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6400487 Method and apparatus for screening chemical compounds  
Methods and apparatus for screening large numbers of chemical compounds and performing a wide variety of fluorescent assays, including live cell assays. The methods utilize a laser linescan...
6392774 Multiple position guiding lens image scanning method  
A scanner has a light and a scanning module for scanning light from a document and generating an image signal of the document. The scanning module has a plurality of light sensors, and a guiding...
6384950 Optical system for scanning  
An optical system for scanning which facilitates, at a time of assembling a plurality of optical elements forming an optical system for scanning, adjustment of positional relationships between the...
6351325 Fiber-coupled, angled-dual-axis confocal scanning microscopes for imaging in a scattering medium  
This invention provides an angled-dual-axis confocal scanning microscope comprising a fiber-coupled, angled-dual-axis confocal head and a vertical scanning unit. The angled-dual-axis confocal head...
6339490 Optical scanning apparatus  
An optical scanning apparatus having at least one f-θ lens positioned on a rotary device. A collimated light beam is refracted to produce a linear scan by the rotation of the f-θ lens by the...
6330095 Beam scanning apparatus  
A beam scanning apparatus is used for scanning a target region through use of an optical beam. Light emitted from the light source is transformed into a parallel optical beam by a collimator lens....
6320647 Multi-beam light source unit, multi-beam scanner and image forming apparatus  
A multi-beam light source unit is provided with a light source emitting a plurality of light beams from corresponding light emitting points arranged in an array at equal intervals, a collimator...
6310710 High-resolution reading and writing using beams and lenses rotating at equal or double speed  
A scan systems include at least one radiation source for directing at least one beam toward a spinning scan device. The scan device reflects these beams as rotating scan beams to track rotating...
6288815 Light scanner with cylindrical lenses  
A scrolling scan optical band scanner is provided having a scrolling scan optic with a scan function that inherently deviates from an ideal imaging function over wide apertures. Compensation optics...
6249367 Optical apparatus  
An optical apparatus of the present invention is characterized by having a stationary portion, a movable portion having an optical member and a semi-cylindrical shape, the movable portion being...
6239895 Scanning apparatus and method employing a lens spinning on an axis normal to the scan plane  
One or more lenses are revolved around an axis normal to a flat scan plane to provide a scanning mechanism for exposure onto (or reading off of) a flat plane of a substrate. The data for the image...
6233100 Ultra-wide field of view concentric scanning sensor system  
A very compact, high numerical aperture, high resolution, ultra-wide field of view concentric scanning optical sensor. The concentric scanning optical sensor includes a scanning half ball lens...
6232044 Infrared chopper using binary diffractive optics  
A chopper and method of making same, the chopper being fabricated by initially generating a photomask in conjunction with software. The software provides the lens design to be finally stamped onto...
6211989 Light-scanning device  
A light scanning device for exciting and detecting secondary light, especially fluorescent light, on a sample, comprising a light emission device for emitting exciting light with a wavelength...
6201639 Wide field of view and high speed scanning microscopy  
Wide angle, limited rotation, on-axis scanning with a micro objective lens, which is preferably aspheric, and is mounted on a rigid rotary structure that oscillates about a limited arc while a...
6185030 Wide field of view and high speed scanning microscopy  
Wide angle, limited rotation, on-axis scanning with a micro lens that preferably is aspheric. Predetermined defocusing of some wavelengths relative to others in opposite sense to chromatic...
6169622 Optical scanner with a distance adjusting device  
The present invention provides a scanner with an object distance adjusting device that allows effective scanning of documents placed at varying heights over its transparent platform. The scanner...
6144483 Optical scanning with phase shifted beam  
A beam scanning system for scanning an imaging surface includes a phase shifter for issuing phase signals, a radiation emitter for emitting a beam of radiation and a deflection element, such as an...
6144478 Flexible arm piezoelectric lens mover  
Raster output scanners having piezoelectric-activated lens movers comprised of a mounting base, an electrically operated piezoelectric element connected to the mounting base, a flexible linkage...
6141134 Multiple-resolution optical device  
A multiple-resolution optical device used to scan objects of variable sizes in various resolutions and forming corresponding images onto an image sensor is disclosed. The multiple-resolution...
6137615 Optical scanner with adjustable resolution  
An optical scanner with adjustable resolution includes a casing, an optical path means, a driving means and a movable motor. The casing has a scanning path for the optical path means reciprocally...
6128120 Scanning optical system  
A scanning optical system is used to re-form an original image on a CCD line sensor. The optical system has an object side lens unit, a mirror and an image side lens unit. The object side lens unit...
6118600 Lens switch apparatus  
The lens switch apparatus of present invention comprises lens mounts, lenses, a carrier, rotating axes, at least one belt, gears, motion mechanisms and the power sources. The lens mounts include...
6118570 Laser beam scanning optical apparatus  
A laser beam scanning optical apparatus has a focusing lens having different optical powers in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction, moving means for moving the focusing lens...
6115146 Scanning-type image reading device  
A scanning-type image reading device is provided which includes an image sensor, a rotating-type scanning system, a focusing mechanism, and a controller. The controller may control the focusing...
6064504 Scanning optical device  
A scanning optical device includes a light source that emits a light beam; a deflector for deflecting and scanning the light beam from the light source; a scanning lens for converging the deflected...
6049406 Scanner  
A scanner for the acquisition of optical information, in particular bar codes, is proposed, which has a laser device (3), a receiving device (23), which detects laser light (25) reflected from the...
6040944 Precision tunable optical filter  
Tuned optical filters, filter systems, and methods for tuning filters make use of a tilted filter rotated about an oblique axis of a collimating lens or other structure. This rotation varies an...
6005704 Cable driven image steering and focusing device  
A compact image steering and focusing device has a generally rotatable platform that carries a pan/tilt mirror. The rotatable platform, at least one motor driven lens and a camera are mounted on a...
5995269 Optical unit for optically scanning an information surface, and optical scanning arrangement including the optical unit  
An optical unit for optically scanning a surface, particularly an information surface of a recording medium. The unit may include a frame, a radiation source unit, a rotatable mirror unit, and an...
5995268 Multi-beam exposure unit  
According to the present invention, there is provided an improved multi-beam exposure unit using a plurality of beams for scanning, in which shifts between the beams are reduced so that images can...
5995130 Laser beam scanning apparatus and method providing controllable print density  
A laser beam scanning apparatus and method for providing controllable print density. The laser beam scanning apparatus includes a modulator for modulating a light beam, a rotating polygon mirror...
5973828 Confocal scanning microscope with angled objective lenses for improved axial resolution  
A confocal scanning microscope has an illuminating aperture and a detecting aperture whose optical axes intersect at an angle. Multiplication of a predominantly transverse section of the point...
5973814 Optical document scanning method and apparatus with adjustable scanning magnification  
An optical document scanning method and apparatus having a driving system which drives each of the lens groups collectively forming the optical scanning apparatus in an optical axis direction to...
5969845 Device and method for determining resolution of a multiple resolution scanner  
The present invention provides a device and a method for determining the resolution of a multiple resolution scanner. The scanner comprises a housing with a transparent platform for placing a...
5959759 Multiple beam scanning optical system  
An optical unit provided between a plurality of light sources and a deflecting system in a multiple beam scanning optical system in which the appropriate intensity and appropriate intensity...
5952650 Scanning optical device having a movable compound optical system  
A scanning optical device includes a light source unit, a deflector for deflectively scanning a light beam from the light source unit, a photodetector, and a compound optical system. In the...
5946123 Scan-range-changing mechanism of a scanner  
A scan-range-changing mechanism of a scanner includes a scanning-scale ruler, a charge coupled device (CCD), a sliding seat which supports single-axis or two-axis moving capabilities, a plurality...
5943153 Lens holding apparatus and a light-beam scanning optical apparatus  
A scanning optical apparatus has a convex cylindrical lens and a concave cylindrical lens between a light source for emitting a light beam and a polygon mirror. The cylindrical lenses condense the...
5909236 Laser exposure apparatus  
A laser exposure apparatus for exposing exposure material (6), such as light-sensitive offset printing plates. The apparatus comprises a relatively heavy base member and an optical scanning unit...
5877494 Beam error correction using movable correction element  
A scanning system for scanning an imaging surface includes a radiation emitter configured to emit a beam of radiation directed towards a deflector for scanning the beam onto the imaging surface. A...
5864418 Multi-beam scanner with mechanically moving element for scanning imaging surfaces  
A multibeam scanning system for scanning an imaging surface, includes at least one radiation emitter configured to emit a first beam of radiation and a second beam of radiation. A spin deflector,...
5856879 Image scanning device  
An image scanning device is provided that includes an imaging lens, a linear image sensor that outputs a line image signal, a rotatable scanning mirror that deflects light towards the image sensor...
5844708 Light bead generating apparatus  
A light bead generating apparatus has a point light source (11) and a variable optical system (12, 13) of variable focal length, by means of which the point light source (11) is imaged via a light...
5828481 Mid-objective laser scanner  
A Mid-Objective scanner system for correcting astigmatism, bow distortion and field curvature including a tilted lens or a toric lens for producing an opposite amount of astigmatism to correct...
5828479 Cascade scanning optical system  
A cascade scanning optical system which includes: a pair of laser scanning optical systems each having a laser beam emitter and a laser beam deflector, wherein a laser beam emitted by the laser...
5808774 Method of correcting curvature of image surface and optical beam scanning apparatus for use with the same  
In an optical beam scanning apparatus in which an optical beam from a light source impinges upon a deflecting system and a deflected optical beam from said deflecting system scans a...
5754328 Mid-objective laser scanner  
A method for correcting astigmatism, bow distortion and field curvature using a Mid-Objective scanner system wherein the system includes a tilted lens or a toric lens for producing an opposite...
5742421 Split lens video display system  
A miniature visual display has an optical lens system with at least two separated lens elements positioned to admit a scanning mirror between them. The scanning mirror is driven with an oscillatory...
5734490 Microoptical components and optomechanical microdeflectors with microlens displacement  
A microoptical component including a microlens having a focal axis and a microbeam to which said microlens, is integrally fixed said microbeam extending along an axis substantially perpendicular to...
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