Patents Issued in July 29, 2008
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Patent number: 7405805Abstract: In an immersion lithographic apparatus, a final element is disclosed having, on a surface nearest the substrate, a layer bonded to the surface and having an edge barrier, of the same material as the layer, extending from the layer away from the substrate to shield the final element from a liquid. In an embodiment, the final element is attached to the apparatus via the layer and/or edge barrier, which may be made of a material with a coefficient of thermal expansion lower than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the final element.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Tammo Uitterdijk, Erik Roelof Loopstra, Laurens Anthony Sanderse
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Patent number: 7405806Abstract: A maskless lithography system is disclosed that includes a spatial light modulator, first and second imaging areas, and first folding optics. The spatial light modulator receives illumination from an illumination source and provides a modulated illumination beam having a first cross-sectional line length in a length-wise direction and a first cross-sectional width in a width-wise direction that is substantially smaller than said first cross-sectional length. The first imaging area receives a first portion of the modulated illumination beam. The first folding optics provides a second portion of the modulated illumination beam that is adjacent the first portion of the modulated illumination beam in the length-wise direction at a second imaging area that is not adjacent the first imaging area in the length-wise direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Rajesh Menon, Henry I. Smith
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Patent number: 7405807Abstract: An optical image is formed in a resist layer (5) by a number of subilluminations, in each of which an array of light valves (21 25) and a corresponding array (40) of light converging elements are used to form a pattern of spots in the resist layer according to a sub image Between the sub illuminations, the resist layer (5) is displaced relative to the arrays (21 25, 40) The scale of the optical image in the resist layer (5) is measured and this scale is compared with the scale of the image required to be written If there is a difference, the spacing between the light converging elements (43) is physically altered to adjust the substrate scale.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Johannes Hubertus Antonius Van De Rijdt, Roger Timmermans
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Patent number: 7405808Abstract: An optical system, particularly an illumination system, of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus contains at least one plane reflecting surface for folding the beam path. The at least one reflecting surface is arranged with respect to an optical axis of the optical system such that the intensity ratio between two mutually perpendicular polarization directions is at least substantially preserved for an axially parallel light ray deviated by the at least one reflecting surface. In accordance with a second aspect, the at least one reflecting surface is arranged such that a maximum effect on the polarization of the projection light is achieved, so as to be able to compensate for polarization dependencies which occur in other components of the illumination system.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT AGInventors: Toralf Gruner, Michael Totzeck, Damian Fiolka, Wilhelm Ulrich, Gerhard Fuerter
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Patent number: 7405809Abstract: An illumination system for scannertype microlithography along a scanning direction with a light source emitting a wavelength especially ?193 nm. The illumination system includes a plurality of raster elements. The plurality of raster elements is imaged into an image plane of the illumination system to produce a plurality of images being partially superimposed on a field in the image plane. The field defines a non-rectangular intensity profile in the scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT AGInventors: Joachim Hainz, Wolfgang Singer, Erich Schubert
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Patent number: 7405810Abstract: The invention relates to a method for positioning a substrate relative to a substrate table, is presented. When the substrate is positioned on the substrate table for a first time, a first relative position of the substrate with respect to the substrate table is determined. When the substrate is positioned on the substrate table a second subsequent time, a second relative position of the substrate with respect to the substrate table is determined and the position of the substrate table with respect to the substrate is adjusted based on the first and second relative positions, so that the substrate is positioned with respect to the substrate table substantially equally to the first relative position.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Pieter Renaat Maria Hennus, Jacob Willem Vink
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Patent number: 7405811Abstract: A lithographic apparatus comprises a substrate table to hold a substrate, a reference structure and a measurement system to measure a position of the substrate table with respect to the reference structure. The measurement system comprises a first measurement system to measure a position of the substrate table with respect to an intermediate structure and a second measurement system to measure a position of the intermediate structure with respect to the reference structure. The intermediate structure may be connected or connectable to a drive mechanism to drive the substrate table. A distance between the substrate table and the intermediate structure, and a distance between the intermediate structure and the reference structure may be small which results in a highly accurate position measurement.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Marcel Hendrikus Maria Beems, Joe Sakai
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Patent number: 7405812Abstract: Inter-system interference cross-produce P12 is reduced in a phase-based TOF system by randomizing instantaneous phase and/or frequency within a capture interval (or detection integration period). In one aspect, the TOF clock system frequency preserves long-term clock frequency stability but intentionally includes random or pseudo-random clock noise. The noise ensures the generated clock signals are temporally imperfect and lack substantial perfect periodicity. A second aspect causes the TOF clock system to hop frequency, preferably pseudo-randomly. TOF system homodyning favors detection of optical energy whose frequency correlates to the time-varying frequency of the emitted optical energy. Thus, the varying spectral spacing of the emitted optical energy reduces likelihood that an adjacent TOF system at any given time will emit optical energy of an interfering frequency.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Canesta, Inc.Inventor: Cyrus Bamji
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Patent number: 7405813Abstract: A system and method for measuring tip velocity of sprayed fuel in an engine includes a light source, a lens, a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) camera, and a control unit. The lens allows light, which is emitted from the light source, to enter into a combustion chamber. The CCD camera photographs the shapes of the dispersion of the sprayed fuel. The control unit causes the light source to emit light two times by controlling the light source, acquiring a single frame image of the shapes of the dispersion of the sprayed fuel by controlling the CCD camera, and calculates the tip velocity of the sprayed fuel by processing the acquired image.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Young-Kug Park
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Patent number: 7405814Abstract: A novel technique using an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) as part of a heterodyne interferometer which measures optical path differences between a test signal and a reference signal is disclosed. An array of distinct frequencies are used to drive the AOM, yielding a spatially dispersed array of frequency-shifted subaperture beams of the test signal which are interfered with the wavefront to be measured and then combined with the dispersed reference signal. The frequency shifting of the AOM allows a single detector to collect the beams for signal processing to determine a measurement of the wavefront.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Steven E. Muenter
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Patent number: 7405815Abstract: A measure of the quality of a laser beam is obtained by comparing the power of a theoretical Gaussian beam through a (certain sized area) pinhole to the power of a test beam through a same sized (area) pinhole. The theoretical surrogate Gaussian beam with the same second moment of intensity as the test beam is used to determine the “bucket size” used in “power-in-the-bucket” techniques. The bucket size is an interaction area determined by the wavelength of the laser light, the focusing distance, and the 1/e2 radius of the near field intensity. The beam quality is determined by taking the square root of the ratio of the theoretical power through a bucket and the actual power through a pinhole with the same size as the bucket. The beam quality of different types of beam profiles can be obtained with a single method or measure.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Kenneth C. Widen
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Patent number: 7405816Abstract: An improved test target pattern that can be used in the testing of image quality for digital images taken with a camera module, the camera module either being a stand-alone product or being incorporated into a device such as a mobile telephone. With the present invention, several different image quality aspects can be monitored and measured using a single test pattern. Previously, multiple test patterns would have had to have been used for such a task.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventor: Harri J. Ojanen
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Patent number: 7405817Abstract: A method for classifying defects of an object includes irradiating lights having different polarizations onto the object to create an inspection spot on the object, collecting scattered lights generated by the irradiated lights scattering from the inspection spot, and classifying defects of the object by type of defect by analyzing the scattered lights. An apparatus for classifying defects of an object includes light creating means emitting lights having different polarizations to create an inspection spot on the object, and a detecting member for collecting scattered lights that are created from the lights scattering from the inspection spot, wherein the scattered lights are analyzed and classified in accordance with defects positioned on the inspection spot of the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Pil-Sik Hyun, Sun-Yong Choi, Sang-Kil Lee, Chung-Sam Jun, Sang-Min Kim
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Patent number: 7405818Abstract: A seal for preventing leakage of fluid from between a first member and a second member has a seal body and a seal wear indicator. The second member is capable of moving toward and away from the first member. The seal body is adapted for engaged contact with the first and second members so as to prevent leakage of fluid as long as the seal has not worn beyond a specified depth. A seal wear indicator is positioned within the seal body at approximately the specified depth, such that when the seal has worn to the specified depth, a change in the optical conductor is detected, indicating that the seal needs replacement.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Inventor: Ralph Heinzen
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Patent number: 7405819Abstract: A sample substrate adapted for use with fluorescence excitation light with a first wavelength. A reflector is disposed on a base. The reflector includes a reflecting multilayer interference coating with at least two layers. Not all of the layers L fulfill a quarterwave condition: dL·nL=(2N+1)·¼ wherein dL is a physical thickness of layer L, nL is an index of refraction of layer L at the first wavelength, N is an integer equal to or greater than zero and 1 is the first wavelength. Thicknesses of the layers ensure that any fluorescent sample material disposed on top of said multilayer interference coating would be located near an antinode of a standing wave formed by the excitation light with the first wavelength incident on said substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: OC Oerlikon Balzers AGInventors: Jorg Kraus, Johannes Edlinger, Max Wiki, Heidi Thome-Forster, Claus Heine-Kempkens, Bernd Maisenhoelder, Martin Kaspar
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Patent number: 7405820Abstract: The invention relates to a device which is used for the spectral analysis of optical signals and which is based on the stimulated Brillouin scattering effect. The invention also relates to the associated measurement method which makes use of the optical signal amplification caused by the Brillouin scattering effect. The Brillouin scattering effect enables the selective optical amplification of a determined component of the optical spectrum of the signal to be analysed, known as the problem signal, for the measurement thereof with a determined dynamic range, sensitivity and resolution. According to the invention, the problem signal is introduced into an optical fibre together with a narrowband optical signal, known as the probe signal, with a determined wavelength. Said probe signal propagates in the opposite direction to that of the problem signal, such that both signals interact inside the fibre owing to the Brillouin effect.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Fibercom S.L.Inventors: Francisco M. Lopez Torres, Carlos Heras Vila, Pilar Blasco Herranz, Juan Ignacio Garces Gregorio, Rafael Alonso Esteban, Francisco Villuendas Yuste, Jesús Subias Domingo, Francisco Javier Pelayo Zueco
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Patent number: 7405821Abstract: In a spectroscopic process a sample for producing a test spectral line or spectrum of at least one component contained in the sample is stimulated and the transmitted and/or emitted electromagnetic rays are used to create the test spectral line or spectrum. In order to improve such a spectroscopic process to such an extent that variations of certain parameters, which alter the shape and/or occurrence of a spectral line, are compensated, a comparison spectral line or spectrum of a known comparison material is produced under substantially the same parameters as the sample. The comparison spectral line or spectrum is compared with an ideal comparison spectral line or spectrum in order to calculate a transfer function, and the transfer function is applied to the test spectral line or spectrum in order to calculate a corrected test spectral line or spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: PerkinElmer LAS, Inc.Inventors: Yongdong Wang, Bernhard H. Radziuk, David H. Tracy
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Patent number: 7405822Abstract: Raman spectroscopy systems include an analyte, a radiation source configured to emit incident radiation having a wavelength, and a detector that is capable of detecting only radiation having wavelengths within a detectable range that includes at least one wavelength corresponding to hyper Raman scattered radiation scattered by the analyte. The wavelength of the incident radiation is outside the detectable range. In particular systems, all wavelengths of radiation that are scattered in the direction of the detector impinge on the detector. Raman spectroscopy methods include providing an analyte and irradiating the analyte with incident radiation having a wavelength, providing a detector capable of detecting only wavelengths of radiation within a detectable range that does not include the wavelength of the incident radiation, and detecting Raman scattered radiation scattered by the analyte. A continuous path free of radiation filters may be provided between the analyte and the detector.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Zhiyong Li, Wei Wu, Shih-Yuan Wang
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Patent number: 7405823Abstract: A system and method for characterizing contributions to signal noise associated with charge-coupled devices adapted for use in biological analysis. Dark current contribution, readout offset contribution, photo response non-uniformity, and spurious charge contribution can be determined by the methods of the present teachings and used for signal correction by systems of the present teachings.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Applera CorporationInventors: Austin B. Tomaney, Mark F. Oldham
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Patent number: 7405824Abstract: A light measuring device is designed, so that excitation light, emitted by a light source, is guided through an excitation light optical fiber to irradiate a sample, and that fluorescence discharged by the sample is guided to an optical detection system through a receiving light optical fiber. A coupling lens is arranged ahead of the excitation light optical fiber and ahead of the receiving light optical fiber on the sample side. A sample container for retaining a sample is so designed that a lens portion, for collecting excitation light and fluorescence, is integrally formed with the cylindrical bottom. According to this arrangement, excitation light is changed to parallel light or converged light by the coupling lens, and is collected at the sample by the lens portion integrally formed with the bottom of the sample container.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Naoko Hikichi, Kenichi Nakama
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Patent number: 7405825Abstract: The optical analysis system (20) for determining an amplitude of a principal component of an optical signal comprises a multivariate optical element (10) for reflecting the optical signal and thereby weighing the optical signal by a spectral weighing function, and a detector (9, 9P, 9N) for detecting the weighed optical signal. The optical analysis system (20) may further comprise a dispersive element (2) for spectrally dispersing the optical signal, the multivariate optical element being arranged to receive the dispersed optical signal. The blood analysis system (40) comprises the optical analysis system (20) according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Koninklijke Philiips Electronics N. V.Inventors: Frank Jeroen Pieter Schuurmans, Michael Cornelis Van Beek, Levinus Pieter Bakker, Wouter Harry Jacinth Rensen, Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Robert Frans Maria Hendriks, Thomas Steffen
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Patent number: 7405826Abstract: An apparatus and method for improved detection of a chiral property of a sample begins with a probe beam of light having a first modulation frequency ? and is further modulated with a second modulation frequency ?. A non-linear photo-detector, which may include multiple detector portions to form a balanced receiver, mixes the first modulation with the second modulation to analyze frequency components at inter-modulated sidebands, where the level of the inter-modulated sidebands are related to the chiroptical property of the sample. The inter-modulated sidebands may be the additive sidebands or the subtractive sidebands. A lock-in detector can be used to receive a signal output from the non-linear photo-detector and generate the modulation signals at the different modulating frequencies. Furthermore, the non-linear photo-detector may analyze a ratio of the inter-modulated sideband levels, such as (?+2?)/(?+?), to yield a signal that is linearly related to the chiral property of the sample.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Inventors: Phillip R. Gibbs, Jason D. Beebe
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Patent number: 7405827Abstract: This publication discloses an apparatus and method for measuring a gas content. The apparatus includes a light transmitter (1), by means of which coherent light can be sent to the measurement object (3), a receiver (2), by means of which light that has passed through the measurement object (3) can be detected, and optical means (4, 5, 6), by means of which the light intensity of the light transmitter (1) can be aimed at the receiver (2). According to the invention, the optical means include a lens element (4), the optical axis of which is arranged essentially obliquely relative to the longitudinal axis of the measurement object (3), so that the angles of the normals of the optical boundaries relative to the measuring signal are set obliquely. The lens element (4) is both a refracting and a reflecting element, and separates the measurement object (3) from the means (1, 2, 5).Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Vaisala OyjInventor: Reino Keränen
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Patent number: 7405828Abstract: A method for measuring the degree of crosslinking of pressure sensitive adhesive. The method, having the advantages of simple steps and short measuring time, comprises immersing a transparent substrate coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive in a solvent. After a specific period, the haze of the transparent substrate is measured. The obtained haze is compared with a predetermined reference, thereby determining the degree of crosslinking of the pressure sensitive adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Daxon Technology Inc.Inventors: Yi-Hui Tan, Hao-Fei Kuo, Jen-Yen Lo
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Patent number: 7405829Abstract: The coherent interference effect between two beam is used with one light beam delayed by a controllably variable time delay with respect to another analogous beam to obtain a convolutional profile of the oscillatory component of the interference amplitude as a function of the time delay, having a peak value representing the performance clearance between a zero-bit and a one-bit. The convolutional profile is represented by a diamond diagram (DD) of the interference amplitude, within the coherence length. The peak value and the size of DD openings are used for characterizing pulsed optical signals by determining at least one of a predefined set of signal parameters, including signal degradation, optical chromatic dispersion, signal coherence length, type of signal modulation, and signal-to-noise ratio. The two-beam interference effect is optionally provided by a free-space Mach Zehnder interferometer, an integrated Mach Zehnder interferometer, a Michelson interferometer, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: JDS Uniphase CorporationInventor: Jinxi Shen
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Patent number: 7405830Abstract: The present invention relates to vibration-insensitive point-diffraction interferometry. For the purpose of obtaining high immunity to vibration, a single-mode optical fiber is used to generate the reference wave, by means of point diffraction, directly from a measurement wave reflected from test objects. The capability of vibration desensitization is further strengthened by adding a spatial phase-shift device that enables four interferograms of different amounts of phase shift to be obtained simultaneously with no time delay between interferograms. The present invention may be effectively used in the design of measuring systems for in-line applications where measurements need to be performed in the presence of significant levels of vibration.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Inventors: Seung Woo Kim, Hagyong Kihm, Jung Jae Park
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Patent number: 7405831Abstract: An apparatus for assessing topology of a surface of a target including an optical source for generating a probe laser beam. The apparatus also includes a means for scanning the probe laser beam across at least a portion of the surface of the target and a beamsplitter for redirecting a return signal toward the means for detecting the return signal in a substantially quadrature condition. A quadrature interferometric method for determining the presence or absence of a target analyte in a sample comprising a laser probe beam having a wavelength ? and a waist wo to probe at least a portion of a substrate having a reflecting surface that includes at least a first region having a layer of recognition molecules specific to the target analyte and a second region that does not include a layer of recognition molecules specific to the target analyte.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: David Nolte, Manoj Varma, Fred E. Regnier
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Patent number: 7405832Abstract: A wavefront interferometry system including: a wavefront interferometer that during operation combines a reference beam from a reference object and a measurement beam from a measurement object to generate a combined beam; and a processor system programmed to processes the combined beam to concurrently generate therefrom a control signal and information about the difference in wavefront profiles of the reference and measurement objects, wherein the control signal controls a system parameter so as to maintain an optical path length difference between a spot on the reference object and a corresponding spot on the measurement object at a constant value mod 2?.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Zetetic InstituteInventor: Henry A. Hill
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Patent number: 7405833Abstract: Apparatus and methods for generating an empirically determined mathematical model of wavefront error in an interferometer as a function of aperture misalignment and then applying the model to correct subsequent measurements. The methods are useful in Fizeau and other types of interferometers in which carrier fringe analysis may be used for reducing errors caused by environmental and vibration effects.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2005Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Zygo CorporationInventors: Robert A. Smythe, Donald S. Battistoni
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Patent number: 7405834Abstract: An imaging method and associated system for producing high-resolution images. The method includes illuminating an object or scene with coherent radiation such as beams from a laser and then, collecting scattered light with a plurality of subapertures rather than a single large aperture. The method continues with coherently detecting, such as with heterodyne detection, the scattered light to measure the complex amplitude incident on each subaperture and digitally reconstructing images from the coherently detected light for the subapertures. Then digital co-phasing is performed on the subapertures using an image sharpness or quality metric to form an image having the resolution of the total subaperture area. The method may also include determining an aimpoint in the formed image, calculating a phase screen, directing laser beams through the subapertures towards the aimpoint, and co-phasing the laser beams by applying the phase screen to form a single beam.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Joseph C. Marron, Carl W. Embry, AnnMarie Oien, Duane D. Smith, J. Alex Thomson, James Pete Tucker, Samuel G. L. Williams
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Patent number: 7405835Abstract: A quantity (or dispersion value) of a distribution of edge position due to random noise is expected to be reduced statistically to 1/N when N edge position data items are averaged. Using this property, the single page image is averaged in a vertical direction with various values of parameter S, and then the edge roughness index is calculated. The S-dependence of the edge roughness index is analyzed and a term of a dispersion value directly proportional to 1/S is determined as being due to noise.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Atsuko Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Fukuda, Osamu Komuro, Hiroki Kawada
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Patent number: 7405836Abstract: There is provided a method for use in a document processing system including a memory and at least one document processing subsystem where a job, including a set of images, is processed in accordance with a selected job control ticket including a set of programmed attributes. The method includes: storing one or more job control tickets in the memory, the one or more job control tickets including the selected job control ticket; creating a master job control ticket including one or more user selectable portions, the one or more user selectable portions being corresponded respectively with the one or more job control tickets; and selecting one of the one or more user selectable portions, the one of the one or more user selectable portions being corresponded with the selected job control ticket so that, upon submitting the job with the master job control ticket to the document processing subsystem, the job is processed in accordance with the set of programmed attributes of the selected job ticket.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Randall R. Hube, David C. Robinson
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Patent number: 7405837Abstract: A CPU checks a relation between the terminal type information which is stored in a transmission destination terminal type of an information storing unit in association with a mail address designated as a transmission destination of the image transmission when this image transmission is designated, namely, a terminal type of a transmission destination, and a transmission system of which usage is designated. The CPU informs the confirmation result of the system designation on the basis of the class information which is stored in an information storing unit in association with a mail address, which is designated as a transmission destination.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2002Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroteru Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 7405838Abstract: In a print system, where whole processing to generate final print data is carried out at a server, concentrated requests from many and unspecified clients, being the feature of Web communication, will increase the load on the server. For overcoming it, it is made feasible to distribute data necessary for generation of chit print data by overlay processing, from the server to a client or to a print server and execute the overlay processing at the client or at the print server to generate the chit print data.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akira Ueda, Tsunehiro Tsukada
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Patent number: 7405839Abstract: In a printing apparatus which performs printing by scanning a printhead having printing elements arrayed in a predetermined direction on a printing medium in a direction crossing to the array direction on the basis of information transmitted from a host apparatus, stores print data transmitted from the host apparatus, and has a buffer smaller in capacity than a print data amount printed on the printing medium by one scanning of the printhead, the buffer is divided into a plurality of blocks corresponding to rectangular regions printed by scanning. The use order of the blocks is so managed as to circularly store print data in the blocks along with the progress of printing. When print data representing non-driving of the printing elements successively exist in a predetermined amount, the predetermined amount of print data is represented by specific control data without storing the predetermined amount of print data in the blocks.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jiro Moriyama, Hidehiko Kanda
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Patent number: 7405840Abstract: An image scanning and printing device includes a printing unit that prints an image onto each of multiple sheets of recording papers in one printing process by a multi-up printing process and a control unit that controls to select and execute the multi-up printing process when a size of the recording paper, which is obtained based on a size of an original document and an output magnification, is less than half of a maximum recording paper size, and a number of sheets to be printed, which is obtained based on a number of original documents and a number of sets of sheets to be printed, is two sheets or more, and to select and execute a one-up printing process otherwise.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tetsuharu Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7405841Abstract: MFP 100 obtains document image data by reading an image of an IC-tagged document by means of image scanning unit 150, and writes it into the IC tag of the document as archive information of the document image by means of IC-tagged reading/writing unit 140. It also writes the differential image data obtained by extracting the difference between the document image data and the image data related to the archive information stored in the IC tag of the document as the archive information of the document image. Moreover, MFP 100 is capable of reading the desired archive information from the IC tag of the document, and printing or deleting it. This makes it possible to accumulate and use the archive information of the document image in the document itself when the document image is updated multiple times by handwriting notes, etc.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Yoshikuni Takenouchi
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Patent number: 7405842Abstract: A method for correcting magnification in a photographic device is disclosed in this present invention. The point of this invention is that the magnification ratio of a photographic device is saved into a nonvolatile memory and read out for correcting the magnification in the photographic device, so that the image with correct dimension can be output from the photographic device. Therefore, this invention can provide a more efficient method for correcting magnification in a photographic device, and the quality of the image captured by the photographic device can be improved thereby.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2002Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Transpacific IP Ltd.Inventors: Chen-Ho Lee, Chen-Hsiang Shih, Kuan-Yu Lee
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Patent number: 7405843Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller having an integrated circuit for image processing. The controller is connected to an engine via a peripheral component interconnect (PCI). The engine includes a plotter and a scanner. The controller includes a central processing unit (CPU) to which a chip-set is connected via an accelerated graphics port (AGP). The controller also includes an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that controls whether to output scanner image data, which is data acquired by the scanner, to the PCI as plotter data for the plotter, or to output the scanner image data to the AGP, or to output image data input through the AGP to the PCI as plotter data for the plotter. The ASIC includes a combiner that combines a plurality of image data.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventor: Satoru Tanaka
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Patent number: 7405844Abstract: A pseudo print job system and method are provided for managing scan jobs. The method comprises: scanning a document at the scanning device; spooling the scan job in storage; sending a pseudo print job request to the scanning device, from a connected client; despooling the scan job from storage in response to the pseudo print job request; and, sending the scan job to a connected destination. The spooling of the scan job in storage may include storing the scan job in a scanning device internal memory, a network-connected server memory, or a connected client memory. The scan jobs are sent to a destination specified in the pseudo print job request. Sending a pseudo print job request for the scan job includes the use of either a network scan-enabled print driver or an independent network scan application. Either way, the pseudo print job request is sent via the client's print subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch
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Patent number: 7405845Abstract: Dot characteristic points are first extracted from M-level image data by the dot characteristic point extracting device. A dot area identifying device subsequently identifies a dot area based on the results of the extraction carried out by the dot characteristic point extracting device. When the image attribute determination is completed, a parameter setting unit sets N-level conversion parameters based on the results of the determination carried out by the dot area identifying device. Consequently, N-level conversion takes place using the N-level conversion parameters appropriate for a dot area. Therefore, N-level conversion in which the occurrence of moire is prevented may be carried out regarding dot areas.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventor: Atsushi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 7405846Abstract: In the transfer and entry of one-touch dial data or speed dial data from a facsimile apparatus 1 to a facsimile apparatus 10, the respective sizes of one-touch dial memory and speed dial memory in the facsimile apparatus 10 are detected. The one-touch dial data are transferred and entered in the facsimile apparatus 10 (P1). The speed dial data are transferred and entered in the facsimile apparatus 10 (P2). Any remaining speed dial data are entered in the one-touch memory (P3). This reduces or eliminates overflow of the one-touch dial data or speed dial data.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Yamamoto, Hiroaki Nakamura, Hirotoshi Ohkubo
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Patent number: 7405847Abstract: The present invention provides a device with a scanning feature that includes a body and a scanner. An attachment with a scan code, including data or information, is positioned within the scanning range of the scanner and the data or information received from the scan code by the scanner is used by the device, for example, to configure one or more features associated with the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: David Bradley Short, Gary W. Gragg
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Patent number: 7405848Abstract: A scanning device having a cable for connecting various parts is provided. A method is provided using a differential pair of clock generated signals to cancel each other, thereby reducing electromagnetic emissions. The differential pair is characterized by each being in phase with the other with regard to frequency, and each being the reverse of the other in amplitude.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Transpacific IP, Ltd.Inventors: Chen-Hsiang Shih, Chen-Ho Lee
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Patent number: 7405849Abstract: The present invention relates to a curvilinear scanner including a main unit, a transmission mechanism, a curvilinear transmission shaft, a curviform document stand and an optical sensing module. During the scanning process, the optical sensing module conducts a curvilineal movement. Since the motion vector on the horizontal axis is shorter, it reduces the volume of the scanning device. By the curvilinear scanning way, it can scan an article with curve surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Transpacific Optics LLCInventor: Chiu-Lian Chen
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Patent number: 7405850Abstract: A scanner apparatus is provided. The scanner apparatus includes a carrier sheet, which includes a base sheet and a plurality of scan sheets attached to the base sheet and in which each of a plurality of photos is inserted between the base sheet and the scan sheets through a side of each of the scan sheets that is not adhered. A feed roller, which is driven by a power source and moves the carrier sheet at a uniform linear velocity, and a scan unit, which scans images in the photos inserted in the carrier sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Deuk-hwan Chang
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Patent number: 7405851Abstract: The invention relates to a method for identifying articles, wherein article identification data are made available and the article is provided with a hologram representing said data so that the article can be identified by way of an intensity profile corresponding to said hologram. To this end, article-identifying individual data are provided, a hologram profile is digitally calculated using said individual data, and an intensity modulation of the hologram-producing beam is determined. The hologram-producing beam transfers the hologram pixels onto a hologram support that is associated with the article to be identified so that the article can be identified by way of the intensity profile reproduced from the associated hologram support.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Tesa scribos GmbHInventors: Steffen Noehte, Christoph Dietrich, Matthias Gerspach, Jörn Leiber, Stefan Stadler
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Patent number: 7405852Abstract: Display devices incorporating shutter-based light modulators are disclosed along with methods of manufacturing such devices. The methods are compatible with thin-film manufacturing processes known in the art and result in displays having lower power-consumption.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.Inventors: Timothy J. Brosnihan, Nesbitt W. Hagood, IV, Jasper Lodewyk Steyn, Jignesh Gandhi, John J. Fijol, Richard S. Payne, Roger Barton
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Patent number: 7405853Abstract: The present invention provides a scanner comprising: a reflector component; means supporting the reflector component for pivoting with respect to the MCR to provide a scan which is stationary with respect to the OCR; means for enabling the support means to provide controlled pivoting of the reflector component; a magnet component which causes pivoting of the reflector component when actuated; and means for actuating the magnet component to thereby cause pivoting of the reflector component. Also provided is a scanner comprising a reflective prism for providing a circularized scanning beam, a prism carrier and magnet suspension assembly, and flexure means connected to the assembly to enable the prism to controllably pivot: (1) with respect to the MCR axis to provide a scan which is stationary with respect to the OCR; and (2) with respect to a pitch axis orthogonal to the MCR to provide an orthogonal scan.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignees: Inphase Technologies, Inc., Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bradley J. Sissom, Rodney C. Harris
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Patent number: 7405854Abstract: Fibrous micro-composite materials are formed from micro fibers. The fibrous micro-composite materials are utilized as the basis for a new class of MEMS. In addition to simple fiber composites and microlaminates, fibrous hollow and/or solid braids, can be used in structures where motion and restoring forces result from deflections involving torsion, plate bending and tensioned string or membrane motion. In one embodiment, fibrous elements are formed using high strength, micron and smaller scale fibers, such as carbon/graphite fibers, carbon nanotubes, fibrous single or multi-ply graphene sheets, or other materials having similar structural configurations. Cantilever beams and torsional elements are formed from the micro-composite materials in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Shahyaan Desai, Michael O. Thompson, Anil N. Netrvali, S. Leigh Phoenix