Abstract: A light analysis system for analyzing light transmitted through an ampoule includes a housing having at least one receptacle for the ampoule, a cover for substantially preventing ambient light from affecting the receptacle and having an interior reflective surface, and a master control system. Each receptacle includes at least one light source and a photodetector positioned such that the light from the light source passes through the receptacle (and thereby the ampoule and its contents) prior to entering the photodetector. According to one preferred aspect of the invention, the receptacles are provided preferably at a 30° to 45° angle relative to vertical. According to another preferred aspect of the invention, the light source is at least one LED which is directed to transmit light upward into the reflective surface of the cover such that the light is reflected by the cover downward into the receptacle toward the photodetector.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wheel measurement method and system to measure an attribute of a wheel. Light illumination devices and light sensing devices provide wheel data. A computer then performs a calculation on the wheel data to measure the attribute of the wheel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a densitometry device that can perform suitable densitometry with minimum required light amounts and can achieve space savings. An angle &thgr; between a reference optical axis of a light source, which is an LED chip, and an optical axis, according to a photoelectric conversion element, of a density measurement optical system is set to, for example, 52°. Light-emitting chips, which emit each of red, green and blue light, are provided inside a cannon shell-shaped light-emitting portion. These light-emitting chips are arranged in a straight line along a direction of conveyance of a color patch chart. Consequently, inclination angles of the light-emitting chips with respect to a measurement axis of the density measurement optical system will always change consistently with each other, and no difference between the inclination angles of the different colors will occur.

Abstract: A system and a method for recording interference fringes in a photosensitive medium. Two light beams are guided along different light paths to impinge on a photosensitive medium, where they interfere to produce the interference fringes. One of the beam is reflected along its path on a delay mirror forming a fixed angle &phgr; with respect to the plane of the photosensitive medium. Both the photosensitive medium and delay mirror are translated with respect to the light paths of the two beams, thereby recording the interference fringes all along the medium. The angle &phgr; is chosen so that the interference pattern is fixed relative to the photosensitive medium along its length.

Abstract: An automatic, oil-spill-detection system, which employs thin-film and wavefront-splitting interference techniques to determines the existence of surface oil or oil drops in water is disclosed. Two independent automatic, decision-making systems are disclosed, which provide a reliable means for oil spillage detection. A computer code and a image extraction system are employed to discern and monitor the interference fringes generated from oil slicks. The computer-based imaging system can be further replaced by a compact and low-cost imaging circuit that functions reliably in a buoy with relatively low power consumption.

Abstract: A high accurate SOI optical waveguide Michelson interferometer sensor for temperature monitoring has designed and analyzed in this invention. According to the numerical analysis of power reflective spectra of waveguide Michelson interferometers, the temperature sensing of waveguide SOI Michelson interferometer sensor can improve at least 20 times than fiber Bragg grating temperature sensor. Moreover, the SOI Waveguide interferometer sensor we designed presents high sensitivity than pure single waveguide Bragg grating sensor and fiber Bragg grating sensor by adjusting the length of the two interferometric arms. The full wavelength half maximum (FWHM) of our designed SOI optical waveguide Michelson interferometer can be narrowed much smaller than fiber Bragg grating and waveguide Bragg grating sensors for sensitivity improvement. The invention of this optical SOI waveguid sensing devices shows promising results for developing integrated OEIC sensors in the future.

Abstract: A GTIFR interferometer, for use in an interleaver or in a deinterleaver, wherein the GTIFR interferometer includes a Gires-Toutnois interferometer with a 45 degree Faraday rotator between the mirrors of the Gires-Tournois interferometer and further includes a 22.5 degree Faraday rotator in the light path to the Gires-Tournois interferometer and an interleaver or deinterleaver that contains one GTIFR. A dispersion compensated GTIFR interleaver includes a second Gires-Tournois interferometer for providing chromatic dispersion compensation.

Abstract: The invention is directed to the detection and imaging of the internal geometry of the eye, particularly of the important components for imaging in the eye such as the cornea, lens, vitreous body and retinal surface, by multichannel short coherence interferometry. A method and arrangement for obtaining topograms and tomograms of the eye structure by many simultaneously recorded interferometric depth scans through transversely adjacent points in the pupil using spatially coherent or spatially partially coherent light sources. The depth scan is carried out by changing the optical length of the interferometer measurement arm by means of a retroreflector. By continuously displacing the retroreflector, the z-position of the light-reemitting point in the eye can be determined by means of the occurring interference. It is possible to record depth scans simultaneously through the use of spatially coherent or spatially partially coherent light beams comprising a plurality of partial beams.

Abstract: This invention mainly provides a structure of high filtering precision optical signal interleaver. Herein the birefringent crystal is designed to lead the incident light having a suitable phase-delay and multi-pass to achieve a flattened filtering spectrum and to reduce the filtering spectrum error caused by unmatched component crystal length. Moreover, this invention will eliminate the element number and shorten the element length concurrently.

Abstract: An optical instrument may include a tunable free-space filter as a wavelength selector. That optical instrument may be an optical spectrum analyzer (OSA). Indeed, the OSA may be constructed and arranged as an optical channel monitor for wavelength-division multiplexed optical communication systems. The tunable free-space filter may be a tunable thin film filter (TTFF). The TTFF may be thermo-optically tunable. The tunable filter may be a multi-layer film structure incorporating thin film semiconductor materials. The temperature, and hence the wavelength, of the TTFF may be controlled by various heating and cooling structures. Various TTFF structures are also possible. The TTFF may have a single-cavity Fabry-Perot structure or may have a multi-cavity structure. Packaging variants can also be made. Any one or more of several calibration aids can be included, such as an external source of one or more known wavelength signals, or an internal source of one or more known wavelength signals.

Abstract: A wavelength detector includes an optical structure receiving an input beam, the optical structure outputting at least two wavelength dependent two-beam interference signals. Each wavelength dependent two-beam interference signal has a different phase offset. A detector receives the at least two wavelength dependent two-beam interference signals and outputs an electrical signal representative of each wavelength dependent two-beam interference. A processor receives the at least two electrical signals from the detector and generates a composite control signal. The two-beam interference signals may be created by reflecting light off the two surfaces of the optical structure. The different phase offsets may be created by providing a stepped pattern on one of the surfaces of the optical structure. Phase shifting interferometry techniques may be used to determine the wavelength from the periodic signals.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for combining multiple views of an object using a three-dimensional surface profiling apparatus, which compensates for depth of field effects, is described. The apparatus utilizes a single source and a single receiver to acquire the multiple views of small objects. A lens or a system of lenses adjust the focal plane to account for the shorter distance that the radiation will travel along a first optical path than along a second optical path, so that both images are in focus on the detector at substantially the same time. For large objects, a three-dimensional surface profiling apparatus utilizing more than one camera is used.

Abstract: An attitude of a measurement reference surface of a positioning master is adjusted using an auto-collimator, the positioning master being disposed so that the adjusted measurement reference surface is located on a designed position, and the light beam irradiated from the measurement reference surface is detected by a CCD camera to set the reference position. A calibrated position relative to the designed position is set based on average optical characteristics obtained by a projection lens inspection apparatus as an initializing process and the CCD camera is moved to the calibrated position. An optical device is mounted and a position of a liquid crystal panel is adjusted while detecting the light beam irradiated from the light-irradiating surface of a cross dichroic prism of the optical device by the CCD camera and the liquid crystal panel is fixed with ultraviolet curing adhesive.

Abstract: Audio data is captured, then filtered to extract text data and print commands. The audio data is captured by sensing the audio data, generating an analog audio data signal in response to the sensed audio data, and digitizing the analog audio data signal into captured audio data. The text data is converted to electronic text. The electronic text is accumulated in a text buffer. Audio data is captured and filtered to extract text data and print comments until a print command is extracted from the audio data. When a print command is extracted from the audio data, the accumulated electronic text is translated into a rendered document. The electronic text is either translated alone or with a form template. The rendered document is printed and the text buffer is purged.

Abstract: An image recording/reproducing apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which transforms original image data with a first resolution, supplied from an image input device, into a processed image signal with a second resolution. A recording signal generating unit transforms at least one of the original image data and the processed image signal-produced by the image signal processing unit, into a recording form. An image recording device stores the processed image signal in the recording form, produced by the recording signal generating unit, into a storage unit, the recording form of the processed image signal being suited to a predetermined data format on the storage unit. An image reproducing device transforms the processed image signal in the recording form, read from the storage unit, into an output-form signal, and displays an image on a display monitor in accordance with the output-form signal.

Abstract: A preset range of hues, for which saturation (chroma) is to be enhanced, is stored in advance in a printer driver. The printer driver receives an input of color image data, enhances saturation (chroma) of the input color image data with regard to the preset range of hues, determines creation or non-creation of ink dots of multiple colors based on the image data of the enhanced saturation (chroma), and outputs the results of determination to a color printer. A resulting color image with enhanced saturation (chroma) with regard to the preset range of hues is then printed with the color printer. The arrangement of storing the preset range of hues, which are expressible with the color printer but can not attain so high saturation (chroma) as that of silver halide photographs enables images of high saturation (chroma) like the silver halide photographs to be printed.

Abstract: A method of color conversion includes providing a first color domain input signal set having plural input signals; sorting the input signals of the first color domain input signal set according to signal intensity; designing and generating plural 1-D look-up table sets for color polyhedrons; selecting a set of look-up tables for use with a specific color polyhedron, wherein said selecting is a function of a section of the polyhedron determined as a function of the input signal set; looking up values in the look-up table set as a function of the input signal set; generating weights as a function of the sorted signal intensities; and interpolating the output from the selected look-up tables as a function of the selected look-up table and the generated weights to produce a color domain signal set which is converted to a desired color domain signal set.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of producing a multicolor pixel sheet on which pixels of different colors (R, G and B) and a black matrix are formed. Pixels are formed with a gap therebetween on a light-transmitting substrate and each pixel is composed of a coloring layer. The black matrix is formed by a black coloring resin provided at upper surfaces of pixels on the pixel sheet, the gap between the pixels, and the outer periphery defined by the outermost pixels. A two-stage developing process is conducted after exposure from the back and the front of the substrate to form a spacer pattern having a predetermined thickness on the black matrix.

Abstract: A regulated black colorant amount calculating section calculates a corresponding regulated black colorant amount from the L*a*b* of a plurality of typical color signals in a partial color gamut, which can be represented by three colors excluding black. An optimum black colorant amount modeling section performs color prediction modeling to predict an optimum black colorant amount in a whole color gamut from plural sets of the typical color signal and the regulated black colorant amount. At this time, an extrapolation prediction from a color in a partial color gamut to a whole color gamut is performed to predict the optimum black colorant amount in which a natural color reproduction. By using the color prediction modeling, the optimum black colorant amount determining section determines a corresponding optimum black colorant amount from the L*a*b* of an input lattice point. a YMCK signal calculating section determines residual YMC and outputs a YMCK signal.

Abstract: Systems and procedures are described to automatically configure an imaging device to form images on sheets of print media that are loaded in the imaging device. To accomplish this, the imaging device reads, or senses a single marking from at least one edge of the sheet of print media. The marking includes data; the data provides orientation information with respect to how the print sheet is loaded in the imaging device. The data further includes a set of media parameter information corresponding to the sheet of print media. The imaging device configures itself to form images on the sheet of print media based on at least a portion of the sensed data from the sheet of print media.

Abstract: When there occurs one of a copy JOB, a printer JOB, and a facsimile JOB, the above JOB is classified into four types and registered into one of a copy JOB queue section 73a, a saved JOB queue section 73b, a priority JOB queue section 73c, and an ordinal JOB queue section 73d. When printing of a print section is completed, whether or not a JOB is registered in any queue section is judged and repeatedly monitored in the order of the queue sections 73a, 73b, 73c, and 73d. When a JOB registered is confirmed, the confirmed JOB is promptly executed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for control of a multiple copy print job involving documents in multiple languages. The method and apparatus prompt a document user to specify any languages other than that of the original document. The apparatus causes the translation of the document into the specified languages. The user may also specify how many of each translation are desired and direct copy subsets independently to specific printer trays.

Abstract: A printing system is provided, which comprises means for acquiring the number of ink colors of ink cartridges loaded on a printer; means for accepting print setting including designations regarding a printing medium and a quality of printing; and means for deciding, based on the acquired number of ink colors and a content of the accepted print setting, use of seven color inks or six color inks to perform printing. Thus, in the printing system capable of performing printing with using different numbers of ink colors, especially both of printing with using seven colors and printing with using six colors, without imposing any excessive burden on a user, a good result of printing can be obtained according to a type of the ink cartridge loaded on the printer, and a content of the print setting.

Abstract: A key operation monitoring method used for monitoring a key operation input from an operation panel in an image forming apparatus is provided, in which the key operation monitoring method includes the steps of: obtaining the key operation as the key event information; and receiving the obtained key event information by interprocess communication.

Abstract: A power supply control device for an image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a shutoff detector for monitoring the state of a power switch. In response to the output signal of the shutoff detector representative of the turn-off of the power switch, a shutoff processing section executes processing for avoiding accidental error detection and protecting a memory before the output voltage of a DC power supply drops to a preselected level.

Abstract: A method, system and program product for printer processing comprising the steps of: receiving a print designation to print a document; constructing an ordering of graphics; selecting a graphic to send to a printer; getting graphic data for the selected graphic; and sending the graphic data for printer processing.

Abstract: A system for permitting insertion or replacement of electronic cards, the system includes a scanner for scanning hardcopy elements, the scanner including an electronic component for performing at least one processing function on an electronic representation of the hardcopy element; a first processor for directing operations of the scanner and for receiving directions that are passed to other components; a field-installed electronic card that performs additional processing on the electronic representation of the hardcopy element; a second processor electrically connected to the scanner for sending directions to the scanner processor which processor includes field-installed control code for directing the field-installed electronic card.

Abstract: A method of responding to a status change for a peripheral device includes determining that a status change has occurred in the peripheral device, combining a unique device identifier relevant to the peripheral device with the status change to form an electronic message and transmitting the electronic message across a firewall.

Abstract: Image forming devices and methods of forming hard images are provided. According to one aspect, an image forming device includes a housing including a media path arranged to guide media; a sensor configured to obtain encoded data from the media and to output a signal indicative of the encoded data; and imaging circuitry configured to form hard images upon the media, to receive the signal and to perform at least one function with respect to the formation of the hard images within the image forming device responsive to the encoded data indicated within the signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method that facilitates off-site printing. In one arrangement, the system and method pertain to receiving printable data with a printing controller, forwarding the printable data to a proxy driver, receiving processed data from the proxy driver, and forwarding the processed data as a print job to a printing device.

Abstract: Systems and procedures are described for an imaging device to download media parameters from a remote server computer that is connected to the imaging device across a network. Specifically, the imaging device detects a media ID from print media. Responsive to detecting the media ID, the imaging device downloads a set of media parameters that correspond to the Media ID from the server computer. The imaging device uses these downloaded media parameters to automatically configure itself.

Abstract: The present invention is for a system that allows images to be managed and manipulated on a server by using a web browser. Images may be scanned, printed, faxed, copied, viewed, merged, edited or electronically manipulated across a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server has security that controls access to files, folders and functions.

Abstract: A facsimile apparatus that receives an e-mail message through a local area network, stores image data contained in the e-mail message in a data storage unit, converts the image data stored in the data storage unit into image data that a facsimile terminal can properly handle, and transfers the converted image data to the facsimile terminal. The facsimile apparatus accordingly can transfer the image data contained in the received e-mail message to the facsimile terminal even if the facsimile terminal cannot receive e-mail messages.

Abstract: A CPU determines whether the intended use of the image data to be stored in a plurality of HDDs has a first-type purpose, which requires storing temporarily stored image data for carrying out output processing of the image data, or a second-type purpose, which requires long-term preservation of the image data. If the first-type intended use is determined, a first-type mode for saving is selected, wherein the image data to be stored are divided and each divided set of image data is stored into one HDD. If the second-type intended use is determined, a second-type mode for saving is selected, wherein the same image data part is saved in a plurality of storage means.

Abstract: Embodiments of an architecture for processing gray-level images is disclosed.

Abstract: An error utilization factor line, indicative of a relationship between the amount of the error utilization factor K and input data for a present pixel, is determined dependently on characteristics of the image, on the value of the threshold, on the size of the distribution matrix, or on the condition of the recording operation. The amount of the error utilization factor K is determined dependently on the input data of the present pixel and based on the error utilization factor line. The correction amount F, collected from the already-processed nearby pixel, is multiplied by the error utilization factor K, before being added to the input data of the present pixel for the halftone process.

Abstract: An inkjet printer comprises a printhead that includes a number of printhead segments that span a print area so that portions of consecutive printhead segments overlap in common print areas. Each printhead segment defines a lead-in area in one common print area and a lead-out area in a consecutive common print area. An interface is configured to receive image data. A memory device stores data relating to characteristics of the printhead. A dithering unit communicates with the interface and the memory device. The dithering unit is configured to generate a lead-in dither matrix associated with the lead-in area and a lead-out dither matrix associated with the lead-out area, to generate lead-in/lead-out dither matrices for each common print area, to generate a variable probability value that is dependent on a scalar value that corresponds to a position along a line spanning each common print area and to interpolate the lead-in/lead-out dither matrices with the variable probability value.

Abstract: A system and method for imprinting a digital image with an identifier using black metamers. Black metamers provide an addition to the radiometric signature of the original digital image that is imperceptible to human vision. The identifier may include, but is not limited to, watermarks, fingerprints, textual additions, steganography and identification tags. The digital image is processed and imprinted frame by frame by adding black metamers to the fundamental metamer of selected pixels in a frame. The black metamers imprint the identifier into the digital image without changing the way in which the image is perceived visually. To verify that a copy of a digital image imprinted with an identifier has been made, the suspected copy of the digital image is stripped of all fundamental metamers to reveal only its black metamers. The presence of an identifier within the black metamers is evidence that the suspected copy is in fact a copy of a digital image.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, an operating procedure of a scanning system that can get images automatically is disclosed. The operating procedure comprises steps of scanning at least one original to get an image which can display all content of this original, displaying the image, receiving a portion of image that selected by the user, and outputting the selected image. The present invention can also extend to a scanning method for using a scanning system with one-scan-and-done feature and free of identifying original's attribute feature. And a scanning system with one-scan-and-done feature and free of identifying original's attribute feature.

Abstract: An optical scanner equipped with plug-in calibration film, which the optical scanner provides light incident upon a transmission-typed document and catches the image signals of the transmission-typed document by an optical chassis. The optical scanner equipped with plug-in calibration film includes a scanning zone and at least one attachment. The scanning zone is capable of providing for placing the transmission-typed document. The attachment is capable of providing a calibration film for enabling the optical chassis to retrieve the image signals so as to improve the image brightness.

Abstract: A white reference image is inputted to an image sensor with a light source lit up, and white reference data is set every effective photosensor element by inspecting the output signals of the image sensor as to the white reference image (steps S305 and S310). After the input of the white reference image, the light source is extinguished (point e in FIG. 1), a black reference image is inputted to the image sensor (step S315), and black reference data is set every effective photosensor element by inspecting the output signals of the image sensor as to the black reference image (step S320). After the light source is lit up (point f in FIG.

Abstract: A reciprocal contact-type image sensor includes a case having an upper surface formed with an opening, a cover glass closing the opening and providing a linear reading region extending in the primary scanning direction. A sheet as an object to be read, coming into contact with the linear reading region, is reciprocally moved in the secondary scanning direction which is perpendicular to the primary scanning direction. The opening is defined by a pair of edges spaced in the secondary scanning direction. Each of the edges includes a convex surface having a top positioned above the outer surface of the cover glass.

Abstract: A scanning optical system is configured to include a light source, an anamorphic optical element, a polygonal mirror, and an imaging optical system. The imaging optical system has a scanning lens including a first lens provided on a polygonal mirror side and a second lens provided on a surface side, and a compensation lens provided on the surface side with respect to the scanning lens, the compensation lens compensating for curvature of field. The scanning lens includes at least one convex surface that has a toric surface having a stronger power in the auxiliary scanning direction than in the main scanning direction. One surface of the compensation lens has an anamorphic aspherical surface, which is a surface whose radius of curvature in the auxiliary scanning direction at a point spaced from the optical axis thereof is determined independently from a cross-sectional shape thereof along the main scanning direction.

Abstract: For each paper type, a plurality of two-dimensional excitation characteristics tables Ti are provided in one to one correspondence with a plurality of colors i. The excitation characteristics table Ti for each color i contains a plurality of sets of excitaiton-reflectance data Bi (&lgr;0, &lgr;) in a two-dimensional matrix form, for a plurality of combinations of incident light wavelengths &lgr; and reflected light wavelengths &lgr;0. The excitation-reflectance data Bi (&lgr;0, &lgr;) indicates the ratio of the amount of the reflected light wavelength &lgr;0 generated in response to incidence of the incident light wavelength &lgr;, with respect to the amount of the incident light wavelength &lgr;.

Abstract: An image determination apparatus, an image reading apparatus, and an image determining method include a device for cutting a color/monochrome region based on a color saturation value obtained by a predetermined derivation method based on image data, and a device for detecting image errors located in large boundaries of brightness variations including color distortions based on correlations between color saturation and color. When errors are included in the image data acquired by, for example, a color image scanner due to primary color errors at random locations (in particular, color bleeding that occurs as a color distortion in monochrome achromatic color areas), it is possible to extract characteristics from the image data and detect locations in images where color distortions and color bleeding occur without using especially complicated and special compositions to detect where these errors occurred.

Abstract: The present invention provides a solution to the needs described above through a system and method for holographic storage. The system comprises a laser light source, a first beam splitter for splitting a light beam into an object and reference beam, an elliptical reflector with a first and second focal point, a reflector rotatable about a first axis and a second axis, a pattern encoder, and a holographic storage medium. The reflector is located at the first focal point of the elliptical mirror, and the holographic storage medium is located at the second focal point of the elliptical mirror.

Abstract: The effective coherence of a synchrotron beam line can be tailored to projection lithography requirements by employing a moving holographic diffuser and a stationary low-cost spherical mirror. The invention is particularly suited for use in an illuminator device for an optical image processing system requiring partially coherent illumination. The illuminator includes: (1) a synchrotron source of coherent or partially coherent radiation which has an intrinsic coherence that is higher than the desired coherence, (2) a holographic diffuser having a surface that receives incident radiation from said source, (3) means for translating the surface of the holographic diffuser in two dimensions along a plane that is parallel to the surface of the holographic diffuser wherein the rate of the motion is fast relative to integration time of said image processing system; and (4) a condenser optic that re-images the surface of the holographic diffuser to the entrance plane of said image processing system.

Abstract: An optical pickup unit includes a light source of semiconductor laser chips of different light-emission wavelengths; a plurality of holograms placed between the light source and an optical recording medium, the holograms including at least one non-polarization hologram having a substantially uniform diffraction efficiency irrespective of the direction of polarization of incident light and at least one polarization hologram having a diffraction efficiency varying depending on the direction of polarization of incident light; and a wave plate provided between the optical recording medium and the polarization hologram. The returning beam of a light beam emitted from a selected one of the semiconductor laser chips is diffracted by the corresponding one of said holograms to be received by a light-receiving element. The wave plate turns the direction of polarization of the returning beam to a different direction from that of the emitted light beam.

Abstract: An optical device comprises a substrate having at least one light-guiding core; a core-modifying element disposed at least partly within the light-guiding core, the core-modifying element being formed of a material different to the substrate material so that the refractive index difference between the material of the core-modifying clement and the light-guiding core is dependent upon the temperature of the core-modifying element; and a heating and/or cooling arrangement for altering the temperature of the core-modifying element.

Abstract: A transmission method for identifying infrared transmission head is provided. The infrared transmission head is coupled to the infrared transmission head through an infrared controller. The infrared controller is set to a test circuit mode. The infrared controller is programmed according to the test transmission mode associated with the test brand name of the infrared transmission head and test transmission data is transmitted. In the meantime, the infrared controller receives reception test data from the infrared transmission head according to the test transmission mode associated with the test brand name of the infrared transmission head. If the transmission test data and the reception test data are identical, the test brand name and associated test transmission mode are registered. The infrared transmission head operates according to the registered test brand name and associated test transmission mode of the infrared transmission head.