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US-7,471,473 Lens support structure, lens barrel, and camera
A lens support structure includes a third lens 53, a fourth lens 54, a first frame 50, and an adhesive agent 58. The first frame 50 has a first portion 55 to...
US-7,471,472 Lens system assembling method and spacing jig
In a lens system assembling method, the spacing between two mutually opposing lenses are set more accurately. The method includes the steps of: holding a first...
US-7,471,471 Refractive optical unit
A refractive optical unit is provided and has a regulator mechanism that can easily align between a lens of a lens group to be fixed in a housing and a lens of a...
US-7,471,470 Lens device and lens barrel
A lens device includes elastic bracing struts arranged at regular intervals which are deformed by a lens element supported in a lens barrel so as thereby to hold...
US-7,471,469 Device for the low-deformation replaceable mounting of an optical element
The invention relates to a device for the low-deformation replaceable mounting of an optical element, in particular a closure plate of an objective of a...
US-7,471,468 Push and pull operated reading lens
A pocket sized reading device having a built in illuminating element that automatically turns on and off as the device is opened and closed. The device comprises...
US-7,471,467 Cell phone/magnification system
A magnifying glass has a size essentially equal to the size of a display panel of a cell phone or other digital device. A coupling assembly has an interior. The...
US-7,471,466 Portable magnifier for hand-held portable electronic device
A portable magnifier has a support member having a support surface for removably supporting a portable electronic device having a display. A holder has a pair of...
US-7,471,465 Optical apparatus
To provide a high-brightness, small, low-cost optical apparatus which covers a wide-angle to super-wide-angle region and which reliably corrects various...
US-7,471,464 Lens holder and lens unit
A lens holder includes an inner barrel for holding at least one lens, an outer barrel that is positioned outside the inner barrel and supports the inner barrel...
US-7,471,462 Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same
A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative...
US-7,471,460 Zoom lens system and camera having same
A zoom lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative...
US-7,471,459 Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus using the same
A three-unit zoom lens system comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power; a second lens unit having a...
US-7,471,458 Objective for an observation device, a microscope, and a method for adjusting an objective
The invention concerns an objective (1) for an observation device (10), whereby the objective comprises an objective-lens-system, which consists of a first...
US-7,471,457 Ceramic hybrid lens and method for manufacturing the same
A hybrid lens is provided in which a plastic lens made from an ultraviolet curing resin is affixed to a ceramic lens which uses as a glass material a light...
US-7,471,456 Optical integrator, illumination optical device, exposure device, and exposure method
An optical integrator of a wavefront dividing type permits an arbitrary distance to be set between an entrance surface and an exit surface, without production of...
US-7,471,455 Systems and methods for generating laser light shaped as a line beam
Systems and methods are disclosed for shaping a laser beam for interaction with a film in which the laser beam travels along a beam path and defines a short-axis...
US-7,471,454 Dynamic optical tag communicator and system using corner cube modulating retroreflector
In some embodiments, a dynamic optical tag communication system is provided which includes high and low index CCR, both having a modulator, such as TCFP-MQWs on...
US-7,471,453 Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera
A zoom lens system comprising a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element, wherein an interval between at least any two lens units among...
US-7,471,452 Illuminated aiming device for an observation instrument
An illuminated aiming device for an observation instrument comprises a reticle plate, an aiming mark provided at the reticle plate, and a light source directed...
US-7,471,451 Multiple field of view optical system
Optical systems, including apparatus and methods, for obtaining images, particularly with multiple fields of view. These systems may utilize a plurality of...
US-7,471,450 Confocal reflectance microscope system with dual rotating wedge scanner assembly
A confocal reflectance microscope system incorporates a dual-wedge laser scanner assembly. The scanner assembly incorporates a pair of rotatably mounted prisms,...
US-7,471,449 Method and apparatus for generating Terahertz radiation with magnon gain medium and magnon mirror
An apparatus for generation of Terahertz radiation comprising: (A) a Magnon Gain Medium (MGM), wherein the MGM supports generation of nonequilibrium magnons; and...
US-7,471,448 Surface phonon-polariton raman laser
An optical device includes an input optical source that provides and optical signal to the optical device. A surface phonon polariton (SPP) nanostructure...
US-7,471,447 Device and method for reducing pump laser instability due to amplified rayleigh scattering feedback
A device and method for reducing amplified Rayleigh backscatter at a Raman pump. A pump assembly for an optical amplifier includes a set of pump radiation...
US-7,471,446 Scan-type optical apparatus
A scan-type optical apparatus includes a light source device that emits a laser beam, an electro-optic element that conducts scan of the laser beam emitted from...
US-7,471,445 Fast-response micro-mechanical devices
A spatial light modulator includes a mirror plate comprising a reflective upper surface, a lower surface, and a substrate portion comprising a cavity having an...
US-7,471,444 Interferometric modulation of radiation
An Interferometric Modulator (IMod) is a microelectromechanical device for modulating light using interference. The colors of these devices may be determined in...
US-7,471,443 Piezoelectric flexures for light modulator
A device includes a micro-display that includes at least one light modulator. The light modulator includes a first reflector plate, a second reflector plate, and...
US-7,471,442 Method and apparatus for low range bit depth enhancements for MEMS display architectures
A light modulator device includes a first electrical conduit, a second electrical conduit electrically isolated from the first conduit, a first display element,...
US-7,471,441 Flexures
Various embodiments of a MEMs structure including flexures movably supporting a reflective face are disclosed.
US-7,471,440 Fabricating micro devices using sacrificial materials
A method of fabricating a tiltable micro mirror plate includes forming a substrate comprising an upper surface and a hinge support post in connection with the...
US-7,471,439 Process of forming a micromechanical system containing an anti-stiction gas-phase lubricant
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a process of forming a device that has an improved usable lifetime due to the addition of a gas-phase...
US-7,471,438 Mirror reflective element assembly
A reflective element assembly includes a transparent substrate having forward and rearward surfaces. A transflective reflector is disposed at a surface of the...
US-7,471,437 Electrochromic materials and devices
The present invention relates to an electrochromic material, and a device utilizing the electrochromic material, comprising a substituted-1,1-dioxo-thiopyran of...
US-7,471,436 Polarizing, photochromic devices and methods of making the same
A security element connected to at least a portion of a substrate, the security element including an at least partial coating having a first state and a second...
US-7,471,435 Apodization technique for enhanced resolution of images
The present invention provides an apodization mask that narrows the central lobe of an optical image of a point in a focusing system and suppresses the...
US-7,471,434 Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus
A common photodetecting unit detects a plurality of beams scanned by a plurality of polyhedral reflection mirrors provided in a multiple stages with a common...
US-7,471,433 Optical scanning apparatus
The optical scanning apparatus includes a polygonal rotatable mirror which deflects a light beam emitted from a light source, a drive motor which rotates said...
US-7,471,432 Mirror mounting structures and methods for scanners employing limited rotation motors
A scanning assembly is disclosed for providing controlled movement of a mirror. The scanning assembly includes a motor shaft of a limited rotation motor, a...
US-7,471,431 Hologram device and hologram recording/reproducing method
A hologram device records information of an interference fringe of signal light and reference light onto a hologram recording medium and reproduces the recorded...
US-7,471,430 Holographic image corrector
The invention provides a holographic image corrector in a microscope, which employs an optical system that has as an objective a lens or mirror. The...
US-7,471,429 Vibration detection apparatus, hologram apparatus, vibration detection method for the vibration detection...
A hologram apparatus comprises a vibration detection beam generation unit to apply a vibration detection beam, incoherent to the data and reference beams and to...
US-7,471,428 Contact image sensor module and image reading device equipped with the same
A contact image sensor module includes: a first image sensor, having a first light receiving element set aligned in a straight line; a second image sensor,...
US-7,471,427 Warm-up circuit for CCFLs
A warm-up circuit adjusts the brightness of a CCFL through using PWM technique for a scanner. The warm-up circuit has an inverter connected to the CCFL for...
US-7,471,426 Image reading apparatus and image reading method
An image reading apparatus having a color line sensor and a monochromatic line sensor starts to read on the basis of the color reading start position when...
US-7,471,425 Scanning method by using sheet feed scanner
A scanning method in which a scanning head moves back and forth to scan a paper sheet located in a scanning window is disclosed. The method of the present...
US-7,471,424 Original size detecting apparatus, original size detecting method, and program for original size detection
An original size detecting apparatus is capable of carrying out accurate original size detection without erroneous detection of the size of an original due to...
US-7,471,423 Image processing system and image processing method
An image processing system comprising: an image acquisition unit for acquiring a scanned image; a non-voltage storage medium that stores correction information...
US-7,471,422 Computer program and method for generating a multiple-bit image data file from a 1-bit image data file
A computer program and method for generating from a 1-bit image data file a multiple-bit image data file, which, when displayed on a computer display screen,...
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