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US-6,311,028 Fixing apparatus with controlled heaters
A fixing apparatus for controlling fixing temperature by controlling operations of a plurality of heaters, the apparatus includes: a timer for measuring a period...
US-6,311,027 Image-forming apparatus which forms images by using a developer
An image-forming apparatus is provided with: a rotatable photoreceptor; a charging device for charging the surface of the photoreceptor to a predetermined...
US-6,311,026 Process cartridge and image forming apparatus including means for detecting mounting of the process cartridge...
A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main body of an image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a process device...
US-6,311,025 Interchangeable part recognizing apparatus and image forming apparatus
To meet a main unit downsized and provided with a lot of functions and an interchangeable part made to be versatile by simplification of manufacturing work,...
US-6,311,024 System for detecting the status of an image forming apparatus
An engine control unit of a printer engine checks he status of each part of the printer, and if there is any change in the status, generates a predetermined...
US-6,311,023 Camera having a light-shieldable member for protecting a semiconductor element flip-chip-bonded on a flexible...
A camera having a flexible printed board on which a semiconductor element is flip-chip-bonded, a light-shieldable member such as a housing, a lens barrel, or an...
US-6,311,022 Film-back exchangeable camera
In a film back exchangeable camera provided with a camera body, an exchangeable film back is removably attached to the camera body. A light shielding member is...
US-6,311,021 Multi-candela alarm unit
A strobe alarm unit having a plurality of selectable candela settings or intensity levels, for allowing an alarm installer to select a particular candela setting...
US-6,311,020 Camera having autofocusing function and self timer function
A camera turns on or off an autofocus magnet in accordance with range to object information during a normal photographing mode, as a first photographing...
US-6,311,019 Automatic focus adjusting system capable of adjusting focus of moving subject
An automatic focus adjusting apparatus includes an image move-amount detecting section, an image position predicting section and a control section. The image...
US-6,311,018 Method of making respective prints of recorded images within successive film frames or alternatively of...
A method of making respective prints of recorded images within successive film frames of a filmstrip or alternatively of selected portions of the images includes...
US-6,311,017 Waterproof housing for a device adapted to receive a removable sub-assembly
A waterproof housing for housing a device that is adapted to receive a sub-assembly. The waterproof housing includes a body having a wall. The wall includes an...
US-6,311,016 Substrate temperature measuring apparatus, substrate temperature measuring method, substrate heating method and...
A temperature measuring apparatus, for measuring a temperature of a substrate in a heating apparatus heating a substrate by irradiation of light, and a method...
US-6,311,015 Cable coiling device for electric heaters
The present invention relates to an improved cable coiling device for electric heaters comprising a cable coiling frame being built in the casing at where the...
US-6,311,014 Unified audio/video interface for a digital video disk system
An interface for a digital video disk system utilizing a small number of pins which allows a requesting device to initiate data requests and which avoids the...
US-6,311,013 Signal reproducing apparatus and signal reproducing method
DVD reproducing apparatus which enables seamless images at a plurality of angles recorded on a DVD to simultaneously be watched or instantaneously be watched...
US-6,311,012 Apparatus and method for reproducing multiple camera-angle signals from a disc
The method and apparatus for reproducing data from a disk receives at least video data read from a disk such as a digital video disk or a digital versatile disk....
US-6,311,011 Device for recording video signals and device for displaying electronic program guide
A video recorder for recording signal including audio and video signals, comprises a module for receiving program information signal designating a program...
US-6,311,010 Variable optical attenuator with locking mechanism
The present invention relates to a variable optical attenuator having a first housing and second housing that interlock with one another such that the first...
US-6,311,008 Optical fiber storage apparatus
An optical fiber storage apparatus comprises a base formed with one or more ports for the entry of cables, supports for mounting a plurality of fiber storage...
US-6,311,007 Fiber-optic cable tray having adjustable components
A fiber-optic cable tray having adjustable components that provide flexibility in accommodating changes in length of the routed fiber-optic cable and that...
US-6,311,006 Apparatus for storing surplus ADSS cable
ADSS cable is laid out a length of cable along an aerial route defined by a series of poles, and loops of surplus cable are formed at occasional poles. The cable...
US-6,311,005 Sensor device for determining the degree of wetting and/or soiling on window panes
A sensor device for determining the degree of wetting and/or soiling of a pane in a motor vehicle is provided. The sensor device detects the coating of moisture...
US-6,311,004 Photonic devices comprising thermo-optic polymer
Hybrid integrated planar photonics provides silica waveguides for transport and polymer or hybrid silica/polymer waveguides for refractive-based active functions...
US-6,311,003 Techniques for forming optical electronic integrated circuits having interconnects in the form of semiconductor...
An optical electronic integrated circuit (OEIC) having optical waveguides as device interconnects. An optical waveguide is formed by depositing, in an...
US-6,311,002 Method and apparatus for reducing nonlinear penalties by proper arrangement of the dispersion map in an optical...
A method and apparatus is provided for compensating for dispersion in a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical communication system. The system includes a...
US-6,311,001 Microchannel plate having microchannels with funneled openings and method for manufacturing same
A process for forming improved microchannel plates ("MCP") for use in image intensifier tubes, the MCPs providing improved signal to noise, and reduced image...
US-6,311,000 Optical cable and an apparatus for manufacturing the optical cable
An optical cable has tensile elements and supporting elements embedded in an extruded outside cladding. The tensile elements are hauled-off from a supply reel...
US-6,310,999 Directional coupler and method using polymer material
An optical coupler and method is disclosed in which a polymer material is employed to optically couple a first and second waveguide in a transfer region. In the...
US-6,310,998 Fabrication of refractive index patterns in optical fibers having protective optical coatings
A refractive-index grating fabricated in an optical fiber having a multilayer coating and a method for making refractive-index patterns such as gratings in...
US-6,310,997 Ferrule assembly and optical module having the same
The present invention relates to a ferrule assembly capable of yielding a laser resonator which is less likely to be influenced by variations in manufacture and...
US-6,310,996 Writing Bragg gratings in optical waveguides
Instead of a single beam, two coherent beams of light are used to illuminate a phase grating in spatially separated zones for writing a Bragg reflection grating...
US-6,310,995 Resonantly coupled waveguides using a taper
A resonant coupler has a coupling region having first and second ends, a coupling length, and a tapered variable width, such that a phase matching condition for...
US-6,310,994 Add/drop multiplexer routing signals according to wavelength
An add/drop multiplexer comprises passive optical components for wavelength division multiplexing. The multiplexer allows signals passing along fibers of a main...
US-6,310,993 Method and apparatus for chromatic dispersion compensation and dispersion slope compensation in wavelength...
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for an improved chromatic dispersion compensator. In an apparatus aspect, the present invention includes a...
US-6,310,992 Method and apparatus for interconnecting multiple modular devices in a communication system
An apparatus (100), comprising multiple modular electrical devices (102, 104, 504) and an optical signal source (106), all coupled to an optical communication...
US-6,310,991 Integrated optical circuit
An integrated optical circuit is described. The optical circuit includes a silicon substrate and waveguides disposed thereon, at least one photonic crystal is...
US-6,310,990 Tunable optical structure featuring feedback control
A tunable optical device has a compression tuned optical structure and a displacement sensor. The compression tuned optical structure responds to an optical...
US-6,310,989 Fiber optical circulator
A fiber optical circulator wherein optical fibers of three ports share one glass capillary, one collimator lens and one walk-off crystal. Three optical fibers...
US-6,310,988 Methods and apparatus for camera pen
A camera pen is made from a pen-like housing contains a camera and has a button for sending a signal to a computer which directs the camera to capture an image....
US-6,310,987 Image processor
An artificial retina chip in a camera unit of an image processor according to the present invention converts an input image taken by the camera unit to analog...
US-6,310,986 Image rotation assist circuitry and method
A method and apparatus for assisting in the rotation of digital images is described. The digital image is divided by a separate process into image blocks which...
US-6,310,985 Measuring angular rotation of an object
A system is disclosed for determining the rotational orientation of an object. An image of the object is digitally captured. The digital image is filtered...
US-6,310,984 Image processing system with image cropping and skew correction
A system and method is described for automatically determining in a scanned document image the presence of unwanted extraneous information caused by an...
US-6,310,983 Efficient search for a gray-level pattern in an image using ranges of sums
The present invention is directed to a system for finding a transformation of a gray level pattern in an image. The system recursively searches a transformation...
US-6,310,982 Method and apparatus for reducing motion artifacts and noise in video image processing
A method and apparatus for reducing noise and motion artifacts in pixels of a processed or displayed video image by filtering pixel values of the video image...
US-6,310,981 Decoding apparatus using tool information for constructing a decoding algorithm
A coding and decoding apparatus is constructed so that the coding side transmits coded data together with identifying information for identifying the device of...
US-6,310,980 Encoding apparatus and method and storage medium
An encoding apparatus for encoding each of target pixels composing one screen, comprising a predictor for generating a prediction value by predicting a target...
US-6,310,979 Method and apparatus for digital data compression
The quality of digital images recovered from compressed data in an inter-frame redundancy-removing scheme is enhanced using a self-adaptive feedback scheme in an...
US-6,310,978 Method and apparatus for digital data compression
The quality of digital images recovered from compressed data in an inter-frame redundancy-removing scheme is enhanced using a self-adaptive feedback scheme in an...
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