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7453612 Optical device, and virtual image display  
An optical device including an optical waveguide upon which a group of parallel light beams different in traveling direction from each other are incident and from which the group of parallel light...
7446915 Diffuse reflector and method  
A diffuse reflector comprises a substrate ( 20 ) having an asymmetric, reflective, periodic surface relief microstructure formed such that, under illumination by a multiplicity of wavelengths in a...
7443587 DOE-based systems and devices for producing laser beams having modified beam characteristics  
Novel methods are disclosed for designing and constructing miniature optical systems and devices employing light diffractive optical elements (DOEs) for modifying the size and shape of laser beams...
7443553 Holographic sensors and their production  
An array of discrete sensors disposed on a substrate, each sensor comprising a holographic support medium and a hologram disposed throughout the volume of the medium, whereby interaction with an...
7440153 Backlight unit for flat panel display and flat panel display apparatus having the same  
A backlight unit for a flat panel display and a flat panel display apparatus having the same. The backlight unit for a flat panel display includes a light source emitting light, a light guide panel...
7436560 Display device for a vehicle  
A display device for a vehicle includes a transparent window with a light emission layer intended to separate the interior of the vehicle for emitting visible light when light is beamed onto the...
7433105 Decorative film, carton, and method of making  
A film having a Fresnel lens is placed adjacent a design to create a three-dimensional image. The film can be used separately or laminated to a substrate to create enclosures such as cartons,...
7432487 Device for correcting output of optical pickup  
Light receiving elements for receiving a + one-dimensional light divided into four are arranged in the vicinity of a light receiving part for receiving the zero-dimensional light. Some light...
7425951 Three-dimensional image display apparatus, method of distributing elemental images to the display apparatus, and method of displaying three-dimensional image on the display apparatus  
An apparatus is provided with a display unit and a optical filter. The unit has pixels arranged in a matrix form, which are grouped into a first group and second groups to display two-dimensional...
7418170 Optical device and virtual image display device  
A virtual image display device is provided which displays a two-dimensional image for viewing a virtual image in a magnified form by a virtual optical system. The virtual image display device...
7416818 Switchable volume hologram materials and devices  
A new photopolymerizable material allows single-step, fast recording of volume holograms with properties that can be electrically controlled. Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) in accordance...
7416306 Laser projector  
A reflection-type laser projector ( 100 ) projects modulated laser beams outputted from a laser projection unit ( 40 ), on a screen, wherein a reflector ( 112 ) as a constituent of the screen ( 110...
7413678 Electrically switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal materials  
A new photopolymerizable material allows single-step, fast recording of volume holograms with properties that can be electrically controlled. Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) in accordance...
7400431 Method for encoding video holograms for holographically reconstructing a scene  
A method and a device for encoding and reconstructing computer-generated video holograms using a conventional LC display: it provides holographic reconstruction of three-dimensional scenes using...
7399421 Injection molded microoptics  
A wafer-scale apparatus and method is described for the automation of forming, aligning and attaching two-dimensional arrays of microoptic elements on semiconductor and other image display devices,...
7396130 Optical system, image projection apparatus and method thereof  
An image projection apparatus. The image projection apparatus comprises a light source and LCD panel. The LCD panel comprises a plurality of pixels and color filters thereon. Light from the light...
7388696 Diffuser, wavefront source, wavefront sensor and projection exposure apparatus  
A wavefront source having a wavefront formation structure ( 4 a ) and a diffuser with a scattering structure ( 2 b ) in the beam path in front of or at the level of the wavefront formation...
7385742 Image display apparatus  
An image display apparatus has: a display element for displaying an image; a light source section for supplying an illumination light to the display element; a reflection type hologram for...
7379219 Method and apparatus for illuminating a computer generated hologram  
A holographic display comprising a spatial light modulator, SLM, for displaying a computer generated hologram, CGH, containing horizontal or vertical parallax only, HPO, means for illuminating the...
7355768 Wavelength tunable holographic filter with broad acceptance angle and narrow spectral bandwidth  
A narrowband, tunable filter with a wide acceptance angle utilizes two holographic filter elements connected in series. The filter blocks light outside of a narrow spectral band of interest, while...
7351953 Apparatus and method to generate and control optical traps to manipulate small particles  
The present invention relates generally to an apparatus and method to generating and controlling optical traps for manipulation of small particles. An upstream modification of an input laser beam...
7336329 Liquid crystal display device using holographic diffuser  
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal cell, a first polarizer under the liquid crystal cell, a backlight under the first polarizer, and a holographic diffuser over the liquid...
7330657 Method to demultiplex wavelengths of light  
An apparatus and method for demultiplexing multiple wavelengths of light. In one embodiment, an optical signal having a plurality of wavelengths is provided to an optical-to-electrical (OE) circuit...
7330292 Complex objective lens, optical head, optical information apparatus, computer, optical disk player, car navigation system, optical disk recorder, and optical disk server  
A complex objective lens composed of a hologram and an objective lens, capable of realizing stable and high-precision compatible reproducing/recording of a BD with a base thickness of about 0.1 mm...
7317565 Projection viewing system  
A projection viewing system of simplified construction and high illumination efficiency, which enables at least two images varying with viewing directions to be simultaneously displayed in a...
7312906 Switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal optical elements  
Transmission and reflection type holograms may be formed utilizing a novel polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) material and its unique switching characteristics to form optical elements....
7307804 Thermally stabile GRISMs  
Thermally stable GRISMs comprise a substrate and cover plate composed of a first material keeps the spatial frequency of the grating stable with temperature, and a prism composed of a second...
7298534 Off-axis holographic light concentrator and method of use thereof  
A light receiving apparatus comprises a holographic optical device having a plurality of holograms recorded in a light receiving surface thereof. The holographic optical device is configured to...
7298533 Optical films for creating unique optical effects  
An optical layer comprises a sheet of material having a surface. The surface comprises a plurality of optical elements. The optical elements are comprised of microscopic patterns in the surface...
7295357 Apparatus for handling minute object  
An apparatus for handling a minute object such as a cell by using a holographic optical tweezers that comprises a laser light source 1 , holographic plate 3 having a specified pattern to form a...
7292755 Optical resonator formed in a planar optical waveguide with a distributed optical structure  
An optical apparatus comprises a planar optical waveguide having at least two reflectors. The planar optical waveguide substantially confines in at least one transverse spatial dimension optical...
7292259 Recording system for light-sensitive sheet  
The invention provides a system for recording a datum onto a pixel on a light-sensitive sheet. The system essentially includes a light-emitting device and an interfering device. The interfering...
7289254 Optometry measurement device  
The present invention features a method and device for measuring characteristics of the human eye, particularly spherical refractive error. The device comprises a recorded hologram of an array of...
7286732 Distributed optical structures designed by computed interference between simulated optical signals  
An optical apparatus comprises a planar optical waveguide and at least one set of diffractive elements formed in or on the waveguide. The waveguide is arranged to confine propagating optical...
7286272 Image display unit  
The present invention relates to an image display device in which a virtual image of an image display element is formed to display an image. The image display device includes a transmission type...
7286197 Liquid crystal display having high brightness and enhanced viewing angle  
A liquid crystal display (LCD) realizes a high brightness by using cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) in a color filter and a polarizer, and improves viewing angles by using a hologram diffuser. The...
7283187 Method of fabricating hologram diffuser for liquid crystal display and liquid crystal display device using the same  
A hologram diffuser for a liquid crystal display wherein a resin layer with a desired thickness is formed on an upper substrate. A hologram pattern is formed in the resin layer using a hologram...
7277640 Optical add/drop multiplexing systems  
The present invention overcomes problems associated with switch isolation, noise and crosstalk suppression, insertion loss, spurious reflections, wavelength tolerance, and compactness that are...
7277210 Measuring spectral lines from an analyte using multiplexed holograms and polarization manipulation  
An optical apparatus in which multiplexed holograms are used to achieve wavelength selectivity and polarization manipulation is used to facilitate near-normal incidence of light on the holograms....
7265903 Switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal optical elements  
Transmission and reflection type holograms may be formed utilizing a novel polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) material and its unique switching characteristics to form optical elements....
7265882 Switchable polymer-dispersed liquid crystal optical elements  
Transmission and reflection type holograms may be formed utilizing a novel polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) material and its unique switching characteristics to form optical elements....
7262890 Observation optical system  
An observation optical system has an entrance surface, a reflecting surface, and an exit surface. At least one of these surfaces is configured as a free-formed surface, to which a volume...
7262889 System and method for volume holographic imaging using spectral illumination  
A holographic imaging system is disclosed that includes a spectral electromagnetic field unit for providing a plurality of focal areas of a plurality of wavelengths of electromagnetic fields along...
7259899 Narrow angle hologram device and method of manufacturing same  
A method of manufacturing a master for producing a hologram device. A first master is produced with a compensating angle. The second master is produced from the first master with an index matching...
7259898 Direct view LC display  
A display is provided having first and second direct view modes of operation. The display comprises a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight which is illuminated during the first mode so that...
7258957 Method for aligning exposure mask and method for manufacturing thin film device substrate  
A method for aligning an exposure mask, comprises: using a plurality of hologram masks, on which alignment marks are formed,; aligning position of the hologram masks toward an object, which is...
7255968 Alignment method of exposure mask and manufacturing method of thin film element substrate  
A method for aligning an exposure mask comprises: using a plurality of hologram masks, on which an alignment mark is formed; aligning position of the hologram masks toward an object to be exposed...
7253933 Apparatus and method for the temporal profiling of short laser pulses with thick Bragg gratings  
A system and/or method for temporal profiling of an incident laser pulse. The system and/or method includes a laser beam source for providing the incident laser pulse and a Bragg grating (BG)...
7250636 Display apparatus and method for producing the same  
A display apparatus includes an array of fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements. Each of the fiber-type semiconductor light-emitting elements includes a layered structure having a first...
7248409 Optical element, optical lens, optical head apparatus, optical information apparatus, computer, optical information medium player, car navigation system, optical information medium recorder, and optical information medium server  
An optical lens includes a hologram, a refractive lens, and a phase level difference. The hologram has a sawtooth shape grating having a sawtooth shape in cross-section, and generates +2nd-order...