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7474475 Optical lens, optical package having the same, backlight assembly having the same, display device having the same, and method thereof  
An optical lens includes a recessed part and a refracting part. The recessed part has a substantially circular plan view and a substantially V shaped cross-section. The recessed part forms an angle...
7463426 Image pickup apparatus  
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element and an optical system configured to form an image on the image pickup element. The optical system includes, in order from an object side...
7463422 Projection exposure apparatus  
A method of determining materials of lenses contained in an optical system of a projection exposure apparatus is described. First, for each lens of a plurality of the lenses, a susceptibility...
7458735 Image-taking lens unit  
An image-taking lens unit has an image-taking lens system that forms an optical image of an object and an image sensor that receives the optical image in a rectangular image-sensing region and...
7457034 High NA system for multiple mode imaging  
A system for multiple mode imaging is disclosed. The catadioptric system has an NA greater than 0.65, and preferably greater than 0.9, highly corrected for low and high order monochromatic...
7457051 Imaging apparatus  
The present invention provides an imaging apparatus capable of imaging a wide area, controlling parallax to achieve an excellent image quality, and utilizing an imaging element with a relatively...
7447136 Optical pickup and optical disc apparatus  
An optical pickup includes a light source for emitting a light beam; an objective lens for condensing the light beam emitted from the light source and irradiating an optical recording medium with...
7441897 Optical imaging apparatus  
An optical imaging apparatus, in particular an ophthalmoscope or microscope or transillumination microscope, comprising a light source arrangement ( 20 ) and an illumination beam path ( 3 ) which...
7443599 Magnification varying optical system and image taking apparatus  
A magnification varying optical system that directs light from an object to an image sensor includes in order from the object side: a first lens unit having negative optical power and including an...
7443608 Uniform diffuse omni-directional reflecting lens  
A transparent multi-layer lens construction to be worn as a sunglass lens, or a fashion lens, that reflects light in a diffuse manner. The multi-layer lens construction is, in part, a combination...
7440190 Device for reshaping a laser beam  
A device for reshaping a laser beam may include a first optical element to receive the laser beam. The device may also include a second optical element to invert and reshape the laser beam to...
7436599 Electronic image pickup system  
The invention relates to an electronic image pickup system whose depth dimension is extremely reduced, taking advantage of an optical system type that can overcome conditions imposed on the...
7433134 Lens for sideward light emission  
A lens defines central axis, and includes a light receiving surface, a light reflecting surface, and a light exiting surface. The light reflecting surface is opposite to the light receiving surface...
7420750 Catadioptric single camera systems having radial epipolar geometry and methods and means thereof  
Catadioptric single camera systems capable of sampling the lightfield of a scene from a locus of circular viewpoints and the methods thereof are described. The epipolar lines of the system are...
7417800 Zoom lens system  
A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, a positive third lens group and positive fourth lens group, in this order from the object. The negative first...
7414781 Catoptric objectives and systems using catoptric objectives  
In general, in a first aspect, the invention features a system that includes a microlithography projection optical system. The microlithography projection optical system includes a plurality of...
7411744 Obstacle-detectable mobile robotic device  
An obstacle-detectable mobile robotic device includes a frame body capable of traveling on a surface, a control circuit mounted to the frame body for controlling the traveling manner and direction...
7411737 Projection optical system  
A projection optical system for projecting, while enlarging, an image formed on an image formation surface onto an image projection surface from an oblique direction relative thereto has at least...
7405882 Image display device and projector  
Aspects of the invention can provide an image display device for modulating light from a light source on the basis of display image data to display an image. The image display device can include a...
7403343 Panoramic attachment optical system, and panoramic optical system  
The invention relates to a panoramic attachment optical system and a panoramic optical system for taking an image having a full 360°-direction angle of view or projecting an image at a full...
7391580 Ultra compact mono-bloc catadioptric imaging lens  
A mono-bloc catadioptric imaging lens comprising a solid body and a single-focal Maksutov type construction characterized by two refractive surfaces and two reflective surfaces wherein all surfaces...
7375905 Optical unit and image pickup apparatus having the same  
An optical unit for forming an object image according to the present invention includes: a reflection member for bending an optical axis of the optical unit; a front lens group arranged closer to...
7369329 Producing distinguishable light in the presence of ambient light  
A process and apparatus for producing distinguishable light, in the presence of ambient light is disclosed. The process involves admitting light in a first wavelength band through a first light...
7369328 Optical path change type optical coupling element  
A resin molding body has two faces (front face 15 and lower face 19 ) perpendicular to each other, and also has a total reflecting face 23 approximately having an angle of 45° with respect to...
7369327 Variable optical-property element and optical apparatus including the same  
A variable optical-property element includes a liquid crystal the pitch of twist is less than 60 times the wavelength of light used, so that a spatially uneven electric or magnetic field or...
7362517 Rotationally asymmetric optical system  
The invention relates to a rotationally asymmetric optical system which includes at least one reflecting surface rotationally symmetric about a center axis, is rotationally symmetric about the...
7362516 Optical lens providing omni-directional coverage and illumination  
The invention presents a wide-angle imaging assembly which comprises a main lens produced from an aspheric optical block. The aspheric optical block comprises a vertical axis of symmetry; a...
7352510 Light-pipe integrator for uniform irradiance and intensity  
Two integrating light pipes are optically coupled to a focusing element to produce light with uniform irradiance and intensity profiles. The first ILP stage is used to receive spatially non-uniform...
7349163 High-heat-dissipation lighting module  
There is provided a lighting module of the type having a solid-state light source, in particular a LED, a supporting plate, and a lens; the lens has a recess housing the light source; the lens is...
7345816 Optical microscope  
An optical microscope includes a light source which irradiates a sample with illuminating light. A mirror, which has a variable reflection surface, reflects the illuminating light. A correction...
7339753 Light scanning apparatus and imaging apparatus  
In a light scanning apparatus including an optical system including a beam deflection means therein and a one-dimensional light modulation device, the one-dimensional light modulation device is...
7336431 Image reading device and image forming device  
A device includes a light source; a first guiding unit that guides the light from the light source to an object at prescribed incident angles including a first incident angle and a second incident...
7329887 Solid state light device  
A photon emitting device comprises a plurality of solid state radiation sources to generate radiation. The solid state radiation sources can be disposed in an array pattern. Optical concentrators,...
7330314 Color combiner for solid-state light sources  
An illumination apparatus has first and second optical condenser systems sharing a common aperture. The first optical condenser system has a first solid-state light source having a first spectral...
7317583 High numerical aperture projection system and method for microlithography  
The present invention relates to a high numerical aperture exposure system having a wafer. The exposure system in the present invention includes a beam-splitter, a reticle, a reticle optical group,...
7312933 Rectangular monobloc optical lens and manufacturing method thereof  
A rectangular monobloc optical lens and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. A monobloc optical lens includes a rectangular surround and a central mirror-surface area. The rectangular...
7307797 Zoom lens system, lens barrel, imaging device and camera  
A zoom lens system comprising a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element, wherein an interval between at least any two lens units is changed so that an optical image is...
7301690 Micro-optical arrangement  
The invention relates to a micro-optical arrangement with which in particular optical properties of an optical element or its influencing of electromagnetic radiation may be changed. Thereby the...
7298392 Omni-directional camera design for video conferencing  
An omni-directional camera array that is very small and unobtrusive and allows for higher pixel resolution for the face of meeting participants sitting or standing around a conference room table,...
7295385 Variable, homogenizing optical splitter apparatus and method  
An apparatus and method for receiving a Gaussian profile optical input signal and splitting the input signal into two or more homogenized, top-hat profile output beams. In one embodiment first and...
7289277 Relay lens used in an illumination system of a lithography system  
A relay lens is provided in an illumination system for use in microlithography. The relay lens can be used to uniformly illuminate a field at a reticle by telecentric light beams with variable...
7283313 Bulk-shaped lens, light-emitting unit, and lighting equipment  
The lens embraces a bulk-shaped lens body identified by a top surface, a bottom surface and a contour surface, and a well-shaped concavity is implemented in the inside of the lens body, aligned...
7283294 Catadioptric projection optical system, exposure apparatus having the same, device fabrication method  
A catadioptric optical system comprising a first imaging optical system including a concave mirror and forming an intermediate image of a first object, said first imaging optical system forming a...
7280288 Composite optical lens with an integrated reflector  
A composite optical lens is disclosed. The composite optical lens includes a concave bottom surface adapted to receive light, reflective surface adapted to reflect the received light, and optical...
7276702 Light receiving device for model, model, and signal light detecting method for model  
A light receiving device 7 includes a sensor 10 for outputting a signal correlating to incident light on a detection surface 10 a and a light receiving element 8 disposed in confrontation...
7274517 Micromirror array lens with focal length gradient  
An optical system includes a refractive lens system and a micromirror array lens with angled positioning to improve light efficiency. The micromirror array lens is optically coupled to the...
7274565 Information processing unit and information processing related units  
A labor of disconnecting many cables is omitted even when carrying a file basestation with an external storage loaded together with a main body. An information processing unit comprises: a main...
7268951 Optical beam splitter  
An optical beam splitter ( 1 ) for a light beam ( 2 ) that is parallel along a beam axis (A) has a transparent central area ( 3 ) and a plurality of reflecting reflector surfaces ( 4 a , 4 b ) that...
7268956 Solid catadioptric lens with two viewpoints  
A dual viewpoint solid catadioptric lens has a first spherical refractive surface S 1 having a center C 1 located on an optical axis of the lens and having a radius r 1 , and a second spherical...
7239453 Projection optical system and projection exposure apparatus  
A catadioptric projection optical system includes a first optical system, for receiving light from an object, a second optical system, for forming an image of the object on an image plane, and a...