Abstract: An RFID ring illumination system includes an illumination ring and a printed circuit board. The illumination ring has a light refracting layer integral with the front of a surgical machine. The printed circuit board is located behind and close to the front of the surgical machine. The printed circuit board has an RFID reader antenna and a light source mounted on it. The light emitted by the light source travels through the illumination ring and is visible from the front of the surgical machine.

Abstract: A laser probe includes an emitting optical fiber, optics, and two or more receiving optical fibers. The emitting optical fiber emits a beam of laser light. The optics diffract the beam of light emitted by the emitting optical fiber. The receiving optical fibers each receive a beam of light diffracted by the optics.

Abstract: An assembly for use in an ophthalmic endoilluminator includes a precision lamp assembly, an actuator, and a controller. The precision lamp assembly has a housing and a lamp holder for holding a lamp. The actuator is connected to the precision lamp assembly and is configured to move the precision lamp assembly. The controller controls the operation of the actuator. The controller directs the actuator to move the precision lamp assembly over time to compensate for hot spot movement of the lamp.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a fundus lens. This fundus lens includes a first aspheric lens and a second aspheric lens and a diffractive optical element. This diffractive optical element is placed between the first and second aspheric lens and illuminated by an off access light source. The diffractive optical element contains a predetermined pattern which may be directed and imaged on a fundus. The first and second aspheric lenses are operable to gather light scattered by the fundus and provide the gathered light to a fundus camera. This fundus camera may then be operable to process the gathered light and determine the topography of the fundus.

Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, a plastic optical fiber is bonded to a high temperature distal part to form a thermally robust illumination probe. The distal part is short in length, is made of a high temperature material(s), has a proper shape for guiding light in a desired application, and may be coated with a reflective coating to ensure that the light rays trapped within the part do not escape when the side of the part is in contact with high refractive index or absorptive materials. The distal part may be made of high temperature material(s) such as high temperature plastic rods, glass optical fibers, and so on. The distal end may be tapered or sculpted to a desired configuration. The plastic optical fiber and the high temperature distal part may be joined, using an optical adhesive, inside a steel cannula, a plastic hub, an optical connector, etc.

Abstract: An RFID ring illumination system includes an illumination ring and a printed circuit board. The illumination ring has a light refracting layer integral with the front of a surgical machine. The printed circuit board is located behind and close to the front of the surgical machine. The printed circuit board has an RFID reader antenna and a light source mounted on it. The light emitted by the light source travels through the illumination ring and is visible from the front of the surgical machine.

Abstract: A method and system for marketing to potential customers for major decision goods and/or services purchases based on knowledge of the potential customers as purchasing units includes combining information from public information, purchased private information, and recorded behavior and actions observed with the marketer, seller or others as an input, then transmitting a marketing profile questionnaire about specific characteristics or preferences of purchasing units for goods or services to predetermined purchasing units meeting minimum criteria to collect and define purchasing units to whom marketing is performed. Control logic determines if any of the predetermined purchasing units have purchased in the past, or subsequently return the marketing profile questionnaire or make a purchase thereafter.

Abstract: A display system generally comprising a display device operable to display an image and configured for illumination by ambient light or light emitted by a dedicated light source and a light directing system. The light directing system is operable to direct one of the ambient light and the light emitted by the light source towards the display device. The light directing system comprises at least one holographic optical element which is switchable between an active state wherein light incident on the element is diffracted and a passive state wherein light incident on the element is transmitted without substantial alteration.

Abstract: A color filter which, in a reflection type color picture projector using a polarized light component as a projection light, improve the utilization factor of light and a color picture display device using the same color filter are provided. The color filter 3 using a transmission type hologram diffracts and spectroscopically separates P polarized light components related to respective primary colors and condenses them to pixel electrodes 13r, 13g, and 13b on the side of an LCD panel 1. A reflection light which is modulated by an optical modulator 16 on the side of the LCD panel 1 and becomes S polarized light component is incident on the color filter 3. The color filter 3 transmits the S polarized light component and uses it as the projection light.

Abstract: A warning indicator that comprises a lamp hidden adjacent to the roof of a vehicle, such as a school bus, and a transmission hologram decal containing a hologram that is mounted on a front or rear window of the vehicle. The lamp projects a beam of light downward onto the transmission hologram decal where it is diffracted by the hologram into a predetermined angular field of view at the front of rear of the vehicle. The hologram projects an image, such as the word "STOP", for example, to warn drivers of other vehicles that the vehicle, such as the school bus, for example, has come to a stop. The hologram is preferentially designed to have an asymmetrically-shaped field of view.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior lamp system that includes a light source (11) for providing a plurality of beams, a plurality of optical fiber channels (17) responsive to the plurality of beams for providing a plurality of optical fiber channel outputs, a plurality of optical switches (15) for controlling the transmission of light by the plurality of optical fiber channels, and a plurality of rear exterior lamps (19) for projecting light received from the optical fiber channels to provide respective exterior lamp outputs.

Abstract: A rear exterior lamp for a vehicle including an optical fiber (61) for providing an optical fiber light output, an optical coupler (50) responsive to the optical fiber light output for providing an optical coupler light output, and a light panel (11, 13, 15, 100) responsive to the optical coupler light output for providing an exterior lamp output. The optical coupler more particularly includes a transparent substrate having an input side (53) for receiving the optical fiber light output, an output surface (51), and a plurality of internally reflecting surfaces (55a) opposite the output surface for internally reflecting light that enters the input surface toward the output surface.

Abstract: A holographic stoplight system that includes a stoplight hologram (21, 21') supported adjacent the inside surface of a rear window (211) of a vehicle, and a light source (29, 31) for providing a converging beam that is vertically converging and predominantly horizontally colimated. The stoplight hologram is illuminated with the vertically converging beam, or with a predominantly collimated beam provided by a collimating lens (27) that collimates the vertically converging beam.

Abstract: A holographic display including a planar transparent light pipe (11) configured for rotation about a light pipe rotation axis that is orthogonal to the planar extent of the transparent light pipe and passes through a rotational center of the light, a multiple image hologram structure (13) having a plurality of holographic images attached to one side of the planar transparent light pipe, wherein the images are at different azimuthal angular positions on the light pipe about the light pipe rotation center, and a light source (17) for illuminating an input surface of the transparent light pipe such that an injected beam propagates within the light pipe to provide reconstruction illumination for a portion of the multiple image hologram structure.

Abstract: A holographic thin rear exterior lamp for a vehicle including a light pipe (11) having first and second opposing surfaces (11a, 11b), a rear exterior lamp hologram (13, 113) attached to one of the first and second surfaces of the light pipe, a polarization rotating retarder film (16, 116) attached to one of the first and second opposing surfaces oppositely from the rear exterior lamp hologram, a light source (17, 19) for providing a substantially collimated beam, a transmission hologram (15) disposed on one of the first and second surfaces of the light pipe for coupling the substantially collimated beam into the light pipe such that a portion of the substantially collimated light propagates by total internal reflection within the light pipe, the rear exterior lamp hologram and the polarization rotating retarder film. The polarization rotating retarder film is configured to impart a substantially halfwave retardance to internally reflected light that passes twice therethrough.

Abstract: A multiple image multiplexed holographic display including a light pipe (11, 111) having first and second opposing surfaces (11a, 11b, 111a, 111b) and a plurality of input surfaces (15, 115) located between adjacent edges of the first and second opposing surfaces. A multiple image hologram structure (13, 113) attached to one of the first and second opposing surfaces is illuminated with respective beams injected into the light pipe by a plurality of light sources (17, 50, 61) adjacent respective input surfaces. The injected beams are incident on the hologram structure at different incidence angles, and the hologram structure contains holographic images that are recorded to reconstruct in response to respective injected beams, whereby each holographic image is selectively displayed by controlling its associated light source.

Abstract: Apparatus comprising a decal disposed on an interior surface of a window and a light source for projecting light onto the to display an image outside of the vehicle. The decal comprises a protective layer having a hologram layer disposed thereon that is designed to transmit a holographic image in a predetermined viewing direction. An opaque and clear mask layer into which an icon is incorporated may be secured to the hologram layer to provide a two-dimensional image. The hologram layer is illuminated by sunlight, skylight, or a light source and projects an image to a viewer at a predefined direction. During the day, the icon is viewable because light transmits through the clear portions of the mask layer is clear, and is blocked by opaque portions of the mask layer that define the icon. At night, the decal is illuminated by light from a light source 18, or an exterior or ambient light source to produce an image viewable by the observer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprising a four-layer holographic filter that projects up to 100 percent of incident white light while providing improved color purity. The four-layer holographic filter processes normal incidence collimated white light derived from a projector and focuses red, green, and blue components of the collimated white light into separate spatial locations of a liquid crystal layer. The four-layer holographic filter includes a large spectral bandwidth volume transmission grating layer that diffracts incident collimated white light off-axis, followed by an off-axis holographic color filter comprising three separate hologram layers that include an array of off-axis volume transmission hologram lenslets designed to diffract the respective blue, green and red components of the off-axis white light back on axis and focus them onto locations of blue, green and red pixels, respectively, of the liquid crystal display layer.

Abstract: A holographic viewing apparatus for allowing an operator of a bus to view a portion of a blind spot region located in front of the bus and below the windshield of the bus. The holographic viewing apparatus includes a volume transmission holographic grating attached to a lower edge of the windshield of the bus for transmissively diffracting light from a portion of the blind spot region such that an operator of the bus sees an image of the portion of the blind spot region superimposed on a scene that is directly and non-diffractingly observed through the holographic transmission grating.

Abstract: A remote controlled locking system employing a holographic window display, particularly adapted for vehicle use. The system includes a remotely-operated transmitter for transmitting locking and unlocking signals, and a locking mechanism that is locked and unlocked in response to the transmitted signals. The locking mechanism outputs a status signal or status signals, corresponding to at least one of the locking and unlocking signals. Control electronics process the status signals from the locking mechanism to provide control signals that are coupled to first and second light emitting members, such as LED arrays. The light emitting members produce light output signals in response to the control signals. First and second prism couplers are attached to a surface of a window and are optically coupled to the first and second light emitting members. First and second hologram decals that comprise the holographic window display are attached to the surface of the window and are responsive to the light output signals.