34th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090207398 | Near Field Exposure That Reduces Scatter of a Surface Plasmon Polariton Wave Going Around a Light Blocking Member - An exposure mask in which exposure of an exposure object is carried out on the basis of near field light leaking from a plurality of openings provided in a light blocking member in a mutually adjoining relation, in which the spacing between adjacent openings is not greater than the wavelength of light used for the exposure, and an end portion of the opening at the exposure object side has a structure effective to reduce scatter of a surface plasmon polariton wave going around to the exposure object side of the light blocking member. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207399 | Lithographic method - A method of calibrating a front to backside alignment capable lithographic apparatus. The method includes attaching a substrate having a plurality of alignment marks to a carrier, the substrate being arranged such that the alignment marks face towards the carrier; reducing the thickness of the substrate; using an alignment system of the apparatus to measure the positions of images of alignment marks formed by optics in a substrate table of the apparatus; projecting a pattern onto the substrate, the position of the pattern being determined according to the measured positions of the alignment marks; measuring the positions of the projected pattern and the alignment marks provided on the opposite side of the substrate, the position of the alignment marks provided on the opposite side of the substrate being measured by the alignment system directing radiation through the substrate; and comparing the measured positions in order to determine an overlay error. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207400 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE FABRICATION METHOD - The present invention provides an exposure apparatus including a measuring unit which includes an imaging optical system configured to guide light having propagated through a projection optical system to an image sensor, and is configured to measure the overall birefringence of the imaging optical system and the projection optical system, a calibration unit which is set on a side of an object plane of the projection optical system in order to measure a birefringence of the imaging optical system, and is configured to reflect the light from the measuring unit back to the measuring unit without using the projection optical system, and a calculation unit configured to isolate, from the result of measuring the overall birefringence, the birefringence of the imaging optical system measured by the measuring unit, thereby calculating the birefringence of the projection optical system. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207401 | APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS - An apparatus characterizes at least one fiber Bragg grating. The apparatus includes a laser pulse source, an optical spectrum analyzer, and multiple optical paths. A first optical path includes a pulse stretcher and an attenuator. A second optical path optically coupled to the first optical path includes a mirror. A third optical path optically coupled to the first optical path includes a first fiber Bragg grating. A fourth optical path is optically coupled to the second optical path, the third optical path, and the optical spectrum analyzer. A fifth optical path optically coupled to the laser pulse source and the optical spectrum analyzer includes a delay line. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207402 | Method for Detecting a Core of an Optical Fiber and Method and Apparatus for Connecting Optical Fibers - A method for connecting optical fibers comprises determining the position of the core of a fiber. In response to heating, the optical fibers emit light of which an image can be recorded. The position of the core and/or the eccentricity of the fiber is determined from the recorded image. The core position and/or eccentricity can be used to align fibers for a subsequent fusion splicing operation. The process is suitable for, for example, bend optimized optical fibers. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207403 | Method of measuring front and back surfaces of target object - A method of measuring a front surface profile and a back surface profile of a target object includes: mounting the target object in such a posture that a first measuring surface (front surface) is measurable by a probe; first measuring a contour of the target object; measuring the first measuring surface of the target object; reversing the target object; second measuring the contour of the target object with the reversed posture of the target object being maintained; obtaining a measurement position of a second measuring surface by comparison of contour data obtained through the first and second measuring of the contour, the measurement position of the second measuring surface corresponding to a measurement position of the first measuring surface at which the measuring of the first measuring surface is conducted; and measuring a profile of the second measuring surface along the obtained measurement position of the second measuring surface. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207404 | System and Method for Surface Inspection of Micro- and Nanomechanical Structures - The system for surface inspection is arranged to detect relative displacement and/or vibration features of a plurality of points of a plurality of elements ( | 2009-08-20 |
20090207405 | DEFECT INSPECTING APPARATUS - A defect inspecting apparatus of the invention solves a problem that in a defect inspecting apparatus, because of improving detection sensitivity of a microscopic defect by reducing a detection pixel size, a focal depth becomes shallow, a height of imaging is varied due to environmental change and the detection sensitivity of a defect becomes unstable. This apparatus comprises an XY stage, which carries a substrate to be inspected and scans in a predetermined direction, and a mechanism having a system of irradiating a defect on the inspected substrate at a slant and detecting the defect by a detection optical system disposed on the upper side, which corrects a height of imaging in real time for change in temperature and barometric pressure in order to keep the imaging in a best condition. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207406 | PARTICLE INSPECTION APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A particle inspection apparatus includes an irradiation unit configured to apply a light beam onto front and back surfaces of an object to be inspected, first and second detection units configured to detect scattering light from the surfaces, a calculation unit configured to conduct a particle inspection on the surfaces on the basis of outputs from the detection units, and a control unit configured to control the irradiation unit, the detection units, and the calculation unit. The irradiation unit can selectively apply the beam onto the front or back surface. The control unit causes the calculation unit to conduct the particle inspection on the inspection surface on which the light beam is selectively applied, on the basis of outputs made by the detection unit corresponding to simultaneous application and selective application of the light beam. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207407 | TWO-PHOTON-ABSORPTION DISPERSION SPECTROMETER - A tunable optical spectrometer includes a medium configured to perform polarization rotation within a frequency band on a linearly polarized test beam, wherein the medium is circularly birefringent, and wherein the polarization rotation is achieved based on two-photon-absorption. The medium includes a gaseous substance, a first reference laser beam having a first reference frequency, and a second reference laser beam having a second reference frequency, wherein the first reference laser beam and the second reference laser beam have a same circular polarization state. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207408 | System and method of aligning a sample - A system and method of use thereof that enables determining and setting sample alignment based on the location of, and geometric attributes of a monitored image formed by reflection of an electromagnetic beam from a sample and into an image monitor, which beam is directed to be incident onto the sample along a locus which is substantially normal to the surface of the sample. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207409 | Measuring Optical Spectral Property of Light Based on Polarization Analysis - Apparatus, systems and techniques for measuring optical spectral property such as the frequency and the optical spectrum of light based on polarization analysis. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207410 | POSITION ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM FOR LASER OPTICS AND LASER ASSEMBLY HAVING THE SAME - A position adjustment mechanism for laser optics includes a fixed mount, a fastening member, and a position regulation device. The fixed mount is connected to a heat-dissipating mount and positioned near the optics mount. The fastening member penetrates the fixed mount and the optics mount to connect the fixed mount with the optics mount and maintains a gap between the fixed mount and the optics mount. The position regulation device is positioned in the vicinity of the fastening member and in the gap between the fixed mount and the optics mount. The position regulation device presses against the optics mount to adjust the position of the reflective element relative to the light-emitting device. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207411 | Aligning Multiple Image Frames in an LCoS Projector - In one embodiment, a system for aligning multiple image frames in an LCoS projector is provided. The system includes a plurality of detectors aligned with a desired projection image of a projector. The plurality of detectors is coupled to the projector. Each detector of the plurality of detectors is aligned with an edge of the desired projection image. The plurality of detectors may be coupled to a screen distant from the projector, or part of a calibration unit associated more directly with the projector. The system may further include calibration logic in the projector. The calibration logic is to receive data from the plurality of detectors and to adjust an image of the projectors responsive to the data from the plurality of detectors. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207412 | Multi-channel Optical Imaging - A beam splitter array includes first and second beam splitters and a reflector to reflect part of a beam from the second splitter. The first splitter outputs a first beam having a power spectral density comprising a substantial portion of a white light spectrum from a first output port, and a second beam of optical radiation having a power spectral density comprising a substantial portion of a first non-white spectrum and a substantial portion of a second non-white spectrum from a second output port, from an input beam received at a first angle of incidence. The second splitter receives the second beam at a second incidence angle, and reflects a substantial portion of the second beam having a power spectral density comprising the first non-white light spectrum, and transmits a substantial portion of the second beam having a power spectral density comprising the second non-white light spectrum. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207413 | OPTICAL METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING A CONSTITUENT IN A GAS CONTAINING OXYGEN IN HARSH ENVIRONMENTS - A method for detecting a gas phase constituent such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, hydrogen, or hydrocarbons in a gas comprising oxygen such as air, includes providing a sensing material or film having a metal embedded in a catalytically active matrix such as gold embedded in a yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) matrix. The method may include annealing the sensing material at about 900° C., exposing the sensing material and gas to a temperature above 400° C., projecting light onto the sensing material, and detecting a change in the absorption spectrum of the sensing material due to the exposure of the sensing material to the gas in air at the temperature which causes a chemical reaction in the sensing material compared to the absorption spectrum of the sensing material in the absence of the gas. Systems employing such a method are also disclosed. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207414 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY - An apparatus is provided for measuring a frequency-domain optical coherence tomography power spectrum from a sample. The apparatus includes a broadband light source, an optical spectrum analyzer, and a partially reflective element optically coupled to the light source, to the optical spectrum analyzer, and to the sample. A first portion of light from the light source is reflected by the partially reflective element and propagates to the optical spectrum analyzer. A second portion of light from the light source propagating through the partially reflective element, impinging the sample, reflecting from the sample, and propagating to the optical spectrum analyzer. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207415 | METHOD OF READING INFORMATION FROM A HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE MEDIUM AND HOLOGRAPHIC DATA READ OUT DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method of reading information from a holographic data storage medium ( | 2009-08-20 |
20090207416 | SURFACE CHARACTERISTIC DETERMINING APPARATUS - Light from the first and second different wavelength light sources is combined and supplied to a director that directs zeroth order light to a reference surface and other order, generally first order diffracted light to on a location of the sample surface which is dependent upon wavelength. Light reflected by the sample and reference surfaces interfere. A characteristic of a sample surface is determined from interference light of the first wavelength. Interference light of the second wavelength is used to enable phase-locking by adjusting the path length difference by moving the reference surface or changing the refractive index of a path portion to compensate for phase variation due to environmental effects. Non-mechanical scanning is used to scan the sample surface by using a variable wavelength source and a director providing different first order diffraction angles for different wavelengths or an acousto-optical device that provides a variable pitch acoustic diffraction grating. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207417 | High Intensity Fabry-Perot Sensor - A method and apparatus for detecting seismic vibrations using a series of MEMS units, with each MEMS unit including an interferometer is described. The interferometers on the MEMS units receive and modulate light from two differing wavelengths by way of a multiplexing scheme involving the use of Bragg gratings and light circulators, and an optoelectronic processor receives and processes the modulated light to discern vibrational movement of the system, which in turn allows for monitoring and calculation of a specified environmental parameter, such as seismic activity, temperature or pressure. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207418 | Absolute distance measurement method and system using optical frequency generator - The present invention relates to absolute distance measurement method and system using an optical frequency generator. The absolute distance measurement method using the optical frequency generator includes (a) generating a plurality of different stabilized wavelengths by using the optical frequency generator; (b) obtaining an initial estimation value of a distance to be measured by using a frequency sweeping interferometer; (c) analyzing an uncertainty range of the obtained initial estimation value; (d) measuring excess fraction parts of the different wavelengths by analyzing interference signals for each of the wavelengths; (e) determining integer parts for each of the different wavelengths within the uncertainty range of the initial estimation value; and (f) measuring an absolute distance to be measured by using the excess fraction part and the integer parts for each of the different wavelengths. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207419 | Large areas undistorted imaging apparatus for light speckles and method thereof - The present invention relates to a large area undistorted imaging apparatus for light speckles and a method thereof. The large area undistorted imaging apparatus for light speckles comprises a light-emitting device, a light-limiting module, and a sensor. The light-limiting module is adapted in front of the sensor, and includes a plurality of light-limiting members. The light-limiting members are arranged in a one- or two-dimensional array. When the light-emitting device emits light to an object surface, one or more rays of scattered light are produced. By means of the light-limiting module, said one or more rays of scattered light are limited, and a plurality of rays of diffraction light is produced. The plurality of rays of diffraction light within a certain angular field of view produced by a light-limiting member interferes with each other and produces a plurality of undistorted light speckles, and forms an array of light-speckle images on the sensor. Finally, according to the array of light-speckle images, a large-area and undistorted light-speckle pattern is given. Because the light-speckle pattern is undistorted and records the three-dimensional characteristics of the object surface, the undistorted imaging apparatus can be applied to computer mice, finger guiders, smart cards, three-dimensional fingerprint identification apparatuses, a machine tool or precise manipulator positioning systems. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207420 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT - The invention provides a handheld electronic gauge that is configured to obtain measurement data for an object, such as a wheel, rail, axle, or the like. The gauge includes one or more position sensors that automatically determine when the gauge is in a measurement position. The invention also provides a handheld computing device that can automatically determine when a gauge is in the measurement position and automatically obtain measurement data using the gauge. As a result, the invention provides a solution for measuring an object, such as a railway wheel, that is portable and capable of repeatedly providing various desired measurements, irrespective of the operator. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207421 | Laser 3-Point Distance and Angle Calculator - A laser distance and angle calculator that will give three measured distances simultaneously; for example from Point A to B, Point A to C and Point B to C. It will also calculate the angle at each intersecting points. The angle at your point of reference is required, but the other angles are calculated. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207422 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING THE SAME - A measurement system configured to measure a position of an object in a lithographic apparatus, includes at least three position detectors configured to detect the position of the object, the at least three position detectors each including a single or multi-dimensional optical encoder to provide at least six position values, the optical encoders being coupled to the object at different locations within a three dimensional coordinate system, wherein at least one position value is provided for each dimension of the three dimensional coordinate system, and wherein the measurement system is configured to calculate the position of the object within the three dimensional coordinate system from a subset of at least three of the six position values and to calculate an orientation of the object with respect to the three dimensional coordinate system from another subset of at least three of the six position values. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207423 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In an information processing apparatus which incorporates a plurality of arithmetic units and a plurality of storage units, power consumption in a power saving mode is reduced, and a return time required to return from the power saving mode to a normal power mode is shortened. With this invention, in an information processing method in an information processing apparatus which incorporates a plurality of CPUs and a plurality of RAMs, when a condition required to transit to the power saving mode is satisfied, each CPU stores information associated with an operation state of an active program in one RAM, and turns off the power supply to devices except for the one RAM. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207424 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides an Image processing apparatus, etc. by which a user is able to set which of graphics, etc. and characters are enlarged to be printed on a priority basis. An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of separating a character object from a graphic object included in an image and adjusting sizes of the character object and the graphic object according to a priority of an object designated by a user. The adjusting step enlarges the size of a high-priority object and reduces the size of a low-priority object. Furthermore, the adjusting step includes the step of automatically adjusting the sizes of the character object and the graphic object. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207425 | RESOLUTION DOUBLING FOR PRINTER APPARATUS - A system includes a first memory portion storing image data and a second memory portion storing a lookup table having image resolution conversion data. Conversion logic is configured to access the image resolution conversion data and convert the image data, which has a first resolution, to print data, which has a second resolution. The second resolution has a lower pixel count than the first resolution. The second resolution has a higher bit per pixel ratio that the first resolution. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207426 | Simulation of a Printed Dot-Pattern Bitmap - Embodiments of the present invention enable generation of a simulated reference bitmap image that corresponds to a dot-pattern image. Certain applications of the present invention are its use in various embodiments of a system for inspection of a printed circuit board (“PCB”) substrate. In embodiments, a dot-pattern image and user-input configuration parameters are used to create an initialized simulated reference bitmap, and the dot pattern is mapped onto the reference bitmap using a scaling factor. In embodiments, reference bitmaps of individual sections of a dot-pattern image may be generated separately. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207427 | Printing Control Method for a Printer and a Printer - A printer prints all print data when an inverted print mode is selected for printing even if an insufficient memory state occurs in the image conversion buffer. If the roll paper printer | 2009-08-20 |
20090207428 | Printing System - An object is to provide a printing system that is capable of reducing the time loss while keeping the function to instantly adjust the operation status of a printing press, through the structure in which even if one display part fails to operate, another display part can instantly display the information which has been displayed by the one display part. There is provided a printing system for a printing press, which includes two control devices, each including a display part for displaying plural kinds of the operation status of the printing press and an input part for setting or changing operation conditions relating to the operation status that is being displayed in the display part, the two control devices being installed with the same computer program relating to the operation conditions, and one of the two control devices being connected to the printing press, and being connected to the residual control device by wire or wireless, in which the two control devices each are provided with a mirroring function, allowing the operation condition inputted from the one control device to be rewritten into the residual control device and stored therein. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207429 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data, a generation unit configured to generate a histogram based on a signal value of each pixel in the image data acquired by the acquisition unit, a derivation unit configured to derive the number of pixels matching a first condition in the histogram generated by the generation unit, and a selection unit configured to select, according to the number of pixels derived by the derivation unit, one of a fixing processing adjustment mode for increasing a degree of gloss of a print product by adjusting fixing processing and a transparent toner mode for increasing a degree of gloss of a print product by using a transparent toner. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207430 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COLOR IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A color image forming apparatus is provided that forms an image by correcting registration shifts during an image forming process by using image data and which prevents toner from being blown away and scattered during a fixing process by thinning pixels without making an erroneous decision. When multivalued color image is binarized, the threshold is corrected by using information on grayscale level correction. Further, when trailing phenomenon prevention operation is performed on the binarized image data, the patterns to be used for pattern matching are changed and selected according to whether the subscan direction line shifting point lies within the reference window. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207431 | Backlight adjustment processing of image using image generation record information - A decision as to whether to perform backlight adjustment processing is executed using both image data and image generation record information, and when it is decided to execute the same, backlight adjustment processing to increase brightness value of at least some pixels in the image data is executed. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207432 | Method For Creating A Garment - A method of creating a garment. The method comprises the steps of: (a) capturing an image of a person using a camera; (b) selecting a card having a depiction of a garment and encoded information relating to the garment depicted; (c) optically reading the encoded information on the card; (d) manipulating the captured image in accordance with the encoded information; (e) generating print data for garment pieces using the encoded information and the manipulated image; (f) communicating the print data to a garment fabric printer; and (g) printing outlines of garment pieces and a decorative finish on to a surface of a bolt of fabric. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207433 | VARIABLE DATA DIGITAL PANTOGRAPHS - A variable data pantograph is formed by receiving a variable data string and retrieving at least one character representation from a vocabulary of character representations stored in memory. The retrieved at least one character representation corresponds to the variable data string. Each of the character representations in the vocabulary include a foreground region including a character shape and a background region suitably sized and arranged for encompassing the foreground region. The background region incorporates a first pattern of elements and the foreground region incorporates a second pattern of elements. The retrieved at least one character representation is assembled to form a variable data pantograph, whereby when the variable data pantograph is rendered in an original document, the foreground and background regions are similar in tone, the foreground and background regions being substantially less similar in tone in a copy of the original document to render the character visible. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207434 | IMAGE OUTPUT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING OPERATION PROGRAM - An image output system includes a computer and a complex machine connected to the computer. A password generating section of the complex machine, in a case where a user ID transmitted from a transmitting section of the computer is stored in a HDD, generates a password which is different from the user ID, and the transmitting section transmits the password generated by the password generating section. A controller, in a case where the password received by a password receiving section and the password transmitted from the password transmitting section to the computer, controls an image forming section to output image data which is not combined with electronic watermark information by an electronic watermark information combining section. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207435 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SCANNING METHOD - An image scanning apparatus according to the invention includes: a scanning unit configured to scan each of plural images from plural originals that are inputted; a rotation designating unit configured to designate rotation of the plural images that are scanned, so that an orientation of the plural images that are scanned coincides with a desired image orientation; a first image rotating unit configured to rotate the image that is scanned, in accordance with the designated rotation of the image; an orientation determining unit configured to determine whether the image orientation rotated by the first image rotating unit coincides with the desired image orientation or not; and a second image rotating unit configured to, for an image determined as not coinciding by the orientation determining unit, further rotate the orientation of the image so that the orientation coincides with the desired image orientation. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207436 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SERVER, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus comprises: a first specifying unit that, in a document of a plurality of sets represented by document data, specifies definite form portions whose images are identical in each set of the plurality of sets; a second specifying unit that, in a document of a plurality of sets represented by document data, specifies variable portions whose images are to be substituted in each set of the plurality of sets; and an output unit that outputs a definite form portion page having an image of the definite form portion specified by the first specifying unit and a variable portion page having an image of the variable portion specified by the second specifying unit. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207437 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming device includes: a processing unit that executes a prescribed process; a user interface unit that displays information related to the executed process, and that receives a setting of content of the executed process; a communication unit that is connected to an external device, that obtains process content information and content of the setting in the user interface unit from the external device, and that obtains operator information; a storage that stores the process content information and the operator information so as to be coordinated with each other; a user specifying unit that specifies a user; and a control unit that controls content of a display specified based on the process content information to be displayed on the user interface unit, and considers content of a setting specified based on the process content information to be received by the user interface unit. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207438 | Print system - A print system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of client computers, one or a plurality of print servers that store jobs received from the client computers in a memory unit and process the jobs, a plurality of printers that receive a job from the print servers and perform print processing and a network that the client computers, the print servers and the printers are connected to. On receipt of a job from the client computer, in order to notify that the job received from the client computer is stored in the memory unit, the print server transmits job information of the received job to the printers on the network. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207439 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTER - A printing system can suppress an increase in the processing load of a printer, and facilitate print management. To accomplish this, a printing system includes an authentication unit with which a printer authenticates a user based on account information the user inputs using a host device, a token generating unit with which the printer generates, after the user has been authenticated by the authentication unit, a token containing print function restriction information by referring to information in which the user, and application and the print function restriction are associated with one another, and transmits the token to the host device, a command generating unit with which the host device receives the token to generate a command containing the print function restriction information, and transmits the command to the printer, and a printing unit with which the printer receives the command and executes printing subject to print function restrictions. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207440 | BILLING SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS AND BILLING APPARATUS - A disclosed billing system includes a client apparatus, a multi-functional peripheral, a server apparatus and a billing apparatus. A communication unit of the billing apparatus sequentially transmits first account balance information read from a storage medium to the server apparatus; receives from the server apparatus a copy permission signal which is then transmitted to the multi-functional peripheral; receives from the multi-functional peripheral a copy-output signal regarding a copy output having been performed on the multi-functional peripheral, the copy-output signal being then transmitted to the server apparatus; and receives copy billing information transmitted from the server apparatus according to the transmitted copy-output signal. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207441 | Job Processing Apparatus and Method for Controlling the Job Processing Apparatus - A job processing apparatus includes a first job-receiving section that receives a panel operation job produced by operating a control panel in a mode, and a second job-receiving section that receives non-panel operation jobs other than the panel operation job. A control panel mode-identifying section is also provided to identify which mode the control panel is in when the second job-receiving section receives any one of the non-panel operation jobs. A non-panel operation job-identifying section identifies which non-panel operation job has been received by the second job-receiving section. An execution timing control section controls when the non-panel operation job received by the non-panel operation job-receiving section is executed, according to the identified non-panel operation job and the identified mode of the control panel. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207442 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives image data; an extracting unit that extracts specific information from the image data; a first recognizing unit that recognizes destination information from the specific information; and a control unit that outputs the image data, wherein, when the first recognition unit recognizes a plurality of destination information, the control unit outputs the image data to respective destinations corresponding to each of the plurality of the destination information. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207443 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A client apparatus is coupled to a server apparatus via a network in an information processing system. In the server apparatus, installing of a plug-in file in a first storage apparatus is detected, binary image data of the detected plug-in file are written to a first storage area, and the binary image data of the plug-in file is copied to the client apparatus. In the client apparatus, copying of the binary image data of the plug-in file in a second storage area is detected, the binary image data of the plug-in file stored in the second storage area is written in an executable state within a second storage apparatus, and the plug-in file in the second storage apparatus is read as a program. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207444 | Printer and control method for a printer - A printer enables selecting the process used for printing to the end of the print data when a no-paper state occurs during printing. The printer | 2009-08-20 |
20090207445 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A technique for providing a first information processing apparatus configured to acquire first identification information as information for identifying the information processing apparatus, searching for a second information processing apparatus capable of wireless communication, acquiring a second identification information as information for identifying the second information processing apparatus that was found, comparing the first identification information and the second identification information, changing the first identification information when the first identification information and the second identification information are identical, and notifying when the first identification information is changed. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207446 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, PROGRAM, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A client PC that can cause an image processing apparatus to print a job including multiple printed materials in one job, and has a describing unit to describe information relating to post-processing performed as to a portion of printed material of the multiple printed materials printed by the image processing apparatus, as a statement of instruction, and outputs the statement of instruction described with the describing unit with an outputting unit. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207447 | MANAGING PRINT JOBS - Methods for creating a customized document using a downloadable product design tolls executing in the user's browser. A template for a partially completed product design is selected by the user and downloaded to the user's computer for editing by the user at the user's computer using the downloadable design tools. While viewing the product design template, the user can enter text or other content into the template elements. The completed product design can be uploaded to the server for production of the corresponding printed product. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207448 | Communication Terminal Device and Communication System - A communication terminal device includes a communication unit, an archive determination unit, an archive data creating unit and an interface unit. The communication unit receives data from another communication terminal device. The archive determination unit searches whether or not archive information is included in the data received by the communication unit to determine whether or not the received data is archive data. When the archive determination unit determines that the data is not archive data, the archive data creating unit processes the data into archive data by adding archive information to the data. The interface unit transmits the archive data to another different communication terminal device. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207449 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE MONITORING OF PRINT SYSTEMS - A system and method for remotely monitoring and servicing user's print system including the ability to diagnose a problem with a user's print system based on properties monitored from such system and creating a query that predicts the source of the problem based on past history for this print system and other user's print systems. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207450 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, SHADING CORRECTION METHOD, AND SHADING CORRECTION PROGRAM - A technique is provided that can realize highly accurate shading correction with a simple configuration. A light amount of illumination light on a predetermined illumination target by a light source is controlled such that reflected light having a first luminance value as predetermined black reference data, reflected light having a second luminance value as predetermined white reference data, and reflected light having another luminance value as at least one value between the first luminance value and the second luminance value can be obtained. Information concerning the luminance of reflected light obtained by illuminating the predetermined illumination target with the light source, the light amount of which is controlled, is acquired. Shading correction is performed on the basis of the acquired information. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207451 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Image processing apparatus and image processing method for formation of high quality image by high-speed error diffusion processing by execution of more complicated threshold condition processing in a simple manner. When error diffusion processing is performed on multivalued image data having plural density components and the result of processing is outputted, upon execution of error diffusion processing on a first density component among the plural density components, a threshold value used in the error diffusion processing is determined based on a density value of a second density component, then the error diffusion processing is performed on the first density component based on the determined threshold value, and the result of execution of the error diffusion processing is outputted. Further, upon execution of the error diffusion processing on the second density component among the plural density components, a threshold value used in the error diffusion processing is determined based on a density value of the first density component, then the error diffusion processing is performed on the second density component based on the determined threshold value, and the result of the error diffusion processing is outputted. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207452 | PRINTER HAVING A CONTROLLER METHOD OF PRINTING WITH LOW AND HIGH SPEED NOZZLE FIRING MODES - A method of page expansion and printing of image data received by a printer from a computer includes the steps of receiving the image data from the computer, the data having a bi-level black layer compressed in an EDRL (Edge Delta and Runlength) format and a continuous tone (“contone”) layer, and decompressing the respective layers in parallel. The method also includes the steps of halftoning contone layer data to a bi-level data and compositing the bi-level black layer over the bi-level data to form an image, and transmitting the image to the printhead having staggered nozzles designed to match a flow of paper through the printer. The method further includes the step of operating the printhead according to one of a low-speed nozzle firing mode and a high-speed firing mode to print the image on the paper, the low-speed firing mode having a firing rate half that of the high-speed firing mode. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207453 | Image-processing apparatus, an image-forming apparatus, and a program - An image-processing apparatus for quantizing multi-level (M-level) image data into N-level values, where M>N>1, using a multi-level error-diffusion process or a minimum-average multi-level error method is disclosed. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207454 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - A document processing apparatus which is capable of causing predetermined processes to be performed using sheets of one fixed format, in both of the case of scanning a fixed format sheet which has a description entered therein and the case of scanning a sheet which has a description entered therein but is other than the fixed format sheet. When a fixed format sheet having an entry made thereto is scanned in, a multifunction machine executes a first document processing process. When a fixed format sheet has been previously scanned in, if a sheet other than the fixed format sheet is scanned in, the multifunction machine executes s second document processing process. When no fixed format sheet has not been previously scanned in, if a sheet other than the fixed format sheet is scanned in, the multifunction machine executes a usual process. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207455 | Image processing according to image output mode - Picture quality adjustment processing is executed using picture quality adjustment parameter value sets corresponding to a plurality of output modes. First and second image processing modules can execute the same picture quality adjustment, and they can utilize picture quality adjustment parameters in common. If picture quality adjustment is executed by the first image processing module, picture quality adjustment by the second image processing module is prohibited. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207456 | Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming Method - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image input unit to input image data; a chase pattern generating unit to generate a chase pattern in which a plurality of chase pattern dots, each of which has a plurality of print dots, are arranged within a predetermined block; an overlay unit to overlay the chase pattern onto the image data; an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet based on the image data onto which the chase pattern is overlaid; and an overlaid position control unit to control an overlaid position of the chase pattern on the image data so as to shift the overlaid position by a shift amount that is equal to or more than a width of each of the chase pattern dots, when forming images on a plurality of sheets. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207457 | SYSTEM HAVING PRINTED INTERACTIVE FORM AND SENSING DEVICE - A system for computer software interaction is provided which has a printed form and sensing device. The form has information related to an interactive element coincidentally printed with coded tags. Each tag encodes data on the interactive element and an orientation and position of that tag on the form. The sensing device has an image sensor for capturing images of the tags when the sensing device is used to interact with the interactive element, and a processor. The processor determines the orientations and positions of the tags within the captured images which corresponds to the printed orientations and positions, decodes the data encoded by the captured tags at the determined orientations and positions, and sends indicating data indicative of the decoded data and the determined orientations and positions to a computer system for interpretation of the interaction. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING USING VARIABLE-DENSITY WHITE INK UNDER-PRINTED LAYER - Techniques for generated variable density mono-color under-print layer(s) for printing underneath an image on a substrate to improve the appearance of the printed image. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207459 | Personal digital assistant facilitated communication system - A bifurcated interface for integrated use in a fax-to-email system provides an alternative or additional method for command entry a fax-to-email system preferably through a remote, commercially available, personal digital assistant or like device modified by software to perform the command entry functions. Delivery of commands, and other data, from the PDA is made, preferably, via infrared signals, but, alternatively, by direct cable syncing and other techniques. Thus, the interface is bifurcated having a portable traveler portion and a host portion in a more permanent connection with the fax function of the fax-to-email system. The PDA functions as the interface traveler portion, and becomes (at least temporarily) a specially programmed data entry tool with command communicating ability and a protocol shared by (or matched to) the interface host portion. The system can also be used in cooperation with Internet Web service for reporting, accounting, information services, and user interaction. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207460 | SERVICE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - A plurality of equipment connected to a network are linked with each other to perform plural processing operations to document data. When, for example, a user defines a desired service linkage job flow by using, for example, a GUI screen displayed on a client terminal, job flow information is transmitted to a script creation server, and a script is created in which processing contents and a storage location of a document as a processing object are defined. The created script can be stored in a storage unit such as, for example, a script management server. When the user selects a desired script among plural scripts stored in the script management server, the selected script is transmitted to a linkage processing server. The linkage processing server interprets the script, makes a processing request to respective devices such as, for example, an image processing device so that the document is processed in accordance with the processing contents described in the script, and links the devices with each other to perform plural processing operations. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207461 | Image forming apparatus - In an image forming apparatus, a distance adjusting unit adjusts an inter-unit distance between a contact unit and an image carrier by moving the image carrier or the contact unit by applying an opposing force to the image carrier or the contact unit against a biasing force applied by a biasing unit based on thickness information of a recording sheet acquired by a thickness-information acquiring unit and data indicating a relationship between the thickness information and an inter-unit distance change amount stored in a data storage unit. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207462 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes: a light source emitting a plurality of colors; a light receiver including a plurality of pixels which receive lights of respective colors; an analog-to-digital converter which analog-to-digital converts analog signals obtained by the light receiver to obtain digital photoelectric conversion outputs, respectively; a color determining portion which receives output signals, determines whether output signals for respective colors from the same pixel are within predetermined ranges, respectively, and outputs, as dropout data, pixel position information of the pixel, the outputs signals from which are within the predetermined ranges, respectively; an image monochromating circuit which receives output signals and obtains monochrome data; a data substituting portion which receives the monochrome data, substitutes the monochrome data corresponding to the pixel position information from the color determining portion with a level at which the pixel is determined as a white level in a binarizing process. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207463 | SCREEN DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE - A screen display control device includes: a compression unit which compresses input image data of a one-screen base image; a rewritable image memory to which the compressed data compressed by the compression unit is written in non-synchronization with a reading process; a decompression unit which decompresses the compressed data periodically read from the image memory in synchronization with screen display to restore original image data; a display unit which displays an image of the image data decompressed and restored by the decompression unit; a partial writing data storage unit which maintains partial writing data of a partial image to be displayed on the display unit by replacing a part of the base image; and a data replacement control unit which replaces a portion corresponding to the partial image in the image data of the base image restored by the decompression unit with the partial writing data to output the partial writing data to the compression unit. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207464 | Holograms and Hologram Fabrication Methods and Apparatus - This invention relates to improved methods of fabricating hologram systems, in particular holograms on a substrate such as a security document or bank note, to hologram systems fabricated by the described methods, and to starting materials for the methods. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207465 | Multiple Security Means Comprising an Interactive Security Element - The present invention relates to a multiple security means comprising at least one interactive security element and at least one further second security element, wherein the interactive security element comprises at least one volume hologram being responsive to at least one applied external stimulus, the use of said security means as well as to products which contain same. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207466 | HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY DEVICES - This invention relates to optical systems for holographic projectors. We describe a holographic image projection system, the system including: a spatial light modulator (SLM) for displaying a hologram; first optics to provide an input beam to said SLM; second optics to process an output beam from said SLM to provide a displayed image; and a hologram processor to receive image data for display and to output data to said SLM to display a hologram to provide said displayed image; and wherein at least one lens of said first optics or said second optics is encoded in said hologram. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207467 | Single Laser Illuminating and Pointing Systems - Dual-function laser systems and methods are disclosed. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a laser source configured to emit a beam; an optical element spaced apart from the laser source; and a diffractive element positioned to diffract the beam to provide a diffracted beam to the optical element such that the optical element refracts the diffracted beam to form an approximately collimated central portion and a diverging outer portion. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207468 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A UNIVERSAL PINHOLE PATTERN FOR USE IN CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES - The invention relates to a pinhole disk, which can be used in a transmitted light mode as a filter disk, in particular in confocal microscopes, and consists of an optically transparent material with an inner hole having a fixed outer radius r | 2009-08-20 |
20090207469 | Method for reciprocal polarization (Cross-polarization) - During cross-polarization, both sub-beams of a complex polarization undergo both a transmission and a reflection. To achieve this, a first polarizing sub-process is coupled to the complementary polarizing sub-process (transmission coupled to reflection, reflection coupled to transmission). Both sub-beams show the same polarization contrast and the same intensity, and both sub-beams are folded. The sub-beams are coupled by one common (transmission-reflection) process (a simple polarization). Cross-polarization is achieved alone by directing the beams and choosing appropriate polarizing vectors for the polarizers. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207470 | TWO-PHOTON-ABSORPTION OPTICAL FILTER - A tunable optical filter includes a medium configured to perform polarization rotation on a portion of a linearly polarized signal beam having a frequency within a selected frequency band, wherein the medium is circularly birefringent within the frequency band, and wherein the polarization rotation is achieved based on two-photon-absorption. The medium may include a gaseous substance, a first reference laser beam having a first reference frequency and a right circular polarization state, and a second reference laser beam having a second reference frequency and a left circular polarization state. The medium may also include a gaseous substance, a reference laser beam having a reference frequency and a linear polarization state, and magnetic field. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207471 | Automatic Window Tint - My invention will be used to cut down utility costs in homes and buildings, be a burglar deterrent, as becoming opaque is one of the features, and replacing car windshield sun blocks as well as blinds in school, buildings, homes, etc. The photosensitivity is manipulated through voltage input. In NYC in January for example, persons would set film to dark mode to activate the darker tint to absorb the heat of the light, whereas white or mirrored mode would be deactivated; visa Versa during the summer in NYC. This is meant to be green as it will cut down utility costs immensely and by being able to manipulate the voltage manually, you set how sensitive the photosensitive film is from no voltage manipulation to opaque. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207472 | OPTICAL DEVICE INCLUDING GATE INSULATING LAYER HAVING EDGE EFFECT - Provided is an optical device having an edge effect with improved phase shift and propagation loss of light without decreasing the dynamic characteristics of the optical device. The optical device includes a first semiconductor layer which is doped with a first type of conductive impurities, and has a recessed groove in an upper portion thereof; a gate insulating layer covering the groove and a portion of the first semiconductor layer; and a second semiconductor layer which covers an upper surface of the gate insulating layer and is doped with a second type of conductive impurities opposite to the first type of conductive impurities. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207473 | DEVICE HAVING POWER GENERATING BLACK MASK AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - A power generating black mask comprising an anti-reflection layer deposited over a substrate, a first electrode layer deposited over the anti-reflection layer, a semi-conductor layer deposited over the first electrode layer and a second electrode layer deposited over the semi-conductor layer. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207474 | Micro mirror device - The present invention provides a mirror device, comprising: a mirror; an elastic hinge for supporting the mirror and the elastic hinge has a specific electric resistance. The mirror device further includes an electrode for controlling the mirror, wherein a voltage is applied to the elastic hinge for a predetermined period in synchronous with a change of an electric voltage applied to the electrode. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207475 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus according to one or more embodiments includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate facing the array substrate. Pixels areas are defined in the array substrate, and each pixel area includes a pixel electrode having concave-convex patterns at the edges thereof when viewed in a plan view. The concave-convex patterns vary directions of fringe fields generated from the edges of the pixel electrode, so that an area in which a fringe field is formed relative to one pixel area may be prevented from overlapping with a peripheral pixel area. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207476 | ELECTROPHORETIC PARTICLE, ELECTROPHORETIC PARTICLE DISPERSION LIQUID, IMAGE DISPLAY MEDIUM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is an electrophoretic particle comprising a polymer component on a surface thereof which polymer component is a copolymer obtained from materials comprising at least a monomer component represented by a following general formula (I): | 2009-08-20 |
20090207477 | Electrophoretic display device, method of manufacturing electrophoretic display device, and electronic device - An electrophoretic display device is provided. The electrophoretic display device comprises a first electrode provided on a surface of a first base member; second electrodes provided on a surface of a second base member so that the second electrodes are placed in a facing relationship with the first electrode; and a plurality of microcapsules provided between the first electrode and the second electrodes, the plurality of microcapsules each having an internal space filled with an electrophoretic dispersion liquid, and the electrophoretic dispersion liquid containing electrophoretic particles. The electrophoretic display device is configured so that spaces are formed between the adjacent microcapsules and between the first electrode and the second electrodes. The electrophoretic display device can exhibit superior display performance and can be driven with a low voltage and reduced electricity consumption. A method of manufacturing an electrophoretic display device and an electronic device are also provided. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207478 | Optical power limiting and switching combined device and a method for protecting imaging and non-imaging sensors - An optical power limiting and switching device comprises at least one plate made of transparent dielectric material, and a thin limiting solid mixture coated on one side of the plate. Upon being exposed to an optical power beam having a power level exceeding a predetermined limit power, the layer of solid mixture limits the power transmission by scattering out part of the impinging energy. When the power increases to the damage threshold, the solid mixture forms a plasma or catastrophic breakdown, damaging the solid mixture material and thereby rendering the portion of the plate surface under the impinging beam opaque to light. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207479 | DISPLAY ELEMENT - This invention provides a display element comprising an electrolyte between opposed electrodes. The electrolyte contains silver, or a compound containing silver. The opposed electrodes are driven and operated so that silver is dissolved and precipitated. The display element is characterized in that this electrolyte satisfies the following requirements a to c: a. a cyclic carboxylic acid ester having a dielectric constant of not less than 30 and not more than 50 is contained as an organic solvent; b. formula (1) is satisfied: 0<[x]/[Ag]≦0.1 (1) wherein [x] represents the total molar concentration (mol/kg) of halogen ions or halogen atoms contained in halide molecules; and [Ag] represents a total molar concentration (mol/kg) of silver or a compound containing silver; and c. the concentration of silver or a compound containing silver in an organic solvent is not less than 0.2 mmol/g and not more than 0.5 mmol/g. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207480 | WAVELENGTH CONVERTING APPARATUS - A wavelength converting apparatus that improves output performance of laser light subjected to wavelength conversion while improving the efficiency of laser light wavelength conversion. Wavelength converting apparatus ( | 2009-08-20 |
20090207481 | Wavelength converter - Provided is a wavelength converter capable of generating a converted signal having a wavelength different from the wavelength of input light. The wavelength converter of the present invention comprises: (1) a pump light source for outputting pump light; (2) a light multiplexing part for multiplexing the input light and the pump light and outputting thus multiplexed light; (3) and a plurality of optical fibers connected together in cascade, allowing the passage of the input light and the pump light thus multiplexed and output thereinto by the light multiplexing part, having mutually different zero dispersion wavelengths, and being capable of generating a converted signal by the nonlinear optical phenomenon occurring during the passage of the input light and the pump light. The wavelength conversion efficiency of the sidebands is less than −20 dB relative to the maximum value of the wavelength conversion efficiency in the entirety of the plurality of optical fibers. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207482 | Optical transmission system using raman amplifier and controlling method thereof - The optical transmission system modulates backward Raman pump light provided to an optical transmission line on one link side of an uplink and downlink, to thereby transmit a pilot signal for confirming a connection state of the optical transmission line to a node on an upstream side. When the pilot signal is received by the node on the upstream side, the backward Raman pump light provided to the optical transmission link on the opposite link side is modulated to thereby send back a response signal to an own node. Then by confirming receipt of the response signal at the own node, the backward Raman pump light provided to the optical transmission line on the one link side is changed over from a low output state to a high output state. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207483 | PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER AND FIBER AMPLIFIER - A photonic bandgap fiber includes a core of a solid material; a first cladding provided around the core; a low-refractive-index region provided in a part of a core vicinity portion of the first cladding and whose average refractive index is lower than that of the core; and a periodic structure region that is arranged in another part of the core vicinity portion of the first cladding which is made of a great many high-refractive-index portions whose refractive index is higher than that of the first cladding arranged in a periodic structure. According to the invention, it is possible to provide a photonic bandgap fiber which, when arranged in a double-clad structure, enables pump light to efficiently pump signal light. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207484 | Fast power transient supression in constant power-mode controlled optical amplifiers - The specification describes an improved approach to suppressing fast transients in optical amplifier systems. The approach relies on operating the amplifier in an automatic power-mode control with an extra loss component. It is applicable to optical amplifiers based on rare earth amplifier media, such as erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). | 2009-08-20 |
20090207485 | PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER - A photonic bandgap fiber includes a core and a cladding that surrounds the core. In this photonic bandgap fiber, high refractive index portions which have a refractive index higher than that of a medium of the cladding are provided in the cladding so as to form a triangular lattice structure with a lattice constant Λ, and the refractive index of the core is higher than the refractive index of the medium of the cladding and lower than the refractive index of the high refractive index portion. The coupling length between the core and the high refractive index portion that is closest to the core is longer than the coupling length between adjacent high refractive index portions, or a periodic structure formed by the high refractive index portions is not provided around the entirely of the area along the circumference of the core. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207486 | AMPLIFIER OPTICAL FIBER COMPRISING NANOPARTICLES AND PRODUCTION METHOD - An amplifier optical fiber comprising a central core of a dielectric matrix doped with at least one element ensuring the amplification of an optical signal transmitted in the fiber and a cladding surrounding the central core and suitable for confining the optical signal transmitted in the core. The fiber also comprises metallic nanostructures suitable for generating an electronic surface resonance in the dielectric matrix of central core, the wavelength of said electronic surface resonance corresponding to an excitation level of the element ensuring the amplification. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207487 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PROJECTION OBJECTIVE AND PROJECTION OBJECTIVE - The disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a projection objective, and a projection objective, such as a projection objective configured to be used in a microlithographic process. The method can include defining an initial design for the projection objective and optimizing the design using a merit function. The method can be used in the manufacturing of projection objectives which may be used in a microlithographic process of manufacturing miniaturized devices. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207488 | SCREEN AND PROJECTION SYSTEM - A screen includes a screen sheet including a lens array having a plurality of element lenses arranged in a two-dimensional plane on the front side of the screen, a plurality of reflection surfaces disposed on the backside of the lens array, the plurality of reflection surfaces inclined to the two-dimensional plane, and a plurality of scattering portions that scatter the light directed from the plurality of reflection surfaces toward the front side of the screen. At least one of the plurality of element lenses is a combined lens comprised of a set of two lens portions offset from each other obtained by relatively shifting optical axes of the lens portions, and the reflection surfaces correspond to the respective combined lenses. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207489 | OPTICAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND OPTICAL PROCESSING METHOD - An optical processing device includes: a light source that outputs second light having a first polarization state or a second polarization state in synchronization with the pulse timing of the pulse of first light; a first nonlinear medium that controls the polarization state of the first light pulse in accordance with the polarization state of the second light pulse, using a nonlinear effect; and a separator that outputs the first light pulse from the first nonlinear medium selectively to a first output path or a second output path in accordance with the polarization state controlled by the first nonlinear medium. In this device, the first nonlinear medium uses the nonlinear effect to compensate the level of each first light pulse output selectively to the first output path or the second output path by the separator, with each first light pulse receiving the energy of the second light pulse. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207490 | Retardation film and polyester resin for optical use - The present invention relates to a retardation film using polyester having a photoelastic coefficient of −40×10 | 2009-08-20 |
20090207491 | POLARIZING PLATE PROTECTIVE FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A polarizing plate protective film forming a polarizing plate by sandwiching a polarizer with two of the polarizing plate protective films, wherein at least one of the two polarizing plate protective films exhibits Ro defined by Expression (I) of 0 to 10 mm and Rt defined by Expression (II) of −20 to 20 mm, and also at least one of the polarizing plate protective films has a hard coat layer: Expression (I): Ro=(nx−ny)×d; Expression (II): Rt={(nx+ny)/2−nz}×d; wherein nx is a refractive index in a delayed phase axis direction in a plane of the polarizing plate protective film, ny is a refractive index in a direction at right angles to the delayed phase axis in the plane, nz is a refractive index in a film thickness direction, and d is a film thickness (nm). | 2009-08-20 |
20090207492 | OPTICAL LAYERED BODY, POLARIZER, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - It is a principal object of the present invention to provide an optical layered body in which an additive amount of an antistatic agent causing high cost can be reduced, and a high antistatic property can be imparted simply and at a low cost. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207493 | FOREIGN SUBSTANCE REMOVING DEVICE AND FOREIGN SUBSTANCE REMOVING METHOD - There is provided a foreign substance removing device which is capable of moving a foreign substance in a desired direction at a high removing efficiency. The foreign substance removing device removes a foreign substance on an object. A vibrator has first and second piezoelectric elements provided on the object. Power supplies applies alternating voltages to the respective first and second piezoelectric elements. A control circuit controls the alternating voltages applied by the power supplies. The control circuit changes the frequency of the alternating voltage and at the same time makes respective phases of the alternating voltages applied to the first and second piezoelectric elements different from each other, so as to concurrently generate a first standing wave and a second standing wave different in order. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207494 | Laparoscopic camera - The lens at the tip of a laparoscopic camera is kept clean by creating a compartment in front of it pressurized by CO | 2009-08-20 |
20090207495 | Wavelength separation film and filter for optical communication using the same - A wavelength separation film having a structure containing plural thin films laminated to each other including a first thin film containing a high refractive index material, a second thin film containing a low refractive index material, and a third thin film containing a material having an intermediate refractive index that intervenes between the refractive index of the high refractive index material and the refractive index of the low refractive index material, the high refractive index material being silicon, the low refractive index material being at least one selected from silicon oxide, magnesium fluoride and aluminum oxide, and the material having an intermediate refractive index being at least one selected from titanium oxide, tantalum oxide, niobium oxide, zirconium oxide, hafnium oxide and aluminum oxide. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207496 | Polycarbonate Resin Composition for Light Diffusion Plates, and Light Diffusion Plate - There is provided a light diffusion plate for liquid crystal display devices which can be produced with an excellent productivity by an injection molding method, and have a thin thickness and a large size (wide area) and are excellent in dimensional stability, optical properties and mechanical strength. The present invention relates to a polycarbonate resin composition for light diffusion plates, comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of an aromatic polycarbonate resin having a viscosity-average molecular weight of not less than 12,000 and less than 15,000 and containing a low-molecular weight component having a molecular weight of less than 1,000 in an amount of not more than 2.5% by weight, and (B) 0.2 to 20 parts by weight of fine particles having a weight-average particle diameter of 0.7 to 30 μm. | 2009-08-20 |
20090207497 | Diffuser with Light Condensing Function - One face of a substrate of a diffuser with a light condensing function is disposed with a plurality of prism rods; at least one inclined face of parts of prism rods is disposed with a rough diffusion face; the diffusion face may be positioned on any position of the inclined face of the prism rod; the diffusion face is disposed with a plurality of irregularly arranged raised and indented stripes perpendicular, not perpendicular or parallel to a crest line of the prism rod; chromatic dispersion can be reduced and stripes of the prism rods can be atomized effectively by utilizing the diffusion face to eliminate the occurrence of moiré fringes and elevate the yield factor. | 2009-08-20 |