A bunch of new patent applications from Nikon

• 15 years ago
• Categories: Nikon Patents

Those are basically Nikon patent applications from the last few months of 2008 that just became public. I will go trough them in more details and will report later on if I find something interesting. Feel free to help me out – it’s a lot of reading:

• Illuminating optical apparatus, exposure apparatus and device manufacturing
• Digital still camera and image blur correction apparatus
• Image scanning system
• Exposure method, substrate stage, exposure apparatus, and device
• Camera with an interrupting unit, and camera with an inhibiting unit
• Exposure method, substrate stage, exposure apparatus, and device
• Method of evaluating cell function, system for evaluating cell function
• Illumination optical apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing
• Signal processing method, signal processing system, coefficient generating
• Image processing method
• Image processing method (2)
• Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method
• Electronic image filing method, electronic image filing device and
• Exposure apparatus, exposure method, and method for producing device

Update – few more just got published:

• Lens barrel
• Reflective, refractive and projecting optical system
• Device manufacturing method
• Exposing method, exposing device and device manufacturing method
• Lens barrel unit
• Electronic Camera
• Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program
• Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus and image processing program
• Defect inspection apparatus and defect inspection method
• Exposure method, exposure apparatus, and method for producing device
• Imaging apparatus