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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370972 | Two-dimensional image display device In a two-dimensional image display device, speckle noise is reduced by a simple construction. A two-dimensional image display device for displaying an image by projecting coherent light onto a projection plane is provided with at least one coherent light source (... | 05/13/2008 |
| 6992645 | Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel It is disclosed that there is a method and an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving brightness as well as realizing a high resolution. A method and an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel according to the present ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6945652 | Projection display device Light beams having different wavelengths emitted from red and blue semiconductor lasers and a laser diode pumped green solid-state laser are incident on respectively different surfaces of a color combining element and are overlaid on a single light path. Multiple be... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6927924 | Imaging optical instrument An imaging optical instrument causes light emitted from a plurality of light sources arranged adjacent an object to image on recording surfaces of a photosensitive or thermosensitive material. The optical instrument includes a two-sided telecentric optical system ha... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6812957 | Image sensing module outputting color signals or monochrome signals depending on mode of operation An image preprocessing apparatus, which processes image signals of an image of a scanned object, includes an image sensing module, a multiplexing unit and an analog signal processor. The image sensing module includes a number of monochrome image sensors, as well as ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6249029 | Device method for enhanced avalanche SOI CMOS A device design for an FET in SOI CMOS which is designed for enhanced avalanche multiplication of current through the device when the FET is on, and to remove the body charge when the FET is off. The FET has an electrically floating body and is substantia... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6088012 | Half tone display method for a display panel Kinds of an input video signal is discriminated. Sub-frames are disposed in such an arrangement that a sub-frame corresponding to a most heavy weight bit is located at a central portion of the unit display period, and sub-frames, each of which corresponds... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5757449 | Method of manufacturing optical low-pass filter A mother layer made of a thermoplastic resin is formed on the substrate. The mother layer is etched to make a grating layer. The etching process is stopped so that an offset layer remains under the grating layer. The grating layer and the offset layer are... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5699277 | Method and apparatus for source clipping a video image in a video delivery system In a video interface coupling a video camera to a host for displaying a video image from the video camera on a graphics display device coupled to the host, a method for clipping an obscured region of a video image, i.e., a region of the video image covere... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5682035 | Thermal imaging device A thermal infrared imaging device (10) includes a thermal detector (50) having a linearly-arrayed plurality of spaced apart detector elements (50', 50", 50"', . . . ). A scene to be viewed is scanned across the detector (50) with successive fields of the ... | 10/28/1997 |
| 4133005 | Apparatus for the treatment of information in an optical form Apparatus for reproducing information recorded on a flexible, opaque tape in the form of successive images having a high resolution such that they cannot be read by the naked eye. The apparatus comprises a tape drive for advancing the tape to and through ... | 01/02/1979 |
