Optical: systems and elements inventions

20090279152 - Hologram recorder: A hologram recording apparatus includes an objective lens (7) for illuminating a hologram recording medium (B) with a recording beam (S) in a manner such that the recording beam overlaps a reference beam, thereby performing multiple recording of holograms at a portion illuminated with the reference beam and the recording... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090279153 - Hologram recording/reproducing device, hologram recording/reproducing method, and hologram recording medium: The hologram recording/reproducing apparatus is for recording a hologram by emitting a recording beam (S) modulated by a spatial light modulator and a reference beam (R) having a same wavelength as the recording beam onto a hologram recording medium (B) so that the beams overlap each other with polarization direction... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090279154 - Virtual image projector: Systems and methods are provided for projecting a virtual image of an object. A projector mounted on the object for projecting a light beam. A photographic plate is provided that includes an interference pattern imprinted onto at least one surface, wherein the interference pattern manipulates the light to form a... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090279155 - Multiharmonic galvonometric scanning device: A scanning apparatus for a printer or similar instrument. A multiharmonic oscillator is used to provide a composite motion of a laser beam or other light beam to scan an imaging surface. The multiharmonic oscillator may have multiple sections each having a different resonant frequency. One section includes a reflector... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090279156 - Mems scan controller with inherent frequency and method of control thereof: A MEMS scan controller with inherent frequency and a method of control thereof applied to controllers of a MEMS mirror of bidirectional scanning laser printers are disclosed. The amplitude of the MEMS mirror is adjusted by using the inherent frequency so that scan data string is sent within effective scanning... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090279157 - Optical device, image reading apparatus and adjusting method for optical device: An optical device equipped with a mirror which reflects light, include a plurality of first receiving parts that touch one face of one of ends in a lengthwise direction of the mirror; a plurality of first pressing parts that touch a face opposing to the face to which the first... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090279158 - Fluid actuator for digitally controllable microfluidic display: Microfluidic pixels are utilized to produce large format displays (billboards) that are both digitally controllable and are light weight. Each pixel includes a wall having a front (display) surface, and a microfluidic system including a reservoir disposed behind the wall, a colorant fluid, a transparent display chamber disposed in front... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090279159 - Device for confocal illumination of a specimen: A device for confocal observation of a specimen, having a mask, which is located in the illumination beam path and the image beam path and is rotatable around a central axis, the mask being provided with openings for generating an illumination pattern moving on the specimen, an arrangement of a... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090279160 - Amorphous polymers with pendant chromogenic groups: Amorphous polymers with chromogenic pendant groups are provided. The amorphous polymers can be used to make elastomeric films and coatings that can be incorporated into laminates and used to make articles such as architectural and vehicular glazing, and in applications such as eyewear, displays and signage.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20090279161 - Active optical filter controlled by magnetic field: An active optical filter transmits or blocks light according to whether or not a magnetic field is applied, and functions as an optical filter transmitting light having a predetermined wavelength when light is transmitted according to a magnetic field. The active optical filter includes: an optical filter layer for transmitting... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090279162 - Photonic mems and structures: An optical device includes a non-transparent substrate. The optical device further includes a first optical layer which is at least partially transmissive and at least partially reflective to incident light. The optical device further includes a second optical layer which is at least partially reflective to incident light. The second... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090279163 - Micromachine structure: A micro-mechanical structure according to the present invention includes: a base 1; an elastic supporting member 5 having elasticity, the elastic supporting member 5 being formed on the base 1; and a movable section supported by the elastic supporting member 5 so as to be capable of making a relative... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090279164 - Bi-directional propagation optical signal regenerator and optical signal regenerating method utilizing optical nonlinear effect: An optical nonlinear medium 1, first and second optical circulators 2, 3 that are connected respectively to a front end and a rear end of the optical nonlinear medium, a first optical amplifier 4 that amplifies an inputted optical signal and causes it to enter the first optical circulator 2,... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20090279165 - Three-terminal optical signal amplifying device: In the three-terminal optical signal amplifying device 10, a portion of the neighboring light LS at other wavelength than that of the first wavelength λ1 that is selected from the output light from the element 14 by the optical add drop filter 16, and the control light LC at the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090279166 - Multi-stage long-band optical amplifier with ase re-use: There is provided a long-band rare-earth-doped optical amplifier and method for amplifying an optical signal. The optical amplifier has a pre-, a mid- and a post-amplification stage. Only the mid-amplification stage is pumped with a pump light source. The other two are pumped using Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) generated in... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20090279167 - Device for amplifying high-energy ultrashort light pulses: A device for amplifying high-energy ultrashort light pulses, includes a generator (1), a first amplifying/time-stretching element (2) including a time-stretching element (3), a regenerative amplifier (4), a multipass amplifier (5) and a compressor (6). The device further includes a second amplifying/time-stretching element (11), arranged at the output of the generator... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090279168 - Adhesive composition for optical filter, optical filter and display device: The object of the invention is to provide an adhesive composition attaining, in a single layer, both adhesiveness capable of direct attachment to a glass plate disposed on the front face of a display device and desired optical filter functions and hardly undergoing the change in spectral characteristics attributable to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090279169 - Relating to scanning confocal microscopy: An assembly (100) and a method are provided for inputting a light beam into a light path extending from the confocal scanning head (102) to the microscope (104) of a scanning confocal microscope system to illuminate a selected region of a sample mounted in the microscope. The assembly comprises a... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090279170 - Surface film for polarizing sheet and polarizing sheet using same: Provided is a surface film for a polarizing plate in which transparent patterns having a non-visible light reflective regularity are printed on a surface of a substrate and in which a reflection preventive layer or an antiglare layer is formed thereon or on a back side thereof, wherein an ink... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20090279171 - Method and apparatus for providing an adjustable optical delay: An optical structure routes radiation from an optical input to an optical output, the radiation being successively reflected by orthogonal first, second and third reflective surfaces of a linearly movable section, and departing the section in a departure direction substantially opposite its arrival direction. The section can move approximately parallel... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090279172 - Microelectromechanical lamellar grating: An optical instrument includes a grating. The grating includes a plurality of plates that form a single first plane. The instrument further includes a mirror surface positioned adjacent to the grating. The mirror surface is positioned in a second plane. In an embodiment, the mirror surface is made of a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090279173 - Apparatus and methods for providing a static interferometric display device: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for fabricating a static interferometric display device. A plurality of sputtering modules is used to form static interferometric elements on a substrate. These elements each have a plurality of interferometric sub-elements that each has an interferometric stack. A first sub-element of each element is formed... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - Qual

20090279174 - Printable static interferometric images: Methods of fabricating a static interferometric image device and static interferometric image device formed by the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a substrate. A plurality of liquid layers are formed over the substrate by an inkjet process such that the layers are lateral to one... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090279175 - Optical diffuser film with linear domains of varying diffusion: The present invention provides an optical diffuser film with linear domains of varying diffusion, the linear domains comprising light scattering particles located on at least one surface of the film, wherein the linear domains are tapered such that the thickness at a center of a cross section of the linear... Agent: Edwin Oh Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials LLC

20090279176 - Antiglare film and manufacturing method thereof: The invention provides an antiglare film. A resin layer is disposed on a substrate. Micro-aggregates are distributed in an interior and over a surface of the resin layer. Each of the micro aggregates has a size of 0.1-3 μm and is formed by aggregating aggregated nano-particles. The micro-aggregates distributing over... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090279177 - Flat panel display apparatus: A flat panel display apparatus including a display unit, a cover covering the display unit, and a film disposed on the cover. The film has one or more protrusions, each having a reflective first surface and a transparent second surface. The first surface can include a coating. The second surface... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090279178 - Scanhead for image illumination uniformity and method thereof: A scanhead of an imaging apparatus for providing image illumination uniformity for imaging of a media sheet, and a method thereof, are disclosed. The scanhead includes a lens, a lens shading plate and a sensor array. The lens is capable of receiving light reflected from the media sheet and focusing... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090279179 - Deposition donor substrate and deposition method using the same: A lens array is formed on one surface of a deposition donor substrate and a light absorption layer is formed on the other surface; a material layer is formed in contact with the light absorption layer; the surface of the deposition donor substrate on which the material layer is formed... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090279180 - High brightness optical device: There is provided an optical device, composed of a display source (4), an imaging optical module (8), a projection module (12) having a projection mechanism including an input aperture (10) and output aperture (14) defined by a surface area, and an exit pupil (16). The projection mechanism is non-uniform over... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20090279181 - Co-package dqpsk demodulator by michelson interferometer: An interferometer includes a means for splitting, at a splitting location, an input light beam into a first beam and a second beam; and means for recombining, at a recombination location, the first beam and the second beam. The interferometer is designed such that the first beam will travel a... Agent: John P. Wooldridge

20090279182 - Finder optical system and image pickup apparatus using the same:

20090279183 - Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using image forming optical system:

20090279184 - Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using image forming optical system:

20090279185 - Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using image forming optical system:

20090279186 - Movable lens module and optical lens module: A movable lens module includes a plate type piezoelectric driving unit, a movable stage, a lens base and a lens group. The movable stage is in contact with the plate type piezoelectric driving unit, and is driven by the plate type piezoelectric driving unit to move. The lens base is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090279187 - Optical zoom system with voice coil motors: An optical zoom system uses voice coil motors to drive zoom lens sets moving along an optical axis for the control of forming image and focusing. Voice coil motors of the system move respectively two zoom lens sets to the first position and the second position on the optical axis... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090279188 - Imaging lens: An imaging lens of which optical performance does not deteriorate even in a high temperature environment, various aberrations are well corrected, optical length is short, and back focus is sufficiently secured, comprising an aperture stop S and a junction type compound lens 14 having a positive refractive power, wherein the... Agent: Venable LLP

20090279189 - Lens having extended depth of focus, method for designing the same, and optical system having the same: The lens includes a plurality of lens layers, each lens layer being axi-symmetric and having an extended depth of focus to focus light in a corresponding section of a focal curve in the form of a straight line located on an optical axis. In the optical system, light is focused... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090279190 - Moveable assembly, microactuator having same, and camera module including the microactuator: A moveable assembly includes a frame, resilient suspension arms made of carbon nanotube bundles, and a moveable member. The frame is disposed around the moveable member. Each of the resilient suspension arms includes a first end fixed to the frame, and a second end connected to the moveable member. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090279191 - Spacer and lens module having the same: A spacer includes an annular spacing portion defining a first surface and an opposite second surface, a flange defining a through opening; and a connecting portion connecting the flange to the spacing portion. The connecting portion defines a first inclined stopping surface and a second inclined stopping surface on opposite... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090279192 - Lens device and imaging device: It is intended to carry out a focusing operation suitably in each case of automatic focusing and manual focus adjustment. Therefore, in the present invention, there is provided a first focus ring 1 movable between a first position and a second position on an optical axis. Further, a first rotation-angle... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090279193 - Method and apparatus for mounting sensors in frames: Cables and sensor lenses are routed through the frame to which they are to be mounted. At each location where a sensor is to be mounted, the remaining sensors are routed behind the mounting block at that location to continue on to other locations. Routing the sensors and cables through... Agent: Robert R. Waters, Esq. Waters Law Office, PLLC

20090279194 - Ultraviolet infrared filter: A two-dimensional wedge shaped UV and IR filter is formed by or substantially same size pieces of glass forming a two-dimensional wedge. The wedge reflects radiation in four different directions.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20090279195 - Outer mirror: An object of the present invention is to provide an outer mirror which prevents the whistle noise without the rotation of the mirror assembly being prevented. In order to achieve the above object, an outer mirror which includes a mirror base provided on a vehicle body; a shaft portion fixed... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090279196 - Emergency vision apparatus: An emergency vision apparatus for providing an operator in a station visual access to information during a vision-obscuring emergency, comprises an expandable first enclosure filled with clear air, the first enclosure having front and rear transparent panels to allow an operator visual access through the first enclosure to a first... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP

20090273820 - Plasmostor: a-metal-oxide-si field effect plasmonic modulator: The invention is a system and method for performing all-optical modulation. A semiconductor layer having a defined thickness has an insulator adjacent one surface of the semiconductor. Conductive layers are provided adjacent the semiconductor layer and the insulator. A photodetector is provided to generate an electric field across the conductive... Agent: Milstein Intellectual Property Law LLC

20090273821 - All-optical methods and systems: An all-optical modulation format converter for converting optical data signals modulated in an on-off-keying (OOK) format to a phase-shift-keying (PSK) format. The OOK-to-PSK converter can be coupled to a delay-line interferometer to provide an all-optical wavelength converter for differential PSK (DPSK). The OOK-to-PSK converter can also be used in all-optical... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (alu)

20090273822 - Retinal scanning display with exit pupil expanded by optics offset from intermediate image plane: A retinal scanning display device is disclosed which is configured to include: a light source emitting a light beam; a scanner scanning onto a viewer's retina the light beam emitted from the light source; a light exit at which the light beam scanned by the scanner exits the retinal scanning... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090273823 - Method of manufacturing mems devices providing air gap control: Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling a depth of a cavity between two layers of a light modulating device. A method of making a light modulating device includes providing a substrate, forming a sacrificial layer over at least a portion of the substrate, forming a reflective layer over at... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090273824 - Electromechanical system having a dielectric movable membrane: An electromechanical device includes a partially reflective and partially transmissive layer and a movable functional element. The movable functional element includes a patterned flexible dielectric layer and a reflective layer mechanically coupled to the flexible dielectric layer. The patterned flexible dielectric layer is configured to flex in response to voltages... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090273825 - Mirror device comprising micromirrors possessing a specific natural oscillation frequency:

20090273827 - Color display devices: The present invention is directed to color display devices in which each display cell is capable of displaying three color states. The display fluid filled in the display cells comprises two types of pigment particles. The color display device may further comprise a brightness enhancement structure on its viewing side.... Agent: Howrey LLP

20090273826 - Method of manufacturing information display panel: In a method of manufacturing an information display panel, in which at least one group of display media having light reflectance and charge characteristics, constituted by at least one group of particles, are sealed in a cell formed by partition walls between opposed two substrates, at least one substrate being... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090273828 - High average power ultra-short pulsed laser based on an optical amplification system: The present invention includes an apparatus and the method to scale the average power from high power ultra-short pulsed lasers, while at the same time addressing the issue of effective beam delivery and ablation, by use of an optical amplification system.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090273830 - Focus detection apparatus, microscope: A focus detection apparatus is provided with a light source 16 that emanates light with a given wavelength range; a reflection member 15 that reflects light emanated from the light source 16 to lead to an object 6a, reflects light from the light source 16 reflected from the object 6a,... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090273829 - Observing device: The observing apparatus is being equipped with an image-forming optical system which forms an image of light emitted from a specimen, an imaging unit which picks up the image of the specimen formed by the image-forming optical system, and an illuminating unit which illuminates the specimen with a surface illuminant... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090273831 - Light module, optical tweezers generator and dark field microscope: A light module is provided. The light module applied to a dark field microscope is used for illuminating an object. The light module includes a light beam, a reflection component and a condensing component. The light beam has several lights. The reflection component is used for converting the lights radiating... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090273832 - Binoculars: Providing a pair of binoculars that is able to prevent diopter from being changed after adjusting diopter difference by pushing down the focus knob after adjusting diopter difference so as not to touch the operating knob, and able to prevent the focus position from being changed after adjusting focus position... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090273833 - Single manufacturing process for great writable and erasable functional projecting screen with developing performance: This is a projecting board combined the function of being a white board and developer, this invention use acrylic resin, polyester, epoxy resin combined to be a bake lacquer by mixed with dayglo, hardener and silver powder, extinction powder . . . etc materials to complete this invention that can... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090273834 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus: A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes a synthetic image (10) formed by synthesizing a plurality of original images from different viewing points, a lens array (12), and a diffraction element array (11) having the same pitch as the lens array. The diffraction element array has a layer (11a) made of... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090273835 - Three-dimensional display apparatus with diffractive optical elements: A three-dimensional display apparatus includes a case, illuminators, a first mirror, a diffractive optical element and a second mirror. The case can contain an object for display, and includes a movable leaf operable to open and close the case. The illuminators are located around the case for emitting light onto... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20090273836 - Optical film comprising birefringent naphthalate copolyester having branched or cyclic c4-c10 alkyl units: The present invention relates to multilayer optical films and birefringent copolyester films. The birefringent copolyester optical layer or birefringent copolyester film comprises a major amount of naphthalate units, ethylene units, and a minor amount of branched or cyclic C4 to C10 alkyl units. Also described are certain copolyester polymeric materials... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090273838 - Optical film and information technology apparatus comprising the same: The present invention relates to an optical film comprising an aromatic based unit having chain having the hydroxy group containing portion and aromatic moiety; and a styrene-based unit comprising one or more styrene-based derivatives, and has absolute values of in-plane retardation (Rin) and thickness retardation (Rin) of 10 nm or... Agent: Lgchem Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP

20090273837 - Retardation of film and production method thereof: The present invention is to provide a retardation film having excellent durability against temperature change or the like and a production method of the retardation film. Particularly, the present invention is to provide a retardation film which realizes both reverse wavelength dispersion and durability and a production method of the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090273839 - Method for constructing a phase conjugate mirror: A method that provides for a phase conjugate mirror 10 having a gallium-arsenide substrate 11 with a generally cubic crystalline lattice and a number of gallium-arsenide crystal projections 14 extending from said substrate 11, the projections each having three generally planar surfaces 15, 16, 17, where the surfaces each being... Agent: Joseph Reid Henrichs

20090273840 - Wavelength dispersing device: A compact wavelength dispersing device and a wavelength selective optical switch based on the wavelength dispersing device is described. The wavelength dispersing device has a folding mirror that folds the optical path at least three times. A focal length of a focusing coupler of the device is reduced and the... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20090273841 - Diffractive optical element and method for manufacturing same: A diffractive optical element includes at least a first diffractive element and a second diffractive element. The conditional expression 0.5≦D/DS≦0.9 is preferably satisfied where DS denotes the summation of the optimum designed groove height of the first diffractive element d1S and that of the second diffractive element d2S, and D... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090273842 - Method and system for tunable optical filtering: An optical device includes an optical splitter having an input port, a first output port and a second output port and is adapted to receive at said input port a WDM optical signal including a plurality of channels equally spaced by a frequency spacing and occupying an optical bandwidth, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090273843 - Apparatus and method for reducing glare in images: Glare is reduced by acquiring an input image with a camera having a lens and a sensor, in which a pin-hole mask is placed in close proximity to the sensor. The mask localizes the glare at readily identifiable pixels, which can then be filtered to produce a glare reduce output... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090273844 - Privacy filter with rounded optically opaque regions: A privacy filter comprises a first light transmissive film having a first plurality of rounded, optically opaque regions extending into a surface thereof. The first plurality of rounded, optically opaque regions are positioned to allow a viewer to view an image through the privacy filter within a range of viewing... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090273845 - Optical system and optical apparatus including optical system: Provided is an optical system in which chromatic aberrations can be excellently corrected in spite of environmental changes, to thereby maintain high optical performance. The optical system includes: a plurality of optical elements each having refractive surfaces located in a light incident side and a light exit side; and an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090273846 - Zoom lens system and imaging apparatus: A positive first lens group G1, a negative second lens group G2, an aperture diaphragm St, a positive third lens group G3, and a positive fourth lens group G4 are sequentially arranged, and a movement of the lens groups and the aperture diaphragm St during zooming is optimized in combination... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090273847 - Zoom lens: The invention provides a zoom lens, including a plurality of lens groups. When the zoom lens is in operation, the plurality of lens groups are aligned on a common optic axis, and the zoom lens forms a first plane and a second plane conjugated with the first plane. To retract... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090273848 - Zoom lens system: e

20090273849 - Focus adjustment method of zoom lens system: A focus adjustment method of a zoom lens system is provided for correcting a focal point shift caused by manufacturing error. The zoom lens system includes three movable lens groups in which at least two of said lens groups are moved to perform zooming to form an image onto an... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090273850 - Techniques for steering an optical beam: Reflectors having concave reflecting surfaces (e.g., parabolic reflectors) and electronically controlled beam steering elements are used for rapid, low-diversion, wide-angle, and precision steering of optical beams, including laser beams.... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP Pittsburgh

20090273851 - Lens system, optical device with lens system, and method of manufacturing lens system: f

20090273852 - Imaging device with micro-scale optical structures: An imaging device with micro-scale optical structures comprises a plurality of display units, where each display unit comprises a plurality of micro-scale optical structures, and each micro-scale optical structure comprises a convex part, a planar part, and base part. The convex part is positioned on the base part and has... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090273853 - Film for improving contrast and preventing moire pattern, pdp filter and display device comprising the same: The present invention relates to a film for improving contrast, a plasma display panel (PDP) filter including the film, and a PDP apparatus, and more particularly, to a film for improving contrast, the film capable of reducing a decrease of the contrast by shielding light from an external light source... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090262404 - Holographic recording medium: In a hologram recording medium, a bleaching beam irradiated to fix recorded information is prevented from spreading and advancing into an unrecorded area. The hologram recording medium is provided with a hologram material layer for recording information to be recorded by irradiating a same area with an information beam which... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090262405 - Holographic storage system with reduced noise: The apparatus has a coaxial arrangement of two or more reference beams and an object beam or a reconstructed object beam. The reference beams are arranged on a circle around the object beam or the reconstructed object beam in a Fourier plane of the apparatus behind the holographic storage medium.... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20090262406 - Recording device, recording/reproducing method, and reproducing method: A hologram recording and reproduction method is configured such that the number of values which can be implemented per one pixel is increased from two according to a conventional method to three or more to achieve increase of the data recording capacity. While two values are conventionally represented by two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262407 - Method for production of documents with a hologram and a document with a hologram: In a method for production of documents with a hologram and a document with a hologram, wherein, in a first step, a hologram is exposed in a photographic film and, in a second step, the photographic film is applied to a document support, the individualisation of the holograms first occurs... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090262408 - Optical pickup apparatus and hologram recording and reproducing system: An optical pickup apparatus includes a light source for generating a coherent beam, a spatial light modulator having a central region arranged on an optical axis of the coherent beam and an annular region arranged in a manner surrounding the central region, to spatially separate a transmission component of the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090262409 - Actuator, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus: An actuator includes: a first vibration system including a driving member having a frame shape, and a pair of first axial members each one end of which supports the driving member so as to allow the driving member to rotate about an X-axis; a second vibration system including a movable... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262410 - Device for the pixel-integrated return of fluid: An apparatus for the pixel-integrated return of fluid in the pixel of a fluidic display is characterized in that the fluid with which the desired information is to be displayed and/or the carrier fluid in which the fluid is optionally embedded can be returned in a particularly compact manner and... Agent: Marshall & Melhorn, LLC

20090262411 - Manufacturing of curved electrochromic devices: A method of manufacturing permanently curved electrochromic devices is presented. The method includes provision (210, 211) of two plane thermoplastic substrates at least partly coated by an electron conducting layer. The substrates are further at least partially coated (220, 221) with an electrochromic or a counter electrode layer. The coated... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090262412 - Method of fabricating interferometric devices using lift-off processing techniques: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method of fabricating interferometric devices using lift-off processing techniques. Use of lift-off processing in the fabrication of various layers of interferometric modulators, such as an optical stack or a flex layer, advantageously avoids individualized chemistries associated with the plurality of materials associated with... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090262413 - System and method for operating light processing electronic devices: A system and method for operating an electronic device used in light processing. A method comprises altering a spatial relationship between a spatial light modulator (SLM) and a light incident on the SLM, shifting light modulator states of a first portion of light modulators to a second portion of light... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090262414 - Ionic electrophoresis in tir-modulated reflective image displays: A reflective display having a plurality of transparent hemi-beads (60), each having a reflective region (80) surrounding a non-reflective region (82). Light absorbing, electrostatically charged ions are dissolved in an electrophoretic medium (20) maintained adjacent the hemi-beads. A voltage applied across the medium moves many ions into an evanescent wave... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20090262416 - Cascade laser: Disclosed is an optical fiber that includes an inner core having a concentration of at least one laser active material, the inner core being adapted to operate in a single mode manner; and an outer core disposed about the inner core having a concentration of at least one laser active... Agent: Graybeal Jackson LLP

20090262415 - System and method for uniform illumination of a target area: A system and method is provided for uniform illumination of a target area. In one embodiment, the system comprises a plurality of mutually incoherent light sources configured to generate respective light beams with different wavelengths, and transmitting optics configured to transmit the light beams with different wavelengths in a non-overlapping... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090262417 - 193nm immersion microscope: New and useful concepts are provided for the objective portion of a liquid or solid immersion microscope are provided, that uses 193 nm light for illumination and imaging of a sample, and includes a liquid or solid immersion lens configuration. The illumination and imaging can be provided, e.g. with (a)... Agent: Lawrence R. Oremland, P.C.

20090262420 - Display device and lenticular sheet of the display device and method thereof: A display device includes a display panel on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, and a lenticular sheet which is disposed above the display panel and includes a plurality of prism lenses disposed on the lenticular sheet. Each of the plurality of prism lenses includes a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090262419 - Soft aperture correction for lenticular screens: An apparatus including an autostereoscopic image selection device having a plurality of lenticules is provided. The autostereoscopic image selection device has an opaque material applied thereto in gaps between the plurality of lenticules. The opaque material is applied to the autostereoscopic image selection device in a soft aperturing manner, the... Agent: Real D - Patent Department

20090262418 - Three-dimensional display device: A display device which displays a three-dimensional image includes a display panel on which a plurality of pixels is formed and a lenticular sheet disposed above the display panel and including a plurality of cylindrical lenses formed on the lenticular sheet. Pixels of the of the plurality of pixels are... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090262421 - High retardation-amplitude photoelastic modulator: A photoelastic modulator excited by a plurality of piezoelectric transducers affixed to the surface of a photoelastic bar for generating elastic waves in a plurality of cells each bounded by piezoelectric node drivers between which an antinode driver is disposed, is described. The standing elastic wave in each cell can... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20090262422 - Reflective polarizer and display device having the same: A reflective polarizer suitable for use in a display device is disclosed herein. The reflective polarizer comprises: a multilayer optical film comprising alternating layers of first and second polymeric layers that reflects light of a first polarization state and transmits light of a second polarization state, wherein for normally incident... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090262423 - Dustproof panel: The dustproof panel includes: (a) a dustproof plate, which has a size covering a screen and extending to a frame member, and whose portion opposing the screen has transparent properties; (b) a frame-shaped dustproof filter formed by attaching a foam body having shrinking properties and containing pores finer than dust... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090262424 - Display screen assembly: The invention discloses a display screen assembly (30) which includes a display screen (31), an adhesive layer (33), an airproof gasket (35), a non-adhesive protective film (36) and a single adhesive protective film (38). The display screen (31) includes a display surface (311), and the airproof gasket (35) is adhered... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090262425 - Image blur correction apparatus, and imaging apparatus or optical apparatus equipped with image blur correction apparatus: An image blur correction apparatus includes first and second lens units, a supporting unit aligning the first and second lens units in an optical axis direction, so that the first and second lens units can independently move in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, a driving unit driving the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090262426 - Zoom lens system, lens barrel, imaging device and camera: A zoom lens system comprising a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element, wherein an interval between at least any two lens units is changed so that an optical image is formed with a continuously variable magnification, the zoom lens system comprises a first lens... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090262427 - Light-concentrating panel: A light-concentrating panel is disclosed. The light-concentrating panel comprises a planar light collecting element and a linear light collecting element. The planar light collecting element receives and collects the planar light, and then emits out as linear light. The linear light collecting element receives the linear light. The linear light... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090262429 - Antiglare light diffusing member and display having antiglare light diffusing member: l

20090262428 - Light diffusing sheet and backlight unit using the light diffusing sheet: The light diffusing sheet of the invention is made of a light-transmitting resin and has a sheet upper surface serving as a light emission side and a sheet lower surface serving as a light entrance side. It has a constitution in which small recesses having a shape which is any... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090262431 - Antiglare film, antireflection film, polarizing plate and image display device: An antiglare film includes: a transparent support; and an antiglare layer containing a light-transmitting particle and a light-transmitting resin, wherein the light-transmitting particle has a structure including a core particle and a shell layer, each of the core particle and the shell layer contains an organic polymer, the shell layer... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090262430 - Baffle plate for a movie or tv camera: The baffle plate for a lens of a movie or TV camera has an add-on tube that can be slipped onto the camera lens with little clearance. The add-on tube is provided with a swivel arm, which has a swivelling axis which is fixed with respect to the camera lens... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090262432 - Laser beam multiplexer: A laser beam multiplexer capable of easily multiplexing a plurality of laser beams is provided. A laser beam multiplexer includes a multiplexing element having a hollow portion with a sectional elliptical shape, in which the multiplexing element includes: a plurality of light-incident apertures guiding laser beams from outside toward one... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090262433 - Lens array of erecting unit magnification system, image reading apparatus and image writing apparatus using the lens array, as well as method for manufacturing the lens array: The conventional lens array of an erecting unit magnification system is composed of an inside lens of spherical shape and an outside lens of spherical or aspherical shape, and has a problem to be improved for the resulting MTF performance. A lens array of an erecting unit magnification system is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090262434 - Viewing optical system and imaging apparatus incorporating the same: e

20090262435 - Optical driving apparatus using electro-wetting and driving method of the same: There is provided an optical driving apparatus including: a cell housing housing polar and non-polar liquids, the cell housing including side walls; a first electrode formed on an outer surface of a first insulator formed on a portion of one of the side walls of the cell housing; a second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090262436 - Producing a transparent optical element comprising a substance contained in cells: The invention concerns a method for producing a transparent optical element (1) including filling cells (10) of the element with a substance having an optical property. It consists in moving an amount of the substance (20) radially on the cells, towards a peripheral edge of the optical element, such that... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090262437 - Projection zoom lens system and projection type display apparatus: A projection zoom lens includes a first lens group having a negative reflecting power and a second to fifth lens groups each having a positive reflecting power are provided in the order from the magnification side. Nine lenses are distributed in a manner that the first lens group has one... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090262438 - Voice coil motor actuator: A voice coil motor (VCM) actuator includes a fixed bracket, a lens barrel, two flat spring plates, a support plate, a plurality of positioning pins, a plurality of coils, and a plurality of magnets. The fixed bracket includes a first chamber and a plurality of magnet mounting holes. A lens... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090262439 - Telephoto lens system: Provided is a telephoto lens system. The telephoto lens system includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, which are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090262440 - Lens actuator: A lens actuator includes a lens barrel for accommodating the lens, a coil wrapped around the lens barrel, a plurality of magnets, a bracket, and a resilient plate. The bracket is configured for mounting the magnets thereon and accommodating the lens barrel therein. The resilient plate is connected between the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090262441 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel includes a first member which has a first sliding-contact surface and an opening formed in the first sliding-contact surface; a second member which has a second sliding-contact surface and moves relative to the first member, the second sliding-contact surface being placed in sliding contact with the first... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090262442 - Image capturing device: An image capturing device includes an image capturing unit, a fitting member, and a cover member. The image capturing unit captures a plurality of unit images having parallax by using a lens array having a plurality of unit lenses, and a prism. The fitting member is provided with a mounting... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090262443 - Catoptric objectives and systems using catoptric objectives: In general, in a first aspect, the invention features a system that includes a microlithography projection optical system. The microlithography projection optical system includes a plurality of elements arranged so that during operation the plurality of elements image radiation at a wavelength λ from an object plane to an image... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC