control apparatus comprises a light monitoring unit for dividing a signal wavelength band into at least a band in which output light power of an optical amplifier tends to decrease at an decrease in the number of signal wavelengths and a band including a gain deviation band, and for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080239471 - Optical module and processing method: The present invention relates to an optical module which is capable of amplifying light to be amplified to high power and which has a structure for effectively reducing influences of damage to other optical parts, and heat generation. The optical module includes a fiber unit constituted by an optical coupler,... Agent: Venable LLP

20080239472 - Semiconductor optical amplification module, optical matrix switching device, and drive circuit: A semiconductor optical amplification module that can suppress ringing without increasing power consumption or circuit size or inhibiting high-speed operation. A semiconductor optical amplifier outputs an optical signal inputted according to driving current outputted from a drive circuit. A diode is connected in parallel with the semiconductor optical amplifier. As... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080239473 - Operation microscope: An operation microscope includes a microscope body having an illumination optical system which illuminates a subject, a lens barrel, and a main observation optical system which observes the subject, a microscope unit for an assistant attached to the microscope body, and a guide rail which is disposed in the lens... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080239474 - Confocal microscope for imaging of selected locations of the body of a patient: A confocal imaging microscope, especially for the cellular imaging of the skin at selected locations, is ergonomic in use, compact, and positionable at the locations thereby providing for patient comfort during imaging. An imaging head (28) is gimble mounted on a multi-axis compound arm (34) to allow for precise placement... Agent: Kenneth J. Lukacher

20080239475 - Confocal mimcroscope system: A confocal microscope system capable of observing a bright field image and a fluorescent image together with a confocal image can be achieved with a simple configuration. The confocal microscope system, for observing the bright field image, the fluorescent image, the confocal image acquired from the observation sample, is characterized... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080239476 - Illuminating module and surgical microscope incorporating said illuminating module: An illuminating module (100) has a light source which has at least one white-light LED. In addition to the white-light LED, an LED for red light and an LED for green light are provided. The illuminating module (100) has an output (112) and includes a light-mixing unit (101) which mixes... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20080239477 - Observation system: A suitable clear image is obtained in observation of a specimen exhibiting dynamic motion, for example, during in vivo observation. The invention provides an observation system including an optical apparatus including an objective unit that is positioned close to a specimen; and a stabilizer adhered to the specimen, at least... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080239478 - System for automatically locating and manipulating positions on an object: Methods and systems for determining the relative location and attitude between two objects by means of positional tags and positional tag interrogation sensors are disclosed. Specific embodiments are addressed to positioning of microscope slides, assembly of mechanical components, and locating construction tools relative to a work piece.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080239479 - Observation device and binoculars: An observation device has an ocular lens and an objective lens and is adapted to observe through the ocular lens an intermediate image of an object formed by the objective lens. The observation device further includes a display section provided either on a light path connecting the ocular lens and... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080239480 - Endoscope relay lens: A relay set (4, 4′) for the optical system of a rigid endoscope, the optical system including an objective (1) at the distal end, an ocular (5) at the proximal end and between them a relay lens system consisting of several relay sets (2, 3, 4), the relay set (4,... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080239481 - Portable screen assembly: A portable screen assembly includes: a casing having an opening extending in a longitudinal direction on the upper surface thereof, and formed by a pair of separable case members that extend in the longitudinal direction; a spring-biased roll rotatably mounted in the casing; a screen wound around the spring-biased roll... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080239482 - Apparatus and method of displaying the three-dimensional image: A three-dimensional image display apparatus displays element images each composed of a set of parallax component images. An exit pupil array is located opposite the display surface. Exit pupils of the array correspond to the respective element images. The horizontal pitch of the exit pupils or an integral multiple of... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080239484 - Polarized light transmission screen and stereoscopic image displaying apparatus using the polarized light transmission screen: A polarized light transmission screen and a stereoscopic image displaying apparatus capable to display a clear stereoscopic image with few little cross talks over a wide wavelength range. In a polarized light transmission screen 30, a 90-degree rotation regions 32b include in piles a plurality of retarders of which the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080239483 - Stereoscopic displaying apparatus: A stereoscopic displaying apparatus includes: an image generating section having a right eye image generating region on which a right eye image light is generated and a left eye image generating region on which a left eye image light is generated; a polarizing plate that emits the right eye image... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080239488 - Antireflection film, polarizing plate and image display device: An antireflection film includes, in a following order, a transparent substrate film; a medium refractive index layer; a high refractive index layer; and a low refractive index layer, wherein the medium refractive index layer is (A) a medium refractive index layer having a refractive index of 1.60 to 1.64 at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239486 - Antireflection laminate, polarizing plate and image display device: An antireflection laminate includes a support; a layer having hardcoat property; an overcoat layer; and a low refractive index layer, wherein at least one layer of the layer having hardcoat property and the overcoat layer comprises a metal oxide particle, and the antireflection laminate has a surface haze value of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239485 - Method for manufacturing stereoscopic displaying apparatus, method for manufacturing phase shift plate, and the phase shift plate thereby: A method for manufacturing a stereoscopic displaying apparatus is provided. The method for manufacturing a stereoscopic displaying apparatus including: an image displaying section that has an image generating section including a right eye image generating region on which a right eye image is generated and a left eye image generating... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080239487 - Multilayered phase difference plate and projector: [Means to Solve the Problems] There is provided a multilayered phase difference plate 1 that serves as a half-wavelength phase difference plate in the range of 400 nm to 700 nm by bonding together a first phase difference plate 10 and a second phase difference plate 20 in a manner... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080239489 - Optical polarizer and method for fabricating the same: An optical polarizer includes a supporting member and a polarizing film supported by the supporting member. The polarizing film includes at least one layer of a carbon nanotube film, and the carbon nanotubes in a given carbon nanotube film are aligned in the same direction therein. A method for fabricating... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080239490 - Wide-acceptance-angle circular polarizers: A circular polarizer comprising a single linear polarizer producing a linear state of polarization and at least one phase retardation film layered with the single linear polarizer. In a first embodiment, the at least one phase retardation film includes at least one uniaxial A-plate phase retardation film and at least... Agent: Law Offices Of Brian S Steinberger

20080239491 - Optical compensation films having positive birefringence for liquid crystal display: A method for controlling positive birefringence in an optical compensation film (positive C-plate) having high positive birefringence throughout the wavelength range 400 nm<λ<800 nm is provided. The method includes selecting polymers with optically anisotropic subunits (OASUs) that exhibit the buttressing effect, wherein the OASUs may be disks, mesogens or aromatic... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080239492 - Spectrometer designs: Various embodiments include spectrometers comprising diffraction gratings monolithically integrated with other optical elements. These optical elements may include slits and mirrors. The mirrors and gratings may be curved. In one embodiment, the mirrors are concave and the grating is convex. The mirrors and grating may be concentric or nearly concentric.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080239493 - Diffractive optical element and optical system using the same: A diffractive optical element includes stacked first and second diffraction gratings made of different materials. The materials of the first and second diffraction gratings are glass. The first and second diffraction gratings have grating surfaces contacted to each other. The materials satisfy a predetermined condition when Tg2 and At2 are... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080239494 - Tunable light filter: A tunable light filter has a transparent plate, a first mirror surface coupled to the transparent plate, and a base spaced from the transparent plate and defining a flexible base region. The flexible base region has at least one cell and a membrane coupled over the at least one cell.... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20080239495 - Optical filter: An optical filter including a bump, a first conformal transflective film, a conformal space layer and a second conformal transflective film is provided. The bump has a surface, wherein different areas of the surface have different normal vectors, respectively. Moreover, the first conformal transflective film is disposed on the surface... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080239496 - Optical filter:

20080239497 - Selective absorbing: An interference coating between a display and an intended viewing area that selectively absorbs incident optical energy in at least one first wavelength region and selectively transmits incident optical energy in at least one second wavelength region.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080239498 - Random phase mask for light pipe homogenizer: An apparatus for illuminating a light valve (34) comprises at least one laser array (10) capable of emitting a plurality of radiation beams (40a, 40b, 40c), each radiation beam propagating along a first axis. A light pipe (20) comprises at least two reflecting surfaces being spaced apart and opposing each... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080239499 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes an image display unit having a plurality of pixels arranged on a predetermined curved surface; and a plurality of microlenses arranged on the predetermined curved surface such that they correspond to and face the plurality of pixels on the image display unit. Light rays that exit... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080239500 - Plastic sheets with lenticular lens arrays: A lenticular sheet, in one exemplary embodiment, includes a first surface having at least two portions, an opposing second surface, and a plurality of lenticular lenses formed in the first surface. Each portion of the first surface includes a number of lenticular lenses per centimeter that is different from the... Agent: John S. Beulick C/o Armstrong Teasdale, LLP

20080239501 - Color-separation optical system and imaging apparatus: A curve representing a characteristic of a blue-light reflecting dichroic film DB and a curve representing a characteristic of a red-light reflecting dichroic film DR are configured to have shapes that track an ideal spectral characteristic of green. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a characteristic approximated to the ideal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239502 - Controllable optical lens: A controllable optical lens system, comprises a chamber housing first and second fluids, the interface between the fluids defining a lens surface. An electrode arrangement controls the shape of the lens surface and has first and second electrodes. A parameter is determined by the system dependent on the electrical resistance... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080239503 - Projection objective of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus: A projection objective of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus comprises a manipulator for reducing rotationally asymmetric image errors. The manipulator in turn contains a lens, an optical element and an interspace formed between the lens and the optical element, which can be filled with a liquid. At least one actuator... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080239506 - Variable-power optical system and imaging device: p

20080239505 - Zoom lens and imager apparatus:

20080239504 - Zoom lens and imaging device: A zoom lens comprises: a stationary group that is stationary at the time of variable power; and a variable power group, disposed on an image side of the stationary group, that makes a variable power operation by moving in an optical axis direction at the time of variable power, wherein... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239507 - Image projection optical system and image projection apparatus: An image projection optical system introduces light from an image-forming element by a zoom lens via an optical element. The optical element satisfies Σ(Di×Ndi)/fw>4.0. The zoom lens includes, in order from a magnification side, first and second lens units, and lens units disposed closer to a reduction side than the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080239508 - Method for controlling movements of an optical zoom device: A method for controlling movements of an optical zoom device, the method includes the steps of: setting a timer to zero, and setting a time limit; checking whether the wide-angle button or the telephoto button is pressed; starting the timer and moving the optical zoom device to a point between... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080239509 - Compact imaging lens assembly for an imaging-based bar code reader: An imaging lens assembly (30) for a camera assembly (20) of an imaging-based bar code reader (10) for focusing an image (100′) of a target object (100) within a field of view (FV) of the camera assembly (20) onto a sensor array (28) of the camera assembly (20). The imaging... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080239510 - Imaging lens, camera module, and portable terminal apparatus:

20080239511 - Two-piece type optical imaging lens: A two-piece type optical imaging lens that includes a first lens element with positive refractive power, a second lens element with positive refractive power, an IR cut-off filter and an image sensor arranged along an optical axis in order from an object side. The first lens element and the second... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080239512 - Imaging lens, manufacturing method thereof, and compound lens: In an imaging lens, one compound lens and two single lenses are arranged in a lens barrel. On the light output side of the lens barrel, a filter is arranged with a distance from lens barrel. With a further distance from the filter, an imaging element is arranged. In the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080239513 - Microlens windows and interphased images for packaging and printing and methods for manufacture: The present microlens for packaging and printing includes a package including a body; and a microlens window located on the body to display at least one graphical image in a first portion of the microlens window and the contents of the package through a second portion of the microlens window.... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080239514 - Lens system and projector utilizing the same: A lens system includes, sequentially in that order from a magnifying side, a first lens group which makes up a substantially afocal optical system as a whole and a second lens group having a positive refractive power as a whole, and depending upon applications, a third lens group made up... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080239515 - Imaging lens and imaging apparatus: An imaging lens is provided and includes: in order from an object side of the imaging lens, a first lens group having a positive power as a whole; a second lens group including a lens in the most object side thereof, the lens having a concave surface on the object... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239516 - Photographing lens unit including plurality of lenses and imaging apparatus with the same: In a photographing lens unit, an aperture diaphragm, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens of a positive meniscus lens with a concave surface on the object side, an ND filter, a fourth lens of a negative meniscus lens with... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080239517 - Imaging lens and imaging device:

20080239519 - Lens module: An exemplary lens module includes a number of optical components, a barrel receiving the optical components therein, an image sensor and a holder engaged with the barrel. The holder receives the image sensor therein. The holder has an electromagnetic shielding coating formed thereon. The electromagnetic shielding coating is comprised of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080239520 - Optical module having the light incident surface of a lens inclined on a substrate and a method of manufacturing the same: An optical module having a substrate which includes a light-emitting device mounting area provided on its first principal surface, a lens mounting groove with a cross section of V shape, and a support groove formed orthogonal to the lens mounting groove, and an inclined surface to allow a lens element... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080239518 - Optical sensor: The present invention relates to an optical sensor for the monitoring of combustion processes in a combustion chamber wherein the optical sensor at least comprises a lens system facing the combustion chamber, a waveguide and a sheath surrounding the lens system and one end of the waveguide characterized in that... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080239521 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel capable of forming high-accuracy barrel body and simply adjusting a tilt and a position in an optical axis direction without using dedicated portions is provided. The lens barrel includes a front barrel and a rear barrel. An inner diameter of a portion, containing a focus lens of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080239522 - Solid-state imaging device and electronic device including same: A camera module of the present invention includes a plurality of projections 61b on a bottom base of a driving section 61 of an AF/Zoom module. The projections 61b are radially extended from an aperture 63 formed on an optical path. By this, adhesive can be spread over the projections... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080239523 - Head mounted display device: An HMD device has an imaging optic for the right eye and an imaging optic for the left eye. Each imaging optic so images an image, which is generated in the object plane, that the image can be observed by a user in an image plane and each of the... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20080239524 - Positioners and microscopes incorporating the same: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a positioning device comprises a microscope assembly and a lens positioning assembly. The lens positioning assembly comprises a lens support subassembly and a bi-directional positioning guide. The lens support subassembly comprises a translating rod, while the positioning guide comprises a coiled... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080239525 - Camera module assembly: A camera module (200) includes a lens barrel (202), at least one lens (204), a holder (206), and a base (210). The at least one lens is received in the lens barrel. The holder has a first end (212) and a second end (214). The holder further has a cavity... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080239526 - Light conducting unit, illumination apparatus, and projection type display apparatus: A light conducting unit is disposed between a light source and a region which is to be illuminated. In addition, a light conducting unit includes a polygonal prism made from a first medium with a first coefficient of refraction, a first light conducting unit which directs light to be incident... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080239527 - Driving support method and driving support apparatus: A driving support method and apparatus for displaying, on a medial side of a pillar of the vehicle, an image of an area which is hidden as a blind spot in a rear-view mirror mounted on or in a vehicle, when looking in the mirror from the driver's position and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080239528 - Deformable mirror apparatus: It is made possible to provide a deformable mirror apparatus which is deformable to a complicated shape (high-order shape). A deformable mirror apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of electrodes provided on the substrate; a spacer fixed above the substrate, having a first opening passing through from a first face... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080239529 - Combined roof and front mirror description: The invention concerns an external mirror arrangement comprising a front mirror of the Group of the Directive 2005/27/EG for the visual transmission of a first field of view and for the visual transmission of a second field of view contains a safety mirror. In accord with the invention, the front... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080239530 - Mirror pane with a substrate of plastic, a method for its manufacture and an external mirror having such a mirror pane: A mirror pane comprising a substrate of plastic having a front side and a rear side, each having a metal coating, and a surface heating apparatus with at least one resistance heating strip and electric connection contacts, wherein the metal coating placed on the front side of the substrate serves... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080239531 - Optical device comprising a structure for avoiding reflections: An optical device includes a deflectable optical functional structure for interacting with electromagnetic radiation incident thereon, and a protective structure which is associated to the optical functional structure and at least partly transparent for the electromagnetic radiation. The optical functional structure is arranged in a manner tilted relative to the... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett , LLP

20080239532 - Trailer rearview mirror assembly: A trailer rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror base, a first clipping member and a second clipping member. The mirror base is provided with an elongated support arm. The first clipping member is affixed on the support arm by a first fastener. The second clipping member is coupled to the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

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