Optical: systems and elements inventions 12/08

20080316555 - Hologram recording medium and method for manufacturing same: A substrate 11, a hologram recording layer 15 that records an interference pattern formed by a first wavelength beam 2, a wavelength selecting reflection layer 14 provided between the substrate and the hologram recording layer that reflects the first wavelength beam 2 and transmits a second wavelength beam 3, a... Agent: Qinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges Kola/androlia

20080316556 - Volume hologram transfer foil, volume hologram laminate, and production method thereof: The present invention achieves the object by providing a volume hologram transfer foil comprising: a substrate, a volume hologram layer carrying a recorded volume hologram that is formed on the substrate, and an image forming layer carrying a formed image and a heat seal layer containing a thermoplastic resin that... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080316557 - Holographic recording/reproducing apparatus: A holographic recording/reproducing apparatus that easily controls an incident angle of a reference beam and that is less sensitive to a tilt of a holographic recording medium, the holographic recording/reproducing apparatus including: a light source to emit a light; and an optical system to divide the emitted light into a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080316558 - Method for transferring a micron pattern on an optical pattern and the thus obtained optical pattern: A pattern (P) is transferred onto an optical article (1) in the form of one or more portions of a transferable material (3, 4b) retained by a layer of latex (2). The portion or portions of transferable material are applied with a stamp after the layer of latex has been... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080316559 - Laser scanning device and image forming apparatus: A laser scanning device having a light emitting element, an optical element for shaping a laser beam emitted from the light emitting element, a radiator which holds the light emitting element, and a holder to which the radiator and the optical element are fixed. The radiator is planar extending from... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080316560 - Optical deflector: The optical deflector includes a deflector, a vibration detector, a driving signal generator, a modulation timing signal generator, and a deflection detector. The deflector has a vibrational system having a movable body with a light deflecting member, and deflects light from a light source by the movable body. The vibration... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080316561 - Optical scan device, optical scan type microscope, observation method, control device, and control program: It is an object to realize smooth switching between free scanning and high speed scanning in a light scanning apparatus and a light scanning microscope. To attain the object, a light scanning apparatus includes at least three mirror scanners disposed at predetermined positions of a light path for light scanning,... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080316562 - Mems scanner system and method: A MEMS scanner system and method, the system for deflecting an incident laser beam including a MEMS mirror 26 operable to receive the incident laser beam and to generate a reflected laser beam, and an opaque plate 28 having an aperture 30, the opaque plate 28 being opposite the MEMS... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080316563 - Structure for protecting features during the removal of sacrificial materials: The present invention provides an apparatus. The apparatus, may include an actuator located over a substrate, a movable feature located over and coupled to the actuator, and a layer of material located above the actuator and movable feature and not constituting part of a beam/spring associated with the movable feature,... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20080316564 - Display devices: A flexible display comprises a flexible dielectric layer (2) having a conductive layer (3) on one side and a hydrophobic layer (1) on the other side. Two fluids (4, 5) are located on the hydrophobic surface, the fluids being immiscible with one another. One fluid is a liquid conductor (5).... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080316565 - Light source module and display system comprising the light source module: A light source module and a display system comprising the light source module are provided. The light source system comprises a first light source module and a second light source module. The first light source module provides a light beam of a first color, and the second light source module... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080316566 - High aperture-ratio top-reflective am-imod displays: High-aperture-ratio devices comprise active-matrix elements and interferometric modulators and methods of making thereof. The active-matrix element may be positioned behind the interferometric modulator with respect to incident light. In some embodiments, components of the active-matrix element may be formed on a first substrate, while components of the interferometric modulator may... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080316567 - Illumination source and method therefor: An illumination source and a method therefor. A light source includes a light circuit configured to process light and direct light, and a lighting element optically coupled to the light circuit to provide multiple colors of light. The light circuit propagates light using light guides. The use of light guides... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080316569 - Illumination system: An illumination system for providing an illumination beam to a light valve is provided. The illumination system includes a light source, a light integration rod, a color wheel, a first focusing unit and a second focusing unit. The light source is capable of generating the illumination beam, and the light... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080316568 - Infrared and dual mode displays: One inventive aspect relates to a display comprising a display element configured to selectively reflect light of a first wavelength in the infrared range and light of a second wavelength in the visible spectrum. Another inventive aspect relates to a color display comprising at least three reflective display elements. Each... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080316570 - Optical modulator module and temperature sensor: Disclosed is an optical modulator module having a micro-heater. The optical modulator module can include an optical modulator, modulating a beam of light emitted from a light source and emitting the modulated beam of light; and a micro-heater, manufactured in the optical modulator. The present invention provides an optical modulator... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080316571 - Apparatus and methods relating to spatially light modulated microscopy: Apparatus and methods relating to microscopes having specific control of the light that contacts a sample and/or a light detector, such as the eye of the user, a charge couple device or a video camera. The improved control includes enhanced, selective control of the angle of illumination, quantity of light... Agent: Graybeal Jackson LLP

20080316572 - Optoelectronic device and control method: An optoelectronic device for emitting electromagnetic radiation with a controllable emission intensity comprises, at least one optoelectronic component (100) which is adapted for generating, in operation, electromagnetic radiation (90), a first electronic element (200) and a second electronic element (300). The first electronic element (200) is adapted for controlling the... Agent: Thomas Langer

20080316573 - Method for manufacturing electrode for electrochromic display: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electrode of an electrochromic display. The method includes, prior to forming a porous nanoelectrode, forming a barrier rib for separating an electrolyte using a photosensitive paste as a material for the barrier rib, in which the photosensitive paste enables formation of patterns through... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080316574 - Electrochromic compounds and associated media and devices: wherein R1-R10 are the same or different and comprise H, an alkyl, cycloalkyl, polycycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl, alkaryl, aralkyl, alkoxy, alkenyl, and/or alkynyl group containing approximately 1 to approximately 50 carbon atom(s), wherein the carbon atom(s) may be a linking group to, or part of, a halogen, a N, O, and/or... Agent: King & Partners, PLC F/b/o/ Gentex Corporation

20080316575 - Aberration correction of optical traps: A method and system for correcting aberrations in a beam of light including correcting for effects from an undiffracted portion of an input beam. The method and system includes (1) a component for providing a beam of light; (2) a component for applying a diffraction grating pattern to the beam... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080316576 - Method and device for polarization conversion using quantum dots: A novel and efficient method for polarization conversion, particularly from linear polarization to circular polarization, and, importantly, vice versa, is obtained using shapeanisotropic self-assembled quantum dots, which, having the advantage of extremely small size (nanometer scale), may be readily incorporated into photonic crystals and/or other optical components. Such devices also... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080316578 - Electrophoretic display device and electronic apparatus: n

20080316577 - Mems device with an angular vertical comb actuator: A vertical comb electro-static actuator for rotating a micro-electro-mechanical micro-mirror device about a tilt axis or rotation. The rotor comb fingers of the comb drive extend from a sub-frame of the micro-mirror, which includes a prestressed layer for bending the rotor comb fingers at an angle to the substrate and... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20080316579 - System and method for increasing image quality in a display system: System and method for maximizing image quality by eliminating vias on a reflective surface. A preferred embodiment comprises depositing a first portion of a mirror surface over a support surface, applying a protective coating on the mirror surface, and then inverting the via. The preferred embodiment also comprises removing a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080316582 - Electro-optic displays, and materials and methods for production thereof: A first sub-assembly useful in an electro-optic display is produced by: providing an electro-optic sub-assembly comprising a layer of electro-optic medium; providing an adhesive sub-assembly comprising an adhesive layer, the adhesive layer being larger than the layer of electro-optic medium and having one or more apertures; adhering the adhesive sub-assembly... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080316580 - Fibre, flexible display device manufactured thereform and corresponding manufacturing methods: A fibre (10) comprises an inner conductor (12), a volume (14) of electro-optic material (16), an external conductor (20), with a photoconductor (18) between the inner conductor and an external conductor. The volume of electro-optic material comprises capsules of electrophoretic, black and white charged particles (24, 26), the black particles... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080316583 - Fluorinated silicon phthalocyanines and naphthalocyanines for electrophoretic display: This invention relates to stable colorants of high extinction coefficient and high solubility or dispersibility for an electrophoretic, magnetophoretic or electromagnetophoretic display. More particularly, it relates to stable colorants for a microcup-based electrophoretic or electromagnetophoretic display the cells of which are filled with charged and/or magnetic particles dispersed in a... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080316581 - Method of driving electrophoretic display device, and electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device includes a transparent element substrate, a transparent opposite substrate, an electrophoretic display layer, and a selector. The element substrate has at least one transparent pixel electrode. The opposite substrate has a common electrode that is in correspondence with the at least one pixel electrode. The electrophoretic... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080316584 - Optical device: According to an aspect of the embodiment, an optical device has a first optical element and a second optical element. The first optical element for inputting wavelength multiplexed light, the wavelength multiplexed light including a plurality of light channels which is arranged on predetermined frequency interval, the first optical element... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080316585 - Optical wavelength selective router: A fiber-optical, wavelength selective switch, especially for channel routing with equalization and blocking applications. The input signals are converted to light beams having predefined polarizations (41). The beams are then laterally expanded (43), and then undergo spatial dispersion in the beam expansion plane. The different wavelength components are directed through... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080316586 - Combinational pzt and mems beam steering: Beam steering systems and methods are disclosed according to various embodiments. A beam steering system may include a laser that produces a beam of light. The beam of light may then be directed through a piezoelectric tube that includes a light guide and one or more piezoelectric elements. The piezoelectric... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080316587 - Solution flow prevention in fluid focus lenses: In a fluid focus lens (ffl) a structured hydrophobic layer (415) is applied on a hydrophilic glass substrate (406). The hydrophobic layer (415) and hydrophilic glass substrate (406) cause a water droplet placed on the hydrophilic glass substrate (406) to remain in a defined position (or area). The hydrophobic layer... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080316588 - Apparatus and method for generating an rf signal: An apparatus for generating an RF signal is provided includes a driver configured to generate a timing control for two optical signals. The apparatus further includes at least one optical pulse source configured to generate the two optical signals based on the timing control. In addition, the apparatus includes a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080316589 - Laser source: An optical device for generating a beat frequency between two optical wavelengths includes two waveguides (2a, 2b) of different width and a grating layer (4) that is common to both wave guides.... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080316590 - Short wavelength light source: A short wavelength light source is provided with a fundamental wave light source for generating a fundamental wave, and a plurality of wavelength conversion elements made of nonlinear optical crystals having periodic polarization-inversion structures and adapted to convert a part of the fundamental wave into a second harmonic, and the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080316591 - Optical amplifier: According to an aspect of the embodiment of the invention, an optical amplifier including an input port, an output port, a plurality of amplifying parts, an optical attenuator, a gain controller and an optical attenuator controller. The plurality of amplifying parts includes an optical amplification medium and a pumping light... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080316592 - Laser device and optical amplifier: Laser light emission across a wide bandwidth emission spectrum is enabled in a laser device equipped with solid gain media. The laser device is equipped with: a resonator; a plurality of solid gain media, having fluorescent spectra that at least partially overlap with each other, provided within the resonator; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080316593 - Laser device and optical amplifier: Laser light emission across a wide bandwidth emission spectrum is enabled in a laser device equipped with solid gain media. The laser device is equipped with: a resonator; a plurality of solid gain media, having fluorescent spectra that at least partially overlap with each other, provided within the resonator; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080316594 - Infrared-transmitting cover: Disclosed is an infrared-transmitting cover (21) comprising an infrared-transmitting base layer (23) and an infrared-transmitting dielectric multilayer film (24) which is arranged on the base layer (23). The infrared-transmitting cover (21) has optical characteristics since the dielectric multilayer film (24) selectively reflects visible light in a specific wavelength range, and... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080316595 - Spectral purity filter for a multi-layer mirror, lithographic apparatus including such multi-layer mirror, method for enlarging the ratio of desired radiation and undesired radiation, and device manufacturing method: A multi-layer mirror includes a multi-layer stack. The multi-layer stack includes a plurality of alternating layers with a multi-layer stack top layer and a spectral filter top layer arranged on the multi-layer stack. The spectral filter top layer includes a first spectral purity enhancement layer that includes a first material... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080316596 - Backlight unit and 2d/3d switchable image display device employing the backlight unit: A 2D/3D switchable image display device is provided. The device includes an image panel, a backlight unit arranged at the rear side of the image panel, and a lenticular lens sheet arranged between the image panel and the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a plurality of segment light sources... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080316597 - Three-dimensional (3d) display: A 3D display has a light grating unit inserted between a polarized light module and an image display unit. The light grating unit includes a dispersing liquid crystal unit, a microretarder unit, and a polarizing film. By controlling the dispersing liquid crystal unit of the light grating unit to be... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080316598 - Polarization-modulating optical element: A polarization-modulating optical element consisting of an optically active crystal material has a thickness profile where the thickness, as measured in the direction of the optical axis, varies over the area of the optical element. The polarization-modulating optical element has the effect that the plane of oscillation of a first... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080316599 - Reflection-repressed wire-grid polarizer: A reflection repressed wire-grid polarizer device for polarizing incident visible or infrared light and selectively repressing a reflected polarization includes at least three layers disposed on a substrate. A polarizing wire-grid layer has an array of parallel metal wires with a period less than half the wavelength of the incident... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080316600 - Wavelength-selective diffraction element and optical head device incorporating the same: The present invention provides a wavelength-selective diffraction element, configured such that light having a plurality of wavelengths are incident thereon as incident light, which is provided with: a transparent substrate; a concavo-convex part, formed on the transparent substrate such that concave portions and convex portions are cyclically extended in one... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080316602 - Antiglare film: An antiglare film comprises a transparent substrate; and an antiglare layer on the transparent substrate, the layer including a binder matrix, organic particle A and organic particle B having an average particle diameter smaller than an average particle diameter of particle A, organic particle A and organic particle B dispersed... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080316603 - Diffuser prism sheet having amorphous light diffusers on prism valleys, backlight unit using the same, mold, and associated methods: A diffuser prism sheet includes a transparent base film having a first surface and a second surface, a light refractor at the first surface of the base film, the light refractor including a plurality of unit prisms having a major axis extending in a first direction and having a predetermined... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080316601 - Method for manufacturing a hybrid microlens: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing hybrid microlenses of a light guiding plate using a semiconductor reflow process, comprising: a first step of aligning a mask on a substrate coated with a photoresist, wherein the mask is formed with a first region through which light can be transmitted... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080316604 - Display device with homogenising attentuating filter: A display device comprises a display arrangement having inherent non-uniformity of an output intensity across the display area and an optical attenuator arrangement (205,207) positioned in front of the display arrangement and in registration with the display area, wherein the optical attenuator arrangement has a light attenuation characteristic that varies... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080316606 - Image observation apparatus and image observation system: The image observation apparatus includes a first image-forming element and a second image-forming element each of which forms an original image, and an optical system configured to introduce light fluxes from the first and second image-forming elements to an exit pupil position of the optical system where an eye of... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080316605 - Spectacles with embedded segmented display comprising light guide end: An optical device, such as spectacles or goggles, has a segmented display (3) formed in a transparent substrate by directing light from a number of light sources (15) through respective light guides (14) and reflecting the light out of the transparent substrate at the ends of the light guides (14)... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080316607 - Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same: An image sensor and a method of manufacturing the same. In one example embodiment, an image sensor includes an interlayer insulation layer formed on a substrate of a pixel area, a plurality of first microlenses spaced apart from each other on the interlayer insulation layer, and a plurality of second... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20080316608 - Micro-lens fabricated from semiconductor wafer:

20080316609 - Compact super wide-angle imaging system: A super wide-angle imaging system has a short total track length. The lens system is a retrofocus type lens system that uses only a few lenses with no cemented lens elements. Acceptable performance is achieved by taking advantage of subsequent digital image processing. The compact lens system is designed to... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080316611 - Drop centering device: A variable-focus lens that includes a wall made of an insulating material, a drop of an insulating liquid arranged on an area of a first surface of the wall, a conductive liquid covering the first surface and the drop, and an electrode arranged on a second surface of said wall.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080316610 - Piezoelectric variable focus fluid lens and method of focusing: A variable focus lens (10) comprises a fluid chamber (12) having an optical axis (20). One or more piezoelectric element (22) is disposed about the optical axis within a portion of the fluid chamber. First and second fluids (24,26) are disposed within another portion the fluid chamber and in contact... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080316612 - Refractive boundary elements, devices, and materials: An optical device includes an interface between two or more media. The refractive indices, orientations of media, and alignment relative to a propagating wave define a refractive boundary at which reflections may be reduced or eliminated, and at which, for certain incident angles, rays may be refracted on the same... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080316613 - Extender lens apparatus and optical apparatus: The extender lens apparatus is detachably attached to an image-forming optical system including a first main lens unit disposed closest to an object and a second main lens unit disposed between the first main lens unit and an image plane. The apparatus includes a first extender lens unit to be... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080316614 - Zoom lens system and image pickup device: e

20080316615 - Image capturing device and method for compensating light attenuation of same: An image capturing device includes a zoom lens system, an image sensor for capturing images, and a compensating system for compensating the light attenuation of the image capturing device caused by the zoom lens system. The compensating system includes a memory unit, a judging unit, and a compensating unit. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080316616 - Projecting zoom lens and projection type display device:

20080316617 - Zoom lens system, image pickup device and digital device: A zoom lens system includes, in order from an object side: a first lens group having a negative optical power, a second lens group having a negative optical power, and, a third lens group having a positive optical power. The position of the first lens group is fixed during zooming,... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080316618 - Ultra wide-angle imaging lens device and imaging apparatus: z

20080316619 - Portable electronic device: An exemplary portable electronic device includes a main body, a first camera module disposed in the main body, a second camera module disposed in the main body adjacent to the first camera module, and a light diverging lens rotatably mounted on the main body. The light diverging lens has a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080316620 - Lens module: A lens module includes a barrel and a first lens. The barrel has a body and a step-profiled part. The step-profiled part is inwardly extended from an inside wall of the body. The first lens is accommodated in the barrel. The first lens has a first step-profiled structure disposed around... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080316621 - Optical assembly, projection exposure apparatus and projection objective: In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to an optical assembly that includes an optical element and a structure element. A gap runs between the optical element and the structure element. A sealing element may be present to seal the gap. At least one liquid layer may be arranged between the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080316622 - Spherical aberration control method and related apparatus: The invention discloses a spherical aberration control method for controlling spherical aberration of an optical device. The method includes: detecting a current ambient temperature of the optical device; and controlling the spherical aberration of the optical device according to the current ambient temperature.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080316624 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel includes a first optical element that is allowed to move along an optical axis, a first driven member connected to the first optical element, a second optical element disposed in the optical axis of the first optical element, which is allowed to move along the optical axis,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080316623 - Lens module, camera module, and method of manufacturing camera module: There are provided first and second lenses, by which light incident from outside is condensed and caused to outgo, a barrel, which holds the first and second lenses, a barrel holding part having a substantially cylindrical shape to hold therein the barrel, a movement device for movement of the barrel... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080316625 - Lens module with focusing function: An exemplary lens module with focusing function includes a lens group, a lead screw, a transmission member, an actuator, and two stop portions. The lens group is slidable along the optical axis thereof. The lead screw is set so that the longitudinal direction thereof is essentially parallel to the optical... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080316626 - Adjustable slot mirror: A mirror device includes a base portion having a top surface, a bottom surface, a first end, and a second end, the first end having a raised edge perpendicular to the top surface, the second end having a raised edge perpendicular to the top surface and having a curved portion... Agent: Eric Hanscom

20080316627 - Vehicle side mirror: A vehicle side mirror includes: a housing attached to a vehicle and holding a mirror; and a cover member being attachable to the housing, the cover member and the housing forming an integral outer shape of the vehicle side mirror when the cover member is appropriately attached to the housing.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080316628 - Density filter, method of forming the density filter and apparatus thereof: A film coating method enables, when forming film layers in response to optical characteristics on a substrate, to coat gradation range layers of decreasing thickness without distributions, and to coat films on a plurality of substrates at the same time. The gradation range layer is formed by sputtering evaporation targets... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080309996 - Surface relief volume reflective diffractive structure: Disclosed is a surface relief structure. The structure includes a recording medium configured to be structurally modified when exposed to interfering and non-interfering portions of radiation beams, the structurally modified recording medium including, when viewed in a two-dimensional cross-section along one of the axes of the recording medium a plurality... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080309998 - Hologram element deflecting optical beam, hologram element fabricating apparatus, hologram element fabricating method, deflection optical unit, and information recording apparatus and information reconstructing apparatus using deflection optical unit: An optical beam emitted from a laser light source is converted by a spatial filter to have a desired beam diameter, and converted by a collimate lens into a collimated beam. The optical beam rendered to be a collimated beam has its intensity adjusted by an ND filter. The optical... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080309997 - Hologram screen: The holographic screen includes a diamond-like carbon (DLC) layer (22). The DLC layer has a modulated refractive index structure including a plurality of regions with a relatively high refractive index (n1) and a plurality of regions with a relatively low refractive index (n2) such that light projected from a projector... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080309999 - Holographic recording device: A holographic recorder (A1) can vary the optical distance between an object lens (8) and a relay lens (7b) near the object lens (8). This arrangement allows defocus-multiplexing utilizing state variations in the laser beam when the beam reaches a storage medium (B1).... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080310000 - Quantum coherent systems and operations: Nonlinear elements can efficiently implement quantum information processing systems such as controlled phase shifters, non-absorbing detectors including parity detectors, quantum subspace projections, non-absorbing Bell state analyzers, non-absorbing encoders/entanglers, and fundamental quantum gates such as CNOT gates. The non-absorbing detectors permit improvements in the efficiency of a probabilistic quantum gate by... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080310001 - Devices, systems and methods for actuating a moveable miniature platform: An actuatable platform system may include a platform assembly coupled to a support element through a ball-and-socket joint. The system may also include a sensor for determining a position of the platform assembly.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080310002 - Scanning type image display apparatus: In a scanning type image display apparatus, in which the shape of a reflecting surface of a mirror as a scanning unit and the spot shape of a light beam on the reflecting surface are adapted to each other to reduce the mirror size and increase the resonance frequency of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080310004 - Adjustable pulse-shaper: An optical pulse-shaper includes a prism, a delay line having positive optical power and a reflective spatial light modulator. In one arrangement the delay line has a selectively variable optical path length for accommodating pulses of different spectral bandwidth and positive optical power is provided by a concave mirror. In... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080310003 - Turning film, display apparatus, and process:

20080310005 - Thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements: Electro-optic elements are becoming commonplace in a number of vehicular and architectural applications. Various electro-optic element configurations provide variable transmittance and or variable reflectance for windows and mirrors. The present invention relates to various thin-film coatings, electro-optic elements and assemblies incorporating these elements.... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt, & Litton, LLP/gentex Corporation

20080310006 - Blind connector for rearview mirror: A rearview mirror assembly comprising a rear housing section with wiring connected to a first electrical connection device and a circuit board with a second electrical connection device, with first electrical connection device and the second electrical connection device being configured to automatically mate when the circuit board and the... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt, & Litton, LLP/gentex Corporation

20080310007 - Laminated electrochromic devices and processes for forming the same: This invention discloses pre-formed electrochromic films that are used in assembly of electrochromic devices. These films are laminated to conductive substrates to form the electrochromic devices. The invention also discloses optical characteristics of the substrates for imparting durability to the electrochromic devices from solar radiation... Agent: Lawrence R. Oremland, P.C.

20080310008 - Method of patterning mechanical layer for mems structures: A method of making a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device is disclosed. The method includes forming a stationary layer over a substrate. A sacrificial layer is formed over the stationary layer. The sacrificial layer is formed of a first material. A mechanical layer is formed over the sacrificial layer. A hard... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080310009 - Device for trapping or stretching microscopic substance and method thereof: m

20080310010 - Light source device and projector: A light source device includes a light source having a plurality of light emitting sections, a plurality of wavelength conversion elements each having a periodic polarization inversion structure, and for converting wavelengths of light beams emitted from the plurality of light emitting sections into predetermined wavelengths, a temperature control medium... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080310011 - Optical surge suppressive type optical amplifier: According to an optical surge suppressive type optical amplifier in the present invention, for a WDM optical amplifier having a multi-stages amplification configuration in which a plurality of optical amplifying means is connected in series, an optical amplifying medium capable of causing a homogeneous up-conversion (HUC) phenomenon is applied to... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080310013 - Semiconductor optical amplifier pulse reshaper: A method and system includes a pulse reshaper for reshaping and re-amplifying optical signals in a communications network. In one embodiment, a vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifier (VCSOA) device, comprising dual mode reflectors optically cooperating at each of an input signal wavelength (λs) and an offset wavelength (λC) proximate the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080310012 - Semiconductor optical amplifying device, semiconductor optical amplifying system and semiconductor optical integrated element: A polarization-independent SOA having an InP substrate used as a semiconductor substrate, and an active layer taking an MQW structure formed of a barrier layer made of GaInAs with tensile strain applied thereto and a well layer made of GaInNAs with no strain applied thereto alternately laminated in a plurality... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080310014 - Catadioptric projection objective: p

20080310015 - Microscope and pinching prevention apparatus for a microscope: The present invention relates to a microscope (1). The microscope (1) comprises a microscope stand (3) and a component (8) arranged movably relative to the microscope stand (3). The microscope stand (3) and the movably arranged component (8) each comprise a surface (11, 10). A gap (9) that can be... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080310016 - Optical apparatus and imaging method: This is an optical apparatus provided with an objective with a correction collar for correcting aberration due to an error in the optical thickness of a piece of cover glass comprising a focusing mechanism for changing a distance between the objective and the sample, an optical thickness detecting unit for... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080310017 - Microscope for observing a sample in the bright field illumination by transmitted light or in fluorescence-contrast epi-illumination: A microscope for observing an object selectably using the bright-field transmitted light contrast procedure or the incident-light fluorescence contrast procedure. During the bright-field transmitted light contrast procedure, an illumination beam path is directed from a bright-field light source to the object and an imaging beam path is directed from the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080310018 - Split screen discrete viewing apparatus and method: The invention is an apparatus and method for allowing multiple individuals to view discrete images while remaining in close proximity to each other. It encompasses a split screen polarized lens, with alternate polarization portions, fitting over a viewing monitor and pairs of corresponding polarized glasses. Each pair of polarized glasses... Agent: Calhoun "reb" Thomas, Iii

20080310020 - Polarizing plate: A polarizing plate comprises at least two transparent substrates spaced apart and facing one another, and at least two polarizers provided between an outermost-positioned first transparent substrate and another outermost-positioned second transparent substrate, such that all the polarizers are sealed so as not to be in contact with outer air.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080310019 - Refractive index decrement film, polarizing member having the same and display device having the same: A refractive index decrement film, includes: a transparent base layer; a plurality of refraction decreasing layers that is formed on the base layer and has different refractive indices, where the refraction decreasing layers closer to the base layer have a relatively high refractive index and the refraction decreasing layers farther... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080310021 - Opposed window pairing for limited viewing there through: A combination includes a first window configured to polarize light passing there through in a first plane; and a second window configured to polarize light passing there through in a second plane, the second plane being generally orthogonal to the first plane. The first window and the second window are... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080310022 - Imaging apparatus: There is disclosed an imaging apparatus having: (a) a drive mechanism for moving an imaging device subunit having an imaging device in mutually perpendicular first and second directions; (b) a first actuator for moving the imaging device subunit in the first direction; (c) a second actuator for moving the imaging... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080310023 - Method of making an optical system: A diffractive optical element (DOE) corrector for use with three different wavelengths includes a first diffractive element on a first surface of a first material, the first diffractive element diffracting a first wavelength of the three wavelengths, while directing a majority of light of second and third wavelengths of the... Agent: Digital Optics Corporation

20080310024 - Diffraction element: In addition, a reflection type diffraction element exhibiting a good wavelength dependence of diffraction efficiency without being dependent largely on the direction of polarization of an incoming light is provided. A pseudo sawtooth-like diffraction grating is formed in either surface of the transparent substrate, a reflective film is formed on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080310025 - Method for producing a multilayer body and corresponding multilayer body: There is described a process for the production of a multi-layer body (100) having a partially shaped first layer (3m), wherein it is provided that in the process a diffractive first relief structure (4) with a high depth-to-width ratio of the individual structure elements, in particular with a depth-to-width ratio... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080310026 - Optical member, optical system using the optical member, and method of manufacturing an optical member: Provides is an optical member capable of keeping a high performance antireflection effect over a long period of time with respect to an arbitrary substrate. The optical member has plural layers on a substrate, and includes at least one metal oxide layer having a void, and at least one layer... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080310027 - Light source: An apparatus for coupling radiation of individual laser diode emitters into a common optical fiber is disclosed. The radiation is collimated along fast axis and combined by using crossed pairs of flat mirrors. The combined beams are collimated by a common slow axis collimating lens. The laser diode emitters are... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080310028 - Near field lens for a light assembly: The present invention provides a near field lens for an automotive light assembly. The lens comprises a main body having a radial collimating portion formed as a rotation about a central axis. A light-collecting faces defines pocket in the main body and receives light from the light source. The radial... Agent: Visteon/brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080310029 - Method for improving the imaging properties of a projection objective, and such a projection objective: The invention relates to a method -for improving the imaging properties of a micro lithography projection objective (50), wherein the projection objective has a plurality of lenses (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8) between an object plane and an image plane, a first lens of the plurality of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080310030 - Microscope objective: e

20080310031 - Variable lens: The invention relates to a variable lens for controlling electromagnetic radiation that interacts with said lens in a controlled manner. The lens includes a container; a first dielectric fluid that is held in the container; a second dielectric fluid that is held in the container, a phase boundary layer between... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080310033 - Zoom lens system and camera equipped with the same: A zoom lens system includes a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, the lens units being arranged in that order from an object side... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080310032 - Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus including the same: A simple, compact, high-zoom-ratio zoom lens system exhibiting high optical performance at all zoom positions is provided. The system includes, in order from the object side to the image side, first to fourth lens groups having positive, negative, positive, and positive refractive powers, respectively. The first-to-second-lens-group distance becomes the smallest... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080310034 - Lens device: A lens device includes a seat unit having an image sensing component, a first barrel unit, a first lens module coupled to the first barrel unit, and a second lens module mounted on the seat unit. When the first barrel unit moves toward the seat unit along an optical axis,... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080310035 - Retractable lens camera: A retractable lens camera includes: a lens barrel; three or more lens groups provided in the lens barrel; a retracting unit that retracts the lens barrel and the lens groups into a camera body; and a displacing unit that displaces at least two lens groups to an escaping space out... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080310036 - Optical element holding structure, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: An optical element holding structure comprises a first holding member holding an optical element, a second holding member holding the first holding member, a third holding member holding the second holding member, first elastic members positioned between the first and second holding members and can elastically deform in the radial... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080310038 - Lens apparatus: Provided is a lens apparatus for driving an optical member based on a demand signal from a demand device, including: a connector for receiving the demand signal from the demand device by wire; a wireless receiver for wirelessly receiving the demand signal from the demand device; and an identifying section... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080310037 - Lens displacement device: The present invention provides a lens displacement device, applicable for moving micro image-capturing module lens, wherein the lens displacement device comprises: a lens slide base, a first hollow magnet, a hollow magnetic conducting plate, a second hollow magnet and a hollow coil. A first magnetic pole side of the hollow... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080310039 - Lens system: A lens system includes a first lens apparatus having a first movable optical member and a first set command unit that changes a drive control parameter for the first movable optical member by performing wireless communication with the first lens apparatus.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080310040 - Mirror angle adjusting device: A mirror angle adjusting device can stably hold a pivot plate (H), while a contact part between the pivot plate (H) and an actuator (A) smoothly slides for a long period of time. The mirror angle adjusting device includes the pivot plate (H) attached to a back side of a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080310041 - Side mirror assembly for a motor vehicle: A side mirror assembly for a motor vehicle includes a base which is fixedly secured to the motor vehicle. A tube is pivotably secured to the base. The tube extends between a pivot end and a distal end. A mirror housing defines a mirror opening and a tube opening. The... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080310042 - Reflector film and production method thereof, and lighting apparatus using the same: A reflector film can have a high heat resistance and can maintain a high reflectance (or effectively prevent the decrease in the reflectance) when overlaid with a particular protective film. A lighting apparatus can also be configured for use with such a reflector film. The reflector film can include a... Agent: Cermak Kenealy & Vaidya, LLP

20080304120 - Hologram recording medium and manufacturing method therefor: A hologram recording medium includes a support substrate, a hologram recording material layer, a transparent gel layer, and a protective substrate. The transparent gel layer is formed of a resin material gelated by cross-linking, or more specifically, such as gelated silicone cross-linked by hydrosilylation or gelated polyurethane cross-linked by polyaddition... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080304121 - Image reading device: An image reading device includes: a conveying unit for conveying an irradiated member that has a hologram area in a conveying direction; a first light source for applying light to an irradiated part in the hologram area; and a second light source separated from the first light source along the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304122 - Hologram recorder: A hologram recorder (A) records holograms in a selected unit recording area (B1) of a hologram recording medium (B) by interference between a recording beam (Lr) which is applied vertically to the unit recording area (B1) and a reference beam (Lr) which is applied obliquely to the unit recording area... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080304123 - Two dimensional optical scanning image system: An ultra high speed miniature two dimensional electro-optic image acquisition system uses prisms of varying geometries to control the amount of horizontal deflection and a Bragg grating to control the amount of vertical deflection. A collimating lens array and a Gaussian profile Bragg grating help confine the beam diameter of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080304124 - Actuator, optical scanner and image forming device: An actuator includes a movable plate having a plate shape, a pair of axial parts that is elastically deformable and supporting the movable plate rotatable, and a tension adjuster adjusting tension on an axial direction of the pair of the axial parts and including a torsional axis that is formed... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080304125 - System and method of the optical delay line: This invention provides a system and a method of the optical delay line, wherein the system comprises a source and an array of mirrors, wherein the array of mirrors comprises a first reflective mirror, a second reflective mirror, a third reflective mirror, and a fourth reflective mirror. Beams from the... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080304126 - Variable aperture and actuator assemblies for an imaging system: Variable aperture and actuator assemblies are provided for a radiation detector housing in an imaging system. The variable aperture assembly includes a ring mounted over the housing's window, a plate having a first aperture disposed over the window, an aperture blade operatively coupled to the ring so the blade moves... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080304127 - Non-fourier pulse-shapers including a combined pulse-shaper and pulse-compressor: A pulse-shaper for temporally shaping an optical pulse includes a prism or a grism arranged to disperse the optical pulse into a diverging fan of spectral-component rays. The fan of spectral-component rays is collimated by a lens or another grism. The collimated spectral-component rays are selectively modulated by a spatial-light-modulator... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080304128 - Speckle reduction by angular scanning for laser projection displays: The present invention provides a system (200) (300) (700) (800) and method for the reduction of speckle by applying a moving mirror (202) in the light engine of a projector. By imaging the mirror surface onto the entrance face of a multimode wave-guide (204), the beam enters the wave-guide (204)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080304129 - Electric-field-driving reflective display apparatus: An electric-field-driving reflective display apparatus is provided. The electric-field-driving reflective display apparatus includes a barrier wall which has a plurality of driving grooves and first and second surfaces, a reflecting member which is disposed within the driving groove and has an electric charge, a first electrode which is disposed on... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080304130 - Electrochromic device and method of making the same: An electrochromic device includes a first conductive layer, a dual-layer ion conductor layer, and a second conductive layer. The first ion conductor layer and the second ion conductor layer are formed from different materials and/or by different processes. The layers are deposited using PVD, CVD, or plating techniques.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080304131 - Electrochromic devices and fabrication methods: An electrochromic device includes a first conductive layer, a single-layer or dual-layer ion conductor layer, and a second conductive layer. The layers are deposited using PVD, CVD, PECVD, atomic layer deposition, pulsed laser deposition, plating, or sol-gel techniques.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080304132 - Electrochromic device with improved display properties and fabrication method thereof: Disclosed are an electrochromic device and a method for fabricating the same. The electrochromic device comprises a transparent electrode, on which an electrochromic layer is formed, a counter electrode on which a reflective layer is formed, and an electrolyte layer interposed between the transparent electrode and the counter electrode. Since... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080304133 - Photoelastic modulator system: A photoelastic modulator (PEM) has two parts (11, 13) of the same or dissimilar cross sections, joined together to form an abrupt junction (16). A transducer, for which the natural oscillation is at the half acoustic wavelength mode, excites a longitudinal standing wave of high purity in the PEM. A... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080304134 - Color filter substrate, electrophoretic display device having the same, and method of manufacturing the same: A color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a color filter layer and an electrophoretic layer. A partition wall section is formed on a first surface of the base substrate. The partition wall section divides the base substrate into a transparent area and a light-blocking area to define a pixel... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080304135 - In-plane switching electrophoretic display: A pixel having an upper substrate and a base carrier disposed opposite each other; a dielectric fluid with dispersed electrophoretic particles filled in a gap between the upper substrate and the base carrier; a wall disposed on at least one of the upper substrate and the base carrier between adjacent... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080304136 - Optical parametric oscillator: There is provided an optical parametric oscillator capable of converting a wavelength in a broader range and generating an output beam with high efficiency. The optical parametric oscillator includes: a non-linear optical material optical parametrically converting a beam pumped from a laser; and input and output optical devices opposing each... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080304137 - Light source apparatus: The invention relates to a light source apparatus having a structure for effectively suppressing a negative effect due to a nonlinear effect generated in propagation of an amplifying light, and realizing a stable operation. In the light source apparatus, light amplified in an optical amplifier fiber is emitted to the... Agent: Venable LLP

20080304138 - Optical amplifier comprising a pump module: In one aspect, an optical amplifier including a pump module, preferably for amplifying channels of a WDM-signal is provided. The outlet thereof is connected to an amplifying fibre wherein signal radiation formed by optical signals is amplified. In order to amplify the optical signals with minimum gain spectrum difference, i.e.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080304139 - Laser phase difference detecting device and laser phase control device: A phase difference detecting device includes a splitter for splitting laser beams into a first group which will travel along a first path and a second group which will travel along a second path, a beam selection/extraction unit for selecting, as reference light, one beam from the first group to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080304140 - Switchable infrared filter: The invention relates to a switchable infrared filter, consisting of a diamond carrier material (1), whereon a filter material (6), which is made of a thermochromic material, is disposed on one side and which can be connected to a heating device (2, 3).... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080304141 - Optical image converter arrangement: The invention relates to an optical image converter system to be used in video cameras. The image converter system comprises a recording lens that is to be oriented towards an object and generates a real intermediate image of the object with a defined image size and depth of focus on... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080304142 - Movement platform for carrier with 5 degrees of freedom: A movement platform provided with a carrier (2) and at least as three spaced apart clamping means (3), wherein the clamping means each clamp the carrier at a contact point (13) and at least one globular contact surface (14) of the carrier, while at least one clamping means is provided... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080304143 - Mini-scope for multi-directional imaging: A mini-scope for multi-directional imaging is disclosed. The mini-scope includes an elongated mini-scoped body. An emissions aperture is disposed on the distal end of the elongated mini-scope body, which can be configured to emit a beam of optical energy propagating through a flexible optical conductor. A selective mirror is also... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080304144 - Surgical microscope having an oct-system: A surgical microscope (100) has viewing beams (109a, 109b) passing through a microscope imaging optic which includes a microscope main objective system (101) having a magnification system of variable magnification. The microscope imaging optic transposes a convergent viewing beam (109a, 109b) from the object region (114) into a parallel beam.... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20080304145 - Inverted microscope: An inverted microscope includes a lens holding mechanism which holds an objective lens arranged under a sample and used to form an observation image of the sample; a focusing mechanism which holds the lens holding mechanism on its upper part and moves the objective lens up and down together with... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080304146 - Microscope system for fcs measurements: A microscope system for conducting FCS measurements. The system includes an illuminating light source configured to emit an illuminating light at an illuminating wavelength. A target light source is provided and configured to emit a target light for marking an FCS volume in a sample volume at a target wavelength.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080304147 - Microscope system: A microscope system that is capable of changing a status of observation of a sample comprises an instruction unit for giving instruction for driving one or more optical members including an objective lens or for changing a relative position of the sample and the objective lens; and an image capturing... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080304148 - Binoculars having diopter adjustment: Binoculars include first and second lens barrels. A bridge interconnects the lens barrels. First and second optical systems are accommodated in respectively the lens barrels. First and second focus lenses are included in respectively the first and second optical systems, for focus adjustment by moving in an optical axis direction.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080304149 - Discontinuous or variable thickness gain modification coating for projection film and method for making same: The present invention relates to projection films and methods of making the same. In particular, the present invention relates to a projection film whereby the microspheres exhibit improved alignment on the light exit surface and have alignment on the light entrance surface that varies according to the individual microsphere diameter.... Agent: Timothy E. Manning Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080304150 - Screen and projection system using the same: A front screen with a simple construction provides a wide viewing angle towards the desired direction, realization of an image projection system. The front screen that is utilized in present invention comprising a directional diffusing layer that transmits and diffuses incoming light from a specified angular range and linearly transmits... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq Adams & Wilks

20080304151 - Stereoscopic image display: A stereoscopic image displaying apparatus including: an image generating section emitting right eye image light and left eye image light as linear polarized light having parallel polarization axes; and a polarization axis controlling plate that includes first and second polarizing regions that, when the right eye image light and the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080304152 - Element for homogenizing the illumination with simultaneous setting of the polarization degree: Element for homogenizing the illumination with simultaneous setting of the polarization degree, wherein the element consists of at least two components. The first component is a microlens array, and the second component is a filter for setting the desired polarization.... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080304153 - Optical element and projection display device: An optical element, includes: a diffractive functional layer which diffracts at least part of incident light; and a grid formed on a first surface of the diffractive functional layer, the grid including a plurality of fine wires and having a polarization separation function; wherein the optical element reflects a part... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080304154 - Voice coil module: The present invention relates to a voice coil module (VCM), and more particularly, to a VCM used for lens fixation and displacement measurement in order to prevent and control power consumption. Accordingly, in the VCM, power is not additionally consumed in order to maintain a specific position of the lens... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080304155 - Optical element, method for producing same, replica substrate configured to form optical element, and method for producing replica substrate: An optical element includes a base and many structures arranged at a fine pitch on a surface of the base, each of the structures being in the form of a projection or a depression, in which the structures constitute a plurality of arc tracks, and the structures in every three... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080304156 - Solid-state imaging device and signal processing method: A solid-state imaging device including a color filter having a filter characteristic more approaching to a human visual sensitivity is provided. The color filter including a group of dielectric layers has high-refractive-index-material films and low-refractive-index-material films, the high-refractive-index-material film and the low-refractive-index-material film being n films and (n−1) films, lo... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080304157 - Chromatic dispersion compensation device and method: A chromatic dispersion compensator whereby the amount of dispersion and the group delay time can be easily adjusted. A dispersion unit, a transmitting lens and a group delay generation unit are arranged along the optical axis of incident light. The dispersion unit separates the incident light into beams of respective... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080304158 - Highly efficient organic light-emitting device using substrate or electrode having nanosized half-spherical convex and method for preparing the same: The present invention provides a transparent substance formed with a plurality of continuous half-spherical convexes having a diameter of 25˜1,000 nm on its first main surface; an organic light-emitting device comprising a substrate, a first electrode, an organic material layer(s) and a second electrode, sequentially, characterized by having a plurality... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080304159 - Electromagnetic wave propagating structure: An electromagnetic wave propagating structure includes a main body having surfaces capable of blocking propagation of an electromagnetic wave, and including an incident side and an exit side opposite to the incident side in a wave-propagating direction. The main body is formed with two wave-propagating channels that are spaced apart... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080304160 - Variable focus lens package: Proposed is a variable focus lens package (2) including lens (31, 75) as covers, which covers are provided as moulded replica layers (31, 75) on a substrate (30, 74) and are provided with integral alignment means (33, 77).... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080304162 - Zoom lens and image projection apparatus having the same: o

20080304161 - Zoom lens and image sensing apparatus: A zoom lens for forming an optical image of an object on a sensing surface of an image sensor at a variable magnification has first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens groups with positive-negative-positive-negative-positive zoom arrangement. Between the second lens group and the fourth lens group, an optical aperture stop... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080304163 - Three-unit zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus having three-unit zoom lens system: A three-unit zoom lens system includes in order from an object side thereof, a first lens unit having a negative refracting power, a second lens unit having a positive refracting power, and a third lens unit having a refracting power. The first lens unit includes a biconcave negative lens component... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080304164 - Composite lens structure: A composite lens structure is disclosed. The composite lens structure includes a diffusion plate and an optical structure formed on the diffusion plate. The optical structure includes a plurality of convex portions arranged in a 2-D matrix along a first direction and a second direction and a plurality of concave... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080304165 - Fixed-focus lens: A fixed-focus lens including a first lens group, a second lens group and a third lens group, which are arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side, is provided. The first lens group has a negative refractive power and includes three lenses arranged from the object side... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080304166 - Image pickup lens and image pickup device: f

20080304167 - Zoom lens system and image-sensing apparatus having image shake correcting capability: A zoom lens system having an image shake correcting capability has, from the object side to the image side: a first lens group having a positive optical power, a second lens group having a negative optical power, a third lens group having a positive optical power, a fourth lens group... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080304168 - System and method for focal length stabilization using active temperature control: An optical metrological system having a heat-generating light source coaxially mounted near a heat-sensitive lens. The system uses a temperature sensor to monitor the lens temperature and a heating element to heat the lens such that the lens operating temperature is greater than a maximum operating temperature of the light... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080304169 - Lens actuating apparatus: A lens actuating apparatus includes a fixed part, a moving part and at least one flexible part. The moving part is movably located on the fixed part. The flexible part has four contacting portions that form a hollow enclosed body. Two contacting portions that are located at the diagonal direction... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20080304170 - Exterior mirror element with integral wide angle portion: A mirror reflective element for an exterior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle includes a mirror substrate having a front surface and a rear surface. The mirror substrate has a first reflector portion and a second reflector portion, with the first reflector portion having a principal reflector portion of the... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080304171 - Multi-faced conversation mirror: A conversation mirror assembly is provided for use in passenger compartments of motor vehicles. The conversation mirror assembly includes a mirror housing having a mirror support surface. A first conversation mirror face biased toward the driver is fitted to the mirror support surface. A second conversation mirror face biased toward... Agent: Butzel Long

20080297864 - Use of holographic sensor to determine sterilisation: In a method of determining the effectiveness of a sterilization procedure using a biological indicator, the biological indicator comprises a holographic sensor and spores or an enzyme. The method and the biological indicator rely on the holographic sensor to indicate the effectiveness of me sterilisation procedure and do not require... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080297865 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, recording apparatus, and recording method: A reproducing apparatus, reproducing method, recording and reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, recording apparatus, and recording method are provided. A reproducing apparatus reproduces data from a hologram recording medium in which data inserted with syncs at predetermined intervals is recorded in each predetermined page unit by interference fringes of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080297866 - Hologram optical element, fabrication method thereof, and image display apparatus: A volume-phase reflection hologram optical element is fabricated by exposing a hologram photosensitive material to two coherent light beams. One exposure light beam has an axis-asymmetric wavefront, and the other exposure light beam has focus points different in the optical axis direction (Z-direction) between on a plane (ZX-plane) including one... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080297867 - Method for adjusting drive characteristics of scanner driver of galvanometric scanner: A scanner driver of a galvanometric scanner system includes an analog drive circuit; a control unit 31 for storing and holding optimized data formed from combinations of optimal values of circuit constants set in advance in accordance with a plurality of drive modes of a galvanometric scanner; and an electronic... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080297868 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus capable of displaying an image on a plane of projection by beam raster scanning associated with resonant oscillation in a horizontal scanning direction (the main scanning direction), includes a resonance-point detector for detecting a mechanical resonant frequency in the horizontal scanning direction. Out of frequencies that... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080297869 - Oscillator device and drive control method for oscillation system of oscillator device: An oscillator device includes an oscillation system having at least one oscillator configured to oscillate, the oscillation system having a plurality of natural oscillation modes with a plurality of frequencies which frequencies are mutually in a relationship of integral-number ratio, a driving system configured to drive the at least one... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080297870 - Optical scanning device: An optical scanning device including a light source, a deflection device to deflect a light beam from the light source, an image focus optical system to focus the light beam deflected by the deflection device on a scanned surface to form an image thereon and scan a surface by the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080297871 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same: An optical scanning device includes plural light source devices, a deflecting device having deflecting surfaces, an input optical system and a plurality of imaging optical systems, wherein a plurality of scan surfaces are simultaneously scanned by the deflecting device, wherein each of the plurality of imaging optical systems includes at... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080297872 - Optical beam scanning device, optical beam scanning method: There is provided a technique in which in an optical beam scanning device, optical characteristics can be suitably corrected according to a change in environmental temperature. The optical beam scanning device is configured to shape a divergent light from a light source into a light flux having a specified sectional... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080297873 - Optical beam scanning device, optical beam scanning method: There is provide a technique in which in an optical beam scanning device, optical characteristics can be suitably corrected according to a change in environmental temperature. The optical beam scanning device is configured to shape a divergent light from a light source into a light flux having a specified sectional... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080297875 - Piezoelectric driving device and method thereof and optical modulating device using the same: Disclosed are a piezoelectric driving device and a driving method thereof, and an optical modulating device using the same. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the optical modulating device can include an optical modulator, having a piezoelectric element causing a displacement object to be displaced by being... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080297874 - Spatial light modulator: A high contrast spatial light modulator for display and printing is fabricated by coupling a high active reflection area fill-ratio and non-diffractive micro-mirror array with a high electrostatic efficiency and low surface adhesion control substrate.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080297876 - Projector: The projector has an intensity-modulable light source to emit a light beam onto a projection surface, as well as an optical switch connected after the light source for intensity modulation of the light beam emitted by the light source, and a control unit to control intensity modulation of the light... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080297877 - Image display device, image display method, and image display program: An image display device having an optical modulation element, which modulates light emitted from a light source according to display information, and displaying a display image based on the display information includes: a unit adjusting the amount of illumination light with respect to light emitted from the light source on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080297878 - Compositions, methods and systems for making and using electronic paper: The present invention is a device, method and system for making a display and displaying information that includes a fibrous organic substrate, e.g., multiribbon cellulose or cellulose substrate, and a variable reflectivity dye disposed in the fibrous substrate, wherein the reflectivity of the dye is modulated in situ. The display... Agent: Chalker Flores, LLP

20080297879 - Electrochromic rearview mirror assembly incorporating a display/signal light: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electrochromic rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes an electrochromic mirror having a variable reflectivity, a glare sensor for sensing levels of light directed towards the front element from the rear of the vehicle, an ambient sensor for sensing levels of... Agent: Brian J. Rees Gentex Corporation

20080297880 - Display capable electrowetting light valve: The invention relates to light transmissive, transflective, or reflective flat panel display devices and, more specifically, to light emissive flat panel displays constructed from high performance electrowetting light valve (ELV) devices (10a-g). An array of ELV devices (10a-g) is mounted on or adjacent to a backlight (11), employing a reflector... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080297881 - Information display panel and information display device: Disclosed is a panel for information display wherein one or more display media are sealed between two opposite substrates at least one of which is transparent and information such as an image is displayed by moving the display media using the electric field generated in the substrates. A multilayer substrate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080297882 - Apparatus and method for controlling optics propagation based on a transparent metal stack: A device and method of optics propagation and signal control integrated with micro-electro-mechanical-switches (MEMS). This device modifies optical transmission properties of a transparent multilayer metal stack by mechanically varying the thickness of an air gap between layers in the stack This is accomplished by utilizing MEMS coupled with the stack... Agent: Venable LLP

20080297883 - Raman amplifier structure: A Raman amplifier structure (121, 221) for optically amplifying an input optical signal comprises an optical means (22) through which the optical signal is propagated, a first pump optical source (10) for generating a first pump radiation and at least one second pump optical source (24, 27) for generating a... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080297884 - Projection objective and projection exposure apparatus for microlithography: Projection objective, projection exposure apparatuses and related systems and components are disclosed.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080297885 - Dual band night vision device: A night vision device provides both an amplified visible light image and an infrared image, overlayed upon each other so that they appear to be a single image. A user may select to utilize either an intensified visual image only, an infrared image only, or ratios of both images simultaneously.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080297886 - Interference filter and method for producing it: The invention is based on the object of providing UV interference filters having improved long-term stability. For this purpose, a method for producing a dielectric transmission interference filter is provided, in which an alternating layer system having the constituents magnesium fluoride, lead fluoride and antimony oxide is produced on a... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080297888 - Apparatus and method for curing of uv-protected uv-curable monomer and polymer mixtures: Methods are disclosed for curing UV-curable monomers and monomer/polymer mixtures that are in an environment in which they are protected from UV radiation.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080297887 - Lens array sheet and method for manufacturing same: A lens array sheet is provided. The lens array sheet includes: a transparent sheet-like lens side base material 140; a plurality of lenses formed on one surface of the lens side base material 140; a transparent sheet-like light shielding base material 160 which is laminated on the rear surface of... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080297889 - Catadioptric projection objective: l

20080297890 - Observation apparatus: Various kinds of observation can be accurately realized using different types of image-acquisition unit. Low-magnification observation is possible and return light from a single specimen is acquired by a plurality of image-acquisition units. The invention provides an observation apparatus including an illumination light source for emitting illumination light for irradiating... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080297891 - Microscope and method of providing image data using the same: A microscope includes optics configured to direct beams onto an object including a reflective material, a detector configured to receive a field spectrum formed by beams reflected by the object, and a calculator configured to reconstruct an image of the object from the field spectrum detected by the detector.... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080297892 - Surgical microscope having an illuminating arrangement: A surgical microscope (100) has an illuminating arrangement (110) which can guide illuminating light to the object region (105) with a first illuminating beam path (111) and with a second illuminating beam path (112). A light exit unit is provided in the first illuminating beam path (111). An illuminating field... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20080297893 - Pressure sensitive positioning projection screen: A pressure sensitive positioning projection screen is provided for displaying a first projected image and providing a coordinate signal of a pressed position. The pressure sensitive positioning projection screen comprises a screen body having a first and a second insulation layers, a plurality of mutually separated and isolated first electrodes... Agent: Haverstock And Owens LLP

20080297894 - Display device: Disclosed is a display device including an image source unit shaped like a plate to form an image; and an image magnifying unit including a plurality of light transfer members each extended in a first direction and arrayed in a second direction transverse to the first direction, each light transfer... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080297895 - Reflective screen and display system: A disclosed reflective screen is configured to display an image projected from a projection device located within a short distance. The reflective screen comprises a first reflective surface configured to reflect, in a substantially same direction, projection light beams projected from a first position, and a second reflective surface configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080297896 - Switchable lens systems and methods of manufacturing such systems: Switchable lens systems and methods of manufacturing switchable lens systems are provided. A representative switchable lens system includes an imaging area and a seal line. The imaging area includes a first glass plate, a second glass plate and a lenticular structure. The lenticular structure is arranged in between the first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080297897 - Stereoscopic display and phase different plate: A stereoscopic display is provided. The stereoscopic display includes: an image displaying section that generates a right eye image and a left eye image and emits the same; and a phase differential plate disposed on an exit side of the image displaying section that orthogonalizes to each other or rotates... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080297898 - Controlling light transmission in a vehicle with polarization and ellipticity adjustment: Light transmission in a vehicle may be controlled using a system that includes a linear polarizing means and an ellipticity increaser associated with a display in the vehicle. The ellipticity increaser is configured and oriented with respect to the linear polarizing means for increasing the ellipticity of light passing from... Agent: Law Office Of John C. Mcmahon

20080297899 - Camera module: A camera module that can obtain a clear image even in the case where dust is generated inside the camera module due to a shock applied thereto is provided. The camera module includes a base and a cover attached to the base so as to define a space therebetween in... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080297900 - Reflective accessories: Reflective accessories for increasing the visibility of persons engaged in night-time (or other low-light) activities. Reflective accessories include a mechanism configured for attachment of the accessory to an object associated with the person engaging in a low-light activity by looping the accessory around at least a portion of the object... Agent: Dascenzo Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080297901 - Zoom lens system, optical apparatus, and method for forming an image: Providing a zoom lens system having a high zoom ratio being compact with high optical performance. The system includes, in order from an object along an optical axis, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, at least one lens... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080297902 - Compact infrared spectrometer, and methods and systems for manufacture and assembly of components used in same: A compact spectrometer operable in a wavelength range of 4.5 or more microns includes an entrance slit, a collimating mirror, a grating, a focusing mirror and a first focal plane. At least some radiation passing through the slit follows an optical path in which at least some radiation passing through... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080297903 - Method for driving piezoelectric element or optical modulator including piezoelectric element: Disclosed are a method for driving a piezoelectric element or an optical modulator including a piezoelectric element and a recorded medium recorded with a program for executing the same. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the method for driving a piezoelectric element causing a displacement object to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080297904 - Method for combination of light of different wavelengths: A method for dividing substantially nonpolarized white light into three substantially nonpolarized fractions includes splitting the substantially nonpolarized white light into a first fraction and a second fraction, the first fraction being substantially nonpolarized light of a first wavelength interval and the second fraction of substantially nonpolarized light of a... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20080297905 - Optical filter, plasma display device including the optical filter, and method of forming the optical filter: An optical filter includes a base film and at least two conductive layers stacked on the base film, a first conductive layer of the two conductive layers having a first thickness and a first refractive index, and a second conductive layer of the two conductive layers having a second thickness... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080297906 - Anisotropic diffusion film: An anisotropic diffusion film has a high brightness, high luminance uniformity ratio and a high productivity, and is suitable essentially for a surface light source of planar display devices for liquid crystal display devices and the like, such as a direct backlight. In the anisotropic diffusion film, a stripe-shaped convex... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080297908 - Optical sheet and display unit using the same: Provided is a contrast enhancing sheet having an excellent bright room contrast function and laid on the screen of a display unit, comprising a plurality of light transmitting portions each having a trapezoid-like sectional shape in a predetermined direction, and a plurality of light absorbing portions each having a wedge-like... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080297907 - Seamless molded reflectant material: A reflector device for reflecting light from an LED and the like is provided. The reflector device comprises a reflectant material and a three-dimensional reflector formed from the reflectant material with the reflector having a top and a base and the reflector being entirely free from seams from the top... Agent: Emery L. Tracy

20080297909 - Reflective occulting mask and method for manufacturing the reflective occulting mask: A optical instrument (e.g., coronagraph) is described herein that has a pick-off mirror with a surface having an array of reflective structures (reflective occulting mask) machined therein which enables an optical image of one or more low intensity objects (e.g., planets) to be obtained when the low intensity object(s) are... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20080297910 - Micro-lens arrays and curved surface fabrication techniques: A method of fabricating a sub-millimeter scale curved surface on a substrate (10) includes cutting a plurality of trenches (12) of varying depth into the substrate (10). The depth of the trenches (12) corresponds to a desired surface profile. The substrate (10) is etched to remove material left (16) between... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080297911 - Liquid-lens variable-control optics in array microscope: A liquid lens includes a segmented electrode that allows the simultaneous application of different potentials across the lens's meniscus to obtain a predetermined aberration correction condition and to adjust focal length as necessary to conform to the topography of the object being scanned. The lens also includes a gas plenum... Agent: Antonio R. Durando

20080297912 - Vario-astigmatic beam expander: A vario-astigmatic beam expander is capable of collimating an astigmatic light beam, or inducing astigmatism in a well-collimated beam, by passing the light beam through a combination of spherical and cylindrical lenses, whereby both the degree of astigmatism and the axis of astigmatism induced are continuously adjustable. The beam expander... Agent: Electro Scientific Industries/stoel Rives, LLP

20080297913 - Zoom lens system: v

20080297914 - Zoom lens system:

20080297915 - 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: the first lens unit comprises a first lens element having a concave surface at least on the image side and negative power... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080297916 - 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: the first lens unit comprises a first lens element having a concave surface at least on the image side and negative power... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080297917 - 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: the first lens unit comprises a first lens element having a concave surface at least on the image side and negative power... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080297918 - Side emitting lens, and backlight unit and liquid crystal display including the same: The present invention provides a side emitting lens that may reduce optical loss and improve light emitting ratios, and a backlight unit and liquid crystal display including the side emitting lens. The side emitting lens may have a substantially dome-shaped body. The body includes a base part on which external... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080297919 - Bonded optical element: In a bonded optical element, a second optical element is bonded to a first optical element by forming the second optical element by heating and pressing against the first optical element a second optical element material. The first optical element is a concave lens. A bonded face of an intermediate... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080297920 - Bonded optical element: In a bonded optical element, a second optical element is bonded to a first optical element by forming the second optical element by heating and pressing against the first optical element a second optical element material. The second optical element includes an element body part and a contact part extending... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080297921 - Optical axis tilting device of laser optical system: An optical axis tilting device of a laser optical system, includes a lens barrel inside of which provided with a laser optical system; a tilt frame supported at the lens barrel; a tilt sensor which is provided at the tilt frame and is configured to detect a preset reference position... Agent: Chapman And Cutler

20080297922 - Mobile lens unit with detection device: A lens unit including a lens barrel for receiving at least one lens, a motor arranged to displace the lens barrel between an initial position and a maximum displacement, wherein the displacement of a lens barrel is proportional to the level of an electrical signal applied to the motor when... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080297923 - Piezoelectric actuator and lens driving device: There are provided a piezoelectric actuator and a lens driving apparatus having the piezoelectric actuator. The lens driving device includes: a lens barrel having a lens hole where at least one lens is disposed, and having a tip friction member on an outer surface thereof; a base having a guiding... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080297924 - Lens barrel and camera: A small-sized lens barrel and camera have the following configuration. The lens barrel has a first barrel, a second barrel movable between retracted position retracted in the inner diameter side of the first barrel and shooting position shifted toward the incident side in an optical axis direction with respect to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080297925 - Camera module: An exemplary camera module includes a lens module and a lens holder. The lens module is coupled with the lens holder using threads. The thread coupling section between the lens module and the lens holder is filled with a damping oil for sealing the thread coupling section.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080297926 - Movement preventing structure for color separation prism: A movement preventing structure for a color separation prism prevents or reduces the movement in an optical axis direction of the color separation prism caused by the thermal expansion or contraction of a color separation prism supporting member. In the movement preventing structure for a color separation prism, in which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080297927 - Vehicle outside mirror device: In a vehicle outside mirror device, a gear case of a casing has an engagement portion with which a shaft bearing member engages so as not to be movable in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of a shaft. In addition, the gear case and a cover of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080297928 - Low mass optical device and method: An optical device includes a structure defining an enclosed volume that is empty or filled with a non-solid, such as an aerogel or a gas, within which reflective surfaces bounce incoming light back and forth, focusing the light toward an exit aperture. The structure of the device may be formed... Agent: Jonathan A. Platt Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080297929 - Door mounting plate with built-in rear-view mirror function: A device for a vehicle including a support, a control on the support, the control actuatable by a user to control movement of a rear-view mirror, and a selector on the support, the selector being actuatable by the user to select between: a first mode of controlling the rear-view mirror... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080297930 - Security rear-view mirror for the opening of the vehicle rear door: Security rearview mirror for the opening of the vehicle rear door, set to show the outer, side and back area of a car while proceeding with the opening of the rear door by the occupant of the back part of the vehicle.... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080297931 - Element for use on the transparent surfaces of buildings for eye protection and therapy: Element for the protection and therapy of eyes applied to the transparent vertical surfaces of buildings. The invention is prepared by applying a yellow pigmented filter to the transparent or translucent surfaces of a building in which a subject may be found, and is designed to protect the eyes from... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080297932 - Optical filter and image pickup apparatus: This invention decreases a spectral reflectance in the entire visible wavelength range, to decrease inconveniences in an image such as flare or ghost. A non-reflective periodic layer including a large number of fine uneven periodic structure bodies is formed on a substrate, and an ND film is formed on the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080297933 - Color wheel assembly and color wheel with same: An exemplary color wheel assembly comprises a carrier, a locking member, a color filter unit and an elastic member. The carrier includes a main body, a shaft and a lock-receiving portion. The shaft coaxially protrudes outwardly from the main body. The lock-receiving portion is defined in the shaft. The locking... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080297934 - Optical actuator: An optical actuator is disclosed. The optical actuator includes a seat bearing the optical element, a yoke comprising an end, a suspension system comprising at least one spring sheet connecting the seat and the end, and a driving device moving the seat relative to the yoke. The spring sheet constrains... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC