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|21st week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 27
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|Device and Method for Measuring Luminescence - An optical device for measuring luminescence includes a pulse generator for generating a periodic modulation signal having rectangular pulses, a pulse duration of the pulse being variably adjustable, an illumination device and/or means for illuminating an object under investigation with excitation radiation modulated in a pulse-like manner depending on the modulation signal, and a time-of-flight camera for phase-sensitive detection of a luminescence response emitted by the object under investigation in response to the excitation radiation. The modulation signal is supplied as reference signal to the time-of-flight camera. A method of measuring luminescence includes generating the periodic modulation signal having rectangular pulses, generating the signal-dependent, pulse-modulated excitation radiation, illuminating the object with the radiation, providing the modulation signal as reference signal to the camera, and performing phase-sensitive detection with the camera of the luminescence response emitted by the object in response to the excitation radiation for different pulse durations.
|INSPECTION METHOD FOR BONDED WAFER USING LASER - Provided is a bonded wafer inspection method using a laser method allowing a simple and reliable test in an examination of a bonded wafer interface using a laser. To do this, a laser used bonded wafer inspection method includes, emitting a laser beam through a laser means, diffusing the emitted laser beam by a laser diffusion means, illuminating the diffused laser beam on a bonded wafer, and detecting a laser beam illuminated and transmitted at the bonded wafer using a detecting means. In a case a bonded wafer inspection method using a laser of the invention is used, defects by a foreign substance occurring at an interface of a bonded wafer is can be examined in a simple way and thus high work performance may be expected.
|EFFICIENT TELECENTRIC OPTICAL SYSTEM (ETOS) - A new architecture for machine vision system that uses area sensor (or line sensor), with telecentric imaging optics compound with telecentric illumination module is described. The illumination module may include a bright field illumination source and/or a dark field illumination source. The telecentric imaging optics includes an upper imaging module having an aperture stop and a lower imaging module positioned between the upper imaging module and object, such that the light source and the aperture stop are located in the back focal plane of the lower imaging module. The lower imaging module images the illumination source into a plane of an aperture stop of the upper imaging module. The optical axis of the upper imaging module is offset with respect to the lower imaging module. The optical axis of the telecentric illumination module is offset with respect to the axis of the lower imaging module in the opposite direction.
|GUIDED MODE RESONATOR BASED RAMAN ENHANCEMENT APPARATUS - A system for performing Raman spectroscopy comprises a waveguide layer configured with at least one array of features, the at least one array of features being configured to provide guided-mode resonance for at least one wavelength of electromagnetic radiation; and at least one fluid channel disposed in the waveguide layer. An analyte sensor comprises an electromagnetic radiation source configured to emit a range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, the system for performing Raman spectroscopy, and at least one photodetector configured to detect Raman scattered light.
|PROCESSES FOR RAPID MICROFABRICATION USING THERMOPLASTICS AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method is provided to prepare one or more microfluidic channels on a receptive material by applying an image-forming material to a heat sensitive thermoplastic receptive material in a designed pattern and heating the material under conditions that reduce the size of the thermoplastic receptive material by at least about 60%. In an alternative aspect, the microfluidic channels on receptive material are prepared by etching a designed pattern into a heat sensitive thermoplastic material support and then heating the material under conditions that reduce the size of the thermoplastic receptive material by at least about 60%.
|APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE-PULSE IMPULSIVE STIMULATED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY - Spectroscopic measurements are described based on light-molecule interaction in response to a resonant rate optical pulse train so that a Raman spectrum is reflected containing at least two types of vibrational mode information (e.g., vibrational frequency, and vibrational phase relaxation) on the molecules comprising the object. A pump optical pulse train generation means is configured for generating an optical pulse train having an arbitrary repetition rate which is directed through irradiation means to the sample object. Light from the sample object is collected and vibrational coherence is detected for the sample object. The sample is tested across a plurality of different repetition frequencies. The detected information can be compared with data from other known samples from within a database when analyzing the information collected.
|SPECTRAL MODULE - The present invention provides a highly reliable spectral module. The spectral module (
|OBJECT CHARACTERISTIC MEASUREMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method for measuring object characteristics, wherein the method is capable of overcoming the interference induced bye the phase difference of the background with respect to the measuring system so as to measure the tiny characteristics such as the retardance or azimuth angle of an object accurately. The method is capable of obtaining two sets of light intensity images having retardance of background and the object respectively by simultaneously rotating the retarding elements and analyzer in various rotating angle combinations, and analyzing and calculating upon the polarized light intensities of the images associated with the background and the object so as to obtain actual retardance and azimuth angle of the object without the affect of the background retardance.
|Optical Reflectometry Setup - In the present invention, we present a robust technical approach of how the use of a modified detector set-up eliminates a complication in relation to the usage of prism-based optical reflectometry in contact with liquid sample suspension. Additionally we disclose how molecular interactions at a solid-liquid interface can be investigated simultaneously using optical reflectometry. combined with other techniques that do not have technical interference with reflectometry when sharing the same solid sensing surface, for instance with a quartz crystal microbalance of some suitable type.
|OPTICAL MEASURING UNIT AND METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A REFLECTIVE MEASUREMENT - The invention is an optical measuring unit (
|DEVICES AND METHODS FOR OPTICAL DETECTION - An optical detection system for sensing one or more samples is provided. The optical detection system comprises a broadband light source that emits a beam comprising a continuous spectrum over a range of wavelengths; a fluidic cell comprising one or more channels that positions the sample so that at least a portion of the beam is directed on the sample to produce a back reflected beam; and a spectrometer that analyzes an interference spectrum of the beam back reflected from the sample.
|SPECTRAL OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY - The invention relates to an apparatus for generating a scannable optical delay for a beam of light and an apparatus for Fourier domain optical coherence tomography having said apparatus for generating a scannable optical delay in its reference arm (
|OFFICIAL SYSTEM FOR ILLUMINATING A MEASURED OBJECT AND INTERFEROMETRIC SYSTEM FOR MEASURING SURFACES OF A MEASURED OBJECT - An interferometric system for measuring surfaces of a measured object using an optical system. The optical system has a beam splitter, which directs measuring beams in a first beam path and measuring beams in a second beam path onto the surfaces of the measured object with the aid of two mirrors. The beam paths which are formed by the light beams which are reflected on the surfaces at least partially overlap in an area having identical beam direction. In this manner, measured surfaces of the measured object are at least partially imaged on an identically irradiated surface of a detector, such as an image recorder.
|METHOD FOR OPTICALLY ENHANCED HOLOGRAHIC INTERFEROMETRIC TESTING FOR TEST AND EVALUATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND MATERIALS - Improved methods and systems for inspection imaging for holographic or interferometric semiconductor test and evaluation through all phases of manufacture. Specifically, systems and methods for extending the range of optical holographic interferometric inspection for evaluating microelectronic devices and the interplay of electromagnetic signals and dynamic stresses to the semiconductor material are provided in which an enhanced imaging method provides continuous and varying magnification over a plurality of interleaved optical pathways and imaging devices. Analysis of one or more holographic interference patterns displays internal and external stresses and the various effects of such stresses upon the operating characteristics of features within the feature or interior structures or internal surfaces of the semiconductor material or wafer.
|TURBIDITY SUPPRESSION BY OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION USING A SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR - A detector of light transmitted through a turbid medium, comprising: one or more Digital Optical Phase Conjugation (DOPC) devices, wherein the DOPC devices include (1) a sensor for detecting input light that has been transmitted through the turbid medium and inputted on the sensor; and (2) a spatial light modulator (SLM) for outputting, in response to the input light detected by the sensor, output light that is an optical phase conjugate of the input light.
|Self-Referenced Optical Fiber Sensor with Stimulated Brillouin Scattering - A sensor is used to measure a physical quantity and includes at least: a measurement optical fiber including at least one Bragg grating; optical means designed to inject, into the fiber, a first, "pump" wave at a first optical frequency and a second, "probe" wave at a second optical frequency, the second optical frequency being different from the first optical frequency, the Bragg grating being designed to reflect the first and second optical waves, and the optical power of the first wave being sufficient to give, after interaction with the second wave reflected by stimulated Brillouin scattering, a "Stokes" wave, the frequency of which is representative of the physical quantity to be measured; and means for analyzing the difference in frequency between the two, "pump" and "Stokes", optical waves. The sensor may notably be used as a hydrophone.
|APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A HEIGHT MAP OF A SURFACE THROUGH BOTH INTERFEROMETRIC AND NON-INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS - The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for determining a height map of a surface of an object. The apparatus can include positioning means for the object, a light source, an optical detector for converting the received light into electrical signals, first optics for directing light from the light source to the surface and for directing the light from the surface to the optical detector, a beam splitter located between the first optics and the surface, a reference mirror, second optics located between the beam splitter an the mirror for directing the light from the beam splitter to the mirror and from the mirror to the beam splitter, scanning means, processing means that converts the signal from the optical detector into a height map. The beam splitter can be a polarizing beam splitter. A controllable polarization controller can be located between the light source and the first optics.
|APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING PRESSURE-SENSITIVE DEVICES - A testing and analysis system for a pressure-sensitive device (
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A HEIGHT OF A NUMBER OF SPATIAL POSITIONS ON A SAMPLE - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining a height of a number of spatial positions on a sample, defining a height map of a surface of said sample. The method can involve irradiating the surface of the sample with light including a spatial periodic pattern in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis and moving parallel to the pattern, scanning the surface in the direction of the optical axis for each position of the surface and detecting the light reflected by the sample by a detector during the scanning. In any scanning position, only a single image is taken, and the scanning speed has a predetermined relation to the phase of the periodic pattern. Analyzing an output signal of the detector can involve, for each spatial position of the detector, determining of an amplitude of the signal detected during the scanning and determining a scanning location where the amplitude is maximal.
|OPTICAL PACKAGE ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS AND PROTOCOLS - Methods of positioning an optical unit in an optical package are provided. According to one method, a partially assembled optical package is provided. The wavelength conversion device within the package comprises a conversion layer having a waveguide portion formed therein. The optical unit is coarse-positioned in the optical package to direct light from the laser diode to the wavelength conversion device in the form of a beam spot on an input face of the wavelength conversion device. The intensity of the frequency-converted optical signal output from the wavelength conversion device is monitored as the position of the optical unit is modified to 1D scan the beam spot along a portion of a crossing axis Y
|SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS USED FOR OPTICAL SIGNAL OUTPUT DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISPLACEMENT DETECTION SYSTEM - A signal processing apparatus includes a first signal processing unit and a second signal processing unit. The first signal processing unit executes a first predetermined operation with respect to first and second signal groups and to extract a first component having a predetermined characteristic when an optical signal output device is in a normal state, the first signal group whose amplitude or direct current component gradually increases with a predetermined direction displacement of a displacement detection target, the second signal group whose amplitude or direct current component gradually decreases with the predetermined direction displacement of the displacement detection target. The second signal processing unit executes a second predetermined operation with respect to the first and second signal groups and to extract an output containing a second component, which is peculiar to an optional position of the displacement detection target.
|MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE ACQUISITION OF THE LAYER THICKNESS OF DUST IN VENTILATION DUCTS - A monitoring system is disclosed, designed to detect the depth of deposition of a substance on a′ surface (
|OUTBOUND DOCUMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-based system and method enables an item to be mailed by providing a web site offering access to a mail delivery program, receiving a request for delivering the item with Extra service status, printing an identification number and a postage mark using the program based on address, postage, and other information entered by a customer, and sending an electronic data transmission to a postal service server informing the postal service that the identification number corresponds to the Extra service request. When the postal service receives the item, it accesses its computer records to locate the identification number. Delivery is then performed based on one or more Extra services requested and a corresponding electronic return receipt is made accessible to the mailing party, either by e-mail or on a web site. The postage mark and identification number may be printed on a label affixed to the item or may be printed directly on the item along with other information.
|Technique for Image Data Recording - In an image output control system, an image processing device processes image data in accordance with a preset series of image processing and supplies processed image data to an image output device, which outputs the processed image. The image processing device determines the number of dots to be created in each pixel group, which has a preset number of multiple pixels included in an image, and outputs the number of dots as dot number data to the output device. In response to the dot number data, the output device selects one among multiple options for a priority order of individual pixels included in each pixel group, determines the positions of dot-on pixels in the pixel group, and creates dots at the determined positions of the dot-on pixels to output an image. In the image output control system, the image processing device supplies the dot number data to the output device.
|SPECTRAL GAMUT MAPPING BY CONSTRAINED SUBDIVISION OF GAMUT - Color management in which a spectral gamut is determined for spectral gamut mapping by constructing subdivisions of a set of samples spanning the spectral gamut. The samples are designated by specifying device values and are subdivided based on their lightness, chroma and hue under a reference illuminant such that the number of samples in each subdivision is limited by a predetermined number. A color value to be spectrally gamut mapped is accepted, and converted into a colorimetric value under the reference illuminant. The converted colorimetric value includes a lightness, a chroma and a hue. Subdivisions within a tolerance of the converted colorimetric value are identified using its lightness, chroma and hue. Samples within the identified subdivisions are searched to find a sample that matches acceptably to the color value relative to an objective function.
|IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus determines whether a color image is formed by reading an original with a reading unit or input from an external apparatus, and sets a conversion method for converting the color image into a monochrome image such that when an image obtained by monochrome converting the color image is output onto a recording medium, security information included in the color image is difficult to be discriminated by human eyes, if the color image is formed by reading an original. If the color image is input from the external apparatus, the image processing apparatus sets a monochrome conversion method selected by a user. The apparatus then converts the color image into a monochrome image by the set monochrome conversion method.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus has a calibration mode in which a calibration image is formed on a print medium to correct image forming conditions. The image forming apparatus detects print medium information to determine, on the basis of the print medium information, whether the print medium is a sheet recommended as a print medium for use in the calibration mode. The image forming apparatus sets calibration conditions corresponding to the determined recommended sheet. The image forming apparatus corrects the image forming conditions on the basis of the set calibration conditions.
|RECORDING CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A host computer is connected to a printer that prints text according to settings specifying a text printing format. Using a function of a driver setup program, the host computer acquires a file set including an MOT file (recording device settings data) and a corresponding INF file (control device settings data) that are configured to produce the same or substantially the same printout as a printer with different printing format specifications, and configures settings stored in a registry that is referenced by a printer driver based on the acquired INF file. Using a function of a firmware setup program, the host computer generates or updates settings based on the MOT file.
|IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In the case of transmitting an image data, a controller causes a re-destination storage to store an identification number of a destination. Thereafter, when a user presses a re-destination key long, a display controlling section causes a display device to display a confirmation screen to let the user confirm whether or not to delete the identification number stored as a re-destination. If the user depresses an OK key, a re-destination deleting section deletes the identification number stored in the re-destination storage.
|CONTROL OF A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A system for controlling a communications device is disclosed. A printer prints on a surface visual information relating to at least one operation of the communications device and coded data portions. Each coded data portion encodes a region identifier which uniquely identifies a region on the surface, and a portion identifier which uniquely identifies the coded data portion. A sensing device placed in an operative position relative to the coded data portions, generate indicating data regarding the region identifier and the portion identifier. A computer system receives the indicating data and determines an operation associated with the region identifier and the portion identifier. Finally, the computer system sends one or more commands to the communications device, thereby effecting the at least one operation.
|Scanning and Capturing Digital Images Using Layer Detection - A mechanism for scanning and capturing digital images using document layer detection. Upon detecting a document placed on a scanning surface of a scanning device, the illustrative embodiments identify one or more layers within the document. The illustrative embodiments then scan the one or more layers within the document on a layer by layer basis.
|PAGE PARALLEL RIP PRINTING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for operating a page parallel RIP printing system including a plurality of image marking engines (IMEs). According to an exemplary method, a print job is split into a plurality of job chunks, each job chunk grouped by its destination IME; and the job chunks are processed into a printer ready format by a plurality of RIP nodes associated with the job chunk group's respective destination IME.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION IN THE APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus in which connection of an external device and a wireless network is controlled, the image forming apparatus including: a wireless network interface unit to connect the image forming apparatus to a first wireless network or a second wireless network; a user interface unit in which setting a connection configuration to connect the image forming apparatus to the second wireless network according to a request to connect to the second wireless network is performed while the image forming apparatus is connected to the first wireless network; a determining unit to determine whether connection of the second wireless network is terminated after connection of the first wireless network is terminated and the image forming apparatus is connected to the second wireless network according to the set connection configuration; and a controller, as a result of the determining, if connection of the second wireless network is terminated, to control so that the image forming apparatus is connected to a different wireless network from the second wireless network according to the set connection configuration.
|IMAGE READING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An image reading apparatus requests an external apparatus to issue an image read instruction, receives the image read instruction which is sent from the external apparatus in response to the request, and generates image data by reading an image in accordance with the image read instruction. The image reading apparatus accepts an instruction as to whether or not to transfer the image data to the external apparatus. The image reading apparatus transfers the image data to the external apparatus when it accepts the transfer instruction.
|PRINTING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - A printing apparatus includes a first processor which is connected to a first memory and converts print data into an image data format based on a page description language, a second processor which is connected to a second memory and performs image processing for print data of the image data format to generate data of a format interpretable by a printing unit, and a communication control unit which externally receives print data and transfers the received print data to either the first memory or second memory based on a descriptor. The second processor determines the format of received print data. When the print data has the page description language format, the first memory is set as the transfer destination in the descriptor. When the print data has the image data format, the second memory is set as the transfer destination in the descriptor.
|SERVER, PRINT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A disclosed server connected to one or more clients via a network, includes a response unit responding as an image forming apparatus to a device searching message sent from the client; an associating information control unit associating the client with the image forming apparatus; a storing unit storing driver generation information which enables generation of a driver corresponding to the image forming apparatus on a side of the client; a driver generation controlling unit responding to a driver generation information acquiring request from the client and sending the driver generation information to the client; and a print control unit responding to a print request received from the driver and sending print data corresponding to the print request to the image forming apparatus in response to the print request received from the driver generated by the client and causing the print data to be printed with the image forming apparatus.
|CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A RECORDING DEVICE, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM - A recording device is made to record text after suitably correlating universal character code characters to font data that is actually stored in the printer. A printer
|Image Forming System, Computer-Readable Recording Medium Storing Driver Program, and Image Forming Method for Remote Job Execution - If a logged-in user to a host terminal device succeeds in user authentication via a directory server device, a user-manager server device transmits a job ticket and authorization information corresponding to the logged-in user to the host terminal device. The host terminal device receives the job ticket and the authorization information, generates a job execution instruction responsive to the authorization information, and transmits the generated job execution instruction to an image forming apparatus along with the job ticket. When the job execution instruction is received from the host terminal device, the image forming apparatus executes a job specified by the job execution instruction if the job ticket received along with the job execution instruction is determined to be valid.
|OPERATION APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An operation apparatus is detachable with respect to a plurality of image processing apparatuses and includes a display unit which can display a selection screen for selecting an image processing apparatus as an operation target from among the plurality of image processing apparatuses The operation apparatus includes a control unit configured to display the selection screen on the display unit if the operation apparatus is started up when the operation apparatus is not mounted on any of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, and establish communication with an image processing apparatus selected via the selection screen. The control unit does not display the selection screen on the display unit if the operation apparatus is started up when the operation apparatus is mounted on any of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, and establishes communication with the image processing apparatus on which the operation apparatus is mounted.
|DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A PrintTicket does not necessarily exist in each page of an XPS document. Regarding a page where no PrintTicket exists, the page is printed by referring to a PrintTicket in a higher hierarchical level. Here, when a plurality of XPS documents are combined, a user's intended print result may not be obtained when the PrintTicket in the higher hierarchical level to which the page refers changes before and after combining. Before a combining process is executed, print setting information of a page element is generated based on print setting information of an element in a higher hierarchical level than the page hierarchical level. A combined document is generated by combining a structured document including a page element to which the generated print setting information is added and another structured document including a page element to which the generated print setting information is added.
|PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PHOTO-DIRECT PRINTING APPARATUS - In a printing system in which a digital camera (DSC) and PD printer apparatus are directly connected via a USB, and image data is transmitted from the DSC to the PD printer apparatus and printed, Capability of the PD printer apparatus is transmitted from the PD printer apparatus to the DSC after communication procedures are established by an application (NCDP) installed in the PD printer apparatus and DSC. The PD printer apparatus is caused to execute print operation in accordance with print conditions set by the DSC on the basis of the transmitted Capability.
|Printer System, Printer, and Image Registration Method - A printer, image registration method, and printer system improve image data processing efficiency by tracking and storing the identical image data that is registered and stored in a printer. The image registration device has a graphics register for registering images in a printer. The graphics register sends the image data to be registered to the printer, receives an identification number from the printer, and records and stores a registered image data information file linking the image data sent to the printer with the printer identification number.
|METHOD OF OPERATING AN ELECTION BALLOT PRINTING SYSTEM - A method includes receiving a voter list, and receiving a plurality of different types of ballot images. The method includes using a control program to form a side file which associates the ballot images with the voter list, wherein the control program selects a ballot image which corresponds to a selected voter of the voter list. The method includes forming a print job which includes the selected ballot image, and printing the print job to form an unused ballot which includes the selected ballot image. The method includes comparing an image of the unused ballot with the selected ballot image.
|METHOD OF DISPLAYING PHOTOS ON DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME - A method of displaying photos on a digital photo frame. The digital photo frame has a photo-sized display screen rotatably mounted on a support such that the display screen is configurable in landscape-viewing or portrait-viewing orientations by rotation of the screen. The method includes the steps of: receiving an instruction to display photos stored in a memory associated with the digital photo frame; determining an orientation of the display screen; retrieving only photo image files from the memory that are tagged with an orientation corresponding to the orientation of the display screen; and displaying the retrieved photo image files as photos on the display screen.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A client PC
|PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In order to perform printing by using a minimum of band buffer and correcting bending/inclination in a sub-scanning direction without making optical adjustments and using special hardware, 1-band image data are stored in the band buffer, images stored in the band buffer are corrected, images lying outside a band area are stored in an intermediate buffer, and images including images stored in the intermediate buffer and corrected images of a next band that lie inside the band area are output.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENTS SCANNED BY MULTIFUNCTIONAL PRINTER MACHINES - A method and system for translating documents with the use of a multifunctional printer machine, including capturing an image of a document; determining regions of the document captured that include original text; performing optical character recognition of the regions of the document captured that include the original text; specifying a source language corresponding to the original text; specifying one or more target languages corresponding to translated text; performing language translation of the original text into translated text; selecting one or more page layout templates having multiple pre-designated areas for receiving the original text and the translated text; and outputting one or more printouts in accordance with the one or more page layout templates selected, including at least an area designating (i) the original text in the source language and (ii) the translated text in the one or more target languages.
|SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONDUCTING TRANSACTIONS REMOTELY - A transaction system and method is provided that ensures a high degree of non-repudiation. The transaction system may include a media conferencing terminal and a client computer on each end of the transaction. The system may be linked via a network such as the Internet so that transactions may be conducted between remote locations. The media conferencing terminal ensures that each party to the transaction may be satisfied as to the identity of the other parties. The method includes recording the pressure, speed and acceleration of annotations made to digital documents that are used for conducting transactions. The system is operable to store all media conferencing information, digital document information, and annotation information such that the information can be later recovered to reproduce the transaction, proving a high degree of non-repudiation.
|IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An apparatus includes a processing unit configured to perform halftone processing for input image data and output halftone image data, a determination unit configured to determine a mixing ratio based on a difference value between a low frequency component of the halftone image data and a low frequency component of the input image data, and a mixing unit configured to mix the input image data and the halftone image data based on the mixing ratio.
|Visible authentication patterns for printed document - Techniques for determining authenticity of analog forms such as packaging or documents (
|COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed is a computer readable storage medium storing a program to make a computer realize functions of an image storage unit to store image data for generating a tint block image, a tint block image generation unit to generate the tint block image based on the image data, a script generation unit to generate a script for forming the tint block image based on the tint block image generated by the generation unit, a script adding unit to add the script to print data and a print data input unit to input the print data in which the script is added by the adding unit to an image forming apparatus.
|Disc Tray for Printing Device - A disc tray for a printing device is disclosed comprising a mover driving means including a first guiding portion; a main body comprising a disc receiver having a holding portion and a slopping portion connected with each other, a second guiding portion engaged with the first guiding portion, and a third guiding portion, wherein the mover driving means drives the main body by way of the first guiding portion and the second guiding portion to move the main body; and a supporter comprising a fourth guiding portion engaged with the third guiding portion so as to allow the fourth guiding portion moving along the third guiding portion, wherein the supporter and the holding portion are used to support a printed disc; when the disc receiver receives the printed disc, the supporter is moved to be veiled under the main body for dropping the printed disc from the slopping portion of the disc receiver.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING IMAGE ON PAPER REGISTRATION - A method and apparatus for measuring image on paper registration including placing a test sheet of media including a plurality of test pattern marks on a platen of an image sensing device. The platen defines a scan area over which the image sensing device is capable of scanning an image. The image sensing device includes a plurality of calibration marks falling within the scan area. The method further includes operating the scanner to scan the test sheet; determining a scanned position of the calibration marks and a scanned position of the test marks resulting from the scan; comparing the scanned position of the calibration marks with reference position of the calibration marks to determine scanning error; determining an adjusted position of the test marks responsive to the scanning error; and comparing the adjusted test mark positions with predetermined reference positions to measure registration accuracy. An edge guide disposed on the platen assists in aligning the test sheet for scanning.
|Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product - An image processing apparatus includes: a memory unit; a read-out image processing unit that performs read-out image processing on input image data and stores the image data on which the image processing has been performed in the memory unit; an output attribute determining unit that performs determination image processing on the image data stored in the memory unit and determines an attribute of the image data on which the determination image processing has been performed; an output image processing unit that performs output image processing on the image data according to the determined attribute; and an output unit that outputs the image data on which the output image processing has been performed by the output image processing unit.
|OPTICAL MODULE, AN IMAGE READER AND AN ASSEMBLING METHOD OF AN OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module
|Scanning and Capturing Digital Images Using Residue Detection - A mechanism for scanning and capturing digital images using residue detection. Upon detecting a document placed on a scanning surface of a scanning device, the illustrative embodiments detect a residue deposited on the document. The illustrative embodiments determine a portion of the document to be scanned based on a location of the residue on the document. The illustrative embodiments then scan the portion of the document.
|Scanning and Capturing digital Images Using Document Characteristics Detection - A mechanism for scanning and capturing digital images using document characteristics detection. Upon detecting a document placed on a scanning surface of a scanning device, the illustrative embodiments identify characteristics of the document. The illustrative embodiments detect that a characteristic of the document indicates the document comprises a defect. A portion of the document to be scanned is determined based on a location of the detected defect. The illustrative embodiments then scan the portion of the document.
|SYSTEM FOR NON-UNIFORMLY ILLUMINATING AN ORIGINAL AND CAPTURING AN IMAGE THEROF - An imaging device having an imaging unit for illuminating and capturing an original positioned on the imaging surface. The imaging surface is illuminated by an illumination system including a plurality of light sources that non-uniformly illuminates the imaging surface such that the corner areas of imaging surface is illuminated more than the non-corner areas of the imaging surface. In one embodiment the light sources are arranged around the perimeter of the imaging surface. In an alternate embodiment the light sources are located outside the field of view of a lens of the image capturing unit.
|IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - An image-forming apparatus includes: a memory that stores a plurality of image forming modes; a contact controller that controls a status of contact between a plurality of image-forming units and an intermediate transfer member on the basis of an image forming mode selected from among the plurality of image forming modes, so that an image-forming unit used for image forming represented in the selected image forming mode is contacted with the intermediate transfer member, and another image-forming unit is moved away from the intermediate transfer member; and an image-quality adjusting unit that adjusts, if the status of contact is changed by the contact controller, an image quality of an image that is to be transferred onto the intermediate transfer member from the image-forming unit that is in contact with the intermediate transfer member.
|IMAGE READING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a scanning unit feeds a document to a scanning window, passes the document over the scanning window, and reads an image of the passing document by optical line scan through the scanning window. When the scanning unit operates, whether the image read by the scanning unit includes one or plural images of adhering matter in the scanning window is detected. When the image of adhering matter is included, the image of adhering matter is removed from the image read by the scanning unit.
|COPYING APPARATUS - A copying apparatus includes: a reader that reads an image on a document; an image forming unit that forms on a recording medium the image read by the reader; and a detector configured to detect a color image from the image read by the reader and trigger the image forming unit to form a mark for image adjustment before forming the color image on the recording medium if the detector detects the color image.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A step and non-uniformity in density in a drawing object due to an offset for an electrical color-shift correction are reduced. An image forming apparatus includes: a unit for determining a changing coordinate in a main scanning direction for correcting a color shift; a unit for detecting a closed region lying across the determined changing coordinate, from a drawing object; and a unit for performing a changing by using the determined changing coordinate without changing a shape of the detected closed region.
|SYSTEM FOR ILLUMINATING AN ORIGINAL USING ADDITIONAL COLORS AND CAPTURING AN IMAGE THEREOF - An imaging device including a base and an enclosed chamber positioned on the base. The enclosed chamber has a scanning surface inclined with respect to the base, a reflecting member positioned opposite to the scanning surface and an imaging member adjacent the scanning surface and oriented towards the reflecting member. The imaging member is illuminated with a red, a green, a blue, and an additional color LED. In one embodiment the additional color is a color other than red, green, and blue. In an alternate embodiment the additional color is Ultraviolet (UV) or Infra-Red (IR).
|IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA OUTPUT PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE READING METHOD - Image data R
|LIGHT MODULATING DEVICE - A light modulating device comprises a spatial light modulator and a homogenizing element. A group of at least two adjacent pixels of the spatial light modulator form a macropixel: The spatial light modulator is of a type such that its pixels comprise a variable content. Each macropixel is used to represent a numerical value which is manifested physically by the states of the pixels of the spatial light modulator which form the macropixel. For each macropixel a homogenizing element is present in the optical path after the macropixel. The homogenizing element comprises an optical input and an optical output. The homogenizing element is adapted such that output light of the macropixel is entering the optical input of the homogenizing element and is mixed within the homogenizing element and is output at the optical output of the homogenizing element.
|Light-enhancing device and method based on use of an optically active lasing medium in combination with digital planar holdgraphy - The light-enhancing system of the invention comprises a laser diode in which a fully reflecting mirror and/or a partially reflecting mirror of the laser diode is made in the form of digital planar holography (DPH) incorporating a mode-reorganization function that decreases divergence and improves brightness of the output beam of the system by suppressing high-order modes and gaining low-order modes, or mode. The holographic elements are made in the form of rectangular grooves that can be manufactured as binary features reproduced by methods of nanolithography or nanoimprinting.
|HIGH DISPERSION DIFFRACTION GRATING INCLUDING MULTIPLE HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS - A multi-element diffraction grating is disclosed. The multi-element diffraction grating may be configured to diffract incident radiation with high dispersion using at least two holographic optical elements. The multi-element diffraction grating may include a first volume phase grating that is one of the holographic optical elements. The multi-element diffraction grating may also include at least one additional volume phase grating that is the second holographic optical element. The first volume phase grating and each of the additional volume phase gratings may be positioned relative to each other such that the radiation propagates through and is diffracted by the first volume phase grating and each of the additional volume phase gratings.
|OPTICAL FLIP-FLOP - An optical flip-flop comprises first (
|PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, OPTICAL REFLECTION ELEMENT USING THE SAME AND PIEZOELECTRIC DRIVER - A first oscillating portion is provided with a first piezoelectric element having a first drive electrode. A second oscillating portion has a central axis different from that of the first oscillating portion and is provided with a second piezoelectric element having a second drive electrode. The first drive electrode and the second drive electrode are connected together.
|OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS - An optical scanning apparatus includes a first optical member for receiving a plurality of light beams with an interval and for causing a first group of beams to emerge with a narrower interval, the first optical member being rotatable to adjust the interval of the beams emergent therefrom; a second optical member for receiving a second light beam and the first group of beams emergent from the first optical member with an interval and for causing a third group of beams to emerge with a narrower interval, the second optical member being rotatable to change the interval between the first group of beams and the second beam; and deflecting means for scanningly deflecting a third group of beams emergent from the second optical member.
|MICROPROCESSOR BASED AUTOMATICALLY DIMMABLE EYE PROTECTION DEVICE WITH INTERRUPTION PREVENTION - An auto darkening eye protection device comprising a shutter assembly and a control circuit in electrical communication with the shutter assembly. The shutter assembly is adjustable between a clear state and a dark state. The control circuit comprises a microcontroller programmed to store a plurality of memory presets including at least one setting corresponding to the operation of the shutter assembly. At least two of the plurality of memory presets are individually configured for a specific type of welding.
|DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURE THEREOF - Display devices incorporating light modulators are disclosed along with methods of manufacturing such devices. According to some aspects of the invention, a control matrix for controlling light modulators of a display includes a light absorbing layer that includes a material having a substantially light absorbing property.
|PHOTOCHROMIC DICHROIC NAPHTHO-PYRANS AND OPTICAL ARTICLES CONTAINING THEM - A naphthopyran compound represented by the formulae (I) to (II) wherein:—mi, Hi2, p, q are each an integer comprised from O to 4 or 5 inclusive;—Ri, R2 and R4, represent a group selected from halogen, H, —Ra, aryl, —OH, —ORa, —SH, —SRa, —NH2, —NR8RaI, —NRbRc, —NRaI-CORa, —NRaiCO(aryl), —NRai aryl, —N-aryfe, —N(aryl)CO(aryl), —CO—R3, —CO2R3I, —OC(O)—Rd, and —X—(Re)—Y, and linear or branched (Ci-Ci8) perfluoroalkyl group, wherein R3, RaI, Rb, Rc, X, Y, Re, Rd are as defined into the description;—Zi re resent a group selected from: (formules)
|ELECTROCHROMIC OPTICAL LENS - The invention relates to an electrochromic optical lens and a method for the preparation thereof. The lens includes an electrode and a counter-electrode bearing an electrochromic material separated by a solid polymer electrolyte. The method consists of preparing the electrode and the counter-electrode and the assembly thereof by the surfaces thereof bearing the electrochromic material by interleaving an electrolyte membrane between said surfaces. The electrolyte membrane is interleaved in the form of a composition free of volatile liquid solvent, including a precursor of the polymer and a salt, which is liquid or which has a dynamic viscosity [mu] between 100 and 106 Pa.s.
|Methods and Systems for Modulating and Demodulating Millimeter-Wave Signals - A system comprises an optical processor comprising a sideband generator, an optical filter, and a phase-shift-keying (PSK) modulator, wherein: the sideband generator generates optical frequency sidebands about a carrier frequency of an optical signal; the optical filter discriminates between the optical frequency sidebands and the optical carrier frequency such that optical sidebands of interest can be used to generate an optical millimeter-wave signal; the PSK modulator comprises an optical splitter, an optical phase delay unit, two or more optical gates, and an optical combiner; the optical splitter divides the optical millimeter-wave signal into two or more intermediate signals; the optical phase delay unit delays one or more of the intermediate signals to create distinct phase relationship between them; the optical gates modulate each intermediate signal individually, based on a control input; and the optical combiner combines the gated intermediate signals into a single, PSK-modulated optical millimeter-wave signal.
|PANEL INCLUDING THERMOCHROMIC LAYER AND ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVE LAYER - A panel including a substrate coated with a thermochromic layer, and a plurality of electric conductive layers formed of an electric conductive material. Here, the infrared ray transmittance of the panel is randomly or desirably adjusted as an electric conductive layer generates heat, and the color tone of the panel may be adjusted as desired by a user.
|INTEGRATED MODULATOR ILLUMINATION - A spatial light modulator includes an array of elements to modulate light in accordance with image data. The modulator has a display panel having first and second surfaces arranged adjacent to the array of elements such that the second surface is directly adjacent the array of elements to allow a viewer to view an image produced by modulation of light The modulator may also include a light source to provide light to the display panel and illumination dots on the first surface of the display panel to reflect light from the source to the array of elements.
|METHOD OF FABRICATING ELECTROPHORETIC INK, ELECTROPHORETIC INK FORMED USING THE METHOD, AND ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY HAVING THE SAME - Provided are a method of fabricating an electrophoretic ink, the electrophoretic ink formed using the method, and an electrophoretic display having the same. The method of fabricating the electrophoretic ink includes dispersing a pigment particle into a dielectric fluid for the electrophoretic ink and adding at least monomer and initiator to the dielectric fluid to form a polymeric membrane surrounding the pigment particle. Since the pigment particle surrounded by the polymeric membrane and the dielectric fluid in which the pigment particle is dispersed can be utilized as the electrophoretic ink as they are, the method of fabricating the electrophoretic ink is simplified.
|INTEGRATED DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - An integrated device includes an optical element and an electrical element that are implemented on a substrate. The optical element and the electrical element are bonded by surface-activated bonding technology to a bonding portion that is formed on the substrate and made of metal material.
|SPECTRALLY BEAM COMBINED LASER SYSTEM AND METHOD AT EYE-SAFER WAVELENGTHS - Fiber-laser light is Raman shifted to eye-safer wavelengths prior to spectral beam combination, enabling a high-power, eye-safer wavelength directed-energy (DE) system. The output of Ytterbium fiber lasers is not used directly for spectral beam combining. Rather, the power from the Yb fiber lasers is Raman-shifted to longer wavelengths, and these wavelengths are then spectrally beam combined. Raman shifting is most readily accomplished with a "cascaded Raman converter," in which a series of nested fiber cavities is formed using fiber Bragg gratings.
|AXIAL WALK OFF MULTI-PASS AMPLIFIERS - The various laser architectures described herein provide increased gain of optical energy as well as compensation of optical phase distortions in a thin disk gain medium. An optical amplifier presented herein provides for scalable high energy extraction and gains based on a number of passes of the signal beam through a gain medium. Multiple, spatially separate, optical paths may also be passed through the same gain region to provide gain clearing by splitting off a small percentage of an output pulse and sending it back through the amplifier along a slightly different path. By clearing out the residual gain, uniform signal amplitudes can be obtained.
|STATIC PHASE MASK FOR HIGH-ORDER SPECTRAL PHASE CONTROL IN A HYBRID CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFIER SYSTEM - A chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system comprises an optical pulse stretcher and an optical pulse compressor that are mismatched in that the optical pulse compressor includes a bulk optical grating while the optical pulse stretcher does not. High order dispersion compensation is provided by an optical phase mask disposed within the optical pulse compressor.
|ELECTRICALLY PUMPED LATERAL EMISSION ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE INTEGRATED IN A PASSIVE WAVEGUIDE TO GENERATE LIGHT OR AMPLIFY A LIGHT SIGNAL AND FABRICATION PROCESS - An electrically pumped lateral emission electroluminescent device may include a slotted waveguide including a top silicon layer having a thickness between 150 nm and 300 nm and a refraction index associated therewith, and a bottom silicon layer having a thickness between 150 nm and 300 nm and a refraction index associated therewith. A core layer may include silicon oxide between the top and bottom layers and a thickness less than 70 nm. A core layer refraction index may be greater than each of the top and bottom layer refraction indices. A core layer portion may be in a direction of light propagation and may be doped with erbium, and may include silicon nanocrystals. A portion of each of the top and bottom layers may coincide with the core layer portion and may be doped so that the top and bottom layer portions are electrically conductive to define top and bottom plates.
|Plasma-Deposited Electrically Insulating, Diffusion-Resistant and Elastic Layer System - A multilayer system on a substrate, the multilayer system being applied to the substrate by plasma deposition, characterized in that the multilayer system is configured such that it has substantial diffusion resistance to ions in an aqueous solution, wherein the current produced by the diffusion of the ions with the connection of an electric field gradient of more than 10
|Method and Apparatus For Detecting Microscopic Objects - Apparatus including a broadband illumination source and a confocal optical system. The confocal optical system is configured and arranged to receive a portion of light projected onto an object by the broadband illumination source. The apparatus can include an illumination source, a confocal optical system, and at least one detector configured and arranged to receive angularly separated light corresponding to a confocal volume. There is also provided a light scattering spectroscopic device including a broadband illumination source, a two-dimensional detector, and a spectral separation device configured and arranged to receive scattered light from an object and to direct at least a portion of the scattered light onto the two-dimensional detector. The method and apparatus can combine confocal microscopy techniques with light scattering spectroscopy techniques to create a confocal light scattering spectroscopy (CLSS) system.
|MULTIPLE-PHOTON EXCITATION LIGHT SHEET ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPE - An apparatus for and method of performing multi-photon light sheet microscopy (MP-LISH), combining multi-photon excited fluorescence with the orthogonal. illumination of light sheet microscopy are provided. With live imaging of whole
|MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - An arbitrary entire region of a specimen, or a plurality of individual regions, is simultaneously stimulated without a time lag, or a strong stimulus is applied to an arbitrary region of a specimen. The invention provides a microscope apparatus including a first stimulation optical system having a galvanometer mirror that scans a specimen with first stimulus light, which applies an optical stimulus to a specimen, on the specimen; a second stimulation optical system which has a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed movable mirrors and which switches the angle of each movable mirror so that second stimulus light, which applies an optical stimulus to the specimen, can be selectively deflected towards the specimen; and a dichroic mirror that combines a light path of the first stimulation optical system and a light path of the second stimulation optical system.
|ILLUMINATION ARRANGEMENT FOR TIRF MICROSCOPY - A TIRF illumination having a high axial resolution at low complexity. A TIRF illumination device is designed as a module and comprises an optical fiber and a collimating optic, wherein the collimating optic is mounted in front of a light discharge opening of the optical fiber, such that it collimates light exiting divergently from the optical fiber into a parallel light bundle, such that the excitation light can be applied to a sample outside of the detection beam path. The numerical aperture of the excitation is thus decoupled from the numerical aperture of detection, such that a standard microscope objective is sufficient for detection.
|CUSTOM FILTRATION SLIDE AND FILTRATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An filter, apparatus and method for preparing microscope slides is presented. After filtration of the specimen is performed, the filter containing the filtrand is configured to be microscopically examined. The filter may either be affixed to a microscope slide or, in an embodiment, the filter may be incorporated into a microscope slide.
|TRANSMISSION SCREEN FOR INTERACTIVE BOARD - There is provided a screen that, as a screen suitable for an interactive board, can output video image light incident obliquely from the back surface side to a viewer side to display a reflection-free image and, at the same time, can realize easy handwriting on the screen surface on the viewer side. To this end, a transmission screen for an interactive board is provided that comprises at least a Fresnel lens sheet comprising a prism part on its incident light side, a light diffusing member provided on the Fresnel lens on its surface side remote from the prism part, and a hard coat layer provided on the outgoing light side of the light diffusing member.
|RETROREFLECTIVE ARTICLES AND DEVICES HAVING VISCOELASTIC LIGHTGUIDE - Disclosed herein is an optical device having a light source, a viscoelastic lightguide and a retroreflective film suitable for retroreflecting light. Light from the light source enters the viscoelastic lightguide and is transported within the lightguide by total internal reflection. The optical device may have a "front lit" configuration such that light being transported within the lightguide is extracted and retroreflected by the film toward a viewer. The optical device may have a "back lit" configuration such that light being transported within the lightguide is extracted and transmitted through the film toward a viewer. The retroreflective film may comprise beaded retroreflective sheeting such as that used in traffic signs and markings.
|IMAGING LENS UNIT AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging lens that focuses light from a subject on an imaging surface, a lens holder that holds the imaging lens, a holder that holds the lens holder so as to be capable of moving along the optical axis of the imaging lens and capable of rotating in a tilting direction with respect to the optical axis, magnets and coils that independently cause drive forces to act in the direction along the optical axis with respect to the lens holder at at least three locations of the periphery of the lens holder, a Hall element that detects the attitude of the lens holder with respect to the optical axis, and a control apparatus that controls the magnitude and direction of the drive force of each coil in accordance with the detection output of the Hall element. In accordance with the present invention, in the cladding lens unit, it is possible to perform a movement in an optical axis direction of the imaging lens and a tilt movement with respect to the optical axis with a simple constitution.
|Substrate Used in a Method and Apparatus for Angular-Resolved Spectroscopic Lithography Characterization - A substrate includes an overlay target. The overlay target can include two superposed layers. Each of the two superposed layers includes two gratings with a different pitch from each other.
|ANNULAR SOLID IMMERSION LENSES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEM - A sub-millimeter solid immersion lens (SIL), comprises a body of a high-index material transparent to electromagnetic radiation in a frequency band to be observed, the body having a flat bottom surface which receives an object to be observed, and the body further having a first upper surface whose limits approximate a zone of a spherical segment and a second upper surface defined by an upper bound of the zone of the spherical segment which prevents passage of electromagnetic radiation in the frequency band to be observed. The SIL may be incorporated into an array, according to other aspects. A method of making a SIL comprises: providing a substrate layer of a high-index material transparent to electromagnetic radiation in a frequency band to be observed, having a lower surface through which an object is observed; etching a surface of the substrate layer to form a first upper surface whose limits approximate a zone of a spherical segment; etching a surface of the substrate layer to form a second upper surface; treating the second upper surface to prevent transmission of the electromagnetic radiation in the frequency band to be observed; and treating the lower surface to absorb electromagnetic radiation in the frequency band to be observed, leaving untreated a hole defined therein to form a sampling port at which the object is positioned.
|Optically variable devices - A security device comprises a substrate having an array of microlenses on one side and one or more corresponding arrays of microimages on the other side. The microimages are located at a distance from the microlenses substantially equal to the focal length of the microlenses. The substrate is sufficiently transparent to enable light to pass through the microlenses so as to reach the microimages. Each microimage is defined by an anti-reflection structure on the substrate formed by a periodic array of identical structural elements, light passing through a substrate and impinging on the microimages being reflected to a different extent than light which does not impinge on the microimages thereby rendering the microimages visible.
|HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - A head-mounted display includes: a double-sided display device displayed a image on a first side and a second side opposed the first side; a first optical system that forms the image displayed on the first side of the double-sided display device on one eye of a wearer; and a second optical system that forms the image displayed on the second side of the double-sided display device on the other eye of the wearer. The first optical system and the second optical system have switching mechanisms which make at least a part of view being different from the image displayed on the double-sided display devise visible in eyes of the wearer.
|Refractive boundary elements, devices, and materials - An optical device includes an interface between two or more media. The refractive indices, orientations of media, and alignment relative to a propagating wave define a refractive boundary at which reflections may be reduced or eliminated, and at which, for certain incident angles, rays may be refracted on the same side of the normal as the incident ray.


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Career Transitions, LLC is working with a client located in Arizona who is seeking a General Manager. This is a full-time, direct hire position. Re-location package provided.
Qualified candidates will meet the following requirements:
· Masters of Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering.
· Specialist knowhow in the Mining, building and construction industry
· Hands-on experience in the Sales and Service in the Industry
· Know How in Distribution Management incl. Service procedures and related processes in construction and/or mining machinery industry
· Must know the processes and procedures in Sales and Services in the construction and/or mining machinery industry in the United States
· Must have some international experience in Europe
· Must have some experience with American Accounting and financial controlling procedures
Working conditions: - Regular travel, mainly in United States occasionally to Europe
Computer Skills: - Knowledge and proficient experience with MS Office Systems, including Outlook, Word, Power Point and CRM.
Language: - English and Spanish would be an asset.
Essential Duties:
- General Management in all aspects in the daily business
- Development and Implementation of Sales and Service Growth Strategies
- Strategic Business planning incl. Budgeting
- Development and implementation of highly effective Sales and Service Organization
- Development and implementation of an effective monthly management reporting System. (MIS)
- Management of effective Sales-Distribution Channels for the product offering in the United States
- Management of efficient Service Organization
- Leadership of all related staff
- Monthly Management Reporting (MIS) incl. deviation analysis Budget vs. Actual Regular Information and Feedback with CEO / CFO at Headquarters
- Strategic development of the company focused on Sales and Services.
- Ensuring profitable growth according to agreed Business-Plans.
- All issues related to the daily operational business.
- Recruitment and Development of personnel
- Monthly Management reporting (MIS) to be issued on 7th working day each month.
- Quarterly Budget Reviews to be issued on 15th working day April, July, October.
- Yearly Financial Budgets to be presented middle of October each year.
- Ensure the company, fulfill and conforms to all legal and statutory requirements.

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Weather in Corona. I'm moving from South Carolina because I just got a job at Elmhurst Hospital. Does it get really cold in Corona in the winter time? Should I be concerned about drafty windows when looking at apartments?
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I would definitely be concerned with drafty windows, for two reasons. Corona, like the rest of the city gets hot in the Summer and cold as a you know in the Winter. If you are coming from SC, you might have to do some shopping before settling into your new apartment as this Winter is expected to be Fa Ree Zing!
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Apartments in NYC are ready for the winter time so you definitively shouldn't be concerned, and by the way it gets really cold in the whole state sometimes.
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October 17, 2009
NYC Plans to Forbid Taxi Drivers from Using Cellphones
In November or December, the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission will be voting on the implementation of new rules for taxi drivers. [NY Post via NYConvergence]
These rules would not only ban them from talking on a cellphone, but they also would ban any technology, except for voice-activated GPS units, capable of distracting the driver in any manner while the cab is moving.
The new regulations would also come with skyrocketed fines and a "three-strikes-and-yer-out system" in which repeat offenders will have their licenses revoked.
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Greens Plus, Protein Bar, Yogurt Coated Wild Berry Burst, 12 Bars, 2 oz (59 g) Each (Discontinued Item)
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Shipping Weight:?1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)Shipping WeightThe Shipping Weight includes the product, protective packaging material and the actual shipping box. In addition, the Shipping Weight may be adjusted for the Dimensional Weight (e.g. length, width & height) of a package. It is important to note that certain types of products (e.g. glass containers, liquids, fragile, refrigerated or ice packed) will often require protective packaging material. As such, these products will reflect a higher Shipping Weight compared to the unprotected product.
- Product Code: GRP-60013
- UPC Code: 769745600134
- Package Quantity: 12 Bars, 2 oz (59 g) Each
- Dimensions: 5.8 x 5.6 x 2.3 in, 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
- From Earth's Lands & Seas
- Premium Quality
- Low-Glycemic
- Alkaline-Forming
- Cold-Processed
- Gluten-Free
- 800 g Omega 3
- 100% Whey Isolate
Don't be fooled by junk food disguised as health food. Greens Plus combines living Superfoods, 100% whey protein isolate, high-energy herbal extracts and a little agave nectar to produce the only cold-processed, alkaline-forming, protein-rich, green food bar. The Greens Plus Protein Bar contains NO processed sugar, salt, corn syrup, hydrogenated oil, synthetic sweeteners or genetically-modified foods of any kind. If you're hungry and short on time, grab a nutrient-rich Green Plus Protein Bar Now!
Don't be fooled by junk food disguised as health food. Greens Plus combines organic Superfoods, high-ORAC Superfruits, 100% whey protein isolate and a little agave nectar to produce the only cold -processed, alkaline-forming, protein-rich bar. The Greens Plus Protein Bar delivers low-glycemic carbohydrates, essential fatty acids and biologically-complete protein to help build lean muscle and balance blood sugar. Perfect for athletes seeking an edge, students, travelers, children of all ages and anyone in need of optimum energy, superior well-being and peak performance.
Suggested Use
Eat one bar as a healthy snack between meals, or two bars for a complete meal replacement. For best results, follow with 8 oz of pure water.
Other Ingredients
Organic agave nectar, yogurt coating [evaporated cane syrup, fractionated palm kernel oil, whey powder, nonfat dry milk powder, cultured whey, soy lecithin, vanilla], whey protein isolate, organic sunflower seed butter, greens+ wild berry burst powder (Hawaiian spirulina, appleboost peel and fiber, GMO-free soy lecithin, organic barley grass, organic wheat grass, japanese chlorella, soy sprouts, brown rice bran, sprouted barley malt, organic alfalfa grass, royal jelly, montana bee pollen, acerola berry juice, natural vitamin E, licorice root, milk thistle extract, echinacea root extract, siberian eleuthero root extract, astragalus root extract, organic red beet juice, dunaliella salina algae, high-ORAC berry extracts [strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, cranberry, acai and goji], nova scotia dulse, gingko biloba leaf extract, japanese green tea extract, grape seed and skin extract, european bilberry extract, pomegranate fruit), blueberry juice concentrate, strawberry juice concentrate, blueberry powder (with rice flour and sunflower lecithin), strawberry powder (with rice flour and sunflower lecithin), Omega³ chia seed oil, organic quinoa sprout powder.
Allergy Information: This product contains milk, wheat and soy and is manufactured in a facility that processes tree nuts peanuts and egg ingredients.
Store in a cool, dry place or refrigerate for extended shelf life.
|Supplement Facts
|Serving Size: 1 bar (59 g)
|Amount Per Serving
|Calories from Fat
|Total Fat
|11 g
|Saturated Fat
|4 g
|3.5 g
|3 g
|Trans Fat
|0 g
|Omega 3
|800 mg
|0 mg
|95 mg
|Total Carbohydrates
|28 g
|Dietary Fiber
|2 g
|22 g
|13 g
|Vitamin A as Beta Carotene 100%
|Vitamin B6
|.08 mg
|Vitamin B12
|5.4 mcg
|Vitamin C
|15 mg
|Vitamin E
|100 mg
|1 mg
|Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
It has very good ingredients, a decent amount of protein and tastes great. A nice mealreplacement when you're on the go. This is my favorite among the Greens Plus high protein bars, it's sweeter than the other ones.
They taste great. Best bar on the market for nutrition and low glycemic value.
Good for you
Posted by ellelisw on Sep 04, 2013
This is different, less moist, than the berry burst -energy- bars because of the protein, but outside of that comparison, this is still very tasty. Better yet, they are about the healthiest protein bar out there. With no processed sugars and good proteins from whey and seed butter, this will digest better and improve metabolism rather than harm it. Most protein bars on the market are full of processed sugars and other gunk that does more harm than good. The greens in these bars help your body maintain a healthy Ph level, too. I crave the Greens+ Whey Protein Crisps the most, but I like these because they use sunflower seeds, which have more micronutrients, instead of peanuts, which I want to eat only in moderation.
Tasty protein bars
Posted by 5105930029032614394 on Dec 26, 2012
Different kind of protein bars; tasty once you get used to it.
Great value.
Posted by Reviewer2485803 on Jan 08, 2012
They taste great. Best bar on the market for nutrition and low glycemic value.
Content OK, but...
Posted by Reviewer2344984 on Jul 10, 2011
I give it the bad review, because of (for me) the terrible taste and texture. The chocolate and peanut version is really good though.
Good tasting
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Fortnight For Freedom: Saint Thomas More and Saint John Fisher v. Henry VIII
A spot of blood and grease on the pages of English history.
Charles Dickens, referring to King Henry VIII
For English speaking Catholics, June 22 is a bright day on the calendar of the Saints. On this day we remember the two saints who stood against King Henry VIII, for the great principal that the State must never be allowed to control the Church. Much that we Americans celebrate as freedom was born out of Church-State struggles down through the ages. Sometimes those who stood against the State fell in the struggle, but the concept that the State is not absolute, that there are limits to its authority, is one of the great gifts of the Catholic Middle Ages to all of mankind. It is only in modern times, since 1500, that the heresy that the State may exercise absolute authority has been a constant source of misery and strife in the history of the West.
When he ascended to the throne of England Henry VIII was popularly known as the Golden Hope of England. His father Henry VII had never been loved by the people of England: a miser and a distinctly unheroic figure no matter what Shakespeare would write in Richard III. He had brought the end of the War of the Roses and peace to England, but that was about as much credit as his subjects would give the grasping, unlovable Henry Tudor. His son by contrast looked like an Adonis when young, strong and athletic. He had a sharp mind and had been well-educated, intended, ironically, for a career in the Church before the death of his elder brother Arthur. He was reputed, correctly, to be pious. He had considerable charism in his youth and knew how to make himself loved with a well timed laugh or smile, and loved he was, by the nobles, commons, his wife Katherine, and the Church. Few reigns started more auspiciously than that of Henry, eighth of that name.
By the end of his reign he was widely despised by most his subjects. Called a crowned monster behind his back, his reign had brought religious turmoil to England and domestic strife. The best known symbols of his reign were the headman's axe, the stake and the boiling pot in which he had some of the luckless individuals who roused his fury boiled to death.
It of course is small wonder for a Catholic to have little love for Henry VIII and his reign, but the distaste for Henry extends well beyond members of the Church. Winston Churchill, the great English statesman and historian, in his magisterial History of the English Speaking Peoples has this to say about the executions of Saint Thomas More and Saint John Fisher:
"The resistance of More and Fisher to the royal supremacy in Church government was a heroic stand. They realised the defects of the existing Catholic system, but they hated and feared the aggressive nationalism which was destroying the unity of Christendom. They saw that the break with Rome carried with it the risk of a despotism freed from every fetter. More stood forth as the defender of all that was finest in the medieval outlook. He represents to history its universality, its belief in spiritual values, and its instinctive sense of otherworldliness. Henry VIII with cruel axe decapitated not only a wise and gifted counselor, but a system which, though it had failed to live up to its ideals in practice, had for long furnished mankind with its brightest dreams." Continue reading
The Devil You Say?
Considering all the extravagant evil in the world, I have always found it remarkable that so many people do not believe in the existence of Satan and his fallen angels. Pope Leo XIII I believe foresaw this, which is why he gave us the prayer to Saint Michael. In 1942 CS Lewis in The Screwtape Letters wrote what may be an epitaph for the age in which we live:
When humans disbelieve in our existence we lose all the pleasing results of direct terrorism and we make no magicians. On the other hand, when they believe in us, we cannot make them materialists and skepics. At least, not yet. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalize and mythologize their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The "Life Force," the worship of sex, and other aspects of psychoanalysis, may here prove useful. If once we can produce our perfect work — the materialist magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshiping, what he vaguely calls "Forces" while denying the existence of "spirits" — the end of the war will be in sight. But in the meantime we must obey orders.
Man without God is nothing but prey for Satan. With God and Man united Satan is impotent. Alexander Solzhenitsyn when asked why Communism seized power in Russia, used to say the following:
More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. Continue reading


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Martha Robinson
Services: Have been held.
Martha Jo Robinson, 80, of Amherst, Texas, died Monday, Dec. 27, 2004 at the Harmonee House in Amherst.
She was born on Aug. 28, 1924, in Chillichothe, Texas, to Elmer and Mary Lance. She married Leon Robinson on Feb. 28, 1948, in Amherst. She moved with her family to Amherst in 1946. Family members said she enjoyed cooking, gardening, and sewing. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Amherst.
Survivors include her husband; two sons, Gary Robinson (and wife, Debbie) of Clovis, and Roger Glen Robinson of Abilene, Texas; a daughter, Brenda Sue Robinson of Amherst; a brother, Harold Lance of Quanah, Texas; a sister, Virginia Young of Amherst; five grandchildren, Tara Gerou (Greg) and Chris Robinson (Jeanette) all of Jackson, Mich., Candace, Tanner and Teral Christesson all of Clovis; four great-grandchildren, Carson and Harlie Robinson, Eastor Gerou and Kalyn Christesson.
The Rev. Mike Butts will officiate the services.
Burial will be at Fairlawn Cemetery in Amherst.
Pallbearers will be W.T. Weaver Jr., Leroy Maxfield, Joe VanDyck, R.J. Cook, Chris Robinson and Ronnie Shroeder.
Memorial contributions may be sent to a favorite charity.
Arrangements are by Hammon Funeral Home of Littlefield, Texas.


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Like many other Christians, the Rev. Jeff Greenway was raised to think of Lent as a time of self-denial, a time to give up something while reflecting on the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus and preparing to celebrate the Easter resurrection.
But this year, the lead pastor at Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church decided to challenge his congregation to do something different. Instead of giving something up, he wanted them to give something away.
The goal: Perform at least one "Random Act of Easter" each day during the six-week period.
"Instead of giving something up, why don't we do something positive?" he said. "I think that the world can be changed by a small group of people who choose to live a different way, to live counter-culturally, to be kind, to be generous."
The church had more than 1,000 yard signs printed with " BeKindToday.com" and asked members to post them throughout the community. It also gave the congregation business cards carrying the same Web address, which takes visitors to a site detailing the campaign. It received 2,000 hits in the first week.
Along with information and a message from Greenway, the site offers a glimpse of the dozens of good deeds the campaign has inspired.
One person fixed a hole in the fence of an elderly neighbor who lives alone with her dog. Another listened to a son talk about his dying father.
A woman and her husband played cards with residents at a retirement home. A neighbor took a widow's sons to a hockey game.
Someone paid for the groceries of a woman whose debit card was denied. Someone else bought food for a family at McDonald's after hearing a woman tell her children she couldn't afford to buy them more.
Greenway said the campaign had the potential to inspire 1 million kind acts if each of the roughly 2,200 people who attend weekend services were to offer a kind act each day for 30 days and each person touched by a kind act did the same for the remainder of the month.
Church member Taryn Moyer said she and her family were inspired to participate. Her 5-year-old daughter, Addison, took ice cream and a balloon to a friend who'd had a tonsillectomy. Moyer and her husband, Todd, joined with families in the community to make meals for a neighbor with medical and financial struggles.
She said that and other acts have helped her reflect and focus on Christ, making the kindnesses a blessing to her as well as to the recipients.
"There's so much evil and mischief, and bad things happen every day," she said. "I think this catches people off guard."
Lori Stagmyer said she and her husband, Brad, also took the Lenten mission to heart and hope to continue it beyond Easter Sunday. They made meals for friends and acquaintances, gave money to people in need, and sent notes to people they appreciate.
Their 11-year-old daughter, Bethany, gave a McDonald's gift card to a stranger, and 6-year-old Alysa held open doors for strangers and drew pictures to give away.
"They're surprised at the impact they can have on somebody else, that just the little things that they did can change other people's lives," Mrs. Stagmyer said.
Greenway said the church plans to continue its efforts with a post-Easter "Won't you be my neighbor?" campaign, part of a yearlong focus on "mobilizing people to go out into the community and not just come to church but be the church."
"The motive is to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the world," he said. "The motive is to show and share the love of God in the world around us."


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Andreas Whittam Smith, the First Church Estates Commissioner, gives a brief account of the present financial situation and recession in a General Synod briefing paper, posted here by Thinking Anglicans.
It makes pretty grim reading, especially when he gets to the conclusion:
It is a doomsday machine … The recession will continue until this [de-leveraging] process is over.
But isn't a doomsday machine one that is designed to bring about the day of doom? And doesn't that mean it won't ever stop, but will go on until, um, doomsday?


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Joseph Spencer set for pre-trial hearing
WEST UNION – Dates for a pre-trial hearing and a trial have been set for a 17-year-old Doddridge County youth charged with the murder of three family members.
Joseph Spencer, charged with killing his parents, Fred and Dixie Spencer and younger sister, Patience "P.J." Spencer, on Sept. 3, will be in court at 2:30 p.m. March 22 for a pre-trial hearing, according to court records.
Doddridge County Circuit Court Judge Tim Sweeney set Spencer's trial for April 8 during arraignments on Tuesday. Last year the court granted a state's motion to try Spencer as an adult. Spencer remains in custody.
According to police reports, Spencer called Doddridge County 911 to report he had shot them with his father's 9mm handgun at their home near West Union.
Doddridge County Deputy Sheriff C.W. Modesitt responded to the call. Modesitt said when he arrived he apprehended Spencer and placed him in the cruiser.
Also arraigned Tuesday was Jerrel Jacob Jones, 19, of Parkersburg. He was indicted by the grand jury on three counts of imposition of sexual intercourse on an incarcerated person. Jones was a corrections officer at the North Central Regional Jail. His pre-trial motions hearing was set for 4 p.m. March 19 and his trial was tentatively set for April 8.


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In focusing the first week of certification training on qigong, we can better reach our mission of bringing the benefits of this practice to a wider population. The indended audience for this program includes:
I would encourage everyone to read the background material on the EBQ course on our website. There is valuable information there, including a definition of qigong (one that I have not previously seen espoused elsewhere), as well as discussion of the benefits of qigong practice and a section addressing what do you mean by spirit or spiritual practice".
One of the main things that I have learned in teaching over the past several years is that the essential meditation practices are quite difficult for many people - some suggestions for meditation have been the subject of recent newsletters, and I have continued to refine and improve both my own understanding of the methods and purpose of the meditation practice and pedagogy. All of the qigong exercises taught in the EBT course are included in the Level I Qigong (EBQ) curriculum, but we have refined the instruction, emphasizing the practical relation to daily life of mental/psychological principles and spiritual awareness. In other words, we continue to refine and improve instruction in how to deeply and efficiently realize tranquility, joy, and resilience of mind and spirit, the foundation and purpose of our training. Of course, it is the mind/body/spirit integrative aspect of qigong practice that makes it so widely beneficial and, I believe, unique. To maintain an emphasis on the "physical" part of mind/body/spirit, I have also included additional, moderately aerobic, moving qigong exercises in the EBQ curriculum.
I believe that the combined EBQ and EBT curriculum is very valuable for all people, and remain committed to making it available to all interested through our instructor certification program. To better assist our instructors, we are also planning to redesign our website to include social/community media such as discussion groups, where instructors can share their experience with others, as well as to provide instructional video content for instructors and students. We have recognized the need for this for some time, but our limited staff has been extraordinarily busy in teaching and lecturing/presenting/promoting taiji/qigong research to hospitals and academics. If any of you have suggestions for a redesigned web site, or would consider offering expertise in web site development rich in media and community building content, we'd love to hear from you!
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