With Fiber Optics Patents (Class 348/197)
  • Patent number: 10569183
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an information processing system. The system includes at least two toy battle devices and control devices corresponding to the toy battle devices. A first control device is configured to send attack information to a first toy battle device. The first toy battle device is configured to modulate the attack information into a laser signal, and emit the laser signal. A second toy battle device is configured to receive the laser signal by using a laser receiving component, and obtain the attack information by demodulating the laser signal by using a demodulation circuit; and send the attack information to a second control device; determine an attacked status of the second toy battle device according to the attack information; and send a feedback instruction to the second toy battle device, the feedback instruction indicating the attacked status of the second toy battle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ming Zhao, Yong Yang, Sixi Lu, Yanqing Jing
  • Patent number: 8654264
    Abstract: Laser projection system suitable for commercial motion picture theaters and other large screen venues, including home theater, uses optical fibers to project modulated laser beams for simultaneously raster scanning multiple lines on screen. Emitting ends of optical fibers are arranged in an array such that red, green and blue spots are simultaneously scanned onto the screen in multiple lines spaced one or more scan lines apart. Use of optical fibers enables scanning of small, high resolution spots on screen, and permits convenient packaging and replacement, upgrading or modification of system components. Simultaneous raster scanning of multiple lines enables higher resolution, brightness, and frame rates with available economical components. Fiber-based beam coupling may be used to greatly enhance the flexibility of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Magic Lantern, LLC
    Inventors: John P. Callison, Jeffrey S. Pease, Richard W. Pease
  • Publication number: 20130038741
    Abstract: A method of capturing and processing a multi-spectral image of an object comprises placing the object on a flat-bed scanner (1), using the flat-bed scanner (1) to illuminate the object successively with monochromatic light at a series of wave-lengths to produce a plurality of images together forming a composite multi-spectral image, determining a spectral profile of at least a portion of the multi-spectral image and comparing the spectral profile to a stored spectral profile (22, 24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: ISIS INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Alexander Kovalchuk
  • Patent number: 8305439
    Abstract: A surveillance camera that includes a device for capturing video signals and that converts the video signals to optical signals. The surveillance camera has a first component with a first aperture and a second component with a second aperture. The second component engages the first component such that the first component rotates relative to the second component. The surveillance camera has a first optical component that extends through the first aperture of the first component. The surveillance camera also has a second optical component that extends through the second aperture of the second component. The first optical component is separated from the second optical component by a gap. The first optical component is operatively connected to the device. The first optical component receives the optical signals and transmits the optical signals to the second optical component across the gap to permit a continuous rotation of the first component relative to the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: WeiCheng Cheng, Hao Wang, Xin Xu
  • Patent number: 7142257
    Abstract: Laser projection system suitable for commercial motion picture theaters and other large screen venues, including home theater, uses optical fibers to project modulated laser beams for simultaneously raster scanning multiple lines on screen. Emitting ends of optical fibers are arranged in an array such that red, green and blue spots are simultaneously scanned onto the screen in multiple lines spaced one or more scan lines apart. Use of optical fibers enables scanning of small, high resolution spots on screen, and permits convenient packaging and replacement, upgrading or modification of system components. Simultaneous raster scanning of multiple lines enables higher resolution, brightness, and frame rates with available economical components. Fiber-based beam coupling may be used to greatly enhance the flexibility of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Magic Lantern LLC
    Inventors: John P. Callison, Jeffrey S. Pease, Richard W. Pease
  • Publication number: 20040071330
    Abstract: An apparatus images a surface. An imager stage linearly translates the surface in a first direction. A fiber optic bundle has a first end of parallel first fiber ends defining a linear input aperture perpendicular to the first direction and parallel to the surface, and a second end defining a generally circular output aperture. Each first fiber end optically communicates with the output aperture. A radiation beam linearly scans and interacts with the surface below the input aperture to produce a light signal that is collected by the input aperture and transmitted by the fiber bundle to the output aperture. A photodetector detects the light signal at the output aperture. A processor processes the detected light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas N. Curry
  • Patent number: 5784098
    Abstract: N lines of line-shaped light are projected onto the object by means of a measuring light projecting lens. The light carrying the image of the object is passed through the eyepiece lens 17 in an endoscope 6 and the auxiliary lens 30 in a measuring head 11 and split into two beamlets by a beam splitter 31, with one beamlet being focused at a position coinciding with the entrance end faces of measuring light's position detecting fibers 33(l) to 33(m). The line-shaped light images of the object thus formed in positions coinciding with the entrance end faces of measuring light's position detecting fibers 33(l) to 33(m) are scanned linearly by those linearly aligned fibers as they are oscillated and driven by a fiber scanner 36. The scanned line-shaped light images are then subjected to the necessary signal processing in a signal processor circuit 35 such as to measure the three-dimensional configuration of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Shoji, Shinichiro Hattori, Masahide Kanno, Yasushi Namii, Masaru Shiraiwa, Kimihiko Nishioka, Nobuyuki Matsuura, Akira Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 5577148
    Abstract: A laser scanning apparatus having at least one light source which emits a light at selective intensity, a light scanning device to scan the light emitted from the light source, a waveguide bundle which receives the light at one end of the waveguide bundle and the other end of the waveguide bundle is aligned to form a displaying screen, a phosphor coating screen and a set of photo-detector array which can receive the light passing through each bundled waveguide path. A picture is created by the scanned emission of the light at the other end of the waveguide bundle, or by the scanned emission of a set of phosphor struck by the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Inventor: Yasuo Kamatani
  • Patent number: 5436655
    Abstract: Arranged within a measuring-light generating unit of an endoscope apparatus for three dimensional measurement, according to the invention, are measuring means, a lamp for outgoing a normal illuminating light, and a laser for outgoing a measuring light. Connected to the measuring means is a signal line which is connected to a CCD. Further, an illuminating light outgone from the lamp is condensed by a condenser lens, and is incident upon an incident end surface of a light guide. Furthermore, the measuring light outgone from the laser is condensed by the condensing lens, and is incident upon the incident end surface of the image guide. Moreover, the incident end of the image guide is connected to scanning means formed by a piezo-electric element, a speaker (voice coil) or the like through a connecting element. The scanning means is operated whereby the incident end of the image guide is reciprocally moved in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the measuring light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Hiyama, Masahide Kanno, Shinichiro Hattori