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US-5,781,353 Exterior rearview mirror
An external mirror for a motor vehicle which includes a mirror base which can be fixed to the body of the vehicle, a mirror housing which is swingable with...
US-5,781,352 Objective lens supporting device
An objective lens supporting device having its tracking sensitivity in the focusing direction improved by separating the center of gravity of the moving portion...
US-5,781,351 Mounting structure of objective lens for optical pick-up used for optical disk device
An optical pick-up for use in optical disk devices comprises an objective lens having an outer ring formed therearound and a lens holder for positioning and...
US-5,781,350 Objective lens for endoscope
An objective lens for an endoscope including a first lens group including one negative lens, a second lens group having a positive power, a third lens group...
US-5,781,349 Zoom lens
A zoom lens is disclosed, comprising, in order from a screen, a first lens unit of negative refractive power including a first front lens sub-unit having at...
US-5,781,348 Zoom lens system
A compact zoom lens system that moves during zooming from a maximum wide-angle state to a maximum telephoto state also can shift an image to compensate for...
US-5,781,347 Optical device
An optical device including a lens located between a first port and a second port, and a photodetector having a photodetecting surface located in the vicinity of...
US-5,781,346 Magnification correction for small field scanning
Magnification correction for small field scanning of large blanks is provided by adding magnification adjusting elements (lenses) to a double pass Wynne-Dyson...
US-5,781,345 Graded dielectric combiner and associated fabrication method
The graded dielectric combiner, such as for a dual heads up display (HUD) combiner, is fabricated by depositing a predetermined number of dielectric layers upon...
US-5,781,344 Light transmitting and dispersing filter having low reflectance
Multi-layer light filters provide optimized gain control, contrast, and ambient light rejection through the addition of optical layers to a basic refraction...
US-5,781,343 Adjustable window tinting system
An adjustable window tinting system for producing varying degrees of tint in a window to thereby limit the amount of light and heat pass through a window. The...
US-5,781,342 High light diffusive and low light absorbent material and method for making and using same
The present invention is an improved material and method for use for providing diffuse transflectance of light. By employing an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene...
US-5,781,341 Motorized tunable filter and motorized variable attenuator
A tunable filter includes a filter whose characteristic wavelength band changes with the angle of incidence of the incoming light beam with respect to its normal...
US-5,781,340 Gauss lens with image stabilizing function
A Gauss lens having image stabilizing function with sufficient brightness, back focal length and excellent imaging quality is provided. The present invention...
US-5,781,339 Optical device for deflecting light
The prevent invention relates to an optical device capable of varying the angle formed by a pair of optical elements. The optical device comprises a pair of...
US-5,781,338 Microscope stage
A stage for microscopes has a transparent ceramic glass plate on the working region on its object side and a brightly colored, light-scattering layer between the...
US-5,781,337 Object holder for thin slides
An object holder (7) for thin slides (4) is described, in which the object holder (7) has a baseplate (8) as well as a lower lying supporting surface (9) as a...
US-5,781,336 Method and system for multi-spectral imaging in the visible and infrared spectrums
Multi-spectral images are detected using a refractive objective lens system. Magnesium oxide (MgO) and calcium fluoride (CaF.sub.2) lenses are used to image...
US-5,781,335 Circuit arrangement for optical frequency conversion
In a circuit arrangement for optical frequency conversion, having a switchable input filter arrangement with a wavelength channel filter of a wavelength...
US-5,781,334 Stabilized multi-frequency light source and method of generating synthetic light wavelengths
The invention concerns the generation of synthetic light wavelengths in which light from a first light source (D.sub.1) is coupled into a common light path...
US-5,781,333 Piezoelectric light shutter
A piezoelectric actuatable array of light shutters is disclosed wherein each pixel aperture in the array is selectively opened and closed by way of an opaque...
US-5,781,332 Variable wavelength optical filter
In a variable wavelength optical filter, a lens (3) is positioned at the output end of a first optical fiber (1) and transforms an input optical signal to...
US-5,781,331 Optical microshutter array
An optical shutter apparatus includes a source of illumination and a first aperture plate positioned in a path of light from the source of illumination. A...
US-5,781,330 High efficiency optical switching and display devices
Applicants have discovered a new type of optical switching and display device using an active layer comprising electrochromic protein. In essence, the device...
US-5,781,329 Electrochromic display device for optical pick up apparatus
An electrochromic display device (ECD) for an optical pick-up apparatus which is capable of maximizing a transmissivity of a laser beam by forming a reflection...
US-5,781,328 Electro-optical modulator
The use in an electro-optical modulator of an electro-optical crystal in the form of a solid-solution compound of formula (NH.sub.4).sub.x Rb.sub.1 -.sub.x...
US-5,781,327 Optically efficient high dynamic range electro-optic modulator
An electro-optic modulator and a method for its use, in which an optical carrier is effectively suppressed for transmission of a radio-frequency (rf) modulating...
US-5,781,326 Apparatus for shaping binary optical signals, and use thereof to modify said signals
To shape binary optical signals, the apparatus comprises a first stage for providing a modulating signal whose high levels are stabilized so as to depend little...
US-5,781,325 Optical scanning apparatus
An optical scanning apparatus includes: a rotational polygonal mirror on the the side of which a plurality of reflecting surfaces are provided, the reflecting...
US-5,781,324 Optical scanning lens and optical scanner
An optical scanning lens is provided with a lens configuration for focusing and correction of field curvature and scanning speed of a deflected laser beam. The...
US-5,781,323 Optical scanner
An optical scanner for use in laser beam printers and the like which is particularly satisfactory in imaging characteristics. A light beam from a semiconductor...
US-5,781,322 Method and apparatus for measuring the noise figure of an optical amplifier
An optical pulse signal produced by modulating a continuous laser light by means of a first pulse having a period sufficiently shorter than the atomic lifetime...
US-5,781,321 Portable electronic apparatus having a plurality of infrared ports
A portable electronic apparatus is provided with a plurality of infrared element connectors on the housing surfaces thereof. A detachable infrared ...
US-5,781,320 Fiber access architecture for use in telecommunications networks
A fiber optic access architecture consisting of a remote terminal for receiving broadband asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic from a broadband switching...
US-5,781,318 Circuit and method of testing for silent faults in a bi-directional optical communication system
In optical communications systems crosstalk can result in what is termed silent failure. In silent failure, a faulty transmitter appears to function correctly...
US-5,781,317 Method of producing holographic optical element and device therefor
A method of producing a holographic optical element which is capable of imparting complex corrections to the holographic optical element and of effecting the...
US-5,781,316 Semi-transparent reflective hologram and method of producing same
A semi-transparent holographic transfer foil film for application to a substrate such as a security device. The film is comprised of a thermally stable carrier...
US-5,781,315 Image processing method for photographic printer
In a photographic printer in which red, green and blue light beams are modulated respectively according to red, green and blue image signals each made up of...
US-5,781,314 Color image reading apparatus and method
A color image reading apparatus improves the reproducibility of colors at the black level end of the brightness scale of each of component color images of an...
US-5,781,313 Flat bed scanner
An ordinary facsimile by itself cannot scan a thick material such as books and catalogs. In order to scan the entire book, for example, each page of the book...
US-5,781,312 Image input method and apparatus
An image input apparatus capable of reliably reducing random noise and switching noise arising during a dummy pixel period using a simple circuit configuration...
US-5,781,311 Planar light source and image reading device
An image reading device includes a planar light source having sufficiently even illumination to allow accurate shading correction to be performed regardless of...
US-5,781,310 Copying system having image inputting unit and image outputting unit shared with other image processing systems
A copying system is provided in which an image inputting unit and an image outputting unit are connected via a conventional data transmission path, and a copying...
US-5,781,308 High speed system for threshold matrix alignment and tiling, during creation of a binary half-tone image
A system converts a source image into destination image pixels that are binary. The system includes a memory which stores at least a portion of a row of source...
US-5,781,306 Measuring apparatus for gas analysis
A spectrometric gas measurement apparatus for the determination of the presence and/or concentration of gases in a spatial region has a spectrometric measurement...
US-5,781,305 Fiber optic transmissometer
A transmissometer for measuring a volume attenuation coefficient of a column of water, including a transmissometer housing; a light source, producing an optical...
US-5,781,304 Laser ultrasonics-based material analysis system and method
Disclosed herein is an interferometric-based materials analysis system (10) that employs a novel combination of laser beam shaping and pointing techniques, the...
US-5,781,303 Method for determining the thickness of an optical sample
The present invention relates to the field of quantitative microspectroscopy, and in particular to a method for determining the exact thickness of an optical...
US-5,781,302 Non-contact shape meter for flatness measurements
A shape meter for measuring the deviation from flatness of a moving rolled steel plate is disclosed. The shape meter includes a laser source for generating an...
US-5,781,301 Thermally symmetric, crossover-free fiber optic sensor coils and method for winding them
A substantially cylindrical symmetrically wound coil for a fiber optic rotation sensor, having a flat cylindrical disc, with a central aperture, disposed in the...
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