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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7142257 | Laser projection system Laser projection system suitable for commercial motion picture theaters and other large screen venues, including home theater, uses optical fibers to project modulated laser beams for simultaneously raster scanning multiple lines on screen. Emitting ends of optical ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7015441 | Microwave heating apparatus An apparatus and method for heating a sample, such as chemical reaction mixtures are disclosed. The apparatus may include at least a microwave generator, a waveguide for guiding the generated microwaves to an applicator, and a deflector formed by a closed loop defin... | 03/21/2006 |
| 5784098 | Apparatus for measuring three-dimensional configurations N lines of line-shaped light are projected onto the object by means of a measuring light projecting lens. The light carrying the image of the object is passed through the eyepiece lens 17 in an endoscope 6 and the auxiliary lens 30 in a measuring head 11 ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5577148 | Laser scanning apparatus with interactive optical signal transmitting unit A laser scanning apparatus having at least one light source which emits a light at selective intensity, a light scanning device to scan the light emitted from the light source, a waveguide bundle which receives the light at one end of the waveguide bundle... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5436655 | Endoscope apparatus for three dimensional measurement for scanning spot light to execute three dimensional measurement Arranged within a measuring-light generating unit of an endoscope apparatus for three dimensional measurement, according to the invention, are measuring means, a lamp for outgoing a normal illuminating light, and a laser for outgoing a measuring light. Co... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5074641 | Optical scanning device An optical scanning device includes an optical waveguide array through which image information light, scanned by an optical scanning means, is successively introduced and carried. A means for correcting the intensity of light is provided to correct the in... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5023651 | Method of and apparatus for re-creating images An original photographic image (5) is interrupted by a controlled shutter (10) and simultaneously scanned by a light collector (21) over a planar reference frame by relative movement between the image and the collector (21) along a series of linear side-b... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4975728 | Flying spot scanner-printer A document scanner or printer includes a fiber optic bundle which has the fibers of one end arranged in a linear array and the fibers of the other end arranged in an area array. A CRT, or equivalent device, is coupled to the area array and adopted to gene... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4818861 | Film image reading out device In a film image reading out device, in which one surface of a film, where images are recorded, is scanned repeatedly with a laser light beam along a scanning line and images are read out by detecting continuously light, which has passed through the film, ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4805038 | Imaging apparatus which includes a light-valve array having electrostatically deflectable elements Imaging apparatus is disclosed for exposing a recording medium to produce an image in accordance with information contained in an electrical signal. The apparatus comprises a light source, optical means for imaging light onto the recording medium, and a l... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4743089 | Photoelectric optical fiber reading apparatus An optical reading head is an optical reader for photoelectric reading of images on a medium, comprising a plural light-emitting optical fibers for transmitting beams of light from light emitting elements to the surface of the medium, and plural light-rec... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4731670 | Imaging apparatus Imaging apparatus is disclosed for exposing a recording medium to produce an image in accordance with information contained in an electrical signal. The apparatus comprises a light source, optical means for imaging light onto the recording medium, and a l... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4729039 | Method and device for producing full tone images from a video input A full tone image recorder which uses LEDs or the like, a thin fiber optic strip and a scanning belt with an aperture therein drawn across the fiber optic strip to create a flying spot of light for irradiating photosensitive material and producing thereon... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4721851 | Image reading device using fiber optic bundles configured differently at each end An image reading device applies to a photoelectric transducer optical image data which are produced by scanning a document and samples the image data on a pixel basis to read images on the document. The device includes a fiber optic bundle comprising a pl... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4702552 | Document scanner employing a fiber optic bundle and exhibiting grey scale Coherence of an optical fiber bundle with randomly different geometries at its two ends is achieved electronically. A photosensitive array such as a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) or a Random Access Memory (RAM) is used as a sensor array to determine the add... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4591714 | Light guide member for radiation image read-out A light guide member comprises three optical blocks. The first optical block is provided with a light input face positioned close to and approximately in parallel with a stimulable phosphor sheet carrying a radiation image stored therein, and a light outp... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4591715 | Light guide member for radiation image read-out A light guide member comprises an optical block provided with a light input face positioned close to and approximately in parallel with a stimulable phosphar sheet carrying a radiation image stored therein, and a dichroic optical plane formed above the li... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4578709 | Flat optical TV screen A flat TV screen is provided by overlapping rows and columns of fiber optics. Each cross-over point will emit more light than radiates from the side of a single optical fiber when both of the crossing fibers are energized. Therefore, a dot matrix can be g... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4547666 | Mark array sense reader with sequential output signals The reading head of an optical reading system for determining the presence or absence of marks on the surface of a document consists of an array of the single ends of a plurality of bifurcated light fibers. The first and second branches of the bifurcated ... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4528593 | Visual sensor systems A visual sensor system (10) which provides computer-compatible data representative of an object (12) comprises means (13) (which may be a lens) providing a focal surface (14) having a predetermined spatial shape, a bundle (16) of radiation guide members (... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4528586 | Automatic tint correction with reduced color saturation error In a color TV receiver, color saturation errors associated with flesh tone correction circuits operating on demodulated color mixture signals are corrected. This is accomplished by adding the absolute value of a fraction of one of the color mixture signal... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4495412 | Device for the optical scanning of a document The device comprises a transducer (3) comprising a row of photoelectric elements (27), and a coupling member (7) with an entrance (11) which is to be directed towards the document (1) and an exit (13) which is coupled to the transducer. The coupling membe... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4473848 | Light pick-up device A light pick-up device for transparency and/or opaque scanning in either a drum or flat bed scanning device consists of a hollow body, which exhibits a light entry opening for the modulated light coming from the master. The inside surface of the hollow bo... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4469941 | Parallel-in, serial-out fiber optic image scanner An optical image scanner utilizing an integral array of fiber optic launch couplers to direct an input light image to a selectively reflective termination and then to an output termination. The selectively reflective termination is sequenced to scan the b... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4385798 | Piezoelectric light beam deflector An optical apparatus for the deflection of a stationary beam of light to move the beam over two mutually perpendicular directions for projection onto a viewing screen. By suitably modulating the beam of light, images may be produced on the screen, as in t... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4286293 | Laser scanning and multiple detection for video image processing An object (12) is raster scanned with a small, localized beam of laser light (22) and the backscattered radiation therefrom is monitored by a plurality of detectors (44). Each of the detectors (44) monitors a different characteristic of the backscattered ... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4234788 | Electrostatic fiber optic scanning device Disclosed is an fiber optic scanning device that includes an optical fiber of predetermined length having one unsupported end for scanning, and having another end rigidly supported in a cantilevered fashion. The disclosed device operates to allow the mova... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4220978 | Electro-optical document reader The disclosure is of apparatus including a duct-like light guide having an inlet end and an outlet end, light source means at the inlet end, a document at the outlet end, an optical reading system for receiving light reflected from the document, and elect... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4088885 | Method and apparatus for modulating an optical signal A method and apparatus for pulse position modulating an optical signal is disclosed whereby a beam of light is swept across an aperture at a predetermined rate to define a plurality of reference-time positions for the series of pulses emerging through the... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4085420 | Light pipe image display Apparatus for displaying at a screen area a light image taken from an image source using light pipes to transmit component elements of the source image which are arranged in a pattern at the screen area to compose the display image on an enlarged scale, t... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4084909 | Drum monochromator This monochromator is made up of a number of discrete narrow band interference filters mounted on a drum which rotates with respect to a light beam so that as the light beam passes through each of the filter the angle of incidence of the light beam change... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4019811 | Optical scanner An optical scanner wherein the image of a straight line is focused by an optical element such as a concave mirror or converging lens on the arc of a circle which is scanned by a rotating drum having one or more field stops such as pin holes or optical fib... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4010364 | Optical scanning system A document to be scanned is placed on a fixed transparent cylindrical platen and a mirror is totatable about the axis of the platen. A linear or single line cathode ray tube is fixed in position to produce a light beam which is reflected from the mirror o... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3941927 | Optical fiber deflection device An optical fiber deflection device is described in which an electrical transducer is used for deflecting the fiber in response to an electrical control signal in order to deflect a light beam transmitted through such fiber. The transducer includes a nonma... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3936871 | Multi-wavelength display system An improved multi-wavelength display system in which a multi-wavelength b source or sources are employed in combination with a multitude of waveguides in groups, one group for each wavelength, with image data responsive modulators to directly modulate sa... | 02/03/1976 |
