Patents Issued in May 8, 2014
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Publication number: 20140126011Abstract: An image forming apparatus to support a near field communication (NFC) function receives address book information stored in a user terminal by tagging the user terminal, and generates a quick menu in which image forming functions related to the received address book information are listed and displays the quick menu on a user interface unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jea-hong PARK, Dae-hyun KIM, Sung-joon PARK
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Publication number: 20140126012Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface unit which receives print data, an image forming unit which prints the received print data, a volatile memory which, if the received print data is data that needs to be stored, stores the received print data, and a controller which, if a power-off command regarding the image forming apparatus is input, backs up print data stored in the volatile memory in a storage medium connectable to the image forming apparatus and converts an operation mode of the image forming apparatus to a power-off mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae-joon CHUNG, Yeon-jung LIM
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Publication number: 20140126013Abstract: A printing control apparatus includes a display unit to display a preview screen of a document to print, a control unit to extract objects included in the document displayed on the preview screen and individually set a printing option corresponding to an object selected by a user from among the extracted objects, and a printing data generation unit to generate printing data corresponding to the set printing option and to spool the printing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woo-chul SHIN, Jun-young CHOI, Seung-wan LEE
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Publication number: 20140126014Abstract: A method and apparatus for a print spooler to control document and workflow transfer are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request to print an electronic document from a print driver. The method may also comprise retrieving a workflow configuration utilizing a workflow print spooler, where the workflow print spooler provides pre-configured workflow configuration data for a corresponding workflow. In one embodiment, the method further comprises deploying the electronic document into the workflow based on the workflow configuration data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventors: Xu Liu, Michael Gormish
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Publication number: 20140126015Abstract: When a print job containing a first job attribute is received, it is determined whether or not the print job is able to be executed in accordance with the first job attribute, based upon the information indicating a function or a status of the image forming apparatus. If it is determined that the print job is able to be executed in accordance with the first job attribute, the print job is executed in accordance with the first job attribute, and if it is determined that the print job is not able to be executed in accordance with the first job attribute, the print job is executed in accordance with a second job attribute and the print job is stored together with the second job attribute. When re-execution of the stored print job is designated, the stored print job is executed in accordance with the second job attribute.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takayuki Kaneko
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Publication number: 20140126016Abstract: An information processing system includes a device, a first apparatus that is connected to the device via a first network, and a second apparatus that is connected to the device via a second network and is unable to receive a request from the first apparatus. The device includes an input part that inputs image data and a transmission part. In a case where the second apparatus corresponds to an output destination of the image data, the transmission part transmits the image data to the second apparatus via the second network. In a case where an apparatus that is capable of receiving data from the first apparatus corresponds to the output destination of the image data, the transmission part transmits to the first apparatus via the first network a transmission request to have the image data transmitted to the output destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Kohsuke NAMIHIRA
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Publication number: 20140126017Abstract: An image forming apparatus remotely operated by an external terminal includes a generation unit that generates a first composite image by combining a first image and a second image such that the second image is displayed within and over the first image, the first image being an operation screen image corresponding to an operation screen of the image forming apparatus, and the second screen being an image of an area including hardware key images corresponding to hardware keys of the image forming apparatus, a transmission unit that transmits first image data that is image data of the first composite image to the external terminal as data for displaying a remote operation image for the image forming apparatus, and a reception unit that receives, from the external terminal, first manual input information on manual input to the first composite image displayed as the remote operation image on the external terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kentaro NAGATANI, Takao KUROHATA, Junichi ISAMIKAWA, Shinichi ASAI, Yusuke SHINOSAKI
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Publication number: 20140126018Abstract: Disclosed is a guidance information display device, including: a display unit; a camera unit; an action detecting unit to detect a specific action of a user; and a control unit to instruct the display unit to display guidance information when the specific action is detected by the action detecting unit and a specific instrument to be operated is shot by the camera unit, the displayed guidance information corresponding to a combination of the detected specific action and the shot instrument to be operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20140126019Abstract: To make it easy to set a desired job and execute a series of tasks on an image reading device, an image reading system is equipped with an image reading device and a plurality of information terminals connected to the image reading device by a communication network, wherein the information terminals are equipped with setting means (unit) for setting a job to be executed on the image reading device, and response means (unit) for responding to a job inquiry and sending the job to the image reading device. The image reading device is equipped with inquiry means (unit) for sending the job inquiries to the plurality of information terminals, display means (unit) for displaying the jobs received from the plurality of information terminals so as to be selectable, selection means (unit) for selecting the displayed jobs, and execution means (unit) for executing the selected job.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji NAKAJIMA, Toshiya KONDO, Toshiharu KATADA, Tomohiro KURODA
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Publication number: 20140126020Abstract: A method of controlling a speed of an Ethernet connection in a power-save mode of an image forming apparatus includes turning off a print engine when the image forming apparatus enters the power save mode, reducing the speed of the Ethernet connection between the image forming apparatus and an external device, detecting an attempt to transmit printing data via the Ethernet connection from the external device, determining a necessity of increasing the speed of the Ethernet connection based on the printing data, and receiving and outputting the printing data, wherein the receiving and outputting the printing data comprises, when it is not necessary to increase the speed of the Ethernet connection as a result of the determining, receiving and outputting the printing data after turning on the print engine, without changing the speed of the Ethernet connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Byeong-tak JO, Jung-jin PARK
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Publication number: 20140126021Abstract: This image processing apparatus displays a web page received from a web server, and when a setting related to scan processing is performed via the displayed web page, causes a transition to a state in which execution of scan processing can be instructed using a predetermined hardware key, and when an execution of scan processing being instructed using the predetermined hardware key, executes scan processing based on the setting performed via the web page.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kosuke Nakashima
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Publication number: 20140126022Abstract: A method for operating a circuit board, where: the circuit board is mounted within a printer; a first system on a first chip and a second system on a second chip are mounted on the circuit board; the first system on the first chip comprises a receiver and a transmitter; and the second system on the second chip comprises a first processing module and a second processing module. The method includes wirelessly receiving a first radio frequency signal at the receiver. A second radio frequency signal is generated based on the first radio frequency signal. The second radio frequency signal is wirelessly transmitted from the transmitter. The transmitter is implemented in the first system on the first chip. A data signal is generated based on the first radio frequency signal via the first processing module. A printing process is implemented based on the data signal via the second processing module.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: Mark D. Montierth, Gary D. Zimmerman
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Publication number: 20140126023Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an address book management application which receives from a client PC an instruction as to address data stored in an HDD of an image forming apparatus. When the instruction is a backup instruction, the address book management application acquires the address data from an address data storage area, creates a backup file from the acquired address data, and stores the created backup file in a backup area of the HDD. When the instruction is a restore instruction, the address book management application restores the backup file stored in the backup area, as the address data in the address data storage area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nao Funane
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Publication number: 20140126024Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for entering data in a print order based upon a prose attribute are disclosed. For example, the method receives a print job request comprising a prose attribute field that comprises the prose attribute, analyzes the prose attribute to identify one or more print job parameters as data for the print order, identifies one or more fields in the print order that correspond to the one or more print job parameters, and populates the one or more fields with the data obtained from the prose attribute.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventors: Charles R. Myers, III, Marc F. Cote
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Publication number: 20140126025Abstract: A CPU selects multiple objective image data to be pasted on ornamental image data, analyzes the selected multiple objective image data, and rates the image qualities of the respective image data. The CPU specifies the number of plural layout locations included in the ornamental image data and the priority order of the plural layout locations, and allocates the multiple objective image data to the plural layout locations in the ornamental image data, based on the specified priority order and the ratings of the multiple objective image data. The CPU executes image quality adjustment with regard to the multiple objective image data allocated to the plural layout locations and pastes the quality-adjusted image data on the ornamental image data according to layout control information, so as to generate resulting output image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventor: Naoki Kuwata
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Publication number: 20140126026Abstract: A facsimile apparatus that is capable of connecting to multiple lines including a first line. If a user designates the first line or the second line as a line to be used for image data transmission, the image data is transmitted via the designated line, and if the user designates that the line to be used for the image data transmission is to be automatically selected, image data transmission is performed via the first line. In the case where the image data is not able to be transmitted via the first line, if switching from the first line to the second line is set to be enabled, image data is transmitted via the second line, and if the switching is not set to be enabled, the image data is not transmitted via the second line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventor: Katsuhiro Inoue
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Publication number: 20140126027Abstract: In a method for scanning documents, in particular printed sheets of paper, and automatically controlling the further processing of the scanned documents, the following steps are carried out: manually applying at least one marking to a margin area of the document that is not printed on; scanning the document; automatically detecting the at least one marking applied to the margin area of the document; and automatically controlling the further processing of the document according to the marking applied in the margin area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventor: Thomas Meschede
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Publication number: 20140126028Abstract: A terminal and a close-up photography method using the same are disclosed. The terminal includes a transparent display unit having front and rear surfaces through which light passes, the transparent display unit having a set thickness, at least one camera module disposed on the transparent display unit, configured to acquire an image of a subject in a direction of penetrating the transparent display unit, and a controller configured to control the camera module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mihyang Kim, Jeonghun Kim, Kwangweon Park, Yoywang Im
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Publication number: 20140126029Abstract: The layered generation of at least one volume grating in a recording medium by way of exposure, the recording medium having at least one photosensitive layer which is sensitised for a presettable wavelength oft the exposure light. Each volume grating is generated in the recording medium by at least two wave fronts of coherent light capable of generating interference, the wave fronts being superposed in the recording medium at a presettable depth, at a presettable angle and with a presettable interference contrast. The depth and the thickness of the refractive index modulation and/or transparency modulation of a volume grating in the recording medium is controlled by depth-specific control of the spatial and/or temporal degree of coherence of the interfering wave fronts in the direction of light propagation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.Inventor: Gerald Fuetterer
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Publication number: 20140126030Abstract: A quantum logic gate for qubits, suitable for receiving as inputs at least two polarization-encoded qubits, includes at least one partially polarizing beam splitter (PPBS), the beam splitter comprising a first waveguide and a second waveguide which are constructed in integrated optics, the first and second waveguides having a refractive index contrast of between 0.1% and 6% and a birefringence of between 10?6 and 6*10?5.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicants: UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHEInventors: Andrea Crespi, Paolo Mataloni, Roberta Ramponi, Linda Sansoni, Fabio Sciarrino, Giuseppe Vallone, Roberto Osellame
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Publication number: 20140126031Abstract: In a method for fabricating a self-aligned vertical comb drive structure, a multi-layer structure is first formed. The multi-layer structure includes inter-digitated first and second comb structures formed via etching using a first mask layer as a mask. The first comb structure includes a plurality of first comb fingers, each having a first finger portion formed in a first device layer and a second finger portion formed in a second device layer and separated from the first finger portion by a self-aligned pattern on a stop layer. The second comb structure includes a plurality of second comb fingers formed solely in the second device layer. The second finger portions of the first comb fingers are subsequently removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: ASIA PACIFIC MICROSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Jer-Wei Hsieh, Han-Tang Su
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Publication number: 20140126032Abstract: An image display device having a scanning characteristic excellent in the linearity without being upsized is provided. The image display device includes: an optical scanning unit that scans a light emitted from a light source in a first direction and a second direction of an image plane due to a rotational movement of reciprocation of a reflecting surface of the light; and an optical system enlarges a scanning angle of the scanned light, in which the optical system has a free-form-surface lens on an optical scanning unit side, and has a free-form-surface mirror on an image plane side. The free-form-surface mirror may be arranged so that the first direction is substantially parallel to a first plane defined by an incident optical beam and a reflected light in the free-form-surface mirror when the optical scanning unit remains static in the center of the scanning area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2011Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventors: Masahiko Yatsu, Koji Hirata
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Publication number: 20140126033Abstract: An image display device having a scanning characteristic excellent in the linearity without being upsized is provided. The image display device includes: an optical scanning unit that scans a light emitted from a light source in a first direction and a second direction of an image plane due to a rotational movement of reciprocation of a reflecting surface of the light; and an optical system enlarges a scanning angle of the scanned light, in which the optical system has a free curved surface lens on an optical scanning unit side, and has a free curved surface mirror on an image plane side. The free curved surface mirror may be arranged so that the first direction is substantially parallel to a first plane defined by an incident optical beam and a reflected light in the free curved surface mirror when the optical scanning unit remains static in the center of the scanning range.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu
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Publication number: 20140126034Abstract: In the method of manufacturing a micro structure including a membrane in a first substrate, a movable portion, a movable comb electrode, a suppressing unit, a support portion, and a fixed comb electrode are formed, and the movable portion of the first substrate and a second substrate are bonded. Then, the bonded second substrate is processed to form a membrane such as a reflecting portion. The movable comb electrode is supported by the movable portion and extends in a direction parallel to the membrane surface. The suppressing unit suppresses displacement of the movable comb electrode and the movable portion in a direction other than a direction normal to the membrane surface. The fixed comb electrode is supported by the support portion and extends in the direction parallel to the membrane surface. The fixed comb electrode is alternately arranged with respect to the movable comb electrode with a gap therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Ozaki, Yasuhiro Shimada, Koichiro Nakanishi, Akira Shimazu, Kenji Tamamori
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Publication number: 20140126035Abstract: An electro-optic device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electro-optic layer which is interposed between the second substrate and the first substrate, and a first translucent film, a second translucent film, and a third translucent film which are disposed between the second substrate and the electro-optic layer and are sequentially formed from the second substrate, in which the refractive index of the second translucent film is larger than the refractive index of the second substrate, is smaller than the refractive index of the first translucent film, and is smaller than the third translucent film. A transmittance of incident light of the electro-optic device is intensified using refractive index matching, interference dimming, and anti-scattering.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yohei Sugimoto, Atsushi Ito, Ryosuke Yamasaki, Akihide Haruyama
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Publication number: 20140126036Abstract: A multi-zone reflector having an opaque zone and a transflective zone. The reflector includes a supporting base, a lower reflecting layer disposed adjacent the supporting base, and an upper reflecting layer extending over the opacifying layer and the transflective zone of the reflector. The lower reflecting layer substantially completely covers the transflective zone, and the opacifying layer is disposed substantially outside the transflective zone adjacent to the lower reflecting layer. Over at least a portion of the transflective zone, the upper and lower reflecting layers have a common surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: GENTEX CORPORATIONInventors: George A. Neuman, Henry A. Luten, John S. Anderson, Jeffrey A. Forgette, Jeffrey N. Williams, Lansen M. Perron
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Publication number: 20140126037Abstract: A tunable photonic crystal device comprising: alternating layers of a first material and a second material, the alternating layers comprising a responsive material, the responsive material being responsive to an external stimulus, the alternating layers having a periodic difference in refractive indices giving rise to a first reflected wavelength; wherein, in response to the external stimulus, a change in the responsive material results in a reflected wavelength of the device shifting from the first reflected wavelength to a second reflected wavelength.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: OPALUX INCORPORATEDInventors: Andre Arsenault, Geoffrey Alan Ozin, Daniel Patrick Puzzo
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Publication number: 20140126038Abstract: Provided are an electrowetting prism device which has increased an aperture ratio by simplifying an electrode and wiring structure, and a 3D image display apparatus capable of providing a super multi-view 3D image using the electrowetting prism device. The electrowetting prism device includes lower and upper transparent substrates disposed against each other, a vertical wall mounted on the lower transparent substrate so as to form a diamond-shaped space, a first electrode arranged along two adjacent sidewalls of the vertical wall, a second electrode arranged along the other remaining two adjacent sidewalls of the vertical wall to be disposed against the first electrode, and a non-polarized liquid and a polarized liquid arranged within a space surrounded by the vertical wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyu-hwan CHOI, Jung-mok BAE, Yong-joo KWON, Yun-hee KIM, Yoon-sun CHOI
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Publication number: 20140126039Abstract: A projection lens, a projection device and an optically-induced microparticle device are provided. The projection lens includes an aperture, a first and a second lens groups. The aperture, the first and the second lens groups are disposed on a projection path of an image. The aperture is between the first and the second lens groups. The first and the second lens groups are suitable for interchanging with each other to switch the magnification ratio. When in a first state, the first lens group is between the object and the aperture and the second lens group is between the aperture and a projection surface, herein the projection lens has a first magnification ratio. When in a second state, the first lens group is between the aperture and the projection surface, and the second lens group is between the object and the aperture, herein the projection lens has a second magnification ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Industiral Technology Research InstituteInventors: Hsiu-Hsiang Chen, Hsin-Hsiang Lo, Chun-Chuan Lin, Chi-Shen Chang, Jyh-Chern Chen
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Publication number: 20140126040Abstract: The disclosure provides an electronic paper display. The electronic paper display includes an electronic paper panel. A light guide plate is disposed on the electronic paper panel. The light guide plate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A conductive pattern structural layer is disposed on the light guide plate. A light source is disposed on a side of the light guide plate. The first surface of the light guide plate is a patterned surface. A light generated by the light source is reflected or scattered to the electronic paper panel by the patterned surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: WISTRON CORP.Inventor: Sheng-Shan HUANG
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Publication number: 20140126041Abstract: A method of operating a fiber amplifier characterized by a spectral gain curve includes providing an input signal at a signal wavelength. The signal wavelength lies within an in-band portion of the spectral gain curve extending from a first in-band wavelength to a second in-band wavelength, the in-band portion being characterized by a first amplitude range. The method also includes providing pump radiation at a pump wavelength. The pump wavelength is less than the signal wavelength. The method further includes coupling the pump radiation to the fiber amplifier and amplifying the input signal to generate an output signal. All portions of the spectral gain curve at wavelengths less than the first in-band wavelength and greater than the pump wavelength are characterized by a second amplitude less than or equal to 10 dB greater than the first amplitude range.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: ESI-PYROPHOTONICS LASERS, INC.Inventors: RICHARD MURISON, TULLIO PANARELLO, BENOIT REID, REYNALD BOULA-PICARD
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Publication number: 20140126042Abstract: A system including a light source and at least a first filter, having a front surface and a rear surface, positioned in a path of radiation from the light source, the at least first filter further comprising a reflective coating applied to a front surface of the at least first filter to reflect radiation off the front surface at a predefined wavelength. The front surface and the rear surface of the at least first filter are oriented in a non-parallel arrangement with respect to each other such that an angle is formed between the front surface and the rear surface. The non-parallel arrangement is configured to capture radiation unfiltered by the reflective coating and to re-direct the unfiltered radiation. Another system and a method are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONInventor: Edward J. Miesak
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Publication number: 20140126043Abstract: A protector for a viewport of a vacuum chamber includes a substrate material that absorbs radiation having a wavelength of an amplified light beam and radiation having a wavelength included in an emission spectra of a target material that produces EUV light when ionized by the amplified light beam. The substrate material transmits one or more of visible or near-infrared light. The protector also includes a layer formed on the substrate material, and the layer reflects radiation having the wavelength of the amplified light beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventor: Vahan Senekerimyan
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Publication number: 20140126044Abstract: A camera objective for a camera includes a mask having a plurality of masking sections which are permeable for radiation of a first spectral range and are impermeable for radiation of a second spectral range different from the first spectral range. A camera system includes a digital camera for taking images. The camera system includes such a camera objective and an optoelectronic sensor arrangement having a plurality of sensor elements for generating exposure-dependent received signals which form a respective image. The plurality of sensor elements includes a first group of sensor elements for generating received signals in dependence only on radiation of the first spectral range and a second group of sensor elements for generating received signals in dependence on radiation of the second spectral range.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH & Co. Betriebs KGInventor: Johannes Steurer
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Publication number: 20140126045Abstract: A magnification optical system forms an enlarged image of an object. It includes a refractive optical system including a plurality of lens groups; and a mirror train including a curved mirror, arranged in this order from an object side, a first focus structure configured to move the respective lens groups of the refractive optical system by different amounts along a normal line of a conjugate surface on the object side, and a second focus structure configured to move the respective lens groups along the normal line of the conjugate surface on the object side by different amounts from those of the first focus structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventors: Hibiki TATSUNO, Kiichiro Nishina, Yasuyuki Shibayama, Takanobu Osaka, Makoto Hirakawa
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OPTOMECHANICAL MODULE FOR CONVERTING A MICROSCOPE TO PROVIDE SELECTIVE PLANE ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY
Publication number: 20140126046Abstract: A module for engagement with a conventional microscope to provide selective plane illumination microscopy is disclosed. The module is coupled to the translational base of the microscope and defines a mounting having a mount body in which an excitation objective having a first longitudinal axis is engaged to one portion of the mount body and a detection objective having a second longitudinal axis is engaged to another portion of the mount body such that the first longitudinal axis is in perpendicular geometric relation with the second longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: The Government of the America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of HealthInventors: Hari Shroff, Yicong Wu, Gary Rondeau -
Publication number: 20140126047Abstract: Spherical aberration is the primary cause of lose of signal while imaging deeper into a sample. Spherical aberration is corrected in the imaging path of a non-descanned detection system (such as a multi-photon microscope). This corrects the illumination spot for artifacts caused by imaging deep into a sample. One exemplary advantage to this instrument is that it allows deeper and brighter imaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: INTELLIGENT IMAGING INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: Glen Ivan Redford
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Publication number: 20140126048Abstract: A illumination apparatus for microscope comprises a light source, a spatial modulation section, a first illumination optical system, a second illumination optical system, and the spatial modulation section includes a spatial modulation element which is of reflecting type, and a polarizing element, and the first illumination optical system is disposed in an optical path from the light source up to the spatial modulation element, and the second illumination optical system is disposed in an optical path from the spatial modulation element up to a specimen position, and a position of the spatial modulation element is conjugate with the specimen position. Moreover, a microscope comprises a illumination apparatus, a main-body section, an observation unit, and a control unit, and the illumination apparatus for microscope is to be used as the illumination apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Daisuke NISHIWAKI
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Publication number: 20140126049Abstract: A microscope includes a microscope main body and a darkfield objective. The microscope main body includes a light source unit and a main body side fitting unit for fitting an objective, and the darkfield objective includes an optical system for capturing light from a sample surface and a fitting unit that fits in the main body side fitting unit. A darkfield illumination optical path through which light from the light source unit passes is formed in the darkfield objective. When the darkfield objective is attached to the microscope main body, the darkfield objective has incident end of the darkfield illumination optical path outside the fitting unit, where an optical axis of the optical system is central.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Hirofumi YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20140126050Abstract: A lens component 10 comprises K unit lenses 11, each extending in the X direction and having a common structure, arranged in parallel at a minimum period PL in the Y direction. Each unit lens 11 includes two partial lenses 121, 122 sectioned within the minimum period PL in the Y direction and a flat part 13 disposed between the partial lenses 121, 122. The partial lenses 121, 122 have respective optical axes different from each other but parallel to the Z direction and form images of a common point on an object surface onto an image surface A at respective positions different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Fin Polymer, Inc., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Michiko Takushima, Tomomi Sano, Jun Yorita, Masaya Nishi
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Publication number: 20140126051Abstract: There is provided a light-guide, compact collimating optical device, including a light-guide having a light-waves entrance surface, a light-waves exit surface and a plurality of external surfaces, a light-waves reflecting surface carried by the light-guide at one of the external surfaces, two retardation plates carried by light-guides on a portion of the external surfaces, a light-waves polarizing beamsplitter disposed at an angle to one of the light-waves entrance or exit surfaces, and a light-waves collimating component covering a portion of one of the retardation plates. A system including the optical device and a substrate, is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Lumus Ltd.Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Mali Hadad, Naamah Friedmann
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Publication number: 20140126052Abstract: There is provided a light-guide, compact collimating optical device, including a light-guide having a light-waves entrance surface, a light-waves exit surface and a plurality of external surfaces, a light-waves reflecting surface carried by the light-guide at one of the external surfaces, two retardation plates carried by light-guides on a portion of the external surfaces, a light-waves polarizing beamsplitter disposed at an angle to one of the light-waves entrance or exit surfaces, and a light-waves collimating component covering a portion of one of the retardation plates. A system including the optical device and a substrate, is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Lumus Ltd.Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Mali Hadad, Naamah Friedmann
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Publication number: 20140126053Abstract: An anti-reflective film includes a polarizing film and a compensation film, where the polarizing film includes a polymer, and a plurality of dichroic dyes having an absorption wavelength region in a range from about 380 nanometers to about 780 nanometers, and a reflective color of the anti-reflective film is substantially in a range of ?5?a*?5 and ?5?b?*5 in CIE-Lab color coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong Hoon WON, Myung Man KIM, Deuk Kyu MOON, Feifei FANG, Yong Joo LEE, Beom Seok KIM, Myung-Sup JUNG
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Publication number: 20140126054Abstract: To provide a polarizing element having a good polarizing property, and having a property of no discoloration by a treatment solution or pH of an adhesive. Provided is a polarizing element that comprises a film of a polyvinyl alcohol resin or a derivative thereof containing a disazo pigment represented by Formula (1), and having been stretched by a factor of at least three from the initial length, in which the polarizing element has the lowest transmissivity at 565 to 700 nm in the transmissivity when two pieces of polarizing plates having the polarizing element are superimposed such that the absorption-axis directions orthogonally intersect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicants: POLATECHNO CO., LTD., NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noriaki Mochizuki, Takahiro Higeta, Takuto Nishiguchi
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Publication number: 20140126055Abstract: A multilayer optical film includes a wave plate having a refractive index profile of nx>ny?nz and a fluoropolymer film comprising a moiety of wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups, substituted alkyl groups, or halogens, wherein at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is a fluorine atom, wherein R is each independently a substituent on the styrenic ring, n is an integer from 0 to 5 representing the number of the substituents on the styrenic ring, and wherein nx and ny represent in-plane refractive indices and nz the thickness-direction refractive index of the wave plates; wherein said multilayer optical film has a positive in-plane retardation (Re) and an out-of-plane retardation (Rth) that satisfies the equation of |Rth|<Rc/2 throughout the wavelength range of 400 nm to 800 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: AKRON POLYMER SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: BIN WANG, TED CALVIN GERMROTH, THAUMING KUO, FRANK W. HARRIS, DONG ZHANG, DOUGLAS S. MCWILLIAMS, JIAOKAI JING, XIAOLIANG ZHENG
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Publication number: 20140126056Abstract: There is provided a light-guide, compact collimating optical device, including a light-guide having a light-waves entrance surface, a light-waves exit surface and a plurality of external surfaces, a light-waves reflecting surface carried by the light-guide at one of the external surfaces, two retardation plates carried by light-guides on a portion of the external surfaces, a light-waves polarizing beamsplitter disposed at an angle to one of the light-waves entrance or exit surfaces, and a light-waves collimating component covering a portion of one of the retardation plates. A system including the optical device and a substrate, is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Lumus Ltd.Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Mali Hadad, Naamah Friedmann
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Publication number: 20140126057Abstract: There is provided a light-guide, compact collimating optical device, including a light-guide having a light-waves entrance surface, a light-waves exit surface and a plurality of external surfaces, a light-waves reflecting surface carried by the light-guide at one of the external surfaces, two retardation plates carried by light-guides on a portion of the external surfaces, a light-waves polarizing beamsplitter disposed at an angle to one of the light-waves entrance or exit surfaces, and a light-waves collimating component covering a portion of one of the retardation plates. A system including the optical device and a substrate, is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Lumus Ltd.Inventors: Yaakov Amitai, Mali Hadad, Naamah Friedmann
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Publication number: 20140126058Abstract: A weatherproof high-reflection plate includes a main reflection layer, a preconditioning layer, a reflecting enhancement layer and a transparent protective layer. The main reflection layer consists of aluminum, aluminum alloy or a combination thereof; the preconditioning layer is an oxide layer formed on the main reflection layer; the reflecting enhancement layer covers the preconditioning layer; the transparent protective layer is fluorocarbon paint coated on the reflecting enhancement layer. As such, the weatherproof high-reflection plate features waterproof and anti-corrosion surface and superior reflectivity in wavelength coverage of visible light.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventor: Hung-Ling Tsai
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Publication number: 20140126059Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power, which are in this order from an object side, and a stop located between a most image-side surface of the second lens group and a most image-side surface of the third lens group. Distances between the lens groups change when magnification is changed from a wide angle end to a telephoto end. The third lens group consists of a positive lens, a cemented lens of a positive lens and a negative lens, a negative meniscus lens with its concave surface facing the object side, and a biconvex lens, which are in this order from the object side. Further, a predetermined conditional formula is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Taiga NODA, Michio CHO
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Publication number: 20140126060Abstract: The diffraction grating is a transmission-type diffraction grating having a repeating structure of projection and recess on at least one surface of a substrate. A sub-structure of which the cross section is approximated as a triangle or a trapezoid is provided in the recess. The height H of the projection and the height h of the sub-structure are set such that the ratio of the height h of the sub-structure to the height H of the projection is in the range of from 0.05 to 0.45.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi Seki