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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7280723 | Illumination assembly including a rigid light-guiding element incorporating a numerical-aperture alteration taper An illumination assembly includes a light-emitting element that emits light over a light-source numerical aperture and an elongated light-guiding element including opposed incident and emission ends between which ends light propagates by total internal reflection. T... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270458 | Curved light guide screen Provided is a curved light guide screen. A plurality of vertically aligned light guides are arranged into light guide magnifying layers. Spacers are disposed between any two adjacent light guide magnifying layers, proximate to the magnifying output ends, to position... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262764 | Universal computing device for surface applications A universal input device for use with a surface, such as a whiteboard, is provided. The universal input device can be used to control various computing devices as well as capture handwritten electronic ink and have the electronic ink be associated with new or stored... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262921 | Illuminating optical system for endoscope An endoscope illuminating optical system having a gradient index lens capable of illuminating by a sufficient light amount and by a wider angle is provided. The endoscope illuminating optical system is constituted to illuminate an observed region by light guided by ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7250636 | Display apparatus and method for producing the same A display apparatus includes an array of fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements. Each of the fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements includes a layered structure having a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a semiconductor light-e... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251400 | Absorptive clad fiber optic faceplate tube A limiter device is used as a fiber optic faceplate (FOFP) night vision goggle for limiting light or laser induced damage on a vacuum side of the FOFP. The limiter device includes a plurality of longitudinally extending optical fibers, each bundled to each other to ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251399 | Method of making densely packed light guide ribbon Provided is a method of making a densely packed light guide ribbon. More specifically, in at least one embodiment, a first clad layer is deposited upon a carrier. A first plurality of spaced light guides are then provided upon the first clad layer. A second clad lay... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251383 | Method and device of imaging with an imager having a fiber plate cover There is provided an imager with, for example, a fiber plate cover capable of transferring to a sensor element an image of a sample that may be close to or in contact with such fiber plate cover, and imaging such sample. An imager may include a fiber plate cover cap... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248746 | Data diffusion processing technique A data diffusion processing technique includes the steps of a) dividing a zone into a number of positions and giving a respective default value to each of the positions; and b) assigning one of the positions to be the triggering position and then using the assigned ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248769 | Optical fiber bundles and devices including them The present invention provides optical fiber bundles that can be configured to yield beams of radiation having tailored polarization and/or intensity properties. According to one embodiment of the invention, an optical fiber bundle includes a plurality of polarizati... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245815 | Optically marked surface Turf comprising a backing and artificial or natural turf fibers and fiber optic filaments extending from the backing between the turf fibers. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242388 | Data input device A data input device and method including an illuminator (106) operative to illuminate at least one engagement plane (102) by directing light along the at least one engagement plane, a two-dimensional imaging sensor (112) viewing the at least one... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239367 | Tiled display device with black matrix film having different aperture ratios A tiled display device is disclosed. The disclosed tiled display device includes a plurality of display panels each having an image display part in which a plurality of pixels are formed. The tiled display device includes a support frame having a plurality of panel ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236218 | Locating device for measuring distances between dots of a light guide plate and method for using same A locating device for measuring distances between dots of a light guide plate includes a sheet having a plurality of reference points marked thereon. The plurality of reference points is configured for locating of the dots during measuring, and a distribution densit... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235047 | Methods and apparatus for imaging using a light guide bundle and spatial light modulator Endoscopes and other viewing devices that control the light that contacts a sample and/or that is detected emanating from a sample. The viewing devices are particularly well suited for in vivo imaging, although other uses are also included. The viewing devices, and ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7224379 | Printer using direct-coupled emissive array A contact printing apparatus (100), using a direct-coupled emissive array (20) of individual light emitting pixels (22), forms an image from digital data onto a photosensitive medium (16). The direct-coupled emissive array (20) is ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222969 | Split image optical display A video image is displayed from an optical panel by splitting the image into a plurality of image components, and then projecting the image components through corresponding portions of the panel to collectively form the image. Depth of the display is correspondingly... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221835 | Ion-reduction-blackened extra-mural absorbing media adapted for inclusion in image-conducting optical fiber arrays and methods of fabricating the same Methods of fabricating extra-mural absorption elements adapted for incorporation in an image-conducting optical fiber array include fabricating various constituent components to be included in an optical fiber bundle from one or more reducible-ion-containing glasses... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221837 | Device and method for reducing glass flow during the manufacture of microchannel plates The present invention provides a glass packing tube for use in fabricating a microchannel plate. The glass tube has a plurality of flat inner surfaces and is used to form a boule including a plurality of optical fibers located in the tube and a plurality of support ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218793 | Reducing differential resolution of separations Certain disclosed implementations use digital image processing to reduce the differential resolution among separations or images in film frames, such as, for example, red flare. A location in the red image may be selected using information from another image. The se... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215855 | Cones and cylinders of laser light A cone-of-light projection system projects a shell of laser light (or other electromagnetic radiation) using a fiber-optic bundle. Incidence optics directs a laser beam to be incident to the fiber-optic bundle at a predetermined angle of incidence, resulting in the ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209618 | Scanner transparent media adapter using fiber optic face plate A transparent media adapter for scanning transmissive media on a flatbed scanner comprises a fiber optic face plate. The fiber optic face plate translates the image from the media to the scanner focal plane. ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206483 | Method of forming a plurality of optical waveguide bundles A method of forming a plurality of optical waveguide bundles may include arranging a plurality of optical waveguides in a substantially coplanar configuration, constraining a distal portion of the plurality of optical waveguides with an initial distal constraint, an... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203406 | Optical lowpass filter and method for producing an optical lowpass filter The invention relates to an optical lowpass filter that has a plurality of light guiding optical fibers, and to a method for producing such an optical lowpass filter. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197218 | Light pipe with molded optical surfaces A method of manufacturing a light-conductive pipe is described comprising the steps of: forming a light pipe mold having an elongated cavity with two optical end faces and an opening for injecting molten material into the cavity distant from either optical end face;... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197217 | Method of making a fiberoptic light guide A method of making a fiberoptic light guide utilizes a hollow glass cladding blackened by chemical reduction. The cladding has a predetermined lead content and is heated to an elevated temperature in an atmosphere of substantially 100% hydrogen gas in a furnace. The... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193775 | EPI-illumination system for an array microscope An epi-illumination system for an array microscope. For Kohler illumination, illumination light sources are placed, actually or virtually, at the pupils of respective individual microscope elements of an array microscope. In one Kohler illumination embodiment, the l... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194169 | Notched adjustable aperture An adjustable aperture system includes a stationary aperture operable to remove a portion of a lower intensity light communicated through a light bundle. The system also includes an adjustable aperture comprising a notch and capable of varying an amount of projectio... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194170 | Elastic microchannel collimating arrays and method of fabrication A microchannel collimating array may be fabricated by casting an elastic sheet onto a substrate containing a plurality of pedestals. The elastic sheet may be cured, and then pulled away from the substrate, leaving the elastic sheet with a plurality of tubes at the l... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187831 | Optical panel system including stackable waveguides An optical panel system including stackable waveguides is provided. The optical panel system displays a projected light image and comprises a plurality of planar optical waveguides in a stacked state. The optical panel system further comprises a support system that ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187836 | Light-guiding module A light-guiding module, which, with a diffusion sheet and a prism sheet (or a diffusion sheet and a brightness enhancement film), forms a backlighting module that includes a reflection cover, a light-guiding plate and at least one lighting mechanism. The reflection ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177081 | High contrast grating light valve type device A grating light valve has with a plurality of spaced reflective ribbons are spatially arranged over a substrate with reflective surfaces. The grating light valve is configured to optimized the conditions for constructive and destructive interference with an incident... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174062 | Optical device and method of manufacturing same An optical device comprising a first substrate in which V-grooves are made, four optical fibers, for example, having a reflective function and fixed in the V-grooves of the first substrate, an optical element bonded, through an adhesive layer, onto the optical path ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168813 | Mediacube An object placed on a display surface conveys an image appearing on the display surface to a surface of the object. The object can include one or more optical elements such as a lens, or may include a plurality of fused fiber optics or collimated light tubes to conv... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167619 | Interactive display system having a matrix optical detector A display system includes a waveguide optical panel having an inlet face and an opposite outlet face. An image beam is projected across the inlet face laterally and transversely for display on the outlet face. An optical detector including a matrix of detector eleme... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158711 | Structure of photonic crystal Disclose is a photonic crystal structure comprises atomic dielectric pillars having a refractive index distribution and a structure which are both mirror-symmetrical in a thicknesswise direction of the photonic crystal. The atomic pillars are arrayed in a two-dimens... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149393 | Apparatus and method for forming a fiber optic faceplate An apparatus and method for forming a fiber optic faceplate by winding an optical fiber strand about a mandrel that is outfitted with pairs of input and output spacing guides for providing proper fiber-to-fiber spacing. Spacing is maintained using input and output e... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146081 | Waveguide including a plurality of waveguide segments A method for adaptively fabricating a waveguide comprises: measuring misplacement of a photonic device relative to a substrate; generating computer readable instructions for using a plurality of graphics primitives to form the waveguide; and photocomposing the waveg... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139459 | Spectral filter for green and longer wavelengths Visible and infra-red spectral filters based on arrays of uncoupled identical waveguides having coherently modulated cross sections offer many unique advantages, such as independence of the spectral position of the Bragg-resonance based transmission or reflection fe... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133022 | Apparatus for image projection The invention is directed to a solid-state projection device incorporating a light source, modulator, and control circuitry on a single chip. For example, projection device may include several sets of VCSELs, each associated with a set of MEMs mirrors and coupled to... | 11/07/2006 |
