Optics: measuring and testing inventions 04/07

20070091293 - Photoelectric sensor, optical module and method of producing same: An optical module is formed with a semiconductor optical element sealed inside a transparent resin part and a lens unit affixed to its upper surface. The-lens unit has a lens part that is disposed facing opposite the semiconductor optical element through the transparent resin part. A planar part extends from... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070091294 - Distance measurement: The invention relates to a method for measuring distance wherein pulsed electromagnetic radiation is emitted by at least one transmitter and the reflected signal impulses are detected by at least one receiver. According to the invention, the distances of the objects, at which the emitted radiation impulses are reflected, is... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070091295 - Self-mixing laser range sensor: A laser range finder includes a laser and a photosensitive element. The laser projects a beam onto a target surface. A backscattered portion of the laser beam returns to the laser from the target surface and enters the laser emitting cavity. Variations in laser output power are detected by the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070091296 - Article and method of assessing source authenticity for an opaque colored part: An article includes a colorant system which may be assessed for authenticity by assessing the visual color of a part and comparing the visual color of the authorized specific color to see if there is a color match and measuring a non-visible electromagnetic reflectance spectrum or portion thereof of the... Agent: Geam - O8cv - CppIPLegal

20070091297 - Optical time domain reflectometry system at different wavelengths: An optical time domain reflectometry system is used to determine a power response from a device under test -DUT-. For providing power information data, an optical transmitter launches a probe signal with a first wavelength into a DUT, an optical receiver determines optical power information of a first return signal... Agent: Perman & Green

20070091298 - Assembling and testing device for lens units and method for employing the same: An apparatus (100) for assembling and testing a lens unit (20) having a barrel (202) and a lens group (204) includes an assembling device (22), a testing device and a mounting member (30). The assembling device is used to assemble the lens group into the barrel to form the lens... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070091299 - Compact laser output monitoring using reflection and diffraction: Compactness is preserved while enabling beam monitoring of optical properties of an output beam by employing a combination of reflection and diffraction. An input beam is reflected, divided using reflection/diffraction, and re-reflected. As a consequence, both a light source and one or more beam monitoring detectors may be disposed along... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070091300 - Light monitoring device: A monitoring device for monitoring a light beam comprises a filter, first and second photodetectors, and an optical body. The first photodetector is arranged to detect a first portion of the light beam that is transmitted through the filter, and the second photodetector is arranged to detect a second portion... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070091301 - Method and apparatus for obtaining information about the size distribution of macroscopic particles in a liquid: On the basis of a series of reflection measurements on a liquid, parameters are calculated which describe a particle size distribution of particles in the liquid. In each reflection measurement, a signal beam is generated in the liquid and a value of a property such as the amplitude of a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070091302 - Methods and apparatus for inspecting an object: A method for inspecting an object using a light measurement system that includes a light source and an imaging sensor. The method includes emitting light from the light source, dispersing light emitted from the light source into one of a diffraction pattern and an interference pattern, and imaging the patterned... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070091303 - Device for detecting contamination of lens in exposure device: A device for detecting contamination of a lens in an exposure device in which a sample for detecting contamination is formed of the same material as that of the lens and transmittance of the sample is detected to sense a contamination level of the lens.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070091304 - Optical fluidic system with a capillary having a drilled through hole: A fluidic system is provided which is adapted to perform optical analysis of a fluid. The system comprises a first capillary, at least one waveguide which is adapted to guide light and at least one second capillary. The first capillary comprises at least one first opening for receiving an end... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070091305 - System and method for high sensitivity vibrational imaging with frequency modulation coherent anti-stokes raman scattering analyses: A system is disclosed for detecting a nonlinear coherent field induced in a sample. The system includes optics, a modulation system, and a detector system. The optics are for directing a first electromagnetic field at a first frequency ω1 and a second electromagnetic field at a second frequency ω2 toward... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070091306 - Method and apparatus for detection and analysis of biological materials through laser induced fluorescence: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus to analyze fast and accurately biological samples. The method includes prior mapping of the DNA chip with a CCD camera, addressed excitation of samples, and recording of fluorescence spectra via ultra-fast spectrometer.... Agent: Dodds And Associates

20070091307 - Method and system for wide-field multi-photon microscopy having a confocal excitation plane: According to one aspect of the invention, a wide-field microscope includes a stage configured to hold a specimen having a fluorescent material therein, and a multi-photon excitation light source configured to produce a substantially parallel beam of excitation light having a single photon energy less than an absorption energy required... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091308 - System for real-time fluorescent determination of trace elements: A system for use in in-situ analysis of pharmaceutical samples, and system comprising means for holding a plurality of said samples, wherein said samples are present in the form of a powder formulation; means for moving said plurality of samples along a sample path; means for generating a plurality of... Agent: Glaxosmithkline Corporate Intellectual Property, Mai B475

20070091310 - Adaptive polarization adjustment apparatus for controlling polarization of light inputed to polarization-maintaining waveguide components: A nonlinear birefringent waveguide is used for four wave mixing, wavelength conversion, Raman amplification, etc. In order to adjust the polarization of the input light to such waveguide 14, a polarization controller 10 is provided. And at the output side of the waveguide 14, a polarization beam splitter is provided.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070091309 - Method of inspecting unevenness of partition surface of honeycomb structure and inspecting device: A method of inspecting unevenness of a partition wall surface of a honeycomb structure includes the steps of: allowing a diffusion light to enter from one end face 8 side by a predetermined lighting means 3 and to exit from the other end face 8 side of the honeycomb structure... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070091311 - Normal incidence rotating compensator ellipsometer: A normal incidence rotating compensator ellipsometer includes an illumination source that produces a broadband probe beam. The probe beam is redirected by a beam splitter to be normally incident on a sample under test. Before reaching the sample, the probe beam is passed through a rotating compensator. The probe beam... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20070091312 - Method for manufacturing optical module, positioning apparatus, evaluation method and evaluation apparatus for evaluating optical module: A method for evaluating an optical module, the optical module including a light emitting element and a supporting member for supporting an end of an optical fiber for communications, by which relative positions of the light emitting element and the supporting member are evaluated, the method including the steps of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070091313 - Orientation meter: An orientation meter for measuring an orientation of a measuring object, the orientation meter including: a plurality of light emitting elements for irradiating light to the measuring object; a light receiving element for receiving reflected light being reflected by the measuring object; and a gain adjusting light emitting element arranged... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070091314 - Apparatus and method for testing a reflector coating: A method of testing a coating on a reflector having a first focal point includes placing a mirror at the first focal point of the reflector and angled to orient with an area on the coating. Electromagnetic (EM) radiation is directed to the mirror which then directs the EM radiation... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091315 - Optical spectroscopy utilizing planar spectral filters: An optical spectrometer and/or a method of optical spectroscopy is described herein. One exemplary spectrometer includes a planar spectral filter, a dispersion system, and a detector array having at least two dimensions. The planar spectral filter filters incident light to generate a plurality of wavelength dependent spatial patterns. The dispersion... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070091316 - Multi-beam heterodyne laser doppler vibrometer: A multi-beam heterodyne vibrometer for analyzing vibration of an object includes an optical system and a combining element. The optical system generates a plurality of object beams and a plurality of reference beams where one of the plurality of beams has a frequency that is shifted from a frequency of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070091318 - Method & apparatus for optically analyzing a surface: A method and apparatus for analyzing a surface of a test object employs apparatus with a scanning interferometry system which generates a windowed interferometric signal from the surface of a test object to characterize the surface of the test object.... Agent: Lavalle D. Ptak Law Office Of Lavalle Ptak

20070091317 - Method and apparatus for optically analyzing a surface: Apparatus and methods are provided for analyzing surface characteristics of a test object using broadband scanning interferometry. Test objects amenable to these apparatus and methods include but are not limited to semiconductor wafers, semiconductor devices, metallic surfaces, and the like. An interferometry system is used to obtain an interferometry signal... Agent: Lavalle D. Ptak

20070091319 - Method and apparatus for inspecting front surface shape: The present invention provides an inspection method and an inspection apparatus which can remove influence of rear surface reflection image and inspect characteristic of a front surface shape with good accuracy by an inexpensive apparatus construction. First of all, as a stripe pattern suitable for a transparent plate-shaped object 3... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091320 - Methods and apparatus for inspecting an object: A method for inspecting an object includes emitting light from at least one of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) device, phase-shifting light emitted from at least one of the LCD device and the LCOS device, projecting the phase-shifted light onto a surface... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070091321 - Methods and apparatus for inspecting an object: A method for generating a mask for use with a light measurement system that includes a light source for projecting light onto an object, and an imaging sensor for receiving light reflected from the object. The method includes determining a profile of the object to be inspected, and generating an... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070091322 - Optical information verifying device: The optical information verification apparatus includes an image pickup section picking up an image of optical information recorded on a display medium, a measuring section measuring a record state of optical information picked up by the image pickup device in terms of a given evaluation item and outputting a measured... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070091323 - Pick and place machine with improved component pick image processing: A pick and place machine includes a sensor disposed to acquire an image of a nozzle before a pick operation, and one or more images after the pick operation. Image analytics based upon these images reveal important characteristics that can be used to classify the pick operation. In some embodiments,... Agent: Christopher R. Christenson Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070091324 - Microscope system and method for operating a microscope system: The invention relates to a microscope system and to a method for operating a microscope system. The microscope system comprises a microscope (2) which has at least one automatically adjustable structural component. The structural component is provided with at least one adjustable element. Also provided are a digital camera (25)... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070091326 - Device and method for measuring properties of multi-segment filters or combinations of filter segments: Device and method for measuring properties of combination of filter segments of the tobacco-processing industry. The device includes an illumination device structured and arranged to essentially uniformly illuminate, in a longitudinally axial manner, at least one section of the combination of filter segments, and a photodetector. The illumination device images... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070091325 - Multi-channel optical metrology: A metrology system of the instant invention is configured to characterize features or structures formed on a surface of an article of manufacture. A metrology or measurement system comprises at least two channels wherein each channel comprises one or more radiation sources, illumination optics, collection optics comprising at least one... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070091327 - Spectroscopic scatterometer system: Before the diffraction from a diffracting structure on a semiconductor wafer is measured, where necessary, the film thickness and index of refraction of the films underneath the structure are first measured using spectroscopic reflectometry or spectroscopic ellipsometry. A rigorous model is then used to calculate intensity or ellipsometric signatures of... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz LLP

20070091328 - Wafer structure with mirror shot: A wafer structure with mirror shot is provided. A wafer structure according to the present invention comprises a first mirror shot area to which a mirror shot is applied, wherein the position of a first die is searched for based on the first mirror shot area. The wafer structure further... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070085993 - Audible distance measurer-object discriminator cognition stimulant system device: An audible distance measurer object-face discriminator cognition stimulant system device housed in a handheld shaft, walking stick, belt attachment, or portable housing. The system device will capture, detect, merge, convert, process, compute and/or synthesize signals, measurements, images, objects-faces, colors, and shapes to output assistive phrases and measurements in electronic voice,... Agent: Robert Brown Jr.

20070085994 - Direct print evidence: This invention allows a user to print from a laser measuring device (lidar) directly without the aid of a data processing intermediate. The laser measuring device (lidar) and printer communicate through any means possible. The user can modify the laser measuring device (lidar) printout through a program. This allows users... Agent: Jim Kelly President

20070085996 - Blood processing apparatus with dedicated stroboscopic controller for led source: A centrifuge blood processing system for separating fluid components comprising a first light source comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes in optical communication with the centrifuge blood processing system for providing an incident light beam for illuminating an observation region on the centrifuge blood processing system, a light collection... Agent: Gambro, Inc Patent Department

20070085995 - Wearable glucometer: Apparatus for assaying an analyte in blood in a blood vessel below a patient's skin comprising: at least one light source controllable to transmit light into tissue below the skin through at least one first region on the skin; at least one light detector that receives a portion of the... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070085997 - Flow cytometry: The invention provides a flow transducer such as a flow cytometer for making simultaneous electronic and optical measurements on a particle flowing through a sensing zone.... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20070085998 - Controlled substance detection and identification system: A system for detecting controlled substances on an object including at least one laser for illuminating at least part of an object with laser energy and either a second harmonic detector or a luminescence controlled substance detector, or both. Additionally, a system also including a Raman scattering controlled substance detector... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070085999 - Device for determining a refractive index in a large number of points of a physical environment, for example part of a human or animal body: Method and apparatus for X-ray imaging of a body, employing a support to receive a body to be examined, a source emitting a beam of X-rays, a detector irradiated by the beam, a converter for converting the detected intensities into data, a means for turning the mounted mobile support by... Agent: Sturm & Fix LLP

20070086000 - Device and method for inspecting surfaces in the interior of holes: A device and method for checking surfaces in the interior of holes, depressions, or the like. The device and method are developed in such a manner that a multicolor light beam can be produced with a light source, wherein a light beam, due to the chromatic aberration of the imaging... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070086002 - Dynamic random separation among nanoparticles for nano enhanced raman spectroscopy (ners) molecular sensing: A system for performing nanostructure-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (NERS) includes a radiation source, a radiation detector configured to detect Raman scattered radiation scattered by an analyte, and a container configured to provide a sealed enclosure. The NERS system further includes a turbulence generating device configured to generate random dynamic motion of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070086001 - Dynamically variable separation among nanoparticles for nano-enhanced raman spectroscopy (ners) molecular sensing: A NERS-active structure includes a deformable, active nanoparticle support structure for supporting a first nanoparticle and a second nanoparticle that is disposed proximate the first nanoparticle. The nanoparticles each comprise a NERS-active material. The deformable, active nanoparticle support structure is configured to vary the distance between the first nanoparticle and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070086003 - Method for detection of pathogenic microorganisms: A method for the detection and identification of pathogenic microorganisms using Raman scattered light and transmitted light in the near infrared spectral region. The method may include passing the Raman scattered light and transmitted light through a FAST fiber array spectral translator.... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070086004 - Method for detection of pathogenic microorganisms: A method for the detection and identification of pathogenic microorganisms using Raman scattered light and emitted light. The method may include passing the Raman scattered light and emitted light through a FAST fiber array spectral translator.... Agent: Daniel H. Golub

20070086005 - Optical system and method for exciting and measuring fluorescence on or in samples treated with fluorescent pigments: An optical system and a method of exciting and measuring fluorescence on or in samples treated using fluorescent pigments using such an optical system are disclosed. The optical system comprises at least one first laser (1); a deflection element (7); a mirror (4); an optic (8); and a unit (10),... Agent: Notaro And Michalos

20070086006 - Spectrometer for analysis of multiple samples: A spectrometer (100) includes a light source (102) providing output light (106) to the bundled input ends (108) of multiple light pipes (110). The light pipes (110) branch into sets (118) between their input ends (108) and output ends (114), with each set (118) illuminating a sample detector (126) (via... Agent: Thermo Finnigan LLC

20070086008 - Liquid particle mass measurement in gas streams: A system for detecting fine liquid, e.g., oil, particles in a gas system having a conduit through which a gas, e.g., hydrogen, air, etc., will flow. The detection system includes a monitor including a high sensitivity photometric sensor, a data acquisition unit and flow and pressure control components to control... Agent: Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Patent Department

20070086007 - Systems and methods for detecting liquid particles in a gas system: A system for detecting fine liquid, e.g., oil, particles in a gas system having a high pressure compressor and at least two gas handling devices, e.g., a coalescer and at least one adsorber. The detection system uses plural sensors and a monitor unit to detect the presence of such fine... Agent: Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Patent Department

20070086009 - Process for the colour measurement of printed samples including brighteners: For the colour measurement of samples printed on a substrate including a brightener, a raw spectral reflection factor of the sample is measured in a first measurement by illumination of the sample with light without UV portion. In a second measurement, a fluorescence spectrum of the sample is measured by... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Attn: Basam E. Nabulsi

20070086010 - Interferometric beam combination: A method for combining beams from multiple laser emitters, which may be optical fibers or bulk amplifiers, to form a composite output beam with desirable beam characteristics, as measured, for example, by Strehl ratio. Beams from the multiple emitters are interferometrically combined in the near field, and the phases of... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070086011 - Optical tomography method: Low coherence light is divided into measuring light and reference light. The measuring light is collected to be projected onto an object of measurement. Intensities of the reflected light in a plurality of positions in the direction of depth are detected by carrying out a Fourier analysis on each channeled... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086012 - Optical tomography system: Light emitted from the light source unit is divided into measuring light and reference light. An optical path length of the measuring light or the reference light which has been divided by the light dividing means is adjusted. Interference light of the reflected light and the reference light is detected... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086013 - Interferometry method and system including spectral decomposition: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure features a method that includes directing measurement light to reflect from a measurement surface and combining the reflected measurement light with reference light, where the measurement light and reference light are derived from a common source, and there is a non-zero optical path... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070086014 - System and method for recovering lost data in a gyroscope sensor system: A system and method for recovering lost data in an electronic gyroscope sensor system are disclosed, which use a linear adaptive predictive technique for determining what data was lost by the gyroscope sensor system during a disruptive interval involved. More precisely, a system and method for recovering lost data in... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070086015 - Polarizing cavity for rfog and method for sensing rotation rate of resonator: Methods and apparatus are provided for attenuating polarization errors in ring resonators of fiber optic gyros. A ring resonator is provided having first and second resonance frequencies and comprising an optical fiber coil having a hollow core and first and second ends, a light beam generator coupled to the optical... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070086016 - Interferometer using integrated retarders to reduce physical volume: An apparatus includes an interferometer having a polarizing beam splitter to split an input beam into a measurement beam and a reference beam, the measurement beam contacting a measurement object, the reference beam contacting a reference object. The interferometer includes at least one thin retarder on a surface of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070086017 - Imaging systems using unpolarized light and related methods and controllers: Optical imaging systems are provided including a light source and a depolarizer. The light source is provided in a source arm of the optical imaging system. A depolarizer is coupled to the light source in the source arm of the optical imaging system and is configured to substantially depolarize the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070086018 - Broadband cavity spectrometer apparatus and method for determining the path length of an optical structure: A broadband light source with a sufficiently long coherence length is impinged on the optical cavity. The broadband laser light reflects from the first and second surfaces of the cavity. The two light beams, either reflected or transmitted, are phase shifted from one another by an amount proportional to the... Agent: Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20070086019 - Methods and systems for determining optical properties using low-coherence interference signals: Methods and related systems for determining properties of optical systems (e.g., interferometers) and/or optical elements (e.g., lenses and/or lens systems) are described. For example, information related to an optical thickness mismatch of an interferometer can be determined by providing scanning interferometry data. The data typically include obtaining one or more... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070086020 - Shadow moire using non-zero talbot distance: A method for measuring deformation in specimens is provided. The method includes providing a shadow moire system, the shadow moiré system including an illumination source, a reference grating and an image capture device and providing a specimen. The method further includes determining a selected distance between the specimen and the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070086021 - Drop location verification system: A system measures a location of a drop delivered by, for example, an ink-jet type applicator. An image of the drop is captured from two directions, resulting in two drop images. Only one image capturing apparatus is needed to capture the drop images. The location in three-dimensional space is determined... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20070081143 - Method and apparatus for detecting motion of an apparatus and for controlling the operations of the apparatus in accordance with the detected motion: A motion detection apparatus and method for detecting motion in an apparatus being monitored, and for controlling operations of the apparatus being monitored. First logic of the apparatus processes electrical signals output from an optical detector to produce values that represent movement or an absence of movement of the apparatus... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070081144 - Discrimination medium and discrimination method for discriminating the same: A cholesteric liquid crystal layer 10 or a multilayer film 5, and a breakable print recording layer are laminated in the discrimination medium. The multilayer film 5 has plural light transparent films which are laminated and are different from each other in refraction index. Therefore, the discrimination medium has unique... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070081145 - Electronic imaging apparatus and microscope apparatus using the same: An electronic imaging apparatus includes a connecting section connected to an optical apparatus; an optical element having a preset transmittance with respect to light in a preset wavelength region, incident from the optical apparatus; and an electronic image sensor receiving the light transmitted through the optical element.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070081147 - Method for dynamic measuring the position and the orientation of a wheel: The invention concerns a device and a method for measuring the position and/or orientation of a first element (3) with respect to a second element (2) of a vehicle, on which this first element (3) is mounted in a movable manner, with the aid of an optical measuring system with... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070081146 - Position detecting device and inclination sensor device of surveying apparatus using the same: A position detecting device includes: a liquid having a free surface; a light source configured to irradiate a light flux toward the free surface of the liquid; a dark field pattern provided between the liquid and the light source and configured to form a pattern of the light flux irradiated... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070081148 - Method and system for measuring an alignment of a detector: A method for measuring an alignment of a detector is described. The method includes determining, by a processor, the alignment of the detector with respect to a collimated radiation beam. The determination of the alignment is based on a plurality of signals from a first cell of the detector and... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070081149 - Light amount measurement device and light amount measurement method: A device for measuring the intensity of incoming light is disclosed. This device includes a rotatable light blocking unit which interrupts incident signal light at short regular intervals. The device also includes a light source which emits certain light different from the signal light while the signal light is interrupted... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081150 - Double side polished wafer scratch inspection tool: The invention is a method of inspecting a semiconductor wafer surface for scratches. The method includes positioning a semiconductor wafer for illumination by a radiation source and adjacent a background material that will absorb radiation from the radiation source, directing radiation at a surface of the wafer from the radiation... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20070081151 - Methods and systems for inspection of a wafer: Methods and systems for inspection of a wafer are provided. One method includes illuminating the wafer with light at a first wavelength that penetrates into the wafer and light at a second wafer that does not substantially penetrate into the wafer. The method also includes generating output signals responsive to... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20070081152 - Optical scanning device, image forming apparatus, and liquid crystal element: A disclosed optical scanning device scans an object scanning surface with a light beam projected from a light source and traveling through an optical system. The optical scanning device includes a liquid crystal element configured to modulate a phase. The liquid crystal element is driven by electric signals and provided... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081153 - Focusing system and method: A method of automatically focusing a microscope having a light source, an objective lens or lens system, a means to direct incident light through the objective lens or lens system to be reflected by the object, an aperture to limit the spatial extent of the incident light and serve as... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070081154 - System and method for conducting adaptive fourier filtering to detect defects in dense logic areas of an inspection surface: A dark field surface inspection tool and system are disclosed herein. The tool includes an illumination source capable of scanning a light beam onto an inspection surface. Light scattered by each inspection point is captured as image data by a photo detector array arranged at a fourier plane. The images... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas LLP

20070081155 - Lab in a cuvette: The present invention relates to an apparatus for handling a liquid sample, wherein the apparatus includes integrated sample processing and sample evaluating components.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070081157 - Apparatus and method for estimating filtrate contamination in a formation fluid: The disclosure, in one aspect, provides a method for estimating a property of a fluid that includes: pumping an ultraviolet (UV) light into a fluid withdrawn from a formation downhole at a wavelength that produces light due to the Raman effect at wavelengths that are shorter than the substantial wavelengths... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20070081156 - System and method for a chemical imaging threat assessor with a probe: The disclosure relates to a portable and/or handheld bioagent detector and methodology described herein that is based in part on advanced Raman Chemical Imaging (“RCI”) technology. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the detection system may include a fiber array spectral translator (“FAST”) and may also include a... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070081158 - Static two-dimensional aperture coding for multimodal multiplex spectroscopy: A class of aperture coded spectrometer is optimized for the spectral characterization of diffuse sources. The instrument achieves high throughput and high spatial resolution by replacing the slit of conventional dispersive spectrometers with a spatial filter or mask. A number of masks can be used including Harmonic masks, Legendre masks,... Agent: Kasha Law PLLC

20070081159 - Apparatus and methods for evaluating an optical property of a liquid sample: An apparatus for acquiring and holding liquid samples and methods using the same.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070081160 - Spectrophotometer: A spectrophotometer is provided whereby stable measurement can be performed with high processing rate and high accuracy, in online non-destructive examination of fruit or vegetables or the like using near infra-red light or the like, wherein there is no possibility of saturation of the data level or of the data... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070081161 - Alignment method and apparatus and exposure apparatus: A method for detecting disposition of plurality of exposure shot areas of an object that is to be exposed includes a first detection step of detecting the alignment marks on the object, an evaluation step of evaluating randomness of the alignment marks based on the detection result by the first... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070081162 - Method and apparatus for determining marker gas concentration using an internal calibrating gas: A method and an apparatus for measuring the concentration of a specific gas component of a gas mixture including another gas whose concentration is independently known using light absorption spectroscopy are provided. A method and an apparatus for assessing human airway inflammation by measuring the concentration of exhaled NO and... Agent: Tomlinson & O'connell, P.C.

20070081163 - Method and apparatus for scanned beam microarray assay: A system and method provides for chemical and/or biochemical analysis using a microarray interrogated by a resonantly scanned beam of light.... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20070081164 - Dither motor having integrated drive and pickoff transducers: A ring laser gyroscope is described that includes at least one laser gyroscope block and a dither motor, where the gyroscope blocks are configured to engage the dither motor. The dither motor has an outer ring, a hub section, at least one radially extending reed extending between the outer ring... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070081165 - High-sensitivity fiber-compatible optical acoustic sensor: An acoustic sensor includes at least one photonic crystal structure having at least one optical resonance with a resonance frequency and a resonance lineshape. The acoustic sensor further includes a housing substantially surrounding the at least one photonic crystal structure and mechanically coupled to the at least one photonic crystal... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070081166 - Portable optical coherence tomography (oct) devices and related systems: Portable optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices including at least one mirror configured to scan at least two directions are provided. The portable OCT devices are configured to provide a portable interface to a sample that can be aligned to the sample without repositioning the sample. Related systems are also provided.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070081167 - Interferometry method for ellipsometry, reflectometry, and scatterometry measurements, including characterization of thin film structures: A method including: imaging test light emerging from a test object over a range of angles to interfere with reference light on a detector, wherein the test and reference light are derived from a common source; for each of the angles, simultaneously varying an optical path length difference from the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070081168 - Distance determination in a scanned beam image capture device: Methods, systems, and devices can determine spatial relationships between a probe and a target surface. Specular reflections from the target surface vary dramatically with small changes in angle between the scanning beam and the target surface, and as the geometry of the beam scanner and light detector of the probe... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070081169 - Methods for characterizing semiconductor material using optical metrology: Methods for characterizing a semiconductor material using optical metrology are disclosed. In one respect, a electromagnetic radiation source may be directed in a direction substantially parallel to patterns on a semiconductor material. A polarized spectroscopic reflectivity may be obtained, and a critical point data may be determined. Using the critical... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070081170 - Overlay metrology method and apparatus using more than one grating per measurement direction: A method of controlling the lithography process used to fabricate patterns on layers of a semiconductor wafer is disclosed. The method includes providing at least two scatterometry targets, each target having a first pattern formed in an upper layer substantially aligned with a second pattern formed in a lower layer.... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20070076186 - Distance measuring device: A distance measuring device measures relative positional relationship with a target object based on time difference between time when detecting waves are projected and time when reflected waves from said target object are received. A plurality of wave projecting and receiving units are arranged in a selected scanning direction. Each... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070076187 - Measuring distance using perspective: A method is disclosed for measuring distance from a camera to parts of a scene using a characterization of perspective distortion in a photograph of the scene. In one example embodiment, a first distance measurement is obtained from the camera to a first point in the scene, the perspective distortion... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070076188 - Laser level detection system: A laser level detection system which detects a reference plane of laser at an arbitrary position includes a plurality of level detection units and an operation unit which displays a detection result of each of the level detection units and can operate each of the level detection units, and the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070076189 - Distance measuring device: A distance measuring device for measuring a distance by projecting a pulsed laser beam to an object to be measured and by receiving a reflected light from the object to be measured, comprising a first light emitting unit for projecting a pulsed laser beam for distance measurement, a second light... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20070076190 - Apparatus for obtaining an image of a blood cell and method for obtaining an image of a blood cell: A apparatus for obtaining an image of a blood cell is described, a representative one of which includes image obtainer for obtaining an image of a predetermined blood cell in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder; an analysis result obtainer for obtaining an analysis result of the blood... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070076191 - Optical determination of resistivity of phase change materials: A system includes a non-contacting optical measurement instrument and a controller. The non-contacting optical measurement instrument is configured to obtain a measurement of a phase-change material. The controller is configured to determine a resistivity of the phase-change material based on the measurement.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, P.l.l.c.

20070076192 - Differential refractometer and its adjusting method: Adjustment of a differential refractometer includes the steps of (a) equally focusing a slit image on separate portions of a photodetector, (b) decreasing the quantity of light of measuring beam, (c) making parallel movement of the slit image on the photodetector by a predetermined displacement, and (d) increasing the quantity... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070076193 - Laser scanning apparatus with improved optical features: Laser scanners are used for determining deformation in vehicle bodies and the like, using a laser scanning apparatus in conjunction with a plurality of coded targets suspended from (or in known relationship to) known reference points on the vehicle to calculate three dimensional spatial coordinates defining the actual positions of... Agent: Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne

20070076195 - Defect inspection apparatus and defect inspection method: An irregularity defect inspection apparatus for inspecting an object to be inspected having a repeated pattern composed of regularly arranged unit patterns on the surface thereon to detect an irregularity defect occurring in the repeated pattern. The apparatus includes a light source apparatus having a light source for applying light... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076194 - Method of detecting incomplete edge bead removal from a disk-like object: A method of detecting incomplete edge bead removal from a disk-like object is disclosed. First a peripheral area of a disk-like reference object is imaged. Marks are then defined in the peripheral area of the reference object. Finally, images of peripheral areas of a plurality of disk-like objects of the... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20070076196 - System and method for visual inspection of wafer: A method for performing a visual inspection of a wafer is described. First, a visual inspection system for a wafer comprising at least a wafer carrying apparatus, a light source and a reflecting element is provided. The wafer carrying apparatus is used for carrying a wafer. The light source is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070076197 - Exposure method, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of exposing a substrate to light, including a measurement step of measuring position of a mark arranged on one of a substrate and a stage configured to hold the substrate and to move; a detection step of detecting a foreign... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070076198 - Optical inspection of a specimen using multi-channel responses from the specimen: A method and inspection system to inspect a first pattern on a specimen for defects against a second pattern that is intended to be the same where the second pattern has known responses to at least one probe. The inspection is performed by applying at least one probe to a... Agent: Allston L. Jones Peters, Verny, Jones, Schmitt & Aston, L.L.P.

20070076199 - Laser microscope: A laser microscope according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a laser beam source; a phase plate providing a phase difference for laser beam from the laser beam source in accordance with an incident position; an objective lens focusing light transmitted through the phase plate onto a sample; a... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070076200 - Dual fiber microprobe for mapping elemental distributions in biological cells: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is applied on a microscale for in situ elemental analysis and spatial mapping in biological cells. A high power laser beam is focused onto a cell surface using a dual branching optical fiber probe for optical excitation of the cell constituents. Dual spectrometers and ICCD detectors... Agent: Ut-battelle, LLC Office Of Intellectual Property

20070076202 - Real-time measuring of the spatial distribution of sprayed aerosol particles: An optical system for measuring in real-time the spatial distribution of aerosol particles, such as pesticides or the like, sprayed from a vehicle over an agricultural field. An optical sensor is mounted directly on the vehicle and sends an excitation light beam through the aerosol as it is being sprayed.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070076201 - Short range lidar apparatus having a flat spatial response: A flat spatial response LIDAR apparatus for detecting particles within a short range is provided. The apparatus includes a light source projecting a light beam which is back-scattered by the particles to be detected. The back-scattered light is received, detected and analyzed. A spatial filter spatially filters the received back-scattered... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070076203 - Exposure apparatus: An exposure apparatus includes an illumination optical system having an exposure light source for emitting an exposure light, a projection optical system for guiding the exposure light to a substrate, a detection light source for emitting the detection light for detecting a focal point at a time of exposure, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076204 - Optical detection device with reduced light throughput oscillations: A method is provided to perform an optimized setting of an optical detection device, with the detection device comprising a first and a second waveguide, each having an end face adapted for emitting and receiving light and facing each other in a distance d, and an envelope which least partially... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070076205 - Structure and method for simultaneously determining an overlay accuracy and pattern placement error: The present invention provides a technique for obtaining overlay error and PPE error information from a single measurement structure. This is accomplished by forming periodic sub-structures in at least two different device layers in a single measurement structure, wherein at least one segmented and one non-segmented portion is provided in... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070076206 - Apparatus and method for measuring color: Color measuring systems and methods are disclosed. Perimeter receiver fiber optics are spaced apart from a central source fiber optic and receive light reflected from the surface of the object being measured. Light from the perimeter fiber optics pass to a variety of filters. The system utilizes the perimeter receiver... Agent: Alan R. Loudermilk Loudermilk + Associates

20070076207 - Method for verification of particles having a sensor area and sensor arrangement for carrying out this method: The invention relates to a method for verification of particles, in particular of nanoparticles (16), in which a sensor area (15) is made available for this purpose, on which the particles can accumulate. The invention also relates to a sensor arrangement having a sensor area (15) which is suitable for... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070076208 - Method and instrument for collecting fourier transform (ft) raman spectra for imaging applications: An instrument having (a) an illumination source configured to illuminate a field of illumination on a surface of a substrate that is configured to hold a sample, the field of illumination having a diameter greater than 1 micron or an area greater than that of at least one pad of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070076209 - Hydrogen sensor based upon quadrupole absorption spectroscopy: The disclosure describes an absorption spectroscopy method for sensing hydrogen gas in a sample atmosphere and an associated hydrogen sensor. A light beam, having a wavelength corresponding to a vibrational transition of hydrogen molecules from a ground vibration state to any excited rotational vibration state via a quadrupole interaction, is... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20070076210 - Position-based response to light: Response to light with laterally varying photon energy distribution is based on position, such as position on a detector of a respective light spot or intensity maximum for a wavelength or photon energy subrange. A layered structure such as a coating over the detector can produce the laterally varying distribution,... Agent: Leading-edge Law Group, PLC

20070076211 - Optical tomography method and optical tomography system: Light emitted from a light source is divided into measuring light and reference light. The reflected light from the object and the reference light are superposed. Interference light of the reflected light and reference light which have been superposed is detected. Intensities of the reflected light in a plurality of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076212 - Detecting vulnerable plaque: An apparatus and associated method for detecting vulnerable plaque within a lumen defined by an intraluminal wall is described. The apparatus includes a probe having a distal portion and a proximal portion. The apparatus includes an optical waveguide extending along the probe. The optical waveguide is configured to carry optical... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070076213 - Optical tomography system: When a tomographic image of an object in a body cavity is to be obtained by an optical coherence tomography measurement employing a probe, the distance between the probe and the object is measured and the optical path length of the measuring light or the reference light is adjusted.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076214 - System and method for brewster angle straddle interferometry: A system and method for biomolecular sensing are disclosed. The system includes a receptor for a target, a source of p-polarized light positioned to direct light toward the receptor in a manner effective to result in a condition of near perfect interference in the absence of target binding; and a... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20070076215 - Optical tomography system: In an optical coherence tomography measurement, interference light of the reflected light of the measuring light from the object and the reference light is detected. A controller switches between a measurement initiating position adjusting mode and a tomographic image obtaining mode. A light source which emits light having a predetermined... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076216 - Multi-axis interferometer system using independent, single axis interferometers: Improved systems, apparatus, and methods for detecting positions of moving stages and a reference position of a beam column are provided. For some embodiments, independent discrete interferometers may be utilized for distance measurements in each axis, rather than a cumbersome monolithic multi-axis interferometer utilized in conventional systems.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070076217 - Optical coherence tomography for eye-length measurement: An accurate measure of eye length can be obtained using concurrent OCT measurements. A position OCT device can be used to continually monitor the position of the front surface of the cornea, while a distance OCT device can determine the apparent distance between the front surface of the cornea and... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20070076218 - Lithographic apparatus temperature compensation: A lithographic apparatus includes a position measurement system to determine along a measurement path a position of a first part of the lithographic apparatus with respect to a position of a second part of the lithographic apparatus. The position determination system comprises a plurality of temperature sensors to measure a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070076223 - Optical mapping apparatus with optimized oct configuration: OCT apparatus includes an interferometer, having an input beam splitter and a 50/50 output splitter. The splitting ratio of the input splitter may be optimized depending on the source power of light source and on the mismatch of the balanced receiver. The input splitter is a plate beam-splitter to minimize... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20070076219 - Optical tomography system: In an optical coherence tomography measurement, a controller switches between a measurement initiating position adjusting mode in which the position in the direction of depth of the object in which a tomographic image signal is to be obtained is adjusted and a tomographic image obtaining mode in which a tomographic... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076220 - Optical tomography system: An optical tomography system for obtaining a tomographic image of an object to be measured includes a light source unit which emits low coherence light. The low coherence light emitted from the light source unit is divided into measuring light and reference light. The reflected light from the object when... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076221 - Optical tomography system: In an optical coherence tomography measurement, interference light of the reflected light of the measuring light from the object and the reference light obtained by dividing light emitted from a light source unit is detected. A controller switches between a measurement initiating position adjusting mode in which the position in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076222 - Optical tomography system: In an optical tomography system for obtaining a tomographic image of an object to be measured by detecting interference light of the reflected light and the reference light, a controller switches between a first detecting mode in which the interference light is detected at a first wavelength resolution and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076224 - Method for synchronizing the operation of multiple devices for generating three dimensional surface models of moving objects: A method is presented that allows multiple devices for generating three dimensional surface models of moving objects to be used simultaneously. A timing pattern is used to control and trigger the devices in order to operate seven of the devices without interference. In one embodiment, a method of employing optical... Agent: Manatt Phelps And Phillips Robert D. Becker

20070076225 - Position detecting device, liquid ejecting apparatus and method of cleaning smear of scale: A position detecting device, includes a light emitting portion that includes a light emitting surface which emits light, a light receiving portion that includes a light receiving surface which receives the light from the light emitting portion, a scale that is arranged between the light emitting surface and the light... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP