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7623239 Systems and methods for measurement of a specimen with vacuum ultraviolet light  
Various systems for measurement of a specimen are provided. One system includes an optical subsystem configured to perform measurements of a specimen using vacuum ultraviolet light and non-vacuum...
7619740 Microgloss measurement of paper and board  
Microgloss is a novel two-dimensional representation of how light is reflected from a target surface area. Systems and methods for measuring the microgloss can yield data for characterizing the...
7616317 Reflectometer and associated light source for use in a chemical analyzer  
A light source for a reflectometer which is used in a chemical analyzer includes a plurality of light emitting devices. Some of the light emitting devices emit light of different wavelengths. The...
7602497 Reflectance sensor for measuring liquid pigment preparations or solid pigmented surfaces  
The invention relates to reflectance sensors built up from an optical unit, a sample analysis unit and a system control unit, and to a method of measuring the reflectance of a sample in the form of...
7601544 Method and apparatus for using infrared readings to detect misidentification of a diagnostic test strip in a reflectance spectrometer  
A method and apparatus for using an infrared reading to detect the misidentification of a diagnostic test strip disposed on a feed table comprising the steps of determining if the test strip...
7599727 Lighting and imaging system including a flat light source with LED illumination  
A system for lighting a stent, i.e., providing an illumination source, to facilitate the capturing of an image of the stent. The lighting is provided so that an image capturing device, e.g., a...
7586617 Controlling a dynamic signal range in an optical time domain reflectometry  
A technique includes providing an optical source signal to an optical fiber to produce a backscatter signal. A receiver is provided to detect the backscatter signal. During an acquisition period in...
7580131 Angularly resolved scatterometer and inspection method  
In an angularly resolved scatterometer, an aperture plate including at least one obscuration extending into the image of the pupil plane is provided. Defocus values of a target pattern are...
7557925 Optical instrument and parts thereof for optimally defining light pathways  
An optical assembly is disclosed that includes an illumination source, a detection sensor, a monitor sensor, and an optical piece having a first side adapted to face a sample. The optical piece...
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....
7554665 Dual beam set-up for parousiameter  
A parousiameter having a dual beam setup and method for use thereof is provided for producing measurements of optical parameters. The dual beam parousiameter includes a hemispherical dome enclosure...
7548312 Measuring device for ingredient detection  
A measuring device has a sensor for registering at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of at least one ingredient, at least one property, and both, of a material being...
7538871 Colour measurement device with associated measurement head  
A spectrophotometer for integration purposes includes a measurement head with an illumination arrangement ( 10 ) including at least one fight source ( 11 ) for the illumination of a measurement...
7538865 Source and detector sensor arrangement  
A device has various arrangements of source and detector sensors. In specific implementations, the device has at least four structures, one source and three detectors, two sources and two...
7525647 Medical device probe with source and detector sensors  
A probe for a medical device with source and detector sensors is used to monitor or measure, or both, oxygen saturation levels in a tissue. In various specific implementations, the probe has at...
7522294 Measuring a process parameter of a semiconductor fabrication process using optical metrology  
To measure a process parameter of a semiconductor fabrication process, the fabrication process is performed on a first area using a first value of the process parameter. The fabrication process is...
7521954 Method for determining a minority carrier diffusion length using surface photo voltage measurements  
A method of determining a diffusion length of a minority carrier in a material which includes applying a first excitation light having a first photon flux to a material, measuring a first surface...
7508522 Reflected light measuring apparatus and reflected light measuring method  
A reflected light measuring apparatus including an illumination system and a light receiving system which receives reflected light from a measuring area of an object illuminated with measuring...
7508504 Automatic wafer edge inspection and review system  
A substrate illumination and inspection system provides for illuminating and inspecting a substrate particularly the substrate edge. The system uses a light diffuser with a plurality of lights...
7499171 Methods for using light reflection patterns to determine diving angle of grain  
Methods are provided for using light reflection patterns to determine various properties of fibrous materials, such as wood. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods for...
7499165 System of measuring light transmission and/or reflection  
A system of measuring light transmission and/or reflection has a light transmitter(s) and at least one light sensor which are used to generate a defined light environment over a specified light...
7492461 Method and device for measuring reflected optical radiation  
The present invention provides an optics assembly, a reflectometer, and a diagnostic device for providing quantitative measurement of optical radiation reflected from a sampling area on an assay...
7483141 Diffuse reflectance readhead  
A glucose monitoring system comprising a readhead positioned a predetermined distance from a sample aperture. The readhead comprises first and second LEDs adapted to emit intersecting paths of...
7480054 System and method for the deposition, imaging, detection and identification of threat agents  
A system and method for depositing a sample of a threat agent onto a substrate. The deposition of the threat agent onto the substrate is visually observed by analyzing the elastic scattered photons...
7478638 Machine for manufacturing tobacco products  
Tobacco products are manufactured by an automatic machine presenting a number of working parts, certain of which consisting in rollers rotatable about mutually parallel axes and carried by a...
7477397 Self-calibrating optical reflectance probe system  
A self-calibrating optical reflectance probe system having an illuminant light source to illuminate a sample material, optical pickup means to collect reflected light from the sample material, and...
7466403 Grain angle sensor  
A grain angle sensor system for measuring grain angle direction of surface fibers of a wood object with respect to at least one of a surface plane direction or a transverse direction, such as a...
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...
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...
7433055 Device for the examination of optical properties of surfaces  
A device for examining the optical properties of surfaces includes at least one first radiation device which emits radiation to a surface to be examined at a first predetermined spatial angle; at...
7426020 System for print imaging with prism illumination optics  
A directionally-oriented reflective device is optically coupled to a prism surface in a skin ridge pattern imaging system to reflect illumination light at relatively small angles, along an optical...
7405828 Method for measuring the degree of crosslinking of pressure sensitive adhesive  
A method for measuring the degree of crosslinking of pressure sensitive adhesive. The method, having the advantages of simple steps and short measuring time, comprises immersing a transparent...
7399600 Optical detection and analysis of particles  
Method and apparatus for the single particle detection of submicron structures such as biological molecules and viruses utilises an optical element ( 100 ) comprising an optically transparent...
7397566 Method and apparatus for optical interactance and transmittance measurements  
A method, system and apparatus for improving at least one of a) optical interactance measurements, b) optical transmittance measurements and c) optical reflectance measurements. The apparatus has a...
7397565 Device and method for obtaining appearance information  
A device has first and second units that lights an object at first or second incident angles; a unit that generates image signals according to the intensity of the received light; units that guides...
7391582 Objective lens holder, objective lens driving device including same and optical disk read/write device  
An objective lens holder of the present invention includes: (i) a cavity, having an entrance and an exit, which guides, to an objective lens, an incident light beam entering the entrance, the exit...
7391518 Device and method for the determination of the quality of surfaces  
The present invention relates to a device and method for making quantified determinations of the quality of surfaces and wherein the device comprises an optical system with a first optical means...
7382462 Device for measuring the reflection factor  
A device for measuring the reflection factor by irradiating a measurement area of a microchip with light, and in which a light receiving part is made to receive light reflected from the measurement...
7375335 Effect-particle orientation and apparatus therefor  
A method and apparatus for determining the effect-particle orientation in a film or coating are disclosed. The method comprises using opposing directional reflectance measurements, preferably in...
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...
7369243 Optical measuring apparatus and optical measuring method  
An optical measuring apparatus comprises: an illuminating section that illuminates a first object with a first light; a light changing section that changes an intensity of the first light...
7362440 Far-field optical microscope with a nanometer-scale resolution based on the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritions  
A far-field optical microscope capable of reaching nanometer-scale resolution using the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritons is presented. The microscope utilizes a microscopy...
7362429 Opaque additive to block stray light in amorphous fluoropolymer light-guiding flowcells  
The present invention is directed to the use of a light absorbing wall material to eliminate stray light paths in light-guiding structures, such as those used for HPLC absorbance detection. More...
7359056 Enhanced signal detection of optically encoded particles via flare  
Methods of, and systems for, detecting an airborne material. In a first preferred embodiment, a method is provided that includes deploying a cloud of optical sensors, illuminating at least a...
7355713 Method for inspecting a grating biochip  
A method for inspecting a grating biochip comprises the steps of irradiating a grating biochip using a light beam, measuring a diffracted light using a photodetector, selecting a plurality of...
7355712 Apparatus for measuring goniometric reflection property of sample  
An apparatus for measuring a goniometric reflection property of a sample has: one or more illuminators; a toroidal mirror which is rotationally symmetrical around a center axis effectively...
7355688 Optical probe for optical imaging system  
Methods and apparatus for monitoring oxygen saturation levels in tissue are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a sensor arrangement for use in an optical imaging system...
7349096 Scatterometer and a method for observing a surface  
A scatterometer comprising light source means ( 11 ) for providing an incident light beam ( 8 ) at different angles in the direction of a sample ( 5 ) to be analyzed, and a concave screen ( 1,2 )...
7342657 Dual illumination angle goniometric spectrophotometer  
The present disclosure provides for a device, as well as a system and method associated therewith, for, among other things, providing: (i) up to five distinct measurement angles along with an...
7339673 Miniature optical readhead for optical diagnostic device  
A miniature readhead for a photometric diagnostic instrument includes a housing of hand-held form factor, configured for receiving reagent sample media therein. The sample media has a plurality of...