Author: claimsbot

1-20. (canceled)
21. An imaging system comprising:
a scanner; and
a transport mechanism mounted to the base of the scanner, wherein the transport mechanism comprises:
a gross movement mechanism for transporting the scanner relatively quickly across room distances; and
a fine movement mechanism for moving the scanner precisely, relative to the object being scanned, during scanning;
wherein the fine movement mechanism comprises a rotatable element which engages the floor and rotates along the floor so as to move the scanner.
22. An imaging system according to claim 21 wherein the rotatable element comprises a wheel.
23. An imaging system according to claim 21 wherein the scanner comprises a CT machine.
24. An imaging system according to claim 21 wherein the object comprises anatomy.
25. A method for scanning an object, the method comprising:
providing an imaging system, the imaging system comprising:
a scanner; and
a transport mechanism mounted to the base of the scanner, wherein the transport mechanism comprises:
a gross movement mechanism for transporting the scanner relatively quickly across room distances; and
a fine movement mechanism for moving the scanner precisely, relative to the object being scanned, during scanning;
wherein the fine movement mechanism comprises a rotatable element which engages the floor and rotates along the floor so as to move the scanner;

transporting the scanner to the object, across room distances, using the gross movement mechanism; and
while moving the scanner precisely, relative to the object, with the fine movement mechanism, scanning the object.
26. A method according to claim 25 wherein the rotatable element comprises a wheel.
27. A method according to claim 25 wherein the scanner comprises a CT machine.
28. A method according to claim 25 wherein the object comprises anatomy.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A wafer dryer comprising:
a wafer bath vessel having means for supporting at least one wafer having an exposed surface to be dried;
and a tub mounted to the bath vessel, the tub having a drying liquid spray device and a non-reactive carrier gas spray device opposing the drying liquid spray device, the spray device emitting a stream of pressurized drying liquid that converges with a stream of opposed pressurized non-reactive carrier gas emitted by the spray device of pressurized non-reactive gas to produce a drying liquid fog, the tub also having means for venting the drying liquid fog into the wafer bath vessel, the drying liquid fog drying the wafer.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising means for retaining relatively larqer sized drying liquid fog particles and wherein said means for venting include means for venting the non-retained drying liquid fog particles into the water bath vessel.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said means for retaining larger sized drying liquid fog particles includes a lip.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said means for venting the drying liquid fog into the wafer bath vessel includes a port disposed in said tub.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said drying liquid is isopropyl alcohol and said non-reactive carrier gas is nitrogen.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the tub includes a decreasing volume of water.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said tub further has a source of non-reactive carrier gas introducing a non-reactive carrier into said tub.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said drying liquid spray device includes a tip with a tip opening through which the pressurized drying liquid stream is emitted in a first direction and wherein the pressurized non-reactive carrier gas source includes an opening through which the pressurized drying liquid stream is emitted in a second direction opposing the first direction.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 further comprising a throat adjacent to the spray device tip, the non-reactive carrier gas source disposed at least partially in the throat and partially in the wafer bath vessel, the throat comprising an opening, wherein the pressurized non-reactive carrier gas is emitted through the throat.
10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said spray device tip is disposed within the throat opening, partially blocking the opening1 and wherein said drying liquid stream and said non-reactive gas stream converge in the throat.
11. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said spray device tip is disposed adjacent the throat opening and said non-reactive gas stream is emitted through the throat opening to converge with maid drying liquid stream beneath said spray device tip and above said throat opening.
12. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said pressurized non-reactive gas stream source emits a central stream of non reactive gas and one or more streams of non-reactive gas through openings in a body of said source co-axial with said central stream.
13. The apparatus of claim 12 further comprising a flange disposed about a lower portion of said throat, said flange including openings receiving maid one or more co-axial streams of non-reactive gas.
14. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein maid drying liquid spray device is a nebulizer.
15. A method for drying a wafer comprising:
emitting a stream of pressurized drying liquid;
emitting a stream of pressurized non-reactive carrier gas opposed to said drying liquid stream, maid streams converging to produce a drying liquid fog;
venting the drying liquid fog into a wafer bath vessel haying at least one wafer with an exposed surface to be dried; and
drying the exposed surface to be dried with said drying liquid fog.
16. The method of claim 15 further comprising providing a non-reactive carrier gas stream for moving said drying liquid fog toward said exposed surface.
17. The method of claim 15 wherein said drying liquid is isopropyl alcohol and said non-reactive carrier gas is nitrogen.
18. The method of claim 15 further comprising retaining relatively larger particles of the liquid drying fog and venting relatively smaller particles of the liquid drying fog.
19. The wafer dryer of claim 1 wherein one of the drying liquid spray device and the non-reactive carrier gas spray device is disposed above the other.
20. The wafer dryer of claim 1 wherein the drying liquid spray device only emits drying liquid and the non-reactive carrier gas spray device emits only non-reactive carrier gas.
21. The wafer dryer of claim 1 wherein the drying liquid spray devices emits drying liquid and not non-reactive carrier gas and the non-reactive carrier gas spray device emits non-reactive carrier gas and not drying liquid spray.
22. The method of claim 15 wherein said stream of drying liquid consists of drying liquid and wherein said stream of pressurized drying liquid consists of pressurized drying liquid.

1. A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a first substrate on a visible side and a second substrate on an opposite side to the visible side having transparent electrodes on inner surfaces opposing to each other,
wherein a transflective film formed of a dielectric multilayered film made by alternately layering a high refractive index film and a low refractive index film is provided between said second substrate and said transparent electrode on said second substrate,
wherein at least one of said transparent electrodes formed on said first and second substrates is colored, and
wherein spectroscopic characteristics within a visible region of a reflected light or a transmitted light by said transflective film are almost flat through correction of coloring of light transmitted through said at least one transparent electrode.
2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1,
wherein a film thickness of said at least one of transparent electrodes is set so that light passing through said transparent electrode and exhibiting a maximum transmittance has a color within either a region defined by an x value of 0.22 to 0.28 and a y value of 0.21 to 0.31 or a region defined by an x value of 0.28 to 0.34 and a y value of 0.22 to 0.35 in a chromaticity diagram of a CIE 1931 color system using a white light source.
3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2,
wherein a first light control layer having optical anisotropy is provided on an opposite side to said liquid crystal layer of said first substrate, and said first light control layer has a characteristic of correcting coloring of light emitted from said liquid crystal display panel to make spectroscopic characteristics thereof within a visible region almost flat.
4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 3,
wherein an auxiliary light source placed on an opposite side to said liquid crystal layer of said second substrate; and
a second light control layer having optical anisotropy placed between said auxiliary light source and said second substrate, are provided respectively, and
wherein either or both of said auxiliary light source and said second light control layer hashave a characteristic of correcting coloring of transmitting light emitted from a light source and transmitting through said liquid crystal display panel and said first light control layer to make spectroscopic characteristics within the visible region of the transmitting light almost flat.
5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2,
wherein said at least one transparent electrode is a transparent electrode formed on said second substrate.
6. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2, wherein said at least one transparent electrode is 1600 \u212b to 2000 \u212b in film thickness.
7. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 2, wherein said at least one transparent electrode is 2600 \u212b to 3000 \u212b in film thickness.
8. (canceled)
9. (canceled)
10. (canceled)
11. (canceled)

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A system for transferring a call connection to a call waiting party comprising:
incoming call processing means, responsive to an incoming call from a calling party directed to a one of a first party and a second party engaged in an existing subscriber call connection, for generating an alert indication at the one of a first terminal device and a second terminal device associated with said one of a first party and a second party, and
called party substitution means, responsive to said one of said first party and said second party inputting a predetermined code into the respective one of said first terminal device and said second terminal device, for substituting said calling party for said one of said first party and said second party on said existing call connection.
2. The system for adding a call waiting party to an existing call connection of claim 1, wherein said called party substitution means comprises:
calling party addition means, responsive to said one of said first party and said second party inputting a predetermined code into the respective one of said first terminal device and said second terminal device, for adding said calling party to said existing call connection; and
disconnect means, responsive to said one of said first party and said second party inputting a predetermined code into the respective one of said first terminal device and said second terminal device, for releasing said one of said first party and said second party from said call connection.
3. The system for adding a call waiting party to an existing call connection of claim 1, further comprising:
disconnect means, responsive to a one of said calling party and said other of said first party and said second party disconnecting from said existing call connection, for releasing said call connection.
4. The system for adding a call waiting party to an existing call connection of claim 1, further comprising:
call hold means, responsive to said one of a first party and a second party flashing the switch-hook on their associated terminal device in response to receipt of said alert indication, for placing the other of said first party and a second party on hold.
5. The system for adding a call waiting party to an existing call connection of claim 4, further comprising:
calling party means, responsive to said one of a first party and a second party flashing the switch-hook on their associated terminal device in response to receipt of said alert indication, for connecting said calling party with said one of said first party and a second party.
6. The method of adding a call waiting party to an existing call connection between a first party located at a first terminal device and a second party located at a second terminal device, comprising:
generating, in response to an incoming call directed to a one of a first party and a second party engaged in an existing subscriber call connection, an alert indication at the one of said first terminal device and said second terminal device associated with said one of a first party and a second party, and
substituting, in response to said one of said first party and said second party inputting a predetermined code into the respective one of said first terminal device and said second terminal device, said calling party for said one of said first party and said second party on said existing call connection.
7. The method of adding a call waiting party to an existing call connection of claim 6, wherein said step of substituting comprises:
adding, in response to said one of said first party and said second party inputting a predetermined code into the respective one of said first terminal device and said second terminal device, said calling party to said existing call connection; and
releasing, in response to said one of said first party and said second party inputting a predetermined code into the respective one of said first terminal device and said second terminal device, said one of said first party and said second party from said call connection.
8. The method of adding a call waiting party to an existing call connection of claim 7, further comprising:
releasing, in response to a one of said calling party and said other of said first party and said second party disconnecting from said existing call connection, for releasing said call connection.
9. The method of adding a call waiting party to an existing call connection of claim 7, further comprising:
placing, in response to said one of a first party and a second party flashing the switch-hook on their associated terminal device in response to receipt of said alert indication, the other of said first party and a second party on hold
10. The method of adding a call waiting party to an existing call connection of claim 9, further comprising:
connecting, in response to said one of a first party and a second party flashing the switch-hook on their associated terminal device in response to receipt of said alert indication, said calling party with said one of said first party and a second party