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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7126739 | Method and apparatus for optical pulse characterization using simplified chronocyclic tomography A method and apparatus for characterizing light from an optical source using simplified chronocyclic tomography by modulating the phase of light from an optical source using alternating positive and negative quadratic temporal phase modulation at a desired alternati... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7068411 | Method and apparatus for optical sampling An optical sampling method and apparatus are provided for modulating an optical signal using a first electroabsorption modulator (EAM) driven by a sinusoidal RF voltage signal to provide substantially jitter free temporal gating of the optical signal. The gated opti... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7038831 | Micromirror apparatus with improved in-plane rotation tolerance A micromirror apparatus is provided with edge portion(s) of the micromirror(s) being tapered to provide a desired micromirror fill ratio and a desired amount of in-plane rotation tolerance. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6922502 | Optical filtering method and apparatus An optical filter apparatus for processing an optical signal comprising a spectrum broadening device for spectrally dividing one or more channels of the optical signal into a discrete set of spectral components for each channel, a collector for collecting the spectr... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6898214 | Technique for monitoring SONET signal A technique for performance-monitoring of a standard SONET signal involves first converting the optical signal to an electrical signal, removing in the framing signal time slot the framing signal for leaving only the framing signal noise in such time slot, and separ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6892021 | Dynamic gain equalization arrangement for optical signals An optical dynamic gain equalization filter (DGEF) comprises a planar arrangement of preferably “perfectly sampled” (or alternatively oversampled) waveguide grating routers (WGR's) connected by individual optical paths each containing a Mach-Zehnder interferomet... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6658174 | Push-pull thermo-optic switch A thermo-optic interferometer switch is arranged to operate in a Push-pull mode by placing approximately a quarter-wavelength effective path-length difference (90 degree bias) between the arms of an interferometer switch in the zero-drive state, and then ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6657770 | Programmable optical multiplexer/demultiplexer A programmable optical demultiplexer can independently assign every input optical channel in a WDM optical communications signal to depart from any desired output port. The demultiplexer device can also be operated in the reverse direction, and thus achie... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6646784 | Optical wavelength converter A wavelength converter with a monolithically integrated delay loop in a delayed interference configuration that needs only one SOA or other non-linear optical element coupled to the input fiber, a first coupler arranged to split the output of the SOA or o... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6614582 | Optical regeneration and wavelength conversion using semiconductor optical amplifier based interferometers An optical translator that includes an interferometer and a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) coupled to the interferometer. The at least two of the SOAs receives data and a clock signal. The data is received by the at least two SOAs at... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6556323 | Demultiplexing and clock-recovery circuit An optical element for simultaneously retrieving the tributary data rate and the clock frequency from the line rate of an OTDM signal. The demultiplexing and clock recovery principle is based on injection locking of a high-Q-filtered and high gain loop wi... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6065718 | Universal VTOL power and rotor system module A universal power drive and lifting rotor system module adaptable for powering various types of single and multiple rotor VTOL aircraft comprising an elongated component support framework on the top of which a lifting rotor assembly and transmission are m... | 05/23/2000 |
