13th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 27 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120075629 | PARTICLE ANALYSIS FOR CORROSION RATE MONITORING - Methods and apparatus relate to measuring corrosion rate. Corrosive fluid contacts a metal powder altering physical properties of the metal powder due to resulting corrosion thereof. For example, the corrosion diminishes mass of the metal powder reducing particle size and particle surface area of the metal powder. Since these physical properties of the metal powder are indicative of the corrosion rate, analysis of the metal powder provides the corrosion rate based on difference in the property of the metal powder before and after the contact with the corrosive fluid. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075630 | Transducer Module - Transducer modules for use in a blood analysis instrument and methods for analyzing a blood sample. The transducer modules presented generally include a light source, a focus-alignment system, a flow cell, and a light scatter detection system. Electrodes within the flow cell allow for the measurement of the DC impedance and RF conductivity of cells passing through a cell-interrogation zone in the flow cell. Light scatter from the cells passing through the cell-interrogation zone is measured by the light scatter detection system. The light scatter detection system measures the light scatter parameters of upper median light scatter, lower median angle light scatter, low angle light scatter, and axial light loss. The presented methods for analyzing a blood sample generally include aspirating a whole blood sample into a blood analysis instrument, preparing the blood sample for analysis, passing the blood sample through a flow cell in a transducer system, and measuring axial light loss, multiple angles of light scatter, DC impedance and/or RF conductivity. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075631 | SPECTRUM INFORMATION MEASUREMENT METHOD, COLOR SENSOR AND VIRTUAL SLIDE DEVICE - A spectrum information measurement method may include steps of; controlling a reference pixel accumulating charges based on an amount of light irradiated from a test specimen; controlling a plurality of measurement pixels accumulating the charge based on an amount of light that is irradiated from the test specimen and has a prescribed wavelength; generating and outputting a reference signal based on an amount of change in the charge that is accumulated in the reference pixel over the prescribed measurement time; generating and outputting a plurality of measurement signals based on an amount of change in the charge that is accumulated in each of the plurality of measurement pixels over the prescribed measurement time; determining whether or not any one or more of the plurality of measurement signals is greater than the reference signal, and determining that the measurement signal that is greater than the reference signal includes saturated output. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075632 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING SO3 AND H2SO4 CONCENTRATIONS IN GASES - The invention relates to an apparatus for the continuous measurement of SO | 2012-03-29 |
20120075633 | ELECTRICAL MACHINE COMPONENT MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An electrical machine component monitoring system includes a light source that provides an optical signal through a fiber optic cable and a fiber optic sensing component positioned on the electrical machine component or at a standoff distance from the electrical machine component to obtain a responsive optical signal representative of a condition of the electrical machine component. The system further includes a photodetector to receive the responsive optical signal from the fiber optic sensing component and to convert the responsive optical signal to an electrical signal. A processing circuitry is also provided in the system for determining information regarding dirt on the electrical machine component by analyzing the electrical signal. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075634 | Sensor, Method for Detecting The Presence and/or Concentration of an Analyte Using the Sensor, and Use of the Method - Methods and sensors for detecting the presence and/or concentration of an analyte are disclosed. In one aspect, a sensing element for use in a sensor is disclosed. The sensing element comprises a resonant cavity device configured to emit optical radiation at an initial power level, a sensing layer exhibiting an initial refractive index, and a detector. The sensing layer is configured to absorb or adsorb an analyte and, in response to absorbing or adsorbing the analyte, exhibit a modified refractive index that differs from the initial refractive index. The resonant cavity device is further configured to, in response to the sensing layer absorbing or adsorbing the analyte, emit optical radiation at a modified power level based on the modified refractive index. The detector is configured to detect the modified power level. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075635 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CHARACTERISTIC OF A CONSUMABLE - The embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus for determining at least one characteristic of a physical resource for use in a physical resource consuming apparatus. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075636 | Tunable optical filters using cascaded etalons - A temperature-tuned dielectric-slab-etalon scanning spectrometer that is low cost and simple to fabricate uses cascaded etalon modules, each module comprising a Fabry-Perot (FP) etalon having a relatively small Free Spectral Range (FSR), with at least two modules provided with a temperature control. According to the invention, the multiple FP modules produce Vernier tuning control. In these devices, the tuning temperature range is typically less than 10° C., and the required slab thickness may be less than 1 mm. This reduces fabrication and material requirements, and results in lower device cost and improved reliability. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075637 | OPTOACOUSTIC CONVOLVER - An optoacoustic convolver includes: a light source; a first acoustic waveguide filled with a light-transmissive first acoustic medium; a second acoustic waveguide filled with a light-transmissive second acoustic medium; an optical system whereby light emitted from the light source is split into a first light beam and a second light beam, the first light beam entering the first acoustic waveguide, and the second light beam entering the second acoustic waveguide, thereby generating interference light between the first light beam having passed through the first acoustic waveguide and the second light beam having passed through the second acoustic waveguide; a light-receiving section for receiving the interference light and outputting an electric signal based on an intensity of the received light; and a correlation determination section for determining whether the received signal is correlated with the reference signal by observing the electric signal output from the light-receiving section. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075638 | SEGMENTATION AND QUANTIFICATION FOR INTRAVASCULAR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES - A system and related methods for automatic or semi-automatic segmentation and quantification of blood vessel structure and physiology, including segmentation and quantification of lumen, guide wire, vessel wall, calcified plaques, fibrous caps, macrophages, metallic and bioresorbable stents are described, and including visualization of results. Calcified plaque segmentation can be used to estimate the distribution of superficial calcification and inform strategies stenting. Volumetric segmentation and quantification of fibrous caps can provide more comprehensive information of the mechanisms behind plaque rupture. Quantification of macrophages can aid diagnosis and prediction of unstable plaque and associated acute coronary events. Automated detection and quantification of metallic and bioresorbable stents can greatly reduce the analysis time and facilitate timely decision making for intervention procedures. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075639 | IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING NON-MECHANICAL SCANNING BEAM ACTUATION - In various embodiments, optical-imaging systems incorporate non-mechanical beam-actuation systems to facilitate the acquisition of, e.g., two- and three-dimensional images. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075640 | TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND TOMOGRAM CORRECTION PROCESSING METHOD - This invention realizes accurate positional offset correction between a plurality of tomograms captured by using a tomography apparatus. The invention is a tomography apparatus which corrects the positional offsets between a plurality of two-dimensional tomograms constituting a three-dimensional tomogram. This apparatus includes a tomogram analysis unit ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075641 | METHOD OF LEAD EDGE DETECTION IN AN INKJET PRINTER - A method of detecting an edge of a piece of media in a printer, the method includes providing a carriage for moving a printhead and a photosensor along a carriage scan path; providing a light source; providing a light guiding element having a first end that is aimed at a first predetermined position along a media advance path between a media input region and a printing region and a second end that is aimed at a second predetermined position along the carriage scan path, moving the carriage to an edge-detection position such that the second end of the light guiding element is aimed at the field of view of the photosensor; directing light from the light source toward the first predetermined position; obtaining a signal generated in response to light received in the photosensor; and analyzing the signal to detect the edge of the piece of media. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075642 | LASER NAVIGATION MODULE - Disclosed herein is a laser navigation module. A light source emits a laser beam. A housing includes an IR window and a transparent or semitransparent part. The IR window transmits or reflects the laser beam emitted from the light source, and also interrupts transmission of external visible rays. The transparent or semitransparent part allows light emitted in the housing to be transmitted out of the housing. An illuminator is installed in the housing. A light diffusion unit transmits the light emitted from the illuminator to the housing. The light diffusion unit has a re-reflective layer on a portion thereof facing the illuminator. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075643 | Method of revising printing error in PCB - Provided is a method of revising a printing error in a PCB, including acquiring alignment mark coordinates and recognition mark coordinates formed at corners of each sheet through design specification information of the PCB, acquiring distorted alignment mark coordinates and recognition mark coordinates of each sheet through actually measured information of the PCB, calculating coordinate information acquired from the design specification information of the PCB and coordinate information acquired from the actually measured information of the PCB to acquire a revision coefficient, calculating an actual deformation value of the PCB using the revision coefficient, and converting the actual deformation value into deformation data of a binary image applied to the design specification information to be revised, and performing a printing operation on the PCB using the deformation data as a reference. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075644 | PREFERRED HUE SELECTION METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING COLOR IMAGE REPRODUCTION - A method implemented in a color image reproduction system that includes a data processing apparatus having a non-transitory memory for storing a computer software program and a processor for executing the software program, wherein the program includes a program code configured to cause the data processing apparatus to execute a process for optimizing color image reproduction, which process includes the steps of finding preferred hue angles for a memory color, for each preferred hue angle determining a maximum chroma value of its hue slice, selecting two chroma points at a pre-determined percentage of the maximum chroma value, integrating a lightness function of chroma over a range between the two chroma points to calculate an area under a curve of the function, and selecting a preferred hue angle to be used as a gamut mapping target for the memory color based on the result of the area calculation. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075645 | COLOR SELECTION ASSISTING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COLOR SELECTION ASSISTING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - At least one color patch, which is extracted as a candidate patch from within a color chart, is colorimetrically measured and a color value is acquired. Based on a color value of a designated color to be reproduced on a print and a color value of the candidate patch, a corresponding position on the color chart responsive to the color value of the designated color is calculated. Instruction mark images indicative of the calculated corresponding position are displayed respectively, together with a simulating image, in which a layout of multiple color patches on the color chart is simulated. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075646 | PRINTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A host computer generates a print job and transmits it to a printing apparatus. A media group definition defining one or a plurality of groups each combining a plurality of specified media with one or a plurality of feedable search media is added to each print job. The printing apparatus acquires the media group definition from the received print job, acquires, from the media group definition, feedable search media corresponding to the specified media for each page included in the print job, searches for a sheet feed stage storing any one of the feedable search media based on sheet feed stage information, feeds the print medium from the detected sheet feed stage, and prints the page on the print medium. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075647 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF IMAGE READING - An image reading apparatus includes a light-emitting device having a peak wavelength that varies depending on a value of a drive current, and illuminates a document with illumination light from the light-emitting device. A light receiving unit receives a light reflected from the document when the illumination light is emitted from the light-emitting device, and converts the received reflected light into image data at a predetermined sensitivity depending on the wavelengths of the received light. A current drive circuit supplies the drive current to turn on the light-emitting device. A wavelength distribution control unit produces two or more durations each having a different value of the drive current by controlling the current drive circuit during each main scanning to the document to produce two or more durations each having a different peak wavelength in each main scanning. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for processing a plurality of images. The method includes receiving or generating by an information processing apparatus the plurality of images. The plurality of images are stored in a memory, and separated into a plurality of image units. Sequence identifiers are assigned to the plurality of image units, and a first subset of the plurality of image units is processed by the information processing apparatus. The method further includes dividing the unprocessed plurality of image units into at least one second subset of the plurality of image units, and sending each of the at least one second subset of the plurality of image units to a different information processing apparatus for processing. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PRINT JOB IN PRINTING PLATFORM - A method for processing a print job includes: a) processing printer description language (PDL) image data for a select page of a print job to form raster image data for the select page, processing of the PDL image data and storing the raster image data in a RIP orientation; b) processing the raster image data for the select page to form bitmap image data for the select page, transforming the raster image data from the RIP orientation to a print orientation and storing the bitmap image data in the print orientation; and c) printing the bitmap image data arranged in the print orientation on a target substrate page to form a printed substrate page for the select page of the print job. A printing platform associated with the method includes a storage device, a RIP module, a rotator module, and a print engine. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075650 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, an image output unit and a control unit. The control unit includes: a function setup controller for setting up the image output conditions of output images; a display image generator generating a display image based on image data, a display panel and a control-unit side controller having a function of displaying the display image based on the image data, in preview representation on the display panel. The function setup controller includes an image data sheaf forming function, a section break setup function, an image output condition storing function and an image output executing function. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075651 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Disclose is a management system in which a reason why the user has selected an image forming apparatus that is currently in the power saving mode can be analyzed. The management system includes: plural image forming apparatuses, each of which is provided with a normal consumption mode and a power saving mode; a communication network through which the image forming apparatuses are communicatively coupled to each other; and a storage section that serves as a part of a management server coupled to the communication network or is included in at least one of the image forming apparatuses or another apparatus coupled to the communication network. When one of the image forming apparatuses resumes the normal consumption mode from the power saving mode to implement a job, the storage section acquires information in regard to an operating status of the other image forming apparatus so as to store the information therein. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075652 | OPERATION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND OPERATION METHOD - The operation device according to the present invention includes a touch panel configured to enable selection of a predetermined key contained in a predetermined screen, a function screen display reception unit for displaying a screen including a screen area and a retreat area being an area that is different from the screen area, an operation unit, a screen switching reception unit for displaying an icon key corresponding to the function of the second function screen on the touch panel in a selectable configuration at a predetermined position of the retreat area, a reduced screen display reception unit that displays a first reduced screen key for reducing the first function screen on the touch panel in a selectable configuration in the retreat area, and a function screen switching unit for switching the display of the first function screen in the screen area to the display of the second function screen. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075653 | DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE HAVING A PROGRAM FUNCTION, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING A PROGRAM FUNCTION, AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE HAVING A PROGRAM FUNCTION - Provided is a display input device including a display portion for displaying a screen for setting a function, a storage portion for storing a program to be invoked and used, and an input portion for receiving inputs of selection of the function and setting of a setting value of the selected function and inputs of registration of the program and invocation of the program, and the display portion performs such security protected display as to inhibit a predefined part of contents of the registered program from being displayed as registered. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075654 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE THAT DISPLAYS A PREVIEW IMAGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS A PREVIEW IMAGE, AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING A PREVIEW IMAGE - Provided is an information processing device, including an input device for receiving a specification input for specifying a page for which an image forming apparatus is caused to execute a job, a display for displaying preview images of only a first page and a last page among continuous pages and displaying the preview images of all non-continuous pages that are separate from each other without forming a continuous range when specified pages are the non-continuous pages, and a communication portion for transmitting data for executing a job based on the specified page. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075655 | SIMPLIFIED WALK-UP ENABLEMENT OF INTER-BASED, PERSONALIZED ACCESS TO RETAIL IMAGING DEVICES AND SERVICES - An apparatus and method for loading and configuring an imaging device driver to facilitate turnkey remote access via the interne to the complete and explicit feature set and capabilities provided by a specific, user selected, retail imaging kiosk or digital photofinishing system. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075656 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit, a paper information storing unit, an initializing unit, a paper information comparing unit, a temporary stopping unit, and a printing unit. The receiving unit receives print jobs. The paper information storing unit stores paper information preset in the printed page. The initializing unit initializes the paper information stored in the paper information storing unit during a certain period. The paper information comparing unit compares the paper information of the page to be printed in the print job with the stored paper information. The temporary stopping unit temporarily stops printing according to the result of the comparison. The printing unit prints the print data of the page to be printed in the case that the paper information of the page to be printed is the same as the stored paper information or the stored paper information has been initialized. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075657 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus, including: a recording device; discharge trays; a discharge mechanism; detectors; an input device through which is inputted authentication information relating to image data; and a controller including: an image-data reception portion; an authentication-information confirming portion to make a confirmation as to whether the authentication information contains specific information; a confirmation-necessity judging portion to judge whether the confirmation by the confirming portion with respect to the image data is necessary; a selecting portion to select one discharge tray on which the recording medium is not placed, wherein, where the judging portion judges that the confirmation is necessary, the controller permits selection of the one discharge tray, controls the recording device to record the image based on the image data after the confirmation that the authentication information contains the specific information, and controls the discharge mechanism to discharge, to the selected one discharge tray, the image-recorded recording medium. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075658 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD THAT CAUSE A JOB EXECUTION SCREEN TO BE DISPLAYED ON A DISPLAY OF A TERMINAL APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that is connected to a network includes a web server, a setting item management unit, and a web server management unit. The setting item management unit is configured to select, when the web server receives a request for job execution screen data from a terminal apparatus that is connected to the network, a job setting item in association with at least one of the terminal apparatus and a user at the terminal apparatus from among all job setting items. The web server management unit is configured to generate the job execution screen data that includes the job setting item selected by the setting item management unit and transmit the job execution screen data to the terminal apparatus via the web server. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075659 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management apparatus includes: a receiver that receives, via a network, status data based on control system data for stabilizing image forming from an image forming apparatus formed by image forming units; an inference unit that determines abnormality occurrence symptom, and calculates an index of the abnormality occurrence symptom, of the image forming units based on the received status data; a replacement part information acquisition unit that acquires information including a replacement date from a maintenance management system via the network when receiving a diagnosis request from a terminal of a maintenance person; a judgment table generator that calculates weight information of the symptom determination index value; a integrated diagnostic information generator for the image forming units based on the symptom determination index value and the weight information; and a integrated diagnostic information notification unit transmitting the integrated diagnostic value information to the terminal of the maintenance person. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075660 | COMPUTERIZED CHART RECORDER - A computerized chart recorder is revealed, comprises a signal conversion unit, an operation control unit, a printing control unit, and a database. A signal conversion unit receives measurement signals of a measurement instrument, and converts the measurement signals to signal conversion data. A operation control unit receives the signal conversion data required for printing, produces corresponding chart data, and prints the curve of signal variations, which can be also displayed on a human-machine interface unit. Whether to store the data or to print can be determined. Besides, the data can be also transmitted to a printing control unit. When the printing control unit is activated, it can receive the chart data and the quality assurance data, and control a printing unit to emulate the chart recorder for executing chart recording. In addition, the quality assurance data can be printed as well for complying with the requirements of the quality-assurance operations. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075661 | PRINT SHOP MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZED PRINT JOB DUPLICATION - A customized print job duplication method implemented in a print shop management system that includes a data processing apparatus having a non-transitory memory for storing a software program and a processor for executing the software program, wherein the software program includes program code configured to cause the data processing apparatus to execute a customized print job duplication process, which includes the steps of providing print job duplication options to allow selection of which sub-sections of a first print job will be duplicated, duplicating from the first print job the sub-sections selected for duplication, and creating a second print job with existing data and a set of settings to be applied to a second document processing job, the set including the settings duplicated from the first print job in the duplicated sub-sections. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING A PRINT JOB - In one example, the system discloses a profiler which calculates a “time-to-print” a first print job and a “time-to-process” a second print job. A scheduler schedules the second print job, for printing after the first print job, if the “time-to-process” the second print job is≦the “time-to-print” the first print job. In one example, an article discloses instructions to predict a “time-to-print” a first print job, a “time-to-process” a second print job, and then schedule the second print job, for printing, if the “time-to-process” the second print job is≦the “time-to-print” the first print job. In one example, the method discloses receipt of a set of print jobs having a first printing schedule, and then re-scheduling the print jobs so as to ensure that a next print job from the set is ready for printing right after a prior print job from the set has finished printing. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075663 | PROVIDING IMAGE INFORMATION TO A REMOTE DEVICE - An imaging device configured to provide image information to a remote device is described. The imaging device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The imaging device obtains a full image and generates a thumbnail image based on the full image. The imaging device also associates the full image with the thumbnail image using an index value and stores the full image and the thumbnail image on the imaging device. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075664 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING MOBILE DEVICES FOR PRINTING TO WIRELESS PRINTERS - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for configuring mobile communication devices to identify and communicate with wireless printing devices. These systems and methods may include determining available wireless printing devices, selecting a desired wireless printing device, attempting to establish communication between the mobile communication device and the wireless printing device using a first communication protocol, prompting a user to indicate the successfulness of the first communication protocol, and configuring the mobile communication device for printing to the wireless printing device using the first communication protocol if the first communication protocol successfully communicated with the wireless printing device. The systems and methods may further include prompting the user to indicate that the first communication protocol was not successful if the first communication protocol did not successfully communicate with the wireless printing device and repeating the method using another available communication protocol. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075665 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A print server acquires print information and selects candidate printers to perform print processing based on the print information among a plurality of printers. The print server transmits list information indicating a list of the selected candidate printers and transmits the print information to one of the selected candidate printers. The plurality of printers acquires the list information transmitted from the print server, and transmits the print information to at least another printer selected from the printers indicated in the list information when the print information transmitted from the print server is acquired. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075666 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image processing apparatus that generates image data from drawing information, compresses the image data and stores the data in a memory, it is determined whether the data amount of the image data exceeds an amount of a difference between an amount of space securable in the memory and a first threshold determined from the amount of the memory available in the memory. If a CPU determines that the amount of the image data exceeds the amount of the difference from the first threshold, the CPU performs a fake compression processing for compressing the image data by a compression unit without storing the image data in the memory. If the CPU determines that the amount of the image data does not exceed the amount of the difference from the first threshold, the CPU performs a compression processing for compressing the image data by a compression unit. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075667 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SERVER SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A communication system is allowed to use one or more electronic devices connected with a device interface of a server system by communicating with the server system via a network. The communication system or the server system notifies to a user a correspondence relation between items, including those identifying the electronic device and a port connected with the electronic device. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075668 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system disclosed is arranged to (i) when an image processing apparatus has received document image data and image processing request information for the document image data, cause a display section of the image processing apparatus to display an execution/non-execution selection screen for allowing a user to select whether to carry out an image processing corresponding to the image processing request information and (ii) upon acceptance of an instruction from the user to carry out the image processing corresponding to the image processing request information, carry out, with respect to the document image data, the image processing corresponding to the image processing request information. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075669 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and an upper device connected to the image forming apparatus through a communication path. The upper device includes a service attribution information input unit for inputting service attribution information containing service identification information; a service style table unit for containing a plurality of service styles each formed of a service setting value; and a service style deployment unit for selecting the service style according to the service identification information. The image forming apparatus includes a service attribution information storage unit for storing the service attribution information; and a service setting value storage unit for storing the service setting value. The service style deployment unit selects the service style when the service attribution information is input. Then, the upper device transmits the service setting value and the service attribution information to the image forming apparatus. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075670 | IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A control unit includes a touch panel display capable of presenting preview display of multiple pages of document images in a scrollable manner on the display panel. The touch panel display controller includes: a commanded position detecting controller that detects a commanded position relative to one of document images being a reference in the preview image displayed on a display panel; a preview layout direction switching controller that switches the layout direction in the preview image in accordance with the commanded position; and a scroll direction switching controller that switches the scrolling direction in the preview image in accordance with the detected commanded position. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075671 | PRINTING SYSTEM, COMPUTER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - In a printing system configured such that a computer and an image forming apparatus can be connected via a network, the computer sets a stamp image and transmits the set stamp image to the image forming apparatus via the network. The image forming apparatus includes a reading device that reads an original image, an image combining unit that reads out at least one stamp image from a storage unit, combines the stamp image with the original image read by the reading device, and forms a composite image, and a printing unit that prints the composite image on recording paper. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075672 | MOBILE DEVICE, PROGRAM OF MOBILE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE DEVICE - A computer-readable recording device may store a computer program including instructions for causing a computer of a mobile device to operate as: (1) a first storing controlling module that causes a storing unit to store one or more first information for identifying one or more candidate devices, the one or more first information being received from a wireless network by a communication unit, (2) a sending controlling module that selects one candidate device as a temporarily selected candidate device from among the one or more candidate devices identified by the one or more first information, and controls the communication unit such that the communication unit sends a first instruction to the temporarily selected candidate device, and (3) a communication controlling module that controls the communication unit such that the communication unit communicates with the temporarily selected candidate device in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075673 | Preparation of production data for a print job using a still image proxy of a page description language image file - An automated, computer-implemented method is provided for preparing production data for a print job. The production data includes an electronic document defined by a page description language (PDL). The electronic document is stored in a PDL image file. The production data for the print job is prepared via a processor. A still image proxy is created of the PDL image file. Information about electronic manipulations of an image display of the still image proxy is received and recorded. The information about the manipulations is used, via the processor, to revise the PDL image file so as to match the PDL image file to the manipulations made to the image display of the still image proxy, thereby preparing an edited PDL image file which is the electronic document for the print job. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075674 | Medical monitoring telephony communication device and method - An apparatus and method of operating a mobile communications device includes a text message receiver and a printer for printing text messages, the method including the steps of; providing a medical monitoring device and receiving a data reading from a medical monitoring device with a text message communications device. The method also includes the steps of assembling a first message identifying a user, the medical monitoring device and the text communications device, and sending the first message to a remote healthcare professional via secure text message. Then receiving a second message back from the remote health care professional and printing the second message for a patient for example and returning acknowledgement of the second message back to a health care provider such as a doctor for example. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075675 | Image Forming Apparatus, Data Storing Method, and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Recording Medium that Stores Data Storing Program - An image forming apparatus includes an interface, a reading unit, an internal storage, and a deletion control unit. The interface is configured to establish a connection with an external storage. The internal storage is configured to store the data read from the external storage. The deletion control unit is configured to delete the data stored in the internal storage on the basis of an operation related to releasing the connection with the external storage. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075676 | LAYOUT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, LAYOUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A layout system performs layout on a printed document to readily and uniformly treat a plurality of types of print products, and performs the layout on content of a document using a template associated with a design theme to be applied to the plurality of types of print products associated with a usage of the printed document. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075677 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PRINT JOB IN PRINTING PLATFORM - A method for processing a print job includes: a) analyzing printer description language (PDL) image data for a print job; b) determining a raster image processor (RIP) orientation for the print job based at least in part on the analysis of the PDL image data, the RIP orientation being selected from a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation; and c) processing the PDL image data for each page of the print job to form raster image data for each page in the RIP orientation and storing the raster image data in the RIP orientation. A printing platform associated with the method includes a parser module, a controller module, a storage device, and a RIP module. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075678 | Method and apparatus for switching high-speed facsimile to ordinary facsimile - A method applied to T.38 gateway for making high-speed facsimile fall back to ordinary facsimile, including: detecting a call menu signal from a calling high-speed facsimile machine; intercepting the call menu signal when the call menu signal containing high-speed facsimile service information is detected; detecting a digital identification signal from a called high-speed facsimile machine; setting V.8BIT in the digital identification signal to zero. The method of the invention is a reliable and effective method for identifying a facsimile service and making a high-speed facsimile process fall back to an ordinary facsimile process. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075679 | IMAGE CAPTURE OF SUBJECT REGION AND CONTROL REGION - A device includes a processing system having a processor and a memory and an image capture component coupled to the processing system. The image capture component is configured to receive an image of a subject region within a field of view and an image of a control region within the field of view. The processing system is configured to process the image of the control region as a user input for processing the image of the subject region. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075680 | SCANNING SPEED CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD - A control device and a method for controlling scanning speed of a scanner. The control device includes a decision device and a driving device. The decision device further includes an image buffer, an up-down counter and a comparator. The decision device receives the input image data and utilizes the up-down counter to compute data access volume inside the image buffer. The comparator decides whether to increase or decrease the scanning speed according to the data access volume and also outputs decision data to the driving device. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075681 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image forming apparatus which can increase the life of a fixing roller without causing increase of the apparatus in size and image displacement. A first skew feeding and registration correcting portion | 2012-03-29 |
20120075682 | Spacetime energy resonator: a transistor of complex dirac polarized vacuum topology - Method and apparatus is described for a general purpose transistor of the higher dimensional (HD) spacetime backcloth consistent with symmetry parameters of a new cosmological paradigm with a unique M-Theoretic background making correspondence to a complex scale-invariant covariant Dirac polarized aether where energy pathways follow spacetime geodesics; and switching is achieved by manipulating resonant modes of a Calabi-Yau mirror symmetry hierarchy inherent in continuous-state brane topology of the structural-phenomenology of least cosmological units tiling the raster of spacetime as it emerges from the infinite potential of the unified field. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075683 | CYLINDRICAL LENS, OPTICAL BEAM SCANNING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE LENS - A cylindrical lens according to the present invention is a cylindrical lens of a bi-concave type in which both of a surface on which light is made incident and a surface from which the light is emitted are formed as concave surfaces, wherein, in at least one of the concave surfaces, both ends of the concave surface projecting to outer sides are formed to coincide with a plane, a normal of the plane being an optical axis of the cylindrical lens. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075684 | ACTUATOR, OPTICAL SCANNER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An actuator includes: a frame; first members at each end of the frame along a first axis making the frame rotatable thereabout; second members supporting each end of a movable plate against the frame along a second axis making the movable plate rotatable thereabout; first magnets with poles interposing the first axis; a second magnet with poles interposing the first axis; a coil generating a magnetic force acting on the first and second magnets; and a voltage source applying a voltage to the coil. The first and second magnets have an angle of 30-60 degrees to the first axis, and identical magnetic pole directions. The voltage source includes first and second voltage generators generating first and second voltages of first and second frequencies, and a voltage superimposer. The movable plate is rotated about the first and second axes at the first and second frequencies by the superimposed voltages. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075685 | ELECTROSTATIC COMB-DRIVE MICROMECHANICAL ACTUATOR - The invention relates to a micromechanical actuator, especially a micro-mirror scanner, comprising an actuator unit in an outer frame which unit is suspended in the outer frame via two torsion elements, and electrostatic tilt drives from intermeshing first and second comb-type electrodes which are off-set from each other vertically. The first electrodes are rigidly connected to the outer frame and the second electrodes to the outer frame via an outer connecting element and to the actuator unit via an inner connecting element. The inner connecting element has a spring which extends in parallel to the outer tilting axis, which is connected to the same in a section of the actuator unit close the outer tilting axis, and which is designed and arranged to be rigid in the vertical direction and flexible at a right angle to the vertical direction. The micromechanical actuator according to the invention allows the use in a micro-mirror scanner whose slow axis is non-resonantly driven with excursions of >+/−7°, lateral mirror sizes having dimensions of 1 mm and more and a resonant frequency of >1 kHz and can be integrated even into flat mobile phones. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075686 | Beam Profile Control in a Scanned Beam Display - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a display projector may comprise a light source to generate a beam to be scanned, a scanning platform to scan the beam in a selected pattern to project an image on a projection surface, and a collection lens and microlens array to shape the beam to a desired beam profile without significantly increasing spot size of the beam with increasing distance from the projection surface. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075687 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAYS, AND COLOR FILTERS FOR USE THEREIN - An electro-optic display having a color filter array is produced by attaching together a direct thermal imaging layer ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075688 | OPTICAL FILTER - An optical filter that transmits light of the visible light region includes a dielectric substrate; a dielectric layer that is formed on a surface of the dielectric substrate; and a first metal structure group in which a plurality of first metal structures are arranged two-dimensionally in an isolated state in the in-plane direction of the dielectric substrate, that is provided between the dielectric substrate and the dielectric layer, comprising: the first metal structures having first and second lengths in first and second directions orthogonal to each other, which lengths are equal to or less than a first wavelength in the visible light region; and a transmittance of the first wavelength being reduced or a reflectance being increased by surface plasmons induced on a surface of the first metal structures by resonance between light incident on the dielectric substrate or the dielectric layer and the first metal structures. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075689 | ELECTRONIC PAPER STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING ELECTRONIC PAPER - An electronic paper structure is disclosed, which includes a hard substrate, a flexible substrate, at least one magnetic device for fastening the flexible substrate on the hard substrate temporally, a drive substrate formed on the flexible substrate, an electronic paper display layer formed on the drive substrate, and a protect layer formed on the electronic paper display layer. An electronic paper fabricating method using the same is also disclosed. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075690 | WAVELENGTH CONVERSION ELEMENT AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SHORT WAVELENGTH LIGHT USING SAME - A wavelength conversion element ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075691 | Wavelength-Tunable Light Source - In at least one embodiment of the wavelength-tunable light source, it comprises an output source, which is capable in operation of generating electromagnetic radiation. Furthermore, the light source has a wavelength-selective first filter element, which is situated downstream from the output source. Moreover, the light source contains a first amplifier medium, which is situated downstream from the first filter element and is capable of at least partial amplification of the radiation emitted by the output source. The light source further comprises at least one wavelength-selective second filter element, which is situated downstream from the first amplifier medium, the second filter element having an optical spacing to the first filter element. The first filter element and the at least one second filter element are tunable via a control unit, which the light source has. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075692 | MULTI-LAYERED HYBRID METAMATERIAL STRUCTURE - A metamaterial structure is provided, including a substrate and a plurality of resonators that are provided on different surfaces of the substrate or different layers of the substrate. The resonators have resonance characteristics different from each other, and the metamaterial structure has a permittivity, a permeability, and a refractive index respectively different from those of the substrate in a predetermined frequency bandwidth. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075693 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR THERMAL IMAGE MICROSCOPE - Provided is an optical system for a thermal image microscope. The optical system includes an image forming unit and a relay unit. The image forming unit forms a focus. The relay unit elongates an optical path. Here, the image forming unit includes six lenses. The relay unit includes two lenses. Aspherical surfaces of the lenses are all convex surfaces. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075694 | VARIABLE FOCUSING LENS AND MICROSCOPE - A variable focusing lens is provided that can change the focal length at a high speed. The variable focusing lens includes: a single crystal electrooptic material having inversion symmetry; a first anode formed on a first surface of the electrooptic material; a second cathode provided to have an interval to the first anode; and a first cathode and a second anode that are formed on a second surface opposed to the first surface and that are formed at positions opposed to the first anode and the second cathode. An optical axis is set so that, when light enters through a third face orthogonal to the first surface, light exists through a fourth surface opposed to the third face. A voltage applied between the first and the second pair of electrodes is changed to thereby change the focal point of light emitted from the fourth surface of the electrooptic material. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075695 | HOLDER FOR CARRYING AND FACILITATING AUTO-LOADING OF MICROSCOPE SPECIMEN SLIDES - Pathology specimen slides are positively located on trays, and picked and placed by an auto-loader. The trays are received in a rack in tiers accessed by an auto-loader that moves the slides between the trays and a digital imaging microscope. The trays can have rows of receptacles for slides with standoff structures spacing the slides above a tray bottom. Lateral and endwise partitions defining the receptacles are inclined oppositely inwardly for guiding a slide into the predetermined position on the tray. The autoloader has a manipulator that grasps the ends of slides presented in a front row, and can reach over the front row to grasp slides in one or more rows beyond the front. The manipulator lifts the slide between the inclined surfaces of the partitions, loads and later retrieves the slide from the microscope and replaces the slide in the holder. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075696 | Optical Scope - Disclosed is an optical scope including an objective lens, an eyepiece lens, and a reticle, wherein a field lens having negative power is disposed in at least one of a front and a back of the reticle disposed on an image formation surface of the objective lens to increase eye-relief. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075697 | SCREEN ASSEMBLY FOR SIMULATOR - A screen assembly for a projectile-based simulator is comprised of front, right and left fabric panels that form a hitting bay with a front projector impact screen. Each fabric panel can be raised and lowered with respective roller assemblies that operate in unison so that the fabric panels are simultaneously raised and lowered. Zippers are provided between each of the fabric panels that are configured to cause adjacent fabric panels to engage as the panels are lowered and to disengage as the panels are raised to allow the panels to wind upon respective roller assemblies. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075698 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A light source device includes: a light guide plate having first and second internal reflection planes facing each other; a first light source applying first illumination light from a side surface of the light guide plate into an interior thereof; a second light source facing the second internal reflection plane, and applying second illumination light to the second internal reflection plane; and a reflective member between the second internal reflection plane and the second light source. The second internal reflection plane is provided with a total-reflection region allowing the first illumination light to be reflected in a total-internal-reflection manner whereas allowing the second illumination light to pass therethrough, and a scattering region allowing the first illumination light to be reflected and scattered. The reflective member is disposed in a position corresponding to the scattering region, and reflects light having passed through the scattering region, toward the first internal reflection plane. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075699 | SEGMENTED FILM DEPOSITION - A segmented film deposition device and a method of performing segemented film deposition. A wire grid polarizer, with a separate, symmetrical, coating on top of each wire, without coating the substrate between the wires, can be made by this method. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075700 | Image Blur Correcting device and imaging pickup device - Provided is an image blur correcting device, including: an image pickup element ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075701 | OPTICALLY VARIABLE SECURITY DEVICES - An optical device is formed by hot stamping a demetallized hologram to an optically variable foil or to a coating of optically variable ink. In another embodiment a hologram is hot stamped to a banknote or document printed with a color-shifting ink. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075702 | PHASE GRATING - A phase grating includes a substrate and a first dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate and includes a column and a plurality of rings. The top sides of the column and the top sides of the rings align with one another to form a flat plane. The column and the rings are concentric. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075703 | OPTICAL DEVICE USING LATERALLY-SHIFTABLE DIFFRACTION GRATINGS - A double-sided grating divider acts as a light switch where the upper and lower grating dividers are arranged to accommodate a relative lateral shift therebetween of about one-fourth of the period of the diffraction grating elements and where the critical refraction angles of the grating dividers are more than about 43.6°. Lateral shift may be achieved by various devices including MEMS and metal couplers having a known/calibrated thermal coefficient of expansion over a temperature range of interest. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075704 | DIFFRACTION OPTICAL ELEMENT - An imaging optical system according to the present invention includes a lens that has first and second surfaces and that has a diffraction grating on only one of the first and second surfaces. If the diameter of an effective area, which is defined by a light ray that has entered the lens with a maximum angle of view, is D when measured on the surface with the diffraction grating, an F number of the imaging optical system at the maximum angle of view is Fno, a d-line Abbe number of the lens is νd, and an F number of an axial bundle of rays is F, then the average diffracting ring zone pitch | 2012-03-29 |
20120075705 | Optical Article Coated with a Sub-Layer and with a Heat Resistant, Multilayered Antireflection Coating, and Method for Producing Same - The invention relates to an optical article having antireflection properties, optionally antistatic properties, having a high thermal and abrasion resistance, as well as the method for producing the same. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075706 | Optical film having antistatic layer, antireflection film, polarizing plate and image display device - An optical film having a transparent support having thereon at least a hardcoat layer and an antistatic layer in this order, wherein the hardcoat layer and the antistatic layer are formed by simultaneously coating compositions for forming respective layers, the antistatic layer comprises at least (A) an electrically conductive organic compound and (B) a polyfunctional monomer having three or more polymerizable groups, a content of an inorganic oxide fine particle in the antistatic layer is less than 10 weight % based on an entire solid content of the antistatic layer, and a common logarithmic value (LogSR) of surface resistivity SR (Ω/sq) on the antistatic layer side with respect to the transparent support is 13 or less. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075707 | Adhesive Dots Attached Onto A Film - A film including a rear surface to couple to a screen of a display device, adhesive dots attached onto the rear surface of the film at a distance from one another, where fluid between the rear surface of the film and the screen of the display device exit through the distance between the adhesive dots in response to the rear surface of the film coupling to the screen. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075708 | Display Apparatus, Display Method and Vehicle - According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes an image projection unit, a first emitter and a second emitter. The image projection unit is configured to project a luminous flux including an image toward a viewer. The first emitter is configured to emit a first marker light. The first emitter is set along an advance direction of the luminous flux. The second emitter is configured to emit a second marker light. The second emitter is set at a side nearer to the viewer than the first emitter along the advance direction. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075709 | Production Method of Wafer Lens, Intermediate Die, Optical Component, Molding Die, and Production Method of Molding Die - Provided are a wafer lens production method, an intermediate die, an optical component, a molding die, and a molding die production method. The production method of a wafer lens ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075710 | LIQUID MENISCUS LENS INCLUDING MENISCUS WALL WITH MICROCHANNELS - The present invention relates generally to an arcuate liquid meniscus lens with a meniscus wall. Some specific embodiments include a liquid meniscus lens with a meniscus wall essentially in the shape of a conical frustum, additional embodiments may include a cylindrical wall, each with microchannels. Embodiments may also include a lens of suitable size and shape for inclusion in a contact lens. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075711 | LIQUID MENISCUS LENS WITH NON-SPHERICAL MENISCUS WALL - The present invention relates generally to an arcuate liquid meniscus lens with a meniscus wall. Some specific embodiments include a liquid meniscus lens with a meniscus wall essentially in the shape of a conical frustum, a cross section of which is non-spherical. Embodiments may also include a lens of suitable size and shape for inclusion in a contact lens. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075712 | LIQUID MENISCUS LENS INCLUDING VARIABLE VOLTAGE ZONES - The present invention relates generally to an arcuate liquid meniscus lens with a meniscus wall. Some specific embodiments include a liquid meniscus lens with a meniscus wall essentially in the shape of a conical frustum with multiple voltage zones that may have variable voltages applied across the zones. Embodiments may also include a lens of suitable size and shape for inclusion in a contact lens. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075713 | LIQUID MENISCUS LENS INCLUDING GRADIENT THICKNESS DIELECTRIC COATING - The present invention relates generally to an arcuate liquid meniscus lens with a meniscus wall. Some specific embodiments include a liquid meniscus lens with a meniscus wall essentially in the shape of a conical frustum with portions of gradient thickness dielectric. Other embodiments may include a cylindrical shape meniscus wall. Embodiments may also include a lens of suitable size and shape for inclusion in a contact lens. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075714 | OPTICAL ELEMENT - An optical element includes a container including first and second end face walls, a side face wall, and an accommodating chamber inside the walls; first and second liquids enclosed in the chamber; a first electrode provided on a surface of the first end face wall; a second electrode provided on a surface of the second end face wall; an insulating film provided on a surface of the second electrode; and a unit configured to apply a voltage. The shape of an interface between the liquids is changed by a voltage application, and a light transmission path, the center of which is a virtual axis passing through the end face walls in the thickness direction of the container, is formed in a portion of the second liquid. An opening having a diameter the same as or larger than the maximum diameter of the transmission path is provided in the first electrode. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075715 | Zoom lens and electronic imaging apparatus incorporating the same - The zoom lens of the invention comprises, in order from an object side thereof, a first lens group having positive refracting power, a second lens group having negative refracting power, a third lens group having positive refracting power, a fourth lens group having positive refracting power, a fifth lens group having negative refracting power, and a sixth lens group having positive refracting power. The first lens group includes a reflective optical element, and the lens in and on the most image side of the fourth lens group comprises a negative lens concave on its image side. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075716 | Zoom lens and electronic amaging apparatus incorporating the same - The zoom lens of the invention comprises, in order from an object side thereof, a first lens group having positive refracting power, a second lens group having negative refracting power, a third lens group having positive refracting power, a fourth lens group having positive refracting power, a fifth lens group having negative refracting power, and a sixth lens group having positive refracting power. The first lens group includes a reflective optical element, and the lens component in, and on the most image side of, the fourth lens group has negative refracting power. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075717 | VARIABLE POWER OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A variable power optical system, including a fixed negative first lens group, a second positive lens group and a third positive lens group, wherein the first lens group includes a deflecting element arranged to bend an optical path, and when d | 2012-03-29 |
20120075718 | ZOOM LENS OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A zoom lens optical system includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive index, a second lens unit which is arranged behind the first lens unit and has a negative refractive index, a third lens unit which is arranged behind the second lens unit and has a positive refractive index, and a fourth lens unit which is arranged behind the third lens unit and has a positive refractive index. An aperture is arranged within the third lens unit to prevent reduction of shutter speed due to large diameter of the zoom lens optical system. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075719 | MACRO LENS SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided are a macro lens system and an image pickup device including the macro lens system. The macro lens system includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a 3-1 lens group having a positive refractive power and moving perpendicular to an optical axis to correct an image blur. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075720 | VARIFOCAL LENS BARREL - A varifocal lens barrel includes a plurality of lens groups, each of which are linearly movable in the optical axis direction thereof without rotating about the optical axis during a zooming operation and during a focusing operation, including a base barrel which is linearly movable in the optical axis direction by rotation of a zoom operational ring, wherein lens frames of the respective lens groups are each supported by the base barrel. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075721 | Image Pickup Lens, Image Pickup Device Provided with Image Pickup Lens, and Mobile Terminal Provided with Image Pickup Device - Provided is an image pickup lens that forms an image on an image pickup element with light from a subject. In the image pickup lens, a lens that is disposed on an image pickup element side is fixed in position, and a focusing lens group having a plurality of lenses including a lens closest to the subject is moved in an optical axis direction, thereby performing focusing. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075722 | LENS FOR PROJECTION AND PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A lens for projection substantially consists of a negative first-lens having a concave surface facing the reduction side, a positive second-lens having a convex surface facing the magnification side, a negative third-lens having a concave surface facing the magnification side, a positive fourth-lens having a convex surface facing the reduction side, and a positive fifth-lens, arranged in this order from the magnification side. Further, the following formulas (A) through (D) are satisfied: | 2012-03-29 |
20120075723 | Imaging lens and imaging device - An imaging lens includes an aperture stop, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens having negative refractive power. Both surfaces of the first lens, both surfaces of the second lens, both surfaces of the third lens, and both surfaces of the fourth lens are formed as aspheric surfaces. The following condition expression (1), condition expression (2), and condition expression (3) are satisfied. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075724 | MICRO-LENS MODULE - A micro-lens module including a first lens, a second lens, and an aperture stop is provided. The first lens is disposed between an object side and an image side, wherein a first surface of the first lens facing the object side is an aspheric surface, and the curvature radius of the aspheric surface is R | 2012-03-29 |
20120075725 | Lens And Applications Thereof - The present invention, in some embodiments, provides a low distortion singlet lens and optical imaging apparatus including the same. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075726 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging optical system, which includes an imaging lens group having at least one lens, and an image side prism that bends light which has passed through the imaging lens group toward an image pickup device arranged at a predetermined position, and wherein the image side prism includes a reflection surface which reflects, toward the image pickup device, incident light proceeding from the imaging lens group and an exit surface from which light reflected from the reflection surface emerges, and wherein the image side prism has a cut surface formed by cutting off a vertex portion between the reflection surface and the exit surface such that a whole normal light incident area within which normal light is incident on the reflection surface remains, and the cut surface is a non-diffusing surface. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075727 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging optical system, which is provided with an imaging lens group having at least one lens, an image side prism that bends light which has passed through the imaging lens group toward an image pickup device arranged at a predetermined position, and a cover glass that is provided for the image pickup device and lets the light bent by the image side prism pass therethrough, and wherein an exist surface of the image side prism from which the light bent by the image side prism emerges and an entrance surface of the cover glass are adhered to each other with an adhesive which is optically transparent. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075728 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging optical system, including an imaging lens group, an image side prism having an entrance surface a reflection surface and an exit surface from which light exits toward an image pickup device, and a first shielding member shielding at least a part of a region on the entrance surface, wherein the region on the entrance surface is located from an edge line of an apex between the entrance surface and the exit surface to a position corresponding to a height h from the edge line, and when L represents a length of the exit surface, α represents an angle formed between the reflection surface and the exit surface, n represents a refractive index of a surrounding area of the image side prism, and n′ represents a refractive index of the image side prism, the height h satisfies a following condition: h=L×cos {α+sin | 2012-03-29 |