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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7642535 | Light emitting device, driving method thereof, and image forming apparatus A light emitting device includes: a plurality of light emitting elements that emit light to have luminosity depending on the magnitude of a driving signal; a plurality of holding units that are respectively disposed in the plurality of light emitting elements, and r... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7485886 | Light emitting device, driving method thereof, and image forming apparatus A light emitting device includes: a plurality of light emitting elements that emit light to have luminosity depending on the magnitude of a driving signal; a plurality of holding units that are respectively disposed in the plurality of light emitting elements, and r... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7399982 | UV curing system and process with increased light intensity A special method is provided for more uniformly and quickly curing products with a scratch-resistant UV curable coating or UV curable printing thereon with high intensity UV light, such as for wires, cables, tubes, tubing, hoses, pipes, CDs, DVDs, golf balls, golf t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7322723 | Multifunctional illumination device An illumination device has an illumination means formed by an arrangement of a plurality of semiconductor light sources (2) grouped together to form a field. Sensor elements (3) are arranged at individual positions of the field instead of the semicondu... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7271402 | Optical module and methods for optically aligning and assembling the same An optical alignment method is for an optical module including a housing unit, a light-sensing unit, and a lens unit. The method includes: (a) through image-capturing techniques, finding a light-sensing component of the light-sensing unit and a predetermined referen... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270970 | Point of care diagnostic systems Systems and methods for medical diagnosis or risk assessment for a patient are provided. These systems and methods are designed to be employed at the point of care, such as in emergency rooms and operating rooms, or in any situation in which a rapid and accurate res... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271599 | Semiconductor device An infrared radiation image pickup apparatus, the image pickup elements of which are each formed by a bolometer, is disclosed. The resistance value of the bolometer outside a preset range in a given readout circuit associated with a given image pickup element does n... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7223958 | Device for and method of driving an electro-optical device To provide an electro-optical device, such as a display or a printer head having a self-luminous element, in which a light-emitting state of a light-emitting element is detected. The electro-optical device comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged in a display r... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7190397 | CMOS imager decoder structure A decoder apparatus for selecting column lines of a CMOS imager pixel array is disclosed. The decoder apparatus is made up of at least one first decoder and at least one set of second decoders, each set being associated with respective first decoder. The first decod... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7175712 | Light emitting apparatus and method for curing inks, coatings and adhesives A UV curing apparatus and method is provided for enhancing the distribution and application of UV light to UV photo initiators in a UV curable ink, coating or adhesive. The UV curing apparatus and method comprises UV LED assemblies in a first row with the UV LED ass... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7161585 | Displacement data post-processing and reporting in an optical pointing device There is described a method of post-processing and reporting detected displacement in an optical pointing device as well as a sensing device for an optical pointing device implementing this method. Displacement is detected and a first count representative of a magni... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161586 | Method of operating an optical motion sensing device and optical motion sensing device implementing this method There is described a method of operating an optical motion sensing device comprising a light source and a photodetector device, the method comprising the steps of a) illuminating a surface portion with radiation by means of the light source, b) detecting radiation r... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154235 | Organic electroluminescent device having solar cells An organic electroluminescent device having solar cells and a fabricating method therefor are disclosed. The device comprises a transparent substrate; an organic electroluminescent device on the transparent substrate; and at least one solar cells on the transparent ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7135695 | Line light source system A line light source system includes a line light source formed by a number of linearly arranged light emitting elements. A pair of cylindrical lenses converges the light bundles emitted from the respective light emitting elements in a direction perpendicular to the ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132635 | Methods and apparatus for camouflaging objects Methods and apparatus that employ one or more light sources to reduce the ability to recognize or identify one or more objects. In various examples, one or more LED-based light sources are utilized in camouflaging techniques. The apparatus and methods disclosed rela... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7103209 | Method for extracting objective image Noted portions of an image, such as a pin point hole in an isolated area or a pattern contour that forms a continuous boundary area, are clearly displayed by first erasing background noise by acquiring information regarding differences between an image detection sig... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7045974 | LED optical energy detection and feedback system A system for the throughput detection and feedback of optical energy for making sure of white balance of the LED array in a flat fluorescent light source when the LED array in emitting light by respectively connecting in series a selected LED lamp respectively from ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046926 | Light emitting semiconductor device and photographic illumination apparatus employing same Light emitting semiconductor device(s) of the present invention is/are provided with three LED elements by way of lead frame(s) on substrate(s) Reflector(s)—having parabolically curved surface(s) at inner wall(s) thereof is/are installed at periphery or peripherie... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6984837 | Optical telemeter target illumination apparatus with edge emitter light source In order to improve target illumination, a light source (2) of an emitter, which has a laser diode (3) configured as an edge emitter with a wavelength of 1,550 nm, has beam forming optics (4) mounted downstream in relation thereto, which compris... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6946286 | Method and apparatus for detecting DNA hybridization An apparatus for identifying an unknown DNA sample. The apparatus includes a plurality of detection nodes, each of which is operable for allowing an interaction between a known DNA sample and an unknown DNA sample, and for generating an output signal if hybridizatio... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6936476 | Point of care diagnostic systems Systems and methods for medical diagnosis or risk assessment for a patient are provided. These systems and methods are designed to be employed at the point of care, such as in emergency rooms and operating rooms, or in any situation in which a rapid and accurate res... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6891180 | Camera system for editing documents A camera system (2) for strip-shaped exposure of a bank note (BN) having good optical properties as well as a compact construction has, symmetrically to an optical axis (OA), mirror assemblies (4a, 4b) of elliptical cross section e... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6853358 | Method and device for driving a plasma display panel A method for driving a plasma display panel is provided in which wasteful power consumption is reduced and ion bombardment that may deteriorate cells is suppressed for a long life of cells. A ratio of lighting that is a ratio of the number of cells to be lighted to ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6844185 | Integrated biomolecule sensor, method and apparatus for fabricating the sensor, and method and apparatus for detecting biomolecules using the sensor An integrated biomolecule sensor comprising a plurality of optical fibers whose proximal ends are held together with the end-faces arranged substantially in the same plane and oriented substantially in the same direction and which have probe polymers with different ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6831266 | Optical transducers of high sensitivity An optical transducer includes a base member, a light source carried on a face of the base member, a light detector carried on the face of the base member, a displaceable member overlying and spaced from the light source and light detector and effective to reflect l... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6714285 | Optical rangefinder In order to improve target illumination a light emitter comprises several partial light sources (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d), the partial beams (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) of wh... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6590199 | Optical information processing apparatus for use in Optical Computing, Optical image processing, and like An optical information processing apparatus for use in optical computing, optical image processing, and the like and, more particularly, a small-sized integrated optical information processing apparatus having multiple arrays, a high pixel density and a l... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6579495 | Hand-held ultraviolet water purification system using solid state devices A hand-held water purification system includes an outwardly-extending pen-light sized configuration of solid state devices, such as, UV-light emitting diodes, that emit ultraviolet light in the germicidal range. The system operates to turn on the solid st... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6570150 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a sensor including a sensing region which senses the image of an object, and a correcting circuit which performs first processing which corrects image data based on a second region corresponding to an irradiation reg... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6512858 | Image scanning circuitry with row and column addressing for use in electronic cameras A scanning circuit for use with an active pixel sensor array comprises a row-address generator configured to start at a selected row-start address, stop at a selected row-stop address, and increment row addresses by a factor K. A column-address generator ... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6495964 | LED luminaire with electrically adjusted color balance using photodetector The combined light output (chromaticity) of a white light emitting LED luminaire is electronically controlled based on measurements by a single photodiode arranged to measure the light outputs of at least a plurality of the LEDs in the array. This is acco... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6474860 | Alignment of optical interfaces for data communication An optical interface for data communication that can be manufactured and aligned in a cost effective manner includes an array of optical emitters and an optical receiver are positioned within a predetermined tolerance with reference to each other so as to... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6353217 | Transmitter receiver In the transmitter receiver of the present invention, a light-shielding sheet is arranged in front of a light-emitting portion having a LED whose light-emitting central axis is inclined and an aperture from which only the head of the light-emitting portio... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6272271 | Alignment of optical interfaces for data communication An optical interface for data communication that can be manufactured and aligned in a cost effective manner includes an array of optical emitters and an optical receiver are positioned within a predetermined tolerance with reference to each other so as to... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6207946 | Adaptive lighting system and method for machine vision apparatus A variable intensity lighting system for use with a machine vision apparatus for capturing high contrast images of articles to be inspected, such as semiconductor packages, includes an LED or optical fiber element and flash lamp array configured in multip... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6153980 | LED array having an active shunt arrangement A device, e.g., a luminaire, that includes a plurality of LEDs connected in series, and an active shunt arrangement for sensing a failure of one or more of the LEDs and for shunting current that would have otherwise flowed through a failed LED, to thereby... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5902993 | Image scanner for image inputting in computers, facsimiles word processor, and the like It is an object of the invention to present an image scanner of high performance, high reliability, and low cost, capable of realizing high image quality of reading image and suited to small size, and an illuminating apparatus of low cost capable of incre... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5883706 | Multiplexer for laser ranging devices and the like A multiplexer for laser range finders and the like has a plurality of laser transmitters disposed about the periphery thereof. Each of the laser transmitters transmits a beam which is substantially smaller than the return beam received by the laser receiv... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5880462 | Keying apparatus with thumb gap A photoelectric keyboard switch apparatus comprising a first structure to produce and detect laterally directed and longitudinally spaced first light beams at a first level in a simulated keyboard area, which is open; a second structure to produce and det... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5834773 | Method and apparatus for testing the function of microstructure elements The invention relates to a method as well as to apparatus for testing the function of microstructure elements, wherein the microstructure element is driven for testing the emission and/or mechanical properties and the corpuscles emitted or reflected by it... | 11/10/1998 |
