Optical: systems and elements inventions

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

20090257104 - Hologram viewing arrangement and alignment device: The present invention relates to a hologram viewing arrangement, to an alignment device, to a display device, to a device for aligning first and second members and to a device for aligning an optical beam with a desired target. A hologram viewing arrangement comprising a pixellated phase mask substrate (20)... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090257105 - Device having thin black mask and method of fabricating the same: A thin black mask is created using a single mask process. A dielectric layer is deposited over a substrate. An absorber layer is deposited over the dielectric layer and a reflector layer is deposited over the absorber layer. The absorber layer and the reflector layer are patterned using a single... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090257106 - Retarder-based despeckle device for laser illumination systems: A method and apparatus for reducing speckle in a laser illumination system uses a despeckle device including an optical retarder providing an odd integer multiple of substantially half-wave retardation for light emitted from a coherent laser in the laser illumination system. The near half-wave optical retarder has a substantially constant... Agent: Pequignot + Myers LLC

20090257107 - Device for controlling light radiation: Device for controlling light radiation, which is excited in a specimen and/or which is backscattered and/or reflected and which contains one or more wavelengths, at a plurality of light outlets, wherein a separation of the light radiation into differently polarized components is carried out; and the components of the excitation... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090257108 - Light with bi-directional propagation: Devices for providing illumination to a display and method for manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, a display device includes a reflective display and turning features for turning light propagating from opposite directions in a light guide to the reflective display.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090257109 - Method and system for packaging a mems device: A MEMS-based display device is described, wherein an array of interferometric modulators are configured to reflect light through a transparent substrate. The transparent substrate is sealed to a backplate and the backplate can contain electronic circuitry for controlling the array of interferometric modulators. The backplate can provide physical support for... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090257110 - Mirror device comprising drive electrode equipped with stopper function: The present invention provides a mirror device, comprising: a plurality of deflectable mirrors; an elastic member for deflectably supporting the mirror; a drive electrode for driving the mirror; a control circuit for giving electric charge to the drive electrode and controlling the deflecting direction of the mirror; and a substrate... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090257111 - Tunable optical array device comprising liquid cells: A tunable optical component includes comprises a plurality of individual tunable liquid cells regularly arranged and integrated to at least one cell structure forming an array on the supporting substrate. A single liquid cell comprises several integrated cell walls, the cell walls projecting away from the supporting substrate and having... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20090257112 - Method and apparatus for manufacturing electrophoretic display: In an apparatus for manufacturing an electrophoretic display, the electrophoretic display includes a backside plate having a cover area and a display structure. The display structure is arranged on the backside plate and a rear surface thereof facing toward the backside plate has an area less than the cover area.... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090257113 - Light filter/modulator and array of filters/modulators: A light filter or an array of filters can be either one or two dimensional. The filter or filters use multiple beam interference by varying an optical path length between semi-reflective surfaces. The optical path length between the semi-reflective surfaces is varied by changing a thickness of a polymer film... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20090257114 - Wavelength-converted light generating apparatus and generating method: A wavelength-converted light generating apparatus 1A includes: an excitation light source 10 supplying excitation light L0 of a predetermined wavelength; and a wavelength conversion element 20, in which an aggregate 22 of crystals of a dye molecule is held by a holding substrate 21 and which, by incidence of the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090257115 - Optical amplifier and abnormality detection method for the same: An optical amplifier includes a first optical amplification unit that amplifies input light, a variable optical attenuation unit that attenuates an output of the first optical amplification unit, a second optical amplification unit that amplifies an output of the variable optical attenuation unit, and a loss amount control unit that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090257116 - Erbium and erbium/ytterbium cladding pumped hybrid optical amplifier: An optical fiber amplifier apparatus and optical signal amplification method are provided. In one example, the amplifier apparatus comprises an optical combiner that is configured to receive an input optical signal to be amplified and a pump light beam. The optical combiner combines for output the input optical signal and... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P. Cisco Systems, Inc.

20090257117 - Projection optical system and projection type display using the same: A luminous flux optically modulated by an image display device is projected to be magnified on a screen by a projection optical system includes: a first optical system having a positive first lens group including eight lenses, a negative second lens group including three lenses, and a third lens group... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090257118 - Beam-shaping telescope: A beam shaping telescope includes two mirrors having rotationally symmetric curvature inclined to the optical axis of the telescope. By selecting an appropriate curvature, spacing, and inclination of the mirrors, the telescope can be used to transform an astigmatic laser beam having a non-circular cross section into a circular beam... Agent: Coherent, Inc. C/o Morrison & Forester

20090257119 - Display panel, display device, and terminal device: A translucent liquid crystal display panel (2) includes pixel pairs as display units each formed by a left-eye pixel (4L) and a right-eye pixel (4R) and arranged in a matrix shape. A through hole (4Ld) arranged in a color layer (4Lc) of a color filter has a slit shape whose... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090257120 - Unique color separation techniques for stereoscopic 3d projection: Primary colors red, green and blue are each transmitted in three adjacent frequencies to create stereoscopic 3D images. A true center frequency for each primary color is transmitted to one eye while two straddling frequencies, on either side of the center frequency, are transmitted to the other eye. Untinted, notch... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.C.

20090257121 - Rotational sensitive mirror: A rotational sensitive mirror includes a low profile structure that has asymmetric reflective elements such that normally incidence polarized light is reflected with high reflectivity at least one rotational angle and that normally incidence polarized light is reflected with lower reflectivity at least one different rotational angle, thereby rotating the... Agent: Josh Hogan

20090257122 - Method for avoidance of an obstacle or an optical phenomenon which distorts quality of image: A method for avoiding an obstacle or an image-quality-degrading optical phenomenon in an image recognition unit is provided. The method includes the steps of providing at least an optical shutter array in the image recognition unit, detecting the obstacle or the optical phenomenon, and closing the optical shutter that corresponds... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20090257123 - Image device and optical device: m

20090257124 - Lamina comprising cube corner elements and retroreflective sheeting: The present disclosure is directed to lamina(e) comprising cube corner elements, a tool comprising an assembly of laminae and replicas thereof. The disclosure further relates to retroreflective sheeting.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090257125 - Imaging lens, optical apparatus and method for forming image using this imaging lens: An imaging lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, which are disposed in order from an object. The first lens group has a first lens component having a negative refractive power and a... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090257126 - Zero-order diffractive pigments: The present invention relates to pigments comprising or consisting of a layer made of a material with an index of refraction that is higher than the index of refraction of the adjacent material by at least 0.25; whereas said layer has a zero-order diffractive micro-structure; whereas said layer acts as... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090257127 - Imaging optical system: An imaging optical system according to the present invention is provided with at least one lens element and comprises: an optical surface through which incident light transmits; and an antireflection structure provided in at least part of a peripheral region located in the periphery of a center region containing the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090257128 - Plastic rod lens, rod lens array, rod lens plate, image sensor and printer: wherein n1, n0, nA, and nB represent refraction index nD in the outer peripheral portion, at the center, and at arbitrary points A and B, respectively, and ν1, νA, and νB represent Abbe number ν in the outer peripheral portion, and at the arbitrary points A and B, respectively.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090257129 - Projection zoom lens system and projection type display apparatus: A projection lens system includes, in order from the magnification side, a negative first group G1 and positive second to fifth groups G2 to G5. In the lens system, the first group G1 has aspheric surface, a lens closest to the magnification side (L7) in the fourth group G4 has... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090257130 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group of negative refracting power, a second lens group of positive refracting power and a third lens group of positive refracting power, wherein the first and second lens groups are configured to move... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090257131 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus equipped with same: An apparatus has a zoom lens and an image pickup element disposed on the image side of the zoom lens that converts an optical image formed by the zoom lens into an electrical signal. The zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a negative... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090257132 - Zoom lens system and electronic imaging apparatus that uses the same:

20090257133 - Image pickup lens, image pickup unit and mobile terminal: An image pickup lens includes: an aperture stop; a first lens having a positive power and including a convex surface facing an object side; a second lens having a negative power and including a concave surface facing an image side; a third lens in a meniscus shape having a positive... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090257134 - Image capture lens and image capture apparatus:

20090257135 - Lens module and method for fabricating same: A lens module includes: a base unit, a first lens unit, a spacer unit, a second lens unit and a cap unit. The base unit has a first through hole having a first tapered portion. The first lens unit has a first peripheral portion having second and third tapered portions.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090257136 - Image magnifying device for portable multimedia player: An image magnifying device for portable multimedia player includes a connection mechanism having an insertion slot formed on one side thereof; a supporting unit including a base defining a central opening corresponding to the insertion slot for setting around the insertion slot on the connection mechanism, and two supporting arms... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090257137 - Lens barrel and camera: A collapsible lens barrel having a low-profile size and a camera applied with the collapsible lens barrel. The lens barrel includes a first retractable lens-retaining frame and a second retractable lens-retaining frame for retaining at least one of a plurality of lens groups and being retracted to a position outer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090257138 - Lens structure: A lens structure includes a first barrel, a second barrel, a third barrel, a first lens module and a second lens module. The first and the second barrel respectively have a first guiding-groove and a second guiding-groove. The third barrel has a first portion and a second portion. The first... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090257139 - Lens driving mechanism and image pickup apparatus using the same: A lens driving mechanism for an image pickup apparatus capable of being reduced in size, and having excellent driving accuracy and tranquility is provided. The lens driving mechanism is characterized in that vibration of a piezoelectric vibration motor is used as a driving source, and the vibration is transmitted to... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090257140 - Mounting structure for a mirror assembly: A mirror assembly mountable to a wall includes a mirror platform having a front surface and a rear surface, a chassis engageable with the mirror platform to define a mirror assembly interior, at least one electrical component disposed within the mirror assembly interior, and a mounting structure. The mounting structure... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090257141 - Bent glass sheet with light-shielding film for vehicles: A bent glass sheet (1) with a light-shielding film for vehicles includes a glass sheet, and a light-shielding film formed in at least a part, i.e. a film-formed portion (11), of a peripheral portion of one surface of the glass sheet. The light-shielding film is composed of a band-shaped film... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20090251749 - Ovd containing device: A holographic overlay is provided, including: a polycarbonate substrate having a first side and a second side, a diffractive structure cast upon the first side of the polycarbonate substrate, and a reflection-enhancing coating on at least a part of the diffractive structure; wherein the second side of the polycarbonate substrate... Agent: Pequignot + Myers LLC

20090251750 - Optical reproducing method and optical reproducing apparatus: An optical reproducing method is provided. A diffracted light is generated by irradiating a reference light onto a hologram. A combined light is generated by applying a direct-current component formed by a polarized light having a third polarization component with a first polarization plane having a polarization direction orthogonal to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090251752 - Display device with diffractive optics: Light modulator displays may be illuminated using a light guide comprising diffractive optics that directs light onto the light modulators. The light guide may comprise, for example, a holographic light turning element that turns light propagating within the light guide onto the array of light modulators. In some embodiments, the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090251751 - Optical imaging system: An illumination device for an optical imaging apparatus, such as a microscope. The illumination of a slide specimen is achieved when divergent light for a point light source or a plurality of point light sources illuminate the specimen converging at high angles at equal brightness across all angles. The user... Agent: Zarian Midgley & Johnson PLLC

20090251753 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning device includes a diffractive optical element. The diffractive optical element is a hybrid lens in which a resin layer is joined to a glass-lens base material, and a diffractive surface is provided in the resin layer. The diffractive surface has a multi-step structure including a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251754 - Light scanning unit, image forming apparatus employing the same and light scanning method: A light scanning unit including a light source unit emitting a collimated light beam, and a beam deflector deflecting and scanning the collimated light beam and having a mirror surface that oscillates, a light scanning method and an image forming apparatus employing the light scanning unit are disclosed. The light... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090251755 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including: a polygon motor that rotates a reflection member; a laser emitting section that emits a laser beam toward a side face of the rotating reflection member; a photoconductor that is scanned by a laser beam reflected from the side face of the reflection member; a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090251756 - Movable body apparatus and optical deflector using the movable body apparatus: A movable body apparatus includes a vibratory system, a vibration detecting portion, a driving portion, and a controlling portion. The vibratory system has a resonance frequency and a movable body capable of being reciprocally and rotatably vibrated. The vibration detecting portion detects a vibration condition of the movable body. The... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251757 - Shutter device and drive method: The present invention provides a shutter apparatus and a drive method for the same, the shutter apparatus having functions of both a shutter apparatus for an image interception and a shutter apparatus for an aperture adjustment and being space-saving and low in costs. Within an illumination casing are provided first... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (panasonic)

20090251758 - Glass type electrochemical/ electrically controllable device with variable optical and/or energetic characteristic: An electrochemical/electrically controllable device having variable optical and/or energetic properties, including a first carrier substrate including an electrically conductive layer associated with a first stack of electrically active layers and a second carrier substrate including an electrically conductive layer associated with a second stack of electrically active layers. The first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251759 - Materials, thin films, optical filters, and devices including same: A material is disclosed which possesses at least two of the following characteristics: (a) is optically transparent at a wavelength in the range from about 1500 nm to about 1560 nm; (b) has a 1/n dn/dt greater than that of silicon, (c) has an extinction coefficient, k, less than 10−3.... Agent: Martha Ann Finnegan Qd Vision, Inc.

20090251760 - Micro mirrors having improved hinges: A micro mirror device includes a hinge supported upon a substrate. The hinge has a length and a width substantially parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, and has a thickness substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate. The thickness is larger than the width. A mirror... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090251761 - Microelectromechanical systems display element with photovoltaic structure: A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) display element may include a photovoltaic structure configured to generate electric energy from incident light. In one embodiment, the display element includes a first layer that is at least partially transmissive of light, a second layer that is at least partially reflective of light, and a... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090251763 - Color display devices: The present invention is directed to color display devices which are capable of displaying multiple color states. The display device comprises a plurality of display cells, wherein each of said display cells is (a) sandwiched between a first layer comprising a common electrode and a second layer comprising a plurality... Agent: Howrey LLP

20090251762 - Electrophoretic display with homogeneously distrubed electrically charged particles: An electrophoretic display device employs an electrophoretic display (100) and a display driver (110). The electrophoretic display (100) includes a matrix of display elements (30,40,50; P00-P99), and the display driver (110) establishes a homogenous distribution of electrically charged particles among the display elements (30,40,50; P00-P99), based on one or more... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090251764 - Image display device: An image display device 10, having two substrates 11 and 12, at least one of which is transparent; and display particles 21 and 22 enclosed in the powder form between the substrates, the display particles being moved under an electric field generated between the substrates so that an image is... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090251765 - Composition for photon-energy up-conversion: The present invention relates to a composition for photon energy up-conversion, a system comprising said composition and to uses of said composition and said system.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251766 - Wavelength converter: When one tries to obtain high-output wavelength conversion light of class W, the internal temperature of a wavelength conversion element rises significantly to cause an undue variation in phase matching wavelength and thereby it is difficult to match the wavelength of a fundamental wave to the phase matching wavelength. A... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090251767 - Method and apparatus for generating terahertz wave: A method and an apparatus for generating a terahertz wave, wherein one end face 12a of a non-linear optical crystal 12 is positioned approximately orthogonally to a direction of generation of a terahertz wave 4, pump light 2 and idler light 3 are totally reflected at an approximately same point... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20090251768 - Multi-band hybrid soa-raman amplifier for cwdm: A multi-band hybrid amplifier is disclosed for use in optical fiber systems. The amplifier uses Raman laser pumps and semiconductor optical amplifiers in series to produce a relatively level gain across the frequency range of interest. Multiple Raman pumps are multiplexed before coupling into the fiber. The Raman amplified optical... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Canavan

20090251769 - Apparatus for spectrum-doubled optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (opcpa) using third-order dispersion chirping: The present invention relates to an OPCPA apparatus. The OPCPA of the present invention includes an optical pulse stretcher (100) for outputting chirped laser light using odd-order dispersion (third-order dispersion is mainly used). A pump laser (200) outputs pump laser light. An OPA unit (300) receives the pump laser light... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20090251770 - Cladding pumped fibre laser with a high degree of pump isolation: Alternatively the device may have a rare-earth-doped multi-clad optical fibre having at least two cladding layers, one or more passive multi-clad optical fibres having at least three cladding layers, one or more multimode pump laser diodes, and a means of multiplexing a laser signal and the pumping radiation, adapted so... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20090251771 - Apparatus and method for enhanced optical transmission through a small aperture, using radially polarized radiation: An apparatus for enhanced transmission of radiation, comprising at least one radiation source (12), a metal plate (18) with a first (20) and a second (22) surface and at least one aperture (24) provided in the metal plate (18) and extending from the first (20) to the second (22) surface,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090251772 - Reflective optical element and euv lithography appliance: A reflective optical element and an EUV lithography appliance containing one such element are provided, the appliance displaying a low propensity to contamination. According to the invention, the reflective optical element has a protective layer system consisting of at least one layer. The optical characteristics of the protective layer system... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090251773 - Low orbit missile-shaped satellite for electro-optical earth surveillance and other missions: A low orbit optical imaging satellite has a long thin satellite body housing an optical telescope arrangement. A major part of the telescope arrangement has its optical axis roughly parallel to the direction of elongation and includes a mirror arrangement deployed to direct a line of sight of the optical... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090251774 - Laminate sheet and display screen: An object is to provide a laminated sheet for a display screen and a display screen which enable reliable reduction of warping due to temperature changes. An laminated sheet according to this invention is a laminated sheet, in which a plurality of screen sheets are stacked, including: a multilayer sheet... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251775 - Display device: A display device is provided with a display panel displaying variable visual images, a transparent protective unit located at a front side of the display panel, an adhesive layer that is formed between the display panel and the transparent protective unit to adhere the transparent protective unit to the display... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090251776 - Multilayer polarizing fibers and polarizers using same: A polarizing film is made of multilayer polarizing fibers embedded within a matrix. The fibers are formed with layers of at least a first and a second polymer material. Layers of the first polymer material are disposed between layers of the second polymer material. At least one of the first... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090251777 - Optical apparatus: The optical apparatus includes an image stabilizing lens shiftable with respect to an optical axis, a movable lens movable in an optical axis direction, first and second actuators shifting the image stabilizing lens, and a third actuator moving the movable lens. The first, second and third actuators include a magnet... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090251778 - Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system: A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention, in order from an object side to... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090251782 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the lens: A zoom lens easily performs image stabilization with a compact and light image-stabilizing lens unit, properly corrects an aberration change during image stabilization, and achieves high optical performance. The zoom lens includes a first positive lens unit, a second negative lens unit, a third positive lens unit, a fourth negative... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251779 - Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system: A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention, in order from an object side to... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090251780 - Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system: A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention, in order from an object side to... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090251781 - Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system: A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention, in order from an object side to... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090251783 - Light combiner: For combining light from different light sources in a light source, dichroic filters are displaced individually according to the physical arrangement of the light sources such that the reflected light from the dichroic filters is coincident in angle and space.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090251784 - Luminaire reflector with light-modifying flange: A luminaire reflector of the type that is dome-shaped and includes a flange at the bottom provides a modified a flange that alters the pattern or other effect of light trapped in the wall of the reflector and exiting through the flange. When the bottom surface of the flange is... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090251785 - Plastic glass interior mirror with variable reflectivity: The invention is related to an interior rear view mirror that is constructed by front plastic glass shaped in u-form and a mirror housing. The mirror comprises a second plastic glass which crate a inter glass space for a device which changes the reflectivity of the mirror.... Agent: Reising Ethington P.C.

20090251787 - Lenticular card and process for making: A lenticulated sheet including a polymeric backing sheet, an imaged transparent sheet having a first smooth side and a second side with a lenticulated region, the transparent sheet optionally having at least one printed image area on the first smooth side and an adhesive layer over the printed image areas... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090251786 - Optical system for transforming numerical aperture: A system is provided to form illumination light beams having desirable divergence and directivity. For instance, the system can include an optical element and a relay. The optical element can include a pupil defining element. Further, the relay can have a first and second lens array arranged in series and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090251788 - Optical device for use with scanned beam light sources: Substrate-guided relays that employ light guiding substrates to relay images from sources to viewers in optical display systems. The substrate-guided relays are comprised of an input coupler, an intermediate substrate, and an output coupler. In some embodiments, the output coupler is formed in a separate substrate that is coupled to... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20090251789 - Color light combiner: For combining light from different light sources that are spatially apart, an optical system comprises a prism assembly that comprises a totally-internally-surface and a dichroic filter. The totally-internally-surface and the dichroic filter are configured for reflecting light of different colors or polarizations, so as to combine light of different polarization... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090251790 - Lens and related lens assembly: An exemplary lens includes an optical axis, an optically active part, and an optically inactive part surrounding the optically active part. The optically inactive part includes a base and a peripheral sidewall extending in a direction parallel to the optical axis. The base is connected with the active part. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090251791 - Spectroscopy lens for telecentric sensor: A lens system with a first group having a positive meniscus lens and a sensor. The optical distance between the front surface of the first group and the sensor can be not greater than the height of the sensor times the image F-number, which may alternatively be referred to as... Agent: Thomas P O'connell

20090251792 - Conversion lens, conversion lens system, and imaging device: A conversion lens which includes a pair of transparent members is provided. At least one of the transparent members is formed of a deformable film; a connecting member for connecting the pair of transparent members so as to form a sealed space sandwiched between the pair of transparent members; a... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090251793 - Zoom lens system and imaging optical device employing the same: The present zoom lens system comprises a plurality of lens units including at least: a front lens unit having negative optical power; and a rear lens unit having positive optical power, arranged on the image side of the front lens unit, and composed of a plurality of lens elements; wherein... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090251794 - Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system: A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention, in order from an object side to... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090251795 - Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system: z

20090251796 - Retractable zoom lens: A retractable zoom lens includes sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. The third lens group includes sequentially from... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090251797 - Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the same: Provided is a zoom lens having a high magnification and excellent optical performance over an entire zoom range between a wide-angle end and a telephoto end. The zoom lens includes, in order from object side to image side: a first lens unit having positive refractive power; a second lens unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090251798 - Lens actuator and camera module with same: A lens actuator for driving a lens received in a lens barrel includes a plate shaped body comprising a through hole defined in the center thereof, an inner portion surrounding the through hole, an outer portion for mounting the lens barrel thereon, and a plurality of resilient portions connected between... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090251799 - Lens barrel: A lens barrel includes a support ring movable in an optical axis direction; a displaceable optical element supported by the support ring movable between a photographing position and a radially-displaced position in which the displaceable optical element is eccentrically displaced from the optical axis; and an advancing/retracting optical element supported... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090251800 - Camera module: On an outer peripheral portion of an adjusting lens holder (11), a ring-shaped first protrusion (12) is arranged to protrude to a housing (3). On an inner peripheral portion of the housing (3), a ring-shaped second protrusion (13) is arranged to protrude to the adjustment lens holder (11). The first... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090251801 - Super wide angle optical system: There is provided a super wide angle optical system including, arranged about an optical axis: a first lens having a negative refractive power and having a meniscus shape with a convex object-side surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power and having a meniscus shape with a convex object-side... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090251802 - Optical system for taking image: An optical system for taking image comprises three lens elements with refractive power, wherein a first lens element with positive refractive power includes at least one aspheric surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power, and a third lens element with negative refractive power includes at least one aspheric... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia Int''l Patent Office Of Bang Shia

20090251804 - Driving device: There is provided a driving device with less wiring and of which driving circuit is simplified. A driving device comprising: a plurality of vibratory actuators 6, 7 respectively having a vibration generating portion which transform an electric power into a vibration and a driven portion which engages with the vibration... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090251803 - Lens adjusting device of projector: A lens adjusting device of a projector is provided. The lens adjusting device has a base, a frame, and at least one positioning structure. A lens is fixed on the frame. The positioning structure is utilized for movably setting the frame on the base. The positioning structure has a groove,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090251806 - Lens actuator: A lens actuator for driving a lens to move includes a lens barrel for accommodating the lens, a coil warped around the lens barrel, a fixed barrel, the lens barrel being received in and linearly movable relative to the fixed barrel, a plate shaped body including a through hole defined... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090251808 - Lens driving apparatus: In the lens driving apparatus having a sleeve, a support body (such as a yoke) that supports the sleeve via a spring member), coils attached to the sleeve, and magnets attached to the support body, the support body is provided with a yoke and a cover portion, the yoke being... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090251807 - Lens module: A lens module includes a motor and a lens. The motor includes an outer frame, magnetic components, an inner frame, and a coil. The outer frame has sides and defines a passage surrounded by the sides. A recess is defined in each side. The recess has a ledge and sidewalls... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090251805 - Multi-stage lens actuating module: A multi-stage lens actuating module includes a housing with a cavity, a lens holder disposed in the cavity for containing a lens component, an elastic piece disposed between the lens holder and the housing, a flange protruding from a side of the lens holder, and a raised bar protruding from... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20090251810 - Lens drive unit installation structure and lens drive unit: The present invention aims to provide a lens drive unit installation structure which enhances dust resistance to improve reliability and realizes miniaturization and easiness to assemble. For achieving the purposes, the lens drive unit installation structure for installing a lens drive unit including: a lens holding frame for holding a... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090251809 - Linear micro motor: The present invention relates to a linear micro motor having an forward and backward reciprocating motion. The linear micro motor includes at least two actuators which can be a scratch drive actuator (SDA), a bounce drive actuator (BDA) or a combination thereof. To achieve the reciprocating motion, the linear micro... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090251811 - Method and apparatus for constructing a perfect trough parabolic reflector: e

20090251812 - High definition vehicular mirror: A vehicle mirror assembly having a housing or base member, a mirror lens and a connecting gasket member. The mirror lens is provided in the shape of a portion of an end of an ellipsoid. The lens has a varying radius of curvature. The center portion of the lens has... Agent: John A. Artz Artz & Artz, P.C.

20090251813 - Dynamic alternating panel reflector apparatus: Skins for light reflecting umbrellas. and for methods of using light reflecting umbrellas. The invention includes skins with a series of panels in stripes of alternating colors, in a shifted configuration, in a checkered shift configuration, in a half and half configuration, in a modified half and half configuration with... Agent: Edward C. Schewe