Patents Issued in November 8, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070258006
    Abstract: Embodiments of a solid-state camera system, particularly an imager module and an associated assembly method are described herein. Embodiments of the imager module include an optics frame configured to accommodate multiple optical channels, each optical channel comprising a lower lens group and an upper lens group. At least one of the lens groups is movable with respect to the other and to image sensors. The imaging sensors may be contained in an imager die. Embodiments further include an assembly method, including an optical configuration and method for mounting and focusing to image sensor microelectronic circuitry. Various embodiments are directed toward packaging microelectronic imagers that are responsive to radiation in the visible light spectrum or radiation in other spectrums to provide a small imager module size suitable for automated manufacture at low cost but are not so limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Richard Olsen, Darryl Sato, Feng-Qing Sun
  • Publication number: 20070258007
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically detecting the presence or absence of a bright object in the field of view of a video camera and/or for adaptively modifying video camera exposure level. A video camera system may be configured to enter and exit an adaptive exposure modification mode upon detection of the presence of a bright object in the field of view of a video camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Joseph Justiss, Michael Horowitz
  • Publication number: 20070258008
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a sensor array in which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element and a switching element are arrayed in a row direction and a column direction, signal wiring connected to a plurality of the switching elements provided in the column direction, and a reading-circuit unit connected to the signal wiring, where the reading-circuit unit includes a first operational area including a first amplifying circuit and a second operational area including a second amplifying circuit connected to the first operational area, and the first and second amplifying circuits are each arranged to be supplied with power within a range, the maximum of the power-supply voltage range of the first amplifying circuit being larger than the maximum of a power-supply voltage range of the second amplifying circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshio Kameshima, Tadao Endo, Tomoyuki Yagi, Katsuro Takenaka, Keigo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20070258009
    Abstract: Plural shots in a picture are classified into plural groups based on a similarity between the shots, and further, the shots particularly similar to each other in the group are linked to each other, to be hierarchically arranged, as shown in the drawings. For example, in a group A in the drawings, a representative frame “KA1” in a shot “A1” is intra-encoded, and then, all of respective representative frames “SA21”, “SA22”, and “SA23” in shots “A21”, “A22”, and “A23” in one lower hierarchy are subjected to prediction encoding using the frame “KA1”. In the same manner, representative frames in the shots are subjected to the prediction encoding using a representative frame in one upper hierarchy in the same group in a daisy-chain manner. Frames other than the representative frames are subjected to the prediction encoding using a representative frame to which the frame belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Jun Kanda, Hiroshi Iwamura, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20070258010
    Abstract: A display device and a method of driving the same are disclosed, wherein a single original image is converted into a picture-enhanced image and a non-enhanced image, which are then displayed. The display device includes a controller (140) dividing a screen into a first display window and a second display window, and outputting control signals based on display options corresponding to the first display window and the second display window, and a video processing unit (160) separating an original image into a first image part and a second image part, and modifying picture qualities of each of the first image part and the second image part that are to be displayed on each of the first display window and the second display window, depending upon the control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Su Hong, Sang Bae
  • Publication number: 20070258011
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus a television apparatus capable of showing, on a screen, a menu screen and an input switching screen instead of an image display screen, while being capable of changing setting data through a remote controller operation, comprising: an operation history recording unit configured to record operation instructions to the television apparatus as the items of an operation history; and a unit for returning from erroneous operation configured to be started up by the panic key mounted on the remote controller and perform a return movement from erroneous operations so as to return the setting of the television apparatus to the state corresponding to the item of the operation history recorded before the panic key operation by the operation history recording unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Tachikawa
  • Publication number: 20070258012
    Abstract: A method of processing an image for display on a television screen is described. Unlike conventional method which over-expands the image, the method described herein crops the image (optionally) and scales it to fit the native resolution of the display screen without over-expanding the image. The method includes the steps of receiving a source television image having a native image resolution, scaling the source television image using a scaling ratio to produce a scaled television image having a resolution equal to or less than the native screen resolution in both a vertical and a horizontal direction, and displaying the scaled television image on the television screen. The scaling ratio may be the same or different in the vertical and horizontal directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Samuel Miller
  • Publication number: 20070258013
    Abstract: A method for processing an image in a video data is provided. The video data has a plurality of frames. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of differences, each difference in the plurality of differences being obtained from two frames that are one frame apart, wherein the each difference in the plurality of differences is between pixel information of one pixel from a plurality of pixels in one of the two frames, and a corresponding pixel in the other frame of the two frames; examining a first criterion with a summation of the plurality of differences; and performing cross color suppressing operation on a current frame of the plurality of frames according to a set of stationary image judgment information comprising the result of the first criterion examination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Po-Wei Chao
  • Publication number: 20070258014
    Abstract: A field sequence detector determines the field sequence of a series of fields of video by assessing the vertical frequency content of hypothetical de-interlaced images. Hypothetical images are formed from a currently processed field and an adjacent (e.g. previous or next) field. If the vertical frequency content is relatively high (e.g. above ½ the Nyquist frequency for the image), the hypothetical image is assessed to be formed of improperly interlaced fields, belonging to different frames. If the frequency content is relatively low, the hypothetical image is assessed to be properly assembled from fields of the same frame. The field sequence in the series of fields may be detected from the assessed frequency content for several of said series of fields. Known field sequence, such as 3:2 pull-down, 2:2 pull down, and more generally m:n:l:k pull-down sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: ATI Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Doswald
  • Publication number: 20070258015
    Abstract: Passive diffuser frame uses light emitted from a video display front face to produce cold emission ambient lighting effects, having a light guide capturing display image light and in optical communication with a distributive outer frame that redirects that light. The ambient light can be diffuse, non-image forming, directed as spill light or to a light pipe. A goniophotometric element or goniochromatic element allows changing intensity or color of ambient light as a function of viewing angles. The light guide can use a prism splitter or partial reflector, to redirect light and allow viewing the original display image simultaneously. Additive and subtractive color mixing and photoluminescent substances allow new chromaticities, including fluorescent colors and new colors outside of the gamut of output light colors inherently producible by the unaided video display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Elmo Diederiks, Mark Elting
  • Publication number: 20070258016
    Abstract: A projection advertising display system which can withstand the environmental conditions of the projection site, allows for remote operation and monitoring and provides for long-term, legitimate projected advertising in or on third-party structures. The digital projection advertising display system comprises a projection surface, such as the exterior side or interior wall of a building, which is covered by a long-term agreement allowing the projection of advertising images on said projection surface, and a projection unit comprising a projector, an environmental control system, a monitoring camera, and a computer. Each of the components of the projection unit is operatively coupled to a computer which controls and monitors the function of each of the components. The computer is networked to a central computer remote from said projection unit and can remotely control and monitor the functions of the projection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Jude Galligan, Matthew Wood
  • Publication number: 20070258017
    Abstract: The invention provides a technique enabling an image of high quality to be displayed while decreasing an effect of an outside light proceeding toward a back surface of PDP through a through hole for mounting an electric circuit on a chassis. A flat panel display of the invention includes a display panel, a metallic chassis having a through hole and joints for connecting the back surface of the display panel and the chassis to each other. The joints are on the back surface of the display panel distant from each other in a predetermined direction, and one of the joints is arranged at a position corresponding to the through hole of the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Toshihiko Matsuzawa, Mitsuo Okimoto, Sadayuki Nishimura, Yoshie Kodera, Nobuo Masuoka
  • Publication number: 20070258018
    Abstract: A transmitting-type liquid crystal display projection system including a planar light source which emits planar white beam or planar R/G/B beams in succession is provided. A first polarization filter receives the planar light source and polarizes the same to be in a first polarization state. A liquid-crystal light valve receives the polarized planar light source, and converts the first polarization state to a second polarization state having a corresponding gray level. A second polarization filter receives a light output from the liquid crystal light valve to produce a second polarization light beam. A projection unit projects the second polarization light beam onto a display plane. Using the same planar light source, a polarization beam splitting (PBS) device with a refection-type liquid crystal light valve can be used to achieve the reflection-type projection system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ra-Min Tain, Chun-Chuan Lin, Wei-Kuo Han, Je-Ping Hu, Chen-Hung Chew
  • Publication number: 20070258019
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode to which a signal is supplied through a first switching element and a second electrode to which a signal is supplied through a second switching element in each pixel region on a substrate, wherein liquid crystal is driven in response to a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode. In such a constitution, the first electrode is formed as one electrode of a first holding capacitance which is constituted by sandwiching an insulation film between the first electrode and a signal line and, at the same time, the second electrode is formed as one electrode of a second holding capacitance which is constituted by sandwiching an insulation film between the second electrode and a signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke
  • Publication number: 20070258020
    Abstract: A display device includes a glass substrate having a gate line, a drain line, a pixel electrode, and a thin film transistor. A silicon nitride film is formed on the glass substrate, and a silicon oxide film is formed on the silicon nitride film. The thin film transistor is formed on the silicon oxide film, and includes a poly-silicon film, a gate electrode which is electrically connected to the gate line, a drain electrode which connected to the drain line, and a source electrode which is electrically connected to the pixel electrode. A gate insulation film is formed between the silicon oxide film and the gate electrode, and an interlayer film is interposed between the gate insulation film and the pixel electrode. The silicon nitride film has a larger film thickness than that of the silicon oxide film, and the films are configured so as to reduce reflection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nagata, Koji Hiraga, Masao Uehara, Koichi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20070258021
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to make parts and kinds of liquid crystal display devices in common for cope stably and flexibly with commercial products of computer makers and television makers which have been promoted in various kinds, for simplifying maintenance of a liquid crystal display unit mounted on computers, display monitors therefor or televisions, and preferably for enabling to omit positional adjustment of a light source unit and a liquid crystal display panel during the maintenance of the liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Shunsuke Morishita, Shuusuke Endou
  • Publication number: 20070258022
    Abstract: A semi-transmissive liquid-crystal panel is a useful mobile display device which can provide a clear image in both dark and bright places. However, there has been needed a light-weighted and highly durable display device with a lower power consumption, pursing advantages of a single transparent/reflection type liquid-crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Kazushige Takechi, Ken Sumiyoshi, Ichiro Fujieda, Tatsumi Takahashi, Kazuo Genda, Atsushi Kumano, Noboru Oshima, Yoshiki Matsuoka, Toshimasa Eguchi, Shigenori Yamaoka, Yoshiyuki Ono, Hisatomo Yonehara, Motoyuki Suzuki, Akimitsu Tsukuda, Normasa Sekine, Yasuo Tsuruoka
  • Publication number: 20070258023
    Abstract: A dual-panel display panel includes a first display panel, and a second display panel located on the first display panel, wherein the second display panel includes a second lower plate having a plurality of thin-film transistors and a second upper plate having transparent electrodes, and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer formed between the second lower plate and the second upper plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Chao-Shih Huang, Yung-Jen Lin
  • Publication number: 20070258024
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optically biaxial film comprising an anisotropic material with deformed helically twisted structure and locally varying birefringence, to methods and materials for its preparation, to its uses as retardation or compensation film in optical devices like liquid crystal displays, and to compensators and liquid crystal displays comprising such a biaxial film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Owain Parri, Tara Perrett, Kim Slaney, Richard Harding, Mark Verrall, Shirley Marden
  • Publication number: 20070258025
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of obtaining high luminance and good display characteristics, a substrate for such a liquid crystal display device, and a manufacturing method of such a substrate, are provided. A color filter substrate that holds, together with an array substrate, a liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy. Color filters are formed on a glass substrate and a common electrode is formed on the color filters. Protrusions and auxiliary protrusions for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal are formed on the common electrode so as to have different sectional shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose
  • Publication number: 20070258026
    Abstract: An MVA liquid crystal display which is high in brightness and has preferable characteristics is provided. Further, the MVA liquid crystal display with a preferable display quality as well as a larger margin in fabrication and a higher yield is provided. A first substrate having a first electrode, a second substrate having a second electrode corresponding to a display pixel, the liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy sealed between the first and the second substrates, and a structure which is provided on each of the first and the second substrate to control an alignment of the liquid crystal are provided. The structure in the first substrate has a linear protrusion structure and provides at least two auxiliary protrusion structures opposing to each end portion facing to the second electrode extending from a protrusion structure provided and the width between the two auxiliary protrusions and the opposing second electrode is more than 6 ?m respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Sumi
  • Publication number: 20070258027
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display that can provide a display with high contrast in both the transmissive mode display and the reflective mode display as a transflective liquid crystal display, and an electronic appliance provided therewith. The liquid crystal display can include a liquid crystal layer of a nematic liquid crystal with positive anisotropy of dielectric constant held between a pair of substrates in accordance with the present invention is characterized in that areas used for the display in the liquid crystal layer includes individual areas having at least two kinds of different liquid crystal layer thickness, the individual areas of different liquid crystal layer thickness are either a reflective display unit or a transmissive display unit, a reflective means is disposed on the reflective display unit, and a transparent resin layer is formed in a portion except a portion corresponding to the transmissive display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Maeda, Osamu Okumura
  • Publication number: 20070258028
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first and a second substrates, the second substrate has a color pixel that includes a reference and a correction color pixels, the reference and correction color pixels each has a reflection area, a transmission area, and a thin film transistor, a reflection electrode is provided in the reflection area, and a transmission electrode is provided in the transmission area wherein the transmission electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates, wherein a data voltage applied to the transmission electrode of the reference color pixel is applied to the reflection electrode of the reference color pixel, and the data voltage applied to the transmission electrode of the correction color pixel is reduced to a compensation voltage and the compensation voltage is applied to the reflection electrode of the correction color pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Hyung Hong
  • Publication number: 20070258029
    Abstract: On a transparent glass substrate (10), a first phase difference compensating layer (12) and a second phase difference compensating layer (14), which are formed of inorganic material, are provided. The first phase difference compensating layer (12) includes a stacked two kinds of deposition films sufficiently thinner than reference wavelength, one has high refraction index, and the other has low refraction index, to be a negative C-plate. The second phase difference compensating layer (14) includes at least two oblique deposition films, to be a positive O-plate. The first phase difference compensating layer (12) compensates a phase difference from liquid crystal molecules in a vertical orientation in a liquid crystal layer, and the second phase difference compensating layer (14) compensates a phase difference from liquid crystal molecules in a hybrid orientation in the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakagawa, Takamichi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20070258030
    Abstract: A lens film with small warpage even when a transparent base is thin is provided. Pole prisms made of a hardening resin are arranged along the extending direction on a transparent base made of flexible material. The transparent base has a depression according to a valley between the pole prisms adjacent to each other. The pole prism has a sloping face extending to an inner wall of the he depression. The transparent base is in contact with the valley. A layer not functioning as a prism, that is, a so-called skirt layer does not exist between the transparent base and the pole prisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Kimura, Jun Sasaki, Makoto Aoki, Yasuyuki Kudo, Mariko Fukuda, Yu Andrew Chakchung
  • Publication number: 20070258031
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixel electrodes that are formed in a matrix shape and each of which includes at least two parallelogram electrode pieces each having a pair of lengthwise edges and a pair of oblique edges adjacent the lengthwise edges, and a common electrode that faces the pixel electrodes and that has tilt direction determining members. Transverse center lines of the pixel electrodes that are adjacent each other in a row direction alternate, and the tilt direction determining members that correspond to the pixel electrodes that are adjacent to each other in the row direction are connected to each other in the row direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Nak-Cho CHOI, Ji-Won Sohn, Mee-Hye Jung, Ho-Yun Byun, Seon-Ah Cho
  • Publication number: 20070258032
    Abstract: A novel liquid crystal display device is disclosed. It comprises, at least, a pair of polarizing plates, and a liquid crystal cell, disposed between the pair of polarizing plates, comprising a pair of substrates opposed to each other, electrodes disposed on at least one of the pair of substrates, capable of forming an electric field including a component parallel to the pair of substrates, liquid crystal layer, of which alignment is controlled, disposed between the pair of substrates, a plurality of pixel regions respectively having first, second and third pixels, and a plurality of color filter layers, respectively having first, second and third color filter layers, each corresponding to the first, second and third pixel regions, wherein Rth is different between at least two of the first, second and third color filter layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaihoko, Junichi Hirakata
  • Publication number: 20070258033
    Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To provide a photopolymerization initiator having an extremely low possibility of contaminating liquid crystals, and a liquid crystal sealing material using such a photopolymerization initiator. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A liquid crystal sealing material comprising (a) a reactive photopolymerization initiator represented by the general formula (1) and (b) a photocurable resin: (wherein R1 represents a divalent straight chain, branched or cyclic lower alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or an arylene group; R2 represents a divalent straight chain, branched or cyclic lower alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or an arylene group; Ar represents an arylene group; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; X and Y respectively represent O or S; and Z is a hydroxyl group or a morpholino group).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Naoyuki Ochi, Toyohumi Asano, Masahiro Imaizumi, Masaru Kudou, Eiichi Nishihara, Masahiro Hirano, Kouta Yoshii, Sumio Itimura, Makiko Kogo
  • Publication number: 20070258034
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes first and second substrates, a fence, a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of spacers. The first substrate includes a display region for displaying an image. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The fence is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The fence surrounds the display. The spacers maintain the distance between the first and second substrates. The spacers have a gradually increasing compression ratio in a direction from a center of the display region to an edge of the display region. The liquid crystal display apparatus maintains a uniform cell gap, even though a compressive stress of a center portion of the liquid crystal display apparatus is different with a compressive stress of an edge portion of the liquid crystal display apparatus. Therefore, display quality is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Woo-Shik Lee, Gi-Chun Yoo, Baek-Kyun Jeon
  • Publication number: 20070258035
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) array substrate and its manufacturing method are provided. Scan lines and data lines of the LCD array substrate are composed of two conductive layers to decrease their RC delay. Moreover, the dielectric layer and even the planarization layer are removed from pixel areas defined by the scan lines and the data lines to increase the light penetration percentage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yeong-Feng Wang, Liang-Bin Yu, Chih-Jui Pan
  • Publication number: 20070258036
    Abstract: Eyeglasses having a lens frame removably attached to a primary eyewear using easy release snap connection that provides effective resistance from said lens frame from becoming involuntarily detached from said primary eyewear. This arrangement allows the user to maximize the different kinds of eyewear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Gary Zelman
  • Publication number: 20070258037
    Abstract: Eyeglasses having a lens frame removably attached to a primary eyewear using easy release snap connection that provides effective resistance from the lens frame from becoming involuntarily detached from the primary eyewear. This arrangement allows the user to maximize the different kinds of eyewear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Gary Martin Zelman
  • Publication number: 20070258038
    Abstract: An improved method is provided for applying an antireflective high contrast coating to a lens, as well as a lens system made with said method. By coating the lenses with a mixture of an oxide and fluoride, the transmission of undesirable visible light wavelengths is reduced, as is the reflection of undesirable light. This combination not only increases perceived sharpness and detail associated with viewing objects through the lenses, but also reduces undesirable reflected glare. Utilization of increased vacuum during the coating process reduces problems of humidity associated with plastic lenses. The combination of oxide and fluoride is controlled to reduce colored tint or hue in the resulting lenses. By imparting little to no color hue to the lenses, the lenses virtually eliminate any undesired color shift associated with prior art lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Masao Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20070258039
    Abstract: A nose bridge for a fashion spectacle lens frame adapted for housing electro-active lenses is presented. The nose bridge may include a body which may further include electronic components. The nose bridge may further include a connecting element for connecting the electronic components with the electro-active lenses for altering optical properties of the electro-active lenses. The nose bridge may be adapted to fit a variety of frame sizes, shapes, and styles as well as lenses of a variety of sizes and shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Dwight Duston, Ronald Blum, Joshua Haddock, William Kokonaski, Venkatramani Iyer
  • Publication number: 20070258040
    Abstract: Safety glasses incorporating monitoring systems having at least one battery, a microchip powered by the battery and configured to be responsive to a signal from at least one wireless transmitter to activate the microchip when the safety glasses are in the vicinity of the wireless transmitter unless deactivated by pressure from the bridge of a users nose, the safety glasses having a pair of stems, each having a speaker, a red LED and a vibrator coupled to the microchip and configured to sound an alarm, flash the LEDs and cause a vibration responsive to a signal from a wireless transmitter when the microchip is not deactivated by pressure from the bridge of the users nose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Benjamin James Randall
  • Publication number: 20070258041
    Abstract: An astigmia correcting eyeglasses includes two non-transparent lenses respectively provided with a plurality of cone-shaped through holes. The cone-shaped through holes respectively have a larger diameter at an outer side than that at an inner side. The cone-shaped through holes located nearer the circumference of the lens have a larger inclined angle at the side near the circumference of the lens than those located in the center portion of the lens. Therefore the focusing function is intensified by the cone-shaped through holes, which does not obstruct the viewing lines of a user, so that there may not occur dead angles, or blind spots in using the astigmia correcting eyeglasses according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Augustus Huang
  • Publication number: 20070258042
    Abstract: The invention provides a contact lens that corrects for the wearer's refractive prescription by taking into account both pupil size and the Stiles Crawford effect of the first order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: C. Wooley, Amitava Gupta
  • Publication number: 20070258043
    Abstract: A grid formed with apertures of a predetermined shape is illuminated with light from a lamp and projected onto a tear meniscus accumulated on the lower eyelid. The aperture image projected on the tear film is imaged by a CCD camera. The tear meniscus functions as a concave mirror, so that the magnification factor depends on the radius of meniscus curvature. A processor calculates the magnitude of the grid image and evaluates the radius of meniscus curvature. Since the volume of lacrimal fluid varies depending upon the radius of meniscus curvature, the latter is used as a value representing the lacrimal fluid volume for dry eye diagnose purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Takayoshi Suzuki, Norihiko Yokol
  • Publication number: 20070258044
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods of obtaining ophthalmic lens capable of reducing the aberrations of the eye comprising the steps of characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model, calculating the resulting aberrations of said corneal surface(s) by employing said mathematical model, selecting the optical power of the intraocular lens. From this information, an ophthalmic lens is modeled so a wavefront arriving from an optical system comprising said lens and corneal model obtains reduced aberrations in the eye. Also disclosed are ophthalmic lenses as obtained by the methods which are capable reducing aberrations of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sverker Norrby, Pablo Artal, Patricia Piers, Marrie Mooren
  • Publication number: 20070258045
    Abstract: Light from a light source is divided into S-polarization and P-polarization light. The P-polarization light is incident to a retinal illumination system for high-power image and the S-polarization light is incident to a retinal illumination system for low-power image. These lights are set center illumination and ring illumination by aperture diaphragms. Reflection light flux from a cornea under the high-power retina illumination light passes through the center of a perforated mirror, and thus light reflected from the retina and the perforated mirror is received through a high-power optical system to achieve an excellent retinal image having no flare. Likewise, reflection light flux from the cornea under the low-power retina illumination light is reflected from the perforated mirror, and thus light reflected from the retina and passing through the center of the hole is received through a low-power optical system to achieve an excellent retinal image having no flare.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Toshifumi Mihashi
  • Publication number: 20070258046
    Abstract: A wavefront device produces adjustable amplitudes in optical path differences and adjustable axis orientation angles. two substantially identical wave plates have a wavefront profile of at least the third order Zernike polynomial function which are not circularly symmetric, as denoted by Z(i,j) where i?3 and j?0. The wave plates are mounted in rotatable mounts with their optical centers substantially aligned with each other. An subjective wavefront refraction instrument and method are provided to correct low and high order aberrations of the eye, using the adjustable wave plates that have astigmatism and higher order Zernike function optical path difference wavefront profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventor: Shui Lai
  • Publication number: 20070258047
    Abstract: A liquid crystal projector device of the present invention includes three image generating units for generating image light of three primary colors. Each image generating unit has a polarizing plate and an optical compensating plate held by a combination frame and placed on a support base. The combination frame includes a polarizing plate frame for holding the polarizing plate, and a compensating plate frame for holding the optical compensating plate. The polarizing plate frame is supported on the support base via a rotation adjustment mechanism for rotating the polarizing plate about the optical axis, while the compensating plate frame is supported on the polarizing plate frame via an inclination adjustment mechanism for inclining the optical compensating plate by rotating the optical compensating plate about two axes perpendicular to the optical axis and perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Miyamoto, Kazuya Minami
  • Publication number: 20070258048
    Abstract: An RFID tag (210) for provision on the package (240) of a perishable product, such as a foodstuff, the expiration of the product being influenced by opening of the package (240). The tag (210) is arranged to determine when the package (240) has been opened and, in response to opening of the package (240), a timer (214) is triggered to measure time elapsed following opening of the package (240), such that data representative of an expiration status of the product can be provided. Temperature sensing means (215) may also be provided to monitor the storage condition of the product after opening of the package (240), and to adjust the expiration status accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventor: Stephen Pitchers
  • Publication number: 20070258049
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for providing illumination in a head mounted display. In one embodiment a method includes emitting light from a plurality of sources at a plurality of wavelengths and transmitting the light from the plurality of sources to a first device. The method further includes combining the light, utilizing the first device, from the plurality of sources into a combined light signal and creating telecentricity in the combined light signal. The method also includes receiving a telecentric light signal on a display surface. In one embodiment the system includes a light source, a hybrid reflective structure configured as a truncated pyramid and further configured to transmit light emitted by the light source and an optics device configured to create telecentricity in light that was transmitted through the hybrid reflective structure to a display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Vesselin Shaoulov, Jannick Rolland, Yonggang Ha
  • Publication number: 20070258050
    Abstract: Provided is a laser projector. The laser projector includes a light module to generate green light, and laser light sources to generate red and blue light. The light generated in the light module and the laser light sources travels in a rectangular or a tetragonal path inside the laser projector. It can then outputted outside the laser projector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Mun-Kue Park, Jung-Kee Lee, Ki-Tae Kim, Bum-Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20070258051
    Abstract: An optical device includes a plurality of light modulators that modulate a plurality of color light components according to image information about each color light component and a combining optical unit that combines modulated color light components involving corresponding images for color light components irradiated out of the light modulators and irradiates combined-modulated light components outside through the irradiating surface. The light modulators face each other through incident surfaces which the modulated color light components pass through, other than the irradiating surface of the combining optical unit having an upside and bottom and a plurality of sides, and parts of the light modulators are supported by supporting substrates of a plate that are mounted at the upside and bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masashi Kitabayashi
  • Publication number: 20070258052
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a light source, an optical component, and a light-shielding device disposed between the light source and the optical component. The light-shielding device includes a first component and a second component. The first component includes a circular element and a frame. The first component has an aperture for allowing light emitted from the light source incident onto the optical component. At least one opening is formed in the frame. The second component is coupled to the first component and covers the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: BENQ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chi-Hung Hsiao, Hsu-Hsin Huang, Chun-Ming Shen
  • Publication number: 20070258053
    Abstract: A projection apparatus comprises a housing and further comprises a light source, an imaging system, an optical engine, a first blower, and an axial fan installed in the housing, and an air outlet is disposed on the housing. The light source is installed adjacent to the air outlet. The optical engine is installed between the imaging system and the light source. The first blower is installed at one end far away from the air outlet, and an exhaust port of the first blower faces one portion of the light source. The axial fan is installed at one side of the light source installed the first blower, and the light source is positioned between the air outlet and the axial fan. An exhaust port of the axial fan faces the light source, and a suction port of the axial fan is adjacent to the suction port of the first blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Nien-Hui Hsu, Sen-Ming Hsu, Tsung-Ching Lin
  • Publication number: 20070258054
    Abstract: Reduction of noise is achieved by devising an arrangement of heat generating parts such as a light valve element, an electric power source, a light source, etc. and an arrangement of cooling fans. In cooling the light source, the electric power source and liquid crystal panels, a cooling wind path for the liquid crystal panels and the electric power source is made separate from and independent of a cooling wind path for the light source that generates much heat, a cooling air volume is optimized for the respective cooling wind paths, and noise accompanying the rotation of the cooling fans is reduced. Also, by arranging the cooling fans substantially centrally of the respective cooling wind paths, that volume of noise, which leaks from air intake ports and air exhaust port that are opened to a housing of a unit, is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Katayama, Hideharu Saito, Keiichiro Tokushige, Tatsuo Morita
  • Publication number: 20070258055
    Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a main body and at least one movement auxiliary device disposed adjacent to the main body to help for moving the projection apparatus. By using the movement auxiliary device, a user can change the position and the projection direction of the projection apparatus easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Chun-How Shao, Chia-Lun Liu, Tai-Li Chang