| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,203,414 |
Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction
system for the same On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object... |
| US-7,203,413 |
Sunken electrode configuration for MEMs micromirror A micro-electro-mechanical (MEMs) mirror device for use in an optical switch is disclosed. A "piano"-style MEMs device includes an elongated platform pivotally... |
| US-7,203,412 |
Illuminated anti-trip cable duct The present invention provides a pleasant illuminated anti-trip cable duct for use in protecting wires that cross pathways. The illuminated anti-trip cable duct... |
| US-7,203,411 |
Thermoopic type variable optical attenuator and array type variable
optical attentuator using this A thermo optical type variable optical attenuator suitable for application in an array type variable optical attenuator that realizes low crosstalk between... |
| US-7,203,410 |
Method and apparatus for attaching an optical fiber to a fiber array
substrate An improved system and method for attaching an optical fiber to a fiber array substrate involving adhesive-bonding an optical fiber's cladding directly to the... |
| US-7,203,409 |
Superluminescent diodes having high output power and reduced internal
reflections Systems and methods according to the present invention address this need and others by providing SLD devices and methods for generating optical energy that... |
| US-7,203,408 |
Optical fibre An optical fibre having an NA-value of less than 0.34, which optical fibre is built up of a core and an enveloping protective coating, wherein the protective... |
| US-7,203,407 |
Rare earth doped single polarization double clad optical fiber and a
method for making such fiber An optical fiber, comprising: (i) a rare earth doped silica based elongated core with a first refractive index (n.sub.1) with an aspect ratio of 1:5 to 1; (ii) a... |
| US-7,203,406 |
Optical lowpass filter and method for producing an optical lowpass filter The invention relates to an optical lowpass filter that has a plurality of light guiding optical fibers, and to a method for producing such an optical lowpass... |
| US-7,203,405 |
Optical fiber cable with strategically placed filler rods An optical fiber cable including a central strength member extending longitudinally; a plurality of buffer tubes housing optical fibers and stranded around the... |
| US-7,203,404 |
Loose tube fiber optic cables having at least one access location A distribution fiber optic cable including a plurality of optical fibers, a plurality of tubes, at least one filling component, and least one access location,... |
| US-7,203,403 |
Modulator based on tunable resonant cavity The index of refraction of waveguide structures can be varied by altering carrier concentration. The waveguides preferably comprise semiconductors like silicon... |
| US-7,203,402 |
Frequency comb analysis Methods and apparatus for generating a frequency comb and for its use in analyzing materials and in telecommunications. The frequency comb is generated by... |
| US-7,203,401 |
Multiple wavelength optical source A planar optical waveguide is formed having sets of locking diffractive elements and means for routing optical signals. Lasers are positioned to launch signals... |
| US-7,203,400 |
Dispersion compensating waveguide circuit A dispersion compensator having relatively uniform transmission characteristics over the bandwidth of a communication channel. The compensator is designed to... |
| US-7,203,399 |
Optical fiber and fiber grating type filter including the same The present invention relates to an optical fiber having a structure which allows further improvements to be made both in terms of lower reflectance and narrower... |
| US-7,203,398 |
Compact DMD-based optical module An optical module having an integral optical waveguide with waveguide ports at each end. The optical waveguide receives an input light beam through a first... |
| US-7,203,397 |
Polarization maintaining optical fiber coupler and method of manufacturing
same There is provided a polarization maintaining optical fiber coupler and a method of manufacturing this polarization maintaining optical fiber coupler in which... |
| US-7,203,396 |
All optical chopping using logic gates apparatus and method An all optical chopping device for shaping and reshaping comprising an all optical AND logic gate having a first input for receiving a first optical signal, a... |
| US-7,203,395 |
Miniature movable device A miniature movable device comprises a movable part (a mirror, a movable rod, support arms, and a movable comb tooth electrode) formed on a substrate and adapted... |
| US-7,203,394 |
Micro mirror arrays and microstructures with solderable connection sites A micro mirror array including an upper wafer portion having a plurality of movable reflective surfaces located thereon, the upper wafer portion defining a... |
| US-7,203,393 |
MEMS micro mirrors driven by electrodes fabricated on another substrate An array of electrostatically tiltable mirrors are formed in a MEMS structure. A first SOI wafer is etched to form an array of tiltable plates in the silicon... |
| US-7,203,392 |
Optical apparatus for bidirectional optical communication The present invention is directed to provide a small sized optical apparatus, with low cost and low loss, by realizing a simple structure optimum to... |
| US-7,203,391 |
Optical module An optical module 100 comprises a substrate 110 at which V-shaped groove 110a and 110b are formed through etching to extend along directions perpendicular to... |
| US-7,203,390 |
Planar lightwave circuit package An optical packaging arrangement combines a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) having an array of waveguides thereon, an array of photodetectors on a substrate to... |
| US-7,203,388 |
Printed circuit board including waveguide and method of producing the same Disclosed is a PCB in which a waveguide is embedded, and a method of producing the same. The PCB includes a substrate, and a lower clad layer formed on the... |
| US-7,203,387 |
VLSI-photonic heterogeneous integration by wafer bonding A new method to form a VLSI-photonic heterogeneous system device is achieved. The method comprises providing an optical substrate comprising at least one passive... |
| US-7,203,386 |
Self-referencing waveguide grating sensors Self-referencing optical sensors and methods are described herein that can be used to detect bio-chemical interactions (e.g., biological binding of ... |
| US-7,203,385 |
Optimizing PMD measurements based on temperature for installed fibers Methods and networks are disclosed for optimizing PMD measurements on an installed span of fiber. For a method of the invention, a light system transmits light... |
| US-7,203,384 |
Implement for optically inferring information from a planar jotting
surface The present invention relates to a jotting implement that infers hand-jotted information from a jotting surface. The hand-jotted information is any information... |
| US-7,203,383 |
Handwritten character recording and recognition device The invention is an electronic recording and computing device that resides within or on a pen shaped object for the purpose of recording and processing... |
| US-7,203,382 |
Pattern matching and pattern recognition system, associative memory
apparatus, and pattern matching and pattern... A plurality of reference words based on a second distance index that allows coding of a first distance index are registered in an associative memory core in... |
| US-7,203,381 |
Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image processing
program An image feature analysis section performs image feature analysis of an input image to generate an image feature quantity independent from image coordinates. An... |
| US-7,203,380 |
Video production and compaction with collage picture frame user interface A method, system, and apparatus for easily creating a video collage from a video is provided. By segmenting the video into a set number of video segments and... |
| US-7,203,379 |
Digital image cross talk correction An image processing system comprises a processing circuitry operable to receive a digital image and a line buffer circuitry communicatively coupled to the... |
| US-7,203,378 |
Accelerative noise filtering method for image data An accelerative noise filtering method for image data is provided. The present invention includes selecting four neighboring pixels around a target pixel in a... |
| US-7,203,377 |
Computing arbitrary fractional powers of a transform operator from
selected precomputed fractional powers of... Image processing utilizing numerical calculation of fractional exponential powers of a diagonalizable numerical transform operator for use in an iterative or... |
| US-7,203,376 |
Imaging apparatus and imaging method The present invention accurately reproduces an image pattern by referring to neighboring pixels upon determining the threshold value of a target pixel so that a... |
| US-7,203,375 |
Quantization error compensation apparatus and method thereof A quantization error compensation includes a dividing unit to divide an input current image signal into a first high-frequency signal and a low-frequency signal;... |
| US-7,203,374 |
Two-dimensional orthogonal transformation and quantization method and its
device and program In a process of resolving the two-dimensional orthogonal transformation into the one-dimension orthogonal transformations in a horizontal direction and a... |
| US-7,203,373 |
Image and video coding with redundant run-length-level-last codewords
removed A method of run-length encoding for known block size, such as image/video compression with block transform, such as DCT, with end of block indication suppressed... |
| US-7,203,372 |
Extension of two-dimensional variable length coding for image compression A method and an apparatus to encode a series of quantized coefficients of a transform of a block of image data. The transform is such that 0 is the most likely... |
| US-7,203,371 |
Tarp filter Systems and methods for performing adaptive filtering are disclosed. The present invention generates probabilities that can be used in an encoder, such as an... |
| US-7,203,370 |
Image processing apparatus which records images in a compressed state and
outputs compressed images in an... An image signal processing apparatus includes two JPEG codecs. A plurality of frames of image signals periodically input from a multiplexer are individually... |
| US-7,203,369 |
Method for estimating motion by referring to discrete cosine transform
coefficients and apparatus therefor Disclosed is a method for encoding a video signal through discrete cosine transform (DCT) and motion estimation (ME) and an apparatus therefor. The method for... |
| US-7,203,368 |
Embedded bayesian network for pattern recognition A pattern recognition procedure forms a hierarchical statistical model using a hidden Markov model and a coupled hidden Markov model. The hierarchical... |
| US-7,203,367 |
Indexing, storage and retrieval of digital images A method and a system for archiving, indexing and retrieving images of persons including the steps of providing image data relating to the images of persons to a... |
| US-7,203,366 |
Video retrieval method and apparatus A method of characterizing a video includes the steps of extracting frame images from an input video, calculating a time length between each of the frame images... |
| US-7,203,365 |
Information storage using tables and scope indices The present invention relates to storing information including electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications.... |
| US-7,203,364 |
Image processing apparatus, image editing apparatus, image editing method,
and image editing program An image processing apparatus including a receiving unit, an extraction means, and a conversion means is disclosed. The receiving unit receives a first document... |