Abstract:
A device and method for converting one stereoscopic format into another. A software-enabled matrix is used to set forth predefined relationships between one type of format as an input image and another type of format as an output image. The matrix can then be used as a look-up table that defines a correspondence between input pixels and output pixels for the desired format conversion.
Abstract:
A method of interdigitation for display of an autostereoscopic source image to a screen comprising a plurality of pixels having sub-pixels and sub-pixel components and apparatus for interdigitation is provided. The method comprises generating a texture memory coordinate at each pixel location on the screen of the source image, calculating screen pixel location based on the texture memory coordinate of each pixel, computing view numbers based on screen pixel location, wherein view numbers comprise one value for each sub-pixel component, mapping proportional pixel locations in tiles from multiple tile perspective views of the autostereoscopic image to a resultant image using the view numbers, and extracting one subpixel component from each proportional pixel location to represent color for the pixel in the resultant image.
Abstract:
A radiation measurement device for determining a wavelength-related characteristic of radiation from a radiation source is provided. The device includes a wavelength-dependent optical element (e.g., bandpass filter), and an optical power-measuring detector (e.g., photodetector). At least one optical beam is incident onto a polarization-sensitive reflective and/or transmissive surface positioned along an optical path of the device, is transmitted by the wavelength-dependent optical element, and is received by the optical power-measuring detector along the optical path. The radiation measurement device further includes a linear polarizer placed along the optical path prior to the optical power-measuring detector. In operation, the linear polarizer ensures that the beam received from the polarization-sensitive reflective and/or transmissive surface has a substantially fixed state of polarization, regardless of the polarization state of the original incident optical beam, to thereby reduce or eliminate uncontrolled polarization-dependent errors in the radiation measurement device.
Abstract:
A vehicle ignition module that is activated by a signal transmitted from a vehicle entry FOB that is engageable with the module. The module includes a PCB for activating the vehicle ignition in response to the signal transmitted from the FOB and for immobilizing the vehicle ignition in the absence of the signal. An antenna assembly receives and communicates the signal to the PCB, a rotation position sensor switch is activated in response to rotation of the FOB while engaged with the module, the switch being electrically connected to the PCB, and an actuator mechanism transmits to the position switch the rotational displacement and axial displacement of the FOB.
Abstract:
A contact-less control includes a panel with at least one back-lit graphic, a sensor circuit; at least one carrier circuit, and a light source connected to the carrier circuit. The light source is connected to the carrier circuit and is positioned within an aperture in the sensor circuit.
Abstract:
A control illumination apparatus having an interior trim panel that has at least one control. At least one direct light source is connected to the interior trim panel and projects a predetermined light pattern onto the exterior surface of the control.
Abstract:
A recessed sputtering target assembly is provided with a bonding material disposed between a dielectric target and a backing plate. The bond line of the bonding material is recessed away from the edges of the target and backing plate, preferably by ¼ inch. The sputtering target assembly may be used during high RF power processes to achieve high deposition rates without arcing of the bonding material or contamination of the sputtering chamber.
Abstract:
A magnetron reactor for providing a high density of plasma is disclosed. The reactor comprises a plasma reactor chamber that is adapted for receiving a processing gas in the chamber and is further adapted for connection to an evacuation source. A direct current driven magnetron is positioned within the reactor chamber and is adapted to hold a sputtering target. A movable substrate supporting pedestal, adapted to hold a substrate, is positioned within the reactor and is movable so as to place the substrate sufficiently proximate to the sputtering target to enable deposition of sputter products thereon. The substrate pedestal is connected to a first radio frequency signal source through an impedence matchbox having a phase shifting adjustment means. To provide a high density inductively coupled plasma, a radio frequency antenna, having a substrate end, is positioned about the chamber. The antenna is connected to a second radio frequency signal source through an impedence matchbox. The reactor of the present invention also includes an electromagnetic coil that is positioned around and adjacent to the substrate end of the radio frequency antenna.
Abstract:
A compact monolithic quadrature detector generates four signals from an input beam including orthogonally polarized object and reference beam components provided by an interferometer. The single input beam may be split into four output beams using a first beam splitting interface between two prisms, reflections at two air interface surfaces of the prisms, and a second beam splitting element. Different respective predetermined phase shifts may be imposed on the respective output beams by coatings on the beam splitting surfaces, which impart a different phase shift to the components of a transmitted beam as compared to a reflected beam. The four relatively phase shifted output beams may be directed through polarizers onto respective detectors to provide four signals usable to eliminate many common mode errors and determine the phase difference between the components of the original input beam with high accuracy.
Abstract:
A multimode electronic measuring instrument is provided that includes a ratiometric mode of operation. During the ratiometric mode, a desired dimension is established as a stored reference dimension “Xref”. After the reference dimension is stored in memory, subsequent ratiometric measurement readouts will equal a current measurement distance “Xcurr” divided by the reference dimension Xref. A ratiometric measurement according to this invention indicates the relationship of a current dimension to another readily changed (reference) dimension,. The ratiometric mode of operation can be implemented in combination with conventional function caliper functions to provide a multimode caliper having a simple and intuitive user interface. Setting the reference dimension and interpreting the ratiometric measurement display are particularly easy, to facilitate intuitive understanding and operation.