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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189278 | Optical system A device for cooling optical components based on optical fibers for transmitting high optical power. The device includes one or more cavities with a flowing coolant to take care of optical power loss. The device includes a transmitting construction material having a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189255 | All solid state type reflection light control electrochromic element employing magnesium/titanium alloy and light control member The present invention provides an all solid state type reflection light control electrochromic element and a light control member that uses this element, relates to an all solid state type reflection light control electrochromic element, which is a magnesium/titaniu... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190026 | Gigabit passive optical network transmission convergence extension for next generation access An apparatus including a data framer and an optical transmitter. The data framer is used to frame a data stream into a plurality of frames, each of the frames includes a plurality of fields sized to align the frames with a word boundary greater than or equal to four... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189280 | Voice coil motor with pulse-width modulation driver An apparatus is provided including a voice coil motor (VCM); a lens connected to the voice coil motor; and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) driver connected to the voice coil motor to at least partially control movement of the lens by the voice coil motor. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184358 | Systems and methods using interferometric optical modulators and diffusers Various embodiments include interferometric optical modulators comprising a substrate layer having a thickness between about 0.1 mm to about 0.45 mm thick and a method for manufacturing the same. The interferometric modulator can be integrated together with a diffus... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174778 | Method of producing molded ceramic product, molded ceramic product and image-taking apparatus Ceramic is molded to produce a molded ceramic product, using a mold that has a portion for forming the trough of a first thread formed on the molded ceramic product. The trough of the first thread is higher than the crest of a second thread formed on a mating compon... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169691 | Multi color display panel One embodiment of the present invention is a multi color display panel, having a transparent substrate, a color filter layer, a transparent electrode layer, a microcapsule layer, an adhesive layer; and a rear electrode plate, wherein the rear electrode plate is an e... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170420 | Changing hardware settings based on data preamble The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for a new data speed switching scheme for a wired data interface. The method features receiving high-speed serial data over a physical link using a first coding scheme in a receiver; receiving a tr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164822 | Display device, method of manufacturing display device and electronic apparatus A display device having a display surface, comprises: a contact particle-containing layer including a wall portion with an inner surface for defining a space, contact particles electrically charged and provided within the space in a contact state that the contact pa... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165468 | Methods and apparatus for performing directionless wavelength addition and subtraction within a ROADM based optical node In today's reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) based optical node, transponders associated with the ROADMs' add/drop ports are dedicated to a given network node interface. Dedicated transponders reduce the flexibility to route around network failures... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165467 | Optical transmission system and optical node Where an integrated monitoring and controlling unit is to control an optical add-drop unit so as to cause transmit signals from the optical transceiver of a first optical node to be received by the optical transceivers of plural different optical nodes, this purpose... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162479 | Saccadic motion detection system A saccadic motion detection system comprised of an optical system that focuses light reflected or emitted from the subject's eye onto an optical navigation chip, which connects to circuitry configured to convert analog light from the eye to digital representations m... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159760 | Projector and control method of projector A projector includes: a projection lens which includes a zoom mechanism capable of controlling a projection view angle; a zoom drive unit which drives the zoom mechanism; a zoom amount storing unit which stores a zoom amount provided by the zoom drive unit; an opera... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159737 | Controlling the phase of optical carriers A system and method for locking the relative phase of multiple coherent optical signals, which compensates for optical phase changes induced by vibration or thermal changes in the environment. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154789 | Electronic paper display device and manufacturing method thereof The electronic paper display device may include a first electrode; a dielectric layer that is disposed on the first electrode and has a plurality of cells defined by a barrier; a second electrode that faces the dielectric layer; and electronic balls that are dispose... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155526 | In-wall optical network unit One embodiment provides an ONU that includes an optical interface coupled to an optical transceiver, which is configured to transmit optical signals to and receive optical signals from an OLT through the optical interface. The ONU also includes an ONU chip coupled t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150264 | Methods for non-wavelength-converting multi-lane optical switching A method for providing multi-wavelength switching. The method comprising receiving a plurality of signals through at least one input port, and separating the plurality of said signals into at least one wavelength signal set based on wavelengths, wherein a first wave... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149499 | Electrophoretic display device and electronic apparatus An electrophoretic display device includes a display element including a pair of first and second substrates which are opposed to each other, and a microcapsule enclosing a display material changed in optical characteristics in response to an electric impulse, the m... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144386 | Particles for display media and information display panel using same There are provided particles for display media capable of properly controlling change in an amount of charge by heating and an information display panel, by using the particles for display media capable of eliminating a display failure and reduction in contrast rati... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134771 | Spatial light modulators with changeable phase masks for use in holographic data storage A holographic data storage system that includes a write head that includes a pixellated spatial light modulator and a separate or integral phase mask that varies the phase depending on the location in the phase mask that light passes through. The phase variation can... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134781 | Optical film and manufacturing process thereof There is provided an optical film for backlight units or illuminators. The optical film comprises a light-incident portion and a light exit portion. Here, the optical film is characterized in that it comprises a plurality of protrusions formed on at least one of the... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126329 | Quad-port optical module with pass-through and add/drop configuration Techniques are disclosed for providing bi-directional data services involving a plurality of wavelengths. The data services may be hybrid in nature, including both digital and analog data signals. The techniques may be implemented, for instance, in an optical module... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121482 | Spatial light modulator-based reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer and method of adding an optical channel using the same A reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) and a method of passing at least one optical channel through the multiplexer. In one embodiment, the multiplexer includes: (1) a main input port, (2) a main output port, (3) an add input port, (4) a drop output p... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120839 | Suspended particle device electronic control processes A scalable apparatus and a network environment dynamically changes the light transparency of a single SPD device, a small number of SPD devices or thousands of such SPD devices installed in windows in automobiles, aircraft, trains, marine vehicles, residential homes... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116632 | Space-time division multiple-access laser communications system A space-time division multiple-access (STDMA) laser communications (lasercom) system and related techniques. The STDMA system includes a plurality of remote nodes and an STDMA access node which uses precise electronic beam steering and beacons to provide access to e... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107155 | System and method for reducing visual artifacts in displays Embodiments include systems and methods for reducing visible artifacts such as Moiré, or interference, patterns, in displays. One embodiment includes a display device comprising a plurality of light modulators and a plurality of illumination elements configured to ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102601 | Head up display device for vehicle A head up display device includes a display, an optical system having a reflecting mirror, a motor, and a reduction gear mechanism having gears in engagement with each other. A stopper gear is further on a preceding side than the last gear in the mechanism. The stop... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098435 | Optical combiner and image projector using the optical combiner An optical combiner in which the number of parts used is lessened is made of a resin. The optical component comprises a first surface, a diffraction grating, and a second surface. The first surface is a surface providing first, second, and third lenses. The diffract... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098420 | Display method of electrophoresis display device A display method of an electrophoresis display (EPD) device having a display area and a plurality of pixels located in the display area is provided. In the display method, firstly, the display area is divided into a plurality of unit areas. A plurality of pixels exi... | 01/17/2012 |
| RE43089 | Imaging system with a lens having increased light collection efficiency and a deblurring equalizer In one form, an imaging system comprises an imager that forms an image of an object in a field of view, a rotationally symmetric lens assembly disposed between the imager and the object, and an equalizer. The rotationally symmetric lens assembly provides increased c... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094377 | Head-mounted optical apparatus using an OLED display A see-through head-mounted optical apparatus for a viewer has at least one display module, each display module having a display energizable to form an image and a positive field lens optically coupled to the surface of the display and disposed to direct imaged light... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094389 | Solid immersion lens holder A solid immersion lens holder 200 includes a holder main body 8 having a lens holding unit 60 that holds a solid immersion lens 6, and an objective lens socket 9 for attaching the holder main body 8 to a front end of an obje... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089683 | Optical processing A modular routing node includes a single input port and a plurality of output ports. The modular routing node is arranged to produce a plurality of different deflections and uses small adjustments to compensate for wavelength differences and alignment tolerances in ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085481 | Lens drive motor mount An iris rod clamp, and lens drive motor mount using the clamp, is employed for attaching equipment such as lens motors to various movie/video cameras via the different sized iris rods used by these movie/video cameras. The clamp includes jaws with clamping surfaces ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085463 | Protective coating for metalhydride based devices A thin film device includes an active layer (4), wherein the active layer has optical properties that change by adding and removing hydrogen, and includes a Mg-transition metal layer, or rare earth based layer, the active layer being provided on one side with... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081386 | Device for illuminating an area and device for applying light to a work area Device for illuminating an area, in particular for illuminating a mask (14), for example for a lithographic application, with at least one light source (1) for producing light (3) that can be used for the illumination, optics means (2) fo... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077411 | Lens displacement mechanism using shaped memory alloy A lens displacement mechanism using shaped memory alloy (SMA) applied to an auto-focusing lens module is disclosed. The lens displacement mechanism comprising at least one SMA wire. Two opposite ends of the SMA wire are fixed and a longitudinal mid-point of an inter... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072674 | Electro-phoretic display and fabricating method thereof In an electro-phoretic display and a fabricating method thereof, the electro-phoretic display is fabricated by the steps: forming a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in matrix form on a first substrate; disposing a plurality of electro-phoretic displaying units... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072699 | Solid immersion lens optics assembly A solid immersion lens optics assembly, a test station for probing and testing of integrated circuits on a semiconductor wafer, and a method of landing a SIL on an object. The optics assembly comprises an objective lens housing for receiving an objective lens, and a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064766 | Orthogonal frequency division multiple access based optical ring network A fiber optic network transmits data between a hub node and a plurality of local nodes connected by at least one unidirectional fiber ring. Downstream data streams are carried on wavelength-division-multiplexed optical carriers from the hub node to the local nodes. ... | 11/22/2011 |
