| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-6,473,252 |
Biphasic multiple level storage method A novel magnetic data storage method is disclosed for storing digital data in a magnetic medium. According to the present invention, the digital data is... |
| US-6,473,251 |
Apparatus and method for reducing thermal interference in MR heads in disk
drives An apparatus (and method) is provided that reduces thermal interference in the read signal of a disk drive. A variable or programmable resistance is used to... |
| US-6,473,250 |
Beam deflector A beam deflector has first and second wedge prisms having refractive indices and geometries which are similar (in the case of the geometry to within arc... |
| US-6,473,249 |
Prism optical system and image pickup apparatus using the same The present invention relates to a compact and high-performance prism optical system having, in order in which light rays pass from the object side, a first... |
| US-6,473,248 |
Method for manufacturing an optical pickup A movable enclosure contains optical components, such as an objective lens, a semiconductor laser, a mirror, and a photodetector. The movable enclosure is... |
| US-6,473,247 |
Optical lens support and method for using same The invention concerns a support of the type comprising at least a first base (13), and, borne by the latter, for maintaining such an optical lens (10) at its... |
| US-6,473,246 |
Electro-optical light beam deflector A light beam deflector comprises an initial beam deflector that imparts a small initial deflection, and a beam deflection amplifier that increases the initial... |
| US-6,473,245 |
Catadioptric lens barrel structure having a plurality of support platforms
and method of making the same A catadioptric lens barrel structure for a projection exposure apparatus includes first and second lens barrels, each having an optical axis which runs parallel... |
| US-6,473,244 |
Projection lens A projection lens including a first lens group, a diaphragm, and a second lens group, which are disposed in that order from a screen to an image source. The... |
| US-6,473,243 |
Catadioptric imaging system and a projection exposure apparatus provided
with said imaging system The object of the present invention is to provide a catadioptric imaging system, or the like, which is capable of obtaining a desired image-side NA and an image... |
| US-6,473,242 |
Projection lens The projection lens comprises, in order from the object side of the lens to the modulator side of the lens, a first lens group having a positive power, including... |
| US-6,473,241 |
Wide field-of-view imaging system using a reflective spatial light
modulator PRS0847A foveated imaging system using a relatively simple optical imaging system with a reflective spatial light modulator at or near a pupil plane to correct... |
| US-6,473,240 |
Apparatus and method for using orthogonally polarized light in projection
cockpit displays An apparatus and method for illuminating a tiled projection display which includes a first polarizing beam splitting prism which separates incident light into... |
| US-6,473,239 |
Imaging system with a cylindrical lens array The invention relates to an imaging system for optical automatic analysers, especially fluorescence readers. On the sample side, the imaging system contains a... |
| US-6,473,238 |
Lens arrays Lens systems and an array of lenses for reproduction, capture and display of three dimensional images. The arrays generally fall into two categories. The first... |
| US-6,473,237 |
Point array maskless lithography A system for performing digital lithography onto a subject is provided. The system includes a noncoherent light source for producing a first light and an optical... |
| US-6,473,236 |
Projection lens and system Projection lenses and projection lens systems are telecentric between an illumination subsystem and a set of imagers. The lenses and systems can exhibit color... |
| US-6,473,235 |
Touch panel substrate having transparent conductive film A transparent touch panel substrate comprising a transparent substrate and deposited thereon a transparent conductive metal oxide film which contains zinc,... |
| US-6,473,234 |
Tunable filter system with backreflection reference A tunable filter system comprises a signal source providing a WDM having multiple channels, or other signal requiring spectral analysis, within a spectral signal... |
| US-6,473,233 |
Multi-beam optical system A multi-beam optical systems forms a plurality of beam spots on an object surface to be exposed. The system includes a light source that emits a light beam... |
| US-6,473,232 |
Optical system having a diffractive optical element, and optical apparatus An optical system includes a diffractive optical element having a diffraction grating provided, on a lens surface having a curvature, in a concentric-circles... |
| US-6,473,231 |
Variable magnification optical system having image stabilizing function A variable magnification optical system having an image stabilizing function includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a fixed first lens unit of... |
| US-6,473,230 |
Microscope The invention concerns a microscope with a capability for switching between the deep ultra-violet and the visible spectral region having a displaceable tube lens... |
| US-6,473,229 |
Stereomicroscope A stereomicroscope has an objective system, a zoom system, and an eyepiece system. The zoom system consists of two systems that are juxtaposed at the same... |
| US-6,473,228 |
Microscope A specimen of transparent living material is covered over with a cover glass while being observed. An optical image of this specimen captured by an objective... |
| US-6,473,227 |
Silica glass optical material for projection lens to be utilized in vacuum
ultraviolet radiation lithography,... A silica glass optical material for projection lens to be used in vacuum ultraviolet radiation lithography using radiation from 155 to 195 nm in wavelength,... |
| US-6,473,226 |
Silica glass member A silica glass member is provided for use in an optical system using light of a wavelength equal to or less than about 400 nm as a light source. The silica glass... |
| US-6,473,225 |
Light amplifier device In order to be able to use a semiconductor light amplifier of conventional type and operating under gain saturation conditions while nevertheless providing... |
| US-6,473,224 |
Configurable safety shutdown for an optical amplifier using non-volatile
storage A system for configuring an optical amplifier in a fiber optic communications network including a safety shutdown input, includes a non-volatile memory for... |
| US-6,473,223 |
Raman amplifier A Raman amplifier comprises first and second stages, in which a single pump source is used for both stages. The pump source output is coupled to one end of the... |
| US-6,473,222 |
Hyper-heterodyning, expanded bandpass apparatus and method Multi-domain, phase-compensated, differential-coherence detection of photonic signals for interferometric processes and devices may be manufactured... |
| US-6,473,221 |
Galvano-mirror and method of making the same A method of making a galvano-mirror is provided. It includes the following steps. First, a first material substrate formed with a plurality of mirror plate... |
| US-6,473,220 |
Film having transmissive and reflective properties A film which simultaneously maximizes light reflectivity from one side of the film while maximizing light transmissivity from the opposite side of the film. This... |
| US-6,473,219 |
Method and apparatus for asymetrical optical modulation An optical data transmission system using a Mach Zehnder (M-Z) modulator asymmetrically modulates the optical carrier to generate control information to optimize... |
| US-6,473,218 |
Light modulation in whispering-gallery-mode resonators Techniques and devices to modulate light by using a whispering gallery mode optical resonator exhibiting an electro-optic effect. An electrical signal is coupled... |
| US-6,473,217 |
Diaphragm device The space required in the vicinity of a shutter aperture can be reduced to achieve an overall reduction in size of a device by providing a diaphragm mechanism... |
| US-6,473,216 |
Optical scanner An optical scanner comprises a laser diode which scans laser beam of definite wavelength; first optical element which patterns the beam scanned from the laser... |
| US-6,473,215 |
Optical scanner In an optical scanner, while a plurality of lens elements comprise scanning lens optics, the angle (.theta..sub.46 of the line dropped normal to the first face... |
| US-6,473,214 |
Methods of and apparatus for optical signal transmission A binary signal is encoded to produce a three-level encoded signal having reduced bandwidth and small low frequency and d.c. components, e.g. using modified... |
| US-6,473,213 |
Process and system to optimize optical inter-satellite links The system for the optimization of inter-satellite links has a terminal comprising a multiplexer (1) which is connected to the output of a transmission unit (2)... |
| US-6,473,212 |
Lightwave communication systems using semiconductor optical amplifiers Substantially error-free communications is achieved in an optical communication system that includes optical amplifiers by detecting bits transmitted in the... |
| US-6,473,211 |
Optical crossbar switching and/or routing system A switching and/or rotuing system that utilizes high efficiency switched diffractive gratings to form optical switching, interconnection, and routing networks.... |
| US-6,473,210 |
Method for measuring the performance of broadband dense wavelength division
multiplexer (DWDM) using non-linear... A method for detecting the presence of signal channels in a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal comprises the steps of providing an initial estimate of... |
| US-6,473,209 |
Apparatus for producing a three-dimensional image Described herein is an apparatus for producing three-dimensional staic or moving images. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an image generator and an... |
| US-6,473,208 |
Two-color holographic recording apparatus A two-color holographic recording apparatus reduces error signals possibly included in reproduced digital data signals. The two-color holographic recording... |
| US-6,473,207 |
Image size transformation method for orthogonal transformation coded image In an image size transformation method for an orthogonal transformation coded image, orthogonal coefficients as coded data of an image are read out by blocks,... |
| US-6,473,206 |
Image scanner An image scanner is provided which includes a housing, a document supporting panel fixed to the housing, a movable carriage arranged under the document... |
| US-6,473,205 |
Image sensor module adjustable in six degrees of freedom for use with an
image acquisition device An image sensor sub-assembly for a scanner or other image acquisition device includes an image sensor array that detects light imaged by a scanner optical system... |
| US-6,473,204 |
Image processing apparatus capable of selecting a non-rectangular area An image processing apparatus includes an input unit for inputting image data, a storage unit for storing a plurality of non-rectangular area data, a selection... |
| US-6,473,203 |
Image information processor and image information transmitter An image information processor has an image superimposing and outputting means for printing out a superimposed image where a bar code representative of a storage... |