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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186833 | Method and system for electroholographic display with zeroth-order diffraction suppression An electroholographic display system (300, 700) includes: a coherent light source (330, 730); a spatial light modulator (SLM) (320, 720) that modulates a coherent collimated light beam; and a processor and driver unit (310, 710) that gene... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8183509 | Laser processing apparatus and laser processing method The present invention relates to a laser processing apparatus and the like having a structure for implementing at the same time both an efficient laser processing in the place where a laser beam is difficult to reach and a laser processing without damages in the pla... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182097 | Projection type image display apparatus A projection type image display apparatus includes an image display element, a projection unit including a first lens group and a second lens group formed with a plural number of lenses, a reflection mirror configured to reflect light emitted from the second lens gr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178827 | Universal LED testing device Apparatus for optically testing LEDs or other light-emitting components in a wide variety of test environments and to the degree necessary pertinent to the type(s) of faults encountered. In one embodiment, the present invention includes one or more fiber optic probe... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173947 | Scanning mirror position determination A scanning projector includes a mirror that scans in two dimensions, at least one of which is sinusoidal. A position sensor provides a position signal that represents an angular displacement of the mirror. The position signal is amplified by an amplifier with time v... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168940 | Optical transmission module, electronic device and method for manufacturing optical transmission module A light transmission module includes a light transmission path for transmitting light, an optical element including a light emitting and receiving surface for optically coupling with the light transmitted by the light transmission path, and being formed with a light... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167434 | Light projection system and display device The invention relates to a light projection system (10) for use in conjunction with a display device (40). The light projection system comprises a light source for emitting light being modulated by video and/or audio content of the display device (4... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170317 | Automatic iso-centering for rotational angiography An automated and semi-automated determination of an optimal table position for rotational angiography is provided which is performed on the basis of the determination of a translation vector pointing from a point of gravity of the object of interest to an iso-center... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8158923 | Time-frequency fusion digital pixel sensor Light is converted to an electric signal by performing a light-to-frequency conversion of the light received during a first phase of operation. Following the first phase of operation, a light-to-time conversion is performed on light received during a second phase of... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152308 | Mobile terminal having projector and method of controlling display unit in the mobile terminal A mobile terminal having a projector and a method for controlling a display unit in of the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes outputting, if a presentation application is selected, a screen image for performing the selected presentation application th... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153948 | Systems for image acquisition Image acquisition systems utilizing a pixilated transducer. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148671 | Proximity-type imaging device and imaging filter A proximity-type imaging device includes an image sensor and an angle limiting filter. The image sensor performs photoelectric conversion for light transmitted from a subject using plural pixels, so as to capture the subject. The angle limiting filter includes a tra... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143608 | Package-on-package (POP) optical proximity sensor Various embodiments of a package-on-package optical sensor comprising three distinct different packages are disclosed. The three different packages are combined to form the optical proximity sensor, where the first package is a light emitter package, the second pack... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138468 | Rotary disk eccentricity measurement method, rotary encoder, and image forming apparatus including the rotary encoder An eccentricity measurement method of measuring the eccentricity of a rotary disk of a rotary encoder includes forming, on the rotary disk, at least one first straight-line pattern group in a different radial direction including a plurality of straight-line patterns... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8129668 | Solar tracking and concentration device A solar tracking and concentration device, including a reflecting unit, a receiving unit, a controlling device, and a plurality of photo sensors, is provided. The receiving unit is used to receive the sunlight reflected and reflected by the reflecting unit. The rece... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8123365 | One-way display using color filter A one-way display system includes a transparent screen and a transparent color filter. An image is emitted by the screen or projected onto the screen. The image is formed from a combination of colored lights. Instead of spanning all the wavelengths of each color, ea... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123368 | Optical beam scanning device, image forming apparatus An optical beam scanning device includes a polygon mirror 80 in which tilt angles with respect to a rotation axis of the polygon mirror 80 of respective plural reflecting surfaces are set to angles corresponding to photoconductive members associated wi... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126249 | Methods of and system for detection and tracking of osteoporosis A method and system for detection and tracking of osteoporosis is disclosed. A method of characterizing an image of a target vertebra includes building a computer model from a set of sample images of pathological and non-pathological variations of vertebrae represen... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126232 | System and method for 3D vessel segmentation with minimal cuts A method for segmenting tubular structures in digital medical images includes extracting a subregion from a 3-dimensional (3D) digital medical image volume containing a vessel of interest, identifying potential vessel centerpoints for each voxel in the subregion by ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119961 | Solar tracking device for solar panel A solar tracking device for solar panel includes a barrel body, a light transmitting unit, a projecting unit, a photosensor unit, and a lens. The light transmitting unit is disposed at a first end of the barrel body oriented toward the sun. The light transmitting un... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118432 | Lens array element and projection type display device A lens array element has a rectangular plate-like external shape, and includes plate surfaces that functions as light transmission surfaces; and a plurality of cellular lenses that are formed on at least one of the plate surfaces. Each of end faces 4 of the r... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119974 | Microprocessor based automatically dimmable eye protection device with interruption prevention An auto darkening eye protection device comprising a shutter assembly and a control circuit in electrical communication with the shutter assembly. The shutter assembly is adjustable between a clear state and a dark state. The control circuit comprises a microcontrol... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8113663 | Projection image display apparatus and projection optical unit to be used therein In a projection type image display apparatus, for enlarging an image on a image display apparatus 1 by means of a projection lens 2, thereby projecting the enlarged image onto a screen 6, obliquely, being inclined thereto, between the projection... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106346 | Photodetector A photodetector includes a photoelectric conversion circuit that generates a first voltage by converting a first current generated in accordance with the illuminance of incident light into log-compressed voltage; a temperature compensation circuit that generates a s... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106347 | Vehicle rearview mirror system A vehicular interior rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly, which includes an ambient light sensor operable to sense ambient light and a glare light sensor operable to sense glare light. A control is operable to establish a reflectance... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101935 | Inspection apparatus and inspection method Reflected light caused by the state of the surface of a wafer, a foreign material or a defect is superimposed on a haze frequency component caused by the type and thickness of a film or a surface irregularity. It has therefore been difficult to accurately measure th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101899 | Image pickup apparatus An apparatus includes pixels each having a transistor that transfers a charge of a photoelectric conversion unit, an amplification unit that receives the transferred charge, a scanning unit that supplies, to the transistor, a conductive pulse, a non-conductive pulse... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101900 | Circuit and method for operating a circuit A circuit and method for operating a circuit with a terminal for connecting a photodiode to output an output current dependent on the photocurrent of the photodiode, with a resistance device for generating a voltage drop dependent on a photocurrent of the photodiode... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8093546 | Out-of-round coder An angle sensor for detecting an out-of-round condition includes a disc supporting angle coder rigidly attached to a rotating shaft and at least one fixed optical system including a coherent light source emitting a beam interfering with the angle coder of the suppor... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8084728 | Optical sensing device The present invention discloses an optical sensing device with multiple photodiode elements and multi-cavity Fabry-Perot ambient light filter structure to detect and convert light signal with different wavelength spectrum into electrical signal. In embodiment, the o... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084729 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus, imaging system, and photoelectric conversion apparatus manufacturing method A photoelectric conversion apparatus having a pixel array region and a peripheral region includes a pixel array, a readout unit, an output unit, a plurality of output lines, and a color filter layer which is arranged in the pixel array region and the peripheral regi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8080777 | Optical device and optical system Provided is an optical device, comprising a plurality of polarizers that are arranged along a propagation direction of incident light; a first phase element that is disposed between the plurality of polarizers and that has a phase lag axis forming a prescribed angle... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079715 | Reflected image through substance An apparatus and method to display an image are provided. The apparatus includes a reflective surface including an image disposed upon at least a portion of the reflective surface, an agitable and semi-transparent medium positioned over at least a portion of the ref... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8076625 | Field level tracker controller The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for improving the total power output from a field of solar energy systems. The invention provides a field level tracker controller which calculates an improved positioning of individual solar energy system... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8071936 | Optical sensing device An optical sensing device comprising a shell, at least one light emitting member, at least one optical sensing member and a shading member is disclosed. The shell is formed with a black-body condition space therein, and the light emitting member projects a light bea... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071934 | Method and system for detecting single-shot pulse contrast based on fiber array A system for detecting single-shot pulse contrast includes a correlator generating a correlation signal, a spectral filter filtering light signals having wavelengths different from the correlation signal, a fiber array comprising a plurality of fibers with different... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067725 | Device and method for displaying image A deviation of an optic axis of a laser projector is detected, and the deviation is corrected. Laser projector's CPU executes: commanding a laser beam source of one color, out of laser beam sources of three colors, to emit a laser beam; shutting off the laser when s... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8067760 | Impulse analysis for flow sensor-based fluid control system A fluid flow control system using flow rate changes to extract additional information from an in-line flow sensor. The system provides the ability to determine a position of a movable flow sensor element of a flow sensor by illuminating a photosensitive pixel array ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066389 | Beam alignment chamber providing divergence correction A beam alignment chamber comprising: a base, first and second side walls connected to the base, and a front wall located at the front edge of the base having an output opening. The beam alignment chamber further including a plurality of light sources disposed to dir... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8061844 | Optical device and projector An optical device includes: a plurality of reflection type light modulation devices; a plurality of reflection type polarization plates; a plurality of attachment members; a color combining device; a plurality of adjustment members; engaging projections provided on ... | 11/22/2011 |
