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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7076161 | Lens-fitted photo film unit and printing method A lens-fitted photo film unit comprises a main body, a bottom lid, and a photo film. The main body has an exposure chamber with a taking lens. The exposure chamber is provided with a plane mirror disposed in such a manner as to be inclined 45 degrees with respect to... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6975353 | Immersive camera system An immersive scanning camera provides for a high speed imager to capture a scene of interest on a pixel by pixel basis. Distance data is collected for each pixel. This distance data is representative of the distance from the immersive camera of the object depicted b... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6580091 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL EVALUATION, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A top surface of a wafer is provided with an n-type source region, an n-type drain region, and an n-type semiconductor region. Dry etching using a plasma is performed with respect to an interlayer insulating film deposited on the wafer to form openings re... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6388738 | Rangefinder optical system A rangefinder optical system with a first optical system, a field frame optical system, and a second optical system, further including a field frame reflection member; a second optical system reflection member, and an optical-path merging member of the se... | 05/14/2002 |
| 5000565 | Optical rangerfinder with through the viewfinder readout A rangefinder includes a housing, an eyepiece, and two spaced optical elements which provide a distance readout by optical triangulation. A through the viewfinder distance is provided by a distance scale which is mounted on an adjusting shaft for moving o... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4473959 | Bow and arrow sighting device A bow and arrow sighting device for attachment to the bow and comprised of a range finder of the type having a manually rotatable range adjustment wheel which in one embodiment is coupled by gears to a cylindrical cam in operative engagement with a cam fo... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4428668 | Range indicating device An optical range indicating device, having no moving parts, having a pair of mirrors arranged to embody the principle of triangulation, one of the mirrors being positioned to sight the object to be viewed and having thereon distance indicating indicia, th... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4191468 | Range finding fiberscope A range finding fiberscope for measuring the distance of a point in space from a reference plane. The device is adaptable to use in confined spaces and has a variety of applications including industrial, medical and photographic.... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4063805 | Ophthalmic measuring instrument A measuring instrument particularly adapted to making accurate measurements of portions of the eye and contact lenses is characterized by a split mirror system in which one mirror is fixed and a second mirror rotates upon movement of handle-pointer associ... | 12/20/1977 |
