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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8081377 | Wide angle lens system having a distorted intermediate image The wide angle lens system described herein allows projection devices (e.g., rear projection display devices) to be more compact than would otherwise be possible. The lens system includes a wide angle lens stage and a relay lens stage. When operating as a projection... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7782528 | Microscope examination apparatus A microscope examination apparatus including a light source; an illumination optical system configured to guide light from the light source to a specimen; an objective lens configured to collimate return light from the specimen, the objective lens being provided in ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7649681 | Surgical microscope A surgical microscope (1) includes a viewing unit (3) for viewing an object (5) and an image projection module (7) for inputting image data (9) into the viewing unit (3). The image projection module (7, 107, 207, 307)... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7432486 | Microscope image acquiring system with separate microscope and imaging instrument controllers that operate cooperatively A microscope digital image acquiring system 1 includes a microscope 2 composed of a microscope unit 10 forming an enlarged image of an object O and a microscope controller 20 controlling movement of the microscope unit 10, an imagi... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7362501 | Microscope apparatus An objective lens can be reduced in diameter, which allows examination inside a specimen such as a living organism with minimum invasiveness and also reduces costs. The invention provides a microscope apparatus including an objective-lens mounting part for removably... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352387 | Camera with positioning device used to capture magnified and demagnified images To provide a camera that is suited to shoot both a demagnified image and a magnified image. The camera includes a housing body 11 containing a CCD 15, and a lens barrel 12. An abutted member 20 having an objective lens 40 th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7327513 | Method and apparatus for viewing target Apparatus and method for viewing a target. A primary lens produces an image plane of the target, and an optical magnifier in an optical path of the primary lens magnifies a region of the image plane, providing a magnified image. A detector receives the magnified ima... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325739 | Electro-optical scanner having exit window with light collecting optics A portable electro-optical scanner for reading a target bar code having a plurality of bar code elements. The portable scanner includes: a housing supporting a scanning module and an optic system. The scanning module electro-optically scans the target bar code with ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321349 | Display element, display device, and microlens array A display element having a plurality of pixel portions arranged two-dimensionally with a predetermined pixel pitch and a microlens array including a plurality of microlenses arranged two-dimensionally corresponding to the plurality of pixel portions on an incident s... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312923 | View field frame position adjustable optical device An optical apparatus that can take an image at any inclination. Further, the optical apparatus is provided with a function that a user can know the inclination. A visual field frame having the same shape as an imaging unit is provided in a lens-barrel such that the ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7286284 | Microscope imaging system and method for emulating a high aperture imaging system, particularly for mask inspection An optical imaging system for inspection microscopes with which lithography masks can be checked for defects particularly through emulation of high-aperture scanner systems. The microscope imaging system for emulating high-aperture imaging systems comprises imaging ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283294 | Catadioptric projection optical system, exposure apparatus having the same, device fabrication method A catadioptric optical system comprising a first imaging optical system including a concave mirror and forming an intermediate image of a first object, said first imaging optical system forming a reciprocating optical system that an incidence light and reflected lig... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280273 | Method and system for simultaneously imaging in the near infrared and short wave infrared spectrums An image forming system and lens system configured to simultaneously image light at the short wave infrared region (SWIR) and the near infrared region (NIR). ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280274 | Three-dimensional image observation microscope system A three-dimensional image observation microscope system includes an imaging unit that captures images focused at different object point distances in an optical axis direction and a display unit that displays a plurality of the images captured by the imaging unit for... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274507 | Two-mirror telescope with central spider support for the secondary mirror A telescope has a primary light mirror structure including a central base, and a concave primary mirror having a central opening in which the central base is received and extending radially outwardly from the central opening. The concave primary mirror has an inner ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7259911 | Trinocular tube for stereo microscopes A trinocular tube for stereo microscopes with an inclined binocular eyepiece whose angle can be adjusted and with two stereo microscope beam paths. The trinocular tube includes, in the beam paths, a first tube unit which can be connected to the body of the stereo mi... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253385 | Microscope image acquiring system with separate microscope and imaging instrument controllers that operate cooperatively A microscope digital image acquiring system 1 includes a microscope 2 composed of a microscope unit 10 forming an enlarged image of an object O and a microscope controller 20 controlling movement of the microscope unit 10, an imagi... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253946 | Microscope with extended field of vision An optical system is provided for creating a mosaic image of a large field of view through a microscope at fast refresh rates of about 25 Hz with a high resolution that is free of blurring or aberrations. The optical system includes an objective lens assembly (20... | 08/07/2007 |
| RE39751 | Confocal microscope apparatus and photographing apparatus for confocal microscope A confocal microscope apparatus includes a disk scanner for scanning a specimen with a laser beam, and camera main body for photographing a still image. An exposure time calculation circuit is arranged to generates an exposure time signal for the camera main body. A... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7236298 | Illumination apparatus for microscope and image processing apparatus using the same An illumination apparatus for a microscope and an image processing apparatus using the illumination apparatus include a light source, a semi-transmissive mirror splitting a light beam from the light source into two beams of the first and second irradiation light, tw... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7221447 | Consumable for laser capture microdissection Systems and methods for acquiring laser capture microdissection samples are disclosed. A scattering media is located within a beam path defined by the laser capture microdissection microscope and the sample is imaged through the scattering media. A transfer film car... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221504 | In-ground telescope with a stationary primary objective mirror having movable collectors The present invention relates to a novel land based reflecting telescope having a stationary, equatorially mounted, segmented mirror comprised of a plurality of movable mirrored collectors. These movable collectors are arranged in hexagonal groups to form a multiple... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7180660 | Stereo-examination systems and stereo-image generation apparatus as well as a method for operating the same A stereo-examination system for imaging an object 8 is proposed, comprising an objective arrangement 3 having an optical axis 5 and an object plane 7 for positioning the object 8 to be imaged, wherein the objective arrangement 3... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177260 | Optical pickup including a many-sided reflection prism and method of using the optical pickup An optical pickup including a many-sided reflection prism formed as a single body with a plurality of reflection faces to guide a light beam incident through a transmission face in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a height direction by reducing a size of the ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177077 | Sunspotter solar telescope A solar telescope is disclosed that facilitates safe observation of the sun with minimal setup, targeting effort or operator skill. The folded solar telescope of the invention includes a friction stabilized telescope support system that is capable of maintaining a s... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167304 | Binocular stereoscopic observation apparatus, electronic image stereomicroscope, electronic image stereoscopic observation apparatus, and electronic image observation apparatus A binocular stereoscopic observation apparatus includes an imaging section forming left and right images with parallax in at least two directions and an observing section in which the images with parallax are stereoscopically observed with a viewer's eyes. In this c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7151634 | Arrangement for tilting an illumination carrier on an inverse light microscope An arrangement tilts the illumination carrier on light microscopes of the inverse type which include a microscope stand on which an illumination carrier having a light source is attached. The arrangement for tilting the illumination carrier (2) having a light... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149332 | Method and apparatus for internet, intranet, and local viewing of virtual microscope slides A method of and apparatus for viewing microscopic images include transmitting tiled microscopic images from a server to a client. The client assembles the tiled images into a seamless virtual slide or specimen image and provides tools for manipulating image magnific... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139121 | Projection microscope This projection microscope (10) includes an elongate support member (12) carrying a stage assembly (22) between its ends, the stage assembly (22) having opposed sides and an associated specimen holder (28). A light emitting source ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7126752 | Illumination apparatus for microscope and image processing apparatus using the same An illumination apparatus for a microscope and an image processing apparatus using the illumination apparatus include a light source, a semi-transmissive mirror splitting a light beam from the light source into two beams of the first and second irradiation light, tw... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126751 | Anti-reflection film and microscope having optical element with the same anti-reflection film applied thereto A microscope includes an optical element provided with an anti-reflection film applied thereto. The anti-reflection film has the following layered structure: having first to sixth layers of films, in order from the surface of the o... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7106521 | Zoom lens and camera with the zoom lens A zoom lens includes a first lens unit which does not move for zooming and has positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, these lens... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102817 | Objective lens device for a microscope An objective lens for a microscope has a casing, a telescopic tube assembly and a cap. The casing is tubular and has a through hole and a window. The telescopic tube assembly has an outer tube, an inner tube and an objective lens. The outer tube is mounted rotatably... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102815 | Optical microscope system and optical axis correcting method An optical microscope system includes: a removable optical element; a capture unit for obtaining an image; a detection unit for detecting first location information indicating the location of a predetermined point in the image captured through the optical element an... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7092153 | Temperature-controlled gas microscope The invention enables construction of a microscope that has one or more advantageous characteristics as compared to previous microscopes. The microscope can be small and lightweight and, in particular, sufficiently small and light weight to be portable (e.g., smalle... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088504 | Surgical microscope Binocular luminous fluxes are formed by an objective lens and a pair of relay lenses and go through a splitting optical system, which allows an assistant to observe the same stereoscopic view as the surgeon by using an assistant's binocular eyepiece optical system a... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088664 | Reflection type compound prism and optical pickup apparatus employing the same A reflection type compound prism and an optical pickup apparatus employing the same. As a light beam is passed through the compound prism, a size of the light beam in a direction perpendicular to a reference plane is reduced by a first reflection surface, propagated... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085044 | Braced microscope A microscope having a pair of braces connecting a head portion, carrying an objective, to the base, to which a stage is attached. The braces, which preferably have resonant frequency that is not a harmonic or sub-harmonic of the fundamental frequency of vibration of... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085045 | Stereoscopic microscope A stereoscopic microscope is disclosed that includes an objective lens which substantially collimates light from an object of interest, left and right afocal zooming systems, left and right afocal relay systems, and an ocular tube optical system which forms magnifie... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075640 | Consumable for laser capture microdissection Systems and methods for acquiring laser capture microdissection samples are disclosed. An integral portion of a biological reaction vessel includes a transfer film carrier having a substrate surface; and a laser capture microdissection transfer film coupled to the s... | 07/11/2006 |
