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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174767 | Viewfinder and imaging apparatus using the same The present invention provides a viewfinder, characterized by comprising a reflection type display device on which an object image is displayed, an eyepiece optical system having a front group and a rear group, an illumination optical system for illuminating the ref... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174768 | Optical arrangement for tracking detector A system and method of reducing turbulence sensitivity in a laser spot detector. Embodiments may include using beam splitters, reflectors, and beam deviators. The reflectors may be trihedral reflectors and the beam deviators may be segmented wedge plates having pred... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8130448 | Optical pulse multiplex unit A mirror unit consists of a half mirror and a mirror unit. The half mirror generates a transmitted light and a reflected light. A pair of the mirror units is arranged on one side and the other side of the half mirror so that the transmitted light and the reflected l... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8107168 | Beam splitter apparatus and system A beam splitter apparatus comprises a beam splitter and a plurality of prisms disposed about the beam splitter. The beam splitter apparatus is configured to split an incident laser beam into a plurality of beamlets exhibiting substantially equal energy and traversin... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098438 | Power monitoring device for powerful fiber laser systems A pig-tailed optical component used in a powerful fiber laser system is configured with a power monitor unit. The monitor unit has a plate-shaped beam splitter operative to reflect portions of at least one of respective forward and backreflected light signals, and m... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8064137 | Optical system for forming an image in space An optical system that projects a real image to a location in free space and includes one or more features located along the optical path that enhance the viewability of the real image. The optical system includes a converging element for converging a portion of sou... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8000019 | Optical system for a display panel using divided irradiation An optical system for a display panel is disclosed. An optical system comprises a color separating portion for separating light that is emitted from a light source into a plurality of beams having different spectra; and a projecting portion for projecting the plural... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7982958 | Projection display A projection type image display apparatus is provided which includes a housing to hold an optical system including multi-lenses, a polarized-light conversion element and the color separation portion. The housing operates to provide an optical path between a light so... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965448 | Floating image interaction device and its program A real mirror image forming optical system is constructed from a half-mirror, and from a retroreflector placed in a position where it recursively reflects either the light passing through or reflected by that half-mirror, so that light emitted from an object to be p... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961398 | Multiple image camera and lens system A system for simultaneously producing multiple images substantially identical images on multiple separate detector planes is disclosed. A reflective spatially beam-splitting element preferably comprising multiple reflective areas is preferably placed at a location s... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7944615 | Optical system and method for shaping a profile of a laser beam An optical system for shaping an incoming beam having a divergence with an angular distribution at least in a first direction comprises at least one angle selective optical element for clipping the angular distribution in the at least first direction. The approach a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7929214 | Illumination arrangement for a projection system An illumination arrangement (1) for a projection system is proposed comprising a light source device (10) and a light collecting, integrating and redirecting device (20). The light source device (10) comprises at least one solid state lig... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924505 | Free-space hitlessly switchable optical interleaver A reflective surface and a beamsplitting surface are optically coupled to a mirror and to phase optics arranged in interleaver configuration so as to either reflect all light to a single output in an all-pass mode of operation, or to split the incoming beam and prod... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7864430 | Modified Michelson delay line interferometer In an optical etalon with a fixed FSR determined by the cavity length, the time delay is adjusted by an etalon surface coating. The proper cavity length is chosen to achieve a desired FSR, and the coating is independently selected to obtain a desired time delay.... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852564 | Devices and/or systems for illuminating a component Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system, which can comprise a beamsplitter. The beamsplitter can comprise at least three distinct light reflection zones. Each zone of the three distinct light reflection zones can be adapted to cause light from one or mor... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848024 | Cylindrically shaped optical beamsplitter An optical beamsplitter comprises an optically-transparent material and a partially-reflective layer therein. The optically-transparent material has a cylindrically shaped exterior surface which provides advantages. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7843641 | Illuminated optical inspection prism apparatus A method and apparatus for inspecting transparent materials. An optical inspection apparatus comprises a prism, a mirror, and a light source. The prism has a first end, a first side, and a second side. The first side is opposite the second side, the first end is loc... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7826140 | Laser marking device A laser marking device (1) includes a laser light source (24) that emits a laser beam, and a beam splitter (230) receiving the laser beam and allowing a part of the laser beam to be reflected thereat and a remaining part of the laser beam to be ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826141 | Scanned-beam heads-up display and related systems and methods A heads-up display that includes a scanner and a projection assembly. The scanner generates an image by sweeping a beam of electromagnetic energy, and the projection assembly directs the image into a predetermined viewing space having a region with a substantially u... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7813046 | Wavelength monitored and stabilized source Methods and apparatus for sampling techniques can constantly monitor a spectral output from a broadband source in order to control a central wavelength of interrogation light supplied by the source for input to a sensor. A first portion of light output from the broa... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808712 | Imaging system Optical apparatus for simultaneously focussing first and second coaxially spaced object planes in respective separate first and second areas of a common image plane 13 (such as the sensor of a CCD camera) comprises non-diffractive beamsplitter means for recei... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808713 | Intensity-based one-way visible display system A one-way display system includes a partially reflective screen with a first image, and a partially absorptive screen with a second image that is an inverse of the first image. The two screens can be stacked on top of each other or separated by a small distance. A p... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7796338 | Method and apparatus for optical bandpass filtering, and varying the filter bandwidth A path of travel for radiation extends to one optical element, then to another optical element, and then away from the latter. One of the optical elements is respectively reflective and non-reflective to radiation above and below a first wavelength, and the other is... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787188 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus that comprises: an optical path splitting element; an optical system including a variable-optical-power element which is substantially immobile in an optical axis direction and a reflective surface; and an image pickup surface, the variable... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7760436 | Method for combination of light of different wavelengths A method for dividing substantially nonpolarized white light into three substantially nonpolarized fractions includes splitting the substantially nonpolarized white light into a first fraction and a second fraction, the first fraction being substantially nonpolarize... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7733570 | Condenser An optical condenser device has light sources (10, 20) and an optical combiner (30). Each light source (10, 20) includes a semiconductor laser array stack (12, 22), collimator lenses (16, 26), and beam converters (18, 28). S... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7724441 | Light guide optical device The invention provides an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate, optical means for coupling light into the substrate by total internal reflection, and a plurality of partially reflecting surfaces carried by the substrate, characterized in that the... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7719768 | Optical beam splitter apparatus An optical beam splitter arrangement comprising two beam splitter mounts one of which is turnable relative to the other by flexing a deformable connection. By controlling the turn angle of rotation it is possible to use the light reflected by one of the beam splitte... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7701638 | Spherically shaped optical beamsplitter A rotatable optical beamsplitter comprises an optically-transparent material and a partially-reflective layer. The optically-transparent material has a unitary spherical exterior surface. The partially-reflective layer is located at least partially within the optica... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7688515 | Beam splitting module and a light source system incorporating the same A beam splitting module is disposed on a base plate of a light source system, and includes a supporting wall, a beam splitting lens, and a biasing member. The supporting wall has a first wall surface, and is disposed on the base plate such that the first wall surfac... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7652824 | System and/or method for combining images The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method and/or system for generating a dynamic image based, at least in part, on attributes associated with one or more individuals. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652823 | Non-polarizing beam splitter A non-polarizing beam splitter has a first prism; one or more ground layer(s) made of a dielectric material which is (are) formed on a slant face of the first right angle prism; an Au layer having thickness of 13 to 35 nm which is formed on the ground layer; one or ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7639427 | Light collecting device for use in a projection apparatus A light collecting device adapted for a projection apparatus is provided. The light collecting device at least comprises a light collecting rod that has a body, a longitudinal direction, an incident end, and an emergent end. The incident end comprises an incident su... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636198 | Beamsplitter display A three dimensional viewing assembly includes a first display, a second display, and a beamsplitter. The first display is for displaying a first image. The second display is for displaying a second image. The beamsplitter is disposed at least partially between the f... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7630136 | Optical integrators for lithography systems and methods An optical integrator having a first surface and a second surface that is used in a lithographic apparatus to modify light. The first surface is reflective, defines a volume, and is configured to be disposed in an optical illumination system along an optical axis, t... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7616381 | Optical system An optical system, adapted for providing an image beam, including a light source, a beam splitting/combining device, and a light valve is provided. The light source provides an illumination beam. The beam splitting/combining device includes a first polarizing beam s... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7616380 | Optical part and projection type display apparatus using same The object of the present invention is to provide an optical part having an anti-reflecting membrane which is low in resistance and high in adhesion and is sharply improved in light transmittance by reducing reflectance of light, and a display apparatus using the sa... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7616382 | Image observation apparatus and image observation system The image observation apparatus includes a first image-forming element and a second image-forming element each of which forms an original image, and an optical system configured to introduce light fluxes from the first and second image-forming elements to an exit pu... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7605981 | Display unit, display method and equipment using thereof A display unit which displays a plurality of objects viewed as being located at different depthwise positions by the viewer so as to exhibit an image with depthwise feeling, includes: a single display portion including a far-distant display zone and a near-distant d... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7551359 | Beam splitter apparatus and system A beam splitter apparatus comprises a beam splitter and a plurality of prisms disposed about the beam splitter. The beam splitter apparatus is configured to split an incident laser beam into a plurality of beamlets exhibiting substantially equal energy and traversin... | 06/23/2009 |
