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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127548 | MONOCULAR HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE A monocular holographic storage device or system to provide for compact recording and/or reading of data pages in a holographic storage medium. Also provided are methods for carrying out such data storage and/or data recovery using a monocular holographic storage device... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20110134497 | Hologram Generating Device And Hologram Printer [Object] Provided are a hologram generating device and a hologram generating method that allows the generation of a hologram for reproducing an easily observable three-dimensional image without restrictions on object sizes. [Solving means] ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110058240 | System and Method for Autostereoscopic Imaging Using Holographic Optical Element Systems and methods for creating an autostereoscopic display include a holographic optical element (HOE) recorded using coherent light divided into diverging reference and object beams that illuminate the HOE from opposite sides. The object beam passes through first and... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110043878 | DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC MICROSCOPY An optical configuration for a digital holographic microscope and a method for digital holographic microscopy are presented. In one embodiment, digital off-axis holograms are obtained using a cube beam splitter (110) to both split and combine a diverging spherica... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110032587 | System and Method for Autostereoscopic Imaging Systems and methods for autostereoscopic display of three-dimensional images include a holographic optical element made by preparing a silver halide gelatin emulsion, coating one side of a glass substrate with the emulsion, holographically recording an eyebox on the coa... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100245954 | Dual-Function Alignment Layer For Liquid Crystal Devices To Improve Degradation Resistance To Radiation A liquid crystal alignment layer both offers a surface to which the liquid crystal molecules align, and maintains conductive properties required for the liquid crystal molecules to be manipulated by an applied electrical field. Advantages of the alignment layer offer re... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100128333 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM A hologram recording and reproducing system for recording information to or reproducing information from a recording medium which stores an optical interference pattern of a reference beam and a signal beam as a diffraction grating, the system comprising: a light source... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100103490 | Optical Information Recording Reproducing Apparatus In the optical information recording reproducing apparatus that makes a reference light beam to interfere with an information light beam so as to record the information of the information light beam in a recording medium based on a two light beam interference method, or... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100097670 | Holographic storage system with improved beam overlap An apparatus and a method for reading from and/or writing to holographic storage media using a coaxial arrangement of an object beam and one or more reference beams or a coaxial arrangement of a reconstructed object beam and one or more reference beams is proposed. A fo... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100091349 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND POLARIZATION DIRECTION CONTROLLING METHOD Disclosed herein is a recording and reproducing device including: a light source; an intensity modulating section; a polarization beam splitter; a selective polarization direction controlling section; a linearly polarized light/circularly polarized light converting sect... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100014138 | High Areal Density Holographic Data Storage System An apparatus for recording or reading high areal density holographically stored information with high signal-to-noise ratio. The apparatus comprises a holographic imaging system for recording or reconstructing a holographic image, having a first numerical aperture and a... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090303559 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL INFORMATION OF AN OBJECT FROM RECEIVED ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION An apparatus and method to produce a hologram of an object includes an electromagnetic radiation assembly configured to receive a received electromagnetic radiation, such as light, from the object. The electromagnetic radiation assembly is further configured to diffract... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090284814 | SETUP FOR STORING DATA IN A HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE MEDIUM AND PHASE PLATE The present invention relates to a setup for storing data in a holographic storage medium, said setup comprising a spatial light modulator (SLM) (18) and a phase plate (50), the spatial light modulator having a first pixel structure, the phase plate having... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090279152 | HOLOGRAM RECORDER A hologram recording apparatus includes an objective lens (7) for illuminating a hologram recording medium (B) with a recording beam (S) in a manner such that the recording beam overlaps a reference beam, thereby performing multiple recording of holograms at a po... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090262408 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS AND HOLOGRAM RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM An optical pickup apparatus includes a light source for generating a coherent beam, a spatial light modulator having a central region arranged on an optical axis of the coherent beam and an annular region arranged in a manner surrounding the central region, to spatially... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090251751 | Optical Imaging System An illumination device for an optical imaging apparatus, such as a microscope. The illumination of a slide specimen is achieved when divergent light for a point light source or a plurality of point light sources illuminate the specimen converging at high angles at equal... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090128876 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING DEVICE A hologram recording device records holograms by interference between an recording beam and a reference beam. The device includes an objective lens exhibiting a predetermined aberration. It is supposed that the laser beam applied to the beam splitter has an light intens... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090103154 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS EQIUPPED WITH THE SAME A recording apparatus includes a first light source irradiating first laser light, a second light source irradiating second laser light, an optical spatial modulating unit applying information to the first laser light, and an objective lens collecting the first laser li... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090080042 | MONOCULAR HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE A monocular holographic storage device or system to provide for compact recording and/or reading of data pages in a holographic storage medium. Also provided are methods for carrying out such data storage and/or data recovery using a monocular holographic storage device... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090051990 | Phase mask for holographic data storage The present invention relates to a phase mask for holographic data storage, and to a method and an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to holographic storage media using such a phase mask. According to the invention, the phase mask ha... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090040577 | System and method for holographic storage A system and a method for holographic storage mainly involve forming a holographic interference pattern in a holographic recording medium. The holographic storage system utilizes a light source to emit a coherent beam. The coherent beam is irradiated to a first reflecto... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090027747 | HOLOGRAPHIC MICROSCOPY OF HOLOGRAPHICALLY TRAPPED THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES A method and system for performing three-dimensional holographic microscopy of an optically trapped structure. The method and system use an inverted optical microscope, a laser source which generates a trapping laser beam wherein the laser beam is focused by an objectiv... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090021811 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS An optical information recording apparatus includes a light source that emits an irradiation light; a spatial light modulator that converts the irradiation light to an information light carrying information; a condenser lens that converges the information light and a re... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090021814 | HOLOGRAM APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF Hologram recording and reconstruction apparatuses and method thereof are provided. The hologram recording apparatus comprises a laser source, a spatial light modulator, and a Fourier lens. The laser source provides a coherent light beam. The spatial light modulator rece... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090015890 | Hologram element, hologram element fabricating apparatus, hologram element fabricating method, and hologram reconstructing apparatus used for reconstructing information A reference beam is deflected by an angularly rotating mirror, and applied to a hologram recording medium at a set incident angle. The relevant applied reference beam and a signal beam are superposed within the hologram recording medium, and light intensity distribution... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080309999 | HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING DEVICE A holographic recorder (A1) can vary the optical distance between an object lens (8) and a relay lens (7b) near the object lens (8). This arrangement allows defocus-multiplexing utilizing state variations in the laser beam when the bea... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080285100 | Apparatus and Method for Producing a Hologram The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing a hologram, in particular a dot matrix volume hologram. A holographic recording system (1) comprises a source of optical radiation (7), a transparent or partially transparent holographic... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080252953 | Holographic Storage And Regeneration System Having Servo Mechanism A holographic storage and regeneration system includes a holographic recording medium, a light source, a spatial light modulator, and a conjugate servo light guidance portion. The light source generates a signal light and a reference light. The spatial light modulator m... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080239428 | NON-FT PLANE ANGULAR FILTERS Non-Fourier Transform (FT) plane angular filters and their use in holographic storage systems or devices for angular filtering of a data beam prior to recording holographic data or for angular filtering of a recovered beam prior to detecting the recovered holographic da... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080240706 | ACTUATOR An actuator includes a rotor, a stator containing the rotor, and a bearing to support the rotor to be rotatable with respect to the stator about the central axis of the rotor and an axis perpendicular to the central axis. The rotor includes rotor central magnetic poles,... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080151340 | HOLOGRAPHIC PRINTER A single method and apparatus for producing many of the most common types of hologram from digital data is disclosed. The data are generated entirely by a computer as a 3-D (animated) model or from multiple 2-D camera images taken of a real 3-D (moving) object or scene ... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080137162 | HOLOGRAM INFORMATION REPRODUCING DEVICE A hologram information reproducing device is described which can reproduce information from a recording medium on which hologram information is recorded, and which can be downsized. In one aspect, when light from a light source is emitted, the light is converted into pa... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080100890 | MONOCULAR HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE A monocular holographic storage device or system to provide for compact recording and/or reading of data pages in a holographic storage medium. Also provided are methods for carrying out such data storage and/or data recovery using a monocular holographic storage device... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080080030 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND PHASE MODULATION DEVICE A recording apparatus performing at least recording with respect to a hologram recording medium is disclosed. The recording medium includes: a light emitting means for emitting light to be radiated with respect to the hologram recording medium set at a prescribed positi... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20080049283 | SHIFT TOLERANT LENS OPTIMIZED FOR PHASE CONJUGATING HOLOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS A new type of FT lens is provided that improves phase conjugation in holographic data systems. This type of FT lens has a uniquely large isoplanatic patch. This enables relaxed assembly tolerances, asymmetric reader/writer architectures, and compensation for tilted plat... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080007808 | Hologram Recording and Reproducing Method, Device and System A hologram device includes: a support section that keeps hold of, to be able to be attachable and removable, a hologram record carrier including a hologram recording layer stored therein with an optical interference pattern of a coherent signal light and a coherent refe... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070285753 | Systems and Methods for Producing Wide Field-of-View Holographic Displays Hologram recording devices and techniques can be employed to produce wide field-of-view holograms. In one embodiment, a specialized lens is used to couple an object beam into a holographic recording material without substantially changing the angle of incidence of the o... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070258119 | Optical Device, an Optical System and a Method of Manufacturing a Holographic Optical Element This invention relates to an optical device and system for producing a holographic optical element or digital hologram. Various techniques of producing digital holograms have been proposed. However, they tend to suffer from long exposure times, as well as problems assoc... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070223075 | Hologram Apparatus A hologram apparatus that can reproduce, with a simple configuration, information in a hologram recorded by wavelength multiplexing is provided. In a hologram apparatus, light from a light source 10 enters a hologram 2a | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070171495 | Hologram apparatus and recording method of the same A hologram apparatus comprises a light detection unit detecting a light intensity of at least one of the data beam and the reference beam; a determination unit determining whether light intensities of the data beam and the reference beam reach to a reference value which... | 07/26/2007 |
