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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7675620 | Optical property measuring method and optical property measuring apparatus In an optical property measuring method and an optical property measuring apparatus, a spectral transmittance characteristic of a reference colored layer prepared as a reference is corrected based on a measured spectral reflection characteristic of a colored layer, ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671991 | Handheld colour measurement device A handheld color measurement device includes a housing in which an optoelectronic measurement unit is located which receives measurement light originating from a measurement object, converts it into corresponding electrical measurement signals and processes these me... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7667843 | Method of evaluating sensitivity grade of interior material used in vehicles A method of evaluating the sensitivity grade of an interior material used in vehicles comprises: evaluating sensitivity properties of an interior material before providing noise factors; evaluating sensitivity properties of the interior material after providing nois... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7646483 | Light emitting means with an integrated measuring module and measuring composition module for light emitting means A light emitting device with an integrated measuring module for determining at least one measured value for calculating the power consumption of the lamp, the luminosity emitted by the lamp and/or the operating time of the lamp. The measuring module is integrated in... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7636163 | Color measurement device with error detection A color measurement device includes an error detection function for color printing control. The color measurement device includes an optical measurement head, the optical measurement head being moveable linearly along a color bar region of a printing sheet, and bein... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7623240 | Optical measuring device for test strips An optical measuring device (10) for detecting the coloring of test fields of a test strip (12), which is to be wetted with a liquid for detecting substances in said liquid, whereupon the reflectivity of the test fields changes depending on the concent... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7602493 | Electronic color matching apparatus and method of display In accordance with the description, electronic color matching apparatus with a display of multiple independently controllable segments enable a user to visually compare, capture, catalog and disseminate color as tangible information. In one embodiment, the invention... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7589837 | Multiple tile calibration method for color sensors A new calibration method for a spectrophotometer or a color sensor is provided using multiple color tiles with known reflectances. This procedure uses multiple reference standard tiles, in addition to, the standard white tile and substitutes a wavelength dependent a... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7586610 | Component measuring device A component measuring device for measuring the quantity and/or the property of a given component in a specimen by calorimetrically measuring a test strip includes a tip mount on which is to be mounted a tip having the test strip, and a photometric unit. The photomet... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7573575 | System and method for color measurements or other spectral measurements of a material A system and method for color measurements or other spectral measurements of a material are provided. An illuminating device generates light for illuminating a sample of material. A detector detects light that has interacted with the sample and provides a measuremen... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7561271 | Source adjusted colorimeter A low cost calorimeter wherein a linear taper potentiometer proportions the current through sample and reference solid state light sources in a near logarithmic fashion. The position of the potentiometer slider is proportional to the absorbance of the solution in th... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7557922 | Detection system for use in a sorting apparatus, a method for determining drift in the detection system and a sorting apparatus comprising such detection system The present invention is related to a detection system for inspecting a continuous stream of products comprising means for determining the detection system induced variations in its output signal. The detection system comprises a reference element and an intermediat... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7551282 | Body fluid constituents measurement device A body fluid constituents measurement device, which performs measurement under a setting where light intensity of the light-emitting element is suitably stabilized, is provided. The present invention is a body fluid constituents measurement device which comprises: a... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7528956 | Miniaturized system and method for measuring optical characteristics A miniaturized spectrometer/spectrophotometer system and methods are disclosed. A probe tip including one or more light sources and a plurality of light receivers is provided. A first spectrometer system receives light from a first set of the plurality of light rece... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528955 | Colour measurement device and measurement process for the device A color measurement device includes a color measurement channel (20,30) and a control (C), which forms color measurement values from the measurement signals of the color measurement channel and from stored white calibration data. It further includes correctio... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7499163 | System and method for applying correction factors related to ambient conditions A method and system for effecting an appearance model correction for a display unit, e.g., a CRT, using a polynomial-based algorithm is described. The correction may be effected in real time and is based on gamma values associated with the display. Strong correlatio... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499164 | Systems and methods for profiling and synchronizing a fleet of color measurement instruments A method for adjusting a color measurement of a secondary color measurement instrument. The method includes generating a profile for the secondary color measurement instrument based on color measurements of a master color measurement instrument, and applying the pro... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7492456 | Method for operating a color measurement system A color measurement system includes a hand held color measurement instrument, which may be provided with a wireless interface to a computer. The color measurement system includes a scanning guide for holding the hand held color measurement instrument in proper align... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7477391 | Miniaturized system and method for measuring optical characteristics A miniaturized spectrometer/spectrophotometer system and methods are disclosed. A probe tip including one or more light sources and a plurality of light receivers is provided. A first spectrometer system receives light from a first set of the plurality of light rece... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7466415 | Method of producing matched coating composition and device used therefor The present invention is directed to a method and device that use spectral measurements of the color of a target coating on a substrate, such as auto body being matched. The method utilizes pigment mixture models to produce a matched coating composition that when ap... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466416 | Color measurement system A color measurement system includes a hand held color measurement instrument, which may be provided with a wireless interface to a computer. The color measurement system includes a scanning guide for holding the hand held color measurement instrument in proper align... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466417 | Process for the colour measurement of printed samples including brighteners For the color measurement of samples printed on a substrate including a brightener, a raw spectral reflection factor of the sample is measured in a first measurement by illumination of the sample with light without UV portion. In a second measurement, a fluorescence... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7463356 | Method for analyzing hair An apparatus for analyzing a sample hair mixture having a mixture of two hair colors and an overall spectrum representative of the two colors, comprising: a first color selector, configured to select a first spectrum representative of a first color in the hair mixtu... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7443508 | Spectrophotometric scanner A spectrophotometric scanner suitable for producing spectral reflectance images of surfaces of samples for a plurality of wavelength bands is disclosed. The spectrophotometric scanner comprises a scanner head for collecting spectral reflectance data, a positioning m... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443506 | Compact spectral readers for precise color determination Systems and methods for providing spectral measurements are described. In one embodiment, a spectral measuring device comprises at least one radiation source configured to provide N (N≧2) linearly independent illuxninant sources characterized by M (M≧N) waveleng... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436516 | Reflection characteristic measuring apparatus A reflection characteristic measuring apparatus includes: a light irradiating member for irradiating light toward a sample surface to be measured; a light detector, having a two-dimensional light receiving surface, for receiving reflection light from the sample surf... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426033 | Methods and apparatus for colorimetrically characterizing color deviation in color imaging devices Methods and apparatus are provided that print a set of similar color patches using a color output device, determine colorimetric values for each color patch, calculate a standard deviation value for each of the colorimetric values, and calculate a numerical value th... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426029 | Color measurement using compact device Color measurement using compact devices is described herein. A color measurement device can include a diffraction grating that receives light reflected from a surface whose color is being measured. The diffraction grating is responsive to a control signal to split s... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7414723 | Automated interleaved spectral imaging calibration An imaging spectrometric instrument is disclosed. This instrument can include an imaging detector and one or more calibration standards having different optical properties. Portions of one or more actuators can move the calibration standards between the imaging dete... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411177 | Multi-spectrum image capturing device and multi-spectrum illuminating device A multi-spectrum image capturing device includes a multi-spectrum illuminating device comprising LED's for emitting lights of different wavelengths from one another, a plurality of optical rods for relaying the lights emitted from the LED's, an optical diffusion ele... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408644 | Coloration measuring device A scanning mechanism 6 moves an optical head 5 relative to a mount plate 2 in a scan direction, and light emitting diodes 3A, 3B mounted on the optical head 5 emit their respective beams of measurement light along the scan d... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7385701 | Standard plane sample and optical characteristic measurement system A standard plane sample which supplies an optical characteristic measuring device with reference data. The standard plane sample including a sample portion that is measured by the optical characteristic measuring device to supply measurement data, and a recording me... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382454 | System and method for optically assessing lamp condition A greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness is achieved by optically assessing the condition of a gas discharge lamp. Herein, a system and method of optically assessing lamp condition includes measuring the intensity of emitted light within two portions of the emitt... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379652 | Method and apparatus for detecting optical spectral properties using optical probe beams with multiple sidebands Techniques for detecting optical spectral properties of a target are described. The technique includes providing an optical carrier which has an optical frequency bandwidth which is narrow compared to the width of the narrowest spectral feature of the target to be d... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372571 | Color sensing apparatus A colorimeter method and apparatus is described. The colorimeter includes a plurality of sensors/filter systems with non overlapping spectral responses, adequate for providing data capable of translation into standard coordinates system such as, CIE XYZ, CIE L*a*b*,... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369244 | Optical measuring apparatus, illumination system, and light detecting system An optical measuring apparatus includes: an illumination system having a toroidal mirror which is by circularly rotating a parabolic curve or its approximate curve around an axis with the focal point of the parabolic curve or the substantial light focusing point of ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365849 | Portable, scanning and analyzing apparatus A portable, scanning and analyzing apparatus that uses an integrated scan probe for the scanning operation is described. The integrated scanning probe is formed with a light emitting diode array light source and a photodiode detector array. After a test sample finis... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365854 | Apparatus and methods for high speed RGB color discrimination Device and method for inspecting a polychromatic region, such as a polychromatic pattern, on a moving workpiece. The method includes device includes a solid-state light source, preferably a light emitting diode, adapted to emit light in a range of wavelengths for il... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358976 | Methods for processing color image data employing a chroma, hue, and intensity color representation A method senses electromagnetic energy associated with a source over an area in N frequency bands and generates color image data representing at least a portion of the area. The data are arranged as pixels, and the data for a given pixel comprise chroma, hue, and in... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355140 | Method of and apparatus for multi-stage sorting of glass cullets A method and system for sorting different colored objects, preferably glass cullets, into separate groups of same colored objects comprising a plurality of sorting devices for receiving an input feed of different colored objects and sorting the different colored obj... | 04/08/2008 |