Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| 20050213206 | Confocal microscope A confocal microscope includes a light source that emits illuminating light beam, an illuminating optical system that irradiates the illuminating light beam onto a specimen, a condensing optical system that condenses the light reflected off the specimen and a light dete... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050213204 | Three-dimensional confocal microscope system This invention is characterized by the following feature. A three-dimensional confocal microscope system for performing image processing based on image pickup data of sliced images of a sample outputted from a confocal scanner and thus acquiring a three-dimensional imag... | 09/29/2005 |
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| 20050200947 | Microscope system and objective unit A microscope system includes a light source and an objective unit. The objective unit includes an objective optical system, including a small-diameter distal optical system arranged at an end brought near to or into contact with a specimen, for focusing light from the l... | 09/15/2005 |
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| 20050190436 | Microscope and sample observation method For a semiconductor device S as an inspected object, there are provided an image acquisition part 1, an optical system 2 including an objective lens 20, and a solid immersion lens (SIL) 3 movable between an insertion position including an opt... | 09/01/2005 |
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| 20050168809 | Aperture stop device An aperture stop device is provided for use in a microscope with at least one adjustable observation parameter. The aperture stop device includes at least one aperture stop (50a, 50b) with an adjustable aperture, that is to say with an adjust... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050157385 | Optical analysis systems A system for the optical analysis of a sample. An illumination source illuminates the sample, exciting fluorescence. The fluorescence is collected by an objective lens, which transmits the collected illumination light onto an imaging lens, which focuses the collected li... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050146784 | Confocal microscope having multiple independent excitation paths A confocal microscope including a first light source for emitting an incoming light beam with which a sample to be observed is irradiated; a scan engine dimensioned and configured to scan the incoming light beam prior to its irradiating the sample, thereby generating a ... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050141081 | Method for correcting drift in an optical device In an optical device (2), in particular a microscope, drift is sensed by the fact that a first image of an immovable specimen (30) is acquired at a first time (T(n-1)), and a second image thereof at a second time (T(n)). The drift is calculated from... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050141080 | Microscope device Specularly reflected light from a convergence position on an object surface 31 enters a second critical-angle prism 14, another prism 15, and a first critical-angle prism 13 of a parallel beam selection means 20 in this order as a para... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050128573 | Tube for a microscope as well as microscope The invention concerns a tube (3) for a microscope (1), in which at least two beam paths are provided, wherein a change-over device is provided in the tube (3), by means of which device a first (5) or a second flat-field optical element can b... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050122577 | Confocal microscope and measuring method by this confocal microscope The present invention relates to a confocal microscope and a measuring method by the confocal microscope in which one or a plurality of measuring units to detect a movement amount are disposed facing a Z-stage having a sample laid thereon, the measuring unit detects a r... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050117205 | MICROSCOPE HAVING AN ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM WHICH IS INTEGRATED WITH THE MICROSCOPE BASE WHICH REDUCES HEAT CONDUCTION FROM THE MICROSCOPE BASE TO THE MICROSCOPE FRAME A microscope is provided which includes a frame which supports a stage that is adapted to have a specimen placed thereon, an arm provided on the frame to support an objective lens, an observation optical system provided on the arm, and an illumination optical system whi... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050117210 | Method for adjusting a lamp relative to an illuminating beam path of a microscope and a microscope suitable for carrying out the method The invention relates to a method for automatic lamp adjustment in a microscope without beam homogenizers in the illuminating beam path and a microscope equipped for the application of the method. According to the invention, the light power in the illuminating beam path... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050117209 | Surgical microscope for ophthalmology A surgical microscope (1) for ophthalmology includes a tube unit (4) which permits viewing an area (5) of surgery, especially a forward section of the eye, through a microscope main objective (2). The surgical microscope (1) includes a... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050117204 | High-stability optical microscope Optical microscopes are used to record images or take measurements for extended times of several hours. During such extended usage, the microscope moves slightly causing the object to shift or defocus (drift). This invention provides a highly stable optical microscope t... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050111086 | Stereo microscope The invention is directed to a stereo microscope with electrically controllable components which is characterized in that it is highly user-friendly and ergonomic. For this purpose, all essential components are provided with an electric control or status detection and a... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111092 | Microscope The microscope (S, 100) of the present invention has a hand piece (20, 112), whose tip is mounted with a thin sheet-like mirror unit (M, 10, 130, 220), and around both ends of the base (11c, 131c) thereof is arranged an i... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111091 | Releasable/interchangeable fine focus knob for a microscope A microscope includes at least one focusing means for focusing an object plane. The focusing means includes first and second adjustment means. The first and second adjustment means are coaxial and independently rotatably adjustable with respect to one another. The secon... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111090 | Incident light fluorescence stereo microscope The invention is directed to a stereo microscope which is suitable particularly for observing fluorescence with incident light. Particularly advantageous fluorescence excitation is achieved when the illumination beam path has a zoom system by which an illumination is ac... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111089 | Superresolving microscopy apparatus In scanned optical systems such as confocal laser microscopes wherein a beam of light is focused to a spot in a specimen to excite a fluorescent species or other excitable species in the spot, the effective size of the excitation is made smaller than the size of the spo... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111088 | Microscope camera The invention is directed to a microscope camera which is suitable particularly for recording digital images in stereomicroscopy. The complete camera, including a deflecting element for one of the stereo beam paths, image recording chip, control unit and processing unit... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111087 | Observation device with separate operating unit The invention is directed to an observation device in which a user observes objects or process flows and influences the display of the object or the flow of the process by entering operating commands and control demands. The observation device is outfitted with an opera... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050111082 | Confocal microscopy arrangement without beam splitter A microscope arrangement for simultaneously inspecting a plurality of spots on the surface of a substrate includes at least one source of substantially parallel illumination directed non-parallel to the optical axis, an optical arrangement configured for directing the s... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050105174 | Microscope system A microscope system includes a plurality of objectives with different magnifications and a focus adjustment device that adjusts a focus position of the objective. The focus adjustment device starts executing the focus adjustment operation as the user operates the AF but... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050105172 | Culture microscope apparatus A culture microscope apparatus has an illumination unit to apply excitation light to the specimen, a specimen observing portion to observe light generated from the specimen due to the excitation light, and a dimmer unit to dim the excitation light that has penetrated th... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050099681 | MICROSCOPE In a microscope, an optical system that includes a zoom lens unit having a straight optical axis is located under a stage portion that carries a sample A thereon. An optical image of the sample A is projected on an image-pickup element via the optical system, and is con... | 05/12/2005 |
