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The Tournament Begins~ Part One
"Good Juewuhl, very good" said Traynur as I held my blade my latest opponent's throat. Over the last six days, I had won three of the four matches I had participated in. This match had almost been a loss for me, if I hadn't have gotten a good strike on Whyp's leg early in the match, he would have defeated me for sure.
Unfortunately, none of my last four opponents had responded like Pownde after the match. Most of them still had a good deal of hostility towards me, and losing to me didn't improve that much.
Traynur beckoned me over as I stepped out of the ring.
"You did well Juewuhl, but you keep making the same mistake."
"I do?"
"Yes, and it nearly cost you this time. You can't be afraid to hurt your opponents. They anticipated it when they chose their Shrouds, they expect it when they step into the ring, and they won't hesitate to cause you some if they can. Your distaste to cause injuries is a weakness, and word of that weakness is spreading. People will use it against you in the Tournament. If you can get over this dislike, it will be a great advantage to you. You will have the element of surprise on those who don't expect you to mark them very severely. If you want to win, you're going to need to use that element for all it's worth. Alright?"
I nodded.
"Good. Now get to bed early tonight. The Tournament starts tomorrow and you want to be prepared in case you have one of the opening matches."
"Yes Traynur. Thank you. Will you be watching the fights?"
"Of course!"
"Good. I'd really appreciate your feedback. I want to win this more than you know."
Traynur smiled. "I think I know quite well actually… you don't think that I can't put together a few pieces do you?"
I folded my arms, "Alright then, how much do I want to win?"
"I suspect that if you don't win, you would sooner commit suicide than wait for the next tournament."
"Well you're not far off the mark there. Why do I want to win?"
"Well based of my previous assumption, I doubt you're going to choose to live in the Castle if you win. That means that you're going to ask for a favor, and I can think of nothing more important to you, than asking to go home."
I looked at Traynur suspiciously, "You can't read minds too can you?"
He laughed, "No, but I can listen to people who blab about their plans to their friends."
"You were eavesdropping on Pownde and I?"
"Did I say that?"
"You certainly implied it!"
"Oh get some sleep Juewuhl. You look like you could use it."
"Fine. Thank you Traynur."
"Anytime Juewuhl."
I didn't go straight to bed that night, because I knew if I didn't exhaust myself first, then I would be able to sleep at all. I kept thinking about her.
Amazing how one conversation could completely ruin a friendship and steal nearly all my waking hours… and what few sleeping hours I was able to get.
I had established a routine that would get me tired enough to fall asleep as soon as I hit the mattress. I would sprint to the cliff, climb up and down three times, and then run back as fast I could. When I came stumbling back to my room, all it took was me laying down on any surface, like the floor if I missed the bed, and then I was out.
I had been fortunate not to run into to Pailadyn when I went on these excursions. I assumed she still visited them every once and a while and I always hoped that she wouldn't be there when I started climbing.
I got back from my run just as the sun was setting, and when I stumbled into my room and flopped on the bed, my brain shut down and I remembered nothing else.
I woke up the next day, not feeling completely rested, but I was alert and energized. After our falling out Pailadyn had stopped waking me up in the mornings, but my internal clock had been re-programmed over the last month; so for the most part, I had been able to wake up on time during the last week.
The usually silent halls were now bustling with activity. Participants were headed to the Arena, people in charge were bustling about making sure everything was ready, and "fans" were everywhere. They clogged the hallways and nearly filled the Hub itself.
This was a very big deal.
I had been to one or two actual fights but this was on a much larger scale. I pushed and shoved my way to the arena where I had to sign up at a desk and put my name on a slip of some papery substance. The paper was thrown into a hat and I was ushered out into the arena that I knew so well.
Thought I knew so well… I took a step in and found that the Arena I knew was completely gone. Overnight it had been turned from a gym to a coliseum. The training dummies were gone, the ropes that we used to separate our areas were gone, pretty much everything was gone. The only things that remained were the stands, which seemed to have grown bigger, and the big black circle in the center of the room.
The ring.


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Waukesha - Jodi Van Gorder is concerned about suddenly having more business than she can handle.
As office manager and estimator at Tom's Auto Body in Delafield, she knows that business almost always picks up this time of year as deer join motorists on area roads and highways.
Thousands of motorists, including many residents of suburban Milwaukee, will plow into deer this month, and those crunched hoods and fenders will end up in body shops in a yearly ritual that affects everyone who pays car insurance premiums in Wisconsin.
"I'm starting to get nervous that we are going to get inundated," Van Gorder said.
Deer are in their annual mating period now and are moving. When 600,000 or so hunters take to the woods Saturday for the opening of the state's gun deer season, the animals will be running around even more.
And some of them will run into traffic.
For Madison-based American Family Insurance, which has 26.5% of the Wisconsin market for private passenger vehicle insurance, deer collisions are a cost of doing business in the state, spokesman Steve Witmer said.
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|Printer - A program execution unit of an MFP apparatus does not use a preset priority for each kind of job or a print estimated time with low precision. Instead, the program execution unit controls a print order of pages of print images, which are generated by each job, so as to maximize the operation rate of a print engine. Printed matters, which include pages of respective jobs in a mixed fashion, are sorted according to jobs in a subsequent stage. Thereby, grouping, which is similar to the prior art, is executed, thereby realizing a print control which requires no exceptional operation.
|Image Recording Apparatus, Image Recording Method, Data Structure, Recording Medium, Data Processing Apparatus and Method - A compressed mirror data generator converts compressed data transmitted from a RIP server into compressed mirror data to be supplied to micromirrors of DMDS, and transmits the compressed data to an exposure unit. A frame data generator of the exposure unit decompresses the compressed mirror data, converts the decompressed mirror data into frame data, and supplies the frame data through a DMD controller to the DMDs, thereby controlling DMD micromirrors to record an image by way of exposure.
|THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD - A control section
|Line Head and Image Forming Apparatus Using the Line Head - A line head includes a head substrate, a first light-emitting element group having first light-emitting elements, a second light-emitting element group having second light-emitting elements, a first wiring line disposed on the head substrate and electrically connected to the first light-emitting elements, a second wiring line disposed on the head substrate and electrically connected to the second light-emitting elements, a first connecting unit disposed on one side of the head substrate and electrically connected to the first wiring line, and a second connecting unit disposed on the other side of the head substrate and electrically connected to the second wiring line.
|METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR COLOR VARIATIONS AMONG MULTIPLE PRINTERS - A method for compensating for color variations among multiple user printers by providing a target simulation process in each user printer that modifies its default color characteristics so that it has the same color characteristics as a designated target printer. In a WCS implementation, a target CDMP and a user CDMP representing color characteristics of the target printer and the user printer, respectively, are stored and used by the WCS workflow to perform color conversion when printing an image on the user printer. In an ICC implementation, a color simulation profile is generated that matches the color characteristics of the user printer to those of the target printer. The color simulation profile is combined with the default color profile of the printer to generate a combined color profile which is used to perform color conversion when printing an image on the user printer.
|IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming method to perform a printing for a plurality of sheets of paper, comprising: expressing any one region in a first color, the one region being one of a predetermined number of regions which are provided at an end part of each sheet of the plurality of sheets of paper and are continuous in an extending direction of the end part of the sheets; expressing the other regions except the one region in a second color; and printing an additional image in which the one region expressed in the first color is shifted sequentially in the extending direction of the end part of the sheets, in an order of the printing of each sheet of paper.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING OPTION SETTING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming option setting method of an image forming apparatus which has a display unit, the method includes selecting an administrator setting, and displaying an administrator setting image forming option on the display unit related to a display image forming option displayed on the display unit when the administrator setting is selected.
|Method and system for scanning papers and documents presenting printed information in black & white and in colored formats - The present invention is a scanning method and system in which the colored information as well as the black & white information appearing on the individual page or upon multiple pages of a document are initially scanned in a full color, 24-bit per pixel, mode; after which, the black & white wording and/or Images are then selectively identified and electronically downsized to a single bit per pixel value. This sequence of selective identification and electronic downsizing of the black & white scanned contents effectively preserves the original printed Information, while retaining the accuracy and integrity of the characters forming the colored written text and illustration portion's of the scanned page or document in their original 24-bit per pixel format. Via this method and system, the entirety of the scanned image is maintained as a single electronic file of markedly reduced size.
|Ejecion control of quality-enhancing ink - A printing control method of generating print data to be supplied to a print unit capable of forming dots on a print medium by ejecting ink droplets of at least one type of colored ink containing a color material and a quality-enhancing ink for enhancing quality of a printed material. The printing control method comprises a tone-decreasing step which includes the step of generating transparent dot data by a process configured such that size of first processing-targeted pixels is larger than size of second processing-targeted pixels, the first processing-targeted pixels being targeted for processing in the transparent dot data generating process, the second processing-targeted pixels being targeted for processing in the colored dot data generating process.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having: a plurality of image forming sections each of which forms images of respective colors; an intermediate transfer belt; and a control section which executes a color registration correction process and a deviation correction process, wherein the color correction process includes: forming test images on the intermediate transfer belt by the plurality of image forming sections; measuring the test images thereafter; and correcting image forming positions of the image forming sections in response to the measurement results; and wherein the deviation correction process includes: detecting a deviation of the intermediate transfer belt; and correcting the detected deviation, and wherein, when an amount of correction in the deviation correction process exceeds a predetermined level during the execution of the color registration correction process, the control section executes the color registration correction process again.
|IMAGE JOINING APPARATUS - Joint images are end portions of respective read images and are portions to be joined together. The joint images are stored with a compression ratio lower than that with which the read images are stored. Then, the read images are joined together at relative positions determined on the basis of the joint images.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COLOR DEVIATION CORRECTING METHOD AND PROGRAM - The invention has an image forming apparatus with a deviation amount calculator for obtaining, by an arithmetic operation, by an arithmetic operation, the deviation amount between the laser beam irradiating positions for each color, under the condition that the deviation amount increases gradually according to a time lapse in at least one of the plurality of operating modes, according with a further time lapse, the deviation amount between the laser beam irradiating positions for each color decreases gradually, and according with a further time lapse, the deviation amount between the laser beam irradiating positions for each color is converged.
|IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a decision unit which decides a color selection threshold based on received compressed data from external apparatus, and a determination unit which determines according to the color selection threshold if a pixel included in the compressed data is a chromatic color pixel or an achromatic color pixel.
|RENDERING APPARATUS, RENDERING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - It is determined whether the rasterization result of a rendering object is cashed. If it is determined that the rasterization result of the rendering object is not cashed, an image and a mask for the image are generated from the rendering object. The generated image and the generated mask are stored in a cache. If it is determined that the rasterization result of the rendering object is cached, an image and a mask are extracted from the cache. The extracted image is rendered on a portion of the extracted mask so that a background image remains on a portion other than the portion of the extracted mask.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus which is capable of eliminating influence of in-plane variation contained in secondary-color patches, which is caused by devices, in performing gradation correction. A first toner pattern having a uniform density (of gray) and a second toner pattern having gradation (of gray and black) are formed in a direction orthogonal to a direction of driving an image bearing member. Gradation correction data for converting an input image signal associated with the toner of black is formed, based on density information on the second toner pattern formed by the two toners, and density information on the second toner pattern formed by the toner of gray.
|PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - A print control apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store print attributes and print settings corresponding to the print attributes in association with each other, a search unit configured to search the storage unit for a print attribute corresponding to a print attribute of document data in accordance with an instruction to print the document data, and a generation unit configured to, when the corresponding print attribute is detected, set a print setting corresponding to the print attribute as a print setting of the document data and generate print data to be output to the print apparatus, and when no corresponding print attribute can be detected, accept input of a print setting of the document data and generate print data using the accepted print setting.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND AN IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus that forms a color image includes: a sensor that detects a density of an image formed on the transfer body; a density adjusting unit that forms a density test pattern on a transfer body and that adjusts process parameters such that a density of the density test pattern on the transfer body falls within a predetermined range of a reference density; and a gradation adjusting unit that forms a gradation test pattern on the transfer body and updates the gradation correction data such that a density for every gradation of the gradation test pattern on the transfer body falls within a predetermined range of a reference gradation density acquired and stored beforehand. The gradation adjusting unit updates the gradation correction data subsequently after the density adjusting unit adjusts the density of the density test pattern.
|Apparatus, system, and method for image processing - A confidential document is generated by encoding distribution destination information specifying a destination to which the confidential document will be distributed.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZATION OF TRANSFERABLE SETTINGS FOR MULTIPLE DOCUMENT OUTPUT DRIVERS - The subject application is directed to a system and method for utilization of transferable settings for multiple document output drivers. An initial document output driver associated with a document processing application and at least one document rendering device is first accessed. Next, selected document output settings associated with the initial document output driver are then received from an associated user. A save setting instruction is then received from the associated user via the initial document output driver. Responsive to the received save setting instruction, the selected document output settings are stored in an associated data storage. Thereafter, via at least a second document output driver, the saved document output settings are selectively retrieved so as to configure an output of an associated electronic document via the second document output driver.
|METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN A PRINT PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT - A method of assessing resource utilization in a print production environment may include receiving a plurality of utilization profiles where each utilization profile corresponds to a utilization of a resource in an enterprise. For at least one resource in the enterprise, a computing device may determine a distance between a utilization profile for the resource and a utilization profile for one or more other resources in the enterprise. The computing device may convert one or more distances into at least one visualization, and a report management system may generate a report comprising the visualization.
|PAPER NAME DATABASE IN A PRINT SHOP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for managing a print shop system having a plurality of printers connected to a management server is described. A paper name database is maintained on the server and each printer, and contains a plurality of paper name definitions each associating a paper name to a plurality of paper attributes such as paper size, weight, etc. The paper name databases are synchronized with each other. When creating a job ticket on the server, the operator specifies the paper name but does not need to specify the paper attributes. The server generates a job ticket containing the paper name and/or the paper attributes (retrieved from the paper name database using the paper name entered by the operator). When a printer receives a job ticket that contains a papa name, it retrieves the paper attributes associated with the paper name from the local paper name database and executes the job.
|COLLECTING RESOURCE USAGE INFORMATION IN A PRINT SHOP - A method used in a print shop for collecting and tracking the amount of resources used for a print job is described. The print shop includes a plurality of copy production devices such as printers and finishing devices and a server for managing them. Each copy production device collects information regarding actual resource usage for a copy production job, such as the amount of paper used, the amount of toner used, the number of staples used, etc., and provides the information to the server after the job is executed. The server generates total resource usage information for executing the job, and stores the information. The actual perjob resource usage information may be analyzed to enable the print shop to set a price structure that more accurately reflects and ultimately recaptures the cost incurred.
|System and method for image editing of electronic product design - Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to select an image container and modify the placement, scaling, and displayed portion of an image associated with the image container. Upon user selection of an image container from the product design, an image pane is presented to the user which displays the base image associated with the selected image container and at least one active control on either or both of the image container and the image pane which allow the user to modify which portion of, and how the portion of, the base image appears in the electronic product design. The image editor tool is displayed simultaneously with the product design to allow the user to immediately see the resulting changes in the product design due to modifications, using the active control(s), of the placement or scaling of the selected image container or of the cropping of the base image or magnification of the portion of the base image appearing within the image container.
|Image reading device and printing system - Image reading device, when connected directly with a printer supporting a predetermined communications standard, enables the printer to print an image with a size or a layout desired by a user, irrespective of the internal setting of the printer. The inventive devices comprises an image detecting portion reading an original image, an image data generating portion generating an original image data, an image data outputting portion which outputs an image data with a communication mode which can be received by a printer supporting a predetermined communication standard and which renders an image represented by the image data printable with the printer, and an image modification processing portion modifying the original image data based on an image data for modification obtained by reading a reference image containing a predetermined pattern printed through the printer, and thereby an original image will printed with a desired size or a desired layout.
|STATUS MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The system comprises a local network including several printing devices provided with a diagnostic unit collecting various device working data's; and at least a connecting device connecting a plurality of printing devices, whereby the connecting device is adapted for collecting data's from a plurality of printing devices and for storing said data's in a digital repository, whereby said digital repository is in a form readable by a processor comprising instructions for treating at least some data's of the digital repository.
|COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - An computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for controlling printing, the process includes: accepting a first printing instruction; accepting a second printing instruction; storing, when the first printing instruction is accepted, a first print job corresponding to the first printing instruction in a storage unit; and outputting, to a printing apparatus, when the second printing instruction is accepted, both (i) a second print job corresponding to the second printing instruction and (ii) the first print job stored in the storage unit.
|HOST APPARATUS FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINTING ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - A printing account management method of a plurality of image forming apparatuses includes: displaying representations of a plurality of image forming apparatuses; generating a printer group including at least two image forming apparatuses selected from the plurality of displayed representations of the image forming apparatuses; and setting account information corresponding to the generated printer group.
|PRINTING METHOD, RECORDABLE MEDIUM RECORDED WITH A PROGRAM TO EXECUTE THE METHOD AND HOST APPARATUS - A printing method includes converting an image data which is created by an application program into an EMF (Enhanced Meta File), storing the EMF converted from the image data, displaying information with respect to the stored EMF, selecting at least one stored EMF of a plurality of stored EMFs, and converting the selected EMF into a printing data.
|PRODUCING PRINTED PRODUCTS AND ASSEMBLY FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD - The method for producing printed products in which said printed products are composed of printed sheets and for verification of the composition, composition information on at least one printed sheet characterizing said printed sheet with respect to predetermined printed sheet properties is evaluated, whereby during analysis, the composition information of at least one printed sheet is compared to the information of at least one more printed sheet to be assembled using said composition information for production of the same printed product.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - The present invention aims that in a printing environment holding only a print instruction and a print data, a printing system capable of updating, changing, correcting, etc. only an additional drawing object is provided by holding an instruction about printing of an additional drawing object (added information) based on the print instruction. In printing out print data on a target page with an additional drawing object added, a job ticket generation means generates a job ticket according to the information about an additional drawing object and instruction information about the printout. Printout means perform printout based on the job ticket generated by the job ticket generating means.
|Image Forming Apparatus Having a Function of Mediating Data Transmission Between a Reception Part and a Job Execution Part - An image forming apparatus has at least one job execution part that executes a job based on data received according to a print protocol. A data reception part receives data transferred according to the print protocol. The data reception part exists depending on a kind of the print protocol. A mediation part mediates transmission of the data between the data reception part and the job execution part.
|PRINT SYSTEM, IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD - Administration such as the administration of the upper limit of a user is performed in an administration server, so as to control printing for each user, and data of a permission list is updated in a printer, so as to perform communication control and interrupt a communication performed for a client apparatus after the job execution.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING USAGE OF PRINTERS - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for analyzing usage of printers. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining from at least one printer information about a plurality of print tasks performed by each printer, wherein the information about print tasks at least contains information of print requesters, print document attributes, and print time of each of the print tasks; and transforming the information about print tasks into an organizational representation based on information of organizational structure containing the print requesters. In the present invention, entities having a costly pattern are identified by mining historical usage data of the printers, thus driving the redesign of business process associated with the entities, performing print policies optimization on each entity associated with the printers based on the mined historical usage data, thereby reducing unnecessary paper consumption.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which is capable of generating XPS data having a data sequence suited to print settings for non-normal-order printing, from XPS data generated as a print spool file for normal-order printing. In the information processing apparatus, a layout filter receives an XPS document from a filter pipeline manager, and acquires print setting information indicative of print settings from the XPS document. Then, the layout filter determines a data sequence for printing based on the acquired print setting information. Then, the layout filter changes layout information described in the received XPS document according to the determined data sequence, and rearranges data files in the XPS document in a sequence determined based on the changed layout information, to thereby generate an XPS document.
|DRIVER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - A driver management apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a network entry message sent by unicast according to a search protocol for one-to-one connection from a device connected to a network, a determination unit configured to determine an operation environment in which the device executes a job sent from a client apparatus connected to the network, and an installation unit configured to install a driver for operating the device that has sent the network entry message according to the operation environment determined by the determination unit.
|IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRINTING WITH A DESIRED BINDING WIDTH HAVING DIFFERENT PRINT SETTINGS - This invention provides an image processing method and apparatus capable of easily reprinting the same print data in various output forms at a high speed without any large-capacity storage device, in which when a page image corresponding to print data input from an external device is to be generated, the print data is analyzed to generate the page image, print data of at least one job is held, a page image of at least one page that is generated by analyzing the print data is held, and when reprinting is designated, either of the spooled print data and page image is read out to perform reprinting.
|Image Processing Device, Image Forming Apparatus, and Image Forming Method - An image processing device includes: a first memory unit which receives screen data selected from a plurality of screen data stored in a second memory unit and transferred to the first memory unit, and stores the received screen data; and a third memory unit which has a first area for receiving first line data as line unit data of screen data stored in the first memory unit and transferred to the first area and for storing the first line data, and a second area for receiving second line data as line unit data of the screen data stored in the first memory unit and transferred to the second area and for storing the second line data.
|PRINTING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR A PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device and a control method for a printing device can freely change the distribution of print data to the front and back sides to achieve the desired duplex printing result when operating in a duplex printing page mode that converts the print data for one page after setting the data conversion area. A conversion step (step S
|Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method - An information acquiring unit acquires information indicating whether a color material used at least for image formation is saved. An image-information generating unit creates, when the information acquiring unit acquires the information for saving the color material, image information using the color material of which consumption is saved.
|IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus including: an image source acquiring unit that acquires an image source; a determining unit that determines whether the image source acquired is a moving image source; a setting unit that sets a matrix size used in a noise elimination of a first plane to be larger than a matrix size used in a noise elimination of a second plane if the image source is a moving image source and sets the matrix size used in the noise elimination of the second plane to be larger than the matrix size used in the noise elimination of the first plane if the image source is a still image source; and a noise elimination unit that executes the noise elimination of the luminance and color difference planes on image data from the image source using the size of the matrix of the smoothing range.
|SYSTEM FOR HALFTONE SCREEN PRODUCTION - Method, apparatus and program product generates a threshold array that contains at least one halftone cell having overlapping or dissimilar dots.
|DEVICE OF CONNECTING DATA OF DOCUMENT AND METHOD OF CONNECTING SAME - An object of the present invention is for a user originally having authority to be capable of performing a copy operation without damaging convenience. In order to achieve the above object, a device according to the present invention comprises connecting unit for connecting data of a first document into which first certification information to be inputted for permitting a copy of the document is embedded to data of a second document into which second certification information to be inputted for permitting a copy of the document is embedded.
|OPERATOR INTERACTIVE DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - Methods and systems for operator intervention in a document processing system are disclosed. One possible method includes capturing images of documents within a document processing system. The method further includes executing computerized analysis of the images to establish an acceptability determination regarding the images. The method further includes manually reviewing the computer analysis of the images to confirm or override the acceptability determination.
|Scanning device having positioning element for adjusting scanning area - A scanning device includes a housing, an optical module and a positioning element. The optical module is movably disposed in the housing. The positioning element disposed on the housing is movable in a direction substantially parallel to a moving path of the optical module so as to adjust the range of a scanning area. When a to-be-scanned document is scanned, the optical module moves inside the scanning area for performing scanning.
|Laser Scanner - A laser scanner may include a measuring head structured to be rotatable around a first axis, a first rotary drive structured to rotate the measuring head, a rotary mirror rotatable around a second axis, a second rotary drive structured to rotate the rotary mirror, a transmitter structured to transmit a light beam, a receiver structured to receive a reflection of the light beam from an object located at a distance from the laser scanner, and a processor structured to process signals embedded within the reflection of the light beam. The measuring head may include a plurality of modules, and the first rotary drive, rotary mirror, second rotary drive, transmitter, and receiver may be provided on one of the plurality of modules. At least two of the plurality of modules may be releasably connected to each other.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus including: a reflection member to reflect light at a first position spaced a predetermined distance from a scan glass; a moving unit to move the reflection member between the first position and a second position; and a control unit to generate initial reference data from an image signal transmitted from a scanning device to receive the light reflected by the reflection member. When the initial reference data is not suitable for shading correction, the control unit controls the moving unit to move the reflection member to the second position for reference data reacquisition.
|IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - An image sensing apparatus having a large depth of focus (DOF) and being compact in size is provided. The image sensing apparatus includes a plurality of light sources that shines light beams on an illumination portion of a document; a first mirror that receives incident light scattered by reflection from the document, to reflect the scattered light in the secondary scan direction; a plurality of first concaved aspheric mirrors that collimates light beams from the first mirror, to reflect therefrom the collimated light beams as substantially collimated light fluxes; an aperture mirror that reflects therefrom the light beams from the respective first aspheric mirrors, through apertures each having a light-shielded portion formed therearound and selectively passing the light beams therethrough; a plurality of second concaved aspheric mirrors that receives the light beams incident from the respective aperture mirror, to reflect the incident light beams as converging light beams; a second mirror that reflects the light beams in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the document, disposed on a path of the light beams to be converged by means of the second aspheric mirrors; a plurality of light receivers each having a light-receiving area that receives the light beams from the second mirrors, to form images according to the light beams from the respective apertures; and a casing where the first and second aspheric mirrors are disposed on a first side of the casing in the secondary scan direction, and the aperture mirror is disposed on a second side thereof in the secondary scan direction.
|Fiber Optic Imaging Device - An fiber optic imaging device utilizing fiber optics for imaging portions of documents of varying shapes and/or sizes. For example, for imaging a book or any document having a centerfold, where the document will not lay flat (non-planar) against the platen of the image forming device. The device may be shaped to fit in the centerfold of an open document between the platen of the copying device and the document. Additionally, the fiber optic imaging device may also allow for performing a geometric translation based upon a portion of the document, for facilitating document reproduction.
|IMAGE ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ACQUIRING METHOD - An image acquiring apparatus and image acquiring method are provided. The image acquiring apparatus includes an image sensor for outputting a plurality of first analog image signals corresponding to a plurality of pixels; an ADC for converting the plurality of first analog image signals to a plurality of digital image signals; a DAC for converting the plurality of digital image signals to a plurality of second analog image signals, wherein each of which has an actual voltage value; a comparing unit for respectively comparing the actual voltage values of the plurality of second analog image signals with a reference voltage value so as to generate a plurality of corresponding comparing results; a counting unit for adjusting a counting value according to each of the comparing results; and a control unit for determining whether to stop a scanning operation of the image acquiring apparatus or not according to the counting value.
|IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH IMAGE READING UNIT INCLUDING CONTACT GLASS - An image forming apparatus is provided with an image reading unit for reading the image information of a document and an image forming unit for performing a specified image forming process based on this image information. The image reading unit includes a contact glass on which a document to have image information read therefrom is to be placed, an image reading unit main body on which the contact glass is mounted, a document pressing member openable and closable to press a document placed on the contact glass, and an optical member for optically scanning a document surface of the document placed on the contact glass to read as a document image. The image reading unit main body includes a top panel formed with an opening covered by the contact glass and the outer surface of the top panel is in a dark color.
|Image processing apparatus performing color conversion - An image processing apparatus handling combined data including read data from a scanner and written data written by a touch pen, capable of performing appropriate color conversion both on the read data and written data is provided. When a display image obtained by combining the read data and the written data is to be printed, the image processing apparatus executes first image processing on the read data, and second image processing on the written data, respectively. By an image forming apparatus, the combined data including the read data and the written data, which have been appropriately color-converted by respective image processing, is printed.
|IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A color document is scanned using sensors of two color components, and monochrome image data is generated by performing a color conversion process on color image data made up of two color components obtained through the scanning.
|IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE ENCODING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH A COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus, including a color conversion part configured to conduct a color conversion of image data. The color conversion part extends an information amount of an output value in the color conversion based on a first minimum information amount possible to depict a gradation in a lattice point interval of an input value in a look up table used for the color conversion.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING AND CORRECTING FOR HUE SHIFTS IN SATURATED COLORS - A method for correcting for hue shifts includes parameterizing the conversion of long-medium-short (LMS) spectral sensitivities of the human eye to a human observer function, and applying a non-linear transformation between the LMS and human observer function in order to correct for the hue shifts. A system for correcting for hue shifts is also provided. The system includes a controller for parameterizing the conversion of LMS spectral sensitivities of the human eye to a human observer function and applying a non-linear transformation between the LMS and human observer function in order to correct for the hue shifts in the image. The system can also include an output device for presenting the hue corrected image
|SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DESIGNING A SET OF BLACK GENERATION TRANSFER CURVES - A method for designing a black generation transfer curve is described. A table is produced to convert a first signal in a first signal space to a second signal in a second signal space. Color measurement data of a device is obtained. The color measurement data relates to a signal-to-color response of the device. A black generation transfer curve is designed constrained by the color measurement data of the device.
|Laser processing apparatus - A laser processing apparatus includes a laser source (
|NEAR EYE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A near eye image display system includes an image projector, a beam combiner assembly, and an optical assembly, optically coupled between the image projector and the beam combiner assembly The image projector projects a display image toward an optical pathway, the optical pathway intersecting a viewing axis, the viewing axis extending from the eye of a user to an ambient scene The beam combiner assembly includes a plurality of beam combiners optically cascaded along the optical pathway, each of the beam combiners being disposed diagonally to the optical pathway and diagonally to the viewing axis Each of the beam combiners is arranged such that for each two adjacent beam combiners, the first of the adjacent beam combiners is optically located between the second of the adjacent beam combiners and the image projector The geometrical projection of the second beam combiner onto a first plane perpendicular to the optical pathway, is subsumed within the geometrical projection of the first beam combiner onto the first plane Each of the beam combiners is further arranged such that the partial geometric projection of each of the beam combiners onto a second plane perpendicular to the viewing axis forms a continuous geometric projection, the optical assembly directing display light of the display image from the image projector toward the beam combiner assembly along the optical pathway Each of the beam combiners reflects the display light toward the eye, and further directs ambient light emerging from the ambient scene toward the eye, thereby superimposing the display image onto the ambient scene.
|DECOUPLED HOLOGRAPHIC FILM AND DIFFUSER - In various embodiments described herein, a display device includes a front illumination device that comprises a light guide disposed forward of an array of display elements, such as an array of interferometric modulators, to distribute light across the array of display elements. The light guide may include a turning film to deliver uniform illumination from a light source to the array of display elements. For many portable display applications, the light guide comprises the substrate used in fabricating the display elements. The display device may include additional films as well. The light guide, for example, may include a diffuser and/or an optical isolation layer to further enhance the optical characteristics of the display.
|HOLOGRAM MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD, MASTER HOLOGRAM MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND HOLOGRAM MEDIUM MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A hologram medium manufacturing method is disclosed. The hologram medium manufacturing method includes: disposing a first pair of master hologram media with a predetermined interval so that the first pair of the master hologram media face each other; forming a master hologram in the master hologram media by irradiating the first pair of the master hologram media with spherical wave light and reference light so that the spherical wave light and the reference light interfere with each other in the master hologram media, the spherical wave light and the reference light having a focal point between the first pair of the master hologram media; disposing a hologram medium between the first pair of the master hologram media; and forming a hologram in the hologram medium by irradiating the first pair of the master hologram media with the reference light.
|MULTI-COLOR OFF-AXIS DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC SYSTEM AND THE IMAGING METHOD THEREOF - A multi-color off-axis digital holographic system and the imaging method thereof are disclosed. The multi-color off-axis digital holographic system comprises: a plurality of light emitting diodes, for provide a red (R) beam, a green (G) beam and a blue (B) beam; an interference object lens module, for receiving the R, G, and B beams to generate a beam containing an interference signal; a color imaging device, for receiving the beam containing the interference signal and thus forming a hologram on a surface of the color imaging device by holographic interference while registering the hologram; and a processing device, for receiving the registered hologram form the color imaging device; wherein the processing device perform a zero-filling and reconstructing operations upon the received hologram to obtain phase information of the R, G and B beams. With the aforesaid system, a three-dimensional surface profile with respect to a RG synthetic wavelength is obtained according to a calculation using the phase information of the R and G beams as well as the wavelengths thereof, and similarly, a three-dimensional surface profile with respect to a GB synthetic wavelength is obtained according to a calculation using the phase information of the G and B beams as well as the wavelengths thereof. Thereafter, by performing a calculation using the RG synthetic wavelength and its phase as well as the GB synthetic wavelength and its phase, an overall three-dimensional surface profile with respect to a complete synthetic wavelength is obtained.
|PERIODIC THREE DIMENSIONAL ILLUSION IN COLOR - The combination of a truly realistic three dimensional real image in color and a second device to produce a repetitive passage of a solid object through the real image creates the illusion of one solid body passing through another. A simple method of accomplishing this is to mount a clockworks with a pendulum over or under the image and allow a pendulum end to pass periodically through the real image. Other means such as a device running on a circular track could accomplish the same illusory effect. The pendulum end or the device can take various forms as can the real image. In principle the designs are not limited in size. Further, an amusement ride is contemplated by directing a track with a vehicle and a rider in the vehicle at the proper angle toward the real image creating an exciting visual moment passing through the apparently solid object.
|OPTICAL SCANNER AND COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanner is disclosed that has an optical source unit that emits a laser beam; a vibration mirror by which the laser beam from the optical source unit is deflected to scan; a driving circuit that vibrates the vibration mirror based on a driving signal generated from a reference clock; a light-receiving element that receives the laser beam within the scanning area of the laser beam; and a controlling unit that corrects the driving signal so as to make a phase deviation between the reference phase clock and the output signal of the light-receiving element constant.
|METHOD OF OPERATING A DOUBLE-SIDED SCANNER - An opening method for a double-sided scanner is provided. A light source of one particular color inside a first group of light sources and a light source of a different color (or the same color) inside a second group of light source are lit to scan the front and back surface of a scan document. Optical signals from the front and back surface of the scan document are received and converted into analogue electrical signals. Thereafter, the analogue electrical signals are converted into digital electrical signal. Finally, the digital electrical signals are output to a host computer. This invention utilizes two groups of light sources (for example, light-emitting diodes) to serve as light sources for the double-sided scanner. Because light-emitting diodes require no warm-up period and is quick to switch, double-sided scanning is simplified.
|PROJECTION SYSTEM AND OPTICAL ACTUATOR THEREOF - An optical actuator includes a base, a carrier, a reflecting optical element, a connecting structure and an actuating component. The reflecting optical element is disposed at a first side of the carrier. The connecting structure has a first connecting portion located at the central region thereof and two second connecting portions located at two opposite sides thereof. The connecting portions connect the base to the second side of the carrier. The actuating component is disposed on the base and drives the carrier rotating along an axial line. The axial line is substantially perpendicular to the connecting structure. A projection system including the optical actuator is also disclosed.
|STRUCTURAL COLOR DISPLAY - Disclosed is a structural color display including: (a) a pattern forming member which forms a plurality of cells each lined up in two dimension; and (b) a light transmissive image display sheet comprising a color showing layer which shows a structural color, the light transmissive image display sheet being faced to the pattern forming member, wherein each cell is independently controlled to reflect a light from a light source corresponding to an image pattern to be displayed, provided that the reflected light is made to enter in the image display sheet from a side facing the pattern forming member by a predetermined incident angle corresponding to the cell. The pattern image forming member comprises the element having a plurality of microscopic mirrors arranged in a rectangular array and being individually rotated.
|Lens shutter and aperture control devices - The present invention provides optical systems, devices and methods which utilize one or more electroactive polymer actuators to provide shutter and/or aperture control.
|Coherence Length Controller - Techniques for producing higher fidelity interferometer measurements by reducing sensitivity to spurious sources include reducing the coherence length of an electromagnetic beam. In addition, multiple surfaces within an optical system may be measured by electronically tuning the position of a coherence plane along the optical paths of an interferometer. A phase modulator is used in conjunction with a long coherence length electromagnetic source to generate beams for each leg of an interferometer. Providing a controlled broadband RF signal to the phase modulator increases the bandwidth of the beam and thereby reduces the coherence length of the beam. This reduces the spurious contributions to the output interference fringes from undesired surfaces along the beam path.
|TRANSFORMATION-OPTICAL DESIGN OF RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL DEVICES - The design method for complex electromagnetic materials is expanded from form-invariant coordinate transformations of Maxwell's equations to finite embedded coordinate transformations. Embedded transformations allow the transfer of electromagnetic field manipulations from the transformation-optical medium to another medium, thereby allowing the design of structures that are not exclusively invisible. A topological criterion for the reflectionless design of complex media is also disclosed and is illustrated in conjunction with the topological criterion to design a parallel beam shifter and a beam splitter with unconventional electromagnetic behavior.
|MEMS DEVICES REQUIRING NO MECHANICAL SUPPORT - MEMS devices such as interferometric modulators are described having movable layers that are mechanically isolated. The movable layers are electrically attractable such that they can be selectively moved between a top and bottom electrode through application of a voltage. In interferometric modulators, the movable layers are reflective such that an optically resonant cavity is formed between the layer and a partially reflective layer, thereby providing a display pixel that can be turned on or off depending on the distance between the reflective layers in the resonant cavity.
|INTEGRATED HIGH EFFICIENCY MULTI-STAGE ACOUSTO-OPTIC MODULATOR - An acousto-optic modulator for a Q-switch (
|Pattern generator - The present invention relates to an apparatus for creating a pattern on a workpiece sensitive to radiation, such as a photomask a display panel or a microoptical device. The apparatus may include a source for emitting light flashes, a spatial modulator having modulating elements (pixels), adapted to being illuminated by the radiation, and a projection system creating an image of the modulator on the workpiece. It may further include an electronic data processing and delivery system receiving a digital description of the pattern to be written, converting the pattern to modulator signals, and feeding the signals to the modulator. An electronic control system may be provided to control a trigger signal to compensate for flash-to-flash time jitter in the light source.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY CORRECT PROJECTED IMAGE DEFECTS - An apparatus is provided that includes a light source, an array of light-reflecting devices, and a processor for positioning the light-reflecting devices so as to display an image on the display screen. Each of the light-reflecting devices selectively reflects the light from the light source onto a corresponding pixel of a display screen. The processor positions a first of the light-reflecting devices such that light from the light source is reflected by the first light-reflecting device onto a first pixel of the display screen, which is different than the pixel of the display screen that corresponds to the first light-reflecting device. A similar apparatus is also provided in which the processor instead positions the first light-reflecting device such that light from the light source is reflected by the first light-reflecting device onto a first area of the display screen, which is located between the pixels of the display screen that correspond to the first light-reflecting device and an adjacent second light-reflecting device.
|STRUCTURAL COLOR DISPLAY - Disclosed is a structural color display including: (a) a pattern forming member which forms a plurality of cells each lined up in two dimension; and (b) a light transmissive image display sheet comprising a color showing layer which shows a structural color, the light transmissive image display sheet being laminated on the pattern forming member, wherein each of the cells is independently controlled to switch to a light reflective state or to a light absorptive state corresponding to an image pattern to be displayed, provided that the light absorptive state is a state in which a light which enters in the cell through the image display sheet is absorbed; and the light reflective state is a state in which a light which enters in the cell through the image display sheet is reflected and the reflected light is made to enter in a region of the image display sheet corresponding to the cell.
|ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY MEDIUM - An electrophoretic display medium includes a pair of substrates facing each other, a pair of electrodes mounted on the substrates, a display liquid, and charged particles. The display liquid is enclosed between the substrates with a spacer therebetween, and the display liquid is a dispersion medium that includes a non-polar solvent and a polar solvent. The charged particles are contained in and migrate in the display liquid due to an influence of the electric field. Each of the charged particles includes a mother particle and first child particles bonded to the surface of the mother particle. The mother particle has a hydrophilic surface, and each of the first child particles has a hydrophobic surface and a smaller particle diameter than a particle diameter of the mother particle.
|LASER MODULE - A laser module including a light emitter, a polarizing and filtering unit, a nonlinear optical crystal, and a first filter is provided. The light emitter emits a first beam. The polarizing and filtering unit is disposed on a transmission path of the first beam. A part of the first beam passes through the polarizing and filtering unit to become as a second beam with a specific polarization direction. The nonlinear optical crystal is disposed on a transmission path of the second beam from the polarizing and filtering unit. The nonlinear optical crystal converts a part of the second beam into a third beam. The first filter is disposed on a transmission path of the other part of the second beam and the third beam from the nonlinear optical crystal. The other part of the second beam is reflected by the first filter. The third beam passes through the first filter.
|AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION REFLECTOR-BASED GAIN-CLAMPED FIBER AMPLIFIER - Provided is an all-optical gain-clamped fiber amplifier, comprising transmission and isolation means for periodically transmitting an optical signal or reflecting amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) back to a gain medium. The transmission and isolation means can be embodied by an optical interleaver or a number of optical fiber Bragg gratings. Accordingly, an optical signal can be amplified across the entire C-band, and an ASE reflector-based gain-clamped fiber amplifier having a wider dynamic range than conventional amplifiers can be implemented.
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|ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATOR WITH BROAD OPTICAL BANDWIDTH - A method of modulating an optical signal passing through a waveguide structure with a plurality of sections including electrically biasing one or more of the sections with a bias voltage to achieve a predetermined level of chirp, modulation depth, or insertion loss. Preferably, two or more sections are biased with a reverse bias voltage, a zero bias voltage, or forward bias voltage.
|SURFACE EMISSION APPARATUS, LIGHT GUIDE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT GUIDE - A surface emission apparatus includes a first light source for emitting invisible light rays; a second light source for emitting visible light rays; a light guide having a light entrance surface for entering therethrough into the light guide the invisible light rays emitted from the first light source and the visible light rays emitted from the second light source, and a light exit surface for emitting the invisible light rays and the visible light rays therethrough out of the light guide; and a plurality of optical devices disposed on a surface of the light guide which confronts the light exit surface, for scattering more of the invisible light rays than the visible light rays.
|PROJECTION DEVICE FOR PATTERNED ILLUMINATION AND MICROSCOPY - A projection and detector device that attaches externally to the photo-port of a conventional widefield microscope. The device includes a light source interface for receiving of illumination from a light source, the illumination defining an illumination path. A pattern mask is located within the illumination path for projecting one or a plurality of objects, structures or patterns onto the object plane of the optical microscope. The pattern mask may be used with structured illumination microscopy (SIM) wherein the device projects a moving striped optical grid pattern or Ronchi Ruling onto the object plane in either fluorescence or reflected brightfield imaging. The pattern mask may also be used with a mechanical or digital diaphragm, or a DLP, in specialized techniques such as Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP), fluorescence photoactivation and targeted illumination. The device without an inserted pattern mask may also be used in deconvolution microscopy. A computer linked with a charged coupled device (CCD) camera may be used to capture images for storage and further post-processing.
|Microscope calibration apparatus and method and stage including calibration apparatus - A stage for supporting a specimen slide and for calibrating a microscope includes a base and a calibration component integral with the base. The calibration component includes at least one calibration element for positional calibration and at least one calibration element for optical calibration. Calibration of the microscope can be performed without the need for independent calibration slides. The calibration component may be a glass calibration component or may be defined by a calibration element formed or etched through the base.
|MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - A movable part to which a specimen or optical component is fixed is effectively damped in a short period of time at low cost, while saving space and energy and avoiding heat generation, thus allowing high-precision observation of a specimen to be carried out quickly after stopping at a certain position. The invention provides a microscope system including a driving mechanism for driving a movable part to which a specimen or optical component is fixed and stopping the movable part at a certain position; and a vibration damping mechanism for damping vibrations generated when stopping the movable part with the driving mechanism. The vibration damping mechanism includes an inertial member having a prescribed mass and a viscoelastic member sandwiched between the inertial member and the movable part. Dimensions in a plurality of directions of the viscoelastic member are set on the basis of resonance frequencies of vibrations generated in multiple directions when stopping the movable part.
|Apparatus capable of displaying dynamic images - An apparatus comprises a substrate, a striped pattern and a lenticular sheet. The substrate has a flat surface to which the striped pattern is applied. The lenticular sheet is arranged to be parallelly movable with respect to the striped pattern which is on the flat surface of the substrate. The lenticular sheet has a front surface including a plurality of lenticules oriented along an axial direction and a back surface facing and spaced apart from the striped pattern.
|INTEROCULAR ADJUSTMENT ALIGNMENT CHECK DEVICE - A viewing device containing one or more display screens and adjustment means to allow the device to be adjusted to suit a user's interocular distance, wherein alignment means are provided to check the alignment of the device with the wearer's eyes.
|METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLARIZING FILM, POLARIZING FILM OBTAINED BY THE METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE POLARIZING FILM - The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a polarizing film, by which, even when a wide raw film is used, it is possible to obtain a polarizing film that achieves excellent optical characteristics as well as uniformity in in-plane optical characteristics. The method includes the steps of dyeing a polymer film; stretching the dyed film; and drying the film that has undergone the dyeing and stretching steps while conveying the film with rolls. In the drying step, at least two rolls are used as the rolls and the film is dried under a condition that a ratio (R/W) of a distance (R) between the adjacent rolls to an initial width (W) of the polymer film is not less than 0.5 and not more than 4.0.
|WINDOW WITH RESISTANCE HEATING ELEMENT - An electrically heated window intended to be fitted with an imaging device which views an object through a viewing area of the window. A resistance heating element comprises at least one electrically conductive wire extending across the viewing area a plurality of times along a plurality of arc-shaped path.
|MICROREPLICATED FILMS HAVING DIFFRACTIVE FEATURES ON MACRO-SCALE FEATURES - An optical film having a substrate and microreplicated features on a major surface of the substrate. The features include microreplicated macro-scale features and one or more microreplicated diffractive features on the macro-scale features. The films can be made from work pieces machined with tool tips having diffractive features. The tool tip forms both the macro-scale features and diffractive features while machining the work piece. A coating process can then be used to make the optical films from the machined work piece.
|IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - The image display apparatus includes an image-forming element, an optical system guiding light from the image-forming element to an exit pupil, and a diffractive optical element disposed between the image-forming element and the optical system or between the optical system and the exit pupil. The diffractive optical element includes plural diffraction grating portions formed of mutually different materials. Each of the diffraction grating portions includes plural grating rings each having a grating surface and a grating side surface. In each of the grating rings, the grating side surface is inclined oppositely to the grating surface with respect to a normal to an enveloping surface passing through apexes of the plural grating rings. The diffractive optical element satisfies the following conditions at least when k=k
|COMPOSITE OPTICAL ELEMENT - The present invention relates to composite optical elements, and particularly to a composite optical element in which second and third optical components are coupled to a first optical component.
|EXPOSURE MIRROR AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS HAVING SAME - An exposure mirror includes a substrate and an effective region for EUV light including an aperiodic multilayer film formed on the substrate. The exposure mirror is provided with a first evaluation region composed of a periodic multilayer film formed in a region different from the effective region on the substrate.
|COATING SOLUTION FOR FORMING LIGHT DIFFUSION LAYER, AND LIGHT DIFFUSION PLATE - A light diffusion plate in which the adhesiveness, particularly long term adhesiveness, between a glass substrate and a light diffusion layer is good; a coating solution for forming light diffusion layer to be employed for producing this light diffusion plate; and a transmission screen, a rear projection type projection TV and a backlight unit for liquid crystal display employing this light diffusion plate; are provided.
|Winged eyecup for optical devices - An adjustable winged eyecup allows the user to apply it to many makes and models of existing and new optics. The winged eye cup is essential for eliminating light and elements while using an optical device such as a binocular or monocular. The winged eyecup can also provide a constant eye relief for the optical device. It is designed to be removable and the same winged eyecup can be applied to many different makes and models of optical devices.
|MICRO-LENS ENHANCED ELEMENT - Micro-lens enhanced elements methods and apparatii for forming the same are provided. The micro-lens enhanced elements include a substrate having a first surface and a plurality of image elements printed on the first surface such that image elements having image information from one image are interlaced with image elements having image information from at least one other image. A transparent layer has a proximate surface confronting the printed image elements and a distal surface separated from the proximate surface by a thickness d, and; a second plurality of lenticular lenses formed onto the distal surface, over sequences of at least two image elements, said lenticular lenses being adapted to direct light that has been modulated by the printed image elements and that has passed through transparent layer into different portions of a viewing area such that light that has been modulated by different image elements is viewable in different portions.
|Method for manufacturing wafer scale lens assembly and wafer scale lens assembly manufactured by the same - A method for manufacturing a wafer scale lens assembly, and a wafer scale lens assembly manufactured by the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a plurality of transmissive regions and a plurality of non-transmissive regions on an object-side surface or an image-side surface of each of first and second lens substrates, forming a plurality of lens elements having refractive power on at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of each of the first and second lens substrates, and stacking the first and second lens substrates, with a spacer interposed between the first lens substrate and the second lens substrate. Accordingly, image quality is improved by preventing undesired light from forming an image on an image plane of an image sensor. The process time is reduced to reduce a manufacturing cost.
|BEAM SPLITTER FOR A LASER MARKING DEVICE - A laser marking device (
|NANOPARTICLE AND NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS - The use of an aerosol transport operation for producing a nanoparticle film or a nanocomposite film on a substrate, wherein the substrate is heated.
|OPTICAL LENS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid optical lens which changes a focus due to a change in a shape of a translucent elastic membrane according to a change in a fluid pressure of a lens chamber and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The liquid optical lens forms a dampproof coating membrane on the translucent elastic membrane to prevent a fluid from permeating through the translucent elastic membrane and a swelling phenomenon of the translucent elastic membrane.
|LIQUID LENS GROUP - A liquid lens group includes two liquid lens portions and a light-pervious separator. The light pervious separator includes a first contact surface and an opposite second contact surface, which are in contact with the two liquid lens portions respectively. The liquid lens group has a wide focus range and highly compacted volume.
|Dynamic Focus Optical Probes - In one embodiment, an optical probe includes a housing, and an optical system provided within the housing, the optical system having a dynamically adjustable focal length such that the optical system can be focused at different points spaced a variety of distances from the housing while the probe is in use.
|Rear focusing zoom lens - Rear focusing zoom lens capable of attaining the desired brightness as much as 1.8 in F-number with the zooming ratio of 11× or above, reducing distortion aberration for the photoshooting at the wide-angle end, compensating for axial chromatic aberration and chromatic aberration at the telephoto end, minimizing a diameter of the leading lens piece and the entire length of the lens optics, satisfying a requirement of the reduced weight


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Into the West: MAERIDAS
Official name: MAERIDAS
Maedaal name: Maeridas (means "magick earth")
Capital city: Demetrell
Demonym: Maeridasi
Religion: Saña'Kā
Main export/trade: Its orchards and gardens are famous for their produce
Notable/famous landmarks: ~ Orchards of Hesperia
~ Afalon
Governing body: PRINCE SORRAN HELIANTHUS DEMETRA I, also of the name, LORD OF SUNFLOWERS.
For many centuries, Maeridas has been the home away from Adynatos for the royal Demetra line. It was, in legend, the one and only home of the goddess Demetra, where she lived and was worshipped by droves of serfs. Whilst kingdoms such as Rhil do not support the Elemental royals, Maeridas citizens are very religious and are the royal families' greatest supporters.
In the royal exile in 8302 L.M, the Demetra family, rather than being taken to an estate organised by the Elemental Court, one easy to monitor and restrict, the family fled to Maeridas. Under the protection of the people of Maeridas, and in order not to anger them, the Elemental Court bitterly allowed it, though the posting of new-order guards in Demetrell caused public outrage calmed only by Queen Torella Demetra, mother of Sayara. Due to the devotion and respect of the people, it was relatively easy for Sayara to be smuggled off of the island to be hidden at the Sanctuary, unlike the Luthorn family who were sent to Rhil because of the Temple at Nivitis' significance to Lucasta, the first Luthorn Incarnate. After desperate pleas from King Radite to send his sick wife Macayle to Halknor for treatment was Pyrus able to escape.
The Demetra family still reside in Maeridas, currently Queen Torella Demetra I, Mistress of Falhaeyr, her husband Prince Consort Castel Greer, and Prince Sorran Demetra, father to Torella and brother to former Queen Tuathla III.
Maeridas is famed for the abundant produce it grows on the island itself and surrounding isles such as Hesperia and Afalon. Both act as private islands with houses for the Demetra families, far from public sight unlike the main palace in the capital Demetrell.


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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
proper noun
1Roman Mythology
A goddess, worshipped as the goddess of love in classical Rome though apparently a spirit of kitchen gardens in earlier times.Greek equivalent Aphrodite
- 1.1as noun a Venusliterary A beautiful woman.
beautiful woman, belle, vision, charmer, enchantress, goddess, beauty queen, english rose, picture, seductressView synonyms
- 'With incredible rapidity Renoir began painting firm-breasted Venuses on hundreds of vases and plates.'
- 'Faithfull was found wrapped in a bearskin rug - a Venus in furs - which she promptly dropped to the floor.'
- 'Each of the primitive-looking Venuses gazed at a raw stone elevated on a nearby pedestal of equal height.'
- 'Carter considered his daughter to be a Venus figure, but a girl of ten is more likely to belong to Mercury.'
- 'Lacan would have approved of Titian's Venuses.'
- 'The lover's perception, guided by stories and poetic myths, looks for a Venus in the real woman who is before him.'
- 1.1as noun a Venusliterary A beautiful woman.
The second planet from the sun in the solar system, the brightest celestial object after the sun and moon and frequently appearing in the twilight sky as the evening or morning star.
3US A burrowing marine bivalve mollusc with clearly defined growth lines on the shell.
- 'At night paddle crabs roam the sand, breaking into thick-shelled bivalves like the tuatua and the Venus shell.'
- 'The quahog is a Venus clam, the most diverse mollusc family.'
- 'An excellent eating clam, Venus clams are slightly larger and more economical than Manilas or Little Necks.'
- 'It shows a dense arrangement of gill filaments, which in clams like the Venus clam here shown are grouped into similar, multiple folds.'
- 'Far fewer numbers of Venus shells, whether ancient or contemporary, show signs of predation.'
- 'The saffron ladened spaghetti is topped with the outer ring of tomatoes and two Venus clams out of shell.'
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