Abstract: An illuminating device that can reduce illuminance unevenness of an irradiation target face with a simple construction is provided. In a pseudo sunlight illuminating device 1 having a lamp 22 for illuminating an irradiation target face 10A, a transmission light amount adjusting unit 60 for adjusting a transmission light amount so that the illuminance distribution on the irradiation target face 10a is made uniform is provided between the lamp 22 and the irradiation target face 10A, and the transmission light amount adjusting unit 60 is provided with a light transmission plate laminate member 64 which is constructed by stacking light transmission plates 65 which are constant in transmittance in a wavelength range of light to be transmitted and whose number corresponds to an adjustment amount of the transmission light amount so that incident light is reflected at each boundary of the front and back surfaces of each light transmission plate 65.

Abstract: A graphic that indicates a switch is formed on a panel at a location corresponding to a first light guide element. A character to be displayed via the panel is formed on a second light guide element. The first light guide element is supported on a substrate, in close contact with an electrode, via a sheet-like shaped attaching member, and the second light guide element is supported by a base material without being supported on the substrate.

Abstract: A scanner (10) is used to provide images for automated diagnoses of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimers disease. The images are registered (90) to a template (78). The aligned image is analyzed (60) in relation to reference image data (76, 80) which has been registered to the template which is contained in a knowledge maintenance engine (70) for similar patterns of hypo-intensity that would indicate (in the case of an FDG tracer) reduced glucose uptake in the brain. The most appropriate reference images for the analysis of the present study are chosen by a filter (74). The present study is then given a dementia score (84) as a diagnostic feature vector that indicates to a clinician the type and severity of the ailment based on the analysis. The scanner (10) can produce PET or other metabolic and MR images for diagnosis. The MR can be used to measure blood flow rate into the brain. From the blood flow rate and the metabolic image, tracer, e.g.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed for finding images from a large corpus of images that at least partially match a query image. The present method makes use of feature detectors to bundle features into local groups or bundles. These bundled features are repeatable and much more discriminative than an individual SIFT feature. Equally importantly, the bundled features provide a flexible representation that allows simple and robust geometric constraints to be efficiently enforced when querying the index.

Abstract: Disclosed is a night lighting system retrofittable with existing wall switches for illuminating an area around the wall switches. The night lighting system comprises: a wall plate having at least one switch receiving slot capable of receiving a switch, at least one lens assembly disposed on the wall plate, a printed circuit board having at least one light emitting diode and interface wires electrically connecting the night lighting system to a power switch. The lens assembly has a chamber protruding from a back surface of the wall plate, and a lens covering a front end of the chamber. The chamber is capable of receiving at least a portion of the light emitting diode, such that, light from the light emitting diode passes though the lens to illuminate an area around the switch.

Abstract: The present invention is a low power and low heat dissipating, low illumination system that is based in an electrical box cover plate, preferably in a light switch cover plate. It allows for the maintenance of an electrical bleed current through the fluorescent light controlled by that light switch so as to keep a minimal thermal differential between the unlit and lit light. The light switch cover plate has a series of imbedded LEDs that illuminate an area all around the light switch. The unit is retrofittable on conventional light switches.

Abstract: A light device is provided having an elongate body that has a high strength construction. The high-strength light device is especially well-suited for use as a work light. The work light includes a high-strength body that has a handle and an elongate light-transmissive portion extending from the handle. Preferably, the light-transmissive portion includes a one-piece tubular wall that is tapered and which is molded from a high-strength material.

Abstract: A switch assembly that may be utilized as a tail cap of a lighting device. The switch assembly including at least a depressible switch with a rotatable portion that allows the user to activate distinct functional modes of the lighting device. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, the switch assembly has four channels, providing for at least three different light functions and a locking channel. The different channels are defined by the axial position of the rotatable portion relative to the lighting device body.

Abstract: An adapter for converting an electric light fixture into a candle-burning chandelier. A candle holder adapter includes a cavity at the bottom which fits over and is retained by the vertical light bulb socket support. The candle holder may include an wax catching tray. The candle may be a conventional candle which fits into the candle holder adapter, or may be specially formed to mate with the adapter. The adapter may hold or form a liquid fuel reservior for a fuel burning candle. In an O.E.M. fixture, the vertical light bulb socket support may be removed from the fixture and replaced by a conventional candle or a specially formed candle holder.

Abstract: The light source system is a combination of two light sources with open flames that are placed in a multiple-legged, tube-like u-shaped container. The arrangement of the light sources is that one light source burns in the bottom of one leg with an upward-directed flame, and the other light source burns with a visibly downward-directed flame in the upper part of the second leg.

Abstract: Crystalline superfine particles capable of emitting light depending upon a time-rate-of-change of a stress and controlled in grain size in the range from 5 nm to 100 nm are complexed with another material such as resin. The crystalline superfine particles are manufactured by using aggregates of molecules, i.e. inverted micelles, which orient hydrophilic groups of surfactant molecules inward and hydrophobic groups outward in a nonpolar solvent and which contain metal ions of a metal for forming the crystalline superfine particles dissolved in water inside the inverted micelles. Alternatively, they are manufactured by using inverted micelles enveloping precursor superfine particles, in which precursor superfine particles are enveloped in water inside the inverted micelles. The crystalline superfine particles are excellent in dispersibility in another material to be complexed, enhanced in emission efficiency and usable to make a transparent stress emission material.

Abstract: A helmet having a warning device includes at least one illuminator externally mounted on a helmet body. A solar power supplying device has a solar panel fixedly mounted on a top surface of the helmet body for absorbing solar energy, which can be converted into electrical energy by means of a control circuit board and saved to an accumulator. The accumulator supplies the illuminator with required electricity to generate illumination. The control circuit board can detect if there is any solar energy gathered by the solar panel so as to automatically control the illuminator to generate illumination or not. A switch, when the illuminator automatically generates illumination, can be activated again to forcibly control the illuminator to continually generate illumination or not.

Abstract: A lawn or patio umbrella with an integral lighting system that utilizes cold cathode ray tubes, light emitting diodes (LED's), or florescent lights, to provide relatively bright outdoor light for reading and other activities that require relatively high light intensities is provided. In one embodiment, a modular, electrically powered lawn or patio umbrella in which lighting systems, such as those utilizing cold cathode tubes, LED's, or florescent lights; cooling systems, such as those utilizing electric fans or misting systems; and motorized retraction systems; can be selectively interchanged is provided.

Abstract: An illumination system includes a plurality of candles having a plurality of different illumination durations. The illumination durations of each candle are designed to correspond to the timing of an event such as a dinner party or a cocktail party. As the evening progresses the candles bum out in succession, progressively dimming the lighting. By packaging the candles together, a candle illumination system is provided with pre-determined dimming times.

Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a lantern and a fuel source for a lantern to a boat for attracting fish to the boat, the apparatus including an elongated pipe for conveying fuel from a fuel reservoir to a fuel-burning lantern, the elongated pipe having a first end and a second end, first end of pipe being adapted to receive a lantern, the second end of the elongated pipe being adapted to receive fuel from a fuel reservoir, and a pipe holder connected to boat for holding the elongated pipe and lantern, the pipe holder being adapted to position the lantern at a distance away from the side of the boat over the water in which the boat may be floating to attract fish to the area beneath said lantern.

Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a lantern and a fuel source for a lantern to a boat for attracting fish to the boat, the apparatus including an elongated pipe for conveying fuel from a fuel reservoir to a fuel-burning lantern, the elongated pipe having a first end and a second end, first end of pipe being adapted to receive a lantern, the second end of the elongated pipe being adapted to receive fuel from a fuel reservoir, and a pipe holder connected to boat for holding the elongated pipe and lantern, the pipe holder being adapted to position the lantern at a distance away from the side of the boat over the water in which the boat may be floating to attract fish to the area beneath said lantern.

Abstract: This invention discloses a lamp shade assembly including a lamp shade, a plurality of vanes attached to the lamp shade, a pivot about which the lamp shade rotates, and a candle assembly located below said plurality of vanes, the candle assembly comprising a plurality of wicks with substantially different burning lives, the candle assembly when burning causing warmed air to rise and impinge upon the plurality of vanes, thereby causing rotation of the lamp shade.

Abstract: A dimmer device for a gas light which is solar activated and is composed of a minimum number of parts. A magnetically operated valve with a magnetically attractable ball is energized during daylight hours to close off one passageway yet allows gas to flow through a second passageway at a lower flow rate to provide a dimmer condition for the lamp. At night time, the magnetic valve is deactivated causing the magnetically attractable ball to open the otherwise closed passageway and thereby allow full gas flow to the lamp. The dimmer device is easily installed into the lamp housing rather than the post.

Abstract: The instant invention teaches the use of conventional chemiluminescent constituents of different colors disposed within at least two chambers [place] placed in a parallel or helically woven pattern. Each chamber sets forth a distinct color that when viewed in combination with an adjoining color emitting chamber, provides a combination color or rainbow type product that cannot be obtained by mixing dyes in a single chamber. The invention further provides [the unique] various color combinations not commonly available due to dye incompatibility.

Abstract: The instant invention teaches the use of conventional chemiluminescent constituents, admixed or separated, disposed within at least two juxtapose chambers in a parallel or helically woven pattern. The chamber each containing a distinct color that when viewed in placement of the instant invention, provides a combination color or rainbow type product that cannot be obtained by mixing dyes in a single chamber. The invention further providing a means for allowing new color combinations not available due to dye incompatibility.

Abstract: A decorative light display unit for displaying one or more lights for a window display, table centerpiece, or the like, wherein a substantially rectangular hollow housing is provided with a top surface having at least one transverse opening therethrough to maintain a display candle extending from each opening. A glass or plastic sconce is disposed around each candle and supported by a groove formed around the transverse opening. The sconce includes a first tubular end supported by the hollow housing and a flared bulbous open portion disposed around the bulb of the candle. The flared bulbous portion is provided with a scalloped tip end and a ribbon secured around a reduced diameter portion thereof. A hinged closure door is provided for one end of the hollow housing to permit the insertion/removal of a suitable candelabrum therein. A notch is provided in the closure door to accommodate an electric cord supplying electric current to the candelabrum.

Abstract: A light diffusing lens and a method of making such a lens for use in traffic lights etc. and of the known type in which a nearly parallel light beam in projected on a lens adapted to scatter the light within certain predetermined limits, and in which the lens comprises a large number of cavities arranged on the inner surface of the lens, which cavities act as elementary lenses (2) arranged in parallel rows (3) extending in the horizontal direction, and in which each elementary lens (2) comprises at least two integral concave lens parts, namely a lower lens part (5) having the shape of a part of a half-ball, and an upper lens part (6) which is directly integral with said lower lens part (5) and which is stepwise or successively widened to the shape of a bell and which is ended by an upper, straight cross cut lens surface (4).

Abstract: A candelabra made of flat steel straps bent into a semicircular form the other free ends of which are bent toward one another forming a candle ledge having candle cups secured therealong. Additional candle cups may be added to the free ends of the steel straps by using extension straps. The structure is supported by a telescopic support.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a radioluminescent lamp having a glass face plate with a plurality of parallel planar light guides, each preferably having a transparent glass, sapphire or quartz base member, disposed perpendicularly with respect to the glass face plate and coated on both sides with a thin film of radioluminescent phosphor material. The plates are mounted in a sealed envelope filled with tritium gas, the radioactive decay of the tritium causing the phosphor to luminesce. The phosphor material and all but one of the edges of each light guide are overcoated with a reflective material, such as aluminum, to guide the generated light to a single edge of the light guide, which edge is adjacent the glass face plate. The phosphor is preferably a calcium sulfide-based material forming a continuous, binder-free layer on the transparent base member.

Abstract: Liquid fuel consuming apparatus for use as a devotional candle or votive light arrangement comprises a reservoir housing a horizontally oriented tubular shape with a series of holes in its top face aligned with an equal series of fuel holding wells provided on an insert located in the reservoir. A non-removable wick in a holding tube is provided in each aligned hole and well with its top above the hole and its bottom in the well. Means are provided to fill the wells with fuel from a tank. Through capillary action fuel passes up the wick. The amount of fuel in the well is determined by the capacity of the well, and therefore the illuminating time period for a wick after being ignited.

Abstract: Apparatus for providing selected coincident actuation of a plurality of chemical light sources to provide a relatively intense light source which is actuated at a precisely selectable time.

Abstract: A fuel element for open burning installations, such as a fireplace, containing a shell-like, elongated housing, in which a supply of fuel may be filled and refilled. In addition, at least one flat burner body, such as a flat wick, is arranged in the housing and immersed with its lower part in the fuel supply, while its upper edge is protruding in a height adjustable manner from the top side of the housing. A fireplace suitable for fuel elements of this type contains an exhaust hood in which is positioned a filter in the form of an absorber to purify and regenerate the air rising from the fuel elements, in particular removing suspended particles and eliminating unpleasant odors. The fireplace does not require outside connections.

Abstract: Disclosed is an illumination system incorporating light pipes distributing light to large numbers of building spacial units, the system employing artificial or natural light sources, light splitters, optical switches, and light fixtures or lamps. Alternate embodiments of light splitters and optical switches are also disclosed as well as a specific type light fixture employing reflector cones, lenses, and a pyramid shaped reflector.