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| US-7,532,818 |
Apparatus and method for measuring coherence sampling quality-factor An apparatus and method for measuring a coherence sampling quality-factor (Q-factor) are provided, which are used to monitor quality of an optical signal in an... |
| US-7,532,817 |
Fiber optic link protection apparatus A fiber optic protection apparatus includes a first optical switch, a first fault detection device, and first switch control device. The first optical switch is... |
| US-7,532,815 |
Lens unit, method of identifying characteristics thereof and method of
judging deterioration thereof, and... A digital camera is constituted of a camera body and a lens unit. The lens unit is removably attached to the camera body. When the lens unit is attached to the... |
| US-7,532,814 |
Electronic camera A digital camera (10) includes a CCD imager (16). An image signal corresponding to an optical image is output from the CCD imager (16), and an incident light... |
| US-7,532,813 |
Electronic camera An electronic camera includes an image capturing section, a microphone, a lens driving section, and a focus controlling section. The image capturing section... |
| US-7,532,812 |
Lens apparatus A lens apparatus includes an imaging optical system including a focus lens unit, a branching optical unit disposed at the image side of the focus lens unit, a... |
| US-7,532,811 |
System and method for capturing, associating and distributing photographic
images A system and method for capturing and distributing photographic images are provided. A wireless transmitter is physically coupled with a subject. The wireless... |
| US-7,532,810 |
Portable electrical appliance with diagnostic system A portable heater incorporates a housing, heating element, outlet for heat generated by the heating element, and diagnostic testing capabilities that test for... |
| US-7,532,809 |
Personal video recording with pools and groups Automated personal video recording, including selecting a lender from among one or more lenders, in which the selecting is carried out in dependence upon a... |
| US-7,532,808 |
Method for coding motion in a video sequence A method of motion-compensated video encoding that enables a video sequence with a global motion component to be encoded in an efficient manner. A video encoder... |
| US-7,532,807 |
Combined editing system and digital moving picture recording system A moving picture recording device includes a random-access, computer-readable and writable storage medium to provide non-linear access to recorded clips. The... |
| US-7,532,806 |
Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information... |
| US-7,532,805 |
Audio-visual data recording/reproducing device An AV data recording/reproducing device is connected to a digital broadcasting tuner and the like via an IEEE1394 bus, in order to realize high-speed transfer... |
| US-7,532,804 |
Method and apparatus for video copy detection A method for a matching technique for detecting copies of a video clip is provided. The method includes comparing temporal trails of intensity distributions... |
| US-7,532,803 |
Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus includes a reproduction unit transporting a tape-shaped recording medium and reproducing an image data string including coded image data... |
| US-7,532,802 |
Apparatus and program for image reproduction Image data sets obtained by photography can be reproduced without consideration of image sources that store the image data sets. Image storage devices are... |
| US-7,532,801 |
Imaging device illumination system An imaging device illumination system comprises first and second elongate light guides configured to emit light toward an object to be imaged, each of the first... |
| US-7,532,800 |
Light guide unit The disclosed is a light guide unit and a surface illuminator illuminating a liquid crystal display (LCD). The light guide unit (100) is composed of a surface... |
| US-7,532,799 |
Fiber optic telecommunications cable assembly The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic telecommunications cable assembly including a main fiber optic cable and a tether cable that branches from the... |
| US-7,532,798 |
Optical waveguide An elongate waveguide for guiding light including a core having an elongate region of relatively low refractive index; a microstructured region around the core... |
| US-7,532,797 |
Optical fiber The present invention relates to an optical fiber for light pulse expansion in which the ratio (.beta..sub.3/.beta..sub.2) of the third derivative .beta..sub.3... |
| US-7,532,796 |
Fiber optic ribbons having one or more predetermined fracture regions A fiber optic ribbon having one or more fracture locations for influencing the separation of the same at predetermined locations is disclosed. The fiber optic... |
| US-7,532,795 |
Radiation-curable liquid resin composition The invention relates to a radiation-curable liquid resin composition comprising: (A) 20-90 wt % of a urethane(meth)acrylate oligomer, and (B) 1-35 wt % of a... |
| US-7,532,794 |
Method and apparatus for locating subterranean optical fiber A fiber optic cable can comprise a tape that extends along the cable and that facilitates locating the cable when the cable is buried underground. The tape can... |
| US-7,532,793 |
Segmented waveguide coupler A planar light wave circuit may be formed with a pair of waveguides arranged in close proximity to one another. At least one of the waveguides may be segmented.... |
| US-7,532,792 |
Optical coupler, a method of its fabrication and use An optical coupler for coupling light from at least two input fibers into one output fiber and a method of fabricating and use of an optical coupler. The coupler... |
| US-7,532,791 |
Ultrafast laser machining system and method for forming diffractive
structures in optical fibers An ultrafast laser machining system and method to form diffractive structures in optical fibers. The fiber is mounted with its longitudinal axis perpendicular to... |
| US-7,532,790 |
Method of coupling light into microresonators A method of making a microresonator device includes the steps of providing at least a first substrate and providing a waveguide integrated on the substrate. The... |
| US-7,532,789 |
Process tolerant planar ring resonator dispersion compensator In general, in one aspect, an apparatus includes an optical bus arm and a ring resonator arm. The apparatus also includes first, second and third directional... |
| US-7,532,788 |
Contactless connector A contactless connector which secures continuity of communication is provided. A contactless connector comprises a rotating-side light element on a rotating body... |
| US-7,532,787 |
Continuous optical null tracking method for optical switch A method and apparatus are provided for real-time correction of a voltage drift of an optical switch. The correction may be made without interrupting an optical... |
| US-7,532,786 |
Light activated optical switch that includes a piezoelectric element with
layers of piezoelectric material... A light activated optical switch has a piezoelectric element that has at least two layers of piezoelectric material with each layer having different... |
| US-7,532,785 |
Photonic interconnects for computer system devices Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to photonic interconnects that can be used for on-chip as well as off-chip communications between... |
| US-7,532,784 |
Integrated vertical wavelength (de)multiplexer The invention describes an integrated-photonics arrangement, implementable in a multi-layer III-V semiconductor structure, which has a semiconductor substrate;... |
| US-7,532,783 |
Method and system for integrated DWDM receivers An integrated DWDM receiver apparatus includes a support component and a silica-on-silicon substrate overlying the support component. The substrate includes a... |
| US-7,532,782 |
Flexible optical circuit apparatus and method A flexible optical circuit comprising passive or active components is provided. The flexible optical circuit includes a first optical fiber having both first and... |
| US-7,532,781 |
Fiber-optic mat sensor An optical sensor includes a support structure. An optical fiber has a plurality of bends arranged proximate the support structure. The optical fiber follows a... |
| US-7,532,780 |
Method for locating and measuring deformations in a work of civil
engineering A process for locating and measuring deformation in a civil engineering structure wherein at least one geosynthetic fabric (1) containing a plurality of optical... |
| US-7,532,779 |
Single mode (SM) fiber optical reader system and method for interrogating
resonant waveguide-grating sensor(s) An optical reader system is described herein which has a single mode (SM) optical fiber launch/receive system that uses one or more SM optical fibers to... |
| US-7,532,778 |
Optical waveguide modulator equipped with an output light monitor An optical waveguide element having a plurality of surface waveguide portions. A connecting portion for connecting the surface waveguide portions. An output... |
| US-7,532,777 |
Optical functional devices An optical functional device has a slab type two-dimensional photonic crystal layer. The photonic crystal layer has a dielectric layer and a plurality of lattice... |
| US-7,532,776 |
Optical element and optical switch A core layer of an optical waveguide is grown as a film comprised of an electro-optic material with a rhombohedral structure and grown above a substrate with... |
| US-7,532,775 |
Method and device for processing and for searching for an object by
signals corresponding to images A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving the peak values in... |
| US-7,532,774 |
Interpolation pixel generation circuit In an interpolation pixel generation circuit, M pairs and N pairs (N<M) of correlation judgment pixels are generated from pixels on at least two scanning... |
| US-7,532,773 |
Directional interpolation method and device for increasing resolution of
an image A directional interpolation method and device for increasing resolution of an image is disclosed. The device includes an input terminal, a memory, a texture... |
| US-7,532,772 |
Coding for compressive imaging Embodiments of the present invention can estimate an image using an encodement provided by an optical component, an encodement provided by a detector array, or... |
| US-7,532,771 |
Image processing system for digital collage It is required to provide a framework for an automated process for forming a visually appealing collage from a plurality of input images. It is required to... |
| US-7,532,770 |
Method for combining two images based on eliminating background pixels
from one of the images Two or more images are combined by designating one image as a threshold image based on information within the images themselves. Pixels in this threshold image... |
| US-7,532,769 |
Image processing device, image processing method and image processing
program The printer controller as an image processing device detects the information that indicates a limitation on an operation related to a PDF file from the file, and... |
| US-7,532,768 |
Method of estimating an affine relation between images A method (400) is disclosed for estimating an affine relation between a first image and a second image. The first and second images each have at least 4... |
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