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8111438 |
Optical pattern generator using multiple reflective surfaces
An optical pattern generator uses reflection from multiple (e.g., two) internal mirror surfaces mounted on a rotating support structure.
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8081362 |
Method and apparatus for stabilizing galvanometer scanner
A galvanometer scanner includes a mechanical support unit engaged with a far end of an optical element. A near end of the optical element is connected to an output shaft of an electric rotary...
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8050520 |
Method for creating a pixel image from sampled data of a scanned beam imager
A method for creating a pixel image in a two-dimensional display coordinate system from sampled data derived from a collector of a scanned beam imager adapted to transmit a beam of radiation which...
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7855818 |
Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus
In an optical scanning apparatus, an aperture is provided between a semiconductor laser in a light source unit and an oscillating mirror, and between a cylindrical lens and the oscillating mirror....
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7804058 |
Optical tweezers controlling device
An optical tweezers controlling device including a light source, an objective lens and a focus adjusting unit is provided. The focus adjusting unit disposed between the light source and the...
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7804056 |
Energy signal processing system
An energy signal processing system (10) includes a first shaft assembly (14) rotatable about an azimuth axis (16), and a second shaft assembly (18) coaxially mounted for rotation about the azimuth...
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7786432 |
Apparatus and method for changing optical tweezers
An apparatus and a method for changing optical tweezers are provided. The apparatus includes a diffractive optical element (DOE), a mask unit and an objective lens. The DOE includes a plurality of...
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7755824 |
Micromirror unit with torsion connector having nonconstant width
A micromirror unit is provided which includes a frame, a mirror forming base upon which a mirror surface is formed, and a torsion connector which includes a first end connected to the mirror...
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7746528 |
Beam irradiation apparatus, beam irradiation method, and method for manufacturing thin film transistor
A galvanometer mirror rotates in one direction when the galvanometer mirror is used. A spot can be scanned on an irradiated surface at a more constant speed by rotating the galvanometer mirror and...
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7706041 |
Scanning module of image scanner
A scanning module of an image scanner for scanning a document includes a base, a reflective mirror stand mounted on the base, a shaft rotatably mounted on the reflective mirror stand, a reflective...
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7696472 |
***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Energy signal processing system
An energy signal processing system (10) includes a first shaft assembly (14) rotatable about an azimuth axis (16), and a second shaft assembly (18) coaxially mounted for rotation about the azimuth...
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7692837 |
Deflection device and imaging apparatus
A deflection device includes a tabular object for transmitting or reflecting an electromagnetic wave, a drive unit for driving the tabular object so as to rotate or perform a translation motion,...
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7688492 |
Laser processing apparatus
Disclosed is a laser processing apparatus for minimizing generation of sludge and enhancing the processing efficiency while processing an object. The laser processing apparatus includes a beam...
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7599075 |
Automatic optical inspection using multiple objectives
Apparatus and techniques for automated optical inspection (AOI) utilizing image scanning modules with multiple objectives for each camera are provided. A scanning mechanism includes optical...
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7586676 |
Optical device with increased depth of field
An optical device for imaging a specimen (16) has a main objective (2) and a device (120) for modifying depth of field, the device (120) representing a micromirror array (5′) having micromirrors (...
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7556389 |
Pointable optical system with coude optics having a short on-gimbal path length
A coude gimbal structure includes a two-axis gimbal system having an outer gimbal pivotable about a first rotational axis, and an inner gimbal supported on the outer gimbal and pivotable about a...
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7517096 |
Projection display system with micro-mirror light modulator
A micro-mirror light modulator and associated projection display system. The projection display system includes a light source, a linear light source illumination system that transforms a light...
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7473387 |
Method of and apparatus for forming nozzles
A nozzle in a nozzle plate for an inkjet printhead is formed by directing a laser beam at a nozzle plate. Accurate control of the divergence of the beam is achieved by splitting the beam into...
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7468826 |
Silicon mirrors having reduced hinge stress from temperature variations
A device such as a mirror assembly comprises a movable structure (41) having a first movable portion (45) hinged to a frame portion (43) by a first pair of torsional hinges (47A and 47B) spaced...
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7466468 |
Two-dimensional spatial radiation modulator
A two dimensional spatial radiation modulator rotated about a rotation axis to modulate components of an incident radiation beam to encode the beam. The modulator includes sub-regions in a first...
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7463396 |
Confocal optical scanning device
The invention concerns a confocal optical scanning device comprising a mobile scanning mirror, reflection on one side 101(b) compensating reflection on the opposite side 101(a) after passing...
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7453619 |
Rotary optical delay line
Disclosed herein is an optical delay line. The optical delay line includes a body and at least one wing, which constitute a rotating body that rotates around a rotational axis. The rotational wing...
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7411714 |
Micromirror unit with torsion connector having nonconstant width
A micromirror unit is provided which includes a frame, a mirror forming base upon which a mirror surface is formed, and a torsion connector which includes a first end connected to the mirror...
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7405862 |
Spatial light modulator having a cantilever anti-stiction mechanism
A spatial light modulator includes a mirror plate comprising a reflective upper surface, a louver surface having a recess in the lower surface, a first cavity having an opening on the lower...
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7360928 |
Tilting device
A tilting device is disclosed which tilts the light reflected from a Digital Micro-mirror device by a certain angle and projects it to a screen. The tilting device, comprising a first reflector...
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7307771 |
Gimbal with orbiting mirror
A gimbal for a gimbaled mirror optical sensor system includes a mirror support rotatable about a first axis along which an optical sensor suite lies, the first axis being spaced apart from a...
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7286273 |
Light deflecting device
An object of the present invention is to provide an optical deflecting device capable of suppressing undesirable vibrations of an optical deflecting element such as a mirror and allowing a...
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7256896 |
Method for verifying scan precision of a laser measurement machine
A method for verifying scan precision of a laser measurement machine includes the steps of: preparing a transparent flat, of which the flatness of each plane is regarded as a flatness conventional...
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7256919 |
Rotational micro mirror
A rotational micro mirror is rapidly driven, has a large driving angle, and is structurally stable. The rotational micro mirror includes: a substrate; a reflection plate which is rotatable and...
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7230701 |
Compact spectroscopic ellipsometer
The invention concerns an ellipsometer comprising: a source (2) capable of emitting a broadband ray (4), a polarizer (10) for producing a polarised incident beam (12) adapted to illuminate a sample...
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7129460 |
Electronic imaging apparatus with high resolution and wide field of view and method
Electronic imaging apparatus includes a main mirror that rotates about two transverse axes to reflect light for an array of subimages through a lens to a correcting mirror that reflects the light...
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7126250 |
Apparatus comprising an array of tightly spaced rotatable optical elements with two axes of rotation
In one embodiment, a rotatable element includes a plate, a plate support, a cradle, and a cradle support. The plate is coupled to the cradle via the plate support. The cradle is coupled to a...
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7116465 |
Micromirror device
There is provided a micromirror device, which is provided with a mirror layer including a mirror surface which is supported to be rotatable around a first axis passing through a center of the...
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7068409 |
Tip-tilt-piston actuator
A freely rotatable micromechanical plate is achieved by employing at least three rotatable plates that are each suspended from a substrate via respective springs, and are coupled via other...
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7046412 |
Scanning optical delay line using a reflective element arranged to rotate
A method and apparatus delays an optical input using a scanning optical delay line. The scanning optical delay line includes an optical input and an optical output. A reflective element is arranged...
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7042610 |
Method and apparatus for improved waveplates and suppression of stray light in LCoS kernel applications
Optical components are louvered with a light absorptive material that absorbs stray light rays. The louvers are constructed, for example, using a “black” thin film coating between sheets of gla...
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7023604 |
Three dimensional optical switches and beam steering modules
A beam steering module comprised of a mirror stack array in close proximity to a collimator array controllably steers photons along two axis and in a direction substantially less than 90 degrees to...
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6999208 |
Optical scanner, optical scanning method, scanning image forming optical system, optical scanning lens and image forming apparatus
An optical scanner which performs optical scanning of a surface to be scanned by deflecting a luminous flux having a wavelength λ from a light source by means of an optical deflector, and ...
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6982504 |
Galvanometer motor with composite stator assembly
A limited rotation torque motor is disclosed including a rotor with at least one pair of magnetic poles and a stator with at least one pair of stator coils. Each stator coil includes a plurality of...
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6974930 |
Laser scanner
Disclosed is a device for machining a workpiece transportable in a chosen direction in accordance with a selected pattern by a focussed laser beam. The device includes a scanner with a converging...
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6975787 |
Non-linear method for micro-mirror control
Described is a method for controlling the angular position of a mirror. The method includes sensing the angular position of the mirror, generating a first linear control signal in response to the...
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6972884 |
Mirror device, optical switch, electronic instrument and mirror device driving method
To provide a mirror device, an optical switch, an electronic instrument, and a mirror device driving method in which a large driving displacement can be produced for a mirror with a smaller driving...
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6959132 |
One-to-M wavelength routing element
Retroreflecting elements adapted for use in one-to-M wavelength routing elements are provided. Each retroreflecting element is configured to retroreflect an optical ray that is orthogonal to a...
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6937131 |
Self-shadowing MEM structures
Self-shadowed microelectromechanical structures such as self-shadowed bond pads, fuses and compliant members and a method of fabricating self-shadowing microelectromechanical structures that...
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6928195 |
Palm scanner using a programmable nutating mirror for increased resolution
A system and method for increasing image resolution in a palm print scanner. The method of the invention requires the synchronization of a nutating mirror with a camera frame sync. A first image is...
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6873448 |
Optical path switching apparatus
Each of light beam switching elements disposed between input and output fiber collimators includes a support member, a first reflection member mounted on the peripheral portion of the support...
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6873755 |
Wavelength router with staggered input/output fibers
An optical routing apparatus and method that achieves improved optical signal reintegration is disclosed. The optical routing apparatus includes an input port, such as may be provided at the end of...
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6843568 |
Projection apparatus
The present invention is based on the finding that the previous column and row representation in the scanning image projection has to be given up, in order to enable that the ratio between row and...
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6798548 |
Apparatus for rotating a laser
Disclosed is a rotational laser apparatus capable of setting an obliquity without requiring a high accuracy light receiver or a complex optical system for separating different polarized fluxes. The...
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6788807 |
Three dimensional information measurement method and apparatus
Method and apparatus for measuring three dimensional information of a target placed in an interior space of a rotator type mirror by using the rotator type mirror in combination with an imaging...
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