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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7372458 | Method to fast search printing frequency to present a 3D image A method for searching a printing frequency to display a 3D picture includes breaking an image into strips and using NumLen lenses to form a NumLen-1 image cycle. After the NumLen-1 image cycle is formed, a quantity of images of the image cycle is defined to be dpi/... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372642 | Three-channel camera systems with non-collinear apertures A three-dimensional imaging system uses a single primary optical lens along with three non-collinear apertures to obtain three offset optical channels each of which can be separately captured with an optical sensor. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7360895 | Simplified ocular fundus auto imager An ocular fundus imager automatically aligns fundus illuminating rays to enter the pupil and to prevent corneal reflections from obscuring the fundus image produced. Focusing the produced fundus image is automatically performed using a pair of video sensors and is b... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349068 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A system and method are provided including different moveable lenses within a projection system that can be placed in the path of a radiation beam to change a magnification of the projection system. By changing the magnification of the projection system an area of a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7327410 | High resolution 3-D image display with liquid crystal shutter array A 3-D image display comprising a backlight, a liquid crystal shutter array having an opening and a mask alternately formed therein and selectively passing light emitted from the backlight by switching the opening and the mask. A display device having left eye image ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7316894 | Developer regenerators The present invention provides an aqueous regenerator for addition to an aqueous developer that contains an organic solvent, a dispersing agent and a weak base, and has a pH of between about 8 and less than about 13. The aqueous regenerator includes an organic solve... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7290802 | Second surface micromotion display A second surface micromotion display includes a see-through base having a first surface, defined in the art as a front surface facing a viewer, and a second surface, defined in the art as a rear surface opposite to the front surface and facing away from the viewer, ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286257 | Graphic printing machine for card-type storage medium, method for printing said storage media and storage media A graphic printing machine and method for a card-type storage medium employs a jet printing head and a controller to perform ink jet printing on the medium. The invention is useful for printing plastic or cardboard or paper cards. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7255979 | Lenticular printing A method of producing Lenticular images and a system for carrying out the method, in which photosensitive material is placed in contact with a Lenticular sheet and exposed through the Lenticular sheet lenses. An additional lens-array is placed between the optical im... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7212630 | Method and apparatus for encryption using partial information A method and apparatus of encrypting optical images using binarization or phase only information is presented with a number of ways to secure the image also being provided. An image to be encrypted is first multiplied by a random phase function. The Fourier transfor... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7187502 | Compact optical assembly for imaging a remote object The optical system of the invention is comprised of a monolithic microlens array assembly that consists of two groups of microlenses sub-assemblies having different pitches between the adjacent lenses. A ratio between the pitches of sub-assemblies is determined by a... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7153555 | Plastic objects including lenticular lens sheets A product for displaying lenticular images, comprising: an insert including a lenticular lens material; a layer of ink; a thermal protective substrate layer; and a plastic base. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153047 | Systematic lenticular lens selection in a digital printing environment Disclosed herein is a method for determining a lenticular lens resolution for use in digital press printing. The method includes determining a digital press machine resolution d, setting a master interlaced image resolution m for a master interlaced image such that ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149035 | Digitally imaged lenticular products incorporating customized elements Disclosed herein is a digitally imaged lenticular product comprising a lenticular lens having an array of lenticules defining a front surface, and a substantially flat back surface located opposite the front surface. The product further includes a digitally output i... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136185 | Corresponding lenticular imaging Disclosed herein is a method of making a corresponding lenticular image comprising: providing an output device in communication with a computer having a memory; receiving into the computer memory an interlaced image file; converting the interlaced image file into an... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7123385 | Image processing apparatus The image processing apparatus comprises a reading unit which simultaneously reads image data from two, an obverse and a reverse, surfaces of a document, and a compressing unit which compresses received image data. The apparatus further comprises a controlling unit ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7098993 | Exposure device for exposing a photosensitive material in accordance with image data An inexpensive and highly productive exposure device for directly scanning and exposing a photosensitive material sensitive to at least a UV region, based on digital data. As a motor controller moves an exposure head at a fixed speed in Y direction, image data is re... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7083340 | Systematic lenticular lens selection in a digital printing environment Disclosed herein is a method and an apparatus for determining a lenticular lens resolution for use in digital press printing. The method and an apparatus consists of determining a digital press machine resolution d, setting a master interlaced image resolution m for... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7083341 | Systematic lenticular lens selection in a digital printing environment Disclosed herein is a method for determining a lenticular lens resolution for use in digital press printing. The method includes determining a digital press machine resolution d, setting a master interlaced image resolution m for a master interlaced image such that ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079706 | Methods and apparatus for generating a multiple composite image A composite image generator for combining a prestored composite background image, a prestored composite foreground image, and a composite interior image is disclosed. The composite interior image is preferably generated by the composite image generator by interlacin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075725 | Lenticular card and processes for making A process for making a lenticular card including: providing an imaged transparent sheet having a first smooth side and a second side with a lenticulated region, the transparent sheet optionally having at least one printed image area on the first smooth side and a mo... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068434 | Sheeting with composite image that floats Microlens sheetings with composite images are disclosed, in which the composite image floats above or below the sheeting, or both. The composite image may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Methods for providing such an imaged sheeting, including by the applic... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7034881 | Camera provided with touchscreen An electronic camera is provided with a touchscreen. When a cameraman touches the touchscreen on a principal subject in a captured image shown on the touchscreen, the touched portion is determined and the focus and exposure are adjusted in conformity with the princi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7025459 | Ocular fundus auto imager An ocular fundus imager (8) automatically aligns fundus illuminating rays to enter the pupil (P) and to prevent corneal reflections from obscuring the fundus image produced. Focusing the produced fundus image is automatically performed and is based upon the f... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7012637 | Capture structure for alignment of multi-camera capture systems A multi-camera capture system is aligned using a capture system so that a subject remains in the field of view of a camera. In one embodiment of the present invention, the multi-camera system capture system is mounted on a camera platform. The camera platform is con... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7000343 | Flexible platen image display device and method A multi-image display device has an arcuate platen formed by mounting a transparent flexible sheet in compression to a frame. The platen is convex or otherwise bow-shaped. Associated with the platen are a translucent image sheet having a plurality of images thereon ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995913 | Digitally imaged lenticular products incorporating customized elements Disclosed herein is a digitally imaged lenticular product comprising a lenticular lens having an array of lenticules defining a front surface, and a substantially flat back surface located opposite the front surface. The product further includes a digitally output i... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6974080 | Lenticular bar code image A lenticular bar code image includes a lenticular lens having a front surface including a plurality of lenticules and a back surface opposite the front surface; and an image joined to the back surface of the lens, the image including a bar code symbol having bars. T... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6859256 | Method of making a parallax barrier, parallax barrier and autostereoscopic display A parallax barrier is made by developing a film exposed through a mask having elongate opaque regions interleaved with transparent regions. The film is exposed by a light source through the mask while the mask is moved so as to vary the exposure of each region of th... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6837585 | Computer processed integral photography apparatus and process for large 3D image production A set of enhanced apparatuses and a computer integrated processes are provided for creating large scale 3D integral photography images. A large number of mini projectors in a grid on top of each other and beside each other, are exposed individually with a computer c... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6727972 | Detection of pitch variations in lenticular material A method of sensing the pitch or relative location of a lenticular lens on a sheet of transparent lenticular material of the type having a repeating pattern of cylindrical lenses on one side and a flat opposite side, comprising the steps of: forming a beam of light;... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6717649 | Detection of pitch variations in lenticular material A method of sensing the pitch or relative location of a lenticular lens on a sheet of transparent lenticular material of the type having a repeating pattern of cylindrical lenses on one side and a flat opposite side, comprising the steps of: forming a beam of light;... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6697171 | Process for eliminating "ghosting" in interlaced images printed on a lenticular lens A process for adjusting the content of a digitized image file used in printing an interlaced image on a lenticular lens material to substantially eliminate ghosting effects which might otherwise occur when the printed image is viewed by an observer. A pix... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6686988 | Optical system, and stereoscopic image photographing apparatus having the same An optical system includes a pair of front optical components, an optical member for superposing respective optical axes of the pair of front optical components on each other, a rear optical component disposed such that the superimposed optical axes coinc... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6556274 | Process for full-automatic and synchronous quick thermoprinting of stereoscopic color film and apparatus adopting the process A process for full-automatic and synchronous quick thermoprinting of stereoscopic color film and apparatus adopting the process uses the internationally accepted nontoxic oil ink to design patterns on a transfer medium, which medium is in turn absorbed by... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6486937 | Method and apparatus for printing large format lenticular images A method and apparatus for printing large format lenticular images on a lenticular sheet (902) having a plurality of generally parallel lenticules (903) on a front side of the lenticular sheet (902). A sensor (209) senses a beginning of each lenticule (90... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6389236 | Anaglyph and method The method of making the anaglyph on a page of an object comprises the steps of: producing left and right stereoscopic views of the object; and then, producing a left anaglyph image adding a first color on a planar page as a projection or equivalent to a ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6324347 | Autostereoscopic imaging apparatus and method using a parallax scanning lens aperture A lens aperture of an autostereoscopic camera is moved in a parallax scanning pattern through a plurality of disparity positions offset from the optical axis of the camera lens. Images of a scene being photographed, as viewed through the lens aperture in ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6268899 | Identification of lenticular material characteristics in lenticular printers A lenticular imaging product comprising: a lenticular lens element having an array of lenticules; and means for encoding characteristics of the lenticular lens element for use in processing the lenticular lens element.... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6258194 | Process for manufacturing a personalized sticker A personalized sticker is manufactured by first creating a plurality of copies of a personalized image, with each copy differing in size, and then interlacing the copies to form an interlaced personalized image. The interlaced personalized image is filmed... | 07/10/2001 |
