Using A Periodically Moving Element Patents (Class 359/197.1)
  • Publication number: 20130141506
    Abstract: A light scanning includes an adjusting unit that displaces the optical member to adjust the optical axis of the laser beam. The adjusting unit includes a shaft portion, a shaft supporting portion, a turning portion, a driving portion, and a turning damping unit. The shaft portion is configured to bidirectionally move in a first direction and in a second direction while turning. The first direction is a direction where the shaft portion approaches the optical member. The second direction is a direction where the shaft portion moves away from the optical member. The shaft supporting portion supports the shaft portion, and moves the shaft portion in accordance with turning of the shaft portion. The turning portion turns the shaft portion. The driving portion turns the turning portion. The turning damping unit damps a turning force applied to the shaft portion by an external force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 8456723
    Abstract: An optical box for an optical scanner includes an optical housing and a lid. The optical housing has an opening and a side wall surrounding the opening. The side wall includes inward recessed parts, each of which has a protrusion formed on its outer side. The protrusion can engage with the lid. The lid can so engage with the optical housing as to cover the opening of the housing. The lid has a pair of dust guard walls, between which the whole side wall of the optical housing is sandwiched when the lid is in engagement with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Shirai
  • Publication number: 20130120428
    Abstract: A projection apparatus memorizes settings as a function of location, orientation, elevation, or any combination. The projection apparatus recalls the settings when the location, orientation, elevation, or combination of the projection apparatus matches memorized values. Memorized settings may include projector settings, image source settings, audio output settings, audio source settings, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: MICROVISION, INC.
    Inventors: Mark O. Freeman, George Thomas Valliath, Jari Honkanen, David Lashmet
  • Publication number: 20130107224
    Abstract: A beam light source of an image display device which displays an image on a screen by scanning an optical beam in a two-dimensional direction in which the beam light source includes a light source that emits a diffuse light modulated according to an image signal, and an optical element that shapes the light emitted from the light source to the optical beam. The optical beam has an elliptically shaped beam spot on the screen in which a major axis of the beam spot is substantially perpendicular to a scanning direction. A horizontal spot size of the optical beam on an exit surface of the optical element is at least or equal to a horizontal spot size of the optical beam on the screen, and the horizontal spot size of the optical beam on the screen is no greater than a horizontal pixel pitch displayed on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Mayumi Nagayoshi, Satoshi Ouchi, Tadayoshi Kosaka, Tomoki Kobori, Yoshiho Seo
  • Publication number: 20130088764
    Abstract: A light position controlling apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The light position controlling apparatus includes a substrate; first and second electrodes that are arranged on the substrate and configured to generate an electric field; and a piezoelectric nano wire configured to operate as optical waveguide. The piezoelectric nano wire includes a first portion disposed on the substrate, and a second portion that extends from the first portion and bends according to the electric field generated by the first and second electrodes to change a travel direction of light transmitted by the piezoelectric nano wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicants: GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-nam CHA, Young-jun PARK, Zhong Lin WANG, Min-baek LEE
  • Patent number: 8411366
    Abstract: An optical probe and an optical system therefor are provided. The optical probe is includes a housing configured to house the optical system and the housing has a transparent window therein. the optical system includes a light emitting unit, a collimation lens, and a focusing lens. A numerical aperture of the optical system is adjustable by adjusting a pupil diameter of the collimation lens and a focal length of the focusing lens. The pupil diameter of the collimation lens is adjustable based on a variable focal lens or by adjusting a distance between the collimation lens and the light emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Seog Choi, Seung-Wan Lee, Woon-Bae Kim, Seung-Tae Choi
  • Publication number: 20130070249
    Abstract: A numerical aperture (NA) controlling unit and a variable optical probe including the same are provided. The NA controlling unit includes: an aperture adjustment unit which controls an aperture through which light is transmitted; and a focus control unit that is disposed in a predetermined position with respect to the aperture adjustment unit, that focuses light transmitted through the aperture, and that has an adjustable focal length. The variable optical probe includes: a light transmission unit; a collimator that collimates light transmitted through the light transmission unit into parallel light; an NA controlling unit that focuses light on a sample to be inspected; and a scanner that varies a path of light transmitted through the light transmission unit such that a predetermined region of the sample is scanned by light that passes through the NA controlling unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-seog CHOI, Seung-wan LEE, Woon-bae KIM, Eun-sung LEE, Kyu-dong JUNG, Jong-hyeon CHANG
  • Publication number: 20130063797
    Abstract: An optical LOS toggle uses two refractive optical elements located in the afocal space of an optical sensor. Optical surfaces of the two elements are shaped appropriately to work in combination with lateral displacements of the two elements such that the LOS angle is shifted. For a prescribed, discrete LOS shift, the optical image quality of the toggle module is corrected by a combination of aspheric shapes and diffractive surfaces on the optical surfaces of the two elements. To maintain performance along any radial direction and simplify fabrication, these aspheric or spheric shapes and diffractive surfaces should be rotationally symmetrical. Image quality is further improved through proper selection of the optical materials used to construct the optical elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen F. Sagan, Gerard M. Perron
  • Patent number: 8396654
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for an image translation device are described herein. The image translation device may include a navigation sensor defining a sensor coordinate system askew to a body coordinate system defined by a body of the image translation device. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Asher Simmons, James Mealy, James D. Bledsoe
  • Publication number: 20130033559
    Abstract: A surface-emitting laser device includes a lower reflector, a resonator structure having an active layer and an upper reflector on an inclined substrate, and an emission region emitting laser light enclosed by an electrode. The upper reflector includes a confinement structure having a current passing region enclosed by an oxide containing at least an oxide generated as a result of partial oxidation of a layer containing aluminum subject to selective oxidation, and a dielectric film formed within the emission region, the dielectric film at least enclosing a partial region including a center of the emission region. In viewing from a direction orthogonal to the emission region, a center of a region enclosed by the dielectric film is located at a position distant from the center of the emission region based on a size of the confinement structure relative to a direction orthogonal to an inclined axis of the inclined substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.,
    Inventors: Toshihide Sasaki, Kazuhiro Harasaka
  • Patent number: 8368006
    Abstract: A laser projector can generate a pulse signal capable of being generated according to the resolution of the clock signal, the pulse signal having a basic period and a basic pulse width each infinitely approximated to the characteristics of the resonance frequency. Moreover, because the laser projector can generate a pulse signal capable of correcting the errors led to be included in the approximated pulse signal, the laser projector can drive the scanning section with a horizontal vibration width corresponding to the resonance frequency, and can suitably display a projected image on a projection plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Chikaoka, Atsuya Hirano, Ken Nishioka, Hiroshi Nishigaki
  • Publication number: 20120294652
    Abstract: A surface emitting laser diode comprises a substrate, a lower reflector formed over the substrate, an active layer formed over the lower reflector, an upper reflector formed over the active layer, a current restrict structure including a current confinement region surrounded by insulation region. The current restrict structure is disposed in an upper reflector or between an active layer and the upper reflector, and an upper electrode formed over the upper reflector includes an aperture which corresponds to an emission region from which light is emitted in a first direction perpendicular to a surface of a substrate. The emission region and the current restrict structure including the current confinement region are selectively configured to obtain high single transverse mode, stabilized polarization direction, isotropic beam cross section and small divergence angle, while allowing the device to he manufactured with high yield rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro ITOH, Kazuhiro Harasaka, Shunichi Sato, Naoto Jikutani
  • Patent number: 8308301
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical unit for an image display device, the unit including: one or a plurality of light sources; one or a plurality of optical elements that control a spread of light; a combining element that combines the beams of light emitted from the light sources; and a scanning element, wherein the light from each of the light sources generates an elliptical beam spot on a screen and the spot has a major axis substantially perpendicular to a scanning direction, the result is that the unit is simple in structure, inexpensive, compact, lightweight, and capable of providing high-resolution image quality, thus providing the display device reduced dimensionally and in weight. Such an image display device using the optical unit is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayumi Nagayoshi, Satoshi Ouchi, Tadayoshi Kosaka, Tomoki Kobori, Yoshiho Seo
  • Publication number: 20120275003
    Abstract: A laser scanning optical device includes: alight source having a plurality of emission points; a plate-like light source holder which holds the light source in a center of the light source holder; a base arranged to face the light source holder; and an attitude adjusting part which adjusts an attitude of the light source by adjusting a tilt of the light source holder, and the attitude adjusting part includes an inclined part and an inclination conveying part, and adjusts the tilt of the light source holder with respect to the base by displacing an abutting position of the inclined part corresponding to the inclination conveying part along an inclined surface of the inclined part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Naoki Tajima, Yasushi Nagasaka, Matsuo Takahiro
  • Publication number: 20120271111
    Abstract: While one beam is being branched into a plurality of beams with different optical path lengths, the beams can be converged on the same position in the optical-axis direction with a simple structure even when relative angles between the beams differ. Provided is a beam splitter apparatus including a beam splitter that branches an input pulsed beam into two optical paths with different optical path lengths; relay optical systems that are disposed in the respective branching optical paths and that relay pupils in the optical paths; a beam splitter that multiplexes the relayed pulsed beams in the two optical paths; and a reflection optical system that endows pulsed beams branching off via the beam splitter with a relative angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru NAMIKI, Yohei TANIKAWA, Yasunobu IGA, Shintaro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20120242859
    Abstract: An optical control device is provided in a scanning optical device that applies light emitted from a light source to an observation target as spot light that is applied in a spot-like shape, and detects reflected light from the observation target while scanning with the spot light, the optical control device including an intensity enhancement section that enhances intensity of light within a specific wavelength band included in a wavelength band of white light emitted from a white light source, an irradiation section that applies specific wavelength band-enhanced white light to the observation target, the specific wavelength band-enhanced white light being white light for which intensity of light within the specific wavelength band is enhanced, and a light detection section that detects reflected light from the observation target when the irradiation section applies the specific wavelength band-enhanced white light to the observation target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20120188623
    Abstract: A scanning image display device includes a laser source, a scanning section, a light detecting section, and a current control section. The laser source configured to emit laser light. The scanning section configured to scan the laser light within a scanning area. The light detecting section configured to detect the laser light. The a current control section configured to control a bias current and a modulated current which changes in accordance with an image signal and to adjust a modulation width of the modulated current to set a minimum value of the laser light emitted by the light source as a first target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi INOUE
  • Patent number: 8223415
    Abstract: A scanning optical device that scans a light beam through a relay optical system, the relay optical system comprising: front group lenses arranged at a light source side; rear group lenses arranged at a side of a surface to be scanned; and first and second mirrors arranged between the front group lenses and the rear group lenses and supported by a common supporting member, wherein a normal vector of a mirror surface of the first mirror makes an angle (180??) with an incident optical axis from the front group lenses, a normal vector of the second mirror makes an angle ? (??180×m) with the normal vector of the first mirror, and the supporting member includes a mechanism being linearly movable in a direction which makes an angle (???+90) with the normal vector of the first mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Prsym, Inc.
    Inventor: Shohei Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20120176462
    Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus and an image forming apparatus having the optical scanning apparatus includes a before-light-deflecting-unit optical system and a scanning optical system. The optical system includes a first optical device, a second optical device made of a resin material which has an anamorphic negative refracting power in a deflection scanning direction and a deflection scan perpendicular direction and has a larger refracting power in the deflection scan perpendicular direction than a refracting power in the deflection scanning direction, and a third optical device made of a glass material which has substantially no refracting power in the deflection scanning direction and a positive refracting power in the deflection scan perpendicular direction. An interval of the scanning lines formed on the scanned surface is adjusted by displacement of the second and third optical devices in an optical axis direction of the before-light-deflecting-unit optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventor: Seizo SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20120169864
    Abstract: In order to identify scan coordinate values (?n, ?n) for operating a scanning unit (28) of a confocal scanning microscope (20), spherical scan coordinate values (?n, ?n) are identified, as a function of Cartesian image coordinates (Xn, Yn) of image points of an image (60) to be created of a sample (32), with the aid of a coordinate transformation of the Cartesian image coordinate values (Xn, Yn) into a spherical coordinate system. The scanning unit (28) is operated as a function of the spherical scan coordinate values (?n, ?n).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH
    Inventor: Holger Birk
  • Publication number: 20120162723
    Abstract: An optical device is disclosed, including a surface emitting laser element having a surface emitting laser which emits a light in a direction which is perpendicular to a substrate face; a light receiving element which monitors the light of the surface emitting laser; a package provided with a region on which the surface emitting laser element and the light receiving element are provided; and a lid which has a window through which passes the light of the surface emitting laser, the window being formed with a transparent member, and which covers the surface emitting laser element and the light receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY. LTD.
    Inventor: Toshishige FUJII
  • Publication number: 20120140302
    Abstract: Disclosed are MEMS-based optical image scanners and methods for imaging using the same. According to one embodiment, a 3-D scanner for endoscopic imaging is provided, which includes a MEMS mirror for 1-D or 2-D lateral scanning and a MEMS lens for scanning along the optical axis to control the focal depth. The MEMS lens can be a microlens bonded to a MEMS holder. Both the MEMS holder and the MEMS mirror can be electrothermally actuated. A single-mode fiber can be used for both delivering the light to and receiving the returning light from an object being examined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorpo
    Inventors: Huikai Xie, Lin Liu
  • Publication number: 20120100728
    Abstract: Systems and methods for forming a time-averaged line image having a relatively high amount of intensity uniformity along its length is disclosed. The method includes forming at an image plane a line image having a first amount of intensity non-uniformity in a long-axis direction and forming a secondary image that at least partially overlaps the primary image. The method also includes scanning the secondary image over at least a portion of the primary image and in the long-axis direction according to a scan profile to form a time-average modified line image having a second amount of intensity non-uniformity in the long-axis direction that is less than the first amount. For laser annealing a semiconductor wafer, the amount of line-image overlap for adjacent scans of a wafer scan path is substantially reduced, thereby increasing wafer throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Serguei Anikitchev, James T. McWhirter, Joseph E. Gortych
  • Publication number: 20120075686
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a display projector may comprise a light source to generate a beam to be scanned, a scanning platform to scan the beam in a selected pattern to project an image on a projection surface, and a collection lens and microlens array to shape the beam to a desired beam profile without significantly increasing spot size of the beam with increasing distance from the projection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: MICROVISION, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua M. Hudman, Joshua O. Miller, Richard A. James, Robert A. Sprowl, Markus Duelli
  • Publication number: 20120075683
    Abstract: A cylindrical lens according to the present invention is a cylindrical lens of a bi-concave type in which both of a surface on which light is made incident and a surface from which the light is emitted are formed as concave surfaces, wherein, in at least one of the concave surfaces, both ends of the concave surface projecting to outer sides are formed to coincide with a plane, a normal of the plane being an optical axis of the cylindrical lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicants: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yasushi KURIBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8130433
    Abstract: Particular embodiments relate generally to systems and methods of reducing the appearance of speckle in laser projection images. According to one embodiment, a laser projection system includes a light source, scanning optics and spinning optics. The light source includes at least one laser configured to emit an output beam. The scanning optics is positioned in an optical path of the output beam and configured to scan the output beam across a plurality of image pixels onto the spinning optics. The spinning optics is configured to create a virtual image of the scanning optics, translate the virtual image and change the angle of incidence of the output beam. The laser projection system is programmed to generate at least a portion of a scanned laser image, execute the translation of the virtual image by moving the spinning optics, and compensate for a relative image shift resulting from the translated virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Jacques Gollier
  • Publication number: 20120050444
    Abstract: An optical scanning device that scans a scanning surface in a main scanning direction. The device includes a surface emitting laser as a light source, an optical deflector that deflects a light flux from the light source while rotating around a rotation axis, a monitor light receiving element, a synchronization detection light receiving element, a monitor optical system that directs the monitor light flux to the monitor light receiving element, a synchronization detection optical system that directs the synchronization detection light flux to the synchronization detection light receiving element, and a scanning optical system that directs a scanning light flux to the scanning surface. A combined focal length of the monitor optical system in the main scanning direction is smaller than a combined focal length of the synchronization detection optical system in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventor: Kohji SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20120033281
    Abstract: An scanning unit scanner includes a light source and a polygon mirror unit. A front-to-rear rib is disposed between the light source and the polygon mirror unit and near the polygon mirror unit. An input side opening having a slit shape is formed as a cutout in the top edge of the front-to-rear rib. When laser light from the light source passes through the input side opening, the input side opening restricts the width of the light in a main scanning direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryota KATO, Shogo Mori
  • Publication number: 20120024830
    Abstract: Methods are generally provided of reducing speckle of a laser beam from a laser source guided through an optical waveguide. The method includes vibrating an optical waveguide at a first point along the optical waveguide at a first frequency (e.g., having a range of about 20 kHz to about 20 GHz) for a certain distance (e.g., a distance of about 0.1 mm to about 5 cm), and directing the laser beam out of the optical waveguide from the laser source to a target. Such methods are particularly useful for scribing a thin film layer on a photovoltaic module (e.g., a cadmium telluride-based thin film photovoltaic device). Fiber optic laser systems are also generally provided for reducing speckle of a laser beam from a laser source guided through an optical waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: PRIMESTAR SOLAR, INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan Mack Frey
  • Publication number: 20120026267
    Abstract: In an optical scanning device, a beam outputted from a light source is deflected by an optical deflector, and an object to be scanned (for example, a photosensitive drum) is scanned by the deflected beam. The optical scanning device is provided with a light source that outputs a beam, an aperture provided with an opening that shapes the beam outputted from the light source, a reducing optical portion that reduces the beam shaped by the aperture, and a collimator, which is arranged within an interval from the light source to the reducing optical portion, and makes the beam parallel. The reducing optical portion outputs the incoming beam as a parallel beam. The aperture and the reducing optical portion are arranged within an interval from the light source to the optical deflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Nobuhiro SHIRAI, Kenzo Ohkubo
  • Publication number: 20120019885
    Abstract: In an optical scanning apparatus, when air flow from a deflecting device is suppressed by a shielding member such as a transparent member, an image of a light beam is not formed at a predetermined position. In view of this, a first wall portion having a wall surface shaped concentrically with a center axis of a deflecting device is provided on an optical path directed from a laser light source toward the deflecting device. By providing at least the first wall portion having laser beam passing portions as openings passing through the wall surface of the first wall portion and providing a second wall portion connected to the first wall portion to define a closed surface except for the laser beam passing portions, warm air flow directed from the deflecting device to the laser light source is blocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuo Uduki
  • Publication number: 20120002258
    Abstract: An optical element has a plurality of first machining portions and a plurality of second machining portions. The plurality of first machining portions is aligned in a first direction and the first machining portions each have a convex shape. The plurality of second machining portions is aligned in the first direction along the plurality of first machining portions and the second machining portions each have a convex shape. Ends of the second machining portions in the first direction are adjacent to the corresponding first machining portions, in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The ends of the second machining portions in the first direction are disposed further from end of the corresponding first machining portions in the first direction, than the length of the first machining portions or the second machining portions in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicants: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yoshihisa MASUDA
  • Patent number: 8073028
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes a surface emitting laser and a ceramic package. The surface emitting laser has a common electrode on the back surface thereof and is mounted on the ceramic package via the common electrode. The common electrode of the surface emitting laser is electrically connected to a mount portion of the ceramic package. The mount portion is electrically connected to a back-surface electrode on the back surface of the ceramic package. The mount portion is also thermally connected to a back-surface heat-dissipating electrode on the back surface of the ceramic package via a penetrating electrode that penetrates the ceramic package. The surface emitting laser is spaced apart from the penetrating electrode in order to prevent inclination in light-emitted direction. The back-surface heat-dissipating electrode prevents destruction of a soldered portion when the light emitting apparatus is mounted on a substrate by soldering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110286066
    Abstract: A method of scanning a light beam is disclosed. The method comprises scanning the light beam along a first axis and scanning the light beam along a second axis, such that a functional dependence of the scanning along the first axis is substantially a step-wave, and a functional dependence of the scanning along the second axis is other than a step-wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: ELOP ELECTROOPTICAL INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Yizhar Weiss, Mordekhai Velger, Sivan Natan-Knaz, Raviv Erlich, Alexander Sromin
  • Publication number: 20110279879
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is configured so as to display an image by scanning light for a drawing area formed on a display surface includes: a light emitting unit that emits the light; an optical scanning unit that two-dimensionally scans the light emitted from the light emitting unit for the drawing area by scanning the light in a first direction and scanning the light in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction at a speed lower than a scanning speed for the first direction; and a driving control unit that drives the optical scanning unit by allowing a swing width of the scanning on the drawing area in the first direction so as to be in correspondence with a maximum width of the image displayed in the drawing area on the drawing area in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuichi WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20110279667
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for carrying out measurements on at least one region of interest within a sample via a laser scanning microscope having focusing means for focusing a laser beam and having electro-mechano-optic deflector for deflecting the laser beam, the method comprising: providing a scanning trajectory for the at least one region of interest; providing a sequence of measurements and the corresponding scanning trajectories; providing cross-over trajectories between the scanning trajectories of two consecutive measurements; deflecting the laser beam via the electro-mechano-optic means for moving a focus spot of the focused laser beam along a scanning trajectory at an average scanning speed; and deflecting the laser beam via the electro-mechano-optic means for moving the focus spot of the laser beam along a cross-over trajectory at a cross-over speed having a maximum, the maximum of the cross-over speed being higher than the average scanning speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: E. Szilveszter Vizi, Gergely Katona, J. Balazs Rozsa, Attila Kaszas, Gergely Turi
  • Patent number: 8052309
    Abstract: The present invention concerns lighting systems and particularly active lighting systems which are capable of providing automated changing lighting effects. The lighting system comprises a light source (50), a deflector (10) positioned within the path of light emitted by the light source, and a reflector (20) wherein at least one of the reflector and defector is moveable relative to the other of the reflector and the defector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Inventor: Jacob Dyson
  • Patent number: 8052286
    Abstract: A method includes generating a plurality of beams that each illuminate a separate portion of a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator has a first dimension of a first length and a second dimension of a second length. Each of the beams spans a portion of the first length of the first dimension and a portion of the second length of the second dimension. The method also includes scrolling the plurality of beams along the second dimension of the spatial light modulator while maintaining at least a first gap between each of the plurality of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Philip Scott King, Gregory James Hewlett, Roger Mitsuo Ikeda, Jeffrey Scott Farris
  • Publication number: 20110261139
    Abstract: An optical device includes at least one surface emitting laser device having a dielectric film for causing a central portion of a light emitting region to have a comparatively higher reflectivity than a peripheral portion; a light receiving element disposed, with respect to a first direction, on one side to the surface emitting laser device; and a transparent member disposed in a path of light emitted from the surface emitting laser device and configured to reflect a portion of the light toward the light receiving element as monitoring light. The central portion has shape anisotropy in which a width measured on a line extending in the first direction and passing through the center of the light emitting region is smaller than a width measured on a line extending in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction, and passing through the center of the light emitting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumikazu HOSHI, Toshihiro Ishii
  • Publication number: 20110235142
    Abstract: A light scanning apparatus includes: a light source configured to emit a light beam; a deflector configured to deflect and scan the light beam from the light source in a main scanning direction; a control substrate that is configured to control driving of the light source and includes a first connection part to which the light source is connected and a second connection part for connecting an external terminal; and a housing that supports the control substrate. The first connection part is arranged within the housing and the second connection part is exposed and arranged at the outside of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya KUSUDA, Shogo MORI
  • Publication number: 20110235003
    Abstract: A laser projector comprises an oscillation device for displacing at least one of a plurality of optical elements, which constitute the projection optical system of the laser projector, periodically along the direction of the optical axis of laser light. The laser projector reduces the speckle of a projection image on an arbitrary screen to such an extent as it cannot be recognized with human eyes, without having a significant effect on the image resolution, by periodically displacing the position of the smallest spot of laser light projected from the projection optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Konno
  • Publication number: 20110228369
    Abstract: The image projection apparatus includes a laser light source, and a scanning device scanning a light flux from the laser light source in horizontal and vertical directions at mutually different frequencies on a projection surface. A condition of ( B + C ) ? X 2000 ? A ? 7 ? L ? L - X ? is satisfied. A represents a diameter of an exit pupil when viewed from a projection surface side, L represents a distance from the exit pupil to an image formation position of the light flux, X represents a distance from the exit pupil to an output measurement position, B and C respectively represent vertical and horizontally scanning angular subtenses of a scan pulse formed by the light flux, the scan pulse having a pulse length equal to or shorter than 18 microseconds and passing through a measurement aperture placed at the output measurement position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi URAKAWA, Keiichiro ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20110226932
    Abstract: Systems and methods for targeting a directed energy system are provided. A particular system includes a first laser and a second laser. The system also includes a scanning system coupled to the first laser and the second laser. The scanning system is adapted to movably direct the second laser in a pattern around a pointing location of the first laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Richard W. Guthrie
  • Patent number: 8016429
    Abstract: A smooth picture device includes an optical element, a holder, a flexible member, a base and an actuator. The holder supports the optical element. At least one portion of the holder is coupled to the flexible member. The base supports the flexible member. The actuator is coupled to the holder and actuates the holder to vibrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Chang, Hung-Kuang Yang
  • Patent number: 8013288
    Abstract: In a method for correcting a control of an optical scanner (14) which has a beam deflecting element (31) for deflecting a beam of optical radiation and a drive unit (30, 30?) for moving the beam deflecting element (31), said drive unit deflecting a beam of optical radiation directed at the beam deflecting element (31) according to a predetermined target movement using at least one parameter and/or a transfer function, preferably optical, said parameter or transfer function being used to control or regulate the system. In a determination step at least one current value of a drive unit transfer function that reproduces the response of the drive unit (30, 30?) to a predetermined target movement or a change in a target movement is ascertained for at least one frequency, and in a correction step at least one parameter and/or the transfer function is corrected as a function of the current value of the drive unit transfer function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Steinert, Joerg Engel
  • Publication number: 20110211242
    Abstract: A one-dimensional image is obtained by light modulation using a one-dimensional light modulation device 4 in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in the form of a line. The obtained one-dimensional image is scanned by a light deflection unit 8 that performs scanning in a direction perpendicular to the array direction of the one-dimensional light modulation device 4, and projected by a projection optical system 6 that includes therein the light deflection unit 8, thereby forming a two-dimensional image. The aspect ratio of the obtained two-dimensional image is variable in accordance with an angle through which the one-dimensional image is scanned by the light deflection unit 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110211240
    Abstract: An image display device which can, even when a laser beam source which has a kink region in the input-output characteristic thereof is used, easily reproduce a low gradation level with high accuracy, and can reduce undesired radiation due to a high-frequency signal is provided. The image display device includes a signal generation part which generates the image signal at a period corresponding to the scanning speed of the scanning part in accordance with every pixel, and a signal adjustment part which superposes a high-frequency signal having a period equal to or more than a period at which the image signal is generated. The signal adjustment part superposes the high-frequency signal on the image signal by changing the period of the high-frequency signal corresponding to the period at which the image signal is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Michihiro TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 7999985
    Abstract: A light beam splitting element that is arranged on an optical path of a light beam emitted from a VCSEL element splits an incident light beam into a first light beam and a second light beam. An optical system focuses the first light beam on the scanning surface and moves an optical spot formed by a focused light beam on the scanning surface in the main scanning direction. A light receiving element that is mounted on a circuit board receives the second light beam. A dust-proof member bridges a space between the circuit board and a circuit-board holding member that holds the circuit board and surrounds the light receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Miyake, Nobuaki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20110176068
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a closed loop feedback system for electronic beam alignment in a scanned beam display comprises a light source to emit one or more light beams, a controller to provide a control signal to drive the light source, a scanning platform to receive the one or more light beams and scan the light beams in a scanning pattern to project an image, and an alignment detector to provide a feedback signal indicative of beam position information of the light beams in the far field to the controller. An optic may be disposed in the beam path to magnify and/or to transform beam position information into the far field for the one or more alignment detectors. The controller adjusts the control signal in response to the feedback signal received from the alignment detector to maintain alignment of the light beams in a far field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: MICROVISION, INC.
    Inventor: Joshua O. Miller
  • Publication number: 20110176191
    Abstract: A scanning optical device that scans a light beam through a relay optical system, the relay optical system comprising: front group lenses arranged at a light source side; rear group lenses arranged at a side of a surface to be scanned; and first and second minors arranged between the front group lenses and the rear group lenses and supported by a common supporting member, wherein a normal vector of a minor surface of the first minor makes an angle (180??) with an incident optical axis from the front group lenses, a normal vector of the second minor makes an angle ? (??180×m) with the normal vector of the first minor, and the supporting member includes a mechanism being linearly movable in a direction which makes an angle (???+90) with the normal vector of the first mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shohei MATSUOKA