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| US-7,212,718 |
Apparatus and method for heat-treatment of optical fiber reinforcing
member and optical fiber fusion splicing... A heat-treatment apparatus according to the present invention comprises a sheet-like heating body, which is bent like a letter "U", and a heat equalizing plate... |
| US-7,212,717 |
Optical fiber The present invention relates to an optical fiber having a configuration which enables utilization of nonlinear phenomena in the near-infrared region. The... |
| US-7,212,716 |
Process for manufacturing a micro-structured optical fibre An intermediate polymer preform of elongated shape for manufacturing a microstructured optical fibre is made from a mould with a tubular par containing a pattern... |
| US-7,212,715 |
Cable element having repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive to couple
buffer tubes to a central strength member A cable element and a method of making the same, in which the cable element has a central strength member, a plurality of buffer tubes are disposed on the... |
| US-7,212,714 |
Deformable optical signal transmitter port This disclosure concerns optical components such as optical signal transmitter ports. One example of an optical signal transmitter port includes a nose body of... |
| US-7,212,713 |
Optical transmission substrate, method for manufacturing optical
transmission substrate and optoelectronic... Provided is an optical transmission substrate including: a first substrate; an optical waveguide which has clad covering a core and a periphery of the core and... |
| US-7,212,712 |
Coupler-multiplexer permutation switch A coupler-multiplexer permutation switch (CMPS) integrates multiplexng and switching functions on a single substrate. It has a single-mode/multi-mode backward... |
| US-7,212,711 |
Fiber optic transceiver module and electronic equipment A fiber optic module is provided that effectively reduces a returned light and is manufactured by a low time and cost consuming process and electronic equipment.... |
| US-7,212,709 |
Optical waveguide device and optical waveguide module An object of the present invention is to provide an optical waveguide device and an optical waveguide module having the function to multiplex/demultiplex or... |
| US-7,212,708 |
Optical grating based multiplexer device with power tap capability In an optical grating device, a grating arrangement receives different wavelength output signals from a plurality of radiation sources at input ports thereof,... |
| US-7,212,707 |
Temperature-compensated fiber grating packaging arrangement A passive temperature-compensated optical grating arrangement includes a housing of low CTE material, with the optical grating stretched across the housing... |
| US-7,212,706 |
Active alignment system for free space optics An optical transceiver antenna has a pair of cartridges supported by a pan/tilt mount. A lens at forward end of a cartridge interfaces light between an end of a... |
| US-7,212,705 |
All optical decoding systems for decoding optical encoded data symbols
across multiple decoding layers The present invention provides an optical system for decoding, switching, demultiplexing, and routing of optical encoded data signals, including: at least first... |
| US-7,212,704 |
Systems and methods for optical switching to colorless ports and colored
ports A wavelength selective switch is provided with a multiplexer such that both colourless (wavelength non-specific) and coloured (wavelength specific) ports are... |
| US-7,212,703 |
Compact wavelength-selective optical crossconnect A system and method of optically routing wavelength channels from within a plurality of optical inputs to any of a plurality of optical outputs. An optical... |
| US-7,212,702 |
Optoelectric converting substrate An optoelectric converting substrate includes a substrate, at least one honeycomb-shaped micro-structured optical waveguide embedded in the substrate and having... |
| US-7,212,701 |
Methods for measuring optical absorbance of a sample medium A method for measuring the optical absorbance of a sample medium with a microfluidic chip that includes a substrate defining a microfluidic channel, a... |
| US-7,212,700 |
Electro-optic hybrid circuit board The invention provides an electro-optic hybrid circuit board having an optical waveguide superposed on a wiring circuit board, the electro-optic hybrid circuit... |
| US-7,212,699 |
Fabricating a photonic die In one embodiment, a method includes forming an array of recesses in a substrate, depositing spacer material in the recesses, forming photonic elements on the... |
| US-7,212,698 |
Circuit board integrated optical coupling elements Techniques for circuit board processing are provided. In one aspect, a method of processing a circuit board having one or more optical waveguides associated... |
| US-7,212,697 |
Planar optical circuit The invention relates a planar optical circuit having at least one functional layer with structures for guidance, changing, regulation, control, production... |
| US-7,212,696 |
Fiber optic damage detection system for composite pressure vessels An optical fiber wound onto an exterior surface of a composite structure in a two-dimensional pattern and adhered thereto to detect damage to the structure... |
| US-7,212,695 |
Variable optical delay line with a large continuous tuning range In accordance with the invention, a variable optical delay line with a large continuous tuning range comprises an incremental variable delay line to provide... |
| US-7,212,694 |
Fiber-optic sensing system for measuring curvature The invention provides a fiber-optic sensing system for measuring a curvature in a small and elongated cavity of an object. The system includes a light source,... |
| US-7,212,693 |
Optical substance analyzer A portable waveguide sensor having one or more gratings. In one embodiment, the sensor has a waveguide, wherein a plurality of grooves imprinted onto the... |
| US-7,212,692 |
Multiple array surface plasmon resonance biosensor An integrated optical waveguide based surface plasmon resonance biosensor is formed by detecting amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves utilizing... |
| US-7,212,691 |
Polarization-shaped duobinary optical transmission apparatus A polarization-shaped duobinary optical transmission apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a light source that generates light having a continuous wave,... |
| US-7,212,690 |
Image reading apparatus and image reading method An image reading device is provided which can read an image at a wide dynamic range and which can be constructed at low cost. Film images which are recorded on a... |
| US-7,212,689 |
Fast edge directed polynomial interpolation Image interpolation is becoming an increasingly important topic in digital image processing, especially as consumer digital photography is becoming ever more... |
| US-7,212,688 |
Computer program and method for converting an image to machine control
data A method of transferring a representation of an image to a surface (12) of a building (14). The method comprising receiving the image as an image file,... |
| US-7,212,687 |
Method and apparatus for processing information When a CG object is overlapped onto a photographed real scenery image as a background and an image of a photographed real photographic subject is synthesized in... |
| US-7,212,686 |
Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus for expanding the frequency band of enhancement to increase the effect of improvement of the image quality and realizing... |
| US-7,212,685 |
Method for processing image data of optical mouse Disclosed herein is a method for processing image data of an optical mouse. In the method for processing image data of an optical mouse, direction and size... |
| US-7,212,684 |
Methods and systems for cumulative, complexity-based process selection Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for image complexity estimation and selective complexity-based image processing. |
| US-7,212,683 |
Method and systems for complexity-based process combination Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for image complexity estimation and selective complexity-based image processing. |
| US-7,212,682 |
Method and system for enhancing measurement A method and system for enhancing measurement of a bar code or other object includes storing a pixel image containing a bar code; determining bar code... |
| US-7,212,681 |
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-7,212,680 |
Method and apparatus for differentially compressing images Provided are an image compression method and apparatus for differentially encoding digital image signals based on a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) image... |
| US-7,212,679 |
Font compression and retrieval Method and apparatus for compressing data representing a set of symbols such that each symbol of the set can be separately accessed and decompressed. Each symbol... |
| US-7,212,678 |
Image transfer optimisation A method of retrieving an image for display is disclosed. The image is stored in a compressed wavelet-based format having blocks encoded substantially... |
| US-7,212,677 |
Coder, coding method, program, and image forming apparatus for improving
image data compression ratio The present invention discloses a coder and a coding method that raise the possibility of improving the compression ratio of multivalued image data in which one... |
| US-7,212,676 |
Match MSB digital image compression Methods, apparatus and computer readable medium are described that compress and/or decompress a digital image in a lossless or a lossy manner. In some... |
| US-7,212,675 |
Method of finding orphan blocks in block based image compression schemes A method of processing the contents of an image which are digitized and formatted into macro blocks (MB) of information. The method involves flagging for further... |
| US-7,212,674 |
Method, apparatus and recording medium for face extraction A human face is extracted easily from an image including the face. An image including a human face and a face template comprising data of outlines representing a... |
| US-7,212,673 |
Rotational symmetry detection for configurations of discrete curves System and method for characterizing configurations of discrete curves based on detected symmetries in the configuration. A configuration of discrete closed... |
| US-7,212,672 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are disclosed, in which curved linear objects and uneven linear objects as well as rectilinear... |
| US-7,212,671 |
Method of extracting shape variation descriptor for retrieving image
sequence A method for extracting a shape variation descriptor from image sequence data for content-based image retrieval is disclosed. The method for extracting the shape... |
| US-7,212,670 |
Method of feature identification and analysis A method for efficiently and accurately inventorying image features such as timber, including steps of segmenting digital images into tree stands, segmenting... |
| US-7,212,669 |
Automatic perception method and device The invention concerns a method and a device for the automatic perception of an event. Said device comprises a control unit, a data bus, a back-annotation bus... |
| US-7,212,668 |
Digital image processing system and method for emphasizing a main subject
of an image A system and method for automatically altering an image having pixels is disclosed. An image is segmented into regions and various features of the regions are... |
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