John M Taboada

6781763, Aug 24, 2004

Apr 1, 2002

10/120215

Louis A. Tamburino - Kettering OH
John Taboada - San Antonio TX

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force - Washington DC

G02B 2714

359629, 359618, 348757

A substantially passive optical image processor providing image dissection into orthogonally polarized components each modulated on a pixel-by-pixel basis in one or more encounters with an included polarization-altering modulator element of electrical or optical nature. The modulation-processed images are recombined into an output image of the processor. Alternate arrangements of the invention are also described, arrangements including multiple modulation event processing in a plurality of forms and the accommodation of multiple input and multiple output processor images. Mathematical description of the processors function is included along with identification of real world uses of the invention. Holographic uses of the invention are also disclosed. The underlying concepts of the invention are viewed as applicable to both present day slower and faster future optical materials.

7164828, Jan 16, 2007

Jan 25, 2005

10/905873

John Martin Taboada - San Antonio TX, US
John Taboada - San Antonio TX, US

G02B 6/04

385115, 385119

A ribbon-of-light projection system projects a substantially uniform ribbon of laser light (or other electromagnetic radiation) using a fiber-optic bundle, plano-mirrors, and a plano-cylindrical lens. Incidence optics directs a laser beam to be incident to the fiber-optic bundle at a predetermined angle of incidence, resulting in the projection of a sheet of light. The sheet of light is then projected towards the cylindrical lens where it is collimated into a ribbon. For the exemplary embodiment, the angle of incidence is orthogonal to the fiber-optic bundle. Thus, the laser projection system converts a beam of laser light (or other electromagnetic radiation such as UV, visible, IR or microwave radiation) into a collimated ribbon of light that in the exemplary embodiment is substantially uniform. In one application, the laser projection technique can be used in industrial applications to monitor the flow of fluids.

7170695, Jan 30, 2007

Jan 25, 2005

10/905871

John Taboada - San Antonio TX, US
John Martin Taboada - San Antonio TX, US

G02B 7/02

359819, 359811, 359822, 359823

A highly versatile optical mount fabricated from a single solid structural body provides accurately centered secured fixturing of a large array of optical components or objects. Fixturing is provided by a unique screw-tensioned strapping mechanism.

7215855, May 8, 2007

Jan 23, 2005

10/905842

John Martin Taboada - San Antonio TX, US
John Taboada - San Antonio TX, US

G02B 6/04

385115, 385116, 385120, 385901

A cone-of-light projection system projects a shell of laser light (or other electromagnetic radiation) using a fiber-optic bundle. Incidence optics directs a laser beam to be incident to the fiber-optic bundle at a predetermined angle of incidence, resulting in the projection of a conical shell of light. For the exemplary embodiment, the angle of incidence is non-orthogonal to the fiber-optic bundle, resulting in the projection of a conical shell of light. Thus, the laser projection technique converts a beam of laser light (or other electromagnetic radiation such as UV, visible, IR or microwave radiation) into a conically extending shell of light that in the exemplary embodiment is substantially conical. In one application, the laser projection technique can be used in industrial applications to assist in joining a cylindrical element to another surface.

7231721, Jun 19, 2007

Jun 17, 2004

10/870590

Stuart Minica - La Vermia TX, US
John Martin Taboada - San Antonio TX, US

F41G 3/26
F41G 1/54

33265, 33286, 33293, 124 87

The laser targeting system of the present invention eliminates the problem of parallax between the arrow's path and the archer's line of sight. An embodiment is a laser integrated into an arrow such that the beam is projected down the axis of the arrow. Another embodiment is an arrow rest with an integrated laser, which can have an angular adjustment. By having the laser extend the axis of the arrow to the target, the laser spot produced on the target accurately represents where the arrow will hit once released, and eliminates the parallax angle between the archer's line of sight and the arrow's path. The present invention also provides a means for using a single laser beam to project a diffractive pattern onto a target, such as several spots or crosshairs. For advanced visibility of the laser spot, an optical filter or infrared vision optical sensors can be used.

7946043, May 24, 2011

Dec 10, 2008

12/331683

John Martin Taboada - San Antonio TX, US
Stuart Minica - La Vernia TX, US

F41G 1/00
F41B 5/00

33265, 33286, 33DIG 21, 33506, 124 87, 124 90

Methods and systems for tuning an archery bow are disclosed, including providing a bow having a string, providing a laser plane, rotating the laser plane to be inline with the string and aligning the bow to the laser plane.

8403918, Mar 26, 2013

Apr 1, 2010

12/752909

John Taboada - San Antonio TX, US
John M. Taboada - San Antonio TX, US
David C. Brown - Fort Myers FL, US

A61B 18/18
A61B 19/00

606 4, 128898

An economical computer-controlled non-invasive laser apparatus and method to perform anterior segment surgery in an eye are disclosed. The laser source may include a pumping laser, a Nd:YAG laser cavity gain media, a stimulated Raman converter crystal, intracavity beam diameter-reducing optics, and an intracavity Q-switching crystal. The laser pulses have a selected wavelength for anterior segment surgery. A laser pulse delivery and treatment control mechanism and method for the practicing surgeon are also provided. The laser pulses and delivery system may be used in anterior segment surgery for cataracts, where the laser pulses may be used to form the capsulotomy, to form the corneal incision or to disintegrate contents of the capsule before removal. The laser and delivery system may also the used to treat a capsule and lens for correcting or preventing presbyopia and to treat a cornea to correct visual deficiencies in an eye.

20040061680, Apr 1, 2004

Jul 7, 2003

10/614261

John Taboada - San Antonio TX, US

G09G005/08

345/157000

The method and apparatus for computer control presented here is based on the novel use of laser produced speckle light patterns and a solid state optical mouse sensor. Two apparatuses for computer control are disclosed, one based on head movement and the other on finger tip movement. Both systems operate on the principle of imaging a speckle pattern onto a solid state optical mouse sensor and translating the movement of the speckle pattern into cursor movement. For the head tracker, the speckle pattern may be generated by passing a laser beam into the end of a fiber-optic bundle or into a specially generated holographic element. For the finger tip tracker, the speckle pattern is generated by focusing a laser beam onto the finger tip. For both types of computer control devices, the solid state optical mouse sensor that may be utilized is a HDNS-2000 sensor element from Agilent Technologies.