| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-6,798,576 |
Lens sheet and method for producing it The invention relates to a lens sheet applicable to a screen for a pixel type projection TV characterized in high quality and definition and a simple producing... |
| US-6,798,575 |
Scanning type display optical system, scanning image display apparatus, and
image display system This application discloses a scanning type display optical system that has a small number of parts and is easily miniaturized. A scanning type display optical... |
| US-6,798,574 |
Prism diffuser for diffracting and spreading light The present invention relates to a prism diffuser for diffracting and spreading light, and in particular to a prism diffuser for diffracting and spreading light... |
| US-6,798,573 |
Device for generating a 3-D image from two 2-D pictures A device for generating a 3-D image includes a tubular body with liquid filled therein and two protrusion portions extrude from one side of the body. Two... |
| US-6,798,572 |
Transmission screen sheet and transmission screen comprising the same A transmission screen sheet which is given a large number of lens-like forms on the surface like ridges and has a thickness of 0.1 to 2.0 mm, wherein (i) the... |
| US-6,798,571 |
System for microscopic digital montage imaging using a pulse light
illumination system An illumination system for microscopic digital montage imaging based on a pulsed light illumination source triggered by the position of a specimen with respect... |
| US-6,798,570 |
Apparatus and methods for creating real-time 3-D images and constructing
3-D models of an object imaged in an... A light microscope illuminator with a light source off the conjugate objective aperture allowing light beam shaping and modifying devices to be located at the... |
| US-6,798,569 |
Microscope and method for operating a microscope The present invention concerns a microscope, in particular a confocal or double confocal scanning microscope, as well as a method for operating a microscope, at... |
| US-6,798,568 |
Polarization independent semiconductor optical amplifier Semiconductor optical amplifier with polarization independent gain. A polarization adjusting layer is formed on a semiconductor optical amplifier. The... |
| US-6,798,567 |
Method and apparatus for controlling power transients in an optical
communication system A method and apparatus for controlling transients in an optical signal propagating along an optical fiber path interconnecting a plurality of network elements... |
| US-6,798,566 |
Variable optical gain equalizer and variable branching ratio beam splitter A variable optical gain equalizer in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention comprises a variable branching ratio beam splitter having a variable... |
| US-6,798,565 |
Method and arrangement for compensating for cross phase modulation The cross phase modulation generated by a fiber amplifier is compensated for by converting the amplitude variations of the wavelength-division multiplex signal... |
| US-6,798,564 |
Raman amplification method, raman amplifier, and optical transmission
system The present invention relates to a Raman amplification method realizing Raman amplification of WDM signal light in a wider amplification wavelength band with a... |
| US-6,798,563 |
Method and device for reducing pump noise transfer in raman amplification A Raman pump unit for connection to a main optical path includes a signal generator for generating a plurality of at least partially complementary dither... |
| US-6,798,562 |
Fast optical wavelength shifter A process shifts wavelengths of optical pulses. The process includes transmitting an incoming optical pulse through a nonlinear optical material, splitting the... |
| US-6,798,561 |
Double substrate reflective spatial light modulator with self-limiting
micro-mechanical elements A spatial light modulator includes an upper optically transmissive substrate held above a lower substrate containing addressing circuitry. One or more... |
| US-6,798,560 |
Micromirror systems with open support structures Micromirror devices, especially for use in digital projection are disclosed. Other applications are contemplated as well. The devices employ a superstructure... |
| US-6,798,559 |
Electro-optic spatial modulator for high energy density The present invention provides an imaging assembly comprising: (a) a modulator crystal comprising a first surface and a second surface substantially opposite to... |
| US-6,798,558 |
Optical clock multiplier and method thereof An optical clock multiplier comprises a phase modulator (12) to shift a phase in pulse duration of an input optical clock pulse by .pi., a polarization mode... |
| US-6,798,557 |
Direct optical N-state phase shift keying A unique optical encoder is employed that utilizes an optical phase modulator, in which an arbitrary phase shift can be realized. The phase modulator is driven... |
| US-6,798,556 |
Locally-switched reversible electrodeposition optical modulator The present invention is a reversible electrodeposition optical modulation device employing a segmented counter electrode that permits localized areas of a... |
| US-6,798,555 |
Fully solid electrochromic element A tapping electrode for a lower electrode film and a tapping electrode for an upper electrode film are provided on one side of an area around a substrate. By... |
| US-6,798,554 |
Flexible electrochrome structure and methods for the production thereof The present invention concerns a flexible electrochrome structure operating in reflection at wavelengths between 0.35 and 20 .mu.m. It comprises a microporous... |
| US-6,798,553 |
Optical filter elements and methods of making and using same Optical filter elements and optical systems comprise optically mismatched etalons and optically mismatched stacked, optically coupled etalons that are directly... |
| US-6,798,552 |
Semiconductor light modulator A band discontinuity reduction layer having a band gap energy larger than that of that of an MQW (multiple quantum well) absorption layer and smaller than that... |
| US-6,798,551 |
Gires-Tournois interferometer with faraday rotators for optical signal
interleaver A GTIFR interferometer, for use in an interleaver or in a deinterleaver, wherein the GTIFR interferometer includes a Gires-Toutnois interferometer with a 45... |
| US-6,798,550 |
Spatial light modulator A modulator formed with a solid state electro-optic material having a pixellated structure interconnected to a circuit on a semiconductor substrate. Silicon CMOS... |
| US-6,798,549 |
Multi-beam scanning optical system and image forming apparatus using it Provided are a multi-beam scanning optical system capable of implementing high-quality printing in relatively simple structure and at high speed, and an image... |
| US-6,798,548 |
Apparatus for rotating a laser Disclosed is a rotational laser apparatus capable of setting an obliquity without requiring a high accuracy light receiver or a complex optical system for... |
| US-6,798,547 |
Process for holographic multiplexing A method of recording holograms includes: generating a first signal-beam from a signal-beam source and a first reference beam from a reference-beam source;... |
| US-6,798,546 |
Scanning document reader and memory medium storing scanner driver program A control device for controlling a medium reader having a medium transport roller whose having in a color distinguishable from a color of a medium. The control... |
| US-6,798,545 |
Scanner which can input various symbols to control operations A scanner includes a housing, a control circuit positioned in the housing, the control circuit being used to control the operations of the scanner, a scanning... |
| US-6,798,544 |
Image reading method, image reading device and image processing device The present invention comprises an image reading unit for reading an image recorded on a medium, a gradation histogram generation unit for generating the... |
| US-6,798,543 |
Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of halftoned images A method for compression and decompression of halftoned images using the halftone screen. The method reduces an input binary image into a mean image, uses the... |
| US-6,798,542 |
Image encoding apparatus Input gray-scale bit map information is inputted to an image forming position extracting unit for extracting image forming position information. An input... |
| US-6,798,541 |
Systems and methods for generating binary clustered, irrational halftone
dots The result of integrating a halftone dot-shape can be clustered. When the edge of the halftone dot-shape extends across a "vertical" edge of a window, the window... |
| US-6,798,540 |
Method and apparatus for underprinting pixels Methods and apparatus for trapping to prevent a polychromatic printing artifact are described. One method includes the step of selecting a region of a source... |
| US-6,798,539 |
Method for moire-free color halftoning using non-orthogonal cluster screens The invention provides methods for using single-cell non-orthogonal cluster screens to satisfy the moire-free conditions for color halftoning. The invention also... |
| US-6,798,538 |
Halftoning at multiple different resolutions Multi-resolution halftoning to process image data by determining whether the image data corresponds to black image data or color image data, performing a... |
| US-6,798,537 |
Digital color halftoning with generalized error diffusion vector
green-noise masks Disclosed are two novel techniques for digital color halftoning with green-noise stochastic dither patterns generated by homogeneously distributing minority... |
| US-6,798,536 |
Apparatus for displaying tone curve and apparatus for adjusting tone curve An image for adjusting a tone curve includes an overall tone curve image including a tone curve of dot gains in a predetermined full scale with respect to all... |
| US-6,798,535 |
Printer head and printer apparatus The present invention provides a printer head having a plurality of print elements for effecting recording on a recording medium on the basis of printer... |
| US-6,798,534 |
Image processing device An image forming apparatus comprising a buffer memory for storing image data, a printer unit for printing based on image data output from the buffer memory, a... |
| US-6,798,533 |
Systems and methods for remote viewing of patient images A digital camera containing patient images is connected to an uploader computer and the patient's name or history is entered into the uploader computer. The... |
| US-6,798,532 |
Photograph printing and delivering method, camera to be used in this method
and photograph printing and... A photograph printing and delivering method and system do not require external equipment, such as personal computer or the like and permits delivery of the... |
| US-6,798,531 |
Printing and delivery of digital images and text via a central receiving
agency A method of delivering printed images to a recipient, includes the steps of electronically transmitting digital images and image locator information from a... |
| US-6,798,530 |
Systems, methods and graphical user interfaces for printing object
optimized images using virtual printers Rather than implementing a printer as a single set of rendering parameters, a printer can be implemented as a "meta-printer" that comprises one or more virtual... |
| US-6,798,529 |
In-situ method and apparatus for end point detection in chemical mechanical
polishing A method and apparatus for providing in-situ monitoring of the removal of materials in localized regions on a semiconductor wafer or substrate during chemical... |
| US-6,798,528 |
System and method for measuring the dimensions of moving packages A system and method for measuring the dimensions of moving packages includes a computer system connected to a position tracking system and a slice measurement... |
| US-6,798,527 |
Three-dimensional shape-measuring system An object of the present invention is to provide a method for accurately measuring a three-dimensional shape of a measuring subject independent of the surface... |