Patents Issued in August 7, 2014
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Publication number: 20140218725Abstract: The present invention discloses an inspecting device for detecting whether there is an appearance of debris on a surface of a glass substrate, including a laser unit, a platform, and an image sensor unit. The suface of the platform is coated with a light-absorbing material so as to absorb laser beams penetrating through the glass substrate to prevent the image sensor unit from receiving the reflected laser beam from the underside of the glass substrate. Besides, the present invention discloses an inspecting apparatus for detecting whether there is an appearance of debris on a surface of a glass substrate, using the inspecting device given above, and a method for conducting inspection. The inspecting device features a simplified configuration; the method is easy to operate; and the device can effectively prevent the backgrotmd interference from the underside of glass substrates when determining whether there is an appearance of debris on top surfaces of glass substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yung-yu Lin
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Publication number: 20140218726Abstract: A system for measuring an sample includes an illumination source providing electromagnetic radiation pulses at a selected temporal frequency. A microscope focuses the radiation to interact with the sample and produce resultant electromagnetic radiation. A disperser disperses wavelengths of the resultant radiation onto optical sensors, and respective resonant amplifiers amplify signals having the selected temporal frequency. Optical detection apparatus includes the optical sensors, resonant amplifiers, and disperser. The resonant amplifiers amplify portion(s) of their inputs having a selected temporal frequency and attenuate other portion(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Ji-Xin Cheng, Mikhail N. Slipchenko, Robert A. Oglesbee
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Publication number: 20140218727Abstract: An apparatus for use in a sensing application includes a body having a cavity containing an opening. The apparatus also includes a plurality of nano-fingers positioned in the cavity and a destructible cover covering the opening in the cavity to protect the plurality of nano-fingers, wherein the destructible cover is to be destroyed to enable access to the plurality of nano-fingers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2011Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Zhiyong Li, Gary L. Vondran, JR.
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Publication number: 20140218728Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting cadmium using optical emission spectroscopy is provided. The apparatus contains a system which uses optical emission spectroscopy which is programmed and calibrated to detect the presence of cadmium in PPM. The system is calibrated using test samples which have been prepared with a lead/cadmium matrix material having at least one iron based electrode integrated therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.Inventors: John Edward McLane, Corwin Miller
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Publication number: 20140218729Abstract: A liquid sampling, atmospheric pressure, glow discharge (LS-APGD) device as well as systems that incorporate the device and methods for using the device and systems are described. The LS-APGD includes a hollow capillary for delivering an electrolyte solution to a glow discharge space. The device also includes a counter electrode in the form of a second hollow capillary that can deliver the analyte into the glow discharge space. A voltage across the electrolyte solution and the counter electrode creates the microplasma within the glow discharge space that interacts with the analyte to move it to a higher energy state (vaporization, excitation, and/or ionization of the analyte).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicants: Clemson University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryInventors: R. Kenneth Marcus, Charles Derrick Quarles, JR., Richard E. Russo, David W. Koppenaal, Charles J. Barinaga, Anthony J. Carado
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Publication number: 20140218730Abstract: The present invention provides a measurement apparatus which measures a position of a surface to be measured, comprising a light detection unit configured to detect light reflected by the surface to be measured, a confocal optical system configured to irradiate the surface to be measured with light and guide the light traveling from the surface to be measured to the light detection unit, and a control unit configured to determine a position of the surface to be measured, based on an output from the light detection unit, wherein the control unit obtains a plurality of signals to be used for determining the position of the surface to be measured, selects one of the plurality of signals, and obtains the position of the surface to be measured, based on the selected signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Yuki
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Publication number: 20140218731Abstract: A broadband light source is provided for a confocal spectrometer having a first aperture device with a first slit grid of a main slit direction arranged in front of the light source to produce a slit-shaped pattern of the light source. A first imaging optical unit focuses the slit-shaped pattern of the light source on an object to be imaged. A detector system has a detector apparatus that captures the light reflected by the object for generating a spectrally resolved image of the object. A second imaging optical unit focuses the reflected light onto the detector apparatus. A dispersion element, arranged in front of the second imaging optical unit, spectrally disperses the light reflected by the object along a dispersion axis perpendicular to the optical axis of the second imaging optical unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Anton Schick
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Publication number: 20140218732Abstract: A particle counter testing method includes the steps for storing particles in a container, blowing a compressed gas through an inlet flow path, through a wall of the container, into the particles that are stored within the container, spraying the particles that are blown by the compressed gas to outside of the container through a nozzle that is provided on the container, and measuring the number of particles by a particle counter. In the method, an outer shape of the nozzle is a conical shape. The compressed gas is blown into the container through an inlet flow path so that a pressure of a sprayed aerosol gas flow that includes particles is lower than a pressure of a surrounding gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Azbil CorporationInventor: Shinsuke YAMASAKI
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Publication number: 20140218733Abstract: An in-line polarization extinction ratio (PER) monitor that generates a value of an optical signal's PER from a single measurement, without requiring the optical transmission signal path of the system to be directly coupled into a separate measurement device. The polarization extinction ratio may be defined as: 10 log(PEx/PEy), where PEx is the power of the optical signal propagating along the “x axis” and PEy is the power propagating along the orthogonal “y axis” (with the z-axis defined as a longitudinal optical axis of the system and the x-y plane orthogonal to this direction of propagation). The PER monitor comprises a section of optical fiber (preferably birefringent or with induced birefringency), with a pair of gratings formed along the fiber and oriented to out-couple orthogonal components of the propagating signal. Photodetectors are used to convert the scattered light into electrical signal equivalents and then processed to yield the PER value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: OFS Fitel, LLCInventors: Vitaly Mikhailov, Paul S Westbrook
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Publication number: 20140218734Abstract: A paper sheet recognition apparatus that recognizes a paper sheet based on optical characteristics of the paper sheet is proposed. The paper sheet recognition apparatus includes at least one light source that emits a light toward the paper sheet; a light-guiding member that receives any of reflected lights reflected from plural regions on the paper sheet and transmitted lights that have passed through plural regions on the paper sheet because of emission of the light on the paper sheet from the light source, condenses the received lights, and outputs the condensed light from a light outputting section; an optical processing unit that generates spectral distribution from the condensed light output from the light outputting section of the light-guiding member; and a recognition processing unit that recognizes the paper sheet based on a feature of the spectral distribution generated by the optical processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Fumiaki Shimaoka, Takeshi Sato, Hiroshi Konishi, Takashi Inoue
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Publication number: 20140218735Abstract: An imaging section that detects the amount of light separated by a wavelength tunable interference filter to acquire a spectroscopic image (imaging device and light amount acquisition section) detects the amount of light successively separated for three wavelengths to acquire spectroscopic images for producing a combined image. A display controller causes a display section to display a combined image based on the spectroscopic images for producing the combined image. A specified position detection section identifies based on user's operation a specified position where a colorimetry result is to be outputted. The imaging section detects the amount of light successively separated for a plurality of wavelengths by the wavelength tunable interference filter to acquire spectroscopic images for colorimetry corresponding to the plurality of wavelengths. A colorimetry section measures the color in the specified position by using the amount of light obtained from each of the spectroscopic images for colorimetry.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuo TATSUDA
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Publication number: 20140218736Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for optical measurement of a target, wherein the target is illuminated, either actively illuminated, reflecting ambient light, or self illuminating, and a measurement light beam received from the target or through it is detected. The prior art optical measurement systems generally include mechanical filter wheels and photomultiplier tubes, which cause the equipment to be expensive, large-sized and often not sufficiently accurate and stable. The objective of the invention is achieved with a solution, in which the illuminating light beam and/or measurement light beam is led through a Fabry-Perot interferometer or a set of two or more Fabry-Perot Interferometers, and the pass band of the Fabry-Perot interferometer or a set of two or more Fabry-Perot Interferometers is controlled during the measurement of a single target. The invention can be applied in optical measurements where, for example, reflectance, absorption of fluorescence of the target is measured.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Teknologian tutkimeskeskus VTTInventors: Heikki SAARI, Christer HOLMLUND, Uula KANTOJARVI, Rami MANNILA, Antti LAMMINPAA, Pekka TEPPOLA
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Publication number: 20140218737Abstract: In a method, a response sheet is provided to a user. The response sheet includes a machine-readable form having a number of response areas where the user can provide responses. After being received from the user, the response sheet has ones of the response areas marked by the user with a non-reflective fluid and also has other ones of the response areas being marked by the user with a reflective fluid. The received response sheet includes response areas marked with the non-reflective and the reflective fluid that were not marked in the provided response sheet. Responses provided by the user can be determined using an optical reading apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Amara Rahman Durham
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Publication number: 20140218738Abstract: An optical device includes a transparent substrate and a conductive layer disposed over an upper surface of the transparent substrate. The conductive layer defines at least one groove inwardly extending from an upper surface and includes an aperture that is spaced apart from the at least one groove. An interface between the upper surface of the conductive layer and an ambient medium defines an optical branch along which surface plasmon polariton modes are excited in response to at least partially coherent light being received by the optical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: LEHIGH UNIVERSITYInventors: Filbert Bartoli, Qiaoqiang Gan, Yongkang Gao
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Publication number: 20140218739Abstract: An interferometer employed, in part, as a Sagnac interferometer or fiber optic gyro (FOG) includes a light source that provides a source light wave that is split into first and second light waves that are directed to traverse a defined optical loop path in opposite directions. The defined optical loop path in accordance with the present invention is provided by multiple waveguides wound into a coil such that the opposite traveling first and second light waves serially travel through all of the waveguides in opposite directions around the optical loop path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Ralph A. Bergh
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Publication number: 20140218740Abstract: The present invention relates to a method as well as a corresponding system (50) for optical coherence tomography in which a first image (60) is acquired in the region of a first plane of an object (1) by means of an optical coherence tomography equipment, and the first image (60) is displayed on a display device (52). To facilitate a reliable and time-saving examination with straightforward handling, provision is made that a second plane of the object (1) is selected on the basis of the first image (60) that is displayed on the display device (52), wherein the second plane of the object (1) is different from the first plane of the object (1), and a second image (61) is acquired in the region of the selected second plane of the object (1) by means of the optical coherence tomography equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: AGFA HEALTHCARE NVInventors: Rainer Nebosis, Geert Wellens
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Publication number: 20140218741Abstract: An optical coherence tomography system utilizes an optical swept laser that has cavity length compensator that changes an optical length of the laser cavity for different optical frequencies to increase the length of the laser cavity for lower optical frequencies. Specifically, a spectral separation between longitudinal cavity modes of the laser cavity is shortened or alternatively lengthened as a passband of a cavity tuning element sweeps through a scanband of the swept optical signal. In some examples, the compensator is implemented as two gratings. In others, it is implemented as a chirped grating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Bartley C. Johnson, Dale C. Flanders
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Publication number: 20140218742Abstract: In part, the invention relates to methods, devices, and systems suitable for controlling a light source. The light source is configured for use in a data collection system such as an optical coherence tomography system. The light source can be controlled with a drive waveform. Linearizing and symmetrizing parameters of the light source such as forward and backward scan durations is achieved using a suitable drive waveform. Phase, amplitude, and other parameters for different harmonics of a fundamental wave can be identified that improve operating parameters such as the duty cycle and peak frequency matching between scans. The fundamental wave and one or more of such harmonics can be combined to generate the suitable drive wave form. The light source can include a tunable light source that includes or is in optical communication with a tunable filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: LIGHTLAB IMAGING, INC.Inventor: Desmond Adler
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Publication number: 20140218743Abstract: A wavelength-tunable light source apparatus that has a wavelength-tunable light source that simultaneously operates a plurality of light sources with different wavelengths to emit light, includes: a plurality of variable-wavelength light generation units forming the wavelength-tunable light source; a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex light of a plurality of wavelengths generated by the variable-wavelength light generation unit so as to be adjusted to one waveguide; and a control unit configured to control the plurality of the variable-wavelength light generation units to emit the light with different wavelength simultaneously in at least part of time, and control optical intensity such that wavelength dependence of the optical intensity generated from the plurality of variable-wavelength light generation units becomes unimodal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi UCHIDA, Eiichi FUJII
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Publication number: 20140218744Abstract: An exemplary apparatus can be provided for generating at least one image of a structure. The apparatus can include at least one first arrangement that has a structural configuration with a first aperture and a second aperture. At least one detector second arrangement can b provided which is configured to detect (i) a first electro-magnetic signal provided to or from the structure via the first aperture, and (ii) a second electromagnetic signal provided to or from the structure via the second aperture. The first and second signals can be associated with data regarding at least one portion of the structure. The exemplary apparatus can further include at least one processing third arrangement which is configured to combine an amplitude and a phase of each of the first and second signals with one another to form a combined amplitude and a combined phase of a combined signal, and then generate the image(s) based on the combined signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: The General Hospital CorporationInventors: JOHANNES F. DE BOER, JIANHUA MO, MATTIJS DE GROOT
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Publication number: 20140218745Abstract: A detector circuit for a multi-channel interferometer, typically as may be used in an optical coherence tomography device, comprising: a plurality of measurement channels (43) each comprising a measurement detector (31); and a balance channel (44) comprising a balance detector (30), each of the measurement detectors (31) and the balance detector (30) having a light sensitive area and an electrical output configured to output a signal indicative of the intensity of light incident on the light sensitive area, in which each measurement channel (43) is provided with a feedback circuit (40) comprising: a variable gain circuit (35) having an input for the signal from the measurement detector (31) and an output, the variable gain circuit (35) being configured to output at its output the signal received at its input with a variable level of gain; a difference circuit (38) having a first input for the output of the variable gain circuit (35), a second input for the signal from the balance detector (30) and an output,Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Michelson Diagnostics Ltd.Inventor: Simon Richard Hattersley
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Publication number: 20140218746Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical position-measuring device for generating a plurality of phase-shifted scanning signals regarding the relative position of a fiber optic scanning head and a reflection measuring standard movable relative thereto in at least one measuring direction. In the fiber optic scanning head, a scanning reticle is disposed before the measuring standard end of an optical fiber. The scanning signals are coded in a wavelength-dependent manner. To this end, a beam incident on the scanning reticle is split into at least two sub-beams which strike the reflection measuring standard and are subsequently recombined to interfere with each other so as to generate the phase-shifted scanning signals. The sub-beams travel different optical path lengths between splitting and recombination.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbHInventor: Karsten Saendig
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Publication number: 20140218747Abstract: An interferometer module for quantum processing is described including a substrate having two or more input ports and two or more output ports; multiple photonic pathways embedded in the substrate for conveying photons from the two or more input ports and the two or more output ports; and one or more partial beam splitters embedded in the substrate in a photonic pathway for generating spatial and polarization entanglement.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkInventors: Chee Wei Wong, Franco N.C. Wong, Dirk R. Englund
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Publication number: 20140218748Abstract: Systems and methods of angle-resolved low coherence interferometry based optical correlation are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes directing a sample beam towards a sample for producing a scattered sample beam from the sample. The method also includes receiving the scattered sample beam at a multitude of scattering angles in at least two directions. Further, the method includes cross-correlating the scattered sample beam with a reference beam to produce a two-dimensional angle and depth resolved profile of the sample scattered beam. The method also includes processing the two-dimensional angle and depth scattered profile to obtain correlated information about scattering structures in the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Duke UniversityInventors: Adam P. Wax, Michael G. Giacomelli
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Publication number: 20140218749Abstract: A method for configuring an alignment of a plurality of optical segments in a sparse aperture configuration of an optical device includes providing at least one beam of light from at least one light source located on the sparse aperture optical device, directing the at least one beam of light toward at least one segment of the plurality of optical segments, detecting a reflection or transmission of the at least one beam of light off of the at least one segment of the plurality of optical segments, determining a characteristic of the reflected or transmitted light, and based on the characteristic of the reflected or transmitted light, determining an alignment of the at least one segment of the plurality of optical segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: RAYTHEON COMPANYInventors: Nicholas D. Trail, David J. Markason
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Publication number: 20140218750Abstract: The present invention discloses a wavelength scanning interferometer and a method for an aspheric surface measurement. The wavelength scanning interferometer comprises a set of tunable lasers (7) used as a light source, a Twyman-Green interferometer used for generating interference fringes, a translation platform (1) used for scanning an optical path difference along an optical axis, an image card (11) used for converting interference data to a digital signal and transmitting the digital signal to a computer (12), and a data card (13) used for synchronizing the actions of a CCD camera (9) and the translation platform (1). Different from the traditional aspheric surface measurement method, the interferometer is capable of measuring a surface with a high aspheric surface degree or a wavefront, and without the need of a zero compensation mirror. In addition, the method does not need a complex and usually expensive multi-dimensional movement platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventors: KAIWEI WANG, Jian Bai, Yibing Shen, Yongying Yang
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Publication number: 20140218751Abstract: Displacement measuring device with light irradiation system, first and second FBGs and detecting system. The first FBG has first transmittance distribution or first reflectance distribution. The second FBG has second transmittance distribution or second reflectance distribution. The detecting system detects light passed through the first and second FBGs of which at least one of the first transmittance distribution and the second transmittance distribution changes in a wavelength direction with a change amount different from that of the other, according to a displacement amount of an object, or amplitude of the light passed through the first and the second FBGs of which at least one of the first reflectance distribution and the second reflectance distribution changes in the wavelength direction with a change amount different from that of the other, according to the displacement amount of the object, and acquires an index to indicate the displacement amount based on the amplitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicants: The University of Tokyo, Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideki SOEJIMA, Yoji OKABE, Qi WU, Koji OMICHI, Ryujiro NOMURA
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Publication number: 20140218752Abstract: A position of a lens is detected by detecting, using a phototransistor, light that is emitted from a photodiode and that varies depending on lens position. A control unit divides a moving range of the lens into a plurality of areas, approximates a relationship between lens positions and current of the phototransistor for each of the areas, corrects a current of the phototransistor using the approximated relationship so as to obtain a corrected detection current having a linear relationship with respect to lens positions, and detects the position of the lens using the obtained corrected detection current.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLCInventors: Yoshihisa Tabuchi, Yasunori Nagata
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Publication number: 20140218753Abstract: In low-resolution processing (reduction processing) in which input image data is separated into character print data and image print data to generate print data of lower resolution than that of the input image data, if a plurality of pixels is simply reduction-processed to one pixel, color of a color image surrounding a character may change. In an image processing method, calculation for performing reduction processing so that the plurality of pixels in the input image data corresponds to one pixel in the print data is performed as follows. A ratio of using a pixel value of a character attribute pixel in the calculation is set to 0, or set smaller than a ratio of using a pixel value of an image attribute pixel. As a result, a change in the color of the color image surrounding the character can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Kouta Murasawa, Akitoshi Yamada, Nobutaka Miyake, Tomokazu Ishikawa, Shinjiro Hori, Fumitaka Goto, Ryosuke Iguchi, Hidetsugu Kagawa, Hiromitsu Akiba, Senichi Saito, Junichi Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20140218754Abstract: An image capturing device includes: a housing; a reference pattern used for color measurement and arranged in the housing; an image capturing element that captures an image of the reference pattern in a first area and an image of an object in a second area of the image capturing area; an image forming element causing the image of the reference pattern and the image of the object to be formed on the image capturing element by being arranged on a first optical path between the image capturing element and the reference pattern and a second optical path between the image capturing element and the object; and an optical member that guides any one of the images of the reference pattern and the object formed by the image forming element so that the images are to be formed on an element surface of the image capturing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Nobuyuki Satoh, Masato Kobayashi, Norikazu Taki, Daisaku Horikawa
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Publication number: 20140218755Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that includes an image forming section, a conveyance section, a position detecting section, an abnormality detecting section and a control section. When determining as the first determination that it is possible to eject each of the paper sheets and/or the image-formed paper sheets outside and determining as the second determination that it is necessary to re-output the new image-formed paper sheet, the control section incompletely ejects each of the retention paper sheets, remaining within the image forming apparatus, outside from the ejection opening. By controlling the apparatus as above-mentioned, even in a case where it is impossible to eject the concerned paper sheet onto a separate tray, it becomes possible to prevent the retention paper sheet from remaining at an apparatus-inner position, from which it is difficult for the user to remove the retention paper sheet concerned.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Shingo SASAMI
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Publication number: 20140218756Abstract: An information processing apparatus, in a case where determination whether resource data can be added and registered in a printing control apparatus is made, and if it is determined that the resource data cannot be added and registered, without transmitting a resource registration job, performs control so that the print job is transmitted to the printing control apparatus, and when the print job arrives at the top of a print queue, performs control so that the resource registration job is transmitted, and after registration of the resource data, performs control so that output of the print job being stopped in the printing control apparatus is started.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki KAYAMA
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Publication number: 20140218757Abstract: In an image forming apparatus that includes a plurality of processing units configured to perform predetermined image processing and a connection unit configured to connect to an external storage unit, a CPU identifies, in response to the connection of an external storage unit, a read/write state of data in the external storage unit. The CPU specifies the processing units to supply power to among the plurality of processing units based on the identified read/write state, and supplies power to the specified processing units.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Yuichi Konosu, Xiaoli Wang, Takaaki Miyata
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Publication number: 20140218758Abstract: When a plurality of authentication cards are read by an authentication device and the authentication cards are authenticated in an image output device, a binding and printing process is carried out. The image output device combines (binds) jobs associated with the authenticated cards into one job. The order of combining the jobs and the print mode for the combined job are set in accordance with the order in which the authentication cards have been authenticated or the priorities assigned to the respective jobs. The image output device prints the combined job to obtain a set of printouts. It is thus possible to provide the image output device which can output a plurality of jobs collectively, without the need of complicated operations, while maintaining a high level of security.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Hiroaki SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20140218759Abstract: A social networking system user may request physical prints of digital photographs stored in connection with the user's user profile on the social networking system. The physical prints are generated by a photograph developer, such as a retail store, and retrieved by the user. The user may request the physical prints from an application executing on a user device that allows the user to identify social context information associated with a digital photograph for inclusion on the physical print. The social networking system may notify users connected to the user and/or to the digital image of the physical print generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Keenan Pridmore, Philip John MacGregor, IV, Stephen Biddle
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Publication number: 20140218760Abstract: A preview display device is provided that includes a display unit, and a controller configured to determine whether a print-requested page requested to be printed is permitted to be printed, based on print restriction information, and control the display unit to display a preview image showing a print result of the print-requested page in advance of printing of the print-requested page, in a manner to distinguish the preview image showing the print-requested page determined to be permitted to be printed from the preview image showing the print-requested page determined to be not permitted to be printed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mareyuki Murata
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Publication number: 20140218761Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a display portion, a control portion including a display control portion for causing the display portion to display a preview image of output target data, a touch sensor for receiving, on the display portion, a user operation for performing output setting for the output target data concerning the preview image, an output portion for outputting the output target data based on the output setting, and a control portion for, in a state where the display control portion arranges objects in page unit sequentially to be displayed as the preview image, when the touch sensor receives a predetermined pinch operation for the objects, performing page setting concerning the objects to be operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunihisa CHIBA
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Publication number: 20140218762Abstract: A job management server, which is connected to a Web application server and a job processing apparatus via a network, comprises: a registration unit which registers, when a job received from the Web application server is added with information indicating that a request source of the job is the job processing apparatus, the job in a first job queue, and to register, when the job is not added with the information, the job in a second job queue having a lower priority than the first job queue; and a transmission unit which transmits the job registered in the first job queue in response to a request from the job processing apparatus while a user utilizes a Web application via the job processing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Koichi ABE
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Publication number: 20140218763Abstract: An image processing device capable of communicating with an information processing terminal and a cloud server. The image processing device comprises a communication controller to communicate with the information processing terminal, a server connecting unit to make connection to the cloud server based on connection information received from the information processing terminal and acquire an operational screen about a job from the cloud server, a remote screen generating unit to generate a remote screen based on the operational screen acquired by the server connecting unit and transmit the remote screen to the information processing terminal, the remote screen being used for remote control from the information processing terminal, and a job controller, if operational information received by the communication controller is an order made on the remote screen to execute a job, the job controller executing the job in cooperation with the cloud server.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kazusei TAKAHASHI, Junichi HASE, Kenji MATSUHARA, Kazuya ANEZAKI, Tomonari YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20140218764Abstract: An image forming apparatus receives a job list of a user using the image forming apparatus from a document management server, and, in response to the user instruction, receives from the document management server print data corresponding to a job selected from the job list, and prints the received print data. Further, in response to the user instruction, the image forming apparatus requests the document management server to enable a specified other user to print a job selected from the job list. According to the user instruction, the document management server adds data corresponding to the job selected from the job list of the user to the job list of the specified other user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomomi Murata
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Publication number: 20140218765Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus having a light emitter and an information terminal performing visible light communication and normal communication with the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a visible light output unit outputting information stored in the image forming apparatus through visible light communication using the light emitter, and an output control unit controlling operation of the visible light output unit. The information terminal includes a light receiver, and an information acquisition unit acquiring visible light communication information based on information obtained by receiving visible light with the light receiver. The information acquisition unit gives a light emission communication start request to the output control unit through the normal communication with the image forming apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kazumi SAWAYANAGI, Kenro Hama, Takeshi Morikawa, Daisuke Sakiyama, Yosuke Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20140218766Abstract: On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, a function selecting area and a preview area are displayed next to each other. On the function selecting area, a function setting menu is displayed in one display mode among an icon mode in which only a group of icons are displayed, a regular mode in which a group of icons and a group of texts are displayed, and an express mode in which a group of icons, a group of texts and a group of function setting buttons are displayed. In the icon mode, detailed preview information is displayed on a large preview area, and in the express mode, detailed function selecting information is displayed on a large function selecting area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Minami Sensu, Yukari Ebi
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Publication number: 20140218767Abstract: An image forming apparatus that performs image processing using information stored in a semiconductor memory includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain from the semiconductor memory a block size used for data reading and writing, and a management unit configured to discretely arrange and manage, with respect to a specific region set in the semiconductor memory, use-based information to be updated along with execution of the image processing, included in the stored information, according to the obtained block size.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Jun Hamaguchi
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Publication number: 20140218768Abstract: Provided is an image editing device that enables a user to easily assign images to a plurality of pages constituting an album or the like so as to satisfy editorial restrictions. In the image editing device: image data acquisition means (42) acquires a plurality of pieces of image data; page assignment means (43) determines, based on respective photographed times of the plurality of pieces of image data and a reference time interval, details of an assignment of the plurality of pieces of image data to each of the plurality of pages so that an interval between photographed times of pieces of image data to be assigned to the each of the plurality of pages is the reference time interval or smaller; and page image output means (44) outputs image output data on the each of the plurality of pages based on a result of the assignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.Inventors: Yoshiaki Watanabe, Bhupendra Singh
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Publication number: 20140218769Abstract: A printing control device is disclosed. The printing control device includes a user interface unit to receive an print command for a print job, an extraction unit to extract a bitmap image from the print job, a sketch image generating unit to generate a sketch image by using the extracted bitmap image, a print data generating unit to replace the bitmap image by the generated sketch image in the print job to generate print data, and a communication interface unit to transmit the generated print data to an image forming apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Ekaterina TOLSTAYA, Ilia SAFONOV
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Publication number: 20140218770Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, fast error diffusion processing is performed without increasing the size of an error diffusion processing circuit, even in cases where the print data to be generated is 12 colors data or similarly large data. More specifically, with quantization by error diffusion, binarized image data for 12 colors is obtained by causing an image processing circuit that executes 6 colors quantization processing to operate twice. At this point, RAM realized by DRAM with comparatively slow operating speeds, for example, is accessed for error data diffused to a first raster and error data diffused from a last raster. In contrast, an error buffer realized by SRAM inside the image processing circuit with fast operating speeds is accessed for all other error data. Thus, as a result, memory access speeds for reading out and writing error data can be improved overall.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki Takemura
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Publication number: 20140218771Abstract: Methods and systems remove sheets of media from envelopes, and scan the envelopes and the sheets of media through an optical scanner. Such method and systems use the envelopes as separator sheets between groups of the sheets of media. During the scans each envelope is followed by a corresponding group of sheets of media that were within the envelope when the envelope was received. Further, the exterior of each envelope comprises classification data that classifies the corresponding group of the sheets of media. Such methods and systems produce electronic scan documents of scans of the groups of sheets separated according to the envelopes that act as the separator sheets. The electronic scan documents and the classification data can then be automatically provided to an electronic records system. The electronic records system automatically processes the electronic scan documents using the classification data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Rakesh S. Kulkarni, Robert J. St. Jacques
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Publication number: 20140218772Abstract: An image reading apparatus corrects a deviation of a reading position of a document to accurately correct a luminance intensity distribution variation. Light is radiated to a shading plate (102) provided at a portion different from a reading position (luminance-intensity-distribution-variation correction reading line 103b) for a document (P) while displacing an illumination unit (101), and shading correction is carried out based on a luminance value of reflection of the light. Light is radiated to the reading position before the document (P) is transported thereto while displacing the illumination unit (101) in the same direction as a displacement direction of the illumination unit (101) at a time of performing shading correction. The luminance value of the reflected light at this time is compared with the luminance value after the shading correction to generate luminance-value reference data before the reading of the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takahisa Koshimizu
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Publication number: 20140218773Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor, and a storage controller that writes band data to a storage device and reads the band data. The processor: (a) generates a write-side process and a read-side process; (b) generates a write-side thread by the write-side process; (c) generates a read-side thread and a file read thread by the read-side process; (d) notifies the read-side process of an identifier within the storage device, and causes the storage controller to sequentially write the band data; and (e) requests the file read thread to cause the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data corresponding to the identifier and causes the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data and one or more subsequent band data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Hiroyuki Hara
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Publication number: 20140218774Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor, and a storage controller that writes band data to a storage device and reads the band data. The processor: (a) generates a write-side process and a read-side process; (b) generates a write-side thread by the write-side process; (c) generates a read-side thread and a file read thread by the read-side process; (d) notifies the read-side process of an identifier within the storage device, and causes the storage controller to sequentially write the band data; and (e) requests the file read thread to cause the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data corresponding to the identifier and causes the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data and one or more subsequent band data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Hiroyuki Hara