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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7728317 | Optical heterodyne sampling device having probe and pump beams An optical heterodyne sampling device includes: two pulsed laser sources which may have a jitter and which can receive respectively a pump beam and a probe beam having respective repetition frequencies Fs and Fp, whereby Fs≠Fp; and an element for combining the pum... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7655937 | Remote control systems that can distinguish stray light sources Remote control systems that can distinguish predetermined light sources from stray light sources, e.g., environmental light sources and/or reflections are provided. The predetermined light sources can be disposed in asymmetric substantially linear or two-dimensional... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7402743 | Free-space human interface for interactive music, full-body musical instrument, and immersive media controller “Method and apparatus entraining interactive media players into a sustained experience of “Kinesthetic Spatial Sync,” defined as a perceived simultaneity and spatial superposition between a non-tactile, full body (“free-space”) input control process and im... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7358476 | Sensing photons from objects in channels A fluidic structure includes a channel and along the channel is a series of sensing components to obtain information about objects traveling within the channel, such as droplets or other objects carried by fluid. At least one sensing component includes a set of cell... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7341348 | Moiré aberrometer An improved moiré deflectometer device for measuring a wavefront aberration of an optical system includes a light source for illuminating a surface area of the optical system, an optical relay system for directing scattered light to a deflectometer component that c... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7326948 | Beam modifying device, lithographic projection apparatus, method of treating a beam, and device manufacturing method A beam modifying device configured to receive an input radiation beam along a first optical axis, and configured to emit an output radiation beam along a second optical axis. The beam modifying device includes a divider disposed along the first optical axis and conf... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323680 | Optical deflection probe and optical deflection probe device An optical fiber transmits signal light and the excitation light for driving an actuator each having a different wavelength to a probe. In the probe, the signal light and excitation light are separated from each other by an optical filter and the excitation light is... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315039 | Confocal microspectroscope There is disclosed a confocal microspectroscope comprising an excitation light source having two or more semiconductor light sources formed on the same chip by a semiconductor process and covering a predetermined wavelength region, a semiconductor light source contr... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7291824 | Photosensing throughout energy range and in subranges An integrated circuit (IC) includes a photosensor array, some cells of which are reference cells that photosense throughout an application's energy range, while other cells of which are subrange cells that photosense within respective subranges. For example, the sub... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285765 | Photoelectric converter and X-ray image pick-up device A photoelectric converter includes a plurality of substrates, which are located adjacent to each other and on which a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices are two-dimensionally arranged, and either scan circuits or detection circuits that are arranged on tw... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7276720 | Apparatus and methods for analyzing samples The present invention relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for analyzing biological samples. The apparatus, systems, and methods can involve using a vacuum source to pull microfluidic volumes through analytical equipment, such as flow cells and the like. Addit... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7221288 | Method and apparatus for using optical signal time-of-flight information to facilitate obstacle detection One or more optical signals (wherein at least some of a plurality of optical signals are at different angles of travel with respect to one another and are directed towards an area comprising a movable barrier-controlled point of passage) create reflections when stri... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7197381 | Navigational system and method utilizing sources of pulsed celestial radiation A system and method for navigation utilizing sources of pulsed celestial radiation are provided. A spacecraft, satellite, or other vehicle (12) has a pulse sensor (22) mounted thereto for detecting signal pulses (14) generated by a plurality of ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7170042 | Photoelectric converter and X-ray image pick-up device A photoelectric converter includes a plurality of substrates, which are located adjacent to each other and on which a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices are two-dimensionally arranged, and either scan circuits or detection circuits that are arranged on tw... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164112 | Photoelectric conversion device for reducing radiation noise on large screen sensors For providing a photoelectric conversion device that can prevent radiation noise by a low-cost and simple mounting method, the photoelectric conversion device having a photoelectric conversion element is provided in which a conductive member such as a thin metal she... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7080940 | In situ optical surface temperature measuring techniques and devices A temperature sensor that has a thermally conducting contact with a surface that emits electromagnetic radiation in proportion to the temperature of the contact is disclosed. The sensor has a resilient member attached to the contact and configured to extend the cont... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7022997 | Photoelectric converter, its driving method, and system including the photoelectric converter A photoelectric converter of a high signal-to-noise ratio, low cost, high productivity and stable characteristics and a system including the above photoelectric converter. The photoelectric converter includes a photoelectric converting portion in which a first elect... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016089 | Amplification-type solid state imaging device with reduced shading To control the potential distribution generated in a well at the time of amplification and reduce a shading in a solid-state imaging device of amplification type, the amplification type solid-state imaging device of the present invention comprises a plurality of pic... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009164 | Photoelectric converter method for driving photoelectric converter and system having photoelectric converter for image formation converted from radiation There is provided a photoelectric converter comprising a photoelectric conversion element of a laminated structure comprising a first electrode layer, an insulation layer for blocking the passage of a first carrier and a second carrier, a photoelectric conversion se... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6975360 | Image detector method and apparatus including plural detector regions and image illuminators A digital camera has first and second light sources for sequentially illuminating a document from two different directions in response to the camera being activated. The camera has first and second sensor portions. Only the first and second sensor portions respectiv... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6960817 | Solid-state imaging device A novel solid-state imaging device is provided which has a first color picture cell array containing picture cells having a photo-electric converting element for converting incident light to electric signals arranged two-dimensionally, and a second color picture cel... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6946650 | Sensor The relative position of two members is determined based upon a detected relative intensities of first and second colors of light. The intensity balance associated with relative occlusion of first and second color filter portions on one member by a mask on the other... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6907536 | Integrated circuit for image pickup device A design for reducing the power dissipation in an integrated circuit for an image pickup device. Placing a circuit block (2), such as for generating a driving signal to an image pickup apparatus, in a standby state within a vertical blanking period or horizon... | 06/14/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6862090 | Coaxial illumination system A method and apparatus for combining the spectral outputs of multiple light sources to provide a high-efficiency broad-band illuminator for optical metrology is disclosed. The illuminator combines the output radiation from a plurality of broad-band lamps in a novel ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6858832 | Photoelectric sensor having time changing means Detection of interfering light is performed based on an interfering light detection timing signal Si set immediately before a blockage detection timing signal Sr. If interfering light is detected consecutively with respect to the same optical axis according to inter... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6809661 | Keypad device A keypad device for telephones, mobile phones, remote control units, text and character transmitters, calculators, electronic planners or the like, wherein a control element, when actuated manually by an operator, is adapted to be able to carry out at least two func... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6737635 | Apparatus for combining light and confocal scanning microscope The present invention concerns an apparatus for combining light from at least two laser light sources, preferably in the context of confocal scanning microscopy, and in order to make laser light sources of low output power usable as light sources, in particular for ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6572265 | In situ optical surface temperature measuring techniques and devices A temperature sensor utilizing optical temperature measuring techniques is constructed to make firm contact with a surface whose temperature is being measured, an example application being the monitoring of semiconductor wafers or flat panel displays whil... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6556317 | Image reading apparatus and image reading system In an image sensor which has a photoelectric conversion element group, an illumination device having light sources of at least three emission colors R, G, and B, an imaging lens, and the like, moire noise in a color output image is eliminated, the origina... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6417953 | Laser optical system Disclosed is a laser optical system including a multiline laser source that emits a laser beam having a plurality of peak wavelengths, a wavelength separating optical system that separates the laser beam emitted from the laser source into two monochromati... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6369918 | Apparatus, method, and computer program to reduce distortion of scanner restarts An apparatus, method, and computer program for reducing distortion of a scanned image upon a resume after a pause by a scanner. A default phase difference is calculated by the computer program before the scan starts. The default phase difference is based ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6307648 | Line source unit and image input apparatus A line source unit with a uniform light generation characteristic and an image input apparatus are provided. In the line source unit, only defective element(s) can be replaced. Light enters at the side portion of a light guiding member which is transparen... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6239860 | Adjustment of vertical regist shift between pages, colors or lines in a multiple beam recording system An image forming apparatus which can reduce the appearance of a vertical regist shift in a multiple beam writing system. A time interval detector is provided and is configured to detect a time interval between a start signal for scanning in a sub-scanning... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6195083 | Active joystick with optical positions sensor A joystick composed of a stator formed by an outer cage forming an inner cubic compartment containing an inner cube oriented with its wall spaced from and substantially parallel corresponding wall of the compartment. Opposed magnets are position in cooper... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6055072 | Image reading apparatus and image reading system In an image sensor which has a photoelectric conversion element group, an illumination device having light sources of at least three emission colors R, G, and B, an imaging lens, and the like, moire noise in a color output image is eliminated, the origina... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6055095 | Microscope with infrared imaging A microscope enables selective illumination using infrared or visible spectrum light. The image captured by a sensor array within the microscope may be displayed on a computer display. Some objects appear differently when exposed to infrared as opposed to... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6017148 | Device for optically measuring a cryogenic temperature The present invention relates to a device for optically measuring the temperatures of cryogenic fluids by analyzing the decay in the luminescence of a doped crystal, the device comprising a light source for exciting said crystal, an optical fiber for tran... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6011256 | Light beam scanning device and control method therefor There are proposed light beam scanning method and device for scanning with plural light beams split by using a multi-frequency acousto-optic device (AOM). By remarkably increasing the number of light beams, an image is recorded at a higher speed. Plural i... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5861992 | Microlensing for multiple emitter laser diodes A microlens for a multiple emitter laser diode consists of narrow slices cut out from molded aspheric lenses. Each slice is mounted in front of one emitter and the slice position is adjusted in the cross-emitter direction to have all emitter images aligne... | 01/19/1999 |
